Saturday night I went out with my baby chickas, two of my best sister friends to a pub. It was a celebration on two fronts, one has her first anniversary on hormones & last Monday introduced herself to her coworkers as full time female, me, as I hadn't seen them in 8 months updated them on my journey & that I should be starting on hormones later this month. My other sister has been on hormones 4 years now. We have all been supportive of each other. We have known each other about ten years. We all have a wonderful sense of humor & had a lot of laughs.

When we met I don't think we would have been on a journey that has taken us this far, that we have shared. Our lives are amazing and enjoying it so much!

Jamie

Finally decided that there was enough boobage to allow me to ditch the bra inserts I have used for a while now. 
My fiancée telling me her classic campervan is back on the road.   🙂 🙂

Quote from: justmeinoz on April 09, 2013, 03:31:47 AM
Finally decided that there was enough boobage to allow me to ditch the bra inserts I have used for a while now. 
My fiancée telling me her classic campervan is back on the road.   🙂

Oh No, four heads in a caravan!!!

(strictly Aussie joke)

Watch out, the Highwayman knows the way to Adelaide, so you could have a van in your driveway any time. 
Andrea and her Dad took a trip over there last year and we want to take it back over to the big island soon. 

Realising that I now have 2 homes.. Mine and my GF's place.

Quote from: justmeinoz on April 09, 2013, 03:47:27 AM
Watch out, the Highwayman knows the way to Adelaide, so you could have a van in your driveway any time. 
Andrea and her Dad took a trip over there last year and we want to take it back over to the big island soon.

Give me a buzz if you ever get over this way.. or else.. 

I've had the vaccinations, brain has been partitioned and IQ lowered.  So I now speak with an American accent, so should see you in about four weeks! Let you know when Hobart can put out the pink carpet!!!  (H or L to go to?)

Quote from: Cindy James on April 09, 2013, 04:22:31 AM
I've had the vaccinations, brain has been partitioned and IQ lowered.  So I now speak with an American accent....

 

At the airport right now. Got randomly picked for extra screening and the tsa agent called for a female agent.

Taking off the girdle. No idea why I slid into that thing!

I finally, 100% decided on my new name. Now I just need to keep searching for a job to make it legal.

Quote from: Blaine on April 09, 2013, 09:51:27 PM
I finally, 100% decided on my new name. Now I just need to keep searching for a job to make it legal.

Awesome, I printed the forms for my name change today 🙂

Mailed my request form to change the gender marker on my license to the DOL today ^.^

Quote from: natastic on April 09, 2013, 11:18:34 PM
Mailed my request form to change the gender marker on my license to the DOL today ^.^

Let us know how it goes for you, you used to have to go to Olympia in person with a note from the SRS surgeon to get an (F) marker on your driver license. You could go to court and get your name changed to a female name and then get your license changed with your new name and female photo but the marker still was (M), so perhaps they have made it easier? I know for certain that if you were born in Washington state you cannot get your gender changed on your birth certificate.

I was going through some old family photos (one of them is my new avatar) and I came across a letter that I wrote to my brother when I was 15 and he was 18, back when I spent six months living overseas with my Dad.

It was wonderful to see what 15-year-old me was into. Amongst the things I mentioned in this letter there was a list of all the music tapes I had at the time, as well as a description of what was on them. The highlight of that particular week was when I bought an Echo & the Bunnymen single on vinyl in the local record shop. I was ridiculously excited about that, for some reason.

It also reminded me that my brother & I had a habit of referring to each other's previous letter by putting the word 'letter' in quotes, as a way of mocking the rubbish we used to write to each other. According to the number of quotes I used, this was the eighth """"""""letter"""""""" I'd sent him that year. 🙂

Received my V.T.N.E. score today.  477.  Now if the state of Oregon would just send my testing for my license.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien CVT on April 10, 2013, 12:02:32 PM
Received my V.T.N.E. score today.  477.  Now if the state of Oregon would just send my testing for my license.

Yay! Woof! Screech!

Quote from: Shantel on April 10, 2013, 09:06:45 AM
Let us know how it goes for you, you used to have to go to Olympia in person with a note from the SRS surgeon to get an (F) marker on your driver license. You could go to court and get your name changed to a female name and then get your license changed with your new name and female photo but the marker still was (M), so perhaps they have made it easier?

They've definitely made it easier.  There's a nifty standard form and instructions nowadays: http://www.dol.wa.gov/driverslicense/genderchange.html 🔗

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I know for certain that if you were born in Washington state you cannot get your gender changed on your birth certificate.

I don't think that's true.  The following blurb lifted from a 2012 ACLU publication titled "The Rights of Transgender People in Washington State" (http://www.aclu-wa.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Transgender%20guide%20revise5.12.2.3_0.pdf 🔗):

"Can a person get their name and gender marker
changed on their birth certificate?

Yes. A court-ordered name change (as discussed above) is necessary to
change the name on a birth certificate.
With regard to changing the gender marker, Washington statutes do
not specify what is required. However, the Department of Health has
developed a procedure explaining that individuals who want to change
the gender designation on their own birth certificates must make a
request in writing to the State Registrar at the Department of Health,
and include:

     •A letter from the requestor identifying the record by name, date
of birth, parents' names, and place of birth and explaining the
change being requested and giving appropriate new information
such as name and gender;
    •A letter, on applicable letterhead, from the requester's
medical or osteopathic physician stating that the requester has
had the appropriate clinical treatment; and
    •An original or certified copy of a Court Ordered Name
Change, if requesting a name change.

If the Department denies the request to change gender designation, its
decision can be appealed to a court under RCW 34.05.542(3)."

Quote from: natastic on April 10, 2013, 02:15:42 PM
They've definitely made it easier.  There's a nifty standard form and instructions nowadays:

Wow, that really is amazing. This has happened in the last 15 years then, thanks for the response!

Yep WA is pretty good these days on such matters

Today, I went for a walk in the beautiful warm sun with my daughter and got Chai

Went to WalMart and found a cheap Walking Dead t-shirt. I have to feed my newest obsession, ya know? The simple, inexpensive things in life are the best.