Growing up in the 1950s, pretty much all the women in my life wore thigh high stockings called nylons. It was not unusual for nylons to be hanging above the bathtub at my grandma's house. I don't know when women started to wear jeans, but the stocking to me represent part of being a woman. Wearing thigh highs under my jeans feels a lot better than woolen long john underwear.

Still learning some things. My mother treating me like a girl and dressing me like a girl. I now think she was the one that as part of learning to be a girl, taught me how to roll the nylons and put them on, including how to attach the garter belt. I now wonder if I did become the replacement child, and my mother actually believed I was her daughter.
Michelle

I watched a video, and the guy had to retake a driving test to renew his license. So I had to check, MN does not require a retest other than vision.

I went to the bank this week, and the bank required a photo of my drivers license. She might have gotten confused a bit. Here I am, clean shaven, wearing glasses, earrings and necklace. And the photo has a beard and mustache, no jewelry or glasses. And it says male. I guess it is well known that the license photo does not look like the person.

I need to renew my license this year, and it looks like I can do it any time before my birthday. Using my DD214, I can get veteran marked on my drivers license. I'm debating about changing my gender marker.
Michelle

My license is up for renewal this year too. Fortunately, I updated it two years ago after my legal name change. It doesn't expire until the end of September and since I plan to move in July, I'll just get a new license from there.

I considered maybe going to an enhanced drivers license. Reading the forums, I don't know if it is true that you need a passport just to fly between two cities in the U.S. I have never had a passport. You don't need the passport if you have the enhanced ID. Minnesota allows me self proclaim my gender on the enhanced ID.

Wondering what I would need for documents, I checked to see what I had. Only the order for name change and my driver's license have my middle name.
 My birth certificate was never updated, need to take care of that. On my house gas bill, two letters in my last name are reversed. As long as I correct my name, I should add my middle name.
Michelle

Quote from: Michelle_K on March 23, 2025, 12:08:44 PMReading the forums, I don't know if it is true that you need a passport just to fly between two cities in the U.S. I have never had a passport. You don't need the passport if you have the enhanced ID. Minnesota allows me self proclaim my gender on the enhanced ID.

You do not need a passport to travel domestically within the U.S. between cities. If your driver's license has the yellow star in the upper right corner, it is Real ID compliant and all you need to travel within the U.S.

https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/dvs/license-and-id/dl-and-id-card-information/real-id-dl-and-id-card


 

Looking at Klinefelter again. Considering getting a blood test, but first checking the records I do have from 2005 for testosterone test. First I noticed that exercise was crossed out in the nutrition referral. Not that it matters, since my work consisted of moving 50-70 pound box from a pallet to the flow rack behind a mail inserting machine (stuffing envelopes).
Next I noticed my height was put at 5ft 11in. It has not changed from 5ft 9.5in since 1967 that I know of. I must have been measured with my shoes on. I not sure, but I think I get it checked almost every time I go into the office. I was wondering why that was done since it doesn't change, but now realizing there is a possibility of spine compression at my age. I was going to complain about them taking a measurement that never changes. I used the wrong measurement and then the right measurement to check BMI. It was a difference of 1 point.
I wanted to check if it also had the LH value with the testosterone. I had it tested recently, and was confused. Even allowing for test differences, I see no reason why the testosterone level would be higher now than it was about 20 years ago.  375 to 379.
Michelle

The record was in the other computer.

Hormone fluctuations like that are common. They vary from day to day and even hour to hour. They don't "lock in" at a certain point. So a minor change of 4 points is perfectly normal.

Trying to get my head on straight. I wonder if it is really possible that telling off my brother-in-law would get rid of my neck pain. Considering thanking him for getting me to break down and end up in mental therapy, it helped me find that I was transgender. I did a couple posts in Facebook. One about the divine intervention that saved my dad's life, stating I was the divine angel that saved him.

I'm not saying that I forgot it, yesterday's dinner was still in the can sitting on the counter top this morning. Not that it matters, as I still had 1600 calories for the day, and my scale showed I lost a pound.
The interesting thing is I went to a keto diet without even knowing there was a keto diet.
Michelle 

In trying to get my head straight, I look at the picture of me, age 3.5, again. It is not a dress, it is called a jumper. The same as the picture of me at a year old, it is a jumper. It has a front bib, no sides or back, and likely straps cross in the back, and then over the shoulder. Mine has a narrow back piece until it separates into straps by the neck. The thing is no sleeves or sides above the skirt. My denim one has a pocket on the bib, and adjustable straps.

There I go again, getting too detailed. As if I need to explain what a jumper is. I could just call it a bibbed skirt. The point I am trying to get to is that I have no problem wearing a skirt, but uncomfortable wearing a dress.

My mother did not like it when I put on a dress I found when I was a teenager. It got hung up in my closet and gathered up with my other clothes when I moved. I have a dress hanging in my closet that I wore 50 years ago. It is too small for me now. My Christmas dress and Thanksgiving dress have never been worn outside. I could say they are holiday dresses, worn on special occasions.

I don't know if my mother made any threats about me wearing dresses, or something my dad said about cross dressers.
Then there is the fashion police, dresses are to be worn with thigh high socks and high heel shoes. I wonder if that was my dad's idea. Back again to the Tom Peeping movie, which suggested, that the only reason for a man to wear a dress was to get into ... Women's underwear is a fetish, dresses are a perversion.

Unrelated, but just a thought I just caught, as a child I wanted cowboy boots because they had high heels.
I never did get my Annie Oakley costume.

My tops are size 16, my skirts are size 12, the waist is at the wrong location on the dress. A size 16 dress is too big around the waist.
Michelle
 

How do we keep men out of women's sports in the Olympics? Simple, The Olympics for 2028 is in California, If the DNA doesn't show XX, then no visa.

Quote from: Michelle_K on March 25, 2025, 07:01:14 PMHow do we keep men out of women's sports in the Olympics? Simple, The Olympics for 2028 is in California, If the DNA doesn't show XX, then no visa.

There are no men in women's sports.

That's what people fail to understand. Sex and gender are not determined by chromosomes. But the "powers that be" are not interested in learning from biologists or picking up a book to become educated.

Quote from: Michelle_K on March 24, 2025, 07:40:46 PMTrying to get my head on straight. I wonder if it is really possible that telling off my brother-in-law would get rid of my neck pain. Considering thanking him for getting me to break down and end up in mental therapy, it helped me find that I was transgender.

Sounds like a great exchange like a silver lining or something!

What I had just wrote just got lost, so on to my next thoughts. Thinking about my projects, especially GI Joe's workshop, or Captain Action's. There are 3, 1/6 scale Chevy engines waiting for proper engine stands. I think I have the parts for one 1/6 scale engine stand in a project box.

I need to repair the hitch on the front of a GI Joe trailer. I work with the 1/6 scale GI Joes so it is a larger size trailer. I had considered I might add some detailing like a hand brake, etc.

Watching EngelsCoachShop, remembering I wanted to build a GI Joe/Barbie/Captain Action sized woodworking shop. I've had this idea for several years. I wanted to make stop motion videos of my action figures building the equipment and repairing or maintaining the vehicles. The ultimate video would be my action figures building a covered wagon. I would post my videos to my You Tube channel. My biggest problem is some decent lighting to take the photographs, and maybe a better camera.

I decided to try out the jumper I had. It does feel strangely comfortable with the straps over my shoulders. This one has a mini skirt, and I am not going to wear it on my walk to the post office.
Michelle

Quote from: Michelle_K on March 25, 2025, 07:01:14 PMHow do we keep men out of women's sports in the Olympics? Simple, The Olympics for 2028 is in California, If the DNA doesn't show XX, then no visa.

I like that.

Reading in some other forums about mothers putting dresses on toddler boys. With them it is different, they know they are boys. I watched the episode of the Muppet Babies, it was a Muppet story of Cinderella.
A comment was made that like in the past, it may become common to have boy dresses.


In my case it seems to be different, with my mother's anger towards her father, and maybe wanting a girl, the dress would be punishment for being a boy. She went beyond that, shown by her comment about me making a good house wife.
My hair wasn't really too long, but longer than most boys. When one aunt mentioned my hair being a bit long, my mother said that was to grab to discipline. She then said just kidding. My hair had been grabbed and yanked many times to made me sit up straight at the table.
I think I'm going the long way around to say my mother referred to me as a girl. Not just dressing me as a girl, but saying I was a girl. So, in effect I was a girl until about age 5, when I turned into a boy to go to school.
And like any abuser, when asked, My mother denies any of that happened. Even though there was an argument about my wearing dresses, my dad also denies it happened to me. I should feel sorry for him because again he is claiming my memories, to show how he was mistreated as a child.

Point 1. gender confusion caused by mother claiming her boy was a girl.
Point 2. gender confusion caused by body becoming feminized. No details.

Michelle

Quote from: Michelle_K on March 25, 2025, 07:01:14 PMHow do we keep men out of women's sports in the Olympics? Simple, The Olympics for 2028 is in California, If the DNA doesn't show XX, then no visa.

There was a video explaining this. If a woman does not pass the DNA gender test then she does not get a visa to enter this country to compete in the Olympics. I'm just wondering how many women were assigned female at birth, were raised female, and now will be banned from competition due to having XY chromosomes.

The video also explained that men are superior, and any transperson in the male competition has zero chance of winning any medals. Therefore men do not take a DNA test.

After doing a little bit of reading about past Olympics needing a doctor's certificate stating the she is female, I now wonder if the video was bs to get views.
Michelle

And yet there are trans men (assigned female at birth, with XX chromosomes) who have won medals and awards against cis-gendered men. But no one complains about that.

A new to me toy has arrived. Inside the box are some styrofoam cylinders. I was reminded about my nephew who liked to snitch my snacks. I put some styrofoam cylinders into a sandwich bag. He said they didn't taste good.

I now have the front cab of a GI Joe Adventure Team Mobile Support Vehicle. I didn't notice the broken spot. Easily fixed with some putty. The back part is ordered, then there will be minor loose parts that are missing.
I think Toy Polloi is the name of the You Tube channel that does repair work on Action Man/GI Joe equipment.

I got some more stuff to work on the bob sled, and the garters. I had gotten green lace before to make St. Patrick's garters. These are like wedding garters that go around the top of the thigh highs. Looking at the ribbon I decided I did not need to make it exactly like the sample. Polka dot ribbon for Minnie Mouse, blue gingham for Wizard of Oz, stars and stripes, and whatever else I could think of
Michelle   

Doing some research, I find out that in open competition a biological cis woman beat a man in darts. I wonder what kind of excuse he had. There are other sports where women can compete against men and/or women's only competition. Archery being another one.

I heard the woman boxer was kept out of the previous Olympic competition because she was better than the Russian boxer.

Reading the other forums, a service man was concerned that if they waited until they were forced out, they may loose all their benefits.

A possibility was raised on another forum about needing a federal ID or passport in order to vote in an election.
Michelle

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