episode 10: labels, girls, and trans-girls

[VivianVictoth]

THANK you, Someone who has the same feelings on the whole "going to trans clubs and meetings" thing as I do. I'm not saying it's a bad thing I just feel it makes it seem like thats all we are. And I'm not "the tranny." I'm just a girl trying to correct her identity. A normal girl. I don't need or much less want the label transexual.

[wendy11372a]

would like to know how you are now

[RighteousShaIIJudge]

SICK! Disgustin! Vile!

[humblehero72]

Hello

Well, I like being known as a transwoman. My reason stems from my state does not see me as a woman. I am happy to be a transwoman and have been on hormones for the last 7 months. My partner is starting a committee at the library on how to treat Transpersons, Gay, or Lesbian customers. Good luck and enjoy life.

Love ya!

Aubrey

[sussanaweljones]

hey, u r veri brave to make such a big change. i admired u all this while n pls feel free to check out me! plssss!! however, pls remember that u do things for onli yourselfto make urse;ff happi and feel happi so...dont even hesitate abt wad others talk / feel abt you! okay? be strong!! keep it up n hav a great time:)

[hatefulcourtney413]

you're a really good speaker.

:) good luck in all you do.

[RnbwTreeHugger]

You seem like a really nice and sweet person. Peace and take care. :)

[Androgynistic]

I wish you luck. I look forward to seeing your transition.

[tobyr3]

Thanks for letting us in on where your at these days including the thing about label identity and and understanding of how various folks perceive and relate to you. I like your attitude.

[bucketoflead]

but if nothing else, just practice being "sing-songy." a voice recorder is a big help. after you memorize some exercises, recording myself doing cold readings seems to be quite helpful. also, there's info on tsroadmap about using a spectrogram program and that's pretty helpful too. i can't imagine paying what one transgirl i know did for speech therapy.

[bucketoflead]

it seems like this is something transfolk need to do, i'm lucky that i'm able to have a lot of conversations with other transfolks that have nothing to do with being trans, and i'm in one of those communities where "LGBT" is pretty much lumped into a single community.

i bought a week-long subscription to andrea james's voice program and between that and what i picked up from call center jobs has been a good enough start. sometimes i slip down out of laziness or surprise.

[dwestsmith]

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