Posts tagged "lgbtq+"
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A leap of faith.
Published: 2025-02-02
The hardest thing about transition is trusting yourself that you’re making the best decisions possible. None of us really know for sure what the future holds and what will happen next. We’re always taking a leap of faith. Yeah, uh, this is a post about my upcoming Facial Feminisation Surgery… In about a week’s time I’ll be going under the knife with FacialTeam in Spain. They’ll be burring down and refining my forehead down, popping out some hair follicles and using it to fill in my hair line,
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Trans Day of Invisibility And Two Years Out
Published: 2023-03-31
Trans Day of Visibility 2021, two years ago, I changed my social media and came out to everyone remaining as Maisie. You can read about it here: Hello World, Again. The two years that have followed have been such a whirlwind rollercoaster ride. I’ve made some incredible friends, found many wonderful and supportive communities, and finally in 2022 I was able to really start feeling like I’d found my place in the world. Things have got to a point where transition is far from being my main person
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Readthis weekend
Published: 2023-03-13
tw: transphobia this weekend, i was the victim of a hate crime. i was walking through my local park when i overheard a bunch of guys talking about me, saying “that’s a bloke isn’t it” and talking about throwing beer on me, before proceeding to start throwing pebbles at me as i quickly walked away. this happened in the middle of the day, on a busy weekend with many people around. no one stepped in. no one asked if i was ok. i took a different route home. the experience was extremely dehumanis
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Reflecting On The Most Impactful Year Of My Life
Published: 2022-12-27
About a year ago, I was sitting in front of my iPad, writing and reflecting on how I felt about how my 2021 had been. I’d essentially gone from zero to one hundred—starting a new job at Apple, coming out to everyone as trans in just a couple of months, moving home, and starting to make new connections online. Here’s what I wrote: It’s really tricky to try and sum up such a year as 2021. Amongst the constant anxiety, stress and sadness from living through a once-in-a-generation* global pandemic,
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It Started With A Selfie Filter
Published: 2022-07-25
Two years ago, I took this little selfie, and ran it through a filter that promised to “make you look like the other (sic) gender”. This photo above was the result. The moment that I saw this, I broke down sobbing. I had, only in the previous couple of days, found the Dysphoria Bible [https://genderdysphoria.fyi] via a tweet and had a multi-day depressive episode because I found it so painfully relatable. You see, two years ago, I was cooped up in my family home during the first Covid lockdown
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Maisie × Estrogen
Published: 2022-05-03
Preface This is intended as a living (i.e., constantly updated) guide documenting all the changes, effects and feelings I’ve experience while undergoing hormone replacement therapy in the first few years of my medical transition. The guide is meant to present how I feel throughout as-is, and will try and reflect on other things that may have helped cause or enhance these effects. I think in transfem circles, there’s often a big emphasis on how important estrogen is, its effects, and the timing
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Trans Visibility, And One Year Out
Published: 2022-03-31
Reflecting on a busy and spectacular year full of changes, as well as discussing what it means to be visible.
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How I Worked Out I Was Trans
Published: 2022-02-24
Warning: this post talks about some of my dysphoria, however I don’t go into a lot of detail. A quick timeline as an overview: * 2015 - 2018: got meeting trans people at university, realised being trans is a thing * 2019: seeing trans people share their transitions on social media, realising that, hey actually, this is something attainable and something I’d want! * March 2020: start of lockdown, move home. shave off beard and really love how it looks. start having a proper gender c
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We Don’t Do Valentine’s
Published: 2022-02-14
My relationship with my partner, Izzy, is not the most orthodox. We first met on Twitter about eleven(?) years ago, through a shared interest in the video game, Portal. We spent the next six or so years becoming really close internet friends, helping each other through difficult times and hanging out and playing video games together online. Eventually, in 2018, she came to visit me in London and we went to a folk concert together. We rapidly realised we both had feelings beyond just good frien
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Dear Closeted, Younger Me
Published: 2021-12-27
About a year ago, I was cracking out of my trans denial phase and working out who I was. I was deeply closeted to everyone but my wonderful and supportive partner and a couple of other people close to me. Scrolling through Twitter, saw tweets from other trans femmes who were out, doing amazing things and otherwise just proudly living their lives. As much as it was really wonderful to see, a small part of me definitely felt jealous and envious that they were able to live their life and be out an
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National Coming Out Day
Published: 2021-10-11
Coming out was a bit of a strange experience for me. When I was very much questioning, I confided only in my partner and a very close friend. I think I was very lucky that I had that support from both of them, especially the former. It helped me so much, especially as my mind was a mess at the time. Slowly and methodically, when I was ready, I let a wider group of people know until I eventually changed all my social media profiles and let everyone else know. Questioning and coming out to yourse
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