Atypical Transgender Late Bloomer

From Wiki: The Danish Girl is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film, based on the 2000 novel of the same title, and loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of gender reassignment surgery. This was an excellent movie. It deals with a man who felt the tug of being a woman, in a time removed from our modern capabilities and sensitivities. There was controversy over casting a man to play a trans woman. Eddie Redmayne certainly carried the role. After the controversy arose, he stated that it was a mistake for him to have taken the assignment. I thought this was a good movie that avoided cliche and told the story of the people involved.

Gender is political. Look at the national politics on transgender people. Even within the Trans community, there are political factions, and there are some opinions/ beliefs that are anathema, they are blasphemy, it is an unspeakable sin to express these ideas. One mandatory truth is: I/we have always been a woman (man). Nobody likes to hear anybody say, I chose to become a woman (man). Doesn't matter the reason why, the Trans community is intolerant of any other story. Because the "i have always been" story works so well. Even inarticulate people can deliver and defend it. Baby, I was born this way. I don't believe I've always been a woman. I certainly fetished my mother's clothing. I only pursued the boy identity when told to. But I was also a beaten, raped little boy, I recently read this post, by a young trans woman. After talking with a lot of people over the years and finding disturbingly similar commonalities, I believe there are subsets of tr...

The House of Representatives has passed a Big Beautiful Bill that will, among other things, prevent HRT treatment for all minors, and prevent all HRT treatments for adults on Medicare and Medicade in 2027. Other insurance companies follow the Medicade/ Medicare lead in what they conver. Effectively, if the Senate concurs ( and I don't see any data suggesting the Senate wont concur , I'm cut off of HRT in 2027 unless I move to a state whose constitution guarantees it (Massachusetts, Rhode Island). THese rat bastards. There's research indicated this will push more Trans people into suicide. They government doesn't care. And let me suggest: the R's don't care AND the D's don't care. Show me what the Dem's have done to protext trans people. It's not there. Data, statistics say this will increase suicides. Thanks, pro-lifers.

Born Jamie Shoupe, and later named Elisa Rae Shupe , is America's first non-binary citizen. Joined the military after high school. Shupe retired in 2000 as a sergeant first class with a number of military decorations; they earned two Meritorious Service Medals, four Army Commendation Medals and eight Army Achievement Medals. After their discharge they moved to Pittsburgh. In 2016 they petitioned the courts for a non-binary designation and received it, the first person in the US to do so. Shupe died by suicide at a Veterans Affairs hospital building in Syracuse, New York. Her body was wrapped in a transgender flag.

I recently met two old friends and colleagues for dinner at a distinctly old school restaurant. We each talked about the effoorts we'd made to end up where we were in our lives that day. I suggested that I finally felt free of the people holding me down, like the Lilliputians who tied Gulliver down to the beach. My condition being held down Of Human Bondage was developed by parents, siblings, family, lovers, children (who I hold blameless), society, systems, careers, promotions, expectations, norms, heteronomativity, cisnormativity, etc. If you have enough little people, and enough tiny threads, you can hold about anything down. I went to OpenAI, first time I've used it. My prompt was: create image of older mature femme transgender woman Gulliver, dressed in transgender colors, wearing purple hair, being tied down by LIllilputians I did not get the purple hair I asked for. I'm sure there's nuances in prompt engineering, but this one certainly served well, and b...

This is a review of Dog Dag Afternoon from a trans perspective. The movie stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick and Charles Durning. (wiki) . Although Al Pacino is the designated star, and in fact chose the rest of the cast, I think the unrecognized star is John Cazale - a theater actor who was the love of Meryl Streep's life, and who played Frodo in the Godfather movies along with Pacino. Cazale died young, leaving his wife Streep a widow. This is a twisted-lovers movie. Pacino's character loves someone in the NY jail system because they attempted suicide. The lover needs money for an operation. So Pacino robs a bank, so the lover can pay for a sex change, but things go terribly awry. As it happens, Pacino's love is trans, male-to-female. The transness is not the lynchpin of the movie. I leave it to you as to whether it's sensational or titillating. Pacino's wife also takes a part in the movie. This is all based on a true story told in Life magazin...