Recent content by ZoeB

Shouldn't that have been in Blue :) Sorry, I do get preachy and pedagogical at times. Thanks for cutting me slack. And your question really was a good one. Nothing wrong with being a smart a...lec either if you have the intellect to justify it. Take care, Zoe

Because of what she wrote. One of the things I find annoying is just how stereotyped we all are. "You fight this for 40 years, then it wins". Exactly. I know how she feels, because it's how I felt too. I'm jealous that she has financial resources I don't have, but I'm vastly more grateful that...

How do you know? For that matter, how do you know that you are a guy (I don't dispute that fact by the way). I mean how do you know you are a guy? If you had gynecamastia and a 46D cup, as some genetic males do, would you be less male? I think not. Gender is in your head, and no amount of...

Less than 2% do, yes. That's why you have the "Real Life Test", living successfully in the target gender for at least a year before surgery. Many of those <2% go back yet again, they only switch back when partners threaten suicide or similar situations happen. Some make several unsuccessful...

Zagoshe: And in other news, about Susan Stanton... "It's an abomination, and a bad role model for young people. It confuses them," said the Rev. Ron Sanders, pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, who said he feared Largo could face punishment of biblical proportions if the city kept Stanton in...

True. I wasn't though. If my metabolism hadn't have gone strange, I would still be doing the boy act. Transition is terrifying, it destroys marriages, wrecks careers (not just your current position, often it makes you unemployable anywhere in your industry). Chances of having any form of love...

Circling the Drain. Look, there's still a place for print media, at least until electronic paper gets in wide use. It's just really ergonomically easy to read print on a lightweight, handy to stow object, rather than a screen. Newspapers just need to find the right balance between...

One of the reasons I married my partner was that she had her own copy of Panzerblitz. And a model railway too. And had an SF collection rivalling mine.

You Grok in Fullness. Except it wasn't Paradise, more like Hell. And we didn't get a choice. It was, however, never boring. I'm glad it's over though. Transition is hard, not Transitioning even harder. Christine is going to find it even better soon, expect her to get a little carried away at...

Scary, definitely. Not stolen, anyway. And Christine's, not Mike's.

I don't think you have to worry too much there.

The entry about how much we miss a normal girlhood... yes, that hits me where I live. What she writes is true, we try to console ourselves with the undeniable truth that we've done things no other women could have. Many of us were in the Special Forces, we didn't have to cope with the glass...

It makes me feel uncomfortable too, by the way. It's not a lacking in your part, and you're to be commended for thinking that it is. In a perfect world, this would be no big deal, something along the lines of finally having a congenital heart defect fixed. But things aren't remotely like that...

I find it impossible to blame you for not understanding either. I'm a straight-laced, conservative, somewhat prudish and definitely sexually repressed woman. I was born in the 50's, in a middle-class English family. My sister was literally thrown out on the streets when she became pregnant...

I wanted to change my sex for ages. I did my best to do so, to be a guy. After all, I had a male body, I figured I had to be male. Eventually though, you realise there's no point trying to be what you can't be. To understand, imagine if you had been one of the 1 in 10,000 men who are born with...