It's on Prime

If we're talking good news and wins, how about WA State legislature allowing for 12-month prescriptions of all non-controlled hormones (estradiol, progesterone, puberty blockers, etc.)!   https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=1971&Year=2025&Initiative=false   Sadly there are downsides: testosterone is a controlled substance, but must be covered in its maximal prescription length (presently 90 days); and it won't be enacted until 1/1/2026.   Still, a win is a win!

Wonderful! Sending love and support from this side of the Pond!

I completely missed this thread, @Joanne Grace but I am so happy to have found it today! It's so wonderful you've been supported at work, it's heartening especially with the news du jour over there. Absolutely love it!

Congratulations, Kymmie!

proud of you!!!

Congratulations Joanne. You go girl

Thank you all for your response. I did come out today. On Facebook of all places 🙄 The overwhelming response was one of support. No one seemed surprised. I wanted to come out on birthday, don't know why. It just seemed fitting.  Next week will be the challenge as I am on holiday this week. Most of my colleagues know but some aren't on Facebook so. I don't know if they know. Plus it means facing the public (I work in retail. But if people don't like it they can do one. I am me and that is all that metters!

Thank you @Sally Stone!

@Charlize is it on NETFLIX?

@Trina I am not VA, I am retired military under Tricare (and now Medicare).  But I did come out to my military primary care provider a while back and they were able to both support and provide referral for gender therapy.  Also, if you have a Planned Parenthood in your area they sometimes offer similar services. But (for now) the community of health care providers should be able to (and required) to provide assistance in Gender Affirming Care.

That is just so Wonderful, Joanne!  Congratulations! and I'm very happy for you.  Thank you for sharing this positive and affirming experience with all of us.

This is a positive, especially considering the long history of Transgender members serving (although not openly until recently). 

We had a discussion about this topic last night in the Trans/Non-binary Zoom Support Group I facilitate.  There was a common theme for myself and others in the group -- Striving to spend time on Creative endeavors - music, art, dance, etc. - or activities where we feel our True Self as the most helpful. Also the idea that there is actually very little we can do to influence the negativity so making an effort to avoid it as much as possible. I don't read/engage in political topics on social media, and I rarely watch the news much anymore.  I much prefer all the PBS cooking shows (and Antiques Road Show)

Welcome Jake

I had one "replacement patch" for the one I normally have about a year ago, my best description of it was a heavy weight bicycle tire tube patch.  It did feel weird as the dickens to me too. I am glad I am back to my thinner and lighter ones as well. It played a bit of trouble with my water retention as well. 

I am on a new patch, never seen anything so big, thank fully only temporary but each patch lasts a week, I got a shock today whilst out on my walk i could feel fat displacement at the top of my leg and backside going toward my outer hips, it felt really odd and my face feels like i am munching a bag of sweets all at once, it really feels odd, i am not sure if its fat just moving around but i haven't felt it so pronounced as it is today. Perhaps another way to describe it is like when your trying to blow up a balloon. Normally i have little tiny patches so this was something out of the ordinary, maybe a different oestrogen type?

Reflecting back, when i was at what i call normal school, (not ballet school) a few doors down from where i lived a boy in the same year as me, but not in the same classes wanted me to be his friend, i didnt have any boys as friends so, well, thought about it. One day on the way home he took his bike chain off and snapped it around my neck, i didnt know what to think my emotions were all over the place, we ended up back at his house and he introduced me to his sisters and mum, "this is dids", my nick because i was so small, his mum said David what are you doing and quickly took the chain off, "oh just having a bit of fun"! his sisters were smirking at me. Over time my wrist and ankles ended up with marks on them and again my emotions couldn't make sense of things, on the one hand he was smarter than me, and could protect me, I started to walk a different way home, but he hid waiting near the end of our road. Over time i thought it just what boys did but one day my brother saw me and dragged me home to face my mum (dad was at work) he showed my mother the chain and marks on me, she sat me down and i burst into tears, I dont understand mum, I begged her not to tell my dad, and mum promptly went round to see davids mum, she just laughed it off and said boys will be boys, that was my first experience of being dominated or controlled, thankfully i was due back at ballet school and mum suggested that at half term i go and stay with one of my cousins

you seem to have a pretty unique family structure so im not sure what to think about your gf being gone or the language issue, but im certain that no person is worth detransitioning for—even if you did, it wouldn't change who you really are