Last week's answer is James Peterik.

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What was your most treasured childhood dream?

Welcome Marceline - I love the name choice. It's a beautiful name. Many of us have been where you are and many of us are where you are and some of us haven't reached as far as you are. Know you are in safe company and any questions you have we'll answer honestly, lovingly and truthfully from our own journeys. You are not alone and we want you to be truly happy with who you are and that is who you discover daily.

watching my figure develope came with it a whole set of new issues, what do i wear? how to cope with men, learning how to make use of my good looks to my advantage.As my body changed so did my confidence the more feed back from joe public the more re enforced the constraints. " I will see you to the door", can you manage that? its way heavy, doors being opened all reflected re enforcement. Moving into a shared house with four other girls, was an eye opener, more so that i was lucky that we were all roughly in the same age group. Understanding what sort of girl was i was more to do with my personality, sometimes that got in the way and could have got me seriously hurt. Debra Lisa and a few others all decided to go to Miss Selfridges a girls shop mainly. I picked a white lycra skin fitting dress off the peg and Debra looked at me and grinned, off we all went with our choice of clothes into a circular changing room, and i emerged and looked in the mirror, one look off Debra said it all!! "your not going to wear that are you", looks in the mirror well, i have a g string on and you cannot see anything, well said Debra be it on your own head. I had bought something that i thought looked good, but what i had not taken into account was the impact upon others. Friday night and it was night out, we all decided we wanted a safe hassle free evening and went to Manchester, Joyce was slightly older but she always kept an eye on me, lol she had hate on her fingers in like a bluish ink, no messing with Joyce. After a few drinks and getting slightly happy i went to the toilet as i walked in a girl looked straight at me and dragged me down to the floor and bit my backside i gave out a loud screech and came out and told Joyce, Debra said we better get you to the infirmary, you might need a tetanus jab, I would rather die than go there and try to explain how i got the teeth marks on my bum, i had never felt such pain.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre/news/new-advice-gps-their-equality-duties   gathering evidence about the experience of patients who share a protected characteristic to understand their needs   seems like more data harvesting to me

Funny how the Equalites statement implies a third sex, note, where facilities are available to both men and woman, and then mentions trans people? so we are not men we are not women we are number three, a third sex

Always handy to read from a direct source rather than those selling news papers or the media who just love to sell more and get more viewers regardless of whom they hurt. however where facilities are available to both men and women, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre/interim-update-practical-implications-uk-supreme-court-judgment

I'm sorry for  I'm sorry for all the spelling mistakes,  it's the translate on the keyboard, lol 😆 I should check it before sending,  lol 😂

Thanks for all your comments.  It's been a big week,  I'm absolutely loving being able to be me in my work. All my colleagues are brilliant and so supportive,  we share a joke or 2,and  have a laugh, but it's always respectful.  The hardest part for most of them is to remember to call me by my preferred name,  snd they always apologise when they get it wrong, lol 😆  I don't think any of my customers realise I'm trans by the way they address me? I find it heartwarming.  I delivered to one old lady, living in sheltered accommodation,  when she let me in the main building,  she was waiting at her door and said,  oh, that's makes a change, getting a lady driver? I had to take her shopping in and unpack it for her, she was asking,  how long have I been doing the job, as she hasn'tseenme before? I just said, I've been doing it for while,  but I've transferred from a different store,  that way it throws suspicion to how I'm doing my job with ease and competence? She wished me well and said she hoped to get me again. I left absolutely buzzing,  I felt it was a little victory for me? I delivered to a lady with a young child, as she was emptying the baskets of shopping,  she was giving the empy crates to the little girl and said, give that back to the lady. It felt really good,  and i let off a silent "yes" when walking back to my van, lol☺️ one of my colleagues,  I thought I might have a problem with, has been really good with me, I know, he is a bit homophobic and in the past has had and said homophobic comments? Before working in our store,  he only ever worked in an all male environment,  he worked in the building trade. After our meeting on Monday, he pulled called me over and said,  he doesn't have a problem with me, he said since working for us  he has changed his views a lot, there is a lit of gay colleagues working for us  and he has learnt to except? I told him I wasn't gay   I just feel im in the wrong body,  I'm still me, I still have the same sense of humour,  the same faults,  the same problems,  I just dress and look a bit different? Later on in the week he pulled ne up and said, I was thinking zboug what you said   and you are right and he just sees me as a normal person now, he said before ge worked for us, if he gad seen me  he would gave had a problem and eould gave been threatening and abusive towards me? So that was a big compliment coming from him and we have a good working relationship. He even asked how I was getting on with customers   have I encountered any problems? I said I haven’t yet, he said if you get any problems to come to them, meaning him and the other colleagues,  and they will alway gave my back? It is heartwarming and restored my faith in people a bit, regardless of this stupid law, I'm finding people are a  lot more tolerant and accepting than the media are making it? I'll keep you all updated on my progress, Speak again  hugs and kisses,  Joanne 🥰

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/27/older-trans-women-shocked-by-supreme-court-ruling?CMP=share_btn_url   There are a whole lot of us older folks on this site, and I think most of us can empathize with the folks profiled in this article.  Few of us have had our personal situations seriously threatened; what scares us is the uncertainty and feeling that there is a target on our backs.  Worry is a constant companion these days, and that's not how we imagined it would be.   Carolyn Marie

Welcome to Trans Pulse, Marceline.  It's nice to meet you.  I hope that you take some time to explore the various forums and contribute some questions or comments.  It makes it easier to meet our fine members and we, in turn, can get to know you.  I look forward to hearing more from you.   HUGS   Carolyn Marie

What a weekend.  I managed to get some time away from home Friday night, just hanging out with my friends.  I spend a lot of time watching the kids, since my GF is still gone.  Two of my partners are pregnant...at the same time.  They're in 3rd trimester now, which means more of their chores are becoming mine to handle.     Its interesting how pregnancy changes a woman's life.  I remember when GF was pregnant, she was mostly unaffected during the first 7 months.  During the last 4 to 6 weeks, she would mostly hibernate, being awake as little as 4 hours a day.  My other partners aren't quite as extreme as that, but I expect I'll be in charge of domestic life pretty soon.    Meanwhile, my husband is busy with new responsibilities.  He inherited a house in the nearby city recently, but was unable to sell it or do much with it because it is in a neighborhood with a Homeowner's Association.  Apparently before she left, GF engineered a kind of coup.  There was a vote of No Confidence in the president and two other directors of the HOA.  They were removed, and my husband was elected to one of the empty spots.  Even though he doesn't live there.    I guess two of my stepkids are moving out this summer.  My eldest stepson has been working for my husband since he graduated high school.  He's been my husband's secretary at work, and his aide/driver for county stuff.  He's going to attend tech school later this year, on scholarship from my husband's company.  His younger sister graduates next month, and she's going to take over her brother's duties.  The two of them are going to live together in the house in the city, "renting" it from my husband.  They've agreed to be responsible for bills and property tax there.   We're nowhere close to having an empty nest, but the first two kids preparing to leave is bittersweet.  I've watched them grow up over the last few years.  I'm young enough I don't see myself as a real parent to teenagers, but I'm definitely going to feel it when they move out

I've been saying a variant of this for years.  No more stalls, only individual omni-gender locking bathrooms.  Better for everybody.  It doesn't cost much more, and solves a whole world of problems.  Not to mention making things better for ALL women (ever notice how men's rooms never have a line, while women's rooms are often full? Because they build them the same size....)   One way to argue for it is to use homophobia.  Because people who want group single-gender bathrooms forget about gay people - Insecure men have to use the same bathroom as gay men!   So anybody who's worried about something happening in the bathroom should stay awake at night for many hours thinking that one over. 

I keep my expectations realistic.  Some things are easily possible.  Some things may be possible with intense effort.  Some things are impossible.  Best to know the difference, so as not to be disappointed.