I was looking for the latest in TG research today and happened upon this link. After giving it a fast read, I don't know what to think except to be appalled at Mr Bailey. He says that T girls are most suited to be prostitutes. Gah!!!! He'd also rather that T children grow up to be happy Gay men instead.

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2008/05/transsexual-causation-am...

Been suffering with a peculiar pain in my abdomen this past week, which I seem to get periodically and no one has been able to diagnose. One doctor thought it might be a hernia. Another thought it might be diverticulitis, or a kidney stone. I, being something of a pessimist and phobic hypochondriac was thinking "cancer! gangrene! invulnerable flesh-eating parasites! that thing from Alien! you're going to die!" (I really, really need to work on my optimism and positive mental imaging, don't I?)

I just read this story in the NY Times:

http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/lab-ready-for-s...

Giggles Seen as Harmful

I will not be able to get here until sometime Monday late evening!

Moving day is tomorrow aftah-newn.

So, here I am a Woman at last; a year since the surgery; finally having worked up the courage to put my self on the block. Sometimes the way men treat me makes me feel like they think they are buying a slave at the cost of dinner or a cup of coffee.

Okay, it was delayed today due to a power outage from around 11am until about an hour ago. Updated now, though.

Did anybody watch today's Oprah show on intersex and the Author of the book "MiddleSex" Interesting show. Richard

Uhhh. Wow.

First off, to all of you who have been following Maiden by Decree, thank you. I'm so happy that you're enjoying the story as it unfolds.

And to think I first passed what I had written around my friends in the Whateley Group of authors and asked if the story was worth going on with...

What ever happened to Princess Showy? She has a wonderful story posted here, *The Guardian Princess]but she seems to have abandoned it. Does anybody know what happened to her?

I have just received an advisory that a new and dangerous virus is being spread under the heading "Invitation", and can be spread by infiltration into the email addresses of any contact. If you receive any communication with this heading the advice is to shut down your unit immediately even if the email is ostensibly from a friend.

Lizzie Jane has returned to BC as promised. It is here because it is a transsexual story that I felt must be told. There is a dark side of transitioning which I hope to show, but there is also a bright side when God is in the transition.

This morning I took the COGIATI test. It was interesting but to tell you the truth I did not care for it. It is a multiple choice test and the answers were limited in range. Many of the questions asked about relateing to others. I have always isolated myself. I do not relate well to others. I have opened up at work.

I'll leave the bears in peace...

I'm sure everyone's bored witless with my bowel gazing by now, but I thought I'd say that after visiting my GP this morning, and changing meds, I appear to be over the worst... fingers crossed while touching wood. Now to more creative outpourings :)

Just like half of my blog entries so far, this is yet another apology for taking too long on my serials.

Having recently completed my entry for the latest competition; it got me thinking about what makes a sucessfull story.

The story was quite long in excess of 22k. Hits and feedback were quite low compared to my other writings.

I have always believed in the 'grab their attention quickly' school of thinking when writing short stories. Perhaps the opening lines may have put people off...

Below are images I created for a few of my stories that will eventually be posted on a new story site I found called Codey's World, which is an online fiction site focused on teens and young adults, although folks of all ages are welcome. Below each image is a synopsis of the story, and you can go to the story here on Big Closet by clicking on the image. :)

I've coped with a fair bit over the last six years of health troubles, so why have just spent the last half hour sitting in my living room crying my eyes out. My left arm was paralysed for more than month, cramps in my hands bend and twist my fingers and I've no control over them, even the drag in my leg that means using a cane to walk, so why does not being able to go to the toilet upset me so much? Everything the doctor has prescribed has had a minor immediate but temporary benefit, and then added added another problem.

Here's the tape of Cathy's radio interview. Use your browser (or iTunes) to download. It's not on the main BC server so it may be slow.

24 Meg MP3 file from WJTN Radio.

So… the adventure continues, or something equally profound or pompous maybe, depending on your point of view.

I was watching one of my favourite series again - CSI Las Vegas. At the end Gil Grissom said something very important I think.
'Men assume, they don't ask about the why. ... It took five people to murder one person, but if only one had asked why he did what he was doing, why he felt unwell, he might have been still alive.'

Having dealt with the IRS and AT&T, I have to wonder who's worse. Personal contact is almost out of the question, and if you finally find a number to call the wait is at least a half of an hour. I had to deal with AT&T since yesterday. I overlooked a bill and a block was put on my fax number. I paid in full at 11:30 AM and service was to be restored in the next six hours.

Okay. Now that I know for a fact

The meeting has been moved up to Wednesday at 11AM, and Cathy is going to be there in all her glory. It IS time my sisters learned that this is not a whim, or something I thought would be cool to do for awhile. Cathy is who I am, Cathy is who I'm, going to be, and that is the long and short of it.

I have to meet with the lawyer Thursday the 17th to settle Mom's will. I am in the second month of my RLT. BOTH my sisters will also have to be there, and they are religiously dead set against me being myself, that is to say, Cathy.

Over on the FictionMania Hyperboard, someone started a discussion of the use of sex-changing viruses in TG stories and someone made a comment about the impossibility of a virus being able to change bone structure. Here's a version of my contribution to that thread:

According to the records, 'Bike' will be one year old on Wednesday, which all being well should be episode number 349. I'm sixteen or so parts missing- not bad I suppose, considering I do have a life outside writing poor fiction. Of those missing I suspect half a dozen were technical glitches, plus a couple of holidays and a hospital appointment.

Aunty Edeyn is all three. She got up for food, earlier and I had to take the computer away to keep her from getting on, anyway.

And yes, I know it's late, but it's Friday AND Summer Vacation... and I'm insomniac.

REW (Roo)

The next part of Totally Insane should be up tomorrow, I have to finish the edit. However, I was a moment ago, looking at the hits list, in eight episodes it has registered 15,205 hits.

It is a segment of a story idea.

A really passable trans woman faces only grief at the hands of her family and has finally given up after years of Artillery duals.

She gets this message from an on line friend to go visit her in Northern Iraq. Very dangerous with the Taliban slinking about like snakes in the night.

I have been editing my story King Of The Rim And have the first two chapters ready. I would like to do a Title Page that has the revamped chapters . Can any body help?

This is what I first wrote as a comment to: Pen Pals, 13 by Anistasia Allread. She wrote: "Hello again from St. George, the hottest place on Earth." This was my reaction. Title was "Hotter elsewhere in AZ"

Maddy Bell(http://www.maddybell.com/page600.html )has posted updates on several stories including her latest Nena-sode, and some fanfics- some of which are not posted elsewhere! Erm, hint, hint, oh yes, that includes one of mine (blushes coyly)Whatever Next part 17, with Drew up to his neck in things again- this time the ironing. If you go to the fanfic page, there are two short stories I wrote for the 2008 Gabycon posted as well. Neither will tax your brain too hard and only one is about cycling - honest!

LONDON TIMES OBITUARY OF THE LATE MR COMMON SENSE

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who
has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he
was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red
tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable
lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the early

Maggie's new epic about a boy who becomes a "Maiden by Decree" is now appearing at StarDust. I've got permission to post it here but haven't done so yet. If you want to read it right away, as it comes out, the chapters will be on StarDust days before they appear here. And it's good. :)

Hugs,
Erin

There'll not be an episode of OHOP this evening, as I'm a tad rough. There was a certain room in the flat I hadn't visited since Thursday (first time experience for me), and my GP provided a very thorough remedy... I'm not feeling very creative right now :)

I'm almost done with a story. It's a story about my life. I need help to clean it up and make sure I'm not violating to many of the rules of writing. After all, I'd hate to have the union on my ass.lol.

Thanks
Jessica(smorr24)

That was the one sentence reader comment I got on a story of mine published yesterday at Fictionmania.

The race coverage is pretty good here in the US with one of the cable networks (VS. - www.versus.com) showing each stage live and then showing 4 re-broadcasts throughout the day. They have Phil Liggett, Paul Sherman, Bob Roll, and Craig Hummer doing most of the announcing.

I've been dealing with a lot of stress lately when it comes to my sister. I know people are probably tired of me bloging about it. I'm sorry. Today was extremely stressful for me. After talking about it with a good friend, I desided that it was time to come out to my sister. I am not strong enought to tell her over the phone so I sent her a email.

Somehow, the July 3rd episode did not get posted, so, I've posted it today as 15.5, and naturally, I edited it down to only half a drabble using Erin's technique of no descriptions or tags. Sorry about that.

Love,
Lainie

I told folks that as soon as I got them developed, I'd post a pic of my new look. Short hair with streaks, contacts instead of glasses.

Here I am again being ravaged and churning words out but it is so good to be back writing even at the volume I am doing now. I am starting a kids camp story and will be posted in a few days once the story matures. Without a trace is growing by the day and the story is taking some twists.

Tonight on Spike, during T.N.A. Impact [wrestling] they showed where a wrestler was on three blind dates. Unfortunately, they decided to insult the T.G. community with the first date. Why must they portray the T.G. in an insulting way? It will be shown again on Saturday late night.

Just finished up at Mayo and got all the results back. Not sure what to do yet, as I am still thinking about the choices. Do I stop transitioning so that I can get infusions sub-cutaneously every 2-3 days for the rest of my life, or do I see how long I can survive with no immune system but continue on as myself?

I'm back in Kansas City from now until time to head home for school. This is really the only place I know of online that's not, well, dangerous for me. I was just telling someone that we totally need a transkids forum somewhere, y'know? Somewhere safe to be ourselves and talk about things that would get our tails kicked if we even THOUGHT them at school.

REW (or Roo)

my gods i have turned into a word factory three episodes for my stories and the first ten pages of a main stream sci fi book churned out today in basic readable form ready for the cut and slash (apart from the book. today it seems i have not stopped writing but nothing was good enough for the moose and she sat on my shoulder all day moaning.

When I got my new apartment, I was so ecstaic; deleriously happy; almost dancing in the street. I would have a place with real windows! AND, I would finally have a "bedroom"! Did I mention I was beside my self with glee?!?