In 1993, I joined an online email group that we called TS Lesbians. We wished to avoid patriarchal language, such as he, him, his, etc. being default pronouns (used where the gender of the person referred to by the pronoun is unknown).

Use of she/he, him/her, etc. seemed literally correct, but awkward and wordy. Using they, their, etc. for third person singular, although it has been done for centuries, brings problems of whether other parts of speech in the sentence should be singular or plural.

I know it doesn't mean much to anyone else, but wow, who'd a thunk it.

I just thought you'd like to know that I had a brief ’phone call from Angharad at lunch time today.

I've just come from seeing "Mamma Mia". Yes, I know it has no TG content, but I'm a silly sentimental old tart. Probably many of you have already seen it but I think it's a lovely movie and Abba didn't get the credit that they deserved both for their lyrics and their melodies. I cried all the way through. Silly me, but I loved it,
Joanne

David Weber the Sci-fi author of Off Armageddon's Reef has an interview up at Baen.com. The novel has some TG in it but not as part of the main story. David Weber is the author of the popular Honor Harrington series as well as others. His books has strong women as their heroines and tend to be military sci-fi. I know that in the past his books has been mentioned and thought the interview would be of interest. One thing he did say that I agree with one hundred percent is that the only bad thing with writing is it leaves you with less time to read! Enjoy all!

My mother had a stroke yesterday morning, and between work and trying to deal with that, I have precious little time for the luxuries of life, like sleeping or formating stories to post. I'll get the next chapter posted when I can, but I don't have a clue when that will be.

Karen J.

I will be posting *WHAT LIFE HAS BECOME-Mellisa (prairie_girl_64)  © 2008* this Sunday. Melanie Dixon sent me this story and I have edited it, but the story is Melissa's, not mine.

So much for *my* plans.

For the half-dozen people who actually care:

Has anyone noticed the hits counter at the bottom of the page? It's now over 4 million. I think that congratulations are in order for our super web mistress and her team of elves, I mean helpers.

Congratulations Erin, I look forward to the next million.

hugs,

Angharad.

I hope this link works to the article in today's Guardian. It's supposed to be about something funny, can't comment haven't heard it.

There's is a new drug known as "strawberry quick".

Thursday 16th of October. I got an E-mail from a member on here requesting me to consider posting on this site. Well I have been a member for over three years and in that time I had not even considered posting. A short while ago I got in a discussion With Maddy Bell. The result was I sent her some of my fan fiction. From this you may realise I like the Gaby series. I also Like the Tucker-Valerie by Ellen Hayes and have quite a few fan-fiction in that series not sent in anywhere yet. Other peoples work I like are the Education by Karen & Penny. Christina Chase.

I'm posting this for reference and discussion. It's quite a conflicted article, showing the unhappy sides of two opposite approaches to treating gender dysphoric behavior in young children and raising doubts of the value of either.

Hi Girls!

Just thought I'd share this essential information with all and sundry.

I just redid my story "The Legend of Sara Reid" I did this in response to the advice that many people have given me. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for all of your input.

Hugs,

Jen

The Harvest Mouse is the smallest of the British mice being only a couple of inches long. See more on Wiki.

Just a general FYI, the GabyZone.Com domain is currently down due to DNS issues that are beyond my control (I host the website, but not DNS for the domain). They GabyZone Chatroom is still available via standard IRC access, and from the web through http://www.cyberbrats.net .

-P

P.S. I will post an update if/when DNS is working again.

As I bask in the warmness of having written another chapter of Kidnapped (subtle advert...or what?) my mind turns, as it often does to my stomach. My S.O is, as I write, slaving over a hot microwave and I drool at the thought of my up and coming repast.

For those of you who like to read my serial concerning the life and times of Kylie Mosse, I have some bad news. The next one will appear sometime in the next few days, once it's been proofed and I re-edit it.

I thought I'd better warn you, in case you wish to leave the country, now.

hugs,

Angharad.

Piper has been upgrading the IRC software for the Cyberbrats.org servers (hosts #gabyzone). Most access is now restored.

Samantha (irc gabyzone net admin)

Here are some of my thoughts regarding the trials and tribulations of using another person's characters and universe.

I've been having trouble getting on line. I downloaded a bunch of stuff at the library, but that required the use of an anonymous server. They have this whole site blocked. I couldn't log on through the anonymous server. None of the anon servers let me log on to my account.

I'm OK; I can be a nasty little bitch when pushed. However, should anyone be getting little bites that heal poorly, you may have them. There is a Yahoo group detailing aggressive ways to deal with this. Please use it. Otherwise, you will live in hell until you quit relying on the pest control operators.

Gwen

Timeline

Here's an interesting one from the Guardian. It seems that a guy named David Williams has written a children's book titled "The Boy in the Dress." This piece is about a shopping spree with a reporter while he's wearing a frock and having to deal with papparazzi, etc.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/05/celebrity...

Xaltatun

Is Tom and Cathy's survey too late? See below from the BBC website.
Angharad.

Mammals facing extinction threat
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Barcelona

At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.

I've seen you. sometimes, popping up in the online users list. And while I know there's lots of private issues and concerns which prevent you from publishing more of Christina, I can't help but wonder if you _ever_ go publish some more chapters of Christina.

Just to give some advance warning, I'm away for a week from monday 20th October. I'm going to Menorca where I hope to do lots of walking and birdwatching (as in ornithology!). It's a favourite place of mine, although I'm going on my own this year - it does mean I can do what I want every day.

I found this joke on the web. There was no author claimed, but I thought that you would enjoy it.

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Hi you all. After watching Gwen's recommended song on You Tube,I figured what the heck and would like to recommend one of my own. It is on You Tube and is titled "Erik Carlson There U Are". He's my middle son and is trying to become a singer that makes money. I hope you'll take the time to watch it and others he has on line, Arecee

Well, I'm late posting the next Incognito. It's done but I want to be an episode or two ahead when I post. Plus, I'm aiming for longer posts, around 2000 words instead of 1200.

But the story is going nicely for me, Drew is easy to write. And the suggestions last time of names for girl-Drew sparked some ideas. ;>

I read a story tonight on this site that got me thinking what if...it was fiction, it was so real.

It doesn't take courage to put on your sister's dress when you're eight and when no one else is looking...

It takes courage to ask your mother if you can wear that dress on Halloween...which is something I wanted to do, but never got the courage to do...

This story has been expanded from its original posting. I decided to expand it when several authors said that I was getting better, and I wanted to show that they are correct. I do feel that I am improving, but i needed others to confirm it so that I would not get a swelled head about it. There's nothing worse to me than somebody who believes they are perfect.

Bob has set up a micro blogging site for TG readers, Nova. Check it out! You can leave it open in a window and check it now and then, carry on quick conversations. Looks best in Firefox, BTW. Bob and I will be looking in often. It's quick and easy to sign up for and use. (Kind of like Twitter and other microbloggers.)

Okay, the October 2008 Story contest starts tonight!

On Michael Buerk's programme The Choice this morning Michael talks to Dylan More, who was born a girl but always knew she was a boy inside. The interesting thing is he decided to have a baby before he completed the change to a man.

For logged in members, all the advertising on BC now has off switches in your |My Account| tabs. At least, all of it does if I did it right, I'll be checking.

Hugs,
Erin

See for yourself in the link below on UK MSN.

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=9...

Angharad.

Yay!

Thanks to Erin, I have a way to share PDFs! Hopefully this won't have any browser issues. Anyway, if you want, you are welcome to have a peek. This is probably not the final version. At the very least, it will have a cute little cover and all that. Again, I would love an editor as well as general criticisms/critiques, so if you are so inclined, please drop me a note or share here:)

I hope people are following the "Skin Horse"* comic I now syndicate at the bottom of the blog pages. :) Today's fan-drawn episode features Tip, the crossdressing hero(ine) of Skin Horse and Wil Smith as MiLBDs so I've added it to the bottom of the front page, too. :)

Hugs,
Erin

OK, it's intermission time. Go out to the lobby and get your drinks. The lines are still short at the WC. I am going to work in the garden for a while.

I have been rewriting Kelly's Journey as readers asked, but I have a bit of a problem. :-) I am finding that my muse is having me to go back and add even more to what I thought was a completed chapter.

I fully intend upon posting the story, but should I change the Title since it is a saga, or keep the Title? I could call it the Kelly Chronicles too.

In an amazing finish, Cooke outsprinted Vos and Arndt to take the Women's Elite Road Race World Championship in the same year as she won the Olympic gold. What an athlete, what a woman!

Angharad.
(in danger of exploding with pride).

In writing Bike and Bonkers, plus a few other bits and pieces Charlotte has been a little neglected. I plan on remedying that as soon as possible - it might also get one or two of you off my back. So please don't start on about Snafu, I'm well aware I haven't done any of it for ages, but I can only do so much at once and I have worked 12 hour days for the last few, so be thankful that Bonzi has been able to help me write what we have between us. He's the hardest working cat in Christendom (so he tells me).

When I logged out just now, instead of going back to main page, went to Access Denied page. Does this happen to anybody else?

The main hit counter for stories is working, the daily one is not. The story scheduler is not working correctly, either. The 100 comments is not working, as I said before.

No idea why, but we're also throwing some errors in the error file that seem to have to do with loading of some software.

or, How Long and How Often?