So last night, i had 2 very different dreams.

In the first, I was back in college, and was approached to take a seat on the Student Court as one of the judges. I told the person asking me that I was concerned about my grades, since I had struggled the previous semester, but I really didn't want to become that visible, as I had apparently planned to begin dealing with my gender issues by feminizing my appearance slowly.

This is non-transgender...

I just finished viewing a YouTube piece in which a male Administrative Assistant is transformed into a woman for the purpose of being a Surrogate Mother. They promise to turn him back after... but what would be the point?

An interesting concept. I'll be looking for stories like that here...

Gwen Brown

Read and COMMENT please.

To Kevin Jennings, president of Lambda Legal: Happy Birthday and thanks for your work in support of the trans community.

for the next week!

So my brother was taken to the hospital today because his heart issues are getting worse.

All hugs and prayers accepted.

This just posted by English Folk Dance and Song Society. (https://www.efdss.org/)

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

Everyone is welcome at Cecil Sharp House and to participate in the activities of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

Before I start, I have to note that my mom is a huge support for me now, but not when I was young. I honestly doubt I would be alive today if it weren't for my mom supporting me as my true self in my 20s.

May the fourth be with you!

Chapter 15 should be completed this week.

Hi everyone. I am back on here. I wanted you to know that I finally wrote the last chapter of a life of Riley. I apologize for taking so long but I have been going through some stuff I cannot mention here. If there is one thing I learned while writing this story is that when writing a multi chapter story make sure that all the parts are done and edited before you publish any parts.

"The life of Riley" and its prequel "The beginning" were not planned as a multi chapter story. It just happened this way as I was writing it and I was making my first steps on here.

Just saw on CNN that Robert De Niro's Son has come out as MTF Trans. "I don't know what the big deal is?" He said. Don't we all wish for that kind of support.

Gwen Brown

Former judge Dr Victoria McCloud is planning to challenge the UK Supreme Court ruling at the European Court of Human Rights because she like many of us feel it impinges on her freedom and human rights. I support her and wish her well. It annoys me that the government could pass an act and then completely renege on it after twenty years of it sort of working, so they have very seriously affected my human rights and yet still take taxes off me. I would not pee on this government if it caught fire.

See attached link to BBC.

I just wanted to reassure people that I haven't completely given up on "I accepted magic to fight evil and it turned me into a girl, but I don’t think I really mind?", but I've been suffering writer's block. I do have an outline, but I've been having trouble fleshing it out. I made lots of progress when it was a hyperfixation and my ADHD was newly medicated, but now I can't seem to focus on it. I'm going to try to build up a buffer of a few chapters before I start posting again, but that could take quite some time. I guess what I'm saying is, don't wait up, but it will happen eventually.

I read in the online Guardian that a fashion designer called Connor Ives concluded a February runway show with a tee shirt with the message 'Protect the Dolls' on it. The article says that 'dolls' is an affection term for trans women used by the LGBTIQ community. Perhaps I've been on another planet but I've never heard of it - has anyone else? Apparently the tee shirts are selling like the proverbial hot cakes which I guess can't do any harm.

Bronwen

Two men were arguing loudly on the Street Car and I'd had enough. I turned to the one sitting by me, who was the loudest and said to him, "Take it back a notch will you". He turned to me and got right IN my face and said "Why don't you hit me?" So I gave him an elbow in the face and he started squawking like a little girl. The driver said for us to get off the train and I did. The one who caused the problem was fighting with the driver when I left.

You never know...

True story.

Gwen Brown

Several weeks ago, I added a quote to my signature line here; a quote which I remembered from my youth. A few people have inquired as to the origin of the quote, so I felt the need to explain it.

I was raised as a Lutheran - the church of my mother’s family, something for which I give thanks regularly. My father’s family were Baptists, and I give thanks that I was NOT raised in that church! It has been my experience that all churches have their share of hypocrites, but the percentage amongst the Baptists seems to be considerably higher, as does the number of assholes.

This author is Zing Tsjeng writing an opinion piece in the i paper, she points out the victory claimed by feminist activists is pyrrhic and doesn't see the greater picture. Activists on both sides do more damage than good and the bigger picture should show cis gender and trans women joining together to halt the danger to women of all types, shapes and sizes from male predators. Trans women aren't a risk to other women but macho men may be. Let's get rid of institutional misogyny and protect all women and girls, trans variety too.

If you feel unsafe or threatened by the current political climate, or if you wish to avoid controversial or disturbing subjects for your own personal mental health, then please do NOT read this post.

All those CAUTION tags are there for a reason.

And first, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter. It is a beautiful day here, and we will be having dinner with all of children and their spouses. I hope that those who read this are having as good of an Easter as I am.

Due to the activity that I can no longer escape from here with the expressing of negative opinions on an hourly basis, for my sanity, I am leaving.
It is no longer safe for me to view the blogs and comments being exposed to me. I have to leave BCTS.

With what is already going on in the states, now the uk Supreme Court Nazi ruling and complains against trans close to home I’m terrified.

It seems like our rights and freedoms are being made illegal at an alarming rate.

No one chooses to be transgendered they are just born that way.

How long before we are hunted and killed just for trying to live a normal life?

How many of our brothers and sisters have already decided they were given a death sentence and have opted for other ways out?

Illegal search and seizure of a U.S. citizen by ICE. This is exactly what we fought against in 1776, and now Trump and his Nazi administration are bringing it back to our country.

This man was born In Georgia and is an American citizen. A judge examined his birth certificate and determined that is is “undoubtably valid”, yet he is still being held in an ICE detention center in violation of his rights as a citizen, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

Visiting my favorite Dr. and extra favorite nurse yesterday. "Bless your heart', yes I used that on my favorite nurse after she brought in several of her friends to see me. "She talks about you all the time and we wanted to meet you." came from the others. Thus, "Bless your heart." used again to my favorite nurse after a couple hugs. Southern slang for those who need to look it up.

ARGH! Angharad, where's my Bike?
Don't tease me. I must know about Kathy, Simon and the kids.

and other historical weather events!

There seems to be speculation about me. Okay, I'll address that. Yes, I'm still around. I did have a side-gig going on but not anymore. I still write. I do have a project ongoing, but slowly. Those who follow me on facebook know I'm kind of active, but I do not use any other social media platforms. I think covers the highlights. Thanks for any concern.

Time to go back to school.

I certainly hope not but there is a marked change in the weather today.

Donald Trump is trying to figure out how to deport US citizens to prison in El Salvador, which is apparently his new American gulag. In a press conference at the White House, his Press Secretary admitted that Trump was looking for a way to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens in order to deport them. Apparently he is also working on trying to retroactively revoke the citizenship of people born within the United States in order to deport them as well.

I have the start of an idea for the May Summer Romance Story Contest, but the inciting incident involves a 14-year-old boy filling in for his mom (who has laryngitis) in the local church choir. I was wondering, is it too far of a stretch for a boy that age being able to sing in the same range as an adult woman?

Elsbeth disappeared five years ago today.

She posted so many wonderful stories on BCTS. My favorites are Harry Potter - Season of Change, Freyja's Daughter and The Lost Queen. I still re-read them regularly. In 2020 she was posting a chapter a week, regular as clockwork, in addition to logging in to leave comments several times a week. Many of us were in a private chat group guessing what was going on in The Lost Queen. We were so SO happy whenever a new chapter came out and we could see how close we are.

but 80% of what i hear you ask

No Joel has ever backed down from a battle to defend another

I should have chapter fourteen ready next week

As my faithful readers know, I interweave almost all of my tales. With the current stage of 'Mates', coupled with the 'Prequel' in 'Black and White', there is an unfinished story there, of Neil and Maddy.

Obviously, I know where that story goes. I am considering fleshing it out, as I did in 'Black and White', but it comes after all the stuff I have already written. I think it might work as a standalone, even so. What do people think? Should I write and post it now, or leave it till after 'Mates' has run its course?

https://people.com/woman-s-disappointing-gender-reveal-video...

Ducci Lou Carter captured her disappointed reaction to her sex reveal in a video that has now gone viral

How the mighty have fallen as the fascist purge marches on. The US Naval Academy posted a list of nearly 400 books being removed from the Nimitz Library as part of Trump’s purge of anything smacking of truth in history or social reality. Amongst the items purged were works by Maya Angelou, as well as books memorializing Holocaust survivors, or books on the history of the Ku Klux Klan or racism.

Here is an excerpt from an article posted online:

The YouTube story, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Am4KysOCHM, in the link is almost exactly the Gwen Brown story, "You Did What To Me". I hope that someone made some money on it. I did not.

Gwen Brown

If you do NOT want to deal with any of the current news, then please skip reading this post.

THIS COMMENT IS NOT MEANT TO DISPARAGE THE WORK OF ANY OTHER AUTHOR.

I have been thinking about what my favorite TG might be and my thoughts keep returning to "Captive" by Melanie Brown. In some ways parts of it parallel to parts of my own life. For me, as with the protagonist in the story adapting and accepting is what is available. It is not such a bad life. It got me out of a painful marriage with a drunken abusive woman.

I did not endure the kidnapping and torture in the story, but the end results are much like mine.

Gwen Brown

I have notice a fall off on reviews both here and on Fictionmania.
I have asked there whether this is a reaction to these troubled times, when the very small and thoroughly pleasant transgender community has been picked out as the substitute jew to be hated by pliable majority. Are people frightened to put their names (even pennames) to a few words in praise of our evident perversion?
I just hope that is not true and that the courage to simply stay calm and carry on still exists

I swear, I overthink everything. Here I am, scrubbing words like “earth” and “inch” from my novel because they don’t exist in this world—while writing the whole thing in English, a language my characters wouldn’t even speak.

Some of the girls have been traveling to Mexico or Canada for the less expensive hormones and drugs. Perfectly legal in the U.S. by prescription. Not always for transgender even under off label prescription. Reports are coming in also about doctors getting skittish about treating transgender not knowing how far Trump and his team will go in banning or outlaw trans everything? If one has a doctor stick with him or her as a new doctor may not want to get involved with anyone who is transgender.