Yes, it is about guns, but this goes far deeper than that. This was a trans girl/woman who was forced to go to this school to 'straighten her out' from her dysphoria. I imagine she was tortured by those 'Christians' on a daily basis. Such a shame, when the proper treatment and counseling might have left us with a well-adjusted young woman.

I just got a medical bill for $995 for a procedure last summer that I thought the insurance had paid. I'm going to find out what's going on before I pay them anything.

But in other news, it's the end of the month, there are bills due and coming due, and we have $150 in our accounts, company and my personal account added together.

Thanks for any help you can send. All contributions are very welcome.

Neeva browser isn’t getting past Cloudflare anti-bot check to reach BC after today’s Apple update. Safari browser access is Ok.

My long awaited complaint to the NHS about my 11 years of waiting has now gone in the mail and should reach them on Tuesday. I have paid for tracking so will get confirmation.

Warning: Don’t read this if you’re squeamish there’s a lot of nasty things that are going to be said. If the moderators think I’ve went too far in explaining what has happened to me then they are free to remove it. I just wanted to get this out into the open.

This woman caused riots in New Zealand with her anti-trans opinions, with which she courts the fascist right-wing, neo-nazis. She is British but I firmly believe if anyone should lose their citizenship, it should be her,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/25/anti-trans-act...

Finally, someone does a survey that iterates what we have been saying for years,

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/24/majority-tra...

as long as you don't want to be an athlete:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/23/world-athletic...

Both from the Guardian

Are there no knights left in the world?

I've felt a bit odd lately and have gone out in full male mode a few times. If my facial structure was more feminine, I could look like a Butch Dyke, pardon me. I had my hair all cut off to about to about 6.5 mm (1/4"). I am going out today for several hours and plan to do more of that. To me, it seems that my transition, including bottom Surgery, might have been ill advised. Warnings from the Psychological Community seem dire because many of them feel that it is a precursor to Suicide. I'm not feeling that. My children would undoubtedly support detransition.

A lovely surprise call this morning from my Doctor's office telling me that I had been issued with a new NHS number. That's because the gender marker has been changed and I'm officially female. That was supposed to take 3 weeks but was completed in just 11 days! I'm also, once again, able to order prescriptions online now that the national NHS database has been modified.

Okay, so last night Jaci called me, and told me some people on Discord were rather concerned about me, since I hadn't been on in a while, nor had a posted a blog here.

I told her and the others I had gotten super focused on a stupid D&D thing I had been working on, and just kind of tuned everything else out.

But having had a night to think about it, that was only partially true.

See, last Thursday, a 16 year old boy killed 2 police officers, seriously wounded his own mother, and then took his own life here in Edmonton.

here in Brizz, just ahead of the Equinox and in time for Mothers Day!

Has anybody heard from Snowfall recently? I know she did some posting with Wolfjess, but I was hoping to see a story from her alone. She had said once she was working on a story of her own. I have not seen anything by her alone since Late Night Princess.

Had a couple delays in getting Part 5 of the latest offering finished for posting (as some have noticed). One scene after receiving feedback needed a rewrite which took a couple iterations to (hopefully!) get right. Then my usual proofreader had a week or so of being too busy due to family while also not feeling too great.

After monday's call from my GP I had some thinking to do. Last night I was in a pub where the owner was marking his 20th anniversary as the pub landlord. That event had me standing next to a couple who are retired teachers (having both taught my daughter) and with whom I'm involved with festivals & projects.

but not neccesarily for everyone!

Late in 2022, I started to get pain in my hands. I went and had an x-ray done, and there was some arthritis forming. Well, at my age, that's kinda normal, so I wasn't REALLY worried about it.

The problem was, the pain in one of my thumbs got worse and worse. Unfortunately, it's the thumb that supports my trumpet when I play, and it's used in the piano quite a bit, as well as guitar, accordian, you name it. It's used. I don't play guitar very much, but I do need my left thumb to help me grip the neck when I'm making a chord, or even when playing the bass guitar.

That's right folks, there's less than a week left to get your entries in!

We've had some amazing stories so far, and I'm sure there are more to come!

I know this has been done to death. Politicians are always asked the question whenever a trans issue is debated

When people say "a woman has xx chromosomes" That is bullshit as there are XY females and XX males.

"A woman has a womb" Some are born without one and many have hysterectomies. Do they stop becoming a woman?

I've wanted to be an Author all my life. Unfortunately, the forces of a life of parental abuse and after kept me distracted for a long, long time. Coming to Big Closet, almost as soon as it opened, my writing was awful despite the fact that I had taken Creative Writing courses even in the late 50s in school. For me, School was a happy place, giving me a chance to escape my tormentors and to be able to play. My grades were way below acceptable, almost failing and I did not care, a fact that exasperated my teachers.

Not going through the other states for TG resources, here is Oklahoma. If the discrimination laws get signed into law by Stitt do diligent research. My sincere sympathy to all my brothers and sisters who are caught up in this illegal action by my own state legislature and governor who have absolutely no concept of transgender. Some of these sites want donations. That's up to each individual.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Oklahom...

At last I have my nineteenth anthology of short stories up on Amazon. This is another collection on the theme of crime and criminals and has 19 stories including many that have not been published here.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BY5B83SZ

So a couple of days ago, while in Walmart, I saw what looked like a book that looked like a novel with a cute romantic comedy vibe, so I picked it up.
At the start, the book delivered on that vibe, as it told the story of an ordinary man and a witch who fall for each other.

They met, he somehow defeated the glamor on her house (which is supposed to make people forget it and the residents) to remember her, they had a meet cute, they had a misunderstanding, it was all going pretty much the way I expected.

Any one heard from WolfJess7 it's been awhile from the last time she posted anything

I just received email that nominations are open for Hugo science fiction awards. If we coordinate our nominations we can get a couple stories from Big Closet nominated. Who is is a voting member of world science fiction convention. Message me or email me @
Alankoslow....at.....gmail.....dot......com.

So last night the wife and I had dinner out - not all that unusual. As we were leaving, a guy held the door for me, then complimented me on my shirt and earrings.

Folks, in real life I'm a very large, fat old man with a full, gray beard. Could I possibly been reverse-read? Did he somehow see my inner woman?

I did appreciate the compliment, though.

First of all, big hugs to all of my brothers and sisters here at BCTS. We have an amazing community of diverse and creative people.

That said, I feel like it might be a good time to remind everyone that we're all in this together. We have many different views, many different concerns, many different backgrounds, but we're all here for much the same reason: to enjoy a quality community and some quality stories.

It's only a matter of time before we join the list of books banned in many states of the USA. When the Right-Wingers have finished going after the children and their parents and the doctors who treat them, then they are going to come after what they see as those who encourage and/or educate them.

That's US, folks. They can't burn our books but they can ban us from the internet and restrict us in many ways. Do you think we'll get any help from the tech giants?

Think again.

That's right folks, as of... well, a few hours ago, depending on your time zone, the "Abducted!" story contest is open for entries!

Any stories you write for the contest, please use the "2023-3 March - Abducted! Contest" tag under the "contests" header during posting.

As a reminder, the contest is accepting entries from now until midnight-ish PST on March 20th.

start to March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHv7jv6RTI

This was a TV series. I only saw a couple episodes but was fascinated. A doctor who is head of a medical team solves unsolvable patient problems by being unorthodox himself. In this particular episode his patient is sick and no one can figure out why as he gets sicker each day. For a spoiler, the patient is innersex. The final sentence is when Dr. House is being his usual obnoxious self. "Just because your son is a freak of nature doesn't mean you have to treat him like one."

I was putting some of my writing through Grammarly, and I just had to laugh at one of the suggestions.

Original text: When Mom got fed up with us boys, she would cuddle or do something girly with Rose.

Grammarly Suggest correction: Mom would cuddle or do something girly with us boys when she got fed up with Rose.

Forty-nine years today. Seems to be working out. I married up, which supposedly is dicey.

Jill

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/28/anti-trans-...

Copy and paste looks like hell, and it's almost 5am and too late for me to try and edit it to look good...

As I sit in this hotel room, I have come to the decision to try and work on something as there is very little I can do with my house at this time. The entire second floor needs to be gutted and rebuilt and that is a bit out of my area of expertise

Last year I wrote a story about a trans woman helping a man with a yearning to be a woman. He was married the whole 9 yards, but he had secretly always wanted to be a woman.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/94307/finding-my-level

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/94320/finding-my-leve...

Part one on here did well. 152 kudos. Honestly, I do pigeonhole the sites I post on.

Welp, folks, here it is, the first competition of 2023, and it's a fun one!

According to the internet, March 20th is Alien Abduction Day, so what better way to celebrate with a competition built around stories about all things extraterrestrial in origin?

I'm a few thousand words into this story, which is about an adventure Aaron (Malak) LaBelle had in northern Germany in WWII. I know the plot; it's just a matter of filling things in.

I left a bunch of flyers for Masks 18 (the latest one out through Doppler) at the Frankfort AnimeCon yesterday. There may or may not be an increase in sales following this. We'll see. The con was literally just on the other side of the river from my home.

Someone using chatGPT got it to write a sissy maid story. It was posted on Fictionmania today. It is a little bland but that may be due to the tiny amount of direction it was given.

https://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?story...

Here is a sample.

"Me" is the direction given to chapGPT

Me; Adrian decides to live as his wifes maid and asks her to take him to
buy a uniform. She thinks this is an excellent idea and is encouraging

Says it all really.

People come to Big Closet for various reasons. Simply put -- some are readers and others are writers. . .some are both.

But beyond that distinction are the needs people seek to fulfill.

Entertainment – BC is a great place to be entertained. Readers can be amused by a dozen different TG genres. Writers can find readers and be entertained by their feedback. The BC library is vast. The quality of the writing is surprisingly good.

Poor Pete! Now that his coach knows that he's growing breasts, will he still be able to keep playing football?

“You mean gynecomastia?” Megan suggested. Had Dr. Verre mentioned the word? I didn’t remember. Somehow I did know what it meant so I must have heard it somewhere. Breast growth on a boy...

Just a quick prefix of sorts outlining the mini-series fanfic idea I have.

I am happy to announce that this story is finally coming to an end and there is only one chapter left.
I am, however, sad to announce that I will not be completing any other story, here on BigCloset, that includes (Revenge is a dish best-served cold), (Sam's new life) and (Not so royal).
I believed the community here was different and not toxic but it doesn't appear to be the case. The only feedback I got so far is negative, I was accused of things that I am not including being homophobic.
For those who are reading my stories and waiting for updates, I apologize.

Due to a house fire yesterday, I regretfully must place all of my WIP's on hiatus until I can work out the insurance adjusters and so forth.

The house sustained more smoke and soot damage but due to the cause of the fire power has been cut. We are in a hotel at the present time. I hope to get back to posting soon.

Thank you.

well it was a hard ride today!

I decided to do a simple Copy/Paste to Word of each of my stories, and print them all. I'm not sure where I will go from there. I don't have a pressing reason for doing this, though I suspect that one or more of my Electronic Hard Drives is on the verge or has packed it in. In Big Closet Top Shelf, it 'looks' like I can copy, but I don't seem able to paste these files, or any of them to my Word. I don't know what it would cost to have it all bound, and I have no idea what page size I would use. I suspect that 9 x 5 3/4 would be nice eventually but for now I will likely just do 8 1/2 x 11.

Are Morals and Ethics two sides of the same coin OR Can an action be Ethical BUT Immoral OR Moral BUT Unethical?!?!?

If the final two are correct give an example of each situation?!?!?