I hate to use that word, “depression”. It evokes in all of us a sense of utter sadness and an inability to deal with our lives or external circumstances. Since a third of all people in the Western world have been diagnosed with depression at some time of the other, […]
Gender identity
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There is a moment in all our lives as crossdressers where things don’t work out as we expect. For many crossdressers, it’s simply impossible to “reveal themselves” and thus this mean that there is no way, ever, to predict when there will be an opportunity to dress again. For us […]
I believe I mentioned before that in my country the legislation has been changed to allow transgendered people to go through transition much faster, change their paperwork to reflect their legal names, even during pre-op (and surgery is not any more a requirement to legally change your name and gender), […]
Some of you might know that I have been letting my fingernails grow naturally. After much filing, they’re now at pretty much the same length as some of my “fake” nails which I have been using for so many years! This was the result of a chat with one recent […]
MtF transexuals in the past had to deal with an additional issue after all the complexities of their long process: will they be able to sustain themselves with their former work? The question is actually a hard one. Not so long ago, most MtF transexuals had few options left beyond […]
While I was on my short “forced” vacations, I had brought with me a PDF copy of Richard Ekins’ Male Femaling: A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing. It’s an academic study from 15 years ago, and thus slightly outdated, which tries to formulate a framework for discussing transgenderism, travestism, […]
There is an old joke (of somewhat bad taste…) about the difference between a crossdresser and a transexual: “Five years”. The “joke” is that current research has shown that gender identity is a little less constrained and limited than it used to be defined, say, a decade ago. A “classical […]
It’s been a rather strange week. Not necessarily bad. For some reason, there are times when I guess that we all reflect a bit more about ourselves. I use the word “reflect” neutrally: not really “brooding” in the depressive sense of the word, but really just think about what makes […]
As you know, I’ve been insanely busy the past weeks, and to make matters worse, the few days off I had were either too cold or my Significant Other wanted to go out for one reason or the other. So I haven’t managed to dress at all; we’ll see if […]
One of the things that always fascinated me from my teen days is the subject ofidentity, and since it’s something that pretty much all crossdressers have to face at some time in their lives, I love to think and write about it. This past weekend, sadly, I had no time […]