The LGBT Club

[Zuu]

ok shaving your legs is not fun. :[

lotion seems to be helping though.

 

[Jolty]

ok shaving your legs is not fun. :[

lotion seems to be helping though.

it takes forever and is bloody annoying
so I rarely do it anymore :B

 

[Bluberry Bat]

Protip: Aloe Vera gel; it's amazing.

 

[ultraviolet]

or vitamin E cream (often sold as handcream) or lanolin.
actually instead of buying an aloe vera product, just go buy a plant. They take no effort to grow provided you water them and all you need to do is pick off a stalk and use the juices for whatever.

 

[Vladimir Putin's LJ]

Oh and my mum won't buy me "mens" shoes or trousers. I'll buy them myself obviously when I can but I have to rely on my mother a lot of the time so yeah..

Monetarily, like? Because getting around London's pretty easy even though the tube's crap.

I'm looking forward to appearing at least androgynous enough to be able to get a suit with suitable (heh) shoulders without being looked at weird :c also I think I might be able to order a binder and test it out sometime soon but we'll see.

 

[Dewgong]

I can't remember the last time I was forced into a dress and I do not really want to either. D:

meeeee neither. except i do remember it. bad times.

 

[Flazeah]

it takes forever and is bloody annoying

*nods* Yeah; sometimes literally. Last week, I had some blood pouring down my leg due to being a bit too enthusiastic with a razor. I usually use shaving cream and am not used to using razors, ehe.

 

[surskitty]

I don't shave. :) Why shave off blonde fuzz? It's not like anyone'll see it. Particularly my legs; I don't believe in shorts.

 

[octobr]

Lol. THe last time I shaved I cut myself like six times. Like real bad too, I felt magically retarded. :B


I def need a binder before I head off to college

 

[Alexi]

Once you get into the habit of shaving (and using some kind of lotion or whatever) it gets easier.

 

[Almost Eric]

Monetarily, like? Because getting around London's pretty easy even though the tube's crap.

I'm looking forward to appearing at least androgynous enough to be able to get a suit with suitable (heh) shoulders without being looked at weird :c also I think I might be able to order a binder and test it out sometime soon but we'll see.

Yeah. I have to rely on my mother for money a lot which is why I can't buy the clothes I need.. If I misunderstood uh, feel free to correct me.

Yay appearing androgynous! I really want to order a binder but I'm not sure how much they cost and dfkugdsh yeah have to go through my mother to get one and she's tight with money even though she would like to get me one..

Also; I must appear at least kind of androgynous/whatever because a lady asked my mother if I was her son.. :') It made me happy. :B

 

[Dewgong]

i have no idea how much they cost, but, they can be kind of expensive, i know that much.

 

[octobr]

DOODOODEEDOO http://ftm.underworks.com/ Underworks is god.

also note: http://community.livejournal.com/ftm/ and relatedly http://community.livejournal.com/ftm/tag/.

And since apparently I've a lot more links than you I shall quote the mystical ftmichael

If you don't already have one, definitely get a LiveJournal at http://www.livejournal.com/create.bml. It doesn't matter if you don't want to keep an online journal. You don't have to post to your personal journal. The point is the communities; that's where the support is, quite a bit more than here, and especially for FTMs. See http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/1133801.html for LJ communities that may help you. Go to the userinfo (profile) page of any community and click the link at the top of the profile where it says 'to join this community, click here'. And spend a lot of time at http://community.livejournal.com/ftm/tag/ .

Links for you - take your time going through them! The point is that you have a load of them so you can go through them at whatever pace you want, and in whatever order you want, and not have to stop to look for more for quite a while.

http://imatyfa.org/
http://transfamily.org/
http://ftmmentors.org/
http://trans-health.org/
http://transbucket.com/
http://camparanutiq.org/
http://genderspectrum.org/
http://transmsaculine.com/
http://ftmichael.transboys.info/
http://transkidspurplerainbow.org/
http://t-vox.org/ - resource/info central
http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=266
http://t-vox.org/index.php?title=Online_Support
http://t-vox.org/index.php?title=Support_groups
http://t-vox.org/index.php?title=Therapists_by_region
http://safeschoolscoalition.org/whydontyoutellthem.pdf
http://ftmichael.transboys.info/yayforqueers.html - come chat!
http://tinyurl.com/lu6tev - ten-minute YouTube on coming out as FTM
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teentransman/ - for Trans guys 25 and under
http://youtube.com/user/mightiermenftm (I advise watching them all, and keep checking back because new ones are added every day)

Must-reads:
Luna by Julie Ann Peters
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
Just Add Hormones by Matt Kailey
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
Trans Forming Families, edited by Mary Boenke (third edition, 2008, orange cover) - available from PFLAG's Transgender Network for $10
The Our Trans Children leaflet (sixth edition) - available from PFLAG's Transgender Network for $2, or you can save and print it yourself for free. The booklet is their only source of revenue, so if you can afford to pay for it, please do!
TransGeneration (Ignore what Lucas says in the first episode about hormones being "very dangerous" - they're not, not if you get them through a competent doctor and have regular - which usually means annual - bloodwork, and that was irresponsible of him to say.)
(The books, aside from Trans Forming Families, can be ordered on amazon.com or you can get the ISBNs from amazon.com and bring them to any bookstore to order them. Trans Forming Families is available from PFLAG's Transgender Network for $10. The DVD can be ordered on amazon.com also, as you see from the link.)

Not superbly helpful for those of us who aren't leaning on the masculine side, but all the same ...


EDITED: also, http://sites.google.com/site/binderreviews/ this is pretty damn helpful. Since not each binder is tailored to each cup size, etc -- also lists good alternatives to underworks and provides pics.

 

[Jolty]

those are some pretty interesting websites there Verne...

I'm still thinking over what I actually am. The annoying thing is, when I was a lot younger, I /always/ hated being seen as a girl and then when I got to puberty I kind of just accepted that I was one, and only this year have I gone back to thinking "this isn't right" so it better not be a phase :(
Recently I've been like argh when people say my name or when I have to write it because it's so obviously girly and yeah. I don't think I really want to totally transition into a guy but I want to seem more like one than a woman, does that even make sense idk

 

[ultraviolet]

With the shaving thing, I met a MTF today who said that waxing is a really great idea if you tend to do it continuously because it lasts longer and your hair eventually just gets weaker anyway.

 

[Wyvern]

With the shaving thing, I met a MTF today who said that waxing is a really great idea if you tend to do it continuously because it lasts longer and your hair eventually just gets weaker anyway.

Truth be told I use my mother's eyebrow plucker to get my wild hairs out xD

So lonely x.x

 

[EvilCrazyMonkey]

So today's coming out day. I don't really feel like it's important to tell anyone except my parents, but I am not coming out to them today. I've decided to wait until April Fool's Day and come out, so if they really do do something bad I can play it off as a joke. I would've come out to my swim coach but I don't see her today. Tomorrow, maybe?

Anyone else have plans for coming out today?

 

[Jolty]

oh god I forgot
and it's the end of the day over here

:(

 

[Dewgong]

...i think i'll wait until like
later

 

[octobr]

UK celebrates it on the twelfth ... I think.


Nah, I'm not doing crap. If anyone really needed to know they'd have figured it out by now.