GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

It's been forever since I've been here so I thought i'd re-introduce. My name is Mikaela, legally Michael-Mikaela (woot) and I've been medically transitioning since December of 2005. It's been a slow process for me. I haven't been one of those (white i call) "Milestone" transitioners. A milestone is defined as: An action or event marking a significant change or stage in development. Everyone who transitions reaches those marks but a "Milestone Transitioner" will strive towards each of those moments and then move to the next. For example: I have no specific date that I started living full time. It was kind of a piecemeal event that culminated when a few girlfriends of mine decided that wearing sports bra's was no longer good enough and brought me an under-wire bra. A milestoner would've had a specific date in which they started "living" as a woman (because we've always been women).

Anyway, I've been meandering along my path (milestoners might pull a few of their carefully quaffed hair at that thought lol) and have found some pretty amazing moments. My name change was officially done in March of 2011 and insurance at my work began covering Transgender Surgery this year! I've since lost my job but as long as I can keep my cobra I'll have my very own vagina come march 7th!! WOOT!

Ummm for any of you who know me: I've been in a relationship and single since you've "seen" me last. Men suck lol I acctually can't decide if it's because of where I live or just that I represent a fantasy to so many men but finding one to date just fails.

My father passed of cancer in 2007. My father still drinks too much but god bless her she's trying...almost too hard...too be supportive.

I'm contemplating a move to a different area of the country now that i'm unemployed. I've no family in this area with the exception of "chosen family" and they will always be a part of my life. I've also tossed around the idea of "escorting" until march to try to get some extra funds coming in. I don't know how to get started. My family is strangly supportive, one of my aunts even told me to "move to vegas" lol. My friends are less so but understand my logic (the men who want me are almost universally unavailable for anything other then sex so I might as well get something out of it other then being their experiment or fantasy that their wives or girlfriends can't or wont be).

Ummm in other news I'm writing in NaNoWriMo for any who have a creative bent and are also participting my SN there is also TgirlValentine, and yes i'd love to be your "writing buddy".

SO...umm I think i've forgotten to write as much as I've written but hopefully i'll be back for a while. My depression was pretty harsh this time around but I feel stronger now (and now that i'm jobless i'm off my psych-meds. Seems my job was driving me crazy lol)

blessings to one and all!!

always

Mikaela

Woot for NaNoWriMo. I'm only a day and a half behind on my dystopian cyberpunk project. Will catch up this weekend i hope.

i'm WAY behind but I try not to think about it lol I made myself sit and write today and you'd think i was pulling teeth. was it difficult? no. It was just like trying to walk through molasses. I am telling myself this is just a rough draft, i can make it magic later!

Mine's awful. I may not even try to clean it up later, but who knows.

I may just count it as 50k of the million awful words I need to write before I become a decent writer. (Well, I'm a good chunk of the way through that...)

*grins* 50,000 yellow bricks on the road to awesomeness?

Portland, Oregon is GLBT friendly. I have lived in Vancouver, WA. for 22 yrs. Vancouver is just across the river from Portland. I came out in 2005 here. We even have a doctor that is MTF and therapist that is FTM. I know as they helped me. I have been on Calies since Nov 2005 using the name Cheryl_Lynne

here is my fear of moving to the pacific northwest. It's two fold really. One is that I suffer from depression and i'm afraid of all the grey lol the winters here are bad enough once it hits ...
and two? this is the craziest, as lonely as I'll be what if I love it and what if i'm happy? *grins* yep. I"m a pussy and wont go by myself which adds another kink to my plans for happiness.

Try Spokane. It's in Eastern Washington, rarely gets rain, has Washington's great legal protections and LGBT are kind of a non-issue. It's not LGBT friendly, it's just that no one seems to care too much and it's quite easy to just fly under the radar.