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bobbijane · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 157 Location: usa Ohio

I had to obtain two letters of clearance before my endocronoligist would even start me on hormones....do doctors adhere to the B. H. standards where you live? that is England right? :
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Stella Maru · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 2248 Location: Brighton

In the United Kingdom National Health Service, it is usual for two consultant psychiatrists working at the same gender identity clinic each to give an opinion at least three months apart.

Endocrinologists as such are only sometimes, but not always, brought into the picture, and many gender variant patients will never see one.

The HBIGDA guidelines are generally followed to the extent that this is possible within the financial constraints of under-funded socialized medicine.

**PurplePrincess** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2678 Location: Bristol

I had a great time on tuesday Very Happy

, firstly I had my free half an hour of councelling which turned into an hour nearly and although for the first few minutes it was difficult to open up about things the councellor soon got me talking. She understood a lot of my feelings well and explained why I was feeling certain things and I felt I learned and understood more about myself. I guess one of my main goals is to achieve more self-confidence, I am quite confident that she will be able to help me Smile

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Later in the day I drove to Basingstoke to Wendy's house. Wendy has had Jess staying with her and I drove them to Bristol for the LGBT Speak easy talk. I was quite worried about making it there on time and I felt quite disorganised too but we arrived just in time. The talk itself was really interesting and although there wasn't a great deal that was specific to trans people I really enjoyed it and I felt that the panel of speakers were very good. The audience participated too and also came out with some important points and comments. Jess made a good contribution and the piece she said was greeted with a round of applause by the audience, I think my mind would have gone blank if I had stood up to say something. Overall I thought it had been well worth the trip.

My Rovers boys on wednesday played the first leg of a 2 leg match against our arch rivals Bristol City in the area final of the Johnstone's Paint trophy otherwise known as the League Trophy. City are the better team at the moment and play in a higher league, the first match was played at City's ground Ashton Gate and Rovers were probably expected to lose but we played with a lot of grit, determination and heart and the game finshed all square with no goals being scored. This was like a victory for our fans and we jubilantly celebrated by giving our team a massive send off at the end of the match. Our fans also outsung the City fans during the match too even though we had only 3,000 compared to City's 15,000 fans. It was a great day out and I am so proud of my team. The next leg is next tuesday at Rovers' ground The Memorial Stadium and with no goals so far the match could be anyones and with a place in the grand final at stake at Cardiff's Millenium stadium it is sure to be a really exciting match.

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**PurplePrincess** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2678 Location: Bristol

Wow a whole week without posting here. As you know the forums were down during feb 25th due to upgrading the hardware and I found 2 days later I still was unable to get on the forums Sad

. I was quite depressed being deprived of this wonderful and supportive community for a few days so I had a look at the support forums, forums for forums, lol and it seems other people had experienced the same problem and there were 2 possible solutions mentioned and the second one worked for me. I don't understand the reasons behind it I'm just glad to finally be back and it seems I have lots of catching up to do. It's surprising how much has happened in a few days.

I'm quite excited at the moment after my local boys Bristol Rovers pulled off quite an upset to beat our arch rivals Bristol City to secure a place in the final of the league trophy to played at Cardiff's Millenium stadium. The Rovers fans were absolutely fantastic and I have never experienced such an atmosphere at the Memorial stadium even the last time we beat Bristol City almost 7 years ago the crowd were not as loud as last nights game. It was a shame that the event was marred after the final whistle by fans of both teams invading the pitch but the police came out in force on horseback and quickly stopped any potential trouble. The game was settled by a single goal superbly taken on the volley by Rickie Lambert and Rovers have now made the final without conceding any goals in the competition so far. In the final we will be playing Doncaster Rovers and hopefully we can go on to win the trophy now although being a league below Doncaster we will be the underdogs again but I think that will suit us.

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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3577 Location: Glasgow

Well done The Gas (even if I'm from the other side of the river...). Hope you beat Doncaster

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**PurplePrincess** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2678 Location: Bristol

This will be a short one today, I don't feel able to write a lot right now. Just feeling a little down today, it all started when I slept in and woke up late, I always seem to feel down and less motivated when I sleep in late. Nothing much has happened recently. I can't wait to speak with my councellor tomorow, hopefully if it's anything like the last sessions I will feel much better afterwards. Also back to work tomorow, the weekend seems so short. Sad

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Scaeme · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:59 am Post subject:

*stealthhug*
*vanishes*

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**PurplePrincess** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2678 Location: Bristol

Scaeme wrote:

*stealthhug*
*vanishes*

Awww thanks Very Happy

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The session with the councellor went quite well, seemed to go so fast too and she has a strange ablility to be able to make me feel better about myself without me knowing how, lol. I was dead chuffed that she seemed to think my voice is good although I am aware that she may be just making me feel good, I'd like to believe my voice is quite good now though, I know Skyler likes it Very Happy

. My councellor said to me "It's hard to believe I'm speaking with a girl who hasn't transitioned yet with a voice like that." She is away next week and I'm sure I will miss not speaking with her. I have only spoke with her three times so far but I feel a little better about myself already Smile

. Work has been it's usual drab and dreary self. I am grateful to have a job even though it's really hard work and soul destroying. It isn't a bad income though considering I have no real qualifications, I doubt 5 GCSE's (A-C) will get me far, lol. In the future I'd like to study more and gain more qualifications but I think that will have to wait a while.

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bobbijane · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 157 Location: usa Ohio

You go girl. Glad to hear you are finally talking with a professional. Teach me the voice techniqes, one of my problems.. May I ask what a dirty soul destroying job is? Remenber that the most valuable thing you have to offer any employer is your TIME.... Walk or crawl to your goal, you will get there.

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Skyler · Tzoner Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 934 Location: Canada

PurplePrincess wrote:

it's really hard work and soul destroying.

Awww *puts bandages on Chrissy's soul and kisses it better*

bobbijane · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 157 Location: usa Ohio

Skyler I know you and Chrissy are close, but I almost never have a clue as to what you are saying... Maybe I really am just a dumb blond lol
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Skyler · Tzoner Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 934 Location: Canada

does anybody ever have a clue as to anything I say?

bobbijane · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 157 Location: usa Ohio

I don't know but you sure are funny. Smile

stay the way you are and you will go far...
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**PurplePrincess** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2678 Location: Bristol

bobbijane wrote:

Teach me the voice techniqes

To be honest I looked at a couple of websites and got a few basic tips. Unfortunately a lot of websites will give you the basics and then try to sell you a teach yourself CD or DVD. For a long while I considered sending off for a DVD but maybe I don't need it. Anyway as I was saying I got a few basic tips and then sort of made it up as I went along from there, lol.

http://www.tsvoice.com/ - This was one site I looked at, Unfortunately I didn't bookmark most of them so I don't know what they are, sorry.

http://heartcorps.com/journeys/voice.htm - This was another one that had basic tips I think.

http://www.genderlife.com/shop/transsexual_voice_feminization_video/ts_voice.htm
I found this one in my bookmarked section although I don't think I've ever looked at it, lol

http://crystallinephoenixgroup.com/users/amber/voice.html - I think I remember this one being useful.

bobbijane then wrote:

May I ask what a dirty soul destroying job is?

I work in a chilled warehouse that supplies goods to a large chain of supermarkets. Most of the time I load and unload lorries with an electric truck but sometimes I have to do some order picking which involves lifting lots of boxes although they are mostly light. It is a manual job and can get quite tiring but there are a fair percentage of girls that work there although the workers are mostly lads.

Tuesday night I had a message left on my answering machine from the Community mental health team telling me that I had an appointment this thursday to see a local psychiatrist and could I ring them back. I had recieved no correspondence from them whatsoever since the letter I recieved last year on october the 10th which told me I was on a waiting list and they'd contact me in a few weeks to give me a date. I never got a date or anything until now, I was about to phone them and chase it up.

So I phoned them back this morning and they confirmed that indeed I had an appointment at 2pm on thursday. I knew that this would practically be impossible to get off work at this short notice so I was left with a dilema, either phone in sick but my sickness% is above the allowed level to be paid for it or ask the managers to have take a days holiday because of special circumstances but then I'd have to explain why I want it and I'm not quite ready to tell them all about me just yet. I certainly don't want to wait another 5 months for another appointment, lol. I explained on the phone that it might be difficult to make the appointment at such short notice and luckily they were able to rearrange it to monday morning at 9:30.

So at work today I went upstairs to the offices to book holiday praying that I could get monday off. Usually I need to give seven days notice but as there were plenty of spaces in the holiday book for monday then it was allowed, yay Smile

. The guy who does the holiday bookings is always saying stuff about my hair, todays howler was: " I don't like your hair like that, you might as well come to work in a dress." I didn't know whether to find that funny, abusive or just silly or strangely complementary in a way, lol. I thought they would have got bored with hair comments now.

So my appointment is 9:30 on monday and as I start work at 11am normally. I might not have needed the day off but I thought it was best just in case. It seems like a long time waiting, I knew I'd have to wait a while, I just hope whoever I see knows what they are doing, lol.

Wow this blog is seeming quite long today already I think I'll stop there for today.

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**thedreadpersephone** · Advisor Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 913 Location: Dundee

Finally some progress! Good luck with the appointment. Very Happy

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