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Caroline wrote:The actual scientific paper is titled:
Hormone therapy in transgender adults is safe with provider supervision; A review of hormone therapy sequelae for transgender individuals
And can be found hereThe paper’s abstract states:
Quote:Current literature suggests HT is safe when followed carefully for certain risks. The greatest health concern for HT in transgender women is venous thromboembolism. HT among transgender men appears to cause polycythemia. Both groups experienced elevated fasting glucose. There is no increase in cancer prevalence or mortality due to transgender HT.Although current data support the safety of transgender HT with physician supervision, larger, long-term studies are needed in transgender medicine.
The paper is only a summary of other papers and does not reflect any new research. The papers referenced range from 1968 to 2014. So not all of the current literature is particularly current!!
However it is encouraging to see people moving away from the past mantra that HRT is “dangerous”.
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Any chance you can get back to the original ‘serious’ topic or do I have to throw this degenerative thread into the fun stuff archive?
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TinaMartini wrote:I set up a FB profile about 2 months ago and already have well over 1,000 tranny friends.
Which brings to mind that the meaning of the word “friend” has changed radically from the days when the Trannies were roaming the world. I had over a 1000 contacts on my list to tell about Transformal, but would count few on that list as a friend.
In one of Emma’s seminal posts “You won’t meet a great friend sitting at home watching Midsomer Murders and taking selfies…trust me “ she shared her perspective on Facebook friends thus:Quote:I think the easy accessibility of just having an online crossdressing life in the majority of cases has excused people from taking the plunge and stepping out into the big wide world. You can instead stay home on a Saturday night and doll yourself up and practice and practice until you get the perfect selfie which you can then post on your Facebook profile and wait for the adulation.Perhaps that’s all a bit harsh…but there is more than a gem of truth there I would suggest. The Tranny Age that Emma refers back to was a time when contacting your friends meant going to a secret crossdressing society, hitting a friendly restaurant on Friday night, or letting ones wig down at a ball. At least back then you knew what your friends were really like – warts and all.
Yes Emma, times have changed on us!
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Would be nice if people could actually post here where they stay,……to help others in the future.
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April 2018 Meetup
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Emma,
Really what have you been drinking? It took you this long to work out we are a dying race!
Your post, although frivolous in language, deserves to be considered carefully, because what you observe is exactly how things are.
I expect your decade hiatus just makes the change appear even more worrying.You and I are from the old school – and sadly are just plain getting old.
The new school doesn’t need all the social infrastructure that we developed last century.
And so those structures are crumbling around us. Over the last 10 years it has been like watching Limbo City collapsing in Inception.Of course I have my theories. And as they are as good as the next woman’s I might share them.
Before the 1970’s if you had any desire to dress you kept it to yourself.
Going out in public was a high risk strategy; telling anyone was suicidal.
The result? A lot of very a lot screwed-up Transgender people who probably didn’t even realise they were trans.
How many of the loonies in Mental Asylums were in fact suppressed cross dressers? We will never know.This means that anyone born before, let’s say, the mid-60’s has suffered to a greater or lesser degree from their gender being suppressed.
Although we may like to deny it, the baby boomers and older, carry mental scars. We suppressed our gender for so long and most importantly during our adolescence when we were trying to ‘find ourselves’.Although it became more common to dress and go out in the 1980’s the need for secrecy was still paramount. Life in public was tough; you frequently copped abuse or worse. And so the community developed social structures where it was safe to come out of your shell. Secret crossdressing societies flourished, balls and private restaurant nights popped up in most capital cities, and we started sharing information on Bulletin Boards and then the web. Life in our shells, and out in the public eye was so stressful we had to release the tension by having fun – in little bursts, once or twice a month. Life was great – as long as you didn’t take yourself too seriously. We didn’t realise it at the time – but what were were seeking was closer to therapy than real life. And for many of us, the therapy worked.
Meanwhile a new generation was appearing. A generation which had not experienced the mental persecution of the last century. Society moved away from a position of hostility towards the gender diverse, and without the need for safe spaces and therapy, the youngsters just kept pushing the boundaries of social acceptance. Change in the last 10 years has been so fast it is undermining the very assumptions (dress code, secrecy, relationships) that used to define our “Tranny” life.
The baby boomers had to make a choice. We either moved with the times, or stayed in our comfortable but crumbling structures.
The movers threw away the secrecy, told the world, and participated openly in society; after all, the youngsters said they had a right to be there. And as more of the community was seen the attitude of society changed faster.
The stayers found that they were all getting older, their numbers were dropping because of natural attrition, and life just wasn’t fun like it used to be. Soon the East Wing had to be locked and left to decay, then the West Wing, and now they are thinking of locking the front door and down-sizing. It is getting harder and harder to find the therapy – and paradoxically easier and easier to get the drugs!
I was lucky – helped by a bit of not-so-gentle nudging out of Seahorse I was forced to move. I really miss the old “Tranny” life – but I now have a completely different therapy – near universal acceptance in public.
As Emma observed, the writing has been on the wall for anyone who cares to read it. Sadly if you aren’t in a position to jump into the big bad world without your armour on, then there is little you can do. But as they proved on the Titanic – you can have a lot of fun dancing to the band whilst the ship goes down.
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I’ve locked this thread as it has now wandered way off topic. Caty has elected not to be a member any longer after posting an unacceptable update to her profile.
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Brings back memories of the trip Caroline & I did from Sydney to Adelaide 10 years ago with Virgin. Back when it wasn’t frowned on to refer to a Tranny (or have a web site called TrannyRadio),
a lot has happened to both of us in the last 10 years – but the attitudes of airlines to paying customers, however presented, has not. -
This post was made in the Glebe Cafe night forum, and so perhaps was an observation from the photos that Glebe isn’t a “dress only” event.
A desire to wear heels and a dress is an understandable reaction to the constraints of male attire when one makes the first steps out as a girl. But there is SO MUCH more to being feminine than what you wear. The more you explore your femininity the more you realise you can be just as feminine in slacks. It is who you are inside that you are expressing, not what you are wearing.
There are times and places where it is great to dress up (Grand High Tea at the Carrington for one) but personally I live in leggings and jeans. They are generally more suitable attire to wander round places like Glebe. So tehre is no dress only dress code!
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March 2018 Meetup
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Marian wrote:Hi Melissa
The Lingerie store in Katoomba called AbraKadaBras was selling a very comfortable padded panty to a number of the girls at TF last year. They were available in skin tone and also in black.I was in Katoomba yesterday chatting with Gina the lovely lady who runs AbraKadBras. She still has some stock left of the padded panty that Marian refers to. So any girls coming to Transformal can pop into the shop and purchase with the option of actually trying them on first! Like last year AbraKadaBras will be having a private shop opening just for Transformal girls on Sunday from 10:30 to 2:30.
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February 2018 Meetup
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January 2018 Meetup (Australia Day)
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Last night saw the third annual Perfect Pool Competition being held in the historic Carrington Hotel.
Sixteen gorgeous girls lined up for the chance to win the coveted trophy, kept on display to the public in the Billiards Room.
After a blind draw which mixed up the pool sharks and virgins, eight teams were announced. When betting was opened the clear favourite was team Karron/Caroline. Karron’s proven talent (she was a 2017 cup winner) and Caroline’s extended table reach promised to be a formidable combination.As the teams took to the table for the elimination round it became clear that any talent at pool had been diluted by a weekend of dancing, drinking and chatting.
This gave a window of opportunity to the virgins who, with occasional encouragement from the umpire, delivered stellar performances, often managing to avoid pocketing the cue ball.Four teams advanced to the semi-finals. The imminent closure of the bar, and the arrival of platters of delicious desert canapes, only ratcheted the tension up further. The pressure took a toll on the teams as they sought out increasingly creative ways to pocket the cue ball. Reneece discovered that sledging the umpire was not a good move and dragged her team out of the competition. This left team Lisa/Megan to put up a valiant defence against the competition favourites. Even the sympathetic assistance of the umpire was not enough to save them from a well-deserved 3rd place.
The fast paced final between team Karron/Caroline and the unseeded Geoff/Martina was closely played. Geoff played the gender card and tried using masculine aggression to get ahead, however he succeeded only in pocketing the cue ball faster. Martina then tried to recover the situation by taking time out to sip her glass of red but to no avail. All appeared lost when she left team Karron/Caroline with an easy winning shot to pocket the 8-ball. Caroline lined up the shot carefully, and with one deft stroke pocketed the black…and the cue ball.
Team Geoff/Martina were therefore declared the winners of the 2018 Perfect Pool Competition and were magnanimously presented with the cup by the retiring champion Karron.
Congratulations were extended to all the competitors for providing such an enjoyable evening’s entertainment. The umpire then retired to finish her Toblerone cocktail.[attachment=274]DSCN3696small.JPG[/attachment]