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Christina wrote:Has anyone had experience with Proscar? I am assuming that the ” side effects” of the drug are the desired effects for TG use but am wondering about undesirable side effects such as depression.I am considering self administration to begin and then monitoring through a Dr once I see the effects. I know the risks and don’t require advice on that subject …..
It seems to me that recent posts on this thread are not addressing the original posting. So I have locked the thread. Adrian
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Quote:“You really want to look your best at the Dinner Dance on Sat at Transformal – don’t you ?
After receiving mixed feedback about the skills of the makeup artists invited in past years we decided not to make any makeup arrangements for TransFormal 2014.
But we also listened to the feedback that many of you value having someone to help you look your best on the night. So this year we have negotiated the services of an absolute professional; an artist who is highly regarded and experienced in doing makeup for stage performances.
Our Makeup Artist this year is Michelle Rieussset of Luminance. She has a Diploma in Entertainment Makeup and 12 years experience in this field, including some work with the Victorian State Opera Company.
Michelle has been introduced to us with high recommendations.
Quote:We had Michelle come along and turn me into Lady Catherine and give Jessica her first time ever professional makeover. After my “Lady C” makeover she then did a different “after 5” makeover on me and turned me back to “normal” Caty. In both instances, I defy ANYONE to pick that under all her wizardy and skill lurked the “male me”. Jess was thrilled with her makeover too..Take up this outstanding opportunity quickly as there will be limited sessions available commencing at 1.20pm. Each session will be approximately 40 mins long. Michelle guarantees that even if you have an early makeup session you will still look absolutely fabulous by the end of the evening.
Cost for this service is $50 with payment by paypal / credit card.
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It is on their website here:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2015/02/gender-identity.html?site=brisbane&program=612_afternoonsQuote:For most of us our identity.. just is and your friends and family treat you in a way that matches what they see.But there are people who question their gender identity – they feel and live as one gender but society may treat them differently.
Today we are discussing gender identity and the choices a transgender man or woman has to make.
Our guests are;
Dr Gavi Ansara who is the manager of research and policy with the National LGBTI health alliance. Dr Graham Neilson, he is a specialist sexual health physician, working in sexual health and public health medicine, and we have Dee, Max and Miranda.. who explain their personal transgender experience.
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Lisa_W wrote:The operation is not for the weak willed as the restrictions post op are quite severe. No; smoking,alcohol, chocolate nor caffeine for three months.
Those restrictions pale into insignificance against the big one…
Quote:After a month of total silence I have just resumed talkingA month without talking – I would die!!
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Felicity_Lane wrote:One thing that encouraged me about this post is that no-one has touched on passing.
I totally agree – it is wonderful to see how rapidly passing is becoming a dated concept. Passing (or the lack of it) is the fear that keeps people closeted in ‘secret’ societies; and it a fear of the consequence of presenting as anything other than indistinguishably woman or man. Time and time again we now see this fear as being unfounded. As Kristyana wrote
Quote:it is high time we stopped promotion of fear as some in the community do and start too point to the real world as it is.It is good to see how the message of “confidence in being yourself” is becoming more widely promoted inside and accepted outside our community. Be yourself, wear whatever colour nails is “you”, and watch the fear of passing evaporate!
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June wrote:I don’t see why you can’t invite him
We could all be far more active in seeing publicity and promotion to our lifestyle preferences. It is a shame it always falls on a few shoulders.
So it isn’t that I can’t invite him, but rather that I didn’t get round to it with all the other “stuff” that calls for my time. Maybe this time….
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I have to admit I never did pluck up the courage to personally invite Richard Glover along to TransFormal as a celebrity guest. But in this weeks Sydney Morning herald he once again taunts me to try….
He writes:
Richard Glover wants to dress gender neutral
Fellow man, break the shackles of the suit and tie – unisex is on trendhttp://www.smh.com.au/comment/richard-glover-wants-to-dress-gender-neutral-20150130-12z248.html
Quote:I’ve long thought women’s clothing offered too many choices, and men’s clothing too few. It’s why women get grumpy about the ease with which a man can get dressed for a big night out – “it’s easy for you, you just put on clothes” – while the man is left feeling he’s just a dark-coloured accessory, on-hand to provide a pocket for his wife’s phone.The woman, browsing in the clothes shop, has to make a thousand choices about the depth of décolletage, the length of skirt, the puffiness of sleeve, the degree to which the waist will be cinched. While the man … well, the man has no choice at all
Quote:There are pants to cover his bottom half, identical in design, and a cotton thing with a collar and sleeves for the top half. Then – if you are in business – you have the right to go crazy and get yourself a colourful tie.The tie is the only bit with which the man is allowed to express his personality. It’s a few square centimetres of coloured cloth which is then placed in a noose around his neck in order to prove that, even if he has a personality, it is well and truly under control.
As a man, try anything remotely unusual and you’re instantly in comedy territory. You’re suddenly starring in Seinfeld, wearing the puffy shirt.
Meanwhile, women are in an equally bad place. If you look too comfortable, too at ease with yourself, then you “haven’t put in much of an effort”; while if you stand out at all, and are over 25 years old, then – in that awful phrase – you are “mutton dressed up as lamb”.
It doesn’t have to be like this. Selfridges in the UK has just opened its “gender neutral” range of clothes. Three floors of its London store will have clothes that suit either men or women. Women will find clothes that are simpler and more comfortable than those traditionally on offer; while men will finally be afforded a little variety.
“We want to take our customers on a journey where they can shop and dress without limitations or stereotypes,” was the way a spokesman put it, “a space where clothing is no longer imbued with directive gender values, enabling fashion to exist as a purer expression of ‘self’.”
I can’t wait. Personally, I’ve always wanted to dress festooned in ribbons like a Balinese princess, but it takes more courage than I currently have available.
Also, I don’t care that much about looking like a Balinese princess. I don’t want to make it the centre point of my identity. I’m happy for friends to think, “here’s Richard, he does a terrific barbecue” or “here’s Richard, have you heard his great anecdote about the Postmaster General and the donkey?” I don’t necessarily want their first thought to be: “He really does look like a Balinese princess. A fat one, admittedly, but still …”
This is where it’s hard to buck the trend when it comes to gender stereotypes. Making waves can get you into deeper water than you desire. Sometimes it’s better to wait for the world to come around to your way of thinking.
Which brings us back to Selfridges. The store reports increasing numbers of women are already buying men’s clothes to wear themselves, while men stock up on women’s knitwear. Meanwhile, the perfume and shaving counters have also been merged. Within a month, we’ll all – male and female alike – be allowed to dress like Eddie Izzard. Well, that’s my hope.
There’ll be some advantages. No longer at the clothing store will the man be stuck in the man-chair while his wife tries on four seemingly identical dresses, indulging in that much-repeated conversation:
Her: What about the fourth dress?
Him: Yes, the fourth one was terrific.
Her: Really? The fourth one? That made me look hideous. Is that how you think I look? Really, I don’t know why I bother. Personally, I preferred the second one.
Him: Yes, sorry, I meant the second one. My mistake. The second one looked terrific.
Instead, it will be her in the chair, lolling comfortably in her Fletcher Jones slacks and Wallaby jersey, while he ums and ahs over three different expressions of the concept that is the tartan smock.
Certainly, in this new world of variety and self-expression, we’ll enjoy less drama at formal functions, especially at the end of the night.
Currently, when a bit pissed, it’s almost impossible for the typical Australian woman to pick her husband out from the 200 other monkey-suited men on offer. Inevitably mistakes are made. Half the women end up at home, snuggling in bed with the wrong bloke, with all sorts of implications for the divorce rate.
Under the new system, a woman can confidently say “mine’s the one with the great legs, wearing the tartan smock”, knowing that, while he may not be perfect, at least he’s the one with her phone in his pocket.
Do send him a text as you travel home together, reassuring him it was all worth the effort
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Our Decemeber Night – actually held on the 2nd January!
Thanks to Kristen for being hostess.
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Time magazine has published an article titled Why It’s a Big Deal That Obama Said ‘Transgender’.
Apparently the speech was listened to by 31.7 million people!!
By Katy Steinmetz @katysteinmetz
Jan. 21, 2015
http://time.com/3676881/state-of-the-union-2015-barack-obama-transgender/
It’s all about legitimacy
Quote:Every word in every State of the Union speech is vetted. And President Barack Obama’s decision to say a certain word among the 6,718 he uttered on Tuesday is reverberating through the LGBT community. That’s because Obama just became the first President to say the word transgender during such a high-profile occasion. And most advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights are thrilled.“The President’s acknowledgment helps shatter the cloak of invisibility that has plagued trans people and forced many to suffer in silence,” author and MSNBC host Janet Mock tells TIME. “By speaking our community’s name, the President pushes us all to recognize the existence and validity of trans people as Americans worthy of protection and our nation’s resources.”
“As a transgender man and an advocate for transgender people, it was thrilling to hear, for the first time in our nation’s history, the President of the United States acknowledge transgender people as an integral and valued part of our national community,” says Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Quote:The issues of validity and legitimacy are huge ones for transgender people. Decades ago, doctors didn’t think their feelings about their gender identity were legitimate—that they were inclinations requiring correction. Today, the medical community has evolved, but many people still mistakenly assume transgender people are only really transgender if their bodies look a certain way.Elizabeth Reis, a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Oregon, says that for decades transgender people have had to deal with the perception that they’re deceiving people. “The people who say that they’re trans have always been undermined and thought of as not telling the truth, being intentionally deceitful of others,” she says. She calls it “the authenticity issue that trans people face, not being believed for who they say they are.”
Quote:To get medical treatment or to play on sports teams or to change the gender on their driver’s licenses, transgender people have long had to provide documents and testimony that they are who they say they are. In the past, they sometimes had to prove they intended to have or had undergone surgery. And today, there are people who don’t understand what it means to be transgender or don’t “believe in being transgender,” as the sibling of a transgender boy told TIME in 2014. Constantly proving one’s status is not something that many Americans are forced to do on a daily basis. To have Obama offer up recognition using the word that the community itself uses—rather than circling the issue with a some vague phrase like “regardless of how someone identifies”—is him implying that he does believe and doesn’t need any more proof. -
Suzzanne wrote:But is it so important to get noticed ?
Perhaps wanting to be noticed for good or bad is a bit like our narcissistic love of the camera. Both are a way of validating our true selves – as we express our gender identity more openly. Noticing how often one gets good or bad reactions is a measure of acceptance, and publishing photos online measures how close we achieve our ideal presentation.
I’ve been on a long journey and can look back at the times when an outing that wasn’t recorded on camera was incomplete. I also used to watch much more closely the expressions of others when I was out and about. That validation was important to me and steered me on my journey.
I’ve left those times behind me now – but do think they are an essential part of our gender expression maturing.
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This Wotif search may help identify options outside the Carrington.
we have a block on 40 rooms at The Carrington. When they are sold we will have to compete with others for any remaining space at the hotel.
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Rebecca wrote:Hi just wanted to mention accomodation in and around Katoomba is becoming very difficult to find for that weekend. I think there are some other events on. If you are heading up for the weekend book a room asap.
Rebecca,
Thanks for passing on the tip about accommodation.
Certainly one possible reason why budget rooms have been soaked up is the North face run.
http://www.thenorthface100.com.au
This has always clashed with TransFormal but up to last year they had a contract with the Fairmount Resort in Leura for rooms. That was turned down this year and I was asked many months ago if we wanted to move TF so that the Carrington Hotel could offer accommodation to the runners. I turned that down and so I assume the runners have had to go elsewhere.I ran a quick check and the Metropole only has single rooms now for that weekend, but there are also rooms available at other mid-range places.
BUT Rebecca is right – it may pay to book a room early if you aren’t planning on staying in the Carrington.
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What are the ticketing options for TransFormal 2015?
TransFormal is a weekend of activities from Friday to Sunday – to enjoy all the fun buy a Full Weekend Ticket.
But TransFormal is also a formal dinner dance – you can buy a ticket just for Saturday Night.
Plan your TransFormal to suit your own needs – buy tickets for as much or as little as you want.
Everyone attending TransFormal must have one of the two TransFormal tickets – but what about accommodation and all the other activities? Once you have purchased a transformal ticket you can then go to the add-ons and purchase accommodation and reserve space on activities.
FULL WEEKEND TICKET
The essential ticket! Gives you access to the entire weekend from Friday to Sunday. Includes:
Friday Supper Reception
Saturday Lunch
Saturday Formal Dinner
Cocktail/Wine Tasting (subject to availability)
A weekend of activities and workshops
$213 for 3 days (including formal)
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FORMAL TICKET
If you can’t make the full weekend don’t miss out completely. Buy a ticket just to the formal dinner on Saturday night. Includes 3 course dinner and live band.
$111 for the eveningThen (if you are quick!!)
VALUE ACCOMMODATION ADD-ON
If you have a full weekend ticket then grab the best bargain of the weekend – The TransFormal Central accommodation at The Carrington Hotel. Very limited quantity so be quick!!
$259 for a room for two nights
Tickets now on sale!!
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been positively bombarded with emails from people wanting to get involved in Transformal. The enthusiasm is most gratifying and of course makes my job a lot easier. If anyone else wants to join in the fun there are still a limited number of time slots / rooms empty – but be quick!