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I’m going to the hotel to look at the accommodation and talk prices next week. But I do want to provide a budget (<$140) option for those seeking company rather than a view of the valley and a spa bath.
The hotel rates are per room – but I’ll hopefully have more details of a ‘deal’ next week. But its another case where I need the numbers to stick my head out and negotiate a block booking with the hotel.
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I have spoken to the hotel and they are holding the venue for the 15th May.
This date has no clashes at the hotel – and they can guarantee room availability. No Wilderness Society, Weddings or White Xmas to spoil our weekend!
Transformal 2010 – SATURDAY 15th MAY
So, girls, this is as definite a date as they come…..
I’ve updated the flier…now all we need to fix is numbers and pricing…..
I’m going to Katoomba next Tuesday to finalise the details (I hope).What are you going to be doing on the 15th May 2010?
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This event concept has been advertised now for just over a week – and I’ve emailed directly over 260 members who live in NSW or ACT. Just 47 girls have responded and voted in the poll. I know it was over a major holiday weekend – hardly the best time to contact everyone – so I’m hoping that as people return to work over the next few days they will also find time to leave some feedback about TransFormal.
It is very encouraging that many who voted are very enthusiastic about the event. In fact I have received no negative feedback other than warnings that I might be being wildly optimistic to think we could get 90 people to the event.
But with only 30 pledged ticket sales and a break even point of close to 60 I’m still looking for a bit more solid support before sticking my neck out and putting down a deposit.
So come on girls! The holiday is over – time to think about what you are doing in May!
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Quote:There is also a Burgen bread which has 114mg of phytoestrgens per 2 slices of bread.Soy-lin for womens well being.
I’m tempted to suggest that if you eat enough bread to get any clinically significant level of phytoestrogen in your blood then you are certain to increase your breast measurements – and every other measurement on your body as you head into the ranks of the clinically obese.
Its been a long while, but I’m still waiting to see the clinical data that proves that phytoestrogen grows boobs – but I see plenty of evidence that those who understand the processes involved consider it on the far side of unlikely.
But I’ve had the Burgen bread – its nice – it makes good tasty sandwiches.
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Thanks for your support Donna and Penny.
We are now over the half way mark to putting this event on the calendar.
Keep voting girls – and keep posting any suggestions you have that would make a may-be event into a must-go event for you.Susan has pointed out that there is a Wilderness event in Katoomba on the 1st May – so I should perhaps stress that the date for transFormal is currently not confirmed. If the hotel cannot provide enough rooms on the 1st then it will probably shift to the 8th.
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Quote:Quote:All we need is Dangerboy for the entertainment and it’d be perfect! lol
I do appreciate the positive ideas for entertainment – keep them rolling…BUT…
at the moment with 15 tickets pledged I’d have to CHARGE DangerBoy to attend if I was going to break even on the deal I have from the hotel. I doubt he would want to pay over $1500 to be with us (again!)
So first of all I need to be convinced I won’t be left carrying the financial can – or at least not to the tune of a few thousand dollars.
So tell your friends and if they are on TR get them to join you and make a commitment to attend.
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Thanks to all those early adopters who have said they would support this event. After the first day we have about 25% of the pledges needed to avoid Amanda heading off to the bankruptcy courts.
Now I need you to continue this momentum for the next 3 days!Consider….
This has the potential to be an event with style in a venue that doesn’t have the impersonal feel of a modern international hotel
(well the plumbing might be a bit noisy and the lift is a museum piece…but I said style!)If we sold 90 tickets (the target) then we could virtually take over the hotel (it only has 65 rooms). I’m negotiating to see if we could take a block booking for all the rooms on the budget TRaditional floor – that way the party would continue before and after the dinner. What better way for someone feeling nervous about their first event of this type than to be swept along by the other girls staying close by.
Walk out of the front door and the parking is right there, the station is right there (2 hrs/$12 to Sydney), and the main street of Katoomba is right there – with restaurants and boutique shops.
And we haven’t even mentioned the scenic sightseeing opportunities (well I don’t want to promise the weather on 1st May).
Oh and did I say… there will be no Drag acts !
This is a tricky moment in the birth of an event – because if everyone just wants to wait and see – then they will see nothing.
Go on… Can you do it? Do you want to do it?
Amanda
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Quote:and please excuse the ignorance, but i’m not sure what a charles buffet is. did a google and got a linkedin page. please explain.
Sorry V – just the marketting gloss from the Carrington Hotel. I want to go for a good buffet meal rather than one of those alternate serve fish/meat jobs. Why? Because that way everyone gets up – moves about – has a chance to chat with others, can eat what they actually want to eat, and can even just rotate and sit down and eat where they want.
The buffet I got a quote for isn’t rock bottom cheap but also isn’t a budget breaking seafood extravaganza. It has soup, 3 cold dishes (prawns, smoked salmon, chicken), 3 salads, 3 hot dishes (beef, chicken, fish) with rice & veges, deserts and coffee/tea.
Champagne Charles was some guy in the past history of the hotel – hey might even have been Charles Carrington…..Idunno.
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Sadly most tranny-only friendly businesses struggle to survive. As a customer group we are very unreliable – its hard enough just trying selling tickets to an event.
I suggest anyone look very closely at what few businesses there are out there and ask how and why they survive. And look at the ones that have failed as well!
Certainly you should look at BreastForm here in NSW – not sure what others there are people might suggest as a reference.
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Quote:There is a longlife milk product that can be obtained in the large supermarkets. It is called VITASOY and it is the Crimson and white container. This one has 13mg per 100mL of photo estrogens. I have been using it for a few months with cereal and I am pleased with thge results.
Perhaps you could share what the results are?
Have you put on weight? (always a good way to get more breasts)?
Are your breasts sore?
Are you taking anything else at the same time?
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All-male college cracks down on cross-dressing
Quote:ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women’s clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.
William Bynum says he discussed the new dress-wearing ban policy with Morehouse’s campus gay organization.No dress-wearing is part of a larger dress code launched this week that Morehouse College is calling its “Appropriate Attire Policy.”
The policy also bans wearing hats in buildings, pajamas in public, do-rags, sagging pants, sunglasses in class and walking barefoot on campus.
However, it is the ban on cross-dressing that has brought national attention to the small historically African-American college.
The dress-wearing ban is aimed at a small part of the private college’s 2,700-member student body, said Dr. William Bynum, vice president for Student Services.
“We are talking about five students who are living a gay lifestyle that is leading them to dress a way we do not expect in Morehouse men,” he said.
Before the school released the policy, Bynum said, he met with Morehouse Safe Space, the campus’ gay organization.
“We talked about it and then they took a vote,” he said. “Of the 27 people in the room, only three were against it.”
There has been a positive response along with some criticism throughout the campus, he said.
Senior Devon Watson said he disagrees with parts of the new policy, especially those that tell students what they should wear in free time outside of the classroom.
“I feel that there will be a lot of resentment and backlash,” Watson said. “It infringes on the student’s freedom of expression. I matriculated successfully for three-and-half years dressing so how is this a problem?”
Senior Tyrone McGowan said he has mixed feelings about parts of the policy.
“But I have been inspired by the conversation it has created,” he said. “We have to find a way to create diverse leaders from this college. I don’t want this to place all of us in one box.”
Those breaking the policy will not be allowed to go to class unless they change. Chronic dress-code offenders could be suspended from the college.
Bynum said the policy comes from the vision of the college’s president, who wants the institution to create leaders like notable graduates Martin Luther King Jr., actor Samuel Jackson and film director Spike Lee.
advertisementSenior Cameron Titus applauds the change.
“The policy is just saying that you have to show more respect in how you dress and there are things that are just not acceptable at Morehouse,” Titus said. “We have a legacy that we are trying to uphold.”
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Quote:At eight years old, Josie is on the path to having a complete sex change.
Pretty Josie Romero adores the colour pink, braiding her hair and having her fingernails painted.
Life has not always been easy for this sweet, charming eight-year-old, though. She was born in the body of a boy.
The transgender youngster knew at the age of four she was the wrong sex and told her parents, “I am really a girl.”
By the time she reached six, Josie, who was born Joseph, had convinced everyone. She was diagnosed as transgender and is now beginning her transition to becoming female.
“Josie was born prematurely at 27 weeks and had a very difficult time as a baby,” her mother Venessia, 42, says. “As a toddler, she was trying to turn her boy toys into girl toys. She would take her army figures, wrap them up and rock them like a baby. As she grew older, she always said, ‘I’m a girl.’ My husband Joseph and I would correct her and say, ‘No, you’re a boy.’ By the age of four, she was insisting, ‘No, I really am a girl.’”
Some families work hard to persuade their kids to conform to their biological gender, but Venessia and Joseph, 42, an engineer in the US air force, made the hard choice to say goodbye to their little boy and help their daughter live as the girl she wanted to be.
“We accepted Josie was a bit different from the time she was born,” Venessia says. “After about six months something clicked and I thought, ‘Oh, we have a gay boy.’ We were totally fine with that. We thought, ‘As long as our child is happy.’”
Meanwhile, Josie was trying to braid her short blond boy’s curls into plaits. By the time she was five, she refused to have her hair cut and had curls falling around her face. She would also insist on wearing colours like orange because it was the nearest to pink.
Read the full story in Woman’s Day (on sale November 16, 2009)
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I’m not trying to ‘out’ Richard Glover but in this weeks article he describes the things he does well round the house and writes
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/she-of-little-faith-20091113-ieiu.htmlQuote:I’d love to go away for a few days myself, just so I could stick up my own copy of The List, detailing all the household tasks of which Jocasta knows nothing. There would be tedious instructions about bill paying, garbage removal, compost heaps and the laundering of delicate fabrics.Its that last bit that caught my eye… how many men would consider they were the household expert on “the laundering of delicate fabrics”.
I certainly am in my household – and my daughter would rather give me her bras to wash than subject them to the assault of her mothers weekly wash.Of course I could be reading too much into it – and like last time it could have nothing to do with being transgender…but….
well it is an interesting thing to say.
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Quote:In the days of the Mogul emperors, India’s eunuchs were the bodyguards of queens and privy to the most sensitive of state secrets. Today they are most often seen begging at traffic lights.
Now they hope that the internet can help them to edge their way back into mainstream society — by finding them suitable husbands.
The first matrimonial site in the world for hijras — a catch-all term for South Asia’s eunuch, transgender, transvestite and third gender communities — has been launched from the eastern Indian city of Madras.
The home page of Thirunangai.net explains that “transsexual women by birth may not be physically women. But, by soul and heart, we are real women”.
So far, it has six would-be brides and has attracted more than 350 proposals of marriage from men in India, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the US and the Middle East, according to Kalki Subramanian, the site’s creator.
Ms Subramanian, an activist for hijra rights and a transsexual, hopes that the first wedding will take place on February 14 in Madras. The ceremony could be a landmark for a community that has been part of Indian society for millennia, but which became ostracised when the British imported their Victorian taboos.
“Many of us would like to marry men; most of us would like to have children, to adopt,” Ms Subramanian said. “But for too long, because of our place in society, these have been distant dreams. People think of us as sexual perverts or clowns.”
There are an estimated 200,000 hijras in India. Social stigma forces most of them to abandon their education. Many end up begging or resort to prostitution.
However, there are indications that India may gradually be becoming more accepting. This year the country witnessed its first transsexual fashion model and transsexual television presenter. In the recent Bollywood historical epic Jodhaa Akbar, a hijra was portrayed as a trusted lieutenant of the heroine queen — a break with a tradition that has relegated transsexuals to comic roles.
Ms Subramanian hopes that Thirunangai.net will add momentum to the hijras’ cause by putting India back in touch with a more permissive past. “It wasn’t always like this,” she said. “Only in the past 200 years, under the British, did we become too narrow minded.”
Changing times
— In September 2008, Nepal became the first country to recognise the third gender officially when it gave a third gender identity card to Bishnu Adhikari, a 21-year-old woman who dresses as a man
— In a secondary school in Thailand transgenders have been given their own toilet, marked by a figure that is half woman and half man. Up to 20 per cent of pupils at Kampang Secondary School are transgender
— A Japanese television host, Haruna Ai, won the Miss International Queen transvestite beauty pageant in Pattaya, Thailand, earlier this month
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http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/article/6445663/a-father-39-s-story/
And we here on the same web site is response titled “A Father’s Story”
Quote:As a father of a child with transsexualism, it is great to see a show which is highlighting the positive side of what timely and effective treatment can have on an individual.It is easy to jump on the bandwagon, so I commend Sunday Night on hopefully assisting in getting sensible debate and dialogue occurring and portraying another side of the story.
Many people incorrectly believe that people choose to be transsexuals and that it a matter of choice. It is not!
When our daughter was first diagnosed, we were advised by the psychiatrists at the time to;
“Dress him as a boy, give him boy toys, get him to play boys games and he will be a boy”.
If only it were that simple!!
We listened to them and we tried, but in the end it was like trying to hold back the tide!
My daughters sense-of-self, never changed and never faltered!
The one person who has remained steadfast and true has been her!
The psychiatrists have changed their opinion and have over time learned that its not possible for nurture to overcome nature!
I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to her for trying to convince her over time, that she was something different than who she knew herself to be.
I apologise for all the “boy” presents (or “gender neutral” presents) that you had to endure for birthdays and Christmas.
They didn’t work and I thank you for teaching me that there are many variations and great diversity of human sexuality.
Kim Petras is a beautiful young lady who has had medical intervention in a timely manner and this has had such a positive effect on her sense of self and her general well being.
No child who is diagnosed with transsexualism should have to go through puberty which will put their body way out of sync with who they know themselves to be!
As a male I can only imagine what it would be like to wake up one morning with the body of a female, having breasts and menstruating. This is what some teenagers have had to endure !
My wife and I both agree that our family and in particular our daughter has been very fortunate in getting treatment in a timely manner. This has prevented her from having to go through puberty and having to endure her body becoming more masculine. We have no doubt that this would have led to self-loathing, self-harm or worse!
Today we have a beautiful daughter who although she still faces many challenges ahead, is in a place where she is safe and has a body which outwardly is not in conflict with her sense of self.
All we have done is given her time and space, so she does not require the radical surgery that one young boy is undergoing just to be able to go to the beach. This young boy should not have had to endure a double mastectomy, when medicine had at its disposal a means to prevent it! If the poor kid had been allowed the puberty blocking drugs earlier, he would never have developed breasts in the first place.
I said at the start that decisions about gender are not a matter of choice. That being said, all we have done is delayed her puberty and given her time. When she turns 18 my daughter will have the ability to decide if reassignment surgery is for her. She has been living as a girl for so long now I know what her decision will be, however we have only bought her time as the decision is and always has been hers and hers alone.
A support network for families who are experiencing similar diversity has been formed. http://www.truecolours.org.au