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Peta, Your open-hearted generosity is valued and greatly appreciated. Don’t be deterred. And to the author of the message – strongly suggest you seek out someone with whom you can air these dark thoughts and feelings.
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One of the down sides of transgended is all the costs and fun issues like depression that go with it. Living away from the main cities can make a lot of things harder. You are not alone and every girl goes though the same things have a look at the profiles of girls and you will see there are a large number of us living in rural areas.
Maybe we need a new topic about the issues living outside the capital cities (big hint people)
First off with the cost you are covered by the Medicare safety net (http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/public/services/msn/index.jsp0
Its gets cheaper to see doctors the more you see them.
Also there s Australian Government’s Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the Medicare Benefits Schedule
Under the Better Access initiative, mental health care a claim can now be made for a rebate for up to 12 (18 in exceptional circumstances) individual and/or 12 group based psychological treatment sessions within a calendar year. This involves a GP, psychiatrist or paediatrician referring a consumer to a psychologist, social worker, occupational therapist or a specially trained GP. NOTE: being transgender is not a “mental illness” but things like dealing with how depress is and nothing to be afraid of.
See http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=7.102#betteraccess
Go see your GP and get a referralAs for help see beyondblue info line
• Phone: 1300 22 4636
• Email: infoline@beyondblue.org.au
• The beyondblue info line provides access to information and referrals to relevant services for depression and anxiety related matters. You can call the info line for the cost of a local call or send an email.
• Web site http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=107
• Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (GLBTI) at http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=4.1167
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See the guide at http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=4.1167&tmp=FileStream&fid=1425
Relating to GBLT matters.Also there’ Lifeline – 13 11 14.
Also you can log on to the chat room at just about anytime day or night and someone will be there.On a personal note you will learn that part of being transgender is learning to do things you dislike or think are impossible.
Look at all the other impossible things that you have done in your life, and overcame “Problem what problem?”
Working with family can be hard at the best of times; maybe getting another job may help. If you lived in Orange or Wagga go work driving trucks, good money to sit in aircon all day listing to music!In fact things like not like not liking writing or having no money can be turned around to help you. One of the ways to help with depression is to set goals. So try save $10.00 a week. The amount and time is not important. Also start writing how you feel each day, write anything, and write about what happened including the funny stuff. . This will help you identify clearly what’s going on plus will help any counseling you have.
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I’m not able to spell or write haven’t been since birth, with out spell check and a lot of helpful people, this post would never be.
We all are ‘Standing on the shoulders of giants” go look it up on Wikipedia or goggle it.
Funny: I have a good work friend who will in the space of 5 sentences refer to me as she, he, she, and he her. The lady doesn’t even known she doing it and wonders why some of laugh at her. -
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I’m familiar with the word being used in Melbourne from the early 1980’s. My first exposure to the word was from someone who described herself as a “post-op transexual”, who used it as a diminutive and slightly pejorative term referring to those who had progressed only to the stage of taking hormones. Akin to having progressed to the “trainer wheel” stage.
My sense of the way the word is used now is as a more positive and light-hearted noun that encompasses all shades of the spectrum.
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Anna’s recommended website above is fantastic.
I can vouch for the effectiveness of putting on a pair or two of socks, struggling into the now VERY tight shoes and then going for a small walk. Doing this a couple of times usually does the trick. I’ve never needed to do anything else.
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Quote:Some clever graohic artist could make a clever puzzle game
Where’s Allen? – would sure be preferable to looking for some malnourished bespectacled young man in a red & white striped polo-top.
Each new puzzle could have a change of frock. Just look for the woman with the stubble or prominent adams apple. Oops.
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yes a game like this one, love showing people this game.
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Like Cynthia and Elle, my name was suggested by my SO (my wife). For whatever reason, we both really liked the name and it stuck from the moment it was suggested.
My wife suggested the name during the aftermath of her having stumbled across the extent of my feminine interests. I was fortunate in that I realized straight away that I had been “sprung” – and it was apparent that 15 years of silence over the matter was a doomed policy.
So, I explained and we talked, and talked (talking is good!). She quickly realised that I was telling the truth, did some homework, and within a couple of days was getting her head around all this stuff.
However, whlie she was contemplating all that I had told her I really thought that I was for the high-jump. But when she suggested a name that hit the spot I realised that she really understood and that we could all move on together.
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Did they explain why you should do this? They may have a good reason from their point of view.
Is your jobnetwork provider personal view or the official view of the provider?Once you have answers to these questions you can then figure out what to do.
If good reasons work with them to over come them or reduce their impact.
If no good reason educate them. Suggest you print out the information Virginia posted and go have a chat with a supervisor of the provider. You may wish to direct them to their lawyer or the gender centre for some training.
From the legal point there are both state and federal laws about anti-discrimination, these laws also have a number of out clauses as well. Also some jobs and/or companies clubs etc are allowed to discriminate for various reasons. People sometime forgot this. If your provider sent you off to interview for one of these jobs than you would need to advise the employer.
Most employers just want some to do the job without problems. They can be sensitive about how others view them. If a mechanic has girls working on cars a lot of guys would most likely not do business with them (for the record I know several girls who can do mechanical work better then guys)*.
In cases like this, it’s a matter of eduction; you sit down with them and work it out.
* In IT this seems not to apply, given some of the interesting types that appear at times.
