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Isn’t it amazing that we can even consider checking out possible Trans venues in Rome. In my lifetime at one point the local Parish priest ruled the roost and just about anything that was different or fun was a mortal sin. Good luck to you honey and enjoy yourself xx

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Wow what a result honey! You can justifiably claim to have create policy. Not many can say that

Bravo dear friend!!! xxx

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Adrian please note:

Paula_deB wrote:

And you dearest Aunty Emma are such a font of wisdom..

There are several words and a name there never before seen in the one sentence.

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I can personally vouch for Paula as a fabbo gal – we’ve met in person (via a mutual friend) and I can assure all that she will mix in very well with all the girls here on TGR.

Good luck on your journey hun there are only good times ahead xxx

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I think we may share some of those simple pleasures you refer to Tina

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Thank you for your words dear Marian.
I think sometimes we can all find ourselves in situations that are completely at odds with how we envisioned them – this must be how you’ve felt often with your son. It sounds like he is taking great steps forward and all of your friends here at TGR will have you and he in our thoughts. This is not a journey that is in any way easy or is it not fraught with the odd road hump.
My daughter has said to me on many occasions that because of what happened to her that she is an addict and will always have an addictive character so she avoids anything now that can possibly trigger those impulses even down to not drinking coffee or playing games on her phone. I don’t understand chronic addiction but, like you, I had to come to terms with it.
Anytime you need a chat, or a vent Marian you know where to find me.

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It is so true Jane! Smiling is just so rewarding

I’m always available if you want a chat honey x

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That is great advice Martina

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Oh! I’ll look forward to the chat Fay! xx

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Well thank you Sara that is a lovely thing to say I will make a point of meeting you at Transactshon sis xx

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I just checked them out and they are fabulous! I’ll be getting some for sure

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Looking forward to meeting you Sara in October! xx

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There has never been a better time in human history to be transgender – let me make that statement right from the start.

We can go on cruises; take plane flights; have dinners out; go to the movies; go to the nudey beach; pretty much do what we like and no one bats an eyelid. I found myself staring at this guy in line at the doctors surgery the other day because he had those huge “spacers” in his earlobes – honestly you could have rested 2 cups of coffee in them and he was covered in tattoo’s…but you know what? Once I’d had a bit a look I went back to playing Words With Friends on my phone and didn’t give him another thought which is probably what others do with us when they see us out and about.

I’m not concerned what Barry Humphries has to say. I’ve never been a big fan of Edna (except in a live show where the character is breathtaking) but I’ve always cried laughing over Sir Les Patterson and his generally appalling behaviour. I’ve read, and re-read, Humphries seminal Barry McKenzie comic strips ad nauseum over the years and wet myself every time. He has made a career out of being controversial – he once had an entire 7 course dinner served to him on a Melbourne suburban train with each course being delivered by a different waiter at various stops on the journey. He once emptied a can of Hienz Mixed Vegetables into an airline sick bag; pretended to vomit; then ate the mixed veg out of the bag. Humphries has never marketed himself as a crossdressing or drag comedian – Edna is just one of his characters, though probably the most popular one. If Eddie Izzard or Paul McCann suddenly came out and started slapping us about I would take issue but not Humphries.

An individual like Andrew Bolt, for example, who has shown himself time and time again to be a bigot, racist, and suffering from an advanced case of jingosim, annoys the crap out of me and I disagree with pretty much everything he says – so I just don’t read his columns or watch him on the telly.

We are never going to be “there” wherever that is. Those we perceive as being “there” are often pillored in the media for mis-steps in things they say or do and we all pile on as fast as we can anyway. The Prime Minister made a bit of a faux pas the other day when he greeted what he thought was a Chinese woman only to find out she was Korean and it was suddenly all over the place like a cheap hooker on Navy Day. Really? I would have, and probably have, made that same mistake.

It IS ok to have an opinion. It is ok to have an opinion we don’t neccessarily agree with. It is also ok for any of us to just ignore that opinion.

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It’s always a pleasure to have the company of the Wild West girls xx

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Thanks for sharing this Caroline xxx