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The recent news about body scanners at airports might alarm some people contemplating travelling. But I have read that breast forms will not show up with this equipment.

Going through the scanners is mandatory for travel to an overseas destination from an Australian international airport. I’ve no idea when, not if, they will have their use expanded to include Australian domestic travel.
In the US, it’s optional to go through the scanners. But reading the experiences in a US breast cancer forum, the forms do show up. And that those showing up, in conjunction with other anomalies noted in a scan, can have you put through the full molestation ‘pat down’.
Topic: Full body scanners and foobs
Topic: Air travel with silicone prothesis
Also noted in the first breast cancer thread, apparently these scanners are also being rolled out in the EU. I’ve no idea what their regulations on their use will be though.

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I am sorry Jennifur but you are wrong. The dose of hormones in trangendered people taking HRT is similar to or higher than natal women on the “the pill”.
The HRT dose for post menopausal women is a lot lower.

Thanks for correcting me on the hormones dosage levels, Lisa

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An interesting article to help inform the debate on The Conversation: Monday’s medical myth: the pill increases your risk of cancer
https://theconversation.edu.au/mondays-medical-myth-the-pill-increases-your-risk-of-cancer-6931
Doesn’t mention clotting

Sarah, that article is only looking at oral contraceptives.
It completely fails to discuss cancer rates in natal women taking pill form HRT. Unless I am mistaken, it would be studies and discussions of this, rather than oral contraceptives, which would be more relevant to the TG community.

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Of course if somewhere else in the 120 pages there is something I have missed skimming through – then please let me know.

It would be nice to have news that contradicts what you saw in skimming through the document.
What you described is the same as what members of the Yahoo Group, TS Do It Yourself Hormones, have discovered examining the document.
In the opinion of members of TSDIYH, the document affirms the continued use of medical practitioners and health insurance corporations as gate keepers, whose defined task is to keep the gates closed.
So in consequence, the very people that WPATH should have been trying to have its SOC have relevance for, instead, it again is continuing to drive them away into self diagnosis and self prescription.

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Before we totally lose the perspective of where this thread originated from, I believe a little clarity is needed. In the beginning Amanda quoted

“I have created a Google album specifically for the photos taken at the weekend… as it looks as if there will be over a thousand! The album will be a private album, with visibility limited to those who attended TransFormal – which means I won’t have to check each picture individually for any red stickers!

Does any one have the slightest idea how much time would be expended to not only upload OVER a 1,000 photos, let alone check the intimate detail of each one looking for a red sticker??

Catherine, I do have some understanding of how tedious a task, preparing and uploading a large number of photos is, as I was asked to manage the upload of all the photos taken at this year’s TransFormal by Noeleena. Approximately 750 photos.

Checking all the photos for the red No Photo stickers would have to be carried out before shrinking the dimensions of the photos, doing image compression, and final uploading.
It would add several weeks easilly to the already time consuming task of ‘convincing’ Google to actually accept the pics for upload.

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While it would be interesting to see some perhaps long shots of the formal, band etc. for non attendees like me, I certainly understand the reasons behind not doing so.

Once a person is outed there is no turning back. Instead of being known as [name], the person is often known as ‘the tranne’, or whatever. It is the persons choice whether they choose to tell people or not. Keeping photos taken at the event only available to attendees leaves this choice to the people who attended – as it should be in my opinion.

I made the unintentional error, following last year’s TransFormal, of openly asking in the chatroom, why attendee’s names were not on the pics.
Bambi’s explaination above was given, and I immediately saw the simple common sense in doing it.
I fully support Amanda’s way of managing the pics from TransFormal.

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Amanda, is there a full list of where and when the film crew will be doing their filming, so those who do not want to be filmed, can know where NOT to be.

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How you read the proposal as including the word “sell” or “commercial” I don’t know. But as that isn’t the case I presume you may be reviewing your objection.

From the proposal:

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It is for a student project as part of a TV journalism film subject, but it may potentially be hosted on the student journalism website, Reportage, and possibly offered to a free-to-air television network.

To my thinking, from the above quote from the proposal, ‘offered to’ means sold to.
Unless explicitly said otherwise, ‘free-to-air television networks’ is normally meant and read as being commercial broadcast television.

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My original estimate of monies spent strictly on and for TF was somewhat of an underestimate. Totalling things up the figure is actually over $1700.

Amanda, the lack of notice of the filming being carried out at TF, and the idea by the students to sell the finished project to the commercial television networks is why I formally object to their presence at TF and to their filming at and of TF.

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I already have heard your objection.
I think I dealt with the issues above.
How you read the proposal as including the word “sell” or “commercial” I don’t know. But as that isn’t the case I presume you may be reviewing your objection.

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Amanda, this request at such a late juncture is just too short a notice for those of us attending this year’s TransFormal, to viably consider.

I formally object to the UTS students, being present at, carrying out interviews at, and filming at, this or any year’s TransFormal.

I am now seriously considering writing off the more than $1200 I have spent on preparing to attend this year’s TF.

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What is the difference between transitioning and “coming-out”?

I’ll put in my 5 cents worth on this last one.

Transitioning is the longer process of living as, and bing in public as, the gender you prefer to be known as.

Coming out is the initial public revelation of the gender you prefer to be known as.

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How does YOUR wardrobe stack up?

Compared to that list, my dresses wardrobe doesn’t.

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I only just looked today 12/04/2012 all too small for me

When I looked at the shop, all the shoes stocked were too large for me

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I found this store on ebay thought it might interest some of you. http://stores.ebay.com.au/My-Big-Shoe-Addiction.

Minor bug with the URL, Becky.
The full stop at the end of the sentence, got combined into the URL, making the URL invalid.

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I have a Braun “silk-epil”. $65 on special at a department store two and a bit years ago. Technique is important, a couple of millimetres is long enough to work on, and you should try and keep the skin taut. There is one sack like part of my body that I always shave though…

The price of the base model hasn’t changed any in the past 2 years, Felicity.
I first saw them on shelf in the shaving goods area of my local Coles Supermarket, about 2 yerars ago, for $69.
They are still on shelf, in the same area, at Coles for $69.

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Downloaded the Word doc file, and whilst I can open the file in OpenOffice.org 3.1, can click on the Input Fields and enter text in popup windows, and save the resulting file successfully. Entering the text does not visibly alter the Input Field.

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With all respect I expect that the number of people using OpenOffice is so low – that my chance of getting the hotel to test with it is….. 0.00000000. So in that case… just print the form (I’m assuming OpenOffice can do that?)

I decided to eMail the .DOC file form I’d filled out using OpenOffice.org 3.1 to the Carrington, before sending them the print out of the .PDF via Australia Post.
Compleded .DOC file worked, booking confirmed and paid for.

For any member having issues with the form in Microsoft Office, here is the URL for downloading the free office suite, OpenOffice.org – http://www.openoffice.org/

Jenifur Charne