TransMACHO

Can you please stop exploding in a fiery ball of fire for just a moment? Every time I’m about to start hacking around with the server I’m meant to be continuing to set up, I get distracted by yet another barfight. :I

HERP DERP DERP DERP. How fucking hard can it be to jump in via SSH? Give a front-ender a key and tell ‘em to go break things.

STUFF BROKEN.

Reblogged 7 months ago from toughasbro

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F14-D in Training: Unrelated to anything - a vegetarian protein source

toughasbro:

First off, I’m a non-vegetarian because I love meat, BUT I understand the many cons of this and happily cater to Vegetarian friends and family when I cook for them. That’s my stance - I eat meat, but you don’t have to, and I’m happy to cook meat-free…as I myself have to eat dairy-free thanks to…

And on that note, folks, I now have white quinoa. Apparently red quinoa is far tastier, but this stuff is pretty damn nice. I cooked it with brown rice and threw in some linseeds… result is pretty fuckin glorious. Complete with brown mushrooms and spinach (and a huge scotch fillet, but that’s irrelevent). Healthy and tasty… gogogo!

Reblogged 10 months ago from toughasbro

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Thank you for this space. I am a guy in my late 20's. I'm on the verge of earning a PhD but my medical transition has been delayed, due to severe lack of resources. Even though I am "early" in my medical transition, I have not been able to find a place in the "community." I don't flip out when people misgender me and I've learned to "live with this" for years. I've gotten to the point where I am ready to move on and find out about life for older men. THANK. YOU.

Anonymous

You’ve very welcome; it’s fantastic to see so many of us in one place. One of the most daunting things I found amongst the little isolated ‘Trans*’ communities around the interwebs was that it was virtually unheard of to find anyone other than youth, and the occasional porn star. After some pretty intense searching, it seems there are in fact plenty of us - we’ve just learned to avoid speaking our minds to avoid getting tied up in some of the serious verbosity that dominates the so-called communities.

Not that there’s anything wrong with a community, as it fuels interest, communication and education; but I think we all agree there comes a time where we just need to find like-minded people.

It’s seriously impressive you’ve managed to get much done in terms of transition after studying so long!

Posted 10 months ago

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I guess I don't have either pride or shame consistently. Sometimes I'm ashamed of my body for not being what I need it to be, sometimes I'm proud of obstacles I've overcome to get here, generally I'm unhappy that I'm stuck with it, but like my other medical conditions I'll live with it.

Anonymous

There’s a definite difference between having pride in the challenges you’ve overcome, and having pride in things men would normally be humiliated by; being able to look back and say ‘Fuck yeah, I’ve earned my stripes’ and is something I at least am sorely jealous of, but it’s great seeing you gents that have been there, done that and proven it’s possible.

I’ll have to dig up the article I stumbled upon from a Transgender therapist, whose overall message was that it’s just fine to be ‘enough’; no one can ask for perfection. It’s pretty pertinent for those of us that really do go to sleep and wake up day in day out searching for anatomy we lack…

Posted 10 months ago

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thank you for this!

rockonwater

A pleasure. Every man needs a pub he can escape to from time to time, lol.

Posted 10 months ago

Fair enough. I'm at college, I'm working on a career, I'm moving into manhood from boyhood alongside most of my friends (almost all cis male) For me... coming out means telling people for some reason that I'm not a cis man, not telling people that I'm a boy, if that makes sense. That's always where I've drawn the line - post-transition starts when coming out means explaining your body didn't always match the gender you're known as, not saying you're a different gender to what people thought

Anonymous

That’s what it’s all about really, isn’t it? That ‘coming out’ as it were is admitting that your body has a few different things about it, not that you’re really a man on the inside. That said, for those that aren’t as far along as yourself there’s also an aspect of simply getting on with it and gathering resources to do it, rather than letting everyone know. Not everyone finds it something to be proud of…

It’s refreshing to see so many men coming out of the woodwork who share this perspective; there comes a point where there is nothing to prove any more, and it’s probably that point where one has truly accepted how things are, and things are being done about it.

Even a select few pre-transition men share this ethos, I know a few that are watching this blog - right through to the opposite end of the spectrum. I think we all feel the same as you.

Posted 10 months ago

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It's hard to know whether this is somewhere I fit. I'm a queer man (suffering from transsexualism), and have been quantifiably living as male for at least four years, but have actively known I'm male seven. I'm on testosterone and have had top surgery but I'm only 20 and haven't had a hysto or lower surgery. Would I be considered too early in transition for this blog?

Anonymous

Of course not. It’s impossible to draw a line in the sand; it’s attitude that’s important, and if you consider yourself an adult, a man, are making steps toward transition… then you’re in the right place. There aren’t any binder giveaways here or advice about high school, it’s all about where to go from there at the end of the day.

Welcome aboard!

Posted 10 months ago