Past, Present and Future?

Most of us here in Cyrsti's Condo have lived through bits and pieces of this:

Who Wrote "Hypocrite" on my Mirror?

I received two quick responses (thank you!) on my "Wedgie" Cyrsti's Condo post this morning.  One is just plain truth and one led me to think I'm not so keen with the written word on occasion. The first is from Alexis:

"Hey, I wish you best wishes as you begin to step out in public. It is a difficult thing to do, especially if you do it right in front of all those who have known you as your maleness. When I did that, I found that what others had told me---not everyone will be gracious and accepting of this transition. Though I suffered no physical hurt, the number of friends and family who suddenly began ignoring me like I no longer existed still bothers me today. So, again,good fortunes on your road ahead. I know I did what I simply had to do, and I have never regretted doing it for a single moment......alexis"

You are so correct in everything you said! In this post I tended to think everyone was a mind reader and  I neglected to fill in much needed info.  Such as I live a huge percentage of my life out- as a trans woman with a group of friends who have never met what is left of my male self. But not in the town where I live.  More and more I began to feel I was a bigger and bigger hypocrite and I hate that. It is time in my life to do more than nothing about the situation where I live. Just sitting back in bigger cities around me and saying...yes it does suck in my town just isn't good enough anymore! Thanks so much Alexis!!!!

Sharon added:

"There is more condemning in the bible for those that get a divorce or playing around with more then their intended mate then there is for being a gay person"

Kind of funny how that works...right Sharon?  But speaking of the righty bible bitches...one of the methods they are trying is to drive a wedge between the TGLB community and the traditional Civil Rights community of color...divide and conquer.  The work of a true Christian? "Me thinks" not!

Thanks Sharon

New Dana International!

Dana International's new Tel Aviv Pride Video on the Cyrsti's Condo big screen:

Amazin' Just Amazin"

You don't have to sit here and read me gush over Stana and her Femulate blog here in Cyrsti's Condo.

She has done it again...go here and follow the links in this post.

I Got A Wedgie

As I have written here in Cyrsti's Condo, this week is yet another step towards my goal of slamming the door on my former life...and paying forward the best I can.

Just to catch you up a bit, I am attempting to step up and out in my hometown to do what I can to further TLGB goals. Last night was a public meeting in City Council Chamber outlining the local Springfield (Ohio) Equality Group goals.  The location of the meeting and who was going to be there gave me tons of angst. For the first time ever I was going face to face as a trans woman with a veritable who's who of the leaders of the place I was born and active in for most of my life.

As with what normally happens with me, I said to hell with it-hitched up my big girl panties and headed to the meeting. In the process, I gave myself one of the bigger wedgies I have had for a while.

I have my own little motivation mental speech in situations such as this which basically says "nothing is as good or as bad as it seems". Last night was no exception.  Upon arrival, all the good seats close to the door were taken - of course and I had to walk around the entire room to find a seat. For the most part, it didn't matter. I garnered very little attention, found a seat and fidgeted around until I fixed my wedgie. It seemed I was mostly invisible with the general public in the room and totally transparent to the local Equality organizers. They are as exclusive as the Pentagon and their speaker never uttered the transgender word. But hey I'm used to that from the male gay community and the presentation got better.

The Equality Ohio speaker who spoke next, was truly inclusive to all- including we invisible transgender people in the room and she did explain the upcoming  huge discrimination vote in the Ohio legislature. She specifically said it does include gender identification.

As far as the parent group goes here, I am now a paid member and will take my crusade of one to the general membership meeting this coming Thursday. So this isn't over for me.

Two final positives were presentations by a youth group leader who (yes) included trans women and trans men in her group discussions and a minister who spoke to religious acceptance vs tolerance in a place of worship.

Look, in no way do I think this will ever end in my life-for me. But I continue to feel the youth of our culture will change my generation's ignorance.

Now I have to do something about those pesky wedgies!

Fantasy

This video as you will learn just doesn't showcase the reality of a transgender existence-but I won't spoil it for you:

Grae Phillips

As far as I know, Grae Phillips was one of the first in my generation to hit the talk show circuit looking and sounding exactly like a tall sexy female singer. If my memory serves me correct, Phil Donahue was where I first saw Grae. Here's a look at the talented female impersonator on our Cyrsti's Condo big screen:
 

Have a Seat Transgender Person!

This is just fun and all so true: "What my Therapist Should Have Discussed".

Go here to take a look!

"She Zow" Review

Figure by "Onixgreystone"

Before I forget, which at my age is a common instance every hour, I did get a chance to watch the SheZow animated kids show on Saturday.

It's on the Hub network which as I understand it, has very low ratings.  Amazingly though,  I do have the Hub as part of my 500 channels and there is nothing on -satellite package.

Have to tell you the character in SheZow came a long way from my old school Bugs Bunny in drag cartoon days.

I didn't get much out of it except one tiny part where sister tries to explain the basics of female intuition to the newly feminine SheZow.  She simply said I really don't know why I feel this way- I just do. 

Of course on a much deeper level it matters not what I got out of the cartoon. It's what the kids did.

If you haven't seen any of it, of course there are snippets on YouTube and here is the opening intro on the Cyrsti's Condo big screen: