I thought this video was worth posting here, it really speaks to the subject of being authentic. Well worth watching!
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Sex drive and transition
Posted on October 26, 2008 by Amber Darlene
Hello to all the fine readers out there!
My question today is about sex drive and transition. For those of you taking HRT, how does transition affect your sex drive? I have to wonder if your existing sex drive before transition has very much to do with how it reacts to the change in hormone balance, [...]
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Happy posts?
Posted on September 12, 2008 by Amber Darlene
So…does anyone like to read happy posts? Sometimes I wonder if posts about things going well and the adventures that go with it are not as interesting or read as much as the posts about the struggles of transition. In my case, transition has been pretty straight forward so far, almost like a non-event. That [...]
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Transition at work, the dilemma
Posted on September 4, 2008 by Amber Darlene
I know that most of the readers here have their own issues with transition at work, one of the more tricky parts of transition. My particular situation is a bit complicated. As most of you know, I came out to my boss around the middle of June, and he was supportive of my issues. I [...]
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Ma’am or sir?
Posted on August 30, 2008 by Amber Darlene
Getting “ma’am”ed or “sir”ed can really make a difference in the mood of a day of a trans person! Yesterday, I went to a service call to replace light bulbs on a juke box and as I was opening my tool box to get my work keys, the cute young (female) bartender came around the [...]
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The power of friendship
Posted on August 14, 2008 by Amber Darlene
I’ve been thinking about the subject of friendship and transition for a while now, but recent events and a few other blogs on the subject of friends that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks prompted me to write my own blog about it.
Early on in my therapy sessions, probably a year and a [...]
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A strange little piece from an old attempt at song writing
Posted on August 7, 2008 by Amber Darlene
I look through the door to the inner space,
where things are not always what they seem
I see dark deeds and cool spring water
ideas fly with raven wings
the grass breeds tiny green monsters
that sing with whispering sighs
trees bear fruit of vision
seen only with burned out eyes
The vision seems much more likely
with reason left behind
Release of true [...]
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My new blog on wordpress
Posted on July 27, 2008 by Amber Darlene
Just a quick note to let you know that I now have a blog on WordPress. It’s Amber’s ramblings under amberdarlene. Rather than posting my various adventures here, I thought I’d post them there.
Amber
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I must be crazy!
Posted on July 19, 2008 by Amber Darlene
That’s what keeps cycling through my thoughts as I get deeper into the “trans land of no return”. In the last few weeks there’s been a series of small but significant things that I’ve done for, or with, my transition progress that I can’t “take back”. Things like telling my boss about my GID and [...]
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The Most Important Transition Question
I haven’t posted anything here in a while, normally I just use my own blog for stuff. I thought this video was worth posting here because it concerns the entire trans community. I’ve been wanting to make this video for a while and I finally got around to doing it, so here it is.
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