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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️

@transducer.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️🚺, finally 🐣ing & posting through it (💊24-12-06, 💉25-06-24). She/her. 40. Call an informed consent clinic TODAY to make an appt for HRT, even if you don’t want it—by the time the appt happens, who knows? There is still time. The time will pass anyway.

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · Aug 26

Well y’all, a bish welcomes any thoughts on the matter, bc it do be that time lol

Again, I’m most looking for tactical advice in doing this as an out trans woman, which is the new part for me this go-round 🏳️‍⚧️🚺🤷🏻‍♀️ Some of y’all are uniquely qualified, among my friends, to share that perspective!

Looking towards the setting sun, a woman stands on a sidewalk watching a bus go past her reading “not in service.” Words superimposed over the orange sky read “alright, time for a job search”

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 3h

Aw, you too girl. 💖 I didn’t even realize I was doing a metaphor there 😅 the coffee has absolutely not kicked in yet 🫠

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 6d

When a trans person says “this is who I am,” the world gets a little more honest.

Whether it’s ready or not.

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 3h

get that bitch on estrogen, we can save her

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 3h

Definitely thought today was Sunday for a good hour or two so realizing it’s actually Saturday is giving me “when Scrooge wakes up she realizes it’s Christmas and there’s still time” euphoria

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 3h

I think if you build the first part right you get the second part free

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 4h

constantly saying this tbh

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 12d

not having a robust public transit system is lesbophobic. gay girls need medium-long train rides so they can fall asleep on each other while coming back from fun day & weekend trips that take an unexpectedly sweet and flirty turn

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 12h

oh well if we’re going into BL we’re gonna start with, like, the entire Fall Out Boy discography and go from there lol

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 12h

oh those are the classics, yep, totally lol. can’t believe those didn’t leap to mind 😅

didn’t Christina Aguilera have one? 🤔

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 12h

Ariana Grande, “break up with your girlfriend, I’m bored” more recent entry but also very pure
The Donnas, “Too Bad About Your Girl,” more pop-rock/pop-punk than pure pop but still

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 12h

Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats,” arguably
Taylor Swift,”You Belong With Me,” has almost no explanations *but* yuri… an actual Swiftie could give you several more from her, probably

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 13h

do you want just us to start naming them, or are you looking for a real list

bc like obviously you’ve already got Avril Lavigne, “Girlfriend” and Brandy & Monica, “The Boy Is Mine”

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 13h

heard the game just ended, it’s because I spent thirty seconds making this & the universe decided I wasn’t allowed to be funny yet today

so I’m pretty sure this makes me an honorary Etsy witch, you’re welcome Seattle

Grecian urn-style image of Sisyphus rolling his boulder up the hill. The boulder has been crudely replaced with a clip art baseball, and Sisyphus has a Seattle Mariners baseball cap on his head.

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 13h

are there a bunch of memes of Sisyphus in a Mariners cap rolling a baseball up a hill yet, or

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 15h

She could go with Reed, but that’s a little stiff

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 16h

🫂 I’m sorry babe. I hope you’re able to breathe through it, maybe cry it out? I know you’ll feel better in the morning

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 16h

A friend made these fridge magnets and I am keeping mine forever

A refrigerator sticker showing frog and toad riding a tandem bike with "Fuck the police" under it

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 18h

it was a pretty good feeling 😊

low-key wish I hadn’t had to cut the call short… but I *really* had to—as I said to her, “go someplace where we don’t talk on the phone” lol 😅

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 18h

and the Ninja Turtles, usually

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 18h

omigod, I can’t even imagine! I can’t wait to have a job where they just… don’t know. Like, fuck ‘em.

OTOH, there’s a lot to be said for stable employment 😅

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 18h

You too, bestie 💖 I’m so glad to have you here with me on the journey 🫂

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 18h

idk, I like Willow better

😉

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 20h

like, it wasn’t going to get better if I kept waiting longer & longer to start. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I get gendered correctly now, like, ever. And honestly that still feels so new & dazzling that I’m still getting used to it lol 😅

(This ⬇️ was a very helpful framing for me)

Thea Leaves 🍃🍵 @thealeaves.bsky.social · Jul 13

Yes, since I have come out, I do get misgendered. It sucks. But I *only* got misgendered before I came out. Now I'm me in a way I never was before. Give yourself that chance.

Jordan! @jordanjamboree.bsky.social · Jul 13

This is a joke, but it also sucks how many of yall keep yourself in the psychic prison. You know it doesn't get better until you're out for everyone right? Things are better than your fear says they will be

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 20h

Aw, you’re sweet 😘 I think it went pretty well all things considered.

The name thing… my deadname isn’t/wasn’t gender-neutral, like At All, and I am 40. Part of prying myself out of the closet was accepting, y’know, “this is gonna be a thing I have to deal with for a while… maybe forever.” 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 20h

You’ve got your classics like Alex, Bailey, Dylan, Riley, Kai…

But I say she names herself “Eli,” then randomizes the pronunciation daily lol

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 20h

oh! Well, I’m still sorry you had to go through that, but it sounds like you really stuck the landing. I’m impressed 🫂💖

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