nikberry

Nov 7, 2019 on nikberry's blog post
Nov 7, 2019 on nikberry's blog post
Nov 7, 2019 on nikberry's blog post
Nov 7, 2019 on nikberry's blog post
Nov 4, 2019 on nikberry's blog post
Nov 3, 2019 on redberry's photo

Gender dysphoria is a condition where a person experiences discomfort or distress because there's a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity.

So what does it feel like to have gender dysphoria? Well, I’ve no idea. All I can say is what it felt like for me to have gender dysphoria – and to quite a large degree I still feel it. The definition...
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This is ludicrously simplified. It is also woefully incomplete, and also quite possibly wrong.

· Cisgender – used to describe people who are not transgender.

· Gender Confirmation Surgery (GCS) – see Sex Reassignment Surgery.

· Gender Dysphoria – a condition where a person experiences discomfort or distress because there is a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity.

· Gender...
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I contacted my bank via online chat and asked how to change my name. They immediately emailed me a form via their secure message system. I filled in the old & new names & signatures, put in the Reason field “Transition to a woman”, scanned it with my phone and sent it to them. Within a couple of hours, I got an email that started:...
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Male-to-female (MTF) type transgender hormone therapy, also known as feminising hormone therapy, is a hormone and sex reassignment therapy to change the secondary sexual characteristics of transgender people from masculine (or androgynous) to feminine.

The effects of MTF therapy are reversible for some things, and not for others – just as some of the changes a boy (and girl, of course) experiences at puberty are...
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MY HERO LUCYS - 2 LUCY Punch, English actress

I want to get back to blogging about serious issues; feminism, fashion, and fun. OK, mainly without fashion. But the other two certainly. Unfortunately, I seem to be suffering a prolonged bout of selfishness. I’ve never written about me and my history, my situation before, and I’ve discovered that it helps. Yes, yes, I know writers have known that pretty much forever, but if I...
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My Hero Lucys - 1 Lucy Worsley OBE, Historian

My New T Shirt

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luciloser:

Hahaha nice

Nov 9, 2019

nikberry:

And, of course, the font is 'Lucida', a French variant of 'Lucy'.

Nov 10, 2019

When I was at university – late Pleistocene – I shared a flat with two women. Just two women. I really have been a woman loving man hating person all my life. One of those women, briefly my lover, was the President of the Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates Women’s Group. The other woman, longer time lover of the woman briefly my lover, was the...
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