Elizabeth Porter's Page

Let's rewind to late winter, 2009. My soon to be ex wife and I were having a world fo problems. I was supressing so much about how I felt about my gender incongruency that it was having major impacts on my marriage. I also just wasn't happy in general. It was an unhealthy relationship when we first started dating and everything went down hill but I was too scared of abandonment to walk away.



That month, I disclosed to her that I felt I was transgender. We seperated. Throughout the… Read More

Last night was, by far, one of the nicest evenings I have had in a very long time. The thing that really tops it all off is that the night was so incredibly simple.



After working most of the day, I arrived home to find that my temp roommate was gone for the night...the whole night. That meant I had the house to myself and could just enjoy being me and unwind.



What I did was so simple...yet so relaxing. No make up, no fancy dress, no skirt...but just my sweatshirt and cute… Read More

Hey, everyone. I found this on the Human Rights Campaign website. It is a booklet in .pdf format that discusses coming out to family, firends, co-workers, etc. I thought it was VERY well put together and wanted to share it with the rest of you.

http://www.hrc.org/documents/transgender_visibility_guide.pdf

Hugs,
Elizabeth

It is killing me. Something happened tonight that broke my heart...because I wanted to be able to reach out and offer support to someone...let them know that I know what they are feeling...I know what they are going through. It wasn't that I didn't want to help...but my office is extremely disciminatory. Because of this, I wasn't able to help they way I wanted to. I answered all o f the questions...I did my job...but I wanted to reach out and offer that shoulder and a hug to say, "I know what… Read More