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submitted 8 months ago by Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Hey folks,

I've been semi out at work for a while now, with our communication systems showing she/they and dressing femme in the workplace.

I've settled on wanting to be called by a different name, and talking with my team lead and HR contact am planning a switch over on Monday.

I don't expect any hostility from the team I'm in, and the company has been very supportive to date.

That doesn't stop me being a little nervous with the visibility of Slack etc changing over to a distinctly female name.

Was wondering if the experiences of other transfemmes coming out in such a clear way in their workplaces.

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submitted 10 months ago by Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org to c/mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone

This weekend was a hard one, one of the hardest in a while.

My partner is always so supportive, and she got to have fun with another girl on Saturday night.

When we talked about it afterwards, she felt that she had been able to relieve a sapphic itch that had been sitting there.

From that it came out with the complexity she feels surrounding myself, having known me as a cis male before the egg started cracking earlier in the year.

Recently we'd been playing around with caged chastity rather than just through orgasm control. To her that was more of a sissy thing, so neutral/male leaning into femme presentation. I liked the cage, not sure I even want to look at it right now.

When we were sitting in the hotel room she talked me through an experiment. I was in my lingerie and she had me close my eyes, move in front of the mirror, drop my panties and then open them looking at myself, with my lingerie hem pulled up a bit.

My instinct was to look away, to dislike what I saw hanging there... to want to hide it.

I asked for her help going to Victoria's Secret yesterday, got measured for a bra... and bought two... wanting to give some shape and form to my chest.

Not sure why I'm writing this tbh, other than to express myself a little to the void in the safety of strangers.

Going to talk to a gender support line when they open later in the afternoon... for now I'm hiding under a blanket cuddling Blahaj and occasionally crying.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My girlfriend pretty much shoved me into the fitting rooms the first time I went to buy a skirt... I was so very nervous showing the gal on the door the one item to try on.

Fast forward a bit and I had a lovely experience at the Levi store ... was looking for a new pair of jeans for a holiday. As I was looking at the various cuts I was unsure wear to pick up, as I wanted something more form fitting. My partner said that the female cut has very little crotch area though, so potentially an issue there... so was looking in the men's section.

Assistant in the store came over and offered help. I somewhat shyly mentioned that I was looking for someone a little tighter on the skin, and mentioned "I have a masc pair already" ... their eyes pretty much lit up "Well you won't find what you want on this side of the store" and pretty much dragged me over to the women's section, and started pulling bits off the shelf and holding them up to me.

"Well this is pretty much the equivalent of a mens 34 waist, what do you wear normally?"

"Well my femme size in my clothing is usually a 16..."

Again a slight grin... before rushing me over to the cubicles to try on the items they picked out...

A very good eye they had... picked out a pair so comfy and I felt really good in. Was also just such an affirming experience.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because you're focused on the visuals from a single user perspective...

  1. There's the world state and game logic to consider as well, and this would be relevant even in a 2D sprite based game.
  2. The article makes it clear that it's the couch co-op split screen that is causing the most headaches, with whatever additional overhead there is in maintaining another active character and rendering of the world on screen.
[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Speaking of that instance... has there been any progress on federating with them again?

I was surprised to see little talk about Donald's Jan6th charges on my feed, but after flipping accounts I realised most of the chatter was going on over there.

I don't particularly mind if I need a dedicated LW account... but it would be nice to be able to keep my posts consolidated under this one.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Trying to explain nonbinary to people is so frustrating.

Only slightly more frustrating is not knowing oneself from one moment to the next.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

If I'm feeling on the femme side of things when I arrive, do I need to be tied up?

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, when I'm out with my partner I have a preference to wear my collar.

I've never had anyone comment about it or actively noticed a second glance scenario.

I did have a staff member in hotel reception call me by my pet name instead of my actual name when they looked at it once....

That said wearing it more often than not over the past year has incurred a fair amount of wear and tear.

I recently picked up a couple of cute chokers to wear out and about instead though for casual use, with the collar explicitly for kinky events only.

Less risk to my collar, and still have the same secure feeling of the binding around my neck.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago

Mental health is extremely important and often overlooked.

Thank you for everything you've done to date.

Take your time and we'll all be here when you're ready ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

This is just insane...

Yes the DoD has war plans on how to attack anyone at need... Heck there almost certainly are plans for how to handle an insane UK.

The President can ask for these plans at any time.

That doesn't mean the DoD wants to actually carry out those plans.... but then why did Donald ask for them?

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Not gen z but a bit older than that... I'm only just beginning to understand and accept my queerness and it is very frustrating and mentally/emotionally exhausting at times not having the vocab to express how I feel.

Labels do help with that... provide some basis of common lingo. Somewhere to start with actually being able to speak about how one is feeling.

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Although we're no longer under the higher level EU legislation, the entirety of it was incorporated into an updated DPA during the Brexit reconciliation process.

https://uk-gdpr.org/

So you could still go through the same process... and frankly Reddit won't really know whether they need to act by it so go ahead...

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I've been through a bit of an emotionally exhausting week with some personal things...

I suspect some of that might have come through on my mini essay ... uh... sorry to whoever had to read it?

But hey I'm here so....

[-] Jimbob0i0@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Waiting on them to fulfil my GDPR data request.

One I've got all my data (since there was some useful stuff there over the years) I'll follow up with the "right to be forgotten" request as well.

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