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  • 14 Nov 2021
    Hello everyone, How is everyone ? myself, I am in sissy heaven, I spent Friday, Saturday & Sunday as Joanne. I got to go food shopping, walked my dogs & even raked the lawn, of course my wife was losing her mind, she don't think I should go out in public & let the neighbors see me as Joanne. I don't know why she is the one worried about it, I am the one out there. I told her that I didn't care who sees me, this is who I am. Maybe one day she will get over her fears & go with me when I go out.
    907 Posted by Joanne Watters
  • Hello everyone, How is everyone ? myself, I am in sissy heaven, I spent Friday, Saturday & Sunday as Joanne. I got to go food shopping, walked my dogs & even raked the lawn, of course my wife was losing her mind, she don't think I should go out in public & let the neighbors see me as Joanne. I don't know why she is the one worried about it, I am the one out there. I told her that I didn't care who sees me, this is who I am. Maybe one day she will get over her fears & go with me when I go out.
    Nov 14, 2021 907
  • 26 Mar 2021
    Nature played a cruel joke on me, by giving me the mind of a woman and the body of a guy. Each morning I wake up and have to leave the sweet slumber of a female existence and take on the drab and sad mask of a male.  I've known since I was about 6 years old that I didn't really belong in this body. Growing up in a strict Catholic home, I learned very quickly to pretend to be male, al along feeling my female heart tugging at my mind.  What was first a doubt as to how real my female feelings were, grew stronger over time to a certainty of my female heart. I continued to live the "fake" male life, as in the 60's and 70's, I was unaware that transitioning was even possible.  Had I known then that it was possible, I would have made the decision to transition back then.  As I got older, life kind of got in the way.   As a male, I was very successful in the High Tech industry, made a lot of money, got married and had 2 daughters.  I don't ever regret my children, as I love them.   However, I often wonder how my life had gone if I transitioned in the late 60's. As I write this, I've reached the age where transitioning would not be medically advised, but I could just live as the real me, even if SRS, Facial Feminization and breast implantes would not be advised. (OK maybe get the breast implants).  However, that youthful female form would not be possible now. So now I can only  dream about what might have been.        
    991 Posted by Michelle Gweneth
  • Nature played a cruel joke on me, by giving me the mind of a woman and the body of a guy. Each morning I wake up and have to leave the sweet slumber of a female existence and take on the drab and sad mask of a male.  I've known since I was about 6 years old that I didn't really belong in this body. Growing up in a strict Catholic home, I learned very quickly to pretend to be male, al along feeling my female heart tugging at my mind.  What was first a doubt as to how real my female feelings were, grew stronger over time to a certainty of my female heart. I continued to live the "fake" male life, as in the 60's and 70's, I was unaware that transitioning was even possible.  Had I known then that it was possible, I would have made the decision to transition back then.  As I got older, life kind of got in the way.   As a male, I was very successful in the High Tech industry, made a lot of money, got married and had 2 daughters.  I don't ever regret my children, as I love them.   However, I often wonder how my life had gone if I transitioned in the late 60's. As I write this, I've reached the age where transitioning would not be medically advised, but I could just live as the real me, even if SRS, Facial Feminization and breast implantes would not be advised. (OK maybe get the breast implants).  However, that youthful female form would not be possible now. So now I can only  dream about what might have been.        
    Mar 26, 2021 991
  • 27 Feb 2021
    Wishing...In my mind, I sometimes wish I had a wonderful and youthful body in which to live my life in. I guess each of us has that same wish at some time. My ideal body would be this -
    718 Posted by Michelle Gweneth
  • Wishing...In my mind, I sometimes wish I had a wonderful and youthful body in which to live my life in. I guess each of us has that same wish at some time. My ideal body would be this -
    Feb 27, 2021 718
  • 21 Nov 2020
    It’s been estimated that Transgender people are twice as likely to think about and attempt suicide than LGB people.  The suicide rates for Transgender people are far, far higher than the national averages in most countries.  It’s difficult to know exactly though, because gender identity is not normally recorded on death certificates.However, in the United States, a survey carried out in 2015 by the National Center for Transgender Equality showed that around 40% of adults who took part reported having attempted suicide at some stage in their lifetime.  That’s nearly nine times the normal rate of attempted suicide among the general US population.We want all of our members to stay safe and the good news is that there are many good people out there who are able to help those of us who are feeling so depressed that we just want it all to stop.  This is fixable.  We just need to allow others to help. Below is a list of mainly support hotlines for several English speaking countries which are generally where our members come from.  Most are able to offer additional support and resources in each of their respective countries.   I want you to promise me that if you ever find that you can’t cope, that you will try calling one of these hotlines before you do anything silly. Promise? United States LGBT National Help Center - calls answered in the US and Canada, chat international LGBT National Hotline 888-843-4564 LGBT National Youth Talkline 800-246-7743 LGBT National Senior Hotline 888-234-7243 LGBT Online chat (all ages) www.lgbthotline.org/chat www.lgbthotline.org   Blackline - 24 hour hotline support geared towards POC, Native and Muslim LGBTQI community 800-604-5841 www.callblackline.com   Crisis Text Line - Not LGBT specific but trained and supportive. Text: 741741 www.crisistextline.org   DeQH Helpline - LGBTQ hotline for South Asian individuals. 908-367-3374 www.deqh.org   IM Alive - online crisis chat service.  Not LGBT specific but affirming and supportive www.imalive.org   Translate line - Trans specific support hotline US: 877-565-8860 Canada: 877-330-6366 www.translifeline.org   Trevor Project - LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline for 25 and younger 866-488-7386 www.thetrevorproject.org   US National Orgs FORGE - national Trans org forced on anti-violence 414-559-2123 www.forge-forward.org   Transgender, Gender-variant, and Intersex Justice Project - legal services and advoacy 415-554-8591 www.tgijp.org   Transgender Law Center - national trans legal support 510-587-9898 www.transgenderlawcenter.org   England The Switchboard - LGBT support hotline- answers calls in England, Scotland and Wales 020 7837 6768 switchboard.lgbt   Ireland LGBT Ireland - LGBT support hotline 1890 929 539 www.lgbt.ie   Scotland LGBT Health and Wellbeing  - LGBT hotline 0141 271 2330 www.lgbthealth.org.uk   Wales LGBT Cymru Helpline - LGBT support hotline 01792 828057 or 0800 980 4021 www.lgbtcymru.org.uk Canada LGBT Youthline for those 29 and younger 800-268-9688 also provides online chat www.youthline.ca   The Canada Suicide Prevention Service1.833.456.4566 Available 24/7/365 in both English and Frenchhttps://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/     South Africa Gay and Lesbian Network - LGBT hotline 033 342 6165 gaylesbian.org.za   Australia Q Life 1800 184 527 www.qlife.org.au   Lifeline - 24 hour suicide prevention hotline - not LGBT specific but affirming 02 6215 6215 9400 www.lifeline.org.au   Northern Ireland Lifeline - crisis hotline - not LGBT specific but affirming 0808 808 8000 www.lifelinehelpline.info   New Zealand Outline NZ - LGBT support hotline 0800 688 5463 www.outline.org.nz
    888 Posted by Katie Glover
  • It’s been estimated that Transgender people are twice as likely to think about and attempt suicide than LGB people.  The suicide rates for Transgender people are far, far higher than the national averages in most countries.  It’s difficult to know exactly though, because gender identity is not normally recorded on death certificates.However, in the United States, a survey carried out in 2015 by the National Center for Transgender Equality showed that around 40% of adults who took part reported having attempted suicide at some stage in their lifetime.  That’s nearly nine times the normal rate of attempted suicide among the general US population.We want all of our members to stay safe and the good news is that there are many good people out there who are able to help those of us who are feeling so depressed that we just want it all to stop.  This is fixable.  We just need to allow others to help. Below is a list of mainly support hotlines for several English speaking countries which are generally where our members come from.  Most are able to offer additional support and resources in each of their respective countries.   I want you to promise me that if you ever find that you can’t cope, that you will try calling one of these hotlines before you do anything silly. Promise? United States LGBT National Help Center - calls answered in the US and Canada, chat international LGBT National Hotline 888-843-4564 LGBT National Youth Talkline 800-246-7743 LGBT National Senior Hotline 888-234-7243 LGBT Online chat (all ages) www.lgbthotline.org/chat www.lgbthotline.org   Blackline - 24 hour hotline support geared towards POC, Native and Muslim LGBTQI community 800-604-5841 www.callblackline.com   Crisis Text Line - Not LGBT specific but trained and supportive. Text: 741741 www.crisistextline.org   DeQH Helpline - LGBTQ hotline for South Asian individuals. 908-367-3374 www.deqh.org   IM Alive - online crisis chat service.  Not LGBT specific but affirming and supportive www.imalive.org   Translate line - Trans specific support hotline US: 877-565-8860 Canada: 877-330-6366 www.translifeline.org   Trevor Project - LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline for 25 and younger 866-488-7386 www.thetrevorproject.org   US National Orgs FORGE - national Trans org forced on anti-violence 414-559-2123 www.forge-forward.org   Transgender, Gender-variant, and Intersex Justice Project - legal services and advoacy 415-554-8591 www.tgijp.org   Transgender Law Center - national trans legal support 510-587-9898 www.transgenderlawcenter.org   England The Switchboard - LGBT support hotline- answers calls in England, Scotland and Wales 020 7837 6768 switchboard.lgbt   Ireland LGBT Ireland - LGBT support hotline 1890 929 539 www.lgbt.ie   Scotland LGBT Health and Wellbeing  - LGBT hotline 0141 271 2330 www.lgbthealth.org.uk   Wales LGBT Cymru Helpline - LGBT support hotline 01792 828057 or 0800 980 4021 www.lgbtcymru.org.uk Canada LGBT Youthline for those 29 and younger 800-268-9688 also provides online chat www.youthline.ca   The Canada Suicide Prevention Service1.833.456.4566 Available 24/7/365 in both English and Frenchhttps://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/     South Africa Gay and Lesbian Network - LGBT hotline 033 342 6165 gaylesbian.org.za   Australia Q Life 1800 184 527 www.qlife.org.au   Lifeline - 24 hour suicide prevention hotline - not LGBT specific but affirming 02 6215 6215 9400 www.lifeline.org.au   Northern Ireland Lifeline - crisis hotline - not LGBT specific but affirming 0808 808 8000 www.lifelinehelpline.info   New Zealand Outline NZ - LGBT support hotline 0800 688 5463 www.outline.org.nz
    Nov 21, 2020 888
  • 20 Oct 2020
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    763 Posted by Katie Glover
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  • 17 Feb 2020
    Hello Ladies - Ms Briana Andromeda Purcell - the one and only Galaxy Girl here - and this is on my business card too - plus that is my real and legal name - did so last year in August - can you believe it?! Sorry have not had time to post on updates - life has been one grand and great things after another. I went out with friends 2-3 times per month last year and wore 8 different dresses, went and spent the night at a friend's home, spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with 3 different friends and their families last year, visited more restaurants than I can count, and wore a skirt, as these are my favorite attire 6 or 7 days a week for the last 2 years and counting. Not only did I change my name legally in court but not it is on every imaginable document - soc sec, driver's license ( and YES it ways I am a girl - finally ), bank account, all other electronic systems out there - ebay and such, plus you can find me on facebook as my name too.  I have host of friends from here at Gender Society and interestingly from high school - many of whom are my gal pals and we take many of these adventures I mention and all noted here are on facebook and chat it up regularly. I walk into my local grocery store and a cashier and friend calls out my name across the store, I go to the pharmacist and my prescriptions are in my name, same is true of my bank, and even a local restaurant I frequent I am quite the regular and am very well received. Further not only did I have an interview and hit the ball out of the galaxy as myself and use my published book as my resume, I am my life's passion - teaching - as a professor at a local college and teach what I love Physics and Astronomy - currently - as of this writing I am in the midst of a semester in Astronomy and loving it!!! Imagine being yourself morning noon and night, the moment you walk onto the porch and go in any direction - your name is known and people greet you as you and you go to work and you are you in the past, the present, and the future since anyone who meet you - you are you always as you you in your heat, mind, and soul. This is my life now. I cannot relate the elation, joy, and pure bliss of being - be it a sunny or rainy day - I am me and all is well. nothing is more empowering or uplifting as being whole and happy in life. Being in front of the class long ago I was not me yet and always felt off and unbalanced - now out, fully me and teaching what I love I feel the depth of my being and soul and the whole of the topics that I guide the young people into and through.  There are many new and other adventures in life ahead of course and not all things are perfect - but I come to see the nature of my being - always in motion, a dynamic force - always for good and positivity - and expressing joy. I smile all the time and will shed a few tears of joy - did so 4 times last week driving to and from my career not believing the beauty of my life. I have grown in more dimensions than I can fully relate and only use words each of which needs time over coffee for full range of explanation - I have grown, evolved, and blossomed in terms of body, mind, socially, emotionally, and spiritually to become the whole, caring, creative, intelligent, kind, beautiful and brilliant woman I am. That is the one thing I did not expect - physical changes aside as they were hoped for and  somewhat expected in all this, it is the blossoming of my whole being - the total emergence of the girl I have been all along since childhood inside along so many other personal dimensions.  I am ever at work in artistic ways - took a couple of fun glass classes and wish to do that as an art form plus learn crocheting and/or knitting, am at work on the rewrite of my book to add my name and my voice to it plus pictures finally, along with exploring my sci-fi story series long ago which secretly had me and now there are a new flourish of ideas growing in me once again, plus a bio story as well in the works. Plus being the teacher I am and crafting all sorts of ideas for the classroom. May consider other art forms too, like tiles and such. Even made a cute 'lunchbox' adorned with young-minded frivality that is cute and fun. I am incredibly far more social than I ever was decades ago, even friends I had as a child who are my gal pals now, commented as such. I thank my friends daily in my thoughts and prayers as they are the ones who helped my open all  of these new doors and explore new pathways in the last 3 years plus seeing my doctor and being on hormones and such in that time. Mind you despite the speed of these times I love the energy and flow but this was no where near my life even as little as 3 years ago. I came out a scant 8 years back and up to 3 years ago the best I could do was on occasion race out the door to the local store run in buy something and come home and not really much if anything else. Besides myself sitting on my bed in a skirt was and still is my cat who knew my secret. I will share other elements so this piece will evolve a bit - just jotting the initial frame at the time plus below are some selected photos over time as well - such as me in a dress a friend measured me for in the first time into my women's bathroom in a public place that she bought for me and I used in my court day for my name and she drove me there and such : Love you all, may your dreams become the story of truth and reality for you in your journey : Ms Briana Andromeda Purcell the one and only Galaxy Girl          
    902 Posted by Briana Purcell
  • Hello Ladies - Ms Briana Andromeda Purcell - the one and only Galaxy Girl here - and this is on my business card too - plus that is my real and legal name - did so last year in August - can you believe it?! Sorry have not had time to post on updates - life has been one grand and great things after another. I went out with friends 2-3 times per month last year and wore 8 different dresses, went and spent the night at a friend's home, spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with 3 different friends and their families last year, visited more restaurants than I can count, and wore a skirt, as these are my favorite attire 6 or 7 days a week for the last 2 years and counting. Not only did I change my name legally in court but not it is on every imaginable document - soc sec, driver's license ( and YES it ways I am a girl - finally ), bank account, all other electronic systems out there - ebay and such, plus you can find me on facebook as my name too.  I have host of friends from here at Gender Society and interestingly from high school - many of whom are my gal pals and we take many of these adventures I mention and all noted here are on facebook and chat it up regularly. I walk into my local grocery store and a cashier and friend calls out my name across the store, I go to the pharmacist and my prescriptions are in my name, same is true of my bank, and even a local restaurant I frequent I am quite the regular and am very well received. Further not only did I have an interview and hit the ball out of the galaxy as myself and use my published book as my resume, I am my life's passion - teaching - as a professor at a local college and teach what I love Physics and Astronomy - currently - as of this writing I am in the midst of a semester in Astronomy and loving it!!! Imagine being yourself morning noon and night, the moment you walk onto the porch and go in any direction - your name is known and people greet you as you and you go to work and you are you in the past, the present, and the future since anyone who meet you - you are you always as you you in your heat, mind, and soul. This is my life now. I cannot relate the elation, joy, and pure bliss of being - be it a sunny or rainy day - I am me and all is well. nothing is more empowering or uplifting as being whole and happy in life. Being in front of the class long ago I was not me yet and always felt off and unbalanced - now out, fully me and teaching what I love I feel the depth of my being and soul and the whole of the topics that I guide the young people into and through.  There are many new and other adventures in life ahead of course and not all things are perfect - but I come to see the nature of my being - always in motion, a dynamic force - always for good and positivity - and expressing joy. I smile all the time and will shed a few tears of joy - did so 4 times last week driving to and from my career not believing the beauty of my life. I have grown in more dimensions than I can fully relate and only use words each of which needs time over coffee for full range of explanation - I have grown, evolved, and blossomed in terms of body, mind, socially, emotionally, and spiritually to become the whole, caring, creative, intelligent, kind, beautiful and brilliant woman I am. That is the one thing I did not expect - physical changes aside as they were hoped for and  somewhat expected in all this, it is the blossoming of my whole being - the total emergence of the girl I have been all along since childhood inside along so many other personal dimensions.  I am ever at work in artistic ways - took a couple of fun glass classes and wish to do that as an art form plus learn crocheting and/or knitting, am at work on the rewrite of my book to add my name and my voice to it plus pictures finally, along with exploring my sci-fi story series long ago which secretly had me and now there are a new flourish of ideas growing in me once again, plus a bio story as well in the works. Plus being the teacher I am and crafting all sorts of ideas for the classroom. May consider other art forms too, like tiles and such. Even made a cute 'lunchbox' adorned with young-minded frivality that is cute and fun. I am incredibly far more social than I ever was decades ago, even friends I had as a child who are my gal pals now, commented as such. I thank my friends daily in my thoughts and prayers as they are the ones who helped my open all  of these new doors and explore new pathways in the last 3 years plus seeing my doctor and being on hormones and such in that time. Mind you despite the speed of these times I love the energy and flow but this was no where near my life even as little as 3 years ago. I came out a scant 8 years back and up to 3 years ago the best I could do was on occasion race out the door to the local store run in buy something and come home and not really much if anything else. Besides myself sitting on my bed in a skirt was and still is my cat who knew my secret. I will share other elements so this piece will evolve a bit - just jotting the initial frame at the time plus below are some selected photos over time as well - such as me in a dress a friend measured me for in the first time into my women's bathroom in a public place that she bought for me and I used in my court day for my name and she drove me there and such : Love you all, may your dreams become the story of truth and reality for you in your journey : Ms Briana Andromeda Purcell the one and only Galaxy Girl          
    Feb 17, 2020 902
  • 20 Aug 2019
    Hello Ladies - News from the one and only Galaxy Girl, aka Briana Andromeda Purcell. I have shared many new ideas on the last few blogs so if you wish scan them a bit to pick up on many new fronts and new prospects for me, but the latest news is purely cosmic in scale I must confess. Here I am at these times some months from the last entry and still the development is continuing and growing.  I have applied to now less than 20+ jobs as myself - 5 universities and as many as 4 posts in a given university, plus several libraries and a world-renowned museum to  be a hostess as well.  I have been out no less than 20+ times with friends, spent time at friend's homes and had a great salmon grilled meal. Many super restaurants with the best of friends.  Note I am me 24-7, wear skirts typically 6 out of 7 days a week ( I do have to use some cute jeans to clean up the messes in though ) and no less than 8 dresses to many of these outings. I attended to glass making classes, one with a friend for her birthday and one I went to on my own due to my enjoyment of this. I made a gorgeous flower and a galaxy ball paperweight.  Well more really cosmic news : Hold on to your hats - it is awesome : First I have been to court and the name I noted, Briana Andromeda Purcell is my real and legal name permanently in all ways, places, and things. I now have my social security card, my driver's license, and a bank account with my name on each and every one - everyone loves my new ID - cute photo.  Imagine when you first walk into the bank and fill out the deposit or withdrawal form and use your real name! That was sooo sweet. In each and every place I am indeed me. At the bank I talk often with a woman who works there, and asst manager who first asked me my name some 4 years ago and I share with her many of my firsts. Also at the grocery store is an adorable woman who shouts out my name BRIANA from across the store and we run and hug each other. I ahve been more places and did more things in one year that I cannot imagine - been to two auto places having work on the car, going to a variety of stores for many new items, and trying on clothes in various stores in the appropriate changing rooms. A friend even bought a beautiful sweater for me on one of these outings.  This is not all of it however. I have a job - I went to the interview as myself.  I am a adjunct professor - instructor of physics and astronomy at a local college near me. I singed the papers last week for tax forms, retirement et al and all in my name, of course.  I knocked out the interview - they wanted a 20 minute presentation whereby I treat the people present as students and I took it to the Moon as they say - I used my book I published, the Inquisitive Pioneer, and did two hands-on activities from it with a very engaging discussion that went on for over an hour and they were excited and loved it. I did not even realize I had been up there that long and was so happy. Never in my life as a teacher, my natural calling in my life, was I ever fully myself and in this moment I was glowing, engaged, happy, whole and just awesome. I have never been so confident and energetic ever until now.  Again it needs to be said - I, Briana,  am employed as a college teacher of physics and astronomy.  I have been to court and have my name for real and it is awesome. Thus far I am always me, on hormones for nearly two years and I see the changes and feel the changes from inside to out and in all ways. I have grown mentally, spiritually, physically, and both dimensions of inside and externally due to all of these journeys. I have the super blessing of such great friends and super times together. I must confess all growth comes from both the journey externally and one internally as well. Each is needed to weave the gorgeous tapestry that each of us are in our lives. This has been true for me.  In this time I have grown not just physically but emotionally, mentally, even spiritually. All of my friends see it and note it too. It is an incredible awakening or rebirth as my physics teacher noted - he too is on a journey of spirituality in his life and he and I often have talks for hours at a time on all sorts of soul related matters.  This fact - that transitioning is not just bringing to the surface the girl deep inside and showing off via outfits and physical form but instead is the evolution of the whole spirit of the girl that I am. I experience all things emotionally along with deep mental connections and express myself very well.  My gal pals are great emotional bonds with all sorts of conversations and we are supportive of each other in many ways. My friends have literally I feel been life savers for me. I see me emerging, blossoming, and becoming in large part due to their presence. Coming out to oneself is the first most critical day in a transgender woman's life, but then the next big day is coming out to and finding a core True Tribe, as we call ourselves, set of gal pals that effects one another and allows oneself to grow and glow I feel and this is my case. Being in the presence of such good souls has allowed me to blossom and this is awesome.  There is no greater feeling of wholeness, confidence, happiness, depth, and energy of just pure joy than being your whole self at all times in all ways and being acknowledged and accepted by such warm, caring, friends. As I noted to them - I was a dormant seed and now am in a blooming mode through them.  This awakening and awareness has prompted me to look not just the past, not just the present, but the future. Seeking employment is clearly in that camp, but it is much more than that. I am looking in to doing artwork in glass and some other abstract pieces that extend from my being, my feelings, and creativity that is growing too. Besides the glass classes I am looking into knitting an crocheting too for art projects and the like. Also I am still re-developing my previously written books with my voice in it moreover ( since they were published as the guy I had to pretend to be for so long ) and am in the process of crafting a story of my transitioning while including in it composites of transgenders and the issues we face in our journeys as I have witnessed them or brushed up against them too. I began a rough outline of a fictional account a few years back and decided to reopen that file - and guess what - speaking from my heart, my soul - there is my voice - I wrote a couple of pages in minutes without even batting an eye. This is what I am referring to in the full evolution I am encountering and embracing in my womanhood and becoming the woman I am. I can speak from my heart and soul.  I am even looking to being a spokeswoman for young people in terms of positive messages and bringing along being transgender and seeking to build bridges. This along with my art projects, teaching prospects in colleges, and the like. I have allowed my feelings and mind to seek to be who I can be so as to be the positive energy I have inside and can share with others.  Always embracing great health, hope, harmony, and happiness that I often wish others. Always living as I have seen myself, the woman I am, Briana Andromeda Purcell, the Galaxy Girl all my life.  There comes a day when you are just yourself. You feel beautifully whole. I am in these times in my life. I have been out in one year more times doing more things and have more friends than I ever had in all my life before all of this combined.  I am always myself all the time. I am Briana Andromeda Purcell the one and only Galaxy Girl And life is awesome.  Thank you for your time and read on this. I will have many more things in the future as time progresses. Every day has its own unique challenges, energies, but I realize my core is that of a happy girl who makes the universe a bright and warm place as it is in me.  here are some pictures too of the whole set of adventures :  
    904 Posted by Briana Purcell
  • Hello Ladies - News from the one and only Galaxy Girl, aka Briana Andromeda Purcell. I have shared many new ideas on the last few blogs so if you wish scan them a bit to pick up on many new fronts and new prospects for me, but the latest news is purely cosmic in scale I must confess. Here I am at these times some months from the last entry and still the development is continuing and growing.  I have applied to now less than 20+ jobs as myself - 5 universities and as many as 4 posts in a given university, plus several libraries and a world-renowned museum to  be a hostess as well.  I have been out no less than 20+ times with friends, spent time at friend's homes and had a great salmon grilled meal. Many super restaurants with the best of friends.  Note I am me 24-7, wear skirts typically 6 out of 7 days a week ( I do have to use some cute jeans to clean up the messes in though ) and no less than 8 dresses to many of these outings. I attended to glass making classes, one with a friend for her birthday and one I went to on my own due to my enjoyment of this. I made a gorgeous flower and a galaxy ball paperweight.  Well more really cosmic news : Hold on to your hats - it is awesome : First I have been to court and the name I noted, Briana Andromeda Purcell is my real and legal name permanently in all ways, places, and things. I now have my social security card, my driver's license, and a bank account with my name on each and every one - everyone loves my new ID - cute photo.  Imagine when you first walk into the bank and fill out the deposit or withdrawal form and use your real name! That was sooo sweet. In each and every place I am indeed me. At the bank I talk often with a woman who works there, and asst manager who first asked me my name some 4 years ago and I share with her many of my firsts. Also at the grocery store is an adorable woman who shouts out my name BRIANA from across the store and we run and hug each other. I ahve been more places and did more things in one year that I cannot imagine - been to two auto places having work on the car, going to a variety of stores for many new items, and trying on clothes in various stores in the appropriate changing rooms. A friend even bought a beautiful sweater for me on one of these outings.  This is not all of it however. I have a job - I went to the interview as myself.  I am a adjunct professor - instructor of physics and astronomy at a local college near me. I singed the papers last week for tax forms, retirement et al and all in my name, of course.  I knocked out the interview - they wanted a 20 minute presentation whereby I treat the people present as students and I took it to the Moon as they say - I used my book I published, the Inquisitive Pioneer, and did two hands-on activities from it with a very engaging discussion that went on for over an hour and they were excited and loved it. I did not even realize I had been up there that long and was so happy. Never in my life as a teacher, my natural calling in my life, was I ever fully myself and in this moment I was glowing, engaged, happy, whole and just awesome. I have never been so confident and energetic ever until now.  Again it needs to be said - I, Briana,  am employed as a college teacher of physics and astronomy.  I have been to court and have my name for real and it is awesome. Thus far I am always me, on hormones for nearly two years and I see the changes and feel the changes from inside to out and in all ways. I have grown mentally, spiritually, physically, and both dimensions of inside and externally due to all of these journeys. I have the super blessing of such great friends and super times together. I must confess all growth comes from both the journey externally and one internally as well. Each is needed to weave the gorgeous tapestry that each of us are in our lives. This has been true for me.  In this time I have grown not just physically but emotionally, mentally, even spiritually. All of my friends see it and note it too. It is an incredible awakening or rebirth as my physics teacher noted - he too is on a journey of spirituality in his life and he and I often have talks for hours at a time on all sorts of soul related matters.  This fact - that transitioning is not just bringing to the surface the girl deep inside and showing off via outfits and physical form but instead is the evolution of the whole spirit of the girl that I am. I experience all things emotionally along with deep mental connections and express myself very well.  My gal pals are great emotional bonds with all sorts of conversations and we are supportive of each other in many ways. My friends have literally I feel been life savers for me. I see me emerging, blossoming, and becoming in large part due to their presence. Coming out to oneself is the first most critical day in a transgender woman's life, but then the next big day is coming out to and finding a core True Tribe, as we call ourselves, set of gal pals that effects one another and allows oneself to grow and glow I feel and this is my case. Being in the presence of such good souls has allowed me to blossom and this is awesome.  There is no greater feeling of wholeness, confidence, happiness, depth, and energy of just pure joy than being your whole self at all times in all ways and being acknowledged and accepted by such warm, caring, friends. As I noted to them - I was a dormant seed and now am in a blooming mode through them.  This awakening and awareness has prompted me to look not just the past, not just the present, but the future. Seeking employment is clearly in that camp, but it is much more than that. I am looking in to doing artwork in glass and some other abstract pieces that extend from my being, my feelings, and creativity that is growing too. Besides the glass classes I am looking into knitting an crocheting too for art projects and the like. Also I am still re-developing my previously written books with my voice in it moreover ( since they were published as the guy I had to pretend to be for so long ) and am in the process of crafting a story of my transitioning while including in it composites of transgenders and the issues we face in our journeys as I have witnessed them or brushed up against them too. I began a rough outline of a fictional account a few years back and decided to reopen that file - and guess what - speaking from my heart, my soul - there is my voice - I wrote a couple of pages in minutes without even batting an eye. This is what I am referring to in the full evolution I am encountering and embracing in my womanhood and becoming the woman I am. I can speak from my heart and soul.  I am even looking to being a spokeswoman for young people in terms of positive messages and bringing along being transgender and seeking to build bridges. This along with my art projects, teaching prospects in colleges, and the like. I have allowed my feelings and mind to seek to be who I can be so as to be the positive energy I have inside and can share with others.  Always embracing great health, hope, harmony, and happiness that I often wish others. Always living as I have seen myself, the woman I am, Briana Andromeda Purcell, the Galaxy Girl all my life.  There comes a day when you are just yourself. You feel beautifully whole. I am in these times in my life. I have been out in one year more times doing more things and have more friends than I ever had in all my life before all of this combined.  I am always myself all the time. I am Briana Andromeda Purcell the one and only Galaxy Girl And life is awesome.  Thank you for your time and read on this. I will have many more things in the future as time progresses. Every day has its own unique challenges, energies, but I realize my core is that of a happy girl who makes the universe a bright and warm place as it is in me.  here are some pictures too of the whole set of adventures :  
    Aug 20, 2019 904
  • 23 May 2019
    Hello Ladies - Though 2109 is only in May I decided to stop in and give an important update and evolution of the life and times of the Galaxy Girl - who is really Briana Andromeda Purcell - more on that as we read - and thank you for stopping by for a read. A friend of mine noted at the start of the year when we were all giving each other well wishes for the New Year this year that I would have an awesome year. I would love to wish so, am ever the optimist, yet there is always a taint of realistic skepticism in there too. Nevertheless she was spot on and this year is thus far far more than I could have even imagined. First, from last May when I first revealed myself to a dozen or so people from high school some 30+ years after high school and had an overwhelmingly positive response - and in time to this year the numbers of friends on facebook has grown to nearly 50 with nearly 20 from here at Gender Society even. One of my gal pals here noted I was very adverse to facebook - I responded - it took both me and the people I met to open that door and all things went better than imagined.  I see friends several times each month at restaurants, we go shopping, and I have even had the great pleasure to spending the day at some of my friends homes - making meals, talking all day, going on walks, and having meals with the whole of the family. I share a soup with one friend another friend and I created at her house - it is awesome - chicken/lentil/rice soup. My friends  and I have taken walks on nature trails and the like as well.  I felt that the development of my body was very good at first last year, then it seemed to slow and seemed a bit sad for me. I contacted my doctor who consulted with others as well and all agreed actually things are on track. Once again women, like my aforementioned friends in the prior paragraphs, were spot on. Always go with the gal instinct I find not just from them, but from me as well - it is certainly growing deeply ( more on this later ). Needless to say within days of that doctor talk suddenly my body has accelerated and am curvier, very feminine in form from head to toe beyond what I could imagine. One gal pal says she envies my arms - they are perfect she noted. This growth and change includes the breasts as would be expected - wow! The hormones ( now nearing 2 years in the next few months ). I have been out in no less than 7 different dresses - my gal pals are wowed by this. I had so many hidden treasures from the past I never had nerve to wear years ago. And with this emerging body - the feeling is so uplifting, satisfying - I dare even call myself beautiful - and know full well it extends to the whole of my being to my core - to the girl I have always been.  I spend each and every day as a woman with no exception. My common daily attire is actually a skirt. I have worn a skirt on average nearly 6 out of every 7 days since August of last year - come rain or shine. At my  bank, the store I regularly shop at there are clerks and managers who call out 'Hi Briana'. I have been noted as female by each and every person I encounter with no exception - name, pronouns, and all. At the regular restaurant my gal pals, my physics teacher, and I visit often we are well known there and have our waiter Bill always - he is the kindest and coolest - often takes the group photos for us so I can post them. I have been to have my tires changes, my oil changed, a muffler put on ( 3 different places ), going to florist, hardware stores, and more and more. It is an every day, every place, every situation where I am me. In this time I have grown not just physically but emotionally, mentally, even spiritually. All of my friends see it and note it too. It is an incredible awakening or rebirth as my physics teacher noted - he too is on a journey of spirituality in his life and he and I often have talks for hours at a time on all sorts of soul related matters.  This fact - that transitioning is not just bringing to the surface the girl deep inside and showing off via outfits and physical form but instead is the evolution of the whole spirit of the girl that I am. I experience all things emotionally along with deep mental connections and express myself very well.  My gal pals are great emotional bounds with all sorts of conversations and we are supportive of each other in many ways. My friends have literally I feel been life savers for me. I see me emerging, blossoming, and becoming in large part due to their presence. Coming out to oneself is the first most critical day in a transgender woman's life, but then the next big day is coming out to and finding a core True Tribe, as we call ourselves, set of gal pals that effects one another and allows oneself to grow and glow I feel and this is my case. Being in the presence of such good souls has allowed me to blossom and this is awesome.  As I noted previously I am even seeking employment where I apply with my name, Briana. This is still an ongoing quest - there are a number of open positions being evaluated with this writing. I have applied to no less than 5 universities and as many as a dozen positions as well. One of my closest friends for decades of time, a PhD himself even penned a letter of recommendation for me to his alma mater - I was in tears. ( I find cute kittens, thinking about friends, and the like brings on these crying episodes regularly ).  This has led me to finally standing full and strong and with the help of my physics teacher - we have undertaken a journey whereby I will be Briana Andromeda Purcell now and forever more in name legally. I just mailed today the official paperwork after applying to the necessary court system and being fingerprinted too. Still more steps to go, but I am me always. There is no greater feeling of wholeness, confidence, happiness, depth, and energy of just pure joy than being your whole self at all times in all ways and being acknowledged and accepted by such warm, caring, friends. As I noted to them - I was a dormant seed and now am in a blooming mode through them.  This awakening and awareness has prompted me to look not just the past, not just the present, but the future. Seeking employment is clearly in that camp, but it is much more than that. I am looking in to doing artwork in glass and some other abstract pieces that extend from my being, my feelings, and creativity that is growing too. Next month I plan to attend a glass class to look into this with one of my gal pals. I am looking into knitting an crocheting too for art projects and the like. Also I am re-developing my previously written books with my voice in it moreover ( since they were published as the guy I had to pretend to be for so long ) and am in the process of crafting a story of my transitioning while including in it composites of transgenders and the issues we face in our journeys as I have witnessed them or brushed up against them too. I began a rough outline of a fictional account a few years back and decided to reopen that file - and guess what - speaking from my heart, my soul - there is my voice - I wrote a couple of pages in minutes without even batting an eye. This is what I am referring to in the full evolution I am encountering and embracing in my womanhood and becoming the woman I am. I can speak from my heart and soul.  I am even looking to being a spokeswoman for young people in terms of positive messages and bringing along being transgender and seeking to build bridges. This along with my art projects, teaching prospects in colleges, and the like. I have allowed my feelings and mind to seek to be who I can be so as to be the positive energy I have inside and can share with others.  Always embracing great health, hope, harmony, and happiness that I often wish others. Always living as I have seen myself, the woman I am, Briana Andromeda Purcell, the Galaxy Girl all my life.  Thank you for the time in reading this. Thank you Gender Society which I recommend often to others as I encounter them due to your support and the great people here that gave me the initial confidence I needed so long ago and has helped me arrive here and move ever forward. All the best to each of you in your journey. Note there are days I feel sad, blue, and there are some bumps in the road hither and tither but at the core I am always myself and you know what? That is all I need and the knowledge that the sun comes up again tomorrow. In the long run all the good will outweigh the bad because I only radiate positive vibes all the time.  I find myself in a state of happy self all the time - fully being the girl, the Galaxy Girl at that, has been the single most important thing in all of my life. I wish for each of you joy, wholeness, good caring friends and love in your journey. I have found this and so much more thus far and will write more as the journey continues. I have been very blessed.  I feel these photos show just how much radiant joy there is inside and it beams out to the whole of the world, even galaxy ( nickname teehee ), if not the cosmos as well. They are taken by friends - no better picture than that I feel.  Love, Briana Andromeda Purcell - the one and only Galaxy Girl - always and evermore  
    778 Posted by Briana Purcell
  • Hello Ladies - Though 2109 is only in May I decided to stop in and give an important update and evolution of the life and times of the Galaxy Girl - who is really Briana Andromeda Purcell - more on that as we read - and thank you for stopping by for a read. A friend of mine noted at the start of the year when we were all giving each other well wishes for the New Year this year that I would have an awesome year. I would love to wish so, am ever the optimist, yet there is always a taint of realistic skepticism in there too. Nevertheless she was spot on and this year is thus far far more than I could have even imagined. First, from last May when I first revealed myself to a dozen or so people from high school some 30+ years after high school and had an overwhelmingly positive response - and in time to this year the numbers of friends on facebook has grown to nearly 50 with nearly 20 from here at Gender Society even. One of my gal pals here noted I was very adverse to facebook - I responded - it took both me and the people I met to open that door and all things went better than imagined.  I see friends several times each month at restaurants, we go shopping, and I have even had the great pleasure to spending the day at some of my friends homes - making meals, talking all day, going on walks, and having meals with the whole of the family. I share a soup with one friend another friend and I created at her house - it is awesome - chicken/lentil/rice soup. My friends  and I have taken walks on nature trails and the like as well.  I felt that the development of my body was very good at first last year, then it seemed to slow and seemed a bit sad for me. I contacted my doctor who consulted with others as well and all agreed actually things are on track. Once again women, like my aforementioned friends in the prior paragraphs, were spot on. Always go with the gal instinct I find not just from them, but from me as well - it is certainly growing deeply ( more on this later ). Needless to say within days of that doctor talk suddenly my body has accelerated and am curvier, very feminine in form from head to toe beyond what I could imagine. One gal pal says she envies my arms - they are perfect she noted. This growth and change includes the breasts as would be expected - wow! The hormones ( now nearing 2 years in the next few months ). I have been out in no less than 7 different dresses - my gal pals are wowed by this. I had so many hidden treasures from the past I never had nerve to wear years ago. And with this emerging body - the feeling is so uplifting, satisfying - I dare even call myself beautiful - and know full well it extends to the whole of my being to my core - to the girl I have always been.  I spend each and every day as a woman with no exception. My common daily attire is actually a skirt. I have worn a skirt on average nearly 6 out of every 7 days since August of last year - come rain or shine. At my  bank, the store I regularly shop at there are clerks and managers who call out 'Hi Briana'. I have been noted as female by each and every person I encounter with no exception - name, pronouns, and all. At the regular restaurant my gal pals, my physics teacher, and I visit often we are well known there and have our waiter Bill always - he is the kindest and coolest - often takes the group photos for us so I can post them. I have been to have my tires changes, my oil changed, a muffler put on ( 3 different places ), going to florist, hardware stores, and more and more. It is an every day, every place, every situation where I am me. In this time I have grown not just physically but emotionally, mentally, even spiritually. All of my friends see it and note it too. It is an incredible awakening or rebirth as my physics teacher noted - he too is on a journey of spirituality in his life and he and I often have talks for hours at a time on all sorts of soul related matters.  This fact - that transitioning is not just bringing to the surface the girl deep inside and showing off via outfits and physical form but instead is the evolution of the whole spirit of the girl that I am. I experience all things emotionally along with deep mental connections and express myself very well.  My gal pals are great emotional bounds with all sorts of conversations and we are supportive of each other in many ways. My friends have literally I feel been life savers for me. I see me emerging, blossoming, and becoming in large part due to their presence. Coming out to oneself is the first most critical day in a transgender woman's life, but then the next big day is coming out to and finding a core True Tribe, as we call ourselves, set of gal pals that effects one another and allows oneself to grow and glow I feel and this is my case. Being in the presence of such good souls has allowed me to blossom and this is awesome.  As I noted previously I am even seeking employment where I apply with my name, Briana. This is still an ongoing quest - there are a number of open positions being evaluated with this writing. I have applied to no less than 5 universities and as many as a dozen positions as well. One of my closest friends for decades of time, a PhD himself even penned a letter of recommendation for me to his alma mater - I was in tears. ( I find cute kittens, thinking about friends, and the like brings on these crying episodes regularly ).  This has led me to finally standing full and strong and with the help of my physics teacher - we have undertaken a journey whereby I will be Briana Andromeda Purcell now and forever more in name legally. I just mailed today the official paperwork after applying to the necessary court system and being fingerprinted too. Still more steps to go, but I am me always. There is no greater feeling of wholeness, confidence, happiness, depth, and energy of just pure joy than being your whole self at all times in all ways and being acknowledged and accepted by such warm, caring, friends. As I noted to them - I was a dormant seed and now am in a blooming mode through them.  This awakening and awareness has prompted me to look not just the past, not just the present, but the future. Seeking employment is clearly in that camp, but it is much more than that. I am looking in to doing artwork in glass and some other abstract pieces that extend from my being, my feelings, and creativity that is growing too. Next month I plan to attend a glass class to look into this with one of my gal pals. I am looking into knitting an crocheting too for art projects and the like. Also I am re-developing my previously written books with my voice in it moreover ( since they were published as the guy I had to pretend to be for so long ) and am in the process of crafting a story of my transitioning while including in it composites of transgenders and the issues we face in our journeys as I have witnessed them or brushed up against them too. I began a rough outline of a fictional account a few years back and decided to reopen that file - and guess what - speaking from my heart, my soul - there is my voice - I wrote a couple of pages in minutes without even batting an eye. This is what I am referring to in the full evolution I am encountering and embracing in my womanhood and becoming the woman I am. I can speak from my heart and soul.  I am even looking to being a spokeswoman for young people in terms of positive messages and bringing along being transgender and seeking to build bridges. This along with my art projects, teaching prospects in colleges, and the like. I have allowed my feelings and mind to seek to be who I can be so as to be the positive energy I have inside and can share with others.  Always embracing great health, hope, harmony, and happiness that I often wish others. Always living as I have seen myself, the woman I am, Briana Andromeda Purcell, the Galaxy Girl all my life.  Thank you for the time in reading this. Thank you Gender Society which I recommend often to others as I encounter them due to your support and the great people here that gave me the initial confidence I needed so long ago and has helped me arrive here and move ever forward. All the best to each of you in your journey. Note there are days I feel sad, blue, and there are some bumps in the road hither and tither but at the core I am always myself and you know what? That is all I need and the knowledge that the sun comes up again tomorrow. In the long run all the good will outweigh the bad because I only radiate positive vibes all the time.  I find myself in a state of happy self all the time - fully being the girl, the Galaxy Girl at that, has been the single most important thing in all of my life. I wish for each of you joy, wholeness, good caring friends and love in your journey. I have found this and so much more thus far and will write more as the journey continues. I have been very blessed.  I feel these photos show just how much radiant joy there is inside and it beams out to the whole of the world, even galaxy ( nickname teehee ), if not the cosmos as well. They are taken by friends - no better picture than that I feel.  Love, Briana Andromeda Purcell - the one and only Galaxy Girl - always and evermore  
    May 23, 2019 778
  • 24 Jan 2019
    Hello Ladies - Galaxy Girl's annual post to wrap up 2018 and look ahead to 2019 - wow does time go by and Super wow, what a year 2018 was. I do not even know where to begin - At the start of 2018 I had one friend on facebook, a dear life-long friend who I did not have the nerve to tell my secret to. I had just told my doctor and therapist in 2017 and was now on hormones for 4 months at the start of that year - and things were certainly a changin' as it is said. More than physical it was emotional, even philosophical - I somehow had gained enormous confidence in myself and was quite out daily - nails were done, only women's clothes daily - even when encountering my parents ( that tale requires its own blog - it's weird ). I had gone to bed in Dec of 2017 with a single prayer - crying i asked for just one friend. Due to circumstances that science and probability cannot explain I stumbled across another tgirl and would you believe - she is in my graduating class and lived 3 blocks from me growing up! With now 2 friends on facebook and 1 who knows and 1 who does not, suddenly - before revealing myself a dozen or so high school friends requested friendship - I hesitantly said yes telling myself I want them to see my published books and maybe I can sell some. Deep down I knew this to be a lie. In my mind's eye I could see a table of a dozen of us there and only 2 know my secret - I couldn't deal with that and hated the lie - so best to do - read my last blog is it he letter I posted with pictures and the world has never been the same.  Friends have been enormously supportive, communicative, and we interact often - I even see my high school physics teacher at one or more restaurants monthly with conversations that last for hours on every topic imaginable - he is deeply caring, philosophical, intelligent and has the soul of a saint. My other friends have many similar tales of restaurants and such - this is a big thing to me - I'm totally out and they are there with me - great talks, hugs, conversations of jobs, kids, homes, pets, health, hopes and fears, and all other things too. One friend is a the dearest - she not only wanted to get together, she then asks 'so when is the coming out party' - which we organized at my parents house - can you believe it - my father even took pictures of me with my gal pals which we are the group that sees each other often. We went to restaurants, shopping, even have a cookathon at one of my friend's homes - note I have done of these things ever - I have not been to a restaurant in over 10 years for many reasons for example. My really close friend even bought me a dress ( after measuring me in a bathroom at one of our restaurant outings - teehee ). These friends have helped me mentally, emotionally, motivationally, and energy-wise beyond my imagination in more ways than I can even tell all of you here. My sister in law even whispered in my ear on Christmas Day - I have always wanted a sister - can you believe it??!! The year of 2018 I fully to my soul, my core, and my whole being I became and am Briana - the girl I have always been since age 5 and struggled with for over 40 years from that time until I came out to myself in 2012 and  began the progression to where I am today and ever moving forward. Last year was the quantum leap that solidified my whole being.  Now at the start of 2019 - Looking to a job - I have even applied to nearly 10 posted positions at 4 universities and guess what - as myself - Briana no less!! I have been and am on hormones for 1.3 years as of this writing and it certainly shows - the early photos long ago and now - I smile from ear to ear with sheer delight at all of the major and even minor changes - plus the overall total balance of my being - the serenity, harmony, overall sense of happiness and well-being that is through my whole person - I have no negative element in me at all - it is awesome. I have a number of friends from here on facebook - if you like - look me up and ask - that would be really cool.  This year has not only a job hunt and believe me success in the future but then on to other things - my therapist and another one for my letters for the operation and electrolysis and all things. Always reaching for the woman I am and living as the woman I am each and every moment of the day and in all years.  Always embracing great health, hope, harmony, and happiness that I often wish others. Always living as I have seen myself, the woman I am, Briana Purcell, the Galaxy Girl all my life.  Thank you for the time in reading this. Thank you Gender Society which I recommend often to others as I encounter them due to your support and the great people here that gave me the initial confidence I needed so long ago and has helped me arrive here and move ever forward. All the best to each of you in your journey. Note there are days I feel sad, blue, and there are some bumps in the road hither and tither but at the core I am always myself and you know what? That is all I need and the knowledge that the sun comes up again tomorrow. In the long run all the good will outweigh the bad because I only radiate positive vibes all the time.  I find myself in a state of happy self all the time - fully being the girl, the Galaxy Girl at that, has been the single most important thing in all of my life. Hugs, Briana Purcell : )
    787 Posted by Briana Purcell
  • Hello Ladies - Galaxy Girl's annual post to wrap up 2018 and look ahead to 2019 - wow does time go by and Super wow, what a year 2018 was. I do not even know where to begin - At the start of 2018 I had one friend on facebook, a dear life-long friend who I did not have the nerve to tell my secret to. I had just told my doctor and therapist in 2017 and was now on hormones for 4 months at the start of that year - and things were certainly a changin' as it is said. More than physical it was emotional, even philosophical - I somehow had gained enormous confidence in myself and was quite out daily - nails were done, only women's clothes daily - even when encountering my parents ( that tale requires its own blog - it's weird ). I had gone to bed in Dec of 2017 with a single prayer - crying i asked for just one friend. Due to circumstances that science and probability cannot explain I stumbled across another tgirl and would you believe - she is in my graduating class and lived 3 blocks from me growing up! With now 2 friends on facebook and 1 who knows and 1 who does not, suddenly - before revealing myself a dozen or so high school friends requested friendship - I hesitantly said yes telling myself I want them to see my published books and maybe I can sell some. Deep down I knew this to be a lie. In my mind's eye I could see a table of a dozen of us there and only 2 know my secret - I couldn't deal with that and hated the lie - so best to do - read my last blog is it he letter I posted with pictures and the world has never been the same.  Friends have been enormously supportive, communicative, and we interact often - I even see my high school physics teacher at one or more restaurants monthly with conversations that last for hours on every topic imaginable - he is deeply caring, philosophical, intelligent and has the soul of a saint. My other friends have many similar tales of restaurants and such - this is a big thing to me - I'm totally out and they are there with me - great talks, hugs, conversations of jobs, kids, homes, pets, health, hopes and fears, and all other things too. One friend is a the dearest - she not only wanted to get together, she then asks 'so when is the coming out party' - which we organized at my parents house - can you believe it - my father even took pictures of me with my gal pals which we are the group that sees each other often. We went to restaurants, shopping, even have a cookathon at one of my friend's homes - note I have done of these things ever - I have not been to a restaurant in over 10 years for many reasons for example. My really close friend even bought me a dress ( after measuring me in a bathroom at one of our restaurant outings - teehee ). These friends have helped me mentally, emotionally, motivationally, and energy-wise beyond my imagination in more ways than I can even tell all of you here. My sister in law even whispered in my ear on Christmas Day - I have always wanted a sister - can you believe it??!! The year of 2018 I fully to my soul, my core, and my whole being I became and am Briana - the girl I have always been since age 5 and struggled with for over 40 years from that time until I came out to myself in 2012 and  began the progression to where I am today and ever moving forward. Last year was the quantum leap that solidified my whole being.  Now at the start of 2019 - Looking to a job - I have even applied to nearly 10 posted positions at 4 universities and guess what - as myself - Briana no less!! I have been and am on hormones for 1.3 years as of this writing and it certainly shows - the early photos long ago and now - I smile from ear to ear with sheer delight at all of the major and even minor changes - plus the overall total balance of my being - the serenity, harmony, overall sense of happiness and well-being that is through my whole person - I have no negative element in me at all - it is awesome. I have a number of friends from here on facebook - if you like - look me up and ask - that would be really cool.  This year has not only a job hunt and believe me success in the future but then on to other things - my therapist and another one for my letters for the operation and electrolysis and all things. Always reaching for the woman I am and living as the woman I am each and every moment of the day and in all years.  Always embracing great health, hope, harmony, and happiness that I often wish others. Always living as I have seen myself, the woman I am, Briana Purcell, the Galaxy Girl all my life.  Thank you for the time in reading this. Thank you Gender Society which I recommend often to others as I encounter them due to your support and the great people here that gave me the initial confidence I needed so long ago and has helped me arrive here and move ever forward. All the best to each of you in your journey. Note there are days I feel sad, blue, and there are some bumps in the road hither and tither but at the core I am always myself and you know what? That is all I need and the knowledge that the sun comes up again tomorrow. In the long run all the good will outweigh the bad because I only radiate positive vibes all the time.  I find myself in a state of happy self all the time - fully being the girl, the Galaxy Girl at that, has been the single most important thing in all of my life. Hugs, Briana Purcell : )
    Jan 24, 2019 787
  • 29 May 2018
    Hello Ladies - This is the most monumental post I have ever had! I came out in a big way - I posted the following post on my facebook, which has been under my birth name as it had to for many complicated reasons ( and probably won't be for much longer I suspect ).  Nevertheless, here it is : I’ll begin with Hello. This is a conversation I have reflected on for the past 5 years. It is about a secret I have held for more than 40 years prior to that time – even longer than I have known all of you and even before I lived here where we went to school together. I suspect many of us have a side to ourselves that is relatively secret, private, et al. I am fortunate in one respect I have only one thing in my ‘closet’ per se ( which I have called the bubble for more years than I can count ).Somewhere between the ages of 7 and 10 I made a private vow over this secret, the rule, as I called it – ‘never speak of this, never write of this, ever’. It held fast for nearly 40 years.On that day, when I came out, it was like any other but many of the external pressures were non-existent in my life – I only had me to look at in the mirror for the first time. I will reintroduce myself so as to avoid any more inquisitive looks or boredom – honestly I do drag on a bit.Hello, may name is Briana Purcell. I am a transgender woman. I have seen myself as a girl since the age of 5. It is something I denied, lied, and ran from for decades. It was easy actually. In life we have only two critical questions to contemplate and act on : 1) Who am I? and 2) What do I do? I chose to mostly focus on question 2 for the bulk of my life. All of you in thinking on me might think of these things : She is a bike rider, academic, science geek, diabetic, writer, et al – all things I do – but I would avoid the question of how I see myself, the who am I part of it. I thought very long on this moment – do I say something or do as I have always imagined – one day move away to somewhere where I walk in my door as me and just measure time from that moment on? By pure chance I find myself at this moment – where I have a handful of facebook friends and even after I came out to one among you in an emotional search I see I have a choice to make. Let things go as they are, ie pretend, or allow you to see and know me, decide for yourself am I a friend you wish to have, and move on in time from there. Interestingly facebook has presented me with one of the considerations I have had – say for example there is a class reunion – in the last 20 years I have had no interest in showing up due mostly to this battle and now that I am just me, I thought about it – but have terrible fear. Independent of all things I realized I will always be me, Briana, regardless of who I meet, know, the things I do, and the places I go. Never in my life have I felt as balanced, whole, fully happy, and empowered. Some of the first words I spoke when I broke the rule standing in from of the mirror 5 years ago in a summer dress were these : ‘so this is how it is, this is who I am, … it’s okay…I’m okay’. In a single bat of an eye a wave of energy passed through my body and I felt electric and alive and elevated. It felt as if a large cement weight lifted off of me. If someone were to describe such things to me in the past, before this, I would just nod and say ‘sure, sure, understand’ when in truth I had never had such a feeling. It was easy trying to be what I do – seeing myself as arrogantly smart and not just being myself – a smart girl who can easily admit I most certainly do not know everything. In fact, believe it or not, when reflecting on my battles through the years with myself – nearly caught wearing this or that and the like, for the first time in my life I could laugh at myself. Things are moving along and quite nice in my part of the universe at present, more or less. I see doctors and the like and so far all is good. I still am looking for work, though there seems some barriers on that front – suggestions are welcomed, I have the books ( which clearly have at least one more editorial revision to make, namely author name ), and I have a deep-seated wish to have a few gal pal friends and so on.I could drone on with a million memories, events et al, but maybe I’ll write a tell all book one day ( lol ).Recognize I am still on the earliest of steps of this – there are those who have little to no information on this and must be kept that way due to life’s complications – unfortunately theirs and not mine. So I ask some discretion in your ever sharing of this. Thank you for listening ( ie reading ) and spending some time. I am glad to have come back across all of you. Note I may change my name on fb and the like too, this is all quite new to me - so some nervousness. thanksBriana : )     Note the inclusion of photos and all. The reaction has been priceless - I have been crying on and off through the day. Hormones can be a bit pushy. I had the oddity of coming across and being asked by a dozen or so high school friends - only one who knows - until now, at least. It was like going to a class reunion.  I will add to this as needed. Wow, wow, wow. All the best to everyone here.  Take Care hugs, Briana Purcell - the Galaxy Girl!!  
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  • Hello Ladies - This is the most monumental post I have ever had! I came out in a big way - I posted the following post on my facebook, which has been under my birth name as it had to for many complicated reasons ( and probably won't be for much longer I suspect ).  Nevertheless, here it is : I’ll begin with Hello. This is a conversation I have reflected on for the past 5 years. It is about a secret I have held for more than 40 years prior to that time – even longer than I have known all of you and even before I lived here where we went to school together. I suspect many of us have a side to ourselves that is relatively secret, private, et al. I am fortunate in one respect I have only one thing in my ‘closet’ per se ( which I have called the bubble for more years than I can count ).Somewhere between the ages of 7 and 10 I made a private vow over this secret, the rule, as I called it – ‘never speak of this, never write of this, ever’. It held fast for nearly 40 years.On that day, when I came out, it was like any other but many of the external pressures were non-existent in my life – I only had me to look at in the mirror for the first time. I will reintroduce myself so as to avoid any more inquisitive looks or boredom – honestly I do drag on a bit.Hello, may name is Briana Purcell. I am a transgender woman. I have seen myself as a girl since the age of 5. It is something I denied, lied, and ran from for decades. It was easy actually. In life we have only two critical questions to contemplate and act on : 1) Who am I? and 2) What do I do? I chose to mostly focus on question 2 for the bulk of my life. All of you in thinking on me might think of these things : She is a bike rider, academic, science geek, diabetic, writer, et al – all things I do – but I would avoid the question of how I see myself, the who am I part of it. I thought very long on this moment – do I say something or do as I have always imagined – one day move away to somewhere where I walk in my door as me and just measure time from that moment on? By pure chance I find myself at this moment – where I have a handful of facebook friends and even after I came out to one among you in an emotional search I see I have a choice to make. Let things go as they are, ie pretend, or allow you to see and know me, decide for yourself am I a friend you wish to have, and move on in time from there. Interestingly facebook has presented me with one of the considerations I have had – say for example there is a class reunion – in the last 20 years I have had no interest in showing up due mostly to this battle and now that I am just me, I thought about it – but have terrible fear. Independent of all things I realized I will always be me, Briana, regardless of who I meet, know, the things I do, and the places I go. Never in my life have I felt as balanced, whole, fully happy, and empowered. Some of the first words I spoke when I broke the rule standing in from of the mirror 5 years ago in a summer dress were these : ‘so this is how it is, this is who I am, … it’s okay…I’m okay’. In a single bat of an eye a wave of energy passed through my body and I felt electric and alive and elevated. It felt as if a large cement weight lifted off of me. If someone were to describe such things to me in the past, before this, I would just nod and say ‘sure, sure, understand’ when in truth I had never had such a feeling. It was easy trying to be what I do – seeing myself as arrogantly smart and not just being myself – a smart girl who can easily admit I most certainly do not know everything. In fact, believe it or not, when reflecting on my battles through the years with myself – nearly caught wearing this or that and the like, for the first time in my life I could laugh at myself. Things are moving along and quite nice in my part of the universe at present, more or less. I see doctors and the like and so far all is good. I still am looking for work, though there seems some barriers on that front – suggestions are welcomed, I have the books ( which clearly have at least one more editorial revision to make, namely author name ), and I have a deep-seated wish to have a few gal pal friends and so on.I could drone on with a million memories, events et al, but maybe I’ll write a tell all book one day ( lol ).Recognize I am still on the earliest of steps of this – there are those who have little to no information on this and must be kept that way due to life’s complications – unfortunately theirs and not mine. So I ask some discretion in your ever sharing of this. Thank you for listening ( ie reading ) and spending some time. I am glad to have come back across all of you. Note I may change my name on fb and the like too, this is all quite new to me - so some nervousness. thanksBriana : )     Note the inclusion of photos and all. The reaction has been priceless - I have been crying on and off through the day. Hormones can be a bit pushy. I had the oddity of coming across and being asked by a dozen or so high school friends - only one who knows - until now, at least. It was like going to a class reunion.  I will add to this as needed. Wow, wow, wow. All the best to everyone here.  Take Care hugs, Briana Purcell - the Galaxy Girl!!  
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