I will probably never stop feeling guilty about asking for help, but as a disabled person on SSI, I don't know that much will change about my situation anytime soon.

I fell behind on my power bill a few months back, but I managed to get myself on a payment plan to keep my lights on. What I didn't realize was this higher bill would completely drain me from my check within the first week of the month. I don't know how I am gonna get through the month, and it has me scared. I have a measly amount of food stamps, but I'm down to less than $10 in my checking account.

Hey everyone! Chapter 7 is posted after some heavy editing! This particular chapter is interesting because it was the first time I was actually clocked after my transition. The Fiona thing was...definitely clocking but it didn't count because she had enough outside information to form a definitive conclusion. I remember that disaster like it was yesterday, haha. Anyway, enjoy the chapter, I'll be back either later this week or next week!

I know this divides trans women. This is just my take on the problem.

The whole thing about trans women is sport is too complex. Sports people are very competitive and will complain about the tiniest thing they think is unfair.

What is a trans woman? Someone that has had full surgery, has the same hormone levels as the average woman and has not gone through male puberty. Or a fully intact male that has no intention of taking hormones and having surgery?

Polka dot jersey winner Pippa York on finding happiness

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/pippa-york-podcast?fbclid=IwA...

I have decided to extend the ‘plot”—such as it is—to fifteen sessions.
Session 13: “Better Things” should be ready by tomorrow.

Has the strange magical camera changed Hallie back to Billy?

SFX -030- Mishegoss
Click to read on Patreon

Take Me Out To The Old Ball Game was originally published here on September 7, 2009. And I’m republishing it for a couple of reasons, it’s the start of baseball season on this side of the pond, I’ve done some cleaning up to it, and for the new readers who weren’t here in 2009 to be able to read it without digging too deep. Enjoy.

Yesterday, I posted a dystopian short story about Paul Conklin and his son Karl.

This morning my daughter delivered a baby boy.

We had no idea what gender the child would be or what names they were considering. They had elected not to know the gender.

They're naming him "Karl."

I'm elated and mystified.

The world seems a thousand times better than it seemed to be when I wrote the story.

Jill

Sorry for not being able to post a new chapter to Haida's travels this week. RL stuff has gotten in the way and I haven't had any time to sit down and write another chapter/part.

That aside, I am curious if everyone likes these bite-size parts as they come out. Or would everyone rather they be longer? Is there anything else that anyone would rather I do different than how its come out so far?

Please let me know.

Author of Luna, perhaps the first mainstream-publisher young-adult novel with a trans character.

Inevitably, I find I've misplaced a story.

The son of a department store higher up is in trouble, and she turns him over to the sales staff to make him more presentable. He decided to go for femme style, and the staff goes along with it. He ends up working there.

Sometimes you find out something that happened some time ago and affected you, but you didn't know it to respond in time.

I just discovered that Janice Lynn Miller, aka J.L. Miller, a friendly, thoughtful and prolific commenter here on BCTS and also a financial supporter of the site, passed away in December 2018, just four days after her last set of posts commenting on stories here. She had more than one account over a period of years, so you might have known her under a slightly different name.

I wrote about bees as possibly having self-awareness, now these tiny marvels, featured in research by an American scientist, seem to show this in spades leading them to reconsider how the laws in America don't protect these intelligent insects (they don't protect mammals much either compared to the UK) and how they need changing. I read Chittka's book last year, it was fascinating and now this American scientist, Stephen Bucchman, feels the same towards them. The article is interesting and easy to read.

Hi people, I just caught a little mention that president Biden has declared today 'March 31st 2023' as National Trans day. Does anyone have any information about this, is it true?

My Response to Tucker Carlson

Read at your own discression

I was attempting a drabble, on a concept that had been lodged in my mind for some time, but it can be TOUGH to write that short.

As you can see, I continue to write. I write scenes and dialog, but need to work on my plotting to find where a story is going. I am hopeful my block is clearing, and may have something next month.

It's time to vote, folks!

Hop on over to the BCTS Patreon and let us know which entry YOU feel deserves to take home the prize! Or prizes, as the case may be. You can vote for as many stories as you want, too, so don't feel afraid to select ALL your favorites!

Yes, it is about guns, but this goes far deeper than that. This was a trans girl/woman who was forced to go to this school to 'straighten her out' from her dysphoria. I imagine she was tortured by those 'Christians' on a daily basis. Such a shame, when the proper treatment and counseling might have left us with a well-adjusted young woman.

I just got a medical bill for $995 for a procedure last summer that I thought the insurance had paid. I'm going to find out what's going on before I pay them anything.

But in other news, it's the end of the month, there are bills due and coming due, and we have $150 in our accounts, company and my personal account added together.

Thanks for any help you can send. All contributions are very welcome.

Neeva browser isn’t getting past Cloudflare anti-bot check to reach BC after today’s Apple update. Safari browser access is Ok.

My long awaited complaint to the NHS about my 11 years of waiting has now gone in the mail and should reach them on Tuesday. I have paid for tracking so will get confirmation.

Warning: Don’t read this if you’re squeamish there’s a lot of nasty things that are going to be said. If the moderators think I’ve went too far in explaining what has happened to me then they are free to remove it. I just wanted to get this out into the open.

This woman caused riots in New Zealand with her anti-trans opinions, with which she courts the fascist right-wing, neo-nazis. She is British but I firmly believe if anyone should lose their citizenship, it should be her,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/25/anti-trans-act...

Finally, someone does a survey that iterates what we have been saying for years,

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/24/majority-tra...

as long as you don't want to be an athlete:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/23/world-athletic...

Both from the Guardian

Are there no knights left in the world?

I've felt a bit odd lately and have gone out in full male mode a few times. If my facial structure was more feminine, I could look like a Butch Dyke, pardon me. I had my hair all cut off to about to about 6.5 mm (1/4"). I am going out today for several hours and plan to do more of that. To me, it seems that my transition, including bottom Surgery, might have been ill advised. Warnings from the Psychological Community seem dire because many of them feel that it is a precursor to Suicide. I'm not feeling that. My children would undoubtedly support detransition.

A lovely surprise call this morning from my Doctor's office telling me that I had been issued with a new NHS number. That's because the gender marker has been changed and I'm officially female. That was supposed to take 3 weeks but was completed in just 11 days! I'm also, once again, able to order prescriptions online now that the national NHS database has been modified.

Okay, so last night Jaci called me, and told me some people on Discord were rather concerned about me, since I hadn't been on in a while, nor had a posted a blog here.

I told her and the others I had gotten super focused on a stupid D&D thing I had been working on, and just kind of tuned everything else out.

But having had a night to think about it, that was only partially true.

See, last Thursday, a 16 year old boy killed 2 police officers, seriously wounded his own mother, and then took his own life here in Edmonton.

here in Brizz, just ahead of the Equinox and in time for Mothers Day!

Has anybody heard from Snowfall recently? I know she did some posting with Wolfjess, but I was hoping to see a story from her alone. She had said once she was working on a story of her own. I have not seen anything by her alone since Late Night Princess.

Had a couple delays in getting Part 5 of the latest offering finished for posting (as some have noticed). One scene after receiving feedback needed a rewrite which took a couple iterations to (hopefully!) get right. Then my usual proofreader had a week or so of being too busy due to family while also not feeling too great.

After monday's call from my GP I had some thinking to do. Last night I was in a pub where the owner was marking his 20th anniversary as the pub landlord. That event had me standing next to a couple who are retired teachers (having both taught my daughter) and with whom I'm involved with festivals & projects.

but not neccesarily for everyone!

Late in 2022, I started to get pain in my hands. I went and had an x-ray done, and there was some arthritis forming. Well, at my age, that's kinda normal, so I wasn't REALLY worried about it.

The problem was, the pain in one of my thumbs got worse and worse. Unfortunately, it's the thumb that supports my trumpet when I play, and it's used in the piano quite a bit, as well as guitar, accordian, you name it. It's used. I don't play guitar very much, but I do need my left thumb to help me grip the neck when I'm making a chord, or even when playing the bass guitar.

That's right folks, there's less than a week left to get your entries in!

We've had some amazing stories so far, and I'm sure there are more to come!

I know this has been done to death. Politicians are always asked the question whenever a trans issue is debated

When people say "a woman has xx chromosomes" That is bullshit as there are XY females and XX males.

"A woman has a womb" Some are born without one and many have hysterectomies. Do they stop becoming a woman?

I've wanted to be an Author all my life. Unfortunately, the forces of a life of parental abuse and after kept me distracted for a long, long time. Coming to Big Closet, almost as soon as it opened, my writing was awful despite the fact that I had taken Creative Writing courses even in the late 50s in school. For me, School was a happy place, giving me a chance to escape my tormentors and to be able to play. My grades were way below acceptable, almost failing and I did not care, a fact that exasperated my teachers.

Not going through the other states for TG resources, here is Oklahoma. If the discrimination laws get signed into law by Stitt do diligent research. My sincere sympathy to all my brothers and sisters who are caught up in this illegal action by my own state legislature and governor who have absolutely no concept of transgender. Some of these sites want donations. That's up to each individual.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Oklahom...

At last I have my nineteenth anthology of short stories up on Amazon. This is another collection on the theme of crime and criminals and has 19 stories including many that have not been published here.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BY5B83SZ

So a couple of days ago, while in Walmart, I saw what looked like a book that looked like a novel with a cute romantic comedy vibe, so I picked it up.
At the start, the book delivered on that vibe, as it told the story of an ordinary man and a witch who fall for each other.

They met, he somehow defeated the glamor on her house (which is supposed to make people forget it and the residents) to remember her, they had a meet cute, they had a misunderstanding, it was all going pretty much the way I expected.

Any one heard from WolfJess7 it's been awhile from the last time she posted anything

I just received email that nominations are open for Hugo science fiction awards. If we coordinate our nominations we can get a couple stories from Big Closet nominated. Who is is a voting member of world science fiction convention. Message me or email me @
Alankoslow....at.....gmail.....dot......com.

much of the country has woken to snow!

Can't remember the story title of author just no it isnt fashion star by Paula d but here goes
Boy starts to draw and finds out what he draws in a picture changes the person even his girl friend and himself can anyone help
Charlize

Hey everyone, just some more news about Transitioning Home and The Hands of the Morri

I've tried several times this evening to access FM but failed every time when the attempt times out. I'm in the UK so it may just be us. It's a huge resource of fiction and it was off-line for some time a few years back. I hope it's temporary but ... It could be a DoS attack perhaps?

R

Warning. References to my mental state, questionable judgement and a surgical procedure.

I took my mother away on holiday for a few days. Since coming out to her 10 months ago she has been very accepting.
She is trying to encourage me to go out as "Michelle". That is what she would have called me if I had been born the person I have always dreamed of being.

We went for a little walk together and I spent the evening with her as her daughter. These little oasis of happiness, parental love and acceptance keep me going for through times when I am forced to be the me the world and family need me to be.

I have blurred her face for privacy.

Today's frittata made with two eggs, buttermilk, chopped tomato, bacon, onion and cheese and a few crumbs of cornbread. Served with 21-grain toast and marmalade. Delicious!

Hugs,
Erin