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Definition of woman

In the Scottish courts they are actually debating this, Women for Scotland, partly funded by JKRowling, are trying to overturn the 2004 law of someone with a gender recognition certificate ( such as me) shouldn't have the same status as biological females. Read the article and see how at least one judge sticks to her principles, I admire and respect her.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/28/transgender-...

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Kalista "Your Wings Are Beautiful".

This story was in my Internet History when I started my computer this afternoon. I have no recollection of reading it recently, so when I checked, I read 4 chapters of it a decade ago, even commenting. Then suddenly the author just stopped and there are no further entries in this story or blog. It was a good story. I would have enjoyed more.

Gwen

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Saved login

Is anyone else not able to save logins? Every time I login, I check the "Remember me" box. Then then next time I come to the site, I have to login again.

Everything works well for me. I'm just wondering if it's something I'm doing wrong or is it just one more little detail that will be fixed when its priority number rises to the top.

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Nex Benedict

I was shocked, saddened and disturbed by the death of Nex Benedict in Owasso, Oklahoma in February 2024. As it happened, I was making a trip to Tulsa to visit my sister. If I had known of it, I might have attended one of the vigils at Owasso or down in Tulsa. We drove by the turn-off to Owasso a couple times but didn't try to visit there.

We did drive down to Guthrie Green in the Tulsa Arts District where one vigil was held. And we visited the Woody Guthrie Center right across the street.

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Sixteen dollars in accounts, funds needed

Thanks to everyone who has already sent money. We really depend on you, more than you know. :)

It's been a while since we had to ask, but our funds are very low. Thanks for any amount you can send. All contributions are very welcome. Thanks a great deal to all who have previously contributed here or for Piper's apartment needs, or paid for a membership at Patreon or Hatbox.


Many thanks!

Here's a new link for those who don't want to use PayPal. It's through Stripe and allows payment by Credit Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.

Contribute to HatBox

Hugs,
Erin, Piper, Jamie, Cat, Ashly, Rasufelle and the rest of the crew

Below are versions of the PayPal links.

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Looking for a story

The name contains something like flames or Phoenix and is the story of a kid that comes from a mountain where everyone gains a familiar and they start to gain traits from their familiar. His familiar is female and every time he uses her power he becomes more like her. He travels with a girl his age two viking guys and an older guy. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Many Thanks!!

This is Amy, Piper’s wife. I just wanted to thank everyone for the donations as well as their patience. As previously stated, the gas bill has been paid off and the new goal of $2400 will cover the rest of what is needed for electric.

I along with Piper, and our Ninja cannot thank y’all enough for the support!

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Palm Sunday

Hello, it Rebecca Anna Coleman here! Many of you know me as that girl who writes stories that feature anime like characters and often have anime like plots. Most know me as that one girl who always seems to set her stories in Mississippi. But many of you don't know that I've also an the solo acolyte of my local Episcopal Parish, Trinity Episcopal Church.

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I'm officially jealous

OK, I'm officially jealous. It seems that others have had access to the site for a few weeks and just this morning my bookmark for the site actually brought me here. I've been looking at a 404 error that replaced the temp page that went up a while ago for at least two weeks.

I've only experienced the kind of feelings I had about not being able to login here once before. That's when I quit smoking. I didn't realize how much it meant to be a part of this community. Dallas put it right when she said, "just know you are there," is a big thing.

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Ozone

I first learned this about molecules in fifth grade: a molecule is the smallest amount of a material that has the properties of that material. The textbook ended a discussion on oxygen telling us, "Oxygen atoms travel in pairs. Two oxygen atoms form an oxygen molecule. The oxygen molecule is the smallest amount that has the properties of oxygen."

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Computer on its last legs :(

Well just when I started to get back into developing more story ideas, my computer has decided F you and isn't working properly anymore. Its making weird noises and keeps shutting itself off. I used to have the money to replace it but my account is all but empty now because life sucks. So just when things were FINALLY starting to look up for me, the universe is giving me the finger. :(

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Anniversaries

I wrote a blog post on one of my sites this week after some anniversaries happened.

One such was 12 years use of a social media account on 20 March. That led me to check a domain I use, and that is 12 years and a month old. Then I found a photo taken 18 March 2008 during my first transition (I lasted 6 weeks, no support).

18Mar2008_Kingfisher_BlueSkirt.jpg

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Piers Morgan and friends hate on Dylan Mulvaney.

I hate posting twice in one day, but I watched about 3 minutes of Piers Morgan hosting a "debate" on Dylan Mulvaney. the amount of just utter hatred towards trans people, the complete lack of respect or even treating someone like a human being was just awful to watch. It sucks to be a part of a tiny minority that has attracted the attention (and hate) of people.

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Spring Forward

IMG_1224_0.jpeg Good morning, everyone! And to all of you in the Northern Hemisphere, happy spring! (To my friends in the Southern Hemisphere . . . Sorry about that. :)

I know that Piper and Erin and the whole admin team have been working really hard to fix all the damage from the recent hacking incident. And I know that we aren’t back to normal functionality yet.

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More Updates!

So good news! The Natural Gas bill is paid off in its entirety (or will be once the payments we made have been posted to the account), and not only have we taken a chunk out of the electric bill, but the utility adjusted the bill after we noticed they didn't shut off the service when we requested it!

As such, we have lowered our GoFundMe goal to represent this change.

Because of these changes and some extremely generous donations from BC Members, we are more than halfway over our goal!

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Lara Lynn fiction

So What Should I Do Next?

These last few weeks have NOT been a good time for this site, have they? For what felt like a while, I kept clicking on links to pages associated with this site, only to be met with a blackwall. Apparently the site was having some issues. At first I was worried that the site might end up going down, and I'd lose all the TG stories I've published on here, but that turned out not to be the case. (Although, right now I'm trying to click on the "Home" tab, and it keeps logging me out. So maybe there are still some bugs left?)

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Login in

Hi all
I am still having problems login in is anybody else having the same problem.
When l try to login nothing happens when the page refreshes its still asking me to login l do hope these little niggles can be sorted as you all worked so hard to get the site back up thank you.
Lots of hug
Sim1cats

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AI Art

I've heard a lot recently about the 'rise of AI'. I've heard a lot about how it might be harmful to creators in the long run. Well... as someone who can't draw for shit, it's actually kinda useful to me. A while ago I used a (very limited) program called Fuse to create images of my characters as a sort-of mental aide. The problem with these images is that it made all my characters look about as lifelike as background characters from Skyrim. So I investigated this 'AI art generator' people were talking about... And I am impressed with its output so far.

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The return of Holly Potter - Heiress of Slytherin

Hello everyone! I'm back! At least I will be soon. It's been a long time, I know, but I'm back to writing. I already have a few more chapters written, and will post the next chapter in the saga of Holly Potter soon(ish). I'm still working on carving out solid writing time in a very busy schedule, while also trying to rebuild at least somewhat of an active social life.

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Looking for a story

Looking for auto racing stories.

Life’s a Drag by Zoe Taylor, Ashleigh McGreagor (my personal favorite)
Racing Angels and Speedway Demons by WolfJess7
Racing Hearts by Melanie Brown

Are there any others? I know of at least one which I cannot find. It was about a crossdresser who drove faster and better when he was dressed. I think that he wore a red wig if I remember right?

Kelly Shannon

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Looking for a story

Looking for one or more stories (by different authors) where an officially male high school aged student drag races while presenting as a woman.

In the specific one I'm thinking of the driver has built a car suitable for drag racing. They happen to be driving one home late one night, zip past a drag race without realizing a race is going on and accidentally setting a new record. I think their dead mother used to do drag racing. And I think it is around 10 chapters long. I think the story may be published by BCTS on Amazon and has a pinkish and black cover.

Story thief (updated)

So thank you Erin and crew for getting the site back and running, it seems my last blog was very badly timed.

In an unrelated note...

A friend made me aware of this, but a content "creator" on youtube has taken one of my stories and claimed it as their own. The took my story "Facades" renamed it "Trauma Unleashes Power" and put it to audio.

The stolen story is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twXcovmr88U

And the original can be found here:

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Housing Updates

We found a house! Well, specifically, we found an apartment!

We were initially denied due to credit, but we were given insight on how to appeal and told it would likely go through.

We are still at the same hotel, and we are working hard to get on payment plans for a few things and pay off our utility bills, some of which we recently found had never been disconnected as we had requested.

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julie o

I recall someone posting about julie o and her stories and if there was an order of reading and i think someone asked of any recent activity or news of her. just a note that while the site was worked over, julie posted a new story over at FM. it was not one of her heavy types, but a simple, pleasant tale.

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Welcome back

Welcome back bcts
I am glad you have solved some of your problems.
But some still persist when navigating away from a story to go back to the story index
I am still being redirected to porn sites i hope all of you who work so hard to keep this site safe can solve this as the last thing I want to see is this disgusting filth.

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Sim1cats

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IMPORTANT: Potential Site Downtime

An update for everyone:

Piper is hard at work on the site figuring out what's going on and trying to fix it. Part of that process is involving a lot of backups and a lot of software updates. As a result, there is a chance the site may go down for an extended period of time as we work on the issues.

We apologize for the interruptions this is causing, but ultimately our goal is to keep the site a safe place to visit and post your fiction and comments.

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State of Britain, or Britain in a state....

Today I cam across two pieces of news, the first about J K Rowling (anyone on this site who is still defending her.... how?), and covers her view of what a trans woman is.

"a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks 'woman' means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist".

https://news.sky.com/story/jk-rowling-trans-newsreader-india...

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Pop-up Issues: READ FIRST BEFORE POSTING A NEW BLOG

Hey everyone.

We know that there are a lot of issues folks are having with weird popups and stuff right now. We're trying to tackle it as best we can, but it's a bit slow going -- we're managing to fix the symptoms as we find them, but we're still rooting out the causes.

If you're having issues with things on the site that you think are specifically related to this situation, let us know here before posting another blog, please. That way we can keep things easy to find while we look into this.

Information that would help:

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Andre Norton and/or Teddy S ???

I have just finished reading "Beast Master" by Andre Norton, "Tommy, The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl" by Teddy S. and wonder if the two authors are one and the same?
The protagonists in both stories are Navajo and use some Navajo language words. "Na Ta Hey" is one phrase that is common to both stories. The similarity ends there. One story uses gender change and Andre Norton's does not. Though Andre Norton used more than one pen name. When she first started writing she used a male name to overcome prejudice against female authors.

It is interesting to mull this over.

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Is anyone else having problems?

Not sure if it's me or if the site has been hacked, but had something new started happening. When I navigate to a new page, I'm getting porn sites popping open in a new browser window. It only seems to be happening on BCTS. Also seeing some Javascript exposed on the right hand menu in the Story Stats header.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

Android Tablet V14.

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Tanya Allan.

Just re-reading one of the old Tanya Allan stories and realised I had not seen anything new from her for quite some time, Nothing came up with a quick search on Kindle or on BCTS, Hopefuly Tanya is fine and has just decided to take a break from writing although given her prolific output over the years that seems unlikely. Maybe someone on BC knows a little bit more , It would be nice to find out she is okay.

Kirri

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BCTS Recommendations 2: A Strong Start

Are you ready? It's time for a second helping of...


BCTS Recommendations!


A Strong Start

Sometimes all it takes is one good sentence or paragraph to get you hooked on a story, and this time around, I want to see some recommendations of stories that do just that: stories that kick off with a bang, that grab you and rivet you to your seat and scream "read me!"

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Editor needed!

People may know me as that tiresome contributor who writes way too much and often produces stuff full of errors.
Which is why I need an editor when it comes to passing on my serious material to be turned into published works on Amazon through Doppler Press. Readers will know that Doppler revenues contribute to Big Closet Top Shelf so we all win if people buy my stories.
I have lost touch with Gabi and Bronwen is busy with other things. Eric is on standby for my more specialized collections but I am in need of an editor for the rest.

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Looking for a story...

The story I'm looking for is about a female demon who shapeshifts into a male teenager going to a school set like it was the medieval period.

Some more of the storyline: The land is split into 15-16 kingdoms, everyone rides robotic horses, the female demon gets herself a priestess in the form of a little girl who was adopted by a minor royal family.

Any help please- Thankyou

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Trans Unknown genius Sophie Mary Wilson

Sophie Mary Wilson CBE FRS FREng DistFBCS was born Roger Wilson; June 1957.

Wilson underwent surgery and transitioned in 1994.

She is an English computer scientist, a co-designer of the Instruction Set for the ARM architecture. Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

ARM processors are used in light, portable, battery-powered devices, including smartphones, laptops, and tablet computers,

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Struggling to write a branching story

Below is the start of a multi-part, branching (aka Chose Your Own Adventure) story I've been struggling to write for a while now, so I thought I'd share what I have so far, and see if anyone could offer any advice.

The two main branches seem to be leading to either crossdressing, or romance. The crossdressing branch is a bit less difficult, but I'm still worried about it turning into something predictable and boring. The romantic branch is something I don't have a lot of experience writing, so I'm worried I'll completely mess it up.

Does anyone out there have any experience writing branching stories? I'd also appreciate any advice on avoiding crossdressing tropes, as well as writing romance that's believable and interesting without diving into ... sex stuff. If you have anything to share on these or other stuff, I'd love to hear it! :)

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UK YouTube personality F1nn5ter

Announced today that they are taking HRT. It will be interesting to see if they get the same type of support they enjoyed when they treated their female presentation as cross dressing and a lark. They seem to be making a good living from their Internet presence, which includes more than YouTube. Comments seem to be extremely positive. Yay.

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Concerning Depression

My heart goes out to my fellow trans ladies out there struggling with Depression and thoughts of harm. I have only been 'out' to the world since last Labor Day, having been firmly in the closet since age 7-8. This past holiday season was my worst ever, being shunned by my children and a large part of my relatives.

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A New Edition of Kelly Girl is out now!

That's right, folks! We've been working on a new, updated version of Kelly girl, and it's live now!

If you've never read the book before, but are a fan of Wanda's stuff, then I highly recommend giving the book a shot. It's a fantastic story, with some great characters.

If you HAVE read the story before, but haven't picked up the ebook and it's been a few years... then now's the ideal time to give it a re-read.

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