I thought that CIS had to do more with what was culturally considered feminine/masculine.

Like a dude wearing Ed Hardy shirts and a chick with a butterfly tat on her lower back.

Heh. I kid. You know what I mean, though?

Did i tell you guys that i just found out that tranny is an offensive slur? And that I've been using it for years and now feel like a TOTAL ASSHOLE?

Yikes, sorry to start a thing.

Thank you for helping me to properly word my homework. I was writing an online unit about Girl Scouts influencing changes in the US and I had a section specifically about Bobby from Colorado who joined a Girl Scout troop and the subsequent request for the boycotting of the cookies.

I am still very unsure of what terminology to use because I am on the outside looking in and not at all sure from moment to moment what will or could or might piss people off or offend them. It is not a ... gah, how do I word this? World? that I am in on a regular basis and getting the terminology down and the reasons for particular terms can be confusing to me. I still Google half the dang terms and then look itup elsewhere to try to figure out what is considered right and non-offensive or dismissive, etc.

It's hard out there for a straight girl, yo!

I'm pretty sure that from reading back on the thread that "transgender girl" is correct.

That's what I went with.

I got my hair cutted.

I got my hair cutted.

Are you even more beautiful?

::checks picture on FB::

Yes. Yes you are.

I wanted to magically look like Jaime Lee, but no. I think it may actually be still loo long on the part, it doesn't want to spike up without great effort and looks a bit odd when it is spiked.

it doesn't want to spike up without great effort and looks a bit odd when it is spiked.

That just might be the way your hair grows instead of length. It has a particular pattern to its growth - something visible on infants when you can see it swirling around on their scalp.

I got my hair cutted too, shorter but not short. It's now shoulder length.