And by anyone, we mean not you

[ceri]

So. I worked up the nerve yesterday to start looking at local groups that might have a trans support group...and wow was that a lot of unproductive searching. It seems like I should have (if support groups were what I wanted) done this a few years ago—I found several dead or decaying websites for groups gone under. What was left seems to be mostly FTM. Nothing against it, but it's not my need.

I have this horrible sense of anticlimax. (And more searching to do, admittedly.)

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[ceri]

I'm in Ballard, and in my 40s. I can get really precise in e-mail ( cericonversion@gmail.com ) if need be. I get SSI and therefore Medicaid, should that matter.

Ceri as I'm using it as Welsh, "to love"; it's a unisex name, though a bit more common for girls, apparently. My family has some Welsh ancestry on both sides, and my birth name was once unisex but is now almost exclusively a boy's name, so I thought it was a pleasing sort of symmetry.

I feel as you do about nicknames. Both my first and last birth names are far, far too prone to abusive nickname, so I decided back when I started thinking about alternatives that I'd go for something that worked well enough as is that it wouldn't be a tempting target. Nothing's perfect, of course, but I'm conditionally happy with. And, heck, can change it if I change my mind.

[snugglebitch]

They're definitely related names; mine's Ceridwen, a Welsh Goddess.

I don't know what your access to transportation is. Have you checked out the Ingersoll Gender Center? They're about nine miles from Ballard, so it's a little bit of a hike without a vehicle or good public transportation. Here's a list of their programs.

That's just from a quick Google search. I have friends from the Seattle area who might know more.

[ceri]

Seattle's public transportation system is pretty good, and excellent along major axes...one of which I happen to live near. That'd be about 45 minutes inbound, an hour and change outbound, easily doable if I can do it at all. How much I can do it at all, well, that's what I'll be seeing. But thank you! It's on the list. :)