Meetings coming up next week. As always, members on the roster receive locations.

Wednesday - open meeting (accepting family and friends welcome, 7:00 PM.

Saturday - closed meeting (members only) 7:00 PM

Are you interested but afraid to talk to anyone about this?
Does this sound like something that may be useful to you if only you could?
Do you have things that may be helpful to other transsexual/gender questioning persons?
It is easy to check us out in person.

1. You need to be transsexual, or trangendered/gender questioning. You may resapond for another person, but we will ask to meet with them.

2. You need to contact Susan or Ash to get more information.

3. When you do, we will schedule a short meeting with you in a public place.

This meeting will be to answer questions and to assure everyone's confidentiality.
Your comfort level is important to us, as is the comfort level of all our current members.
Having a cup of coffee or a coke with one of us does nothing to require you go any further.
This is a hard, hard journey to venture forth alone on. Can we help?

Just e-mail Susan at: susankg140@yahoo.com, or Ash at: asher.james@rocketmail.com.
A phone number is helpful but not required. The only requirement is for you to want it.
Do you?

Hopefully cancelling Saturday night's regular meeting caused to difficulties for anyone. Ash`'s Riverside Perk fill-in social meeting at least provided everyone the opportunity to meet. I'm sure understands the need to be at Jennifer's funeral. The next meetings are: An open social meeting on Wednesday October 19, and a regular closed meeting Saturday October 22, both at 7:00 PM. Members will receive an e-mail with the locations.

Trying something new!

Hey, all! So, after some consideration, we've made a group decision to try something a little different with our meeting structure...

At our next closed meeting on October 8, following a brief full-group interaction, we'll be dividing the group into one led by Susan, and one led by me. We've noticed over the course of several weeks that, often, we're moving in disparate directions in terms of conversation focus and style--this will give us some room to explore different topics according to gender identity (MtF/FtM), life experience, and personal interest.

The basic plan, after the large-group meeting, is to move into a men's/transmasculine group and a women's/transfeminine group. At the same time, we recognize that other axes of identity and affiliation--age, relationship status, transition goals, and so on--might affect the group members feel most at home with, over time or on a given night. In the interest of accommodating that--we're going to be pretty flexible about which room folks end up in.

We're also very interested in finding new ways to meet the needs of partners, family members, and transgender youth--we can't be everything to everyone, but if we can offer resources, support, or a way of exchanging contact information, we definitely want to do that! So keep us posted. And--as always--if you'd like to make it to a meeting and haven't been here before, please feel free to contact Susan or me about it. We would love to see you!

Saturday we set the schedule for October meetings. Of course they're subject to change.

Wednesday, October 5, 7:00 PM - open social meeting
Saturday, October 8, 7:00 PM - closed regular meeting
Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 PM - open social meeting
Saturday, October 22, 7:00 PM - closed regular meeting

All transsexual and questioning persons are welcome to join our group. Closed regular meetings are restricted to WTC members. Accepting family or friends of members are welcome to attend open social meetings. E-mail Susan at: susankg140@yahoo.com to schedule an entrance interview meeting.

Other transgendered persons with knowledge of an existing support group or wanting to help establish a support group for their situation, please contact us. We may be able to help, but most assuredly would like to help pass-on information.

She's back!

Hi everyone,

I'm back from Philadelphia; my exam went fine, and my friend Karen gave me a walking tour of downtown Philly. All-and-all I had a wonderful time, including the train trips back and forth. There are some photos on my Facebook page. At the end of the going there trip I got on the wrong commuter train, which took a couple of hours to fix, but no damage - except to my sometimes directional-challenged ego.

We had a good meeting Saturday night, though attendance was again low. We are making progress in extending our outreach, to hopefully serve more of the transsexual community. For those that don't attend or rarely attend our meetings, please take a minute to e-mail Ash or myself what you believe we could do to more interest you and get you to come out.

Susan

Back on the Job!

Many apologizes for falling down keeping this site updated. As many know I went to Philadelphia for SRS on May 31. Recovery there was a couple of weeks, then more at home. As you may know I am doing fine, I have never done anything better for myself and hopefully will continue feeling so. I do not doubt it, but after all, I am sometimes a worst-case scenario person.

We have been meeting regularly, whether I've been here or not. We have two meetings coming up next week - our open social meeting on Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 PM. All members and supporting family & friends are welcome to attend. We have a closed, members only regular meeting on Saturday, September 24 at 7:00 PM. Members will receive an e-mail on locations. Any one else interested please contact Ash or myself for application meeting prior to attending regular meetings.

It has been three months and a couple of weeks since my surgery. I find that hard to believe, but it has, and I am going back to Phily for a follow-up exam. I will miss the Wednesday social, but plan to be back for Saturday's regular. Anyway, Ash is going to be there.

Again, I'm so sorry about not keeping this up-to-date. I don't think anyone can much object for my reason to not be on the job though!