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About Majestic Hearts

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for some good purpose. But what I do with this day is important because I have exchanged a day of my life for it.

The Storm and the Crown

The Storm and the Crown

I am Amelia Storm, she who condensed from the vapor of purest METAL to help out her friends in an hour of darkest need. Black leather is my uniform, and the Horns are my Sign. I am the Queen of Metal and the mistress of a thousand power chords. Heavy

The First Brush With Royalty

The First Brush With Royalty

> Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. - Philip Treacy October-November, 1982: I suppose I had heard about Homecoming celebrations three years before this, when I was doing my afternoon algebra and electronics classes at Cerritos High School. But this was Poway, this

You Always Remember the First

You Always Remember the First

> There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. - Mark Twain 1982?: I entered the big walk-in closet, wearing only my jockey shorts. The smell of clothes and dust filled my nostrils as I looked over on the left-hand side, where Mom's clothes

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2021

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2021

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. This is not a day of high honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated on this day. This day is a message...and part of a system of messages...pay attention to it! Sending this message is important to us. We consider ourselves to

The Sound of a Woman

The Sound of a Woman

> A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. - Melinda Gates One thing that many trans women find difficult to cope with as part of their transition is their voice. You can look like a

Beyond the Door

Beyond the Door

> A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching October 29, 2012: On this particular Monday, I had had an outfit in mind all day that I wanted to wear later. It was based around a black trapeze dress from Tallissime (then

What's In a Name?

What's In a Name?

> What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet... - Juliet, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2 As you can imagine, one of the major things that trans people have to worry about

The Nine Days of Amy, Part 2

The Nine Days of Amy, Part 2

(Continued from previous post) January 31-February 8, 2015: Day 6 - Thursday, February 5 Selfie for February 5.I woke up at 5:30 to get myself ready to be over to open the suite at 8:00, and set the tone for the day with my best "drop-dead&

The Nine Days of Amy, Part 1

The Nine Days of Amy, Part 1

> The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke, Second Law January 31-February 8, 2015: As the National LGBTQ Task Force's 2015 Creating Change conference in Denver approached, and with it

Dressing For Success

Dressing For Success

> Feel like a woman...wear a dress! - Diane von Furstenberg To a certain extent, for me and for other trans folks, it begins with the clothes. I think this is especially true of trans women and male crossdressers, since women have a whole slew of clothing options that

Subscriptions Repaired

Subscriptions Repaired

> There's always one more bug. - Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology Yah, and the next one is always uglier than the last! - Haff's Commentary on Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology If you tried to subscribe to Transition Without Tears at

Amy's Day of Beauty

Amy's Day of Beauty

> "Your Majesty, Paolo is exhausted. Because only Paolo can take this, and this, and give you..." "A princess." - Paolo, Gretchen, and Helga, The Princess Diaries (2001) May 11, 2013: As Sabrina and I pulled into the driveway at Hana Designs [https://www.hanadesigns.com/

Demo Day

Getting recognized isn't about vanity, it's about changing the world. - Femily, Future Thought Leader workbook 2021 Yesterday's "demo" of the site to my Future Thought Leader cohort went extremely well! It made for a great end to the program's

The Vocabulary

> To increase understanding is a laudable goal; hence the definitions and explanations given below. - "Terminology of the Imperium," from Dune, Frank Herbert Transgender issues and transitioning have a lot of terms, and not all of us tend to use them the same way. Think of this

Out From the Shadows

Out From the Shadows

> In all beginnings dwells a magic force... - "Stages," poem from The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse October 25, 2012: This felt like the hardest thing I ever had to do. Some months before, Sabrina had officially become an insulin-dependent diabetic. Every night, she had to have

Launch

> Let's light this candle! - Gordon Cooper, The Right Stuff (1983) Welcome to my transition story. The posts on this site should be published at a rate of about one a week, and will fall into one of three categories: * Scenes - Little snippets of my life