Question for LGBT Folks From a Straight Guy

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How y'all doing?

I'm content at the moment. I'm waiting for this really cute guy whom I'm really starting to like to text me like he usually does once he gets off work.

How 'bout the rest of you; everything cool?

Eh.

Question to the straight guy from a genderqueer person:

Why do you want to know?

I am doing good Fnord I am bi-gender Its amazing being able to think like a male and female

How kind.
Yeah, I'm content enough with insufficient daily ups & downs to constitute "problems" I guess. Just coastin' along.
I could do with a playmate though...

Why would you like to know? Are we interesting?

Besides knowing a member of the trans community being beaten or murdered every other day, I am doing fine.

i'm alive and taking up space. i'd rather be in heaven, but that shall have to wait until the man upstairs says ok.

Single, alone, depressed and on the edge of living through the worst period of my life so far.
Apart from that I am trying to remain positive.

I'm rather happy in the knowledge that I have two days off work. So this is a four-day weekend for me!

SUP BRO/

Just got back from Vegas. Lots of openly gender-bending venues there ... about a half-dozen transvestite reviews, too.

Anyone ever been there?

The world creeps merrily on, apace.

My boyfriend has a nasty cold. Given that I am going to be spending the next few weeks jabbing needles into people (Happy Flu Shot Season, everyone!!), I was consigned to a spare room for the weekend.

Passing another lonely week at university. I'm probably due for another bad day where I feel stupid and inadequate and wonder if I even want to pursue a career in the field I'm in, and whether I'm good enough to, then remembering that although I'm not as good as I might want to be I'm still gifted and therefore feel obligated to pursue a career in that field... But those feelings aren't around right now and hopefully I can last awhile before another bout.

I feel frustrated with the entire system of society we live in (thank you ever so much for making me think even more about such things, Sociology class) and uncertain because the only political party that seems to address these problems in their platform also has some policies which I quite strongly disagree. And don't stand a hope in hell of getting power within the next several decades anyway.

More relevantly, I am feeling nervous calculus and physics midterms (even though neither subject should be a problem), tired of residence food, irritated at Aeroplan for still refusing to credit those 3800 frequent flyer miles to my account, and excited for a trip I'll be taking this weekend (if I survive the midterms that is).

With regards to my homosexuality, I feel fine about myself, but frustrated about how I can not seem to let myself be open about it, or talk about it much with anyone. I'm dealing with a totally unfounded and in all probability completely fictitious suspicion that my parents (especially my Dad) don't really approve. I also wish I could have a boyfriend, although how that could happen with I hardly talk to anyone within this city and when a grand total of 4 people are aware that I'm gay, I do not know (but I suspect that desire comes from a more general loneliness and would be greatly reduced if I made some good friends).

As you can see I'm a really happy person to be around.

Don't pursue a course just because you're good at it. What do you *want* to do? What inspires you? I've a knack for mathematics that took me to degree level and I did badly at the end because I just didn't care any more. I didn't want a career in mathematics (the main ones being accountancy, which didn't appeal, or teaching, which appealed even less). I followed my talents rather than my interests, and today I have an office job which uses precisely none of my degree.

That said, my time at university was far from wasted. I learnt a heck of a lot about myself, life in general and my own independence. It's a good time for new things - take a few risks. Try approaching people on your course and in your living area, just to chat with them. Make a few forays into friendship. If they don't work out, you've lost nothing - you'll never see most of your university colleagues again after your course, and it's good practice. I think you'll do better than you realise.