A single unified LGBTQ+ conversation

Sure.

I'm kinda in a similar situation (that is, my socially liberal, but religiously conservative family), except I have the privilege of being straight and male. The only thing I could say is that you keep shut until the situation improves, or you cut everyone off. Or become some sort of martyr, but that's not an option for anyone.

The Gay Agenda today involved being fabulous or Amazonian, depending on where you are on it.

I'm sick of cis people controlling whether trans people can transition or not

down with the cistem

(seriously though i hate the trans healthcare system)

but never mind

still working on that voice training

edited 27th Jan '15 8:12:15 AM by ElectricNova

Why not both ?

The Handle, how close are you to family and friends? I've always been sort of a rolling stone, so for most of my life I wouldn't have thought twice about packing up and disappearing one day, which is what I would recommend for your safety, if it's an option. Get the hell out and go somewhere you can surround yourself with, well, better people.

But if that's not an option, I think your safety needs to be your top priority.

..Are there any fast ways to get my voice female?

Very close indeed.

Thankfully, my parents and brothers support me, so we're all in this together.

Voice training; I particularly recommend adding a lot of air into it, and avoiding smoking and drinking. Those will give you a husky voice, but will severely limit your range, and you can't afford to lose any.

Note that it's perfectly possible to look and act very feminine and have a very deep and manly voice and have it work out into something uniquely interesting. Lots of Bishōnen pull this off very nicely, both in cartoons and real life.

And then there's youthful-depp rather than feminine-deep, but that's cool too.

Anyway, there's no end to the benefits of voice training. Learn to sing along the way, 'tis pure fun!

edited 27th Jan '15 10:25:59 AM by TheHandle

Not sure if rickrolling...

Just providing an obvious example that everyone is familiar with, darling.

.....Boyish deep. So true though, I can't sing that high if I want to, but it's got that weird deep masculine quality to it.

edited 27th Jan '15 4:51:12 PM by Aqueos

Folks, in The Onion, look up "If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So".

lmfao, just from the title, I think I got all I needed to see. Nice.

How about this: "If God wanted me to be a Christian, he wouldn't not exist."

Nice little double-negative there.

Keep in mind that The Onion is a satire site, so any potential offenses to the community are for, well, satirical reasons.

edited 28th Jan '15 1:02:08 PM by MyFinalEdits

Well, yeah. Thankfully most people know that The Onion is a satire site.

Although I'm pretty sure someone on tumblr has fallen victim to Poe's Law and taken it seriously. The North Korean government certainly did.

EDIT: OK, it was the Chinese, not the North Koreans. I was almost right.

edited 28th Jan '15 1:04:17 PM by Deadbeatloser22

Another Onion article that amused me in the same vein

I didn't laugh at it because I kept forgetting it was fake. Most of that sounds like stuff that would actually happen.

Oh pffft. How about this one?

Magic: The Gathering has a trans woman character now, Alesha

Hell yeah. Her backstory kicks ass.

Siiiiiiixy, I wanted to tell them! D:

Didn't Pathfinder or Dn D recently introduce a trans character, too?

Whoops

-has only been raving about Alesha for the past two days, but has not been able to use her interwebz much.-

So, on a note which makes me facedesk...

First, Germaine Greer says this...

And later she says that she herself suffers the issue of a smelly vagina.

... I don't know where she's going with this, but she's long beyond unimportant to me, except when she says stuff like this for how much I loathe it.

edited 31st Jan '15 12:36:54 AM by RatherRandomRachel

Perhaps she wishes to make it so that anyone who listens to her understands the experience of a big smelly vagina? Or at the very least, to be near one.