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Friday, April 18, 2014
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Confidence can be yours...
One thing that I have discovered as a transgender woman is that my confidence has soared and I am dreaming as well as doing like never before. I guess this magic moment of accomplishment is the result of finally becoming the person I've always wanted to be.
I was denied my womanhood - my truest person stolen from my life. I had to be someone I was not and this hiding, made me less-than productive. I was denying myself the reality that was beneath my Oscar winning fakery of being a man. My grow and potential as a woman - gone.
Then in January of 2013, I decided to be real. I made the choice to stop "robbing my own safe". I became who I knew was sleeping for 47 years - Jenny. I allowed her the life she deserved. I gave her the existence God granted her at birth. As a result, creativity and positive assurance grew like a field of wildflowers in Spring.
These days I find myself shaking my head and even laughing at myself a bit in my own amazement. I have dreamed things - done things lately, that I have never thought I could before. I am designing again and creating again. My artistic side is flourishing. There is nothing I can't do. I'm wearing bold and beautiful clothes and going to events for women. I'm traveling to DC and New York and I am even working with Lani Woo to produce a show - a very bold move for a transgender person.
So transgender friends and anyone reading my posts everyday I want to tell you something. Be the real person inside of you. Allow the real you to blossom and become magnificent. Never permit the negative and the dysphoria of life to tell you that your trapped. Dare to dream and dare to accomplish - be genuine. Allow the life you were given to live and see that wonderful can be yours!
Much love - Jenny Taylor
One thing that I have discovered as a transgender woman is that my confidence has soared and I am dreaming as well as doing like never before. I guess this magic moment of accomplishment is the result of finally becoming the person I've always wanted to be.
I was denied my womanhood - my truest person stolen from my life. I had to be someone I was not and this hiding, made me less-than productive. I was denying myself the reality that was beneath my Oscar winning fakery of being a man. My grow and potential as a woman - gone.
Then in January of 2013, I decided to be real. I made the choice to stop "robbing my own safe". I became who I knew was sleeping for 47 years - Jenny. I allowed her the life she deserved. I gave her the existence God granted her at birth. As a result, creativity and positive assurance grew like a field of wildflowers in Spring.
These days I find myself shaking my head and even laughing at myself a bit in my own amazement. I have dreamed things - done things lately, that I have never thought I could before. I am designing again and creating again. My artistic side is flourishing. There is nothing I can't do. I'm wearing bold and beautiful clothes and going to events for women. I'm traveling to DC and New York and I am even working with Lani Woo to produce a show - a very bold move for a transgender person.
So transgender friends and anyone reading my posts everyday I want to tell you something. Be the real person inside of you. Allow the real you to blossom and become magnificent. Never permit the negative and the dysphoria of life to tell you that your trapped. Dare to dream and dare to accomplish - be genuine. Allow the life you were given to live and see that wonderful can be yours!
Much love - Jenny Taylor
Friday, September 13, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
You are the Captain of Your Destiny as a Transgender Person
Watch the video below by Jenny Taylor and see that you can be in control of your transformation.
If you allow others to dictate your future, then your transition will be limited. To get the most out of your journey, you alone must decide what is best for you and your path to walk. Others mean well, but unless they are trans like you, they cannot guide you well. Even a loving family member cannot make the right choices for you and your transformation.
Jennifercohenhappy@gmail.com
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Transgender and I want a Baby - A Built-In Desire
As a woman, the one thing that bothers me most to be honest is the fact that I cannot be pregnant. I'm too old now anyway. But there is a huge longing, and has always been since I was a little girl, that I wanted to feel that life developing within me.
I wanted to be like Eve in-part, as a mother of the living. It is so deep and part of, this feeling, that I cannot explain it. I would weep and still do when I see a pregnant Mom. I so long for this - its a natural thing for a woman to want children and to nurse and to care for a little one that enters the world from your body.
To have the expression of love growing inside of me is a feeling sadly that I will never know. I do still long for this. It is not a fascination, it's innate within me from God.
I have 4 children, not from my womb, but still my Babies. I love them as a Mom and I love that feeling. I have always loved them that way. I am thankful that I do have that pleasure and motherly longing fulfilled.
Much love - Jenny Taylor
Monday, September 9, 2013
Keeping it real...Transgender and Happy and Honest
You all know that I am genuinely happy - very happy. Then there comes a day when all the haters come out. Like hunting season or something. I just fell down on my face and wept earlier. I had to weep before God.
I knew He cared and listened to me as His Daughter. I have always been His little girl and He was there for me today. I have no job at the moment, I got hate mail and rejection emails and I just had to cry. It helps - a vent of sorts.
God always has a heart for His daughters when they weep before Him. Look at Hannah, Mary M and the other Mary. Look at Esther. They wept before the Lord and then help arrived. Look at the widow who had nothing and God sent a prophet to care for her and her son. I know I will have my help as well.
God made me as a woman. I really do not care if religious freaks do not think so. I know who I am. I know what gender I am. My Maker does as well.
Jenny Taylor
jennifercohenhappy@gmail.com
Monday, September 2, 2013
Jennifer Cohen-Taylor a woman who refuses to conform to what society dictates as feminine and beautiful.
Be the woman you decide to be! Never allow anyone to decide for you what being a female is. Resist society that demands you be this or that. You and you alone should determine your transition. You know how far you can go in transforming your life and body. You and only you, can know what little or how much you can accomplish.
Jenny Taylor
jennifercohenhappy@gmail.com
Living life without regrets...Always moving forward
Sometimes you go through things for a reason - a purpose. You do things and meet people and go places, because you needed to. You learn, you grow and you gain and you give. It's all part of life and living.
I have finally seen that life is made to explore and it's an adventure of sorts. Each experience you have whether good or bad, is meant to make life richer or make one wiser. It prepares us for what lies ahead and may keep us from repeating what was.
I never regret what was. I have become thankful. Appreciative that I had met a person or done an event or was able to be this or that for someone. I refuse to look back and see only the rough spots - grabbing onto the gold instead.
When you live your life without regrets, you can always move forward. Regretting someone or something or a time in your life keeps you looking back. You never face forward because all you do is see the rough and the bad behind you. I want a forward momentum at all times. I want a place where I can grow and advance myself.
Live your life and never curse where you've come from. The past is what can propel you into what lies ahead and it can prepare you for the things before you - challenges you never had any idea you'd face.
Jenny Taylor
Friday, August 30, 2013
Life is Hell - Making the Choice to be Happy is Bliss
For those who think that being #Transgender means you can't have a normal life...
You not only can have a completely normal life, but you can even have a better than normal life! Transition is fantastic. You move and progress and grow from one point to another. You make advancements not only in your body but in your thinking and in your relationships too.
I am sorry but I don't buy the crap that says that transitioning is filled with disappointment and sadness and negative things. Maybe its because I am seriously positive. Maybe its because I choose not to focus on what is rough during transition. I refuse to let any negativity get me down.
Look transition is very tough. I'm not a fool or have it easier than anyone else. Yes I'm in a friendly city for LGBT people. Yet, even if I was not, I would still make it a choice of mine to be me, fight the haters with determination and be happy. Its a decision that I make and it has made all the difference!
I think some people think I'm naive. Oh Jenny has only been transitioning for 6 months, poor dear doesn't know anything. Well, let me tell you that the first 6 months are the worst typically! Yet, in my heartache and in my struggles, I have fought and won. I will not let anything bring me down.
I have a normal and very happy life. I have a wonderful man in my life and I am traveling to all kinds of places and serving as an activist in many LGBT causes. I have been able to do this by keeping my spirit in a positive space. I do what I preach and I love myself and others.
Only good lies before me.
Jenny Taylor
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Transgender Social Revolution - Dual Spirit People Arise
It is my personal thought, and someone remind me that I predicted this...
We are about to undergo a #transgender social revolution.
A nation, so to speak of beautiful people, will rise and the stigma of being different will be lifted.
We will have a place as a people group, not because we don't fit in, but because we are respected and finally integrated into society as wonderful.
Mark my words, I think it will happen. I dare to dream and dare to work hard to achieve it.
Jennifer Taylor - Transgender Activist
jennifercohenhappy@gmail.com
Joint Statement on Winning #Transgender Protections in #Miami-Dade
Today marks a new beginning in the effort to pass gender identity or expression protections in Miami-Dade County. A growing coalition of organizations, businesses and community leaders today deepen our resolve to see Miami-Dade live up to its reputation as a diverse and inclusive community by ensuring our human rights ordinance is amended to ban discrimination against the transgender community.
The hateful rhetoric our opponents have broadcast in recent weeks has only made more clear the absolute necessity of protecting transgender people from discrimination and violence. By demonizing transgender people with their campaign of misinformation, they have made our community less safe and less kind, but we will not let their lies stand.
One of Miami-Dade’s greatest strengths is our diversity, and we know that an overwhelming majority of residents share our belief that all people, including the transgender community, must enjoy the same freedom from discrimination.
We support the strategic decision to postpone a vote on the inclusion of gender identity or expression in order to further educate the community and our elected officials about the need for these vital protections. The day is coming when Miami-Dade will join cities and counties throughout Florida and across the nation that have added these protections. We stand united in our commitment to invest the time and resources required to win.
We would like to thank Commissioners Audrey Edmonson, Bruno Barriero, Sally Heyman and Barbara Jordan for their leadership and continued support.
And we invite everyone who values fairness and equality to stand with us today. We need you. We have faced bigoted attacks in the past, and we know that by standing together we will win.
They may slow us down, but they will never turn us back. And we will never stop fighting until every member of our community is fully protected.
In Solidarity,
Today marks a new beginning in the effort to pass gender identity or expression protections in Miami-Dade County. A growing coalition of organizations, businesses and community leaders today deepen our resolve to see Miami-Dade live up to its reputation as a diverse and inclusive community by ensuring our human rights ordinance is amended to ban discrimination against the transgender community.
The hateful rhetoric our opponents have broadcast in recent weeks has only made more clear the absolute necessity of protecting transgender people from discrimination and violence. By demonizing transgender people with their campaign of misinformation, they have made our community less safe and less kind, but we will not let their lies stand.
One of Miami-Dade’s greatest strengths is our diversity, and we know that an overwhelming majority of residents share our belief that all people, including the transgender community, must enjoy the same freedom from discrimination.
We support the strategic decision to postpone a vote on the inclusion of gender identity or expression in order to further educate the community and our elected officials about the need for these vital protections. The day is coming when Miami-Dade will join cities and counties throughout Florida and across the nation that have added these protections. We stand united in our commitment to invest the time and resources required to win.
We would like to thank Commissioners Audrey Edmonson, Bruno Barriero, Sally Heyman and Barbara Jordan for their leadership and continued support.
And we invite everyone who values fairness and equality to stand with us today. We need you. We have faced bigoted attacks in the past, and we know that by standing together we will win.
They may slow us down, but they will never turn us back. And we will never stop fighting until every member of our community is fully protected.
In Solidarity,
http://www.savedade.org
http://www.hrc.org
Sex and being Transgender:
Watch this video and see that you can have the intimacy you need and want to give to someone else. You can have a completely normal sex life and be transgender!
Watch this video and see that you can have the intimacy you need and want to give to someone else. You can have a completely normal sex life and be transgender!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z81D4ppGQIY Awesome YouTube Video
Jennifer Taylor - Transgender Female Activist
People are who they are regardless of their exterior shell. True-self lies within the soul -the psyche.
Places that the eye may not see will define who someone is. The visual, may not be able to adequately divulge or testify to what reality lies within. So refuse to let sight be your perception.
The depths of the human spirit and its identity are far deeper than even what the ear can hear about another. To discover an inner reality of another use your heart.
Being transgender has made me grasp the saying "having eyes, you don't see and having ears, you don't hear".
I'm trying my best to explore people using far more than the physical appearance. That kind of discovery takes much more time, but in the end, shows a person true respect.
Jenny Taylor
Gender...
It is far more than what sex you are. It's not what restroom to use or a rule for marriage or intercourse. It does not dictate what aisle I shop in.
Gender is only a portion of an inner-self definition. It's a display of a vast expression of soul and psyche. It is a part of a total self-awareness and social identification. Gender is a spiritual truth enticing one to see me for who I am and then begs one to search deeper.
Gender is a thread of millions of strands that comprises the human existence and varies in color from one individual to the next. It must be sought and explored not only by each person, but by society as a whole. Treating each person as a unique being with a unique identity.
Gender, like a snow flake, has no copy. Each and every expression is different and beautiful.
Jenny Taylor
It is far more than what sex you are. It's not what restroom to use or a rule for marriage or intercourse. It does not dictate what aisle I shop in.
Gender is only a portion of an inner-self definition. It's a display of a vast expression of soul and psyche. It is a part of a total self-awareness and social identification. Gender is a spiritual truth enticing one to see me for who I am and then begs one to search deeper.
Gender is a thread of millions of strands that comprises the human existence and varies in color from one individual to the next. It must be sought and explored not only by each person, but by society as a whole. Treating each person as a unique being with a unique identity.
Gender, like a snow flake, has no copy. Each and every expression is different and beautiful.
Jenny Taylor
#Gender is the personification of your inner-person. A manifestation of whom you are and what it is that you desire to become. It stands regardless of who believes it or rejects it. It functions in the greater plan of things.
It is never a part or a lack of one. It is dualistic in nature and singular in its reality. It either produces life -rich and expressive or death - depressive and dysphoric. It gives us all the choice of acceptance or denial.
Jenny Taylor
It is never a part or a lack of one. It is dualistic in nature and singular in its reality. It either produces life -rich and expressive or death - depressive and dysphoric. It gives us all the choice of acceptance or denial.
Jenny Taylor
Monday, May 27, 2013
All People saw was a woman
I took a walk at the beach today...All people saw was a woman
No one looked at me today like I was a fool, no one took a double take and no one thought anything to be strange at Pompano Beach. I no longer thought that a laugh I heard somewhere was about me; because it wasn't about me at all. Nor did I see anyone starring or gawking because no one was. I am a woman and no one knew anything but that truth.
I have come to discover that God was using a divine paint brush on my stroll and all that people saw was a work of art. Like a tapestry of heavenly female-beauty, I have been woven into what my insides have known all along - I am a lady. Other beach-goers knew I was, but more importantly - I knew.
Jennifer Cohen-Taylor
I also came to the conclusion that the earth is a much prettier place every time a transgender woman is discovered. When she/I begins to blossom, a field of colors erupts and the world glances on - they lose their breath. As a past and former conceived notion now becomes real and factual on the outside. Internal beauty now manifests itself on my life - a former wanderer. Beauty and dignity joined and visible - it is a beautiful thing. People who once made fun, now applaud the happiness of the transformed me.
I understood the power of pretty and the contagion of confidence. I saw and felt how one, who was a former dysphoric, was now a present-day wonder. I grasped how finally I was becoming more real by the hour. My body conforming amazingly as estrogen sends it message.
I am indeed a woman - female with far more than the absence or the presence of a genital sign. I am a lady -beautifully crafted by divine artistry. With every day I see the display of happiness from the inside out. Awesomeness rising to the top from an inner truth; my heart and soul.
Today my walk on that beach made me more joyous than I had previously been. Dysphoric transformations -whole and complete. Pretty personified - grace and elegance. What will tomorrow hold as my body conforms? No one knows. But one thing is indeed certain - I will be more pleased and more happy than I was the day before. My walks on the beach will be even more glorious as no one sees anything but a beautiful woman walking.
Much Love -Jenny Taylor
Friday, May 24, 2013
A Transgender Woman Says Goodbye to Dave and Hello to Her New Life
A Transgender Woman Says Goodbye to Dave and Hello to Her New Life
An Explanation...of a man who was and a woman who now is because of him.
Dave is who I used to be. Many loved him and so did I. He was my knight in shining armor. He kept Jenny hidden and safe from people who hated or would harm a transgender person. He was strong and tough. He could laugh and sing and make people laugh. Women fell in love with him and so did I.
But one day Dave's job at protecting me, Jenny, was over. He watched over me for 44 years. It was time to say goodbye to Dave and Hello to Jennifer. One night Dave went to the beach at night. He had just ended a 1 year and a half relationship with the woman he loved. He wept on that beach and the tears were tears of sadness mixed with joy. Fear mixed with anticipation. It was a new beginning and a wonderful departure.
Dave left us that night. You may have known him and loved him. But I think you'll love him even more as you realize the great sacrifice he made for me. He was willing to fake being a man so that one day I could be a girl. He was willing to get married and do things that he had no idea at how to do as a man. Yet he tried and did so for me. He loved me that much that he was willing to be miserable to protect me. He was sad almost everyday just for me. I will never forget him.
But Dave is no longer with us. We all have to let him go. Say goodbye. He would want you to love Jenny. His passion and reason for living. He would want you to dance with her and sing with her. He would want you to love her and embrace her. He will never be back.
I live my life now with wonderful memories of the past. I now however have to be faithful to Dave and all he did for me. He gave his life so that I could be a woman forever. I have to keep my word to him and never ever go back.
Goodbye my friend - I love you and I thank you for allowing me to be me -Jenny Taylor
An Explanation...of a man who was and a woman who now is because of him.
Dave is who I used to be. Many loved him and so did I. He was my knight in shining armor. He kept Jenny hidden and safe from people who hated or would harm a transgender person. He was strong and tough. He could laugh and sing and make people laugh. Women fell in love with him and so did I.
But one day Dave's job at protecting me, Jenny, was over. He watched over me for 44 years. It was time to say goodbye to Dave and Hello to Jennifer. One night Dave went to the beach at night. He had just ended a 1 year and a half relationship with the woman he loved. He wept on that beach and the tears were tears of sadness mixed with joy. Fear mixed with anticipation. It was a new beginning and a wonderful departure.
Dave left us that night. You may have known him and loved him. But I think you'll love him even more as you realize the great sacrifice he made for me. He was willing to fake being a man so that one day I could be a girl. He was willing to get married and do things that he had no idea at how to do as a man. Yet he tried and did so for me. He loved me that much that he was willing to be miserable to protect me. He was sad almost everyday just for me. I will never forget him.
But Dave is no longer with us. We all have to let him go. Say goodbye. He would want you to love Jenny. His passion and reason for living. He would want you to dance with her and sing with her. He would want you to love her and embrace her. He will never be back.
I live my life now with wonderful memories of the past. I now however have to be faithful to Dave and all he did for me. He gave his life so that I could be a woman forever. I have to keep my word to him and never ever go back.
Goodbye my friend - I love you and I thank you for allowing me to be me -Jenny Taylor
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Thinking and Wondering... a Transgender Wish
Thinking and Wondering... a Transgender Wish
One of my favorite songs called "Over The Rainbow" says this:
"Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me...Where troubles melt like lemondrops away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me".
As I meditate upon my life and how much of it has already past me by as the wrong gender, I sing this little song. Hoping that one day my troubles will all melt away and be far from me. Not that I am one to think my life is in trouble or that I am not happy. I am content and well overall. Yet, there are a couple things that I wonder about.
I know I am in a transition -Male to Female. My journey is in full swing and full time. Day by day I am becoming more feminine and much more pretty. Maybe not like CISgender women, but pretty comparative to what I used to be.
I think about a future day when I am about as beautiful as I will ever be, everyone arrives there at some point. Who will want a mixed up person such as myself? I know I am all woman. But will I be seen by a potential suiter as a hybrid - a pseudo blend of not one or the other sex. What person will want such a one as me? I do think about it.
Maybe my chances at love and being loved are all gone. It could be that I won't have another to hold and to hold me. Have I exhausted my opportunities? Sometimes I say yes. Other times, I declare certainly not! Time will tell.
So I wait and allow my pretty-self to form and to ready itself for a happy future. I sing my little song.
"If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow - why oh why can't I?"
Hopeful -Much Love
Jenny Taylor
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