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Robin Elise 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚢
@robinelise.bsky.social
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trans; queer; poet; retired theatre freak; finally started transition @ age 70; so far so hard, so great, so liberating! goodness me! 🙀
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22 October, 2025….

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A brief text description noting my 2d HRT anniversary, my 3wk GAS anniversary, and a list of the ID’s and policies and etc. that I have updated both name and gender in 2025.
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Today marked my 100th week on Estradiol, exactly 3 weeks before my vulvoplasty. Life is what you make it.

✊🏼👍🏼✊🏼👍🏼✊🏼👍🏼✊🏼👍🏼✊🏼👍🏼✊🏼👍🏼✊🏼

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Selfie of an elder woman who happens to be trans wearing a green & beige floral print top.
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Busy? Moi?

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An anthology of works by trans writers, titled “(long blank line)figuration: an anthology of trans writers,” published by Gnashing Teeth; The image is of a cut lemon resting in the top of a leafy branch against a swirly green background. Screenshot of a poem from the anthology, titled “A Haiku in Praise of the Impact of Estradiol & Spironolactone in Triggering a Second Puberty in Septuagenarians”… The poem itself reads “Nine months in, my boobs are now each quite a handful. Hi, Joy! Hi, Rapture!”
September 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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“You’re gonna have so much free time after you retire!“ they said. “You won’t know what to do with yourself!“ they said… 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤦🏻‍♀️

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The website header for “Out On the Edge,” an LGBTQ+/elders radio show just starting broadcasts on WCOM-LP at 103.5 on your FM dial, Mon 3-4 Eastern; sponsored by the Orange County (North Carolina) Department on Aging.
September 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Passport? Who needs a passport?

@celestialrobin.bsky.social @stonedfrog444.bsky.social @juniperplexed.bsky.social
ID cards from ACLU, Mensa, & Universal Life Church with this girl’s new name; LOL!
August 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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New profile pic; this is what comes from having nothing to do except play with screengrabs for half an hour, waiting for your Teams meeting with that theatre company in London to start. Which it never did…
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A smiling woman in her 70’s with a good haircut sitting in what appears to be either a writer’s studio or a dilettante’s lair.
April 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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My new fav… up on the wall in a very few days… 👍🏼 ❤️ 👍🏼
A framed commissioned handmade patch of a repeating measure of music written in the bass clef, showing the notes AFAB.
April 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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A graphic celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility
March 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Lookit what I got!!

😻🥳😻🥳😻
Excited elder woman shows off her custom “AFAB” patch while considering framing options.
March 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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The Sisterhood of Bassoonists Traveling in Pants seems like a good inspiration… can use DM for details if that works for you.

No rush at this end; however best fits your schedule. ❤️
quick sketch of a repeating musical figure — A F A B — in bass clef
February 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Robin in 1967 @ 14 w/ too much on her plate to think about being trans. On the verge of shucking science for the arts, a net loss for science. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Grainy b/w school photo of unaware trans girl her first year of high school, 1967. Thin, a bit, but otherwise unremarkable.
January 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Things to bear in mind….

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Image displaying selected points from the linked article
January 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Don’t feel cute; don’t feel pretty; just feel it’s time to see what I’m starting to look like nowadays. May delete… 🤷🏻‍♀️
Selfie of a woman in olive top & black cardigan wears a homemade necklace while wondering WTF is going to happen now that the shitgibbon has admitted to vote tampering; she is not holding her breath.
January 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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My wife got me this t-shirt for Christmas. I think the prospects of us surviving my transition are perhaps less dire than I’ve been pessimistically telling myself. 🫣 Yay! 🥳

I am a very lucky woman!!!
Drawing of a cute big-eyed kitten with a bow ribbon on her head printed on a pink t-shirt; below her in a cursive font is the text: “I’m literally just a girl”
January 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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In case I haven’t bragged about it enough…..
Surprised person holding up her legal name change paperwork.
January 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A circa 19th c. portrait of a woman in a red dress onto which has been added a speech balloon saying, “I made this dress with all the red flags you gave me.”
December 10, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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A red ribbon on a red background commemorating World Aids Day.
December 1, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Blue text on a light green background saying “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented“ ; attributed to Elie Weisel.
November 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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White Text against a magenta background with three invitations… First invitation: Weed out the wishy-washy wishes and Luke warm they keep you distracted from your burning desires. Second invitation Refuse to think that anyone else knows better than you what dreams will keep your life energy humming with maximum efficiency and grace. Third invitation: Say this out loud to see how it feels: “I know exactly what I want. I know exactly what I don’t want. I know exactly what I kind of want but I won’t waste my time on it because it sidetracks me from working on what I really want.“
November 25, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Whew! No need to create my own selfie with this out there loose on the interwebs. I’ll save time *and* money! Thanks, unknown artist! 🫶🏼 👍🏼 🫶🏼 👍🏼 🫶🏼
A comic book illustration of a blonde youth in a heart-decorated chair, holding up a toy Godzilla and saying to it “I talk to Godzilla. Godzilla is my friend.” A mostly-obscured figure, in what may be a superhero costume, is behind the chair, their hand resting on the youth’s head.
November 18, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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My sister — whom I was scared to death to come out to last week — took a break from searching “trans ally” shirts on Etsy to send me this….

Perhaps I worried needlessly? Hmmm…. 🤔
a text saying: “biological woman” implies the existence of chemical, nuclear, psychological, conventional, and guerrilla women
November 16, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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November 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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June 5, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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I like this one! You always do SO much better, but then you have an insurmountable headstart over mere humans... 🥰 🥰 🥰 🥰 🥰
An idealization of transition goals for the image creator, apologizing for the exclusion of age lines since the options were very not good. Oh, well... artistic license happens...
March 26, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Look what you made me do! 🙀
February 22, 2024 at 11:37 PM