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Grayson Bell
United States
Приєднався 6 жов 2011
Welcome to my channel! I vlog about my many random thoughts I have which can span everything from politics and religion, to travel, cooking and even my pets. Come along for the ride!
If you were looking for my gaming videos - I posted them all on a seperate gaming channel - ua-cam.com/users/KleineGames. Go check it out! :)
If you were looking for my gaming videos - I posted them all on a seperate gaming channel - ua-cam.com/users/KleineGames. Go check it out! :)
Am I Still ChildFree?
It's been ten years since I posted the video "Why I Chose to be Childfree." (ua-cam.com/video/zoiD0uMbQzY/v-deo.html), and some folks have asked me if I still am childfree. Since a lot has changed in my life since then, I thought I'd film this follow-up.
Hey, my sci-fi novel has finally been published! Check it out: amzn.to/3Pv5xyM
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Check out my articles and stories on Medium: graysonbell.medium.com/
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Check out my books: bit.ly/graysonbell
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Kleineganz online:
archiveofourown.org/users/Kleineganz/ (Fanfiction stories)
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Kleineganz (Rarely updated)
kleineganz.com/ (Blog - Rarely Updated)
Kleineganz (Food photos)
My Author's Platform:
graysonbell.net/
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www.tiktok.com/@graysonbellauthor
www.amazon.com/Grayson-Bell/e/B07H3B3D5G/
graysonbell.medium.com/membership (Medium articles)
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Credits:
Graphics/Video Editing:
Wondershare Filmora
Video filmed on my Samsung Galaxy S21
Hey, my sci-fi novel has finally been published! Check it out: amzn.to/3Pv5xyM
________________________________
Check out my articles and stories on Medium: graysonbell.medium.com/
Support my writing on Medium: graysonbell.medium.com/membership
Check out my books: bit.ly/graysonbell
________________________________
Kleineganz online:
archiveofourown.org/users/Kleineganz/ (Fanfiction stories)
Kleineganz
Kleineganz (Rarely updated)
kleineganz.com/ (Blog - Rarely Updated)
Kleineganz (Food photos)
My Author's Platform:
graysonbell.net/
graysonbellauthor/
GrayBellAuthor
authorgraysonbell
www.tiktok.com/@graysonbellauthor
www.amazon.com/Grayson-Bell/e/B07H3B3D5G/
graysonbell.medium.com/membership (Medium articles)
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Credits:
Graphics/Video Editing:
Wondershare Filmora
Video filmed on my Samsung Galaxy S21
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Відео
5 Years on Testosterone, Anti-Trans Legislation, Health Update, and Sci-Fi Book Launch Announcement!
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I'm celebrating 5 years of being on testosterone and beginning my transition journey. Also, giving an update on my health and announcing the launch of my sci-fi novel (finally!). Check out my articles and stories on Medium: graysonbell.medium.com/ Support my writing on Medium: graysonbell.medium.com/membership Check out my books: bit.ly/graysonbell Kleineganz online: archiveofourown.org/users/K...
4 Years on Testosterone and my Autism Diagnosis
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4 Years on Testosterone and my Autism Diagnosis
50th Birthday Retrospective - Age 31 - 40
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50th Birthday Retrospective - Age 31 - 40
50th Birthday Retrospective - Age 21 - 30
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50th Birthday Retrospective - Age 21 - 30
50th Birthday Retrospective - Age 11 - 20
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50th Birthday Retrospective - Age 11 - 20
50th Birthday Retrospective - The First Decade
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50th Birthday Retrospective - The First Decade
Posting on AO3 from MS Word without Formatting Issues
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Posting on AO3 from MS Word without Formatting Issues
Reading Fanfics: "Acceptance" (Supernatural, Destiel)
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Reading Fanfics: "Acceptance" (Supernatural, Destiel)
Reading Fanfics: "Just Hold Me" (Dragon Age: Cullen/Dorian)
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Reading Fanfics: "Just Hold Me" (Dragon Age: Cullen/Dorian)
Thank you so much
Is that hot or cold coffee ?
Hot coffee. Can also be made with cold coffee if you prefer, but I think the coconut oil might separate out of that more quickly.
A pseudo scientist?
As a fellow gen Xer I think we're being thrown in with Boomers but obviously thats not who we are but I think anyone who's 40+ now is being thrown into boomer generation I'm not sure if millennials are using the zoomer gen wrong. the muppet show M.A.S.H. knight rider horror movies nightmare on elm street, Halloween...
Question may I know what name is your book called that had a trans character in it plz i am really curious?
It's called Transcendent. www.amazon.com/Transcendent-Grayson-Bell-ebook/dp/B09JGQZYQ8/
How old were you when you started transition?
I was 46 in 2018. I'm 51 now (almost 52).
Those who cut people down for their choices usually are insecure with their own.
Kids are expensive it costs about $15,512.52-$17,459.43 per year.
Try more like $20,000 - $30,000 per year, according to 2023 estimates. That's about how much it costs to take care of myself! I can't afford to take care of someone else, too.
@@Kleineganz Eeeeekkk!
I found your UA-cam channel channel.
Gen X was the bridge that carried the 1960s into the 1990s but we don't get credit for it. We were the last analog generation AND the first digital generation.
Hey, could you tell me what your line spacing is and if you add "space after/before paragraph"? It's a button in the 'Home' section of Word. 'Cause I always end up with huge spaces between paragraphs and it's killing me. Thanks!
I always use single space in Word. I haven't used double-space since it was a requirement in some of my college classes.
nicee
I'm so sorry that your mother was so nasty. What a traumatic childhood 😔
Writing a fic rn and praying it's this easy to transfer over
It should be. This method still works for me just fine. Good luck!
U are very attractive my dear lady yours Kelly from Canada
You'll change your mind 😀😀
I just turned 51, and I've had a total hysterectomy, so nope. Never gonna happen.
@@Kleineganz I understand dear 🙂.. I forgot to add quotations to denote what people usually say to someone that made a decision as yours.
SMH. "Master of Science" LOL! I literally can't even. I'm not gonna trash your comments, but you already knw my stances on this from Jammidodger's video.
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Are you still child free
Yes, I am. I'm 50 now and still have no interest in children (and am no longer capable of bearing any myself).
Thank you for this, I'm going to have to watch it again as I kept trying to read your chapter while attempting to listen! ☺️
Thank you so much. This helped a lot!
Exactly 💯 I agree with everything in this video 👍🏻
Kudos to you! Many women crumble under societal/familial pressure to 'get married', then to 'have children' - juggling a career, job/work, a balancing act of too many roles...which is extremely stressful physically, emotionally for many women. And so many children are simply thoughtlessly 'produced', not 'raised' well, and suffer neglect, abuse. People are having children they can't even afford...time, attention, money, being there when needed, and do it just to please spouses or families. Glad you are in a country where economic independence is so easily possible. I am so glad you are wise enough to decide what you have, & have a husband who believes the same. Thank you for sharing so honestly, it is not easy to do so. I am sorry your mother said such terrible scarring words of rejection to you growing up. You were innocent. So, so very proud of your grandparents who cared for you. Hope they're still around? God bless you more everyday, and grant you peace and happiness.
All my grandparents and both parents are long dead. My mom was the last to go back in 2005, after we'd been estranged for 7 years (after my grandmother passed, I had no reason to remain in contact with her). All that remains of my family is my uncle (mother's brother) and some distant relatives in Germany that I am still in touch with.
@@Kleineganz God bless you sis!
@@sudhakhristmukti1930 I appreciate the compliment but it's "bro" now. (I'm trans and have transitioned several years ago... check out some of my latest videos!)
You are saying this as a trans man. I have female friends and I use female as in adult human female which is a woman. This is something a trans woman can never be. You say there is no agenda and yet all I hear is "we are real women", oh hunny if you don't have xx, dont bleed, cannot push a human being out of your body you are NOT a woman. Anyone with a modicum of brain matter can see that your agenda is now to gaslight us all and make us believe that BS and BS it is. You want rights? You already have those you daft buggers. You can transition to what makes you feel like what you should of been born. You can say what you want as long as it is respectful and not encroaching on others. To call someone a TERF is hateful and sexist. I am almost to the point of being embarrassed we ever let you into the community as all you have done is stir things and cause drama.
You're really drinking all that kool-aid, aren't you? 1. Many trans women *cannot* transition. Either because they cannot afford it, they have health issues that prevent it, or they live in an area where it's either illegal, or worse. So, no, not all trans women have the *right* much less the ability to transition. 2. The reason we say "trans women are women" and "trans men are men" is because right now, if someone knows we are trans, we're harassed, assaulted, discriminated against, and misgendered. All we want to do is live in peace as the gender we identify as, but people won't let us. So, we have to speak up and speak out. That's our only "agenda." 3. The term "TERF" was actually coined by radical feminists. Viv Smythe was given credit, although she's since clarified that she only has credit because earlier radical feminists who used the term no longer have their writing available online. (citation: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/29/im-credited-with-having-coined-the-acronym-terf-heres-how-it-happened). It stands for "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist" and describes the gender critical movement very well. And TERFs have an agenda - they want to make it illegal for trans people to exist and shove us all back into the closet.
The transgender "agenda" is not by transgender people. It USES transgender people. The agenda is to weaken family ties, normal social relationships and identity to make society as a whole more controllable. The number of transgender people compared to the number of man and woman identifying as their biological sex is so tiny that it makes no sense at all to have everyone not only question but even give up their gender identity. Yet that is exactly what is being propagated in the name of inclusion of transgender people. It is being taken WAY to far, if parents in schools can no more be adressed as mother and father, but now have to be called parent 1 and parent 2. This is completely insane and really enraging! And also to call all mothers "birthing people" just because there could be a transgender man among just feels so wrong and devaluing. Those who feel that they were born with the wrong sex shall be free to be who they feel themselves to be! Naturally it won't be easy to fit into normal society. So raising awareness in order to increase understanding and finding good solutions is a positive thing. But making it politically incorrect to assume that a woman is actually a woman or a man actually a man is insane. Transgender people should be free to be who they are, and men and women without any gender dysphoria should continue to be free to be exactly what they are... MEN and WOMEN, FATHERS and MOTHERS! There are biological rules and there are always exceptions to rules. But the exceptions can not be uses to define the rules! This is yet another topic that is being used to bring even more seperation and confusion, just like Covid and black life matters....
The fact that you take issue with inclusive language when referring to groups of people tells me all I need to know about you. Plus, the fact that anyone takes issue with being referred to as a person, as if that were some kind of insult, still astounds me. 🤦♂️
@@Kleineganz You have totally missed my point. I don't blame you. You see it from your perspective...
Your mom sounds like she was pretty mean to you.
She was an abusive alcoholic, so yeah, she was.
Happy birthday
As a believer there's two benefits of not having kids the first one there's two bible verses saying avoid partiality synonym racism, low, high, rich, poor and there's one bible verse saying God sees all rewards good and there's one bible verse saying Gods word always brings results the second benefit in relation is the Lord loves fairness
After being raised by grandma and spank will you spank as a mom barebutt
I never had kids, and no I wouldn't have spanked even if I did.
What a lame vid... I just don't care about all this nonsense
If you don't care, why did you waste your time watching and commenting?
@@Kleineganz because it's a free country
@@artpinguin1176 so, you like to waste your time watching things you don't care about? You must be really bored.
wow 9 yearrs late hehe
Yeah, okay... so why are you leaving comments on old videos?
@@Kleineganz idk sorry
Someone who had they gears shifted
I've been struggling with this for a while! I had been pasting, previewing, fixing each line manually, previewing again, etc. until I got it just right. This was super super super helpful!
Come on bro I’m all for your rights but let’s not act like they not pushing it on to kids . That’s the agenda . Y’all are just pawns on a chess board and don’t even realize it
No. One. Is. Pushing. It. On. Kids! We're fucking born this way. I knew by the time I was 3. Back in the 1970s! No one pushed it on me!
Oh my. Why have you become a man. Don't change your self woman. Repent seek Jesus.
Dude, it's way too late for that now. The changes I've made are permanent, and there's nothing or your imaginary sky daddy can do about it.
Great detail
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Yes?
So very sorry.
Ahhhhhhhh This explains why you never had maternal instincts to begin with. It's nice to see that you are being 110% authentically who you inspire to be. Happy belated 50th birthday
Thanks! Yeah, this is definitely one of the many reasons why I never wanted kids.
Glad you had a nice Birthday!
Congrats on your transition.
Thanks!
Thank you for this.
You're welcome. ❤
Happy Birthday!! Not too shabby indeed. Congrats! Did you do anything special on your birthday?
Thanks! I went out with a small group of friends for dinner (first time in ages I've been to a restaurant). We happened to run into other friends while we were there too, which made the evening more special.
@@Kleineganz Sounds like a nice evening :)
Wine (especially red wine) is heavily loaded with "fructan," one of the FODMAPS (sugars) that many people's digestive system has trouble processing. Same with me.
My gastroenterologist had me do the entire FODMAP thing, because that was his thinking too. Turns out I have no problems with FODMAPS though. An endoscopy revealed that I have an inflamed stomach lining and wine (or alcohol, in general) can also increase acid production, which aggravates the inflammation. Ever since I stopped drinking, the pain has been gone. No other FODMAPS cause me problems, so my gastroenterologist thinks its the alcohol itself that's the issue.
@@Kleineganz Oh right - yes wine is highly acidic. Good that you don't have to deal with all the FODMAP nightmare though. Unfortunately I wasn't so lucky - my FODMAP testing results were not what I was hoping for, but I've learnt to deal with it as best as I can. I try to look on the bright side - at least it keeps my weight stable lol. :)
Interesting story about your name(s). The hard part is getting others used to a new name after years of using the former one (even if the names are still quite similar). People are generally creatures of habit. Did you find that people slipped back into using the former name unconsciously? Wouldn't it be good if everyone could just be called "Hey you" throughout childhood and adolescence, and then just choose their own lol :)
Actually, the shift for me hasn't been that difficult. My friends switched from "Gabi" to "Gabe" immediately. The only person who has always struggled with my name is my uncle, because my legal name was the same as his sister's, so to avoid confusion, he always defaulted to my childhood nickname. He's still struggling to not use that one anymore! (He's always been very absentminded and forgetful, so I give him more slack. I know he loves and supports me, and that's what really matters). ❤
A very difficult video to make, I'm sure. Heartfelt and beautifully recounted. Your strength and empathy shine through.
Thank you. ❤
Always nice to hear about a good deed having a happy result. Altruism rocks! :)
Thanks, and thanks for watching my retrospective! Getting near the end now.
Yes, doing well thanks. Glad to see you are too.
Seems like yesterday I was watching the videos of the lead up to your 40th ! - Time flies :)
Yeah, it's funny how fast a decade passes, isn't it? I hope you're doing well.
Aww so cute!