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Post-Shift Street Interviews 5

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You’ve heard of “Shift Immersion therapy”, right? No? Well, it’s getting pretty popular post-Great Shift, especially for people like me who cross the gender/race fence.  My therapist had suggested it after I hadn’t had any success adapting to my new body during our sessions. Basically, it’s like this: Instead of leaning away from your radically different new life, try to lean into it. Make up a persona and try to stick to it all day. Pick out a woman’s name and try it out in public, dress up in something overtly feminine that you never would have worn before, basically anything to break yourself out of the mold of your old self and get you to embrace your new future. I mean, I was a middle aged white guy before all this and I ended up as an Indian woman half my age, it’s a lot to wrap your head around, being perceived so differently. I’ve been leaning into it more, which kinda felt like cosplay at the start but i dunno, I think it’s actually helping me separate the old me from the ...

Post-Shift Street Interviews 4

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  The fourth in a series of street interviews with real people to see how they’ve adapted to the Great Shift! I’ll be honest, I was in a bit of a dead end pre-Shift. I always figured my golf skills would be enough to make me a career when i was older, but… You know how it goes. Great high school athlete, good college athlete, then i just couldn’t cut it at the pro level. Ended up training rich guys and their wives at the local country club for tip money. Well, the Shift struck during a lesson with one of my regulars, leaving me in Vivian here’s body and her in mine. How do I like being a woman? Truth be told, I’m just happy i’m still young! If the Shift waited another half hour or so, I probably would have swapped with the 60 year old man i had booked after her! Not that there hasn’t been challenges, but I can’t exactly deny it - Being a hot woman does have its perks if you lean into it. Dress up nice and people are pretty willing to pay for your drinks, your meals, hell, i even ha...

Post-Shift Street Interviews 3

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  The third in a series of street interviews with real people to see how they’ve adapted to the Great Shift! (Photo for internal use only. Not for distribution) How did the Great Shift affect me? Wait, this    isn’t live, is it? My parents don’t know I’m out    this late. No? Alright, I’ll do it if you don’t run my photo along with it. Ever since the Shift put me in my neighbors body, my parents have been watching me like a hawk making sure I “Respect her body” until they find a way to swap back. Like we’re ever going to swap back, hello? The woman in my body’s doing just fine as a teenage boy now, I even saw her bring a girl over to the house a while back. So I figured, you know, If she can do it why can’t I? As far as my parents know, I’m going to support meetings twice a week in the evenings. It’s practically the only alone time I get. What, it’s not like I’m lying to them? I just forgot to mention that these meetings usually start off with a glass of wine in...

Post-Shift Street Inteviews 2

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  The second in a series of street interviews with real people to see how they’ve adapted to the Great Shift! Do I have time to talk? I have a couple minutes before i clock in, why not! Honestly, it felt a little demeaning to me at first, but I realized pretty early on that after the Great Shift gave me, well, these, *gestures to chest* my tips at my bartending job would skyrocket every time i wore something lower cut. I was pretty embarrassed about it at first, but hey, the extra money at the end of the night goes a long way. Plus, it’s kinda fun teasing some of the regulars. Now even when i’m not on the job i kinda like having them out. What’s that saying again? If you got it, flaunt it? You should see the looks I get when I’m out and about now - I never realized how obvious us guys were trying to sneak a peak until i had a pair on my chest! It’s kinda flattering though, I’m definitely getting approached way more often compared to when I was a guy, not to mention paying a lot les...

Post-Shift Street Interviews 1

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The first in a series of street interviews with real people to see how they’ve adapted to the Great Shift! Yeah, sure, I have a minute to talk! What kind of woman was I before the Great Shift? Actually, I wasn’t a woman at all! That’s the Great Shift for you. One second you’re a 40 year old construction worker fixing up a pothole on a college campus and the next you’re in the body of a 22 year old nursing student driving to class. Almost crashed the car staring at myself in the rear mirror when it happened! I will say, I’m happy the woman I swapped with donated practically all her clothes to me. Not that she could even fit them anymore, seeing that most of them are a women’s small and she was now in the body of a 6’5 basketball player, but still a nice gesture nonetheless. I have to admit, it’s pretty nice picking out clothes to wear when I have so many flattering choices now. Once I got over just how much skin a lot of them showed, I realized it was pretty fun dressing myself up in th...

Humans of the Great Shift 4: Trade!

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 Long hiatus, I know, I know, but I’m getting back into it! Thank you all for your patience! This was done as part of a trade with  Connelly’s TG Caps  - They supplied the images, I wrote the stories (And vice versa for the part that’ll be posted on their page shortly). Make sure to check out both posts, and enjoy! Henry (53) I won’t lie, the Great Shift really threw me for a loop when it put me in the body of my daughter’s best friend from college while they were visiting for the weekend. My daughter ended up in the neighbor’s 12 year old son’s body. Out of respect for how weird the situation in the house already is, I do my best to be respectful any time my daughter’s home to visit: That means XL shirts, baggy sweatpants, and a bare face. When It’s just me in the house? Well, let’s just say I’m adapting to my new body a lot faster than I let on. Is it wrong that my new style just happens to be very feminine? I mean the skirts, purses, hair, makeup, it just feels natural...

Humans of the Great Shift 3

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  Isac (23) “Alright kiddos, I’ll pick you up at 3 ok? be good for the teacher!” “Sorry about that, anyways, where were we? It’s funny, i didn’t exactly expect to be raising a family at 23. I mean, i was fresh out of college, dating a few girls here and there but nothing long-term. I always figured that would be a “later in life” kinda thing. To be fair though, i didn’t exactly plan on the Great Shift putting me in the body of a 40 year old asian woman when i was out at the store getting groceries either. Didn’t exactly help that i have no idea what happened to the woman I swapped into - Maybe she’s in a baby’s body or something, i heard that could happen. Anyways, she had her two kids along with her when it happened and it wasn’t like i could just abandon them. Funnily enough the twins ended up in each others’ bodies so I don’t think they even realized what happened! I ended up taking them to    my new body’s house to see if anyone she knew would pick them up, but when n...