Two boys – a 9 year old and a 12 year old — came back to school as girls after the summer break in the UK and caused quite a bit of drama. Parents say their kids were “shocked” and “traumatised” due to the sex change of their fellow pupils:

My son came home from school and asked why one of his friends had become a girl. I thought he was joking, but he kept asking – that’s when alarm bells began ringing. The pupil’s classmates were told he had left and that a new girl would be starting in his place this term. We have had to deal with the fall-out from all this. It’s not a situation I or other parents are comfortable with and we’ve not been given any help from the school about how to handle it. My son is too young to really understand the significance of what’s happening. It’s hard to explain to him. He doesn’t understand the differences between girls’ and boys’ bodies yet. I’m terrified he’ll ask me if he can become a girl as well.

Although the boys are doubtless on the fast track to a sex-change operation and hormonal treatment in order to turn them into girls, they must wait until they are legally an adult before any actual operation may take place in the UK which means German pop singer Kim Petras stays the youngest transgirl who underwent gender reassignment.

PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT MILKBOYS ;)

I got some angry messages lately because I didn’t reply to mails “within time”. I’d like to point out something related to this in general: contrary to popular belief I don’t do stuff related to milkboys 24/7. I do spend several hours a days doing different things for the blog(s), the forum, the chat and so on but I do this in my spare time and for free. Of course it’s a part of my life and most of the time it’s fun (I wouldn’t do it otherwise naturally) but, to be totally honest, it annoys me if people get demanding about it. I know most of you appreciate what you get without a doubt but there are quite a few people who seem to think I owe them what I do here and that they have a right to get whatever they ask for and as soon as possible of course.

Yes, I’m slow with responding to mails and yes, the blog posts were a bit boring lately. But I can’t do a thing about this at the moment. I have a lot of things to sort out right know about my life, my education and whatnot so the people who are whining because they don’t get what they want have to live with that, if they like it or not.

On a more positive note I’d like to thank all the people who help me keeping things running. The moderators in the forum and the chat, the active members of the community who take things into their hands by helping other members, making constructive suggestions & even starting their own projects related to milkboys and last but not least of course the donors who are kind enough to pay for the server. Everyone of you is a vital part of what we are building here, regardless of if you help with money, time or your energy. It’s your enthusiasm that animates milkboys!

And personally I’m happy that some of you even became great friends to me. It’s amazing to meet awesome people from so many places all over the world, might it be Holland, Scotland, Sweden, England, Australia, Japan or wherever else, you know who you are :) I know this applies not only to me, quite a few of you even found a loving boyfriend within the community and if that doesn’t make all the work worth it…

have a community photo since no one like posts without pictures :p

Photos made by diesel. These photos are posted exclusively on milkboys. Please credit the photographer and milkboys if you repost them on your blog. Thanks. More photos can be found in the milkboard.

Photo found at Bleeding Queers & Made by Sleeping Storm

If you like the music of 18 Summers be sure to check out another song I posted at my personal blog :)

Yahoo Mail decided to put milkboys (and other blogs like So many Boys) on a blacklist for some reason. I don’t know why they want to block a perfectly legal site but there’s nothing I can do about it — Yahoo Mail users won’t get mails from milkboys or with a link to milkboys in it anymore!

I don’t say you have to dump your address completely but at least for milkboys it won’t work anymore. If you don’t have a 2nd address you could sign up at Gmail. It offers 7 GB of space for your mails, 20 MB attachments (Yahoo wants money for that!), a better interface, it doesn’t put ads below your mails and you can import your mails and contacts from Yahoo.

As you may have noticed the server running milkboys was extremely slow during the early evening hours over the last weeks. That wasn’t really a surprise considering the growing number of people stopping by — more than 17,000 unique visitors every day just for the blog adding to the people visiting the board and the other blogs we host.

That’s why we decided to upgrade the server once again. We’re on a Intel Xenon Quad Core CPU now, got 4 GB RAM, and, maybe most important for future projects, we can use 10,000 GB of bandwidth per month now. This gives us the chance to let the blog run smooth while we add new features and can post more videos ;o) We’re working on a lot of stuff including a complete re-design of the blog, a social network connecting the board and the blog and some other things I will announce later ;)  Besides that we can host more personal blogs for gay teens who don’t want to get kicked by Blogger and even give a few selected pictures blogger a safe home.

The downside is that we have to pay more for the server of course. The new hardware costs $ 280 per month (the old one was $ 200). So, if you feel like supporting our efforts: Donations are welcome :) Just contact me if you want to help out. Thanks!

Found at Handsome Devils

I’m pretty sure he’s wearing leather trousers and loves this great TV station ;p

Quick Public Service Announcement: I’ll be away ‘till Tuesday so please be patient if you’re waiting for a mail or some other kind of reaction from me ;) And something else: Everyone who got deleted by Tumblr yesterday, mail me if you want a blog at milkboys. I know it won’t be as simple as with Tumblr but at least I won’t delete your blog.

Photo found by positan0

We were pretty busy over the last weeks, so I’ll do a quick recap of some things that we did lately :)

Random picture to make this post less boring ;) Fount at pinkneptune

I’m excited to announce one of our new projects, more to come :)

We were talking in the milkchat tonight about how it would be nice to have a safe place for all the Gay Youth Bloggers out there to host their blogs. A place they can rely on and trust in, where they won’t get kicked for random reasons like it happens at services like Blogger. Since we have way more web space on the milboys server than we need… I thought we could just create such a place right here, right now! :D

Want to know more?

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…is one of the phrases I really can’t stand. I know I should rant less if I don’t want to get every single reader pissed off lol. But seriously, what is wrong with some people? A boy with hair longer than an inch is what? A girl? Or filthy? Gimme a break. Could you people please forget your stupid prejudices you learned about “hippies” and “commies”? You don’t like longer hair? Fine. That doesn’t mean you have to assume everyone who does is scruffy and indecent. Fuck off my pond, will you?

[Found at ma-nouvelle-vie | via pinkneptune]