In a few months, I’ll be attending a secular conference to speak about trans-related issues. Since this subject is pretty general and wide-ranging in its scope, and most of the audience obviously won’t be trans, I was hoping I could enlist your help in figuring out exactly what people might be curious about when it …
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Apr 20 2013
Arrested development of good taste
(Warning for casual transmisogyny.) I’ve watched Arrested Development a couple times. It’s not really my cup of tea, but Heather enjoys it, and I can certainly see why people might like it. Now that it’s returning on Netflix for another season, I might have given it another chance. And then someone who runs their Facebook …
Mar 23 2013
Thank You, Natalie
When I was first invited to Freethought Blogs last year, there were a lot of reasons to be excited. I couldn’t believe that I’d be blogging alongside Greta, PZ, Ian, Jen, Ed, and everyone else here – as well as JT, Dan, Chris, and the others who have now moved elsewhere. Getting to join a …
Mar 22 2013
Quote-unquote
Bad: Going to a trans woman’s blog full of trans stuff and stunning everyone with the epic revelation that she’s “male”. Worse: Scare-quoting a trans woman’s name. Funny: Scare-quoting a trans woman’s name when her real name is actually Lauren.
Mar 21 2013
Trans woman commits suicide after being bullied by the Daily Mail
It was exactly three months ago that Richard Littlejohn published a piece in the Daily Mail viciously attacking Lucy Meadows, a primary school teacher in Britain. Littlejohn targeted Meadows because she’s transgender and had chosen to remain in her job as a teacher after beginning to present as a woman – this was the entire basis …
Mar 13 2013
Reinterpreting our pasts in light of new evidence
As trans people, most of us understand the temptation to look back on our earlier life and seek out signs of incipient transness. It can help people feel that, in some sense, they always were the person they are now. This need isn’t just something from within – sometimes it’s not from within at all …
Mar 09 2013
Natalie makes some really good points
Natalie has a new post up, which you should read in its entirety, but this in particular stood out to me: One of the immediate issues I have with “gender dysphoria” is that it falls into the very common pattern of people taking a varied range of things and variables and stuff related to gender, …
Mar 04 2013
This is a pretty big deal for me
Autostraddle, an online news and culture magazine for queer women, recently solicited submissions by trans women on topics relevant to transness and queerdom. Today, I’m overjoyed to announce that they’ve published their first selection: my story of transitioning and falling in love with Heather. It’s a photo-essay-ish inside look at how I came to understand …
Mar 02 2013
We’re writing a book
Kristin Tynski, a fellow trans woman on YouTube, has graciously invited me to contribute to her upcoming e-book, Hacking Transition. It’s an in-depth guide to the mental, physical, social and legal processes of transitioning, for trans women, by trans women. In addition to a comprehensive exploration of the science, medicine and raw mechanics of transition, …
Feb 21 2013
Do you have a gender identity? Want to find out?
“How can you know that your gender doesn’t align with your body? What does it feel like to have a gender, anyway?” These are common questions from cis people who want to understand what it’s like to be trans. They want to know how we can be so aware of our gender that this internal …
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