22 March 2011

Please Don't Approach Me As A "T"

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Today two different people approached me to help with something called " Safe Zone " training.  And I reacted in two completely di...
21 March 2011

It's Her Party, So Why Am I The Center of Attention?

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I went to a party a couple of nights ago. For most people that wouldn't be terribly remarkable, I guess.  And, in the scheme of things, ...
17 March 2011

Barie Shortell and Trans Women In Brazil

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At some point, I came to think of late June as gay bashing season.  It seemed that the couple of weeks before and after this city's Prid...
15 March 2011

Found Out!

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At my second job, I haven't talked about my gender history with my students.  I haven't wanted to, in part because I got tired of do...
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14 March 2011

Keeping Our Fingers Crossed

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Normally, my mind glazes over when I see charts full of numbers.  But A.E.Brain has a way of making such things comprehensible.  I'm ha...
13 March 2011

Japan and the Children of Chernobyl

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It seems that things are going from bad to worse in Japan.  Now there's been a meltdown  in one of the nuclear reactors there, and radia...
12 March 2011

How Will Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Affect Women?

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What's happened in Japan  over the last 48 hours is terrible enough.  Indeed, the earthquake that hit is much stronger than the one that...
11 March 2011

Rose, Thou Are Well

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O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his da...
10 March 2011

Charlie and Lindsay

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Could I be turning into one of those women who finds sexism around every corner?  Could you blame me if I did? Here's a thought I had ...
09 March 2011

Breaking Them

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Today I saw a bumper sticker that said, "I love my country, not my government." When I've traveled overseas, people have told...
07 March 2011

Fading Away

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Lately I find that this blog is about the only place in which I discuss my experiences of having transitioned and gone through the surgery, ...
06 March 2011

Exceeding Their Grasp

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Although the day was almost as mild as yesterday was, I didn't ride.  In fact, I barely got out of my apartment at all.  I wasn't t...
05 March 2011

Charlie and Max on DOMA

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I am not, and have never been, a bleeding-heart liberal.  Everything I believe and know to be true is based on empirical evidence and my own...
04 March 2011

Tyra Trent And The Violence of Poverty

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I know it's the dead of winter and everyone's sick of it.  And some want to be cheered up. Well, this post isn't going to do ...
02 March 2011

Transgender Orthodox Rabbis?

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Yesterday another prof in my secondary job told me about an interesting article she read in the Jewish Forward.   Given that the Socialist P...
01 March 2011

The Look

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I can tell them from a mile away.  They're the ones who want to take you aside to talk to you.  They think they're doing something w...
28 February 2011

Carved In Granite?

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Two years ago, New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Now state Representatives David Bates and Leo Pepino are...
27 February 2011

Not Moving After All--Not Yet, Anyway

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was thinking of moving in with a woman I know.  Well, at least I thought I knew her.  Or, more pre...
26 February 2011

Subduing Corruption and Vice

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We never get a break, do we? First we're blamed for leading men into perdition, or simply making things complicated.    That's ho...
25 February 2011

Where Is Kye Allums?

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It occurs to me just now that I haven't heard anything about Kye Allums in a while.   Perhaps you haven't heard anything about h...