27 March 2011

Sometimes You Just Have To Ask

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Today I parked my bike in a place where I never before parked it. The funny thing is that it was a place where I used to go almost daily ...
26 March 2011

What I Learned From Geraldine Ferraro

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Is this turning into a blog about famous recently-departed women? Today Geraldine Ferraro died.  If you're reading this, you probably...
25 March 2011

Violence Against Transgenders On The Rise. Why?

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Lately, I've been reading reports and editorials that indicate or imply increasing violence against transgender people.  Some people m...
23 March 2011

R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor

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As most of the world knows by now, Elizabeth Taylor died today.   As old as I am, I can just barely remember her heyday as an actress--or...
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...