17 July 2012

The Dilemma Of A Transgender In Prison

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Note:  At the beginning of  this post, I am going to use a male pronouns and a male name in reference to someone who identifies as female. ...
16 July 2012

What We Become

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Note:  You may have noticed that two previous posts ( Fatigue At The Beginning And The End   and Stories of Men And Women ) were in italics...
13 July 2012

Running Here For Their Lives

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In an earlier post, I described the ordeal of " Fahrida ," who was in one of my first support groups.  Now I will tell you someth...
09 July 2012

Josie Romero: A Child Knows Her Body, Knows Her Self

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Quite possibly the most profound message of The Vagina Monologues is that the easiest way to keep someone--especially a woman--oppressed i...
07 July 2012

I'm Three; This Blog Is Four. What's Next?

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Today I am three years old.  And this blog is four. The second sentence probably makes sense to you.  Maybe the first one doesn't.  W...
03 July 2012

Stories of Men And Women

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Nobody's a hero; nobody's decorated.  Nobody's remembered...at least not the men, anyway.  Now that everybody who was related t...
02 July 2012

ConCATenation

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Here is something that gives new meaning to the word concatenation : Max is in front; Marley is behind him. They know how to dea...
29 June 2012

How Gay And (Especially) Transgender Youth Are Criminalized

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Members of "minority" groups who experience discrimination have long been over-represented in jails and prisons.  This has been d...
28 June 2012

Fatigue, At The Beginning And The End

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I'm so tired now.  I've been tired for so long, I want to close a door and cry.  Mother used to do that sometimes.  But there's...
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26 June 2012

The Supreme Court, Immigration And LGBT people

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Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration policy got me to thinking about someone in a weekly support group I atte...
24 June 2012

WE Bike And Me

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What's gotten into me?  I mean, what's this with me and volunteering? It's not as if I haven't volunteered before....
21 June 2012

Keelin Godsey: Competing As A Woman, Living As A Man?

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Keelin Godsey wants to make the US Olympic team in the hammer throw, and compete in the Olympics in London this summer. Normally, that wo...
18 June 2012

Kylar Broadus Testifies Before The Senate

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An activist once told me, "It's all about visibility." In this country, it's hard to beat testifying before the Senate ...
15 June 2012

Thapelo Makutle: Transgender Pageant Winner Murdered In South Africa

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I am glad to see countries that had repressive regimes not so long ago are making progress when it comes to LGBT right.  As examples, I thi...
13 June 2012

13 Myths And Misconceptions About Trans Women

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In light (!) of yesterday's post, I am linking " 13 Myths And Misconceptions  About Trans Women ."  I just came across it tod...
12 June 2012

Why Do You Want To Go To The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?

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You know it's summer when....you start hearing about the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Thinking about it--to the degree that I...
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11 June 2012

How Low Will Cathy Brennan Go--And For What?

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In spite of the evil I've witnessed, I still have had hope for this world.  That hope was based on, among other things, that folks like...
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10 June 2012

Because He Can

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So...A few weeks ago, Barack announced that he's in favor of gay marriage--after Joe Biden's announcement of same basically pressur...
08 June 2012

About The Intersex Debate

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Yesterday's post  generated one of the most mean-spirited comments I've received since I started this blog. For the record:  I ha...
07 June 2012

Intersexed People And Faux Fascination

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Recently, Faux (I mean, Fox) and other media outlets made a spectacle about the " man who found out she was a woman ."   For an...
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