23 September 2012

Hate Served Up In Village McDonalds

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In my youth, I spent a pretty fair amount of time in and around Washington Square Park and West Fourth Street in Greenwich Village. Given...
22 September 2012

"The Matrix" Director Comes Out

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Is 2012 the "coming-out" year for transgender celebrities? First we had Chaz (ne Chastity) Bono, the child of Sonny and Cher.  A...
21 September 2012

Michelle Kosilek: A Dilemma Of The Eighth Amendment

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On one hand, we have the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment."  This ...
20 September 2012

Video Night

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Thank you, Eva-Genevieve! , for linking How To Make Love To A Trans Person on your site: I would love to have been there to see Gabe...
18 September 2012

Transgender In Iran

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In a previous post , I mentioned that Argentina--which had one of the most repressive military regimes, supported by the Catholic Church, le...
17 September 2012

Advice To Someone Undergoing A Gender Transition

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The other day, I was talking with a friend who is transitioning and works in an academic institution.  (It's not one in which I've ...
04 September 2012

Let's Forget Romney's Past

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If I only I'd known then what I know now... When I've applied for jobs, I mentioned my previous experience, to the degree that it...
03 September 2012

Voter ID: A Transgender Issue

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You know it's election season when the issue of voter IDs comes up. As you've probably heard by now, a federal court has struck d...
31 August 2012

Why I Didn't Want To Go Back

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This week I went back to school.  I don't know whether anyone's noticed, but I've been more withdrawn than I usually am when I...
13 August 2012

WE BIKE At Smorgasburg

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Yesterday I promised to tell the readers of my other blog about the event where I saw the Pashley Mailstar, which is used by the "p...
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05 August 2012

"It's Not Natural!"

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It's been two weeks since I last posted. There's no particular reason for my "hiatus."  There simply hasn't been much...
23 July 2012

Sally Ride, R.I.P.

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I have just found out that Sally Ride has died of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 61. As you probably know, she became the first Amer...
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...