03 April 2014

One Way To Explain The Difference

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Here's an answer to a question just about all trans (and more than a few cisgender) people are asked:
02 April 2014

When An Enemy Of Trans People Is A Friend of Labor (Or So He Thinks)

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A colleague is petitioning the college to build or designate transgender bathrooms.  "A male-to-female is taking her life into her han...
01 April 2014

Dignity In Death

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Too many trans people face the dilemma of being defined by a document issued when they were born while they are living their lives their tr...
31 March 2014

Why We Are The Future Of Faith

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Lately I've found myself thinking more and more about an issue that I ignored and had assumed I would always ignore:  that of the relat...
30 March 2014

When Transgenders Self-Medicate

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For about nine months before I began to live and work full-time as a woman, I was taking estrogen and Spironolactone.  For about a year and...
29 March 2014

Israel Protects LGBT Students

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Last week, the Israeli Knesset passed a law prohibiting discrimination against students based on gender identity or sexual orientation.  T...
28 March 2014

Department of Justice To Train Police To Work With Transgender People

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As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I had to go to my local precinct--the 114th in Astoria, Queens, New York--three times before they wou...
27 March 2014

Dreaming Of Going Dutch

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I try to keep myself in the moment and to appreciate where I am. Still, it's not hard to want to be on a bike in Leiden, Netherlands ...
26 March 2014

On A Hater's Death, From His Son

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As I mentioned a few days ago, Rev. Fred Phelps senior--he of Westboro Baptist Church fame--has died. I am happy to know that I'm not...
25 March 2014

A Timeline Of Our Visibility

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I have not forsaken my promise to write more about the Lost Generation of Transgenders.  Sooner or later, though, I think it will turn into...
24 March 2014

Sleepless As What's Under Them

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The other day I got out for a bit of a ride.  On my way home, I passed through the Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill neighborhoods of Bro...
23 March 2014

Gender Grammar

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As a writer who's spent many years teaching English, I found this interesting: From Planet Deafqueer  
22 March 2014

Chelsea Manning Seeks To Make It Official

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Chelsea (nee Bradley) Manning is requesting a formal name change.  On 23 April, a judge in Kansas--where she is currently incarcerated--wi...
21 March 2014

Socially Relevant Messages From A Moral Monday

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The days of graffiti "taggers" using New York City subway cars as their canvases, if you will, are long gone. However, that doe...
20 March 2014

Fred Phelps Is Dead

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This is a sort of update to an earlier post. Fred Phelps is dead . We all knew this was coming. After all, he had been in ill health a...
19 March 2014

Where Lesbians Get Off But Gay Men Are Cut Off

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Could lesbians actually benefit from misogyny? That question, on its face, might be the most preposterous you've ever heard.  But one...
18 March 2014

A Day Begins With A Setting Cloud

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Yesterday's post on Midlife Cycling ended with a pot of gold over the rainbow.  Well, sort of. Today's post begins--as my day ...
17 March 2014

Why We Have The Golden Rule

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At times like this, I understand why the Golden Rule exists. The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, is said to...
16 March 2014

Why Do We Need A Parade For Our Journeys?

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Is Brazil one of the world's most progressive countries when it comes to attitudes about gender and gay rights?  Or is it a conservativ...
15 March 2014

Add "Insincere" To "Ignorant", "Obnoxious" And "Bigoted"

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I've become my mother. All right, I'll admit, I was well on my way to becoming like her long before I started my gender transitio...