12 April 2014

Something That Hasn't Changed (Unfortunately)

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Last night, I stopped by the LGBT Community Center.  I hadn't been there in a while, but early in my transition, I sometimes felt as if...
11 April 2014

Myths About Women And Cycling

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Given my life experiences, it would surprise few people to know that I think about some of the differences between female and male cyclists...
10 April 2014

An Open Letter To A Young Victim Of Homophobia

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For two years, I co-facilitated a weekly group for LGBT teenagers and young adults.  I was a volunteer and had to stop because of changes i...
09 April 2014

Why The Fact That An Adjunct Teaches Your Class Is A Feminist Issue

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Someone passed this very interesting article from the Feminist Daily News   to me: April-02-14 Adjunct Faculty Demand Fair Pay and Be...
08 April 2014

Too Unconventional

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Maspeth is a Queens neigborhood only two miles from my apartment.  I pass through it frequently and even stop once in a while, as one of m...
07 April 2014

Yearning For A New Journey

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I am itching to go to France, to Europe, again.  Actually, I really want to do what I did as recently as 2001, just before 9/11:  Buy the ...
06 April 2014

Where We're Covered

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Right now, laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on gender identity or presentation are in effect for jurisdictions in which 47 ...
05 April 2014

Bad For Our Health

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A recent report shows a dramatic increase in the  number of suicides among City Public School pupils this year. Nearly all researchers--...
04 April 2014

A Year In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

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I know it's Spring.  And it's time to ride and be joyful. But I think there's something else that bears mentioning. On this da...
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...