04 July 2015

Happy Fourth Of July! Get Ready!

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Happy Fourth of July, a.k.a. US Independence Day! Many in our community are still celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex ...
03 July 2015

Girl Scouts Return Donation, Then Triple It

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A few days ago , I wrote about a woman who upholds her convictions--or, at least, the stated values of an organization she leads. The Que...
02 July 2015

Freddie Really DidSomething

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Before I started living full-time as a woman, I saw a therapist and social worker every week for a year.  And I saw them weekly for the fir...
01 July 2015

An NFL Player Tackled By Transgender Panic

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Transgender=Predator. To some people,  this equation is as ironclad as 2+2=4.  Yet when you ask those same people to name a specific case...
30 June 2015

If It Can't Be Used To Help Trans Girls, The Girl Scouts Don't Want It

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It's great to know that some organizations actually stand behind their stated principles. One such organization is the Girl Scouts--s...
29 June 2015

For The Community, A Victory. For You And Your Partner, Maybe Not So Much.

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As I have said in earlier posts, even though I support marriage equality, I would much prefer that the government got out of the marri...
28 June 2015

Body Language And Marriage Politics

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Four years ago, marchers in New York City’s Pride March—and revelers on the streets and in parties during and after the event—celebrat...
27 June 2015

A Black Woman--Like Me? Like You?

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You may have noticed that, until today, I hadn’t commented on the woman of Czech, Irish, Swedish and Native American ancestry who clai...
26 June 2015

Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal Everywhere In The US

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An old man walks, with some trepidation, into an old house. It's dark, there's lots of dust and the floors creak with each step h...
25 June 2015

Why Did She Heckle The President?

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It's all but impossible to determine how many transgender people there are.   For one thing, definitions of "transgender" var...
24 June 2015

Being A Trans Girl Is Like...

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23 June 2015

When Will Trans People Live Cisgender Lives?

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I was rather pleasantly surprised by this article in the New York Post . Its author, Eric Hegedus, seems pleased that more trans actors are...
22 June 2015

Is She Better Just Because She's One Of Us?

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The second-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives is a staunch advocate of LGBT rights.  You are LGBT, and you live in his ...
21 June 2015

Happy Father's Day!

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Happy Father's Day! I offer this wish, not only to those of you who are male parents in the traditional sense, but also to any of yo...
20 June 2015

"Tolerance" Of Transgender People Caused The Charleston Church Massacre: Erick Erickson

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It seems that any time there's a manmade tragedy or natural disaster, we are somehow blamed for it. By "we" I mean LGBT peop...