Tag: Trans

Over the years as I went through the process of living my life as a transgender woman, I encountered many instances of crisis management. Some of the encounters were funny, some were anything but funny. Several come to mind as I write this post. Probably the most humorous account came at the ill ...

So there I was when our MAGA guest first arrived. I was wearing a purple Tomboy X women’s half-sleeve T-shirt, silky above the knee women’s black shorts, I had on purple socks to match the shirt, my legs and my body shaved smooth, I smelled a bit like flowers, my ear piercings in both ea...

The child is allowed to choose their own name, pronouns, hairstyle, and clothes. They periodically check in with a psychologist to find out whether this still feels like coming home, or whether it’s last week’s craze. That’s it. That’s all they do at such a young age.&nbsp...

Whether or not you are ultimately supportive of trans people when discussing this question and no matter your answer, it is not a conversation that cis people should be having – especially not publicly. Recently, I watched a video where YouTuber Samantha Lux reacted to a video from the YouTube...

The point is that people that don’t understand how varied trans humans can be, lump us all into the same categories and generalize across the board that we’re all the same and do the same. I don’t care to use what they’re calling, “women only spac...

A couple of years ago the Daily Telegraph ran a transition diary by Diana Thomas, and regardless of your position on both the paper and her, one thing she talked about in the last few entries was that she did not want to be labelled a professional trans person. That is, she did not want to be only k...

I’m always fascinated when folks declare they have no regrets; I regret almost everything. I was born into an Evangelical Christian home in 1962. I knew from my first cognizant moment that I was a girl, but I had to argue that fact as soon as I could talk. A pesky protrusion noted on my birth ...

In the bad old days of anti-trans media discourse one had to get an article past editors, publishers, and a sceptical audience in order to find acceptance. Printing was a relatively slow process, with books being published in the thousands and newspapers being chip wrappers the next day. Even in the...