Getting “ma’am”ed or “sir”ed can really make a difference in the mood of a day of a trans person! Yesterday, I went to a service call to replace light bulbs on a juke box and as I was opening my tool box to get my work keys, the cute young (female) bartender came around the [...]
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Here is something I wrote on my personal blog, it is something I felt was important and needed to be shared here as well. I have been thinking about children and transition again. I wrote about this before after I had read a blog post suggesting that not telling our children right away can be [...]
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The copy below is to what I think is an excellent article from The Guardian newspaper in Britain. My own opinion is that under 18 is possibly too young to transition, however I knew full well who I was inside at that age, and if I’d transitioned my life would have been far more productive [...]
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I’ve been thinking about the subject of friendship and transition for a while now, but recent events and a few other blogs on the subject of friends that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks prompted me to write my own blog about it. Early on in my therapy sessions, probably a year and [...]
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Over on my personal blog, I just posted the story of how I came to be a student of A Course in Miracles and how, last week, I came to the decision to tell the weekly study group I attend my story of growing up trans. Because of its length, I’ve decided to just give [...]
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I first came across the rumor of a TV show (based on GID) called ‘Pretty/Handsome’ buried in the comments section of the excellent ‘Being T’ (Thanks, Bitsy!). I was intrigued, but heard no more about it until yesterday when I was checking out the personal blogs of some other ‘Being T’ commenters and found Chosha, [...]
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Here is something I wrote on my personal blog. I thought I would share it here as well, a few of my thoughts on transition and courage. I believe, as a community, we display unparalleled courage and conviction. It is part of what carries us through, and it is this community that helps prop us up when [...]
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I look through the door to the inner space, where things are not always what they seem I see dark deeds and cool spring water ideas fly with raven wings the grass breeds tiny green monsters that sing with whispering sighs trees bear fruit of vision seen only with burned out eyes The vision seems [...]
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I like to stare out windows for hours at a time – I always have ever since I was a young child. Here at my door is where I find inspiration looking at the same things I have many times before. The scene never fails to inspire me as it first did when I looked [...]
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MSNBC’s ‘Born in the Wrong Body: A Change of Heart’
[Update to the review: Josef has contributed to the discussion forum on the show here. Worth a read. ] I knew that I wanted to write a post about ‘Born in the Wrong Body: A Change of Heart’ before it even aired, especially so because many of my friends told me they were reluctant or [...]
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