TRANScend GENDER

Livejournal has a feature which I’ve never used - a daily question with which to inspire posts in those who lack anything else to write about. It’s a bit hokey, but today’s question caught my eye:
Do you ever want to be of the opposite sex? If so, what attracts you to the idea? If not, [...]

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I discovered this thought-provoking blog post from Jendi Reiter:
The first-ever New England Transgender Pride March took place this weekend in Northampton, and I was there with my “Episcopal Church Welcomes You” rainbow tank top and a digital camera to capture the pageantry. I was hoping to blend into the MassEquality contingent, but they were scattered [...]

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I found the link to this study along with a copy of the paper at Transgendernews, a yahoo group. Here’s the link.
http://www.intersexualite.org/Zucker_boys.html
I think you’ll find it quite enlightning about Zucker’s real agenda, but you should read it and make up your own mind.
Amber

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Edited to add: “Transvestite Wives” will also be shown again on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM, if you missed it the first time around.
Last night, I caught the premiere of BBC America’s “Transvestite Wives” episode in their BBC America Reveals series. From their website:
Transvestite Wives looks at three transvestite relationships, as seen [...]

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My long-suffering significant other and I went to see Iron Man a couple of weeks ago. This, in itself, is not out of the ordinary: we’re movie people, so we see a lot of them. About halfway through the movie, though, I suffered a bit of a blow to my basic epistemology.
The set-up: I try [...]

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I wanted to revisit the subject of Autogynophelia, because it seems to me that, the way it’s described, it seems to fit me as well as anything else that I’ve read.  I actually went to the link provided in an earlier post and read the information given there, and as I read the article, I [...]

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I had a rather cool experience recently which showed me how small the world is - and how the right approach can cause people to be accepting even when you don’t expect it. My friend Abby suggested I share it with you all.
It all started one day at work - I was at lunch with [...]

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who am I ?
what am I ?
how am I ?
Explain. Explain. Explain. I sometimes get tired of having to explain everything I do.
I chatted with a guy on line today, and, for the 15 minutes, or, so, we chatted he was nothing but questions. How this. Why that. It was all I could not to [...]

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I am evolving as a person.
This is what life is to me right now as a pre-op transsexual. And before you question this. Yes I am 100% positive this is who I am. It is as uniquely and infinitely difficult a concept to explain as it is to understand… If you are not me. [...]

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