This is a blog entry from my personal blog. Lori had suggested I cross post this entry here. I am glad that she suggested that, it has been some time since I posted here. Thanks for the suggestion Lori, and the wonderful comments. I felt compelled to write about a topic that is rather close [...]
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Earlier this week, I blogged about getting my first intentional ma’am from a sandwich maker at the local Subway. The interesting thing is that I wasn’t trying to “pass” at the time. If you’re interested, you could read about it on my 360 blog, including a picture of me wearing what I wore into the [...]
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Hi all, Today, I told my boss that I have Gender Identity Disorder. It was kinda scary, but I needed to do it sooner or later, and the right opportunity came up. I had a laser treatment on Monday and I think the doctor used a bit too much power. My face and neck has [...]
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Mom ended up asking me to send the letter, anyway, but, I had scrapped the original this morning, and ended up sending this instead. Sorry, but I am not going to send that letter. But I will say this much…. The fact that (brother) and I are at odds is because of his actions and [...]
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Mom’s response to my letter to my aunt: Listen Marcus, Don’t ever presume to know how I am feeling because you never will and never can!!!!!!! I remain, Your Mother I am truly going to miss the “person I thought I knew”. So, I wrote a long letter to mom last night but don’t think [...]
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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 [...]
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My aunt sent me this e-mail/link today. The link is for a “recovered” transsexual whom I agreed to meet with almost 2 years ago as my family was struggling to accept my being transgender. They thought if this person could be saved then I could be saved as well. http://www.leaderu.com/stonewall/pages/jerry_l.html Here is my response to my [...]
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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 [...]
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“Being Male”
This is something I wrote in my personal blog, and I just thought I would share it here as well. It is a reflection on how I felt about my life as a “male” and how I experienced that life. The concept of life as a male, that life before transition and even during transition, [...]
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