Hi. Recently I was invited to post on TRANScend GENDER and I thought it made sense to introduce myself first. Firstly I’m a cisgender female, so my perspective is not that of a person experiencing GID or transition. This makes me a little nervous, but I hope I can still make some contribution. There are [...]
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[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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Life Experiences | Tagged: despair, exclusion, family, free will, GID, intolerance, life, mother, mtf, Reach out, religion, sadness, self acceptance, self-loathing, transexual, Transgender, transitioning, transsexual | 1 Comment »
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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Living in Britain I am proud of how tolerant we have become as a nation. I always thought that we were fully open to new ideas and different ways of life, after all for one thing we are a truly multi-racial nation, built up of communities from all over what was the British Empire. But [...]
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Standing on the outside looking in ~ a TDoR post
It’s been suggested to me that this would be an appropriate post to cross-post from my blog. For those unfamiliar with great Australian rock bands, the title is a Cold Chisel lyric. Somehow I let this slip by (TD0R is Nov 20) despite the fact that I read some related posts from other bloggers. Given [...]
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