Today, April 23, is my birthday (don’t worry, I scheduled this post beforehand, I’m probably out celebrating right now). I share this day of birth of William Shakespeare, Shirley Temple, and other famous people who have Wikipedia articles. I am now 25 years old, and looking younger everyday. It’s also almost exactly two months since my top surgery, and as a mish-mash-all-in-one I’ll share my … Continue reading Birthday
The Introduction Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience is a non-fiction auto-biographical recount of a transman’s transition in his early 40’s. The author is Matt Kailey, who runs a wonderful blog which I frequently visit not just for the articles but for the stimulating conversation that usually ensues. The Review For the inexperienced, novice, young or old, discovering transsexual, this book … Continue reading Book Review: Just Add Hormones
As anyone whose gender is non-binary, I dread forms, especially online ones where you absolutely cannot click “next” until you fill everything out. Here are three forms that I’ve recently filled out that have surprised me in some way. Trevor Space This is a subgroup of the larger Trevor Project, focusing on spreading LGBT awareness in order to prevent suicide in queer teens. Trevor Space … Continue reading Gender Forms
A few weeks ago I started a Tumblr blog and so far my Ask box has been quite full. It’s awesome! But I’m having a little trouble keeping up. Some of the topics covered are overlapping a lot, so in order to cover more ground in one place and get to everyone faster, here’s a Summary Recap. First of all, a big thanks to all … Continue reading Tumblr Recap: Definitions
Sometimes pass as a boy, other times as girl, and even, to my delight, as an ambiguously gendered person, which is the closest one can get to agender passing. As an introductory prelude, let it remain unspecified as to which one I prefer to pass as, or how I feel about passing in general. I’d just like to point out some mathematical correlations I’ve induced. … Continue reading The Math of Passing
My girlfriend has gathered up all of her inspiration. We always discuss issues like these in our day to day, but she finally sat down to write it all up in a coherent, full blown post. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoy bouncing off ideas with her. The 1,2,3 of being the Significant Other of a Neutrois Person Perspectives of a Cisgendered … Continue reading Guest Post: The 1,2,3 of being the Significant Other
EDIT: see the comments at the end of the post. I found a link to a guy’s blog, and he doesn’t allow comments, so here’s my comment. The author points out that some of the descriptions of top surgery (aka FTM Chest Masculinization) cases on a Dr.’s website list the patient as she and her. And the author is very pissed at this. And this … Continue reading Top Surgery is Not Just for FTMs
The Introduction I picked up Jumpstart the World, by Catherine Ryan Hyde, after seeing it listed as a Lambda Award Finalist, and promptly sped through it in two days. It begins with Elle, who is a few days shy of turning 16, and whose mother has just dropped her off in her new apartment in New York City. Thus, we get to know Elle and … Continue reading Book Review: Jumpstart the World
You can read the whole article on the GLAAD Blog: Peabody Awards Honor Groundbreaking Degrassi Episodes. Hinging on the article though, I’ll take it as an opportunity to tell you about a groundbreaking occurrence in TV history. If you’re like me, you own a TV only to stream Netflix from it, and don’t actually watch anything on Cable, or live in another continent, you might … Continue reading In the News: Degrassi
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