T-Notes
My experiences have not been unusual. Sadly, they are more common, by far, than those whose personal experiences have not [...]
I think one thing many will agree upon is the critical need for change — personally, publicly, politically and socially. [...]
Regarding the issue of nomenclature and labels, there are many opinions on this particular subject. Invariably, few agree. I suggest [...]
As I write this, it’s Saturday of Thanksgiving Day weekend — the so-called beginning of the holiday season. People are [...]
There are several fundamental themes that always seem to repeat themselves in trans matters: if the bathroom issue is most [...]
Given increased press coverage trans issues have garnered over the past five years, I remain skeptical regarding the media’s ability [...]
Healthcare debate in this country hasn’t gone from the ridiculous to the sublime; rather, it’s become progressively and inexorably more [...]
Forty one years after the first hate crime legislation was passed, and 11 years after Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder, the [...]
The bad
In May, Sacramento’s KRXQ radio station was caught in a maelstrom of its own making. Two of the three [...]
The “hairpin drop heard round the world” — that is how New York’s Mattachine Society, and others, 40 years ago [...]
Sarah Gronert’s desire to play tennis isn’t complicated. Unfortunately, for her, everything else about the game is. You may have [...]
Almost two years ago, I started assembling a database of items culled off the net. Seventy-five percent of this material [...]
I am a subscriber to Parabola Magazine. I recently read an article by Patrick Laude published in summer 2008. Laude [...]
Well, here we are again — back to the nitty gritty, the foundation and rock of transphobia, that issue which [...]
I wasn’t really sure what to address in this first column of 2009. I’ll be honest — I’ve had easier [...]
This concludes a four-part series on the DSM, gatekeeper mentality, reparative therapy and other fallacious theories, such as autogynephilia. Conformity [...]
It’s 3 a.m. in the morning — Wednesday, Nov. 5 — and I am still in a daze from last [...]
Within the past four weeks, two events point toward significant progress in the fight for trans equality. The first comes [...]
Ed. Note — In deference and with all due respect to Gwen Smith, who has, for years, been writing under [...]
Ed. Note — This is part two in a series on trans issues and the DSM V, continued from the [...]