So, this is what it feels like to be thrown under the bus. And then have another bus drive over you, because the first one wasn’t enough.
Democrats: i’m not feeling the love, okay? Because i can tell that you’re fumbling around to find the barest minimum you can do for us queer folks [...]
A couple of months ago, before the New York Times made it fashionable, i wrote about J. Michael Bailey and his claims about autogynephilia. Now, as Marti points out, Bailey has written on ScientificBlogging about the criticism he’s undergone since his book about transsexualism came out four years ago.
In this blog post he summarizes [...]
I hear on a semi-regular basis — again, just the other day in fact — about what foils for the patriarchy transpeople are. How our undertaking of gender transition helps to support rather than to undermine the gender caste system.
And so now i’m frustrated with this to the point of being snarky about it. [...]
A little over one year into transition, and i have days where i’m not sure what it means anymore. It’s ike this looming thing in my life which was once solid and tangible has become ethereal. I used to be able to point to a specific set of thoughts and feelings and say, [...]
Last week i wrote a long post in response to the online posting of an essay by Dr. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins. Then yesterday i encountered again the idea of ‘autogynephilia’ among transsexual women, this time in the context of J. Michael Bailey’s work.
Yes, THAT J. Michael Bailey. A number of people far [...]
This diatribe by Paul McHugh, at one time Psychiatrist-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins University, against transsexualism is not news. But since encountering the text of it online last week, i have been pondering how to respond. I think the best response i can give is a line-by-line answer.
When the practice of sex-change surgery first [...]
I wrote a filtered post in my LJ about it a couple of years ago, but i haven’t really made it public knowledge that i have an intersex condition. This may come as a surprise, but i don’t actually make it a habit to talk publicly about certain parts of my body. It was [...]
The officials who run the Miss Spain pageant have changed their eligibility rules so that mothers and transsexual women are allowed to compete.
It’s a strike for… equality?
Won’t it be a shining moment in transgender history when, say, three to five years from now, a galla wins the title of Miss Spain and goes on to [...]
I have a feeling that there is going to be an intense blogosphere backlash over the cancellation of the showing of “the Gendercator” at a GLBT film festival a couple of weeks ago, and just today, of Bitch’s performance at the Boston Dyke March.
It is being said that this is our doing. Or, if [...]
I’m beginning to think that the answer to the question i posed in my last entry is “no.” Not that i am going to give up so easily — i have a penchant for persisting in doing things i feel i have no choice but to do. (But then i also have a penchant for [...]