I wrote this a while ago and did a slight update. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
I have read so many stories, articles and biographies by transgender women. They have each tried to make their life experience relatable to cisgender individuals as they tell their individual stories. …
I was born a happy baby. I had a loving family and I was well cared for. I wasn’t a boy or a girl, I was just happy.
Every word surrounding gender has been abused and misused depending on the political agenda of the writer or commentator with regards to being transgender. Medicine and science don’t seem to have that same issue. They have clearly defined the difference between sex and gender. …
I believe I officially started to transition once I accepted my diagnosis of gender dysphoria and that I was transgender. It was a very difficult thing for me to accept at 61 years of age.
I have read about many transition experiences. It is regularly described as a very personal…
I wrote this over two years ago when I was at the lowest point of my gender journey. I had just been diagnosed the previous year by two psychologists and a psychiatrist independently. Their diagnoses were the same.
Without question I was transgender.
Over a year later I was still…
Writers note: Warning, the following is political sarcasm. Please treat it as such.
Merriam-Webster defines a cabal as the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabal
As I continue to read the popular media from around the world regarding…
Every day during my “tweener” period, the time between my forced male presentation and publicly expressing my repressed female gender, I am constantly confronting gender things that are pretty annoying, sometimes very difficult and other times downright miserable.
I seem to trip over piles of doubt regularly. I am…
Over the last almost 4 four years I have tried to answer the question James Finn posed in this week’s Prism & Pen writing prompt.
“Who the hell are you?”
Prior to these past four years, I thought I knew. I was a straight, cisgender male. I was like everybody…
It is an indisputable fact that women have been the greatest victim of gender predators.
The #MeToo movement has provided a much-needed spotlight on what was once acceptable misogynist male behavior. …
I watched a special over the weekend featuring interviews with some Black Americans who say they want to pass as white, then airing the reactions of Black Americans who say that by passing, they would be turning their back on their own people.
The special made me think about my…
