A reader writes: “My question came to me when I read your interview with Nick Krieger. The book is my launching pad but it’s general enough that I didn’t want to derail the thread by asking there. I think it’s great that Nick’s book is getting such good reviews, and it sounds like an excellent [...]
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Ask Matt: Is There Male Privilege Within the Trans Community?
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged assimilation, books, community, gender roles, trans men, trans women on October 31, 2011 | 34 Comments »
Ask Matt: Outing Yourself for the Comfort of Others
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged assimilation, being out, being trans, coming out, trans men, trans women, transphobia on October 24, 2011 | 10 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a 22-year-old trans guy just starting to feel my transition is mostly behind me. I’ve been perceived as male 100 percent of the time for maybe six months now, and I am semi-stealth. I had a strange experience the other day that raised a lot of questions for me about openness, [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Gender Confusion – City, Suburbs, and Small Towns
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged assimilation, being trans, gender expectations, gender expression, gender roles, LGBT, sexual orientation on July 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a gay trans guy in my mid twenties who just moved to a gay neighborhood in a large city. I’m originally from a relatively small town, where I was living a double life. I was “she” at home (living with family), but when I’d go out with friends I met through [...]
Ask Matt: Mom Says, ‘Don’t Go Stealth!’
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged assimilation, being out, family, gender expression, hormones, testosterone, transition on June 16, 2011 | 15 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a sixteen-year-old trans guy and I’ve been out to my immediate family for one year now. I’ve had many conversations with my mom about someday going stealth. She is extremely against it and says it’s deceitful – that it would be lying to people. She says I would be letting people [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Living Stealth After Public Transition
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged assimilation, being out, community, Internet, stealth on March 21, 2011 | 9 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m a college student navigating transition in an all-women’s college and often feel a sense of voyeuristic intrusion by my peers. How do I make sure that I can live a stealth trans life in the future, outside of college, when so many people have seen my transition take place – people [...]
Ask Matt Monday: How Can We Make Progress If We’re Stealth?
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Observations, tagged activism, assimilation, being out, coming out, discrimination, legal, transition on November 29, 2010 | 32 Comments »
A reader writes: “While I sometimes feel that I just want to be stealth, I am unable to allow myself such a luxury because I feel strongly that the only way that people like me can make a difference is to be very out, to get involved in our communities. “In my mind, the only [...]
‘The Kids Are All Right’ in Trans Families
Posted in Information, News, Observations, tagged assimilation, being out, being trans, family, relationships, trans women on July 20, 2010 | 13 Comments »
My friend Eden Lane leads a “balanced” life. She is, in many ways, what I consider to be an assimilated trans woman, but she maintains her ties with the LGBT community. She works as a mainstream broadcast journalist, both hosting and producing mainstream talk shows, including In Focus, for Colorado Public Television 12, but she [...]
Cisgender, Non-Trans, and ‘Other’ Language
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged assimilation, being trans, identity, language on June 10, 2010 | 40 Comments »
I was at a meeting recently with four trans men and one trans woman, and I posed this fascinating question: Do you use “cisgender” to refer to non-trans people? The men, who ranged in age from late 20s to early 40s, all said no. They all use non-trans. One of the younger guys said, “I [...]
Should We Keep Transition Regret Under Wraps?
Posted in Commentary, tagged assimilation, film, gender expression, gender roles, identity, transition on May 24, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Films like Regretters may have some trans people concerned about “airing our dirty laundry” to the public. After all, if some people “regret” transitioning, then non-trans people might see it as a mistake that should be avoided, and anti-trans factions could use the information against us — to try to make getting hormones and/or surgery [...]
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Trans People: Are We ‘Just Like You’?
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged assimilation, being trans, discrimination, gender expectations on January 26, 2012 | 23 Comments »
The “just like you” argument is about as old as time, dirt, and me. It probably emerged with the first person to be marginalized by a group in power, and there was likely enough of a difference between this person and that group that the group was able to justify shutting him or her out. [...]
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