A reader writes: “A few weeks ago I was at a trans advocacy meeting, and the guy who was currently moderating mentioned that he’d not really had trans identity on his radar until three years ago. That short amount of time struck me for some reason. “I’ve been out for eight years, and aware that [...]
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Ask Matt: Losing and Finding Your Place in Trans Activism
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged activism, being out, being trans, community, gender identity, transition on May 10, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Ask Matt: Writing a Trans Character in Fiction
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged being out, being trans, books, trans women, transition, transsexual on May 3, 2012 | 32 Comments »
A reader writes: “I’m an author who wishes to include a trans person in her fictional writings. I fear I know little to nothing about trans people as a whole, however. “And while I believe trans people should be treated as people, I also don’t want to write a woman as cis and then claim [...]
Ask Matt: Should Gender Dysphoria Be in the DSM?
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, health, language, therapy, transition on April 16, 2012 | 34 Comments »
A reader writes: “The DSM-V is coming out at the end of the year, and the big question of whether or not gender identity disorder will appear is being decided now, I believe. I heard something about that they gave the revision of this part to the wrong people, and that something terrible could come [...]
‘Second Son’: An Interview with Ryan Sallans
Posted in Interviews, tagged being trans, books, community, trans men, transition on April 5, 2012 | 4 Comments »
While Nebraska might be a nice place to visit (or drive through on I-80), it can prove intimidating for trans people who are all too familiar with the murder of Brandon Teena near Humboldt. But now a positive story comes out of the Heartland (and the state of my birth). Author, speaker, activist, and trans [...]
Book Excerpt: The World’s Smallest Penis
Posted in Teeny Weenies Excerpts, tagged being trans, bodies, books, gender expectations, masculinity, transition on March 26, 2012 | 8 Comments »
For the past three days, I have been on death’s doorstep, and it’s kinda scary because I think ze is making chocolate chip cookies and I can smell them from out here – very inviting! That’s a slight exaggeration (I hope), but I have, in fact, been quite sick. And no, it’s not because I [...]
Ask Matt: Friends and Lovers
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged being trans, community, relationships on March 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
A reader writes: “How do you ask someone out? As a trans person, is there any special advice you would give another trans person who is in love with someone (in this case, a close friend) and wants to try to confess his/her/hir feelings? “Is there anything that is different for a transperson, compared to [...]
Ask Matt: What Should Therapists Know About Trans Issues?
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, health care, language, therapy, transition on March 12, 2012 | 13 Comments »
A reader writes: “I have two related questions about psychotherapists and trans clients when the trans client is not specifically seeking transition-related medical approval stamps, but simply seeking psychotherapy for any number of things that may include trans and transition-related stresses. “For psychotherapists who are not very familiar with gender variation and trans issues, and [...]
Trans Bashing Revisited: Trans People in Non-Trans LG Spaces
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, community, LGBT, sexual orientation, trans men, trans women on February 20, 2012 | 67 Comments »
The discussion that we had last week with the post Why Do Some Lesbians Bash Trans Men? was so engaging and enlightening for me that I thought we might continue it from a slightly different angle. Some of the commenters mentioned that trans women are not always welcome in lesbian spaces and can also be [...]
Ask Matt: Why Do Some Lesbians Bash Trans Men?
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Observations, tagged being trans, community, LGBT, trans men, transphobia on February 13, 2012 | 54 Comments »
A reader writes: “I was having a conversation with my mother the other night about Newt Gingrich and how I was really tired of all the GOP discussion that is constantly in the news. She brought up a fact I had forgotten about. She stated that Newt had a lesbian sister who definitely did not [...]
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Ask Matt: Trans Privacy vs. Airport Security
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, discrimination, gender expectations, gender expression, legal on April 19, 2012 | 18 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am curious to know of any experiences, negative or otherwise, you or your readers may have had with airport security in these times of full-body scans and/or pat-downs. “Those of us who are transgender may, thanks to hormones, convincingly appear to be the desired gender, but the full body scan or [...]
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