The latest news about a trans child receiving legitimate help for a legitimate medical condition has the I-Know-What’s-Best-For-You-To-Do-With-Your-Own-Body crowd coming out of the walls again. A recent story in the Boston Globe reports on twins who were both assigned male at birth, with one expressing a female gender identity about as early as she could [...]
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Twins Reinforce What Trans People Know About Gender Identity
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged bodies, family, gender expression, gender identity, gender roles, transition on December 19, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Ask Matt: A Concerned Grandmother, a Transgender Grandchild
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged coming out, family, gender expression, gender identity, trans women, transition on December 15, 2011 | 7 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am the grandmother of a young man (age 18) who is undergoing sexual confusion (his words) and is now discussing becoming a female. I am totally supportive of whatever decision he makes but don’t know how best to show him my support. I just want to understand what he is going [...]
‘Mom, I Just Can’t Take the Crying’
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged femininity, gender expression, gender roles, hormones, masculinity, testosterone, trans men, transition on December 1, 2011 | 20 Comments »
When my nephew was about four or five, his best friend was a little girl of the same age. My sister and the girl’s mother were friends, so the two kids grew up together. My nephew was and is a sensitive child in many ways. He has always shared his toys, stopped to help other [...]
‘Nina Here Nor There’: An Interview with Nick Krieger
Posted in Information, Interviews, News, tagged books, gender expression, gender identity, gender roles, identity, trans men, transition on October 27, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Travel writer Nick Krieger’s memoir, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender, was released earlier this year to rave reviews, in part because it presented a side of gender experience that is usually absent in traditional trans narratives. The title reflects Krieger’s refusal to follow the Western binary-gender model that requires the adoption of [...]
Ask Matt: Different Venues, Different Genders
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged coming out, gender, gender expression, restrooms, transition on September 12, 2011 | 10 Comments »
A reader writes: “I identify as a transgender man, and I want to move toward living as my true self – as a man – full time and in all situations. This movement is complicated by my choice not to have surgery or hormones – because of risk and expense, because I was on psychiatric [...]
Ask Matt: Offensive Behavior or Normal Reaction?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged bodies, etiquette, gender expression, sexual orientation on September 8, 2011 | 17 Comments »
A reader writes: “I was a participant at the 100th Bay-to-Breakers race, where, among many other naked people, I saw a person with distinctly feminine breasts and a distinctly masculine penis. “I must admit, in a brief, surprised stupor, that I looked for slightly longer than I would normally look at a naked man, yet [...]
Ask Matt: Dealing with a Transitioning Coworker
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged discrimination, employment, gender expectations, gender expression, legal, transition on August 18, 2011 | 34 Comments »
A reader writes: “I have a coworker who, over the course of the four years we have worked together, made the transition from a man to a post-surgery woman. “I have tried to be supportive of each phase of the transition, but my coworker has made it increasingly difficult. Each phase was a surprise – [...]
Meet the New Gender Police – Same as the Old Gender Police
Posted in Commentary, tagged community, gender expectations, gender expression, gender identity, gender roles on August 11, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Two situations have recently come to my attention. At first glance, they appear to be completely different scenarios – opposites, in fact. But upon closer inspection, we can see that they are almost identical. Scenario 1: Several straight, traditionally masculine trans men gang up on some non-traditional gay and queer trans guys, telling them that [...]
Ask Matt: My Father ‘Corrects’ His Correctness
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Observations, tagged family, gender expression, pronouns, transition on July 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A reader writes: “My family has been extremely supportive of my transition. My one-year-on-T day is coming up this month, and I have definitely changed. So here is my issue. My father stated months ago that he would not call me ‘he’ until my grown children call me ‘Dad.’ Well, I never expect them to [...]
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Thin Mint Morality Wars: The Girl Scout Cookie Boycott
Posted in Commentary, Information, News, tagged discrimination, gender expectations, gender expression, gender identity on January 19, 2012 | 24 Comments »
Last year, I wrote a guest post for the excellent blog Womanist Musings called “Leave the Kids Out of It,” about a brouhaha over gendered Halloween costumes. Now we’ve got another situation where kids are being dragged into adult morality wars. The Girl Scout Cookie boycott, organized to protest the admission of a trans girl [...]
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