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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gender identity’
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: Will Surgery Help With Dysphoria?
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged bodies, gender identity, masculinity, surgery, transition on May 7, 2012 | 44 Comments »
A reader writes: “I have three questions: How much did chest surgery help with dysphoria (if you had any)? How did you pay for it? Who was your surgeon?” This is short and sweet, but it lends itself to a lot of reader input. I think it would be valuable for readers to find out [...]
Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects
Posted in Teeny Weenies Excerpts, tagged books, gender expression, gender identity, gender roles on March 19, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects is available now! My latest book can be purchased directly from the publisher on the Outskirts Press website and on the Barnes & Noble website, and it is winging its way to Amazon.com. It is also available as a downloadable e-book on the author web page through Outskirts Press. [...]
Ask Matt: Reality Checks for a Son in Transition
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged assimilation, being out, bodies, gender expectations, gender identity, transition on March 5, 2012 | 19 Comments »
A reader writes: “Here is my question, which may or may not be written fully PC, so forgive me if it is not. My child is in the process of deciding about how far to take his gender change – and at age nineteen, is wisely not moving forward until he knows what he knows [...]
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 | 26 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 [...]
Tranifesto’s Most Popular Posts of 2011
Posted in Information, Observations, tagged Chaz Bono, gender identity, identity, LGBT, masculinity, relationships, testosterone on January 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
WordPress just sent me a “Your 2011 Year in Blogging” report that provides a year-end summary of the most viewed and most commented on posts for the year. Although I can always see my stats, it’s nice to have all that information in an organized little bundle. So to welcome in 2012, I’m going to [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
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McDonald’s Happy Meals and Asking the Right Question
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged family, femininity, gender expectations, gender identity, gender roles, masculinity on March 29, 2012 | 27 Comments »
“Is the Happy Meal for a boy or a girl?” I had no idea that McDonald’s Happy Meals were gendered, but then I’ve never ordered one before this week. I’ve been suffering from a nasty bronchial thing, which I thought was improving but which then circled back on me. I still had to run some [...]
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