When I was in sixth grade, both my nemesis and my idol were the same person — Mary Louise. Mary Louise was small, compact, and cute — a blonde Sally Field. I was hulking and chubby, with hair like a Brillo pad. Mary Louise could run faster and throw a ball farther than anyone in [...]
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Transgender Kids and Sports: What’s Fair for Everyone?
Posted in Information, News, Observations, tagged gender expectations, gender expression, gender roles, restrooms, sports on February 11, 2010 | 7 Comments »
‘The Top 5 Silliest Questions to Ask a Transsexual Person’
Posted in Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, gender, restrooms, surgery, transsexual on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When a transsexual person comes out, the non-trans people around him or her always have a bottomless well of questions — and this is not necessarily bad. It’s one way that non-trans people learn, and it can lead to greater understanding and acceptance. But Q&A can get tiresome when you’re trying to eat your dinner [...]
10 Things That Don’t Keep Me Up at Night
Posted in Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, passing, religion, restrooms, sex, transition on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Stephen King calls them the “wolf hours” — those wee morning hours when you wake up and worry about everything in the world that has gone wrong or might go wrong or definitely will go wrong if you don’t lie awake and worry about it. I do that a lot — which is one of [...]
Trans Bathroom Blues: The Public Restroom
Posted in Commentary, Just Add Hormones Excerpts, News, Observations, tagged books, legal, restrooms, transition on July 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Maine Human Rights Commission appears to be pretty progressive. Recently, they ruled in favor of a transgender male-to-female student’s right to use the girls’ restroom at school. And in May, they ruled in favor of a trans woman’s right to use the women’s restroom at a Denny’s restaurant. Public restroom issues can get messy [...]
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The Bathroom Issue Rears Its Head Again (No Puns Intended)
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged civil rights, discrimination, legal, politics, restrooms on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so tired of the bathroom issue (I said “issue,” not “tissue”), and it just won’t go away. Tomorrow (November 3) in Kalamazoo, Mich., voters will decide whether or not to uphold Ordinance 1856, which provides protections for LGBT residents of Kalamazoo in the areas of housing, employment, and public accommodations. This ordinance was adopted [...]
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