Shawna Virago isn’t shy. This in-your-face singer and songwriter lets you know just what she’s thinking – about being trans, about being a woman, and about being Objectified. Her first CD is out now, and I hope there will be a second. As someone whose iTunes collection pretty much came out on vinyl first, I [...]
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‘Objectified’: An Interview with Singer/Songwriter Shawna Virago
Posted in Information, Interviews, tagged activism, being trans, community, identity, music, trans women on February 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »
‘Transfigurations’: An Interview with Photographer Jana Marcus
Posted in Information, Interviews, News, tagged being trans, bodies, books, trans men, trans women, transition on January 12, 2012 | 8 Comments »
In 2003, photographer Jana Marcus started photographing and interviewing trans people for a small photo exhibit. She didn’t know at the time that the exhibit would grow into a major project, Transfigurations, that would travel to galleries around the country for several years and receive prestigious awards and universal praise. Transfigurations has recently been released [...]
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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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: Will I Ever Forget That I’m Trans?
Posted in Ask Matt, Observations, tagged being trans, bodies, trans men, trans women, transition, transsexual on July 28, 2011 | 39 Comments »
A reader writes: “Unlike some, I believe that I was born transsexual because of my sex – I had a penis, not a vagina, but my gender was female. I was 60 when I came out and am now 65. My question: might there ever be a day, a week, a month, a year when [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Trans Partners and a Sex-Role Conundrum
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, tagged bodies, femininity, gender roles, masculinity, relationships, sex, trans men, trans women on January 17, 2011 | 18 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am a trans man dating a trans woman. She has finished her surgeries, and I’m on hormone therapy, with no genital surgery yet. My girlfriend and I are trying to find ways to pleasure me without feminizing myself and without putting her back in the male role. She doesn’t want to [...]
Ask Matt Monday: In Love with a Trans Woman
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged gender expectations, gender roles, hormones, relationships, trans women, transition on January 10, 2011 | 25 Comments »
A reader writes: “I am not transgender, but a heterosexual female who is interested in a male that is coming out as a female, doing the HRT (hormone therapy), dressing, and transitioning as a women, but still keeping the male bits (wedding tackle), as it were. “In your opinion, is it possible to succeed in [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Antagonism in the White Trans Community?
Posted in Ask Matt, Observations, tagged community, gender roles, identity, trans men, trans women on December 6, 2010 | 68 Comments »
A reader commented: “I don’t know what the hell is going on between white trans men and white trans women and the deepening chasm that seems to have formed between them, but it’s truly dispiriting to watch. “I specify white because I haven’t noticed this level of antagonism between the trans men and trans women [...]
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You Can’t Have It Both Ways, Tennessee DMV
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged bodies, legal, surgery, trans women, transition on November 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
This isn’t my usual posting day, but this infuriated me so much that I had to say something. It seems that Andrea Jones went to a Tennessee DMV office to have her driver’s license gender marker changed from “M” to “F.” The office refused because she didn’t have paperwork documenting proof of genital surgery. But [...]
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