A reader writes: “I have just started a new temporary job. When I entered the building, I discovered that I knew three people from previous jobs or friendships. At the beginning of my second week, I asked my bosses if I could be known by my preferred name – it is not a legal name [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transgender’
Ask Matt: Why Did I ‘Change’ My Name?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged gender expectations, gender identity, identity, transgender on June 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
LGBT History: Teaching the Real History of the United States
Posted in Commentary, News, Observations, tagged community, education, history, LGBT, trans education, transgender on April 21, 2011 | 10 Comments »
A bill working its way through the California state legislature would mandate the teaching of LGBT history in California schools, reports Chicago Pride. If the bill passes, the LGBT community would join several other marginalized groups whose history has been identified as a required topic. I think this is extremely important, and I hope the [...]
SEPTA: Dropping Your Drawers for the Bus Driver
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged discrimination, gender, gender expression, legal, transgender on January 20, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I guess the Oakland County Court in Michigan is not the only entity that might benefit from full-body scanners. It seems that the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) has a policy that requires “F” and “M” stickers on bus riders’ monthly passes. Tom Basgil of change.org reports that this practice, as could be expected, has [...]
Dang! I Missed the Year of the Transsexual!
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged being trans, gender expression, transgender, transsexual on December 16, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Isn’t it just my luck to discover that 2010 is the year of the transsexual – now that it’s almost over? It’s like finding out about a great party that was held in your honor from people you run into at the grocery store the next day. It’s the story of my life – a [...]
The Amazing Disappearing Trans Sexual Orientation
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged bodies, LGBT, relationships, sex, sexual orientation, transgender on September 23, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Trans survey-takers ran into a glitch recently when an otherwise inclusive organization posted an online survey targeted to LGBT people and dealing with discrimination, employment, violence, and other issues important to the community. When some trans people chose the answer “Straight” under the sexual-orientation category, they received a polite message saying, in effect, that they [...]
Ask Matt: My Friends Don’t Take Me Seriously as Trans
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged being trans, community, gender identity, identity, transgender on September 16, 2010 | 19 Comments »
A reader writes: “When you were first starting transition, how did you get people to take you seriously? To see that you weren’t ‘faking’ it? Because the LGBT group on my campus – they don’t take me seriously. I can tell in how whenever they say my name it sounds fake, how they refuse to [...]
Ask Matt: I Might Have Always Been Male
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged bodies, gender identity, hormones, testosterone, transgender on September 15, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A 43-year-old reader writes: “Although I have always felt like a male in a woman’s body, I have just pieced together my past. My mother recently gave me my birth certificate that was filled out at the hospital. It had “male” printed in the sex box. Then with a different pen and different handwriting, “fe” [...]
What Does ‘Transgender’ Tell You About Me? Nothing!
Posted in Commentary, tagged gender identity, LGBT, sexual orientation, transgender, transsexual on September 2, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m a big taker of LGBT surveys and participant in LGBT research studies because I think that “trans voices” need to be heard, if possible. But although I’ve complained before that multiple choice is not trans friendly, I think that, after 13 years of survey-taking and research-participating, it did not truly dawn on me until [...]
Ask Matt Monday: How Can I Determine a Person’s Gender?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged etiquette, gender, gender expression, relationships, transgender, transsexual on August 23, 2010 | 10 Comments »
A reader writes: “I interact with a clerk almost every day at a certain coffee shop. We talk to each other when I get my coffee, but I’m not sure if this person is a man or a woman. I’m also not sure if this person is trans or not. How can I find out [...]
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When Perseverance Becomes Self-Destruction
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged being trans, identity, relationships, transgender, transsexual on July 11, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I just moved to a new place where I have to go outside to smoke (this is a good thing – it will help me cut down). The other night, every time I went outside, I accidentally tore down a web that a spider was building right across the door. I would tear it just [...]
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