So many things are happening that are significant to the trans community that I barely have time to read them all, let alone comment. Here are just a few of the many goings-on into which I feel compelled to insert myself: Saturday Night Live and the Estro-Maxx Skit Yes, trans people have a sense of [...]
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So Many Opinions, So Little Time
Posted in Commentary, Information, News, Observations, tagged gender expression, gender identity, gender roles, hormones, Internet, television, transphobia, transsexual on February 3, 2011 | 17 Comments »
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 [...]
Trans Guys: Lesbians in Men’s Clothing?
Posted in Commentary, tagged being trans, bodies, gender, identity, LGBT, sexual orientation, trans men, transition, transsexual on November 11, 2010 | 31 Comments »
When I told my sister that I was going to transition from female to male, the first thing she said was: “Are you sure you’re not just a lesbian?” Having been with men all my life, having been attracted to men all my life, and having attempted, unsuccessfully, to be a lesbian in early adolescence [...]
Ask Matt Monday: Too Much Information!
Posted in Ask Matt, Information, tagged being out, being trans, bodies, education, sex, transition, transsexual on October 4, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A reader writes: “In last week’s Ask Matt, one of the questions the students asked you was ‘Do you/would you have vaginal sex?’ I was shocked – not by your answer, but by the question. I would never dream of asking anyone anything so intimate about their sex life, unless of course I was sleeping [...]
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 [...]
Ask Matt Continued: Trans Guys and Phalloplasty, Part Two
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Observations, tagged bodies, health care, legal, surgery, transition, transsexual on August 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday’s discussion of trans guys and phalloplasty inevitably leads, as such discussions do, to two implications that can have rather serious consequences if they aren’t addressed in any public discussion of transition surgery. The first has to do with that infernal inference of “choice.” If I don’t have any type of genital surgery, does that [...]
Ask Matt: What Should I Be?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged being trans, gender identity, identity, language, transgender, transsexual on August 5, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One of my favorite quotes is from Dolly Parton (yeah, really): “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” And I think it applies to a reader’s Ask Matt question: “What advice would you give regarding the consideration of whether to be butch or genderqueer or trans?” The simple answer is that what [...]
Very Bad (and Very Good) Things Therapists Have Said to Me
Posted in Observations, tagged gender identity, health, transition, transsexual on July 26, 2010 | 44 Comments »
I have seen a total of four therapists in my life – two after my dad died, one after my mom died, and one who I went to for something else, but who, through a series of very weird coincidences, ended up being my “gender therapist” (I’ll tell you the story someday). I also saw [...]
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‘Non’ is the ‘Op’-erative Word
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged bodies, identity, language, restrooms, surgery, transsexual on April 28, 2011 | 47 Comments »
I was presenting on a trans panel recently, and the facilitator asked each of us to introduce ourselves and say a little about ourselves, including whether we were pre-op, post-op, or non-op. Although I was slightly taken aback, I simply waited my turn and explained that I don’t identify myself by my operations. I have [...]
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