Q: When does a trans woman become a woman? A: A trans woman is a woman. She never wasn't one.
A trans woman is a woman (and she never wasn’t a woman)
Review: “My new vagina won’t make me happy” (NYT)
This past weekend, the New York times published an op-ed piece by Andrea Long Chu entitled "My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy (And it shouldn't have to)". This column caused shock waves through the trans community for many of the things the author said and the way she characterized different aspects of her experience as a transgender woman. Here is my response.
See You Next Time!
I sat down to write about how I'm feeling about my upcoming surgery. Here's what came out.
Honor
An essay which started to be about Pride, but where I found that I had another, better word to describe how I feel about being transgender.
Why I am having bottom surgery
This may end up being the biggest life-changing event of my life, and there is a lot of anxiety and fear as I approach it. I've been asked many times some variation of a fundamental question: why do you need to have this surgery? The short answer: because I do.
Gender Confirmation Surgery (skip if you’re squeamish)
With this post, I'm going to get into a medical procedure (surgery) which reconfigures a person's genitals. I'm going to include links to pictures and discuss body parts graphically (in a clinical manner. If you're squeamish or don't really want to see this, please skip this post; it's ok, I understand.
Two years on HRT!
I recently reached the 2-year anniversary of starting Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), so I'm taking a moment to see how my life has changed in these two years.
Let Me Fall
A figure, wrapped and suspended in long red silk sheets is carried high above the stage. She falls into an inverted split, which reveals a woman...
Take a memo: Trans People Won’t Be Erased
I will fight for my rights until my dying breath (which, let's be honest, feels a lot closer now than it did before); I wish I didn't have to. But I need help. I am under attack, and I'm sounding the alarm.
A Nameless Passer-by
Quidam: a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past... One who cries out, sings and dreams within us all.
Gender World 