Most Recent Pieces
How to Be The Person Your Trans Family Hopes For This Holiday Season
Can we be honest with each other? 2020 has been just awful. This year has been totally defined by division, separation, and isolation. Not to be the naive optimist, but I believe that wherever there’s turmoil, we can find the seeds of growth. In isolation, so many people have found themselves this year and come
I, Transsexual.
Oof, that’s a real loaded term, right? I remember the first time I encountered as a newly out trans person, and I did not much care for the person who used it. Later, I’d learn that that word was now almost explicitly the domain of a group of people called transmedicalists or truscum — which
No, We Can’t Be Friends.
In the moments where a Biden presidency seems clear, many Republicans are reaching out to say, “we can still be friends.”
October Chill
I lived near one of the most haunted places in the United States. I moved away from the horror, or so I thought…
The Bottom
Transition, making the choice to so drastically alter your body and your life, is a leap of faith. It’s more like a base jump, I suppose. And it’s foggy at the bottom. Every second of the way down you pray not to hit something, get hurt, or have the whole thing brought to a sudden
The Skipping Stone: Where Will Transition Take Me?
When I was a little girl in West Virginia, like really little, the nearest big toy store was about 45 minutes away. I didn’t really want for material things when I was a kid. We weren’t rich, but I never lacked. I was lucky that way. My father worked very hard and I had plenty