The Trump administration recently released guidance on how to spot transgender women to make it easier to discriminate against us. I won’t bother repeating the details or linking to that here, instead for the people who run women’s spaces like shelters, clubs, and so on …
Folks love to ask trans people about two topics: sex and gender. Sometimes they’re genuinely curious about the differences between these things and what those mean. Sometimes they’re trying to catch us in an elaborate rhetorical trap wherein we either admit that gender is fake, …
Original Question: Ok, so I have a question. (Picture for context) I understand the science behind intersex and how the sex of a person is a lot more complicated than just the binary system we’re taught. I also know that gender is something entirely …
Being called “brave” is incredibly high on the “pet peeves” list of almost every trans person I know. Here's what to say instead.
Getting a summer body has a whole new, and more literal, meaning for me this year. What does it feel like to be comfortable in a body that breaks all the rules you grew up with?
That I am a woman is somewhere inside of me. That part arrived long before I had advanced thoughts about gender politics. That part saw the other girls and knew I was like them and saw the boys and was PISSED that I was saddled …
One of the most amazing aspects of transition is the change in perspective it brings you. For so many trans people, pre-transition our futures were dark, vague, or missing entirely — a black spot where all of our hopes should be. The future looked like …
My Response on Why Non-Binary Folks Might Seem Loud: So.. here are my thoughts. Just from one binary trans person to another. I’m gonna do a lot of writing below about non-binary folks from my perspective as a binary trans person. I don’t know …
Funny thing. This orange shirt has become this WEIRD water mark in terms of like “How’s my body transition coming along” and I don’t know why my brain landed on it this way but here we are. I find clothing that hides my shape to …
Hi there! Normally I write about very personal topics to the transgender experience. I like to write about the things I do as a trans person, the things I feel, and why those are so important and sacred to me. If I can teach …
