Essays
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Fresh essays and analysis — one thoughtful piece at a time.
The current, running column: essays and analysis on what’s happening now, filed with the same standards as everything else here.
Roughly one considered piece a week — less hot take, more second look.
Voters in Colorado and Washington will decide ballot measures on transgender students in school sports on November 3, 2026, and Colorado voters will also…
The Supreme Court has been asked to let the Bureau of Prisons enforce a 2026 policy ending hormone therapy and related accommodations for transgender…
Many crossdressers learn to become liars and manipulators of the truth to avoid the humiliation of having their secret discovered. Who Are You Really…
On October 6, 2026, the Ninth Circuit reversed a federal judge’s ruling against Arizona’s surgery provision for birth certificate changes and vacated his injunction.…
TransWeek, formerly Fantasia Fair, celebrates its 50th year October 18-25, 2026 in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Brazil’s October 4, 2026 election sends three openly transgender women to the 513-seat Chamber of Deputies: Erika Hilton and Duda Salabert, re-elected, and Thabatta…
In this personal essay, Brianna Austin recalls a question she read some 20 years earlier: would you take a pill that removed your desire…
The third annual women’s weekend retreat, Letting Go in Lancaster, returns October 8–10, 2026 — and it’s certain to be an uplifting experience. Dates:…
On September 30, 2026, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline restored “Press 3,” its specialized service for LGBTQ+ youth, which had been shut down…
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