Essays
Tell Her The Truth
Many crossdressers learn to become liars and manipulators of the truth to avoid the humiliation of having their secret discovered. Who Are You Really…
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These are the pieces I return to: essays about identity, language, fear and belonging, written to be thought about rather than skimmed. Some are decades old and still true. Others were written last month. None of them are news.
Many crossdressers learn to become liars and manipulators of the truth to avoid the humiliation of having their secret discovered. Who Are You Really…
In this personal essay, Brianna Austin recalls a question she read some 20 years earlier: would you take a pill that removed your desire…
HHS built its “gender ideology” scale out of mainstream medical guidance, then scored agreement with it as ideology. A survey is only ever as…
Some view being transgender as a gift, while others view it as a curse. Do you feel you’re a victim of the transgender condition? …
The second precept from the Precepts of the Order of Inner-being (Buddha) says, “ Do not think that knowledge you presently possess is changeless,…
Coming out is more than a single announcement—it is a profound, lifelong path. This guide helps you navigate the emotional, personal, and social realities…
Do you dream of becoming a woman and living it 24/7? Is it reality or fantasy that drives you? Many of us have fantasized…
The words of others don’t define me. How could they? In many instances, those “others” don’t even know me. They see me and then…
At a time when transgender attention in the mainstream is on the rise, have we as individuals stopped searching out our own truths? Have…
An essay argues or reflects rather than reports. It is built around an idea — what womanhood means, why we reach for boxes, who gets to speak — instead of around an event that happened this week.
Defining Womanhood and Boxes Defining Transgender People are the two most-read entry points. Where Is The Transgender Voice is the oldest piece here and still the one I get the most mail about.
Both. I write assuming a reader who is curious and decent but not necessarily informed, which means I explain things without talking down to the people already living them.
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