Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Nicole Austin
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Essays

17 entries

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What You Fantasize About

August 23, 2021

What you fantasize about can unlock unanswered questions that taunt and tease you. Do you fantasize about living as a woman full-time, or do…

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What Makes The Cross-Dresser

May 31, 2020

Is it the clothes, the attitude, or the inner glow of stirred feelings? If it were 3 million years B.C., would we, could we…

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Coming Out Transgender

July 22, 2018

Coming out transgender is certainly a huge change from just decades prior. I came out in 2000, after being in the closet — as…

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Who You Are Behind The Mask

June 10, 2018

Who you are behind the mask deals with both the masks you wore pre- and post-transition, and the mask others perceive. As a transgender…

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Defining Normal

June 26, 2017

Many years ago, Johnny Carson, being the recipient of a Sally Fields practical joke, looked at her and said, “You really aren’t normal, are…

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Brianna Austin is Candidly Transgender

September 22, 2003

I was walking down Broadway—a small group of friends in tow—when, just as I crossed West 22nd Street, I heard a voice shout, “Hey,…

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Where Is The Transgender Voice

June 1, 2001

Where is the transgender voice, I asked? Everything in life stems from two things: love or fear. ‘Transgender’ is going mainstream, says the Daily…

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