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The Time I Outed Someone to Herself 15 Jan 2013 | 11:21 am
Trans people often say something along the lines of “If only I could have dealt with this sooner, I was such an idiot!”, but can that process of self discovery be hurried along? Some people advise aga...
Why Sex Differences Don’t Always Measure Up 14 Feb 2011 | 10:29 am
Every so often, I read an article quoting some claim arising from research on sex differences. Typically, scientists have found some sex difference that they have found to be statistically significant...
In Defense of Labels 17 Jan 2011 | 06:28 pm
Every once in a while, I get into a discussion and one of two ideas about “labels” comes up, That labels are bad, because each person is special in their own way, and so should not be constrained by ...
Maybe False Dichotomies Are Born that Way? 10 Jan 2011 | 01:16 pm
This post is, in some sense, a counterpoint to my Binaries Aren’t Intrinsically Bad post because part of its message is that some binaries are intrinsically bad, but arguably it’s not a counterpoint a...
Binaries Aren’t Intrinsically Bad 3 May 2010 | 10:43 am
There are some people out there who want want to wage a battle against “the gender binary”; in their eyes, dividing people into two groups, men and women, is a mistake. And from their perspective, t...
Morbid Fascination 28 Mar 2010 | 04:50 pm
I’ve spoken before about how little regard I have for the media’s portrayal of transsexual people, and in particular the bulk of the documentaries that get made about transsexual people. For the most...
Finding My Voice 7 Mar 2010 | 03:54 pm
When I was a child, I was fascinated by vocoders. It was the early 1980s, and vocoders were far too expensive to be affordable, but I so wanted one, because of one thing they claimed to be able to do...
Life in No Man’s Land 1 Mar 2010 | 07:10 pm
When the media covers transsexual people, there is a lot of interest in the process of transition. Julia Serrano covers their fetishization of transition excellently in her book Whipping Girl. I thin...
The Great Firewall 22 Feb 2010 | 04:53 pm
Unlike some other bloggers, my blogging here is focused on just one topic area. I keep things from my regular life out of this blog, and much of the content of this blog would (I believe) be quite a s...
A Vagina Monologue 8 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am
One of my goals in writing this blog is to talk about things I don’t usually talk about elsewhere, so today’s topic is genitals, specifically female ones. In my daily life, the topic of genitals in ge...
