The rant I posted regarding men and rape the other day garnered some awesome conversations regarding the topic and Rape Culture in general. I haven’t gone out of my way to really research anything, but in the course of my daily internet routine, I’ve come across a few things that are on the same topic [...]
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Josh Anastasia
Our Rape Culture: Thoughts
For those of you that don’t follow along with me (sorry about the severe lack of updates, by the way), I’m a member and have a blog over at tumblr. I use this mainly for silly things, posting music, and very rarely do I post anything serious or of any consequence there. Honestly, I haven’t [...]
The gray area of gender
I’ve been legally female since 2002, although the definition of what makes someone “legally” male or female is part of what makes this issue so unwieldy. How do we define legal gender? By chromosomes? By genitalia? By spirit? By whether one asks directions when lost?
We accept as a basic truth the idea that everyone has [...]
4/26: Trans News this past week
I haven’t been keeping up with trans news lately. I would like to blame my job for that but that isn’t the case; I have plenty of time, even with the new position, but I just haven’t really had the drive to do much of anything. I work for the same company that I used [...]
The Trans Gene
When I was first struggling to come to terms with who I am, a trans man, I sought out some sort of validation for it. I never really new what sort of validation I needed, and eventually, I realized that I wasn’t searching for myself, but for everyone else that struggled to understand what I [...]
I think I might have been outted…
I’ve been staying away from Trans topics for the most part mainly because I’m not sure who reads my blog anymore: I no longer really care about my stats so I don’t obsessively check them. I’m definitely not worried about random people reading my blog; I’m more worried that one of my family members will [...]
HRC and ENDA
Craiglist has a great transgender forum that I ocassionally like to browse. One recent forum post mentioned that the Human Rights Campaign’s position on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) currently doesn’t support transgender inclusion, like it did when it first pushed for ENDA to be passed. The author of the post went on to say [...]
Hi, I’m Transgender
It’s been awhile since I’ve written about being Trans. Ok, a really long while. I plan on doing some more videocasts but I’m lacking a camera at the moment, so that’ll have to wait, but I’m not abandoning that.
I’ve been in Cleveland since then end of May. It’s been a great few months here. I’ve [...]
I wish my parents had the same reaction as my sisters
I didn’t plan on telling anyone in my family until I actually started to take hormones. It’s not that I didn’t want to tell them, it’s just that I remember how my parents first reacted when I told them. I didn’t want to go through that all over again on a bigger scale.
I was talking [...]
Transgender Children
This past week on 20/20, Barbara Walters interviewed transgender children and their families. I didn’t get to watch it since it was on at prime time and my family was home. My parents are still sensitive to me being trans, although my dad has told me that he accepts it, by my mom, [...]
I could have been Prom King!
If I were five years younger and went to Fresno High School. But, I’m 23 and I don’t go to Fresno High School, so someone else is taking what could have been mine! Just kidding. In all seriousness though, this is pretty neat-o.
Administrators agreed to reverse a district protocol this week that limited males to [...]
Binary Bathrooms
I’m a moderator/member of a Trans group on MySpace, and one of the members made this animated short. This is how I feel, and I’m sure a lot of other trans people do as well.
Transmen at women’s college’s
I was visiting a forum that I haven’t really had the time to visit and ran across a link to a Boston Globe article about how transmen are graduating from women’s colleges. Transmen are people like me, FtM’s. In any case, I’m no stranger to hearing about this kind of situation. When I was watching [...]
Will I ever regret this?
Coming out as Trans was definately the hardest thing that I’ve done so far in my life. It was also one of the best things that I’ve ever done. But coming out online, on my website, where so many people could look back at it, people that don’t know me could read it, [...]
The Name Change
Hm…so why the name change? Easy. I grew up as Jess and a lot of people look at me and think “Jess”, but they also think of me as a girl. I’m just moving on. “Jess” just doesn’t feel like me anymore. It’s been a great run though and we’ve [...]
Senator Kennedy, stop being a pansy
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, is coming up (hopefully) for a vote in the House and the Senate. ENDA has called for banning employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 2003, ENDA defined sexual orientation as homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality. Recently, Trans advocate groups have partnered up with other Gay Rights [...]
Hard at work
I’ve been working on a couple of projects lately that have kept me pretty busy. I’m not going to announce them just yet, but one will be ready to announce by the end of next week, hopefully.
For anyone just coming to my blog, you’ll soon find out that I’m Trans. I [...]
Ep. #2 – Discrimination and shiznet
Finally, Episode 2 has arrived. I’m sorry if I sound a bit pissed off or angry or upset. I had just gotten in a fight with my dad, so I might have sounded like I was a bit t’d off. I talk about a couple of laws that Congress in mulling over [...]
Gender War on America’s Youth: 50 under 30
On December 28th, the Gender Public Advocacy, or GenderPAC, released a report about violence against gender non-conforming people. From doing my own research into Transgender violence, I can say that it’s not easy to find numbers. It’s under reported but you know it happens. At this time, the United States government doesn’t [...]