Josh

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 [...]

Erin, awesome as she is, left a comment on a previous post and I decided to answer with another post; it would’ve been too long for a comment. Here is what she said:
I feel like I know you — through IRC, 9rule, your blog, take your pick — but I’m so curious about how your [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Ness and I have been going out a bit, you know to bars and what have you.  A couple days after I first arrived in Cleveland, I met Ness’ straight friends.  She didn’t tell them that I was trans, and I didn’t have a problem with it, but I figured they’d be a little skeptical [...]

The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend hate-crime protection to people who are victimized because of their sexuality. But the most immediate effect may be to set up another veto showdown between Democrats and President Bush.
By 237 to 180, the House voted to cover crimes spurred by a victim’s “gender, sexual orientation, gender [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

For the most part, I have an excellent memory.  It’s really quite amazing how great my memory is.  But of course, when I need to remember something or want to remember something, I forget.  Like a blog post.  The other day I was browsing around the internet and I had this epiphany about a blog [...]

Late at night, when all of my online friends go to bed and whatnot, I get kind of lonely. I mean, I’m lonely all the time, but at least when they are around I can keep myself busy. I have a hard time meeting people in real life. I’m pretty shy in [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]