I know that people are talking about me and my trans daughter. I grew up in a small town, and my parents still live there, and… word gets around. (“Did you know that their grandson is now a girl?”) But this is not necessarily a bad thing. Mom called first thing Monday morning. “Honey, I…
The binary is a big fat bully. Seriously, what a meany! It’s like a drill sergeant at boot camp, spitting out orders as it forces us to line up in tidy military-style formation: “Two lines only! Girls on the left! Boys on the right!” Pick your line, the Binary Bully orders us, conform to its…
Over this past weekend, I attended my first conference about this whole “transgender thing,” the Gender Odyssey conference in Seattle. It’s an annual gathering for transgender and other gender-nonconforming folks, the professionals who work with them, and those who love them. As the mother of a young “trans girl,” I fall solidly and vehemently into…
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