Gender Theory and the Life of a Trans Girl
I wanted to share a few stories of my childhood so that people would be able to know a little bit about the struggles that transgender children go through. I want people to see how damaging it is was to me having to live my childhood without hope of growing up happy. I hope that …
The other day I decided to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Blind. Blind is an Anonymous social media application for people who work in tech. The anonymity of the app is the biggest draw, as it allows users to speak with0ut consequence and often times many controversial topics of conversation occurs. My AMA …
A while ago the TSA put out a video on guidelines for transgender travelers in the US. Let’s do some analysis of the message that is being said to our community, and how useful it is… “Ensure that the information on your boarding pass matches your government issued ID.” This may sound like a simple …
This is an unfortunate interaction I have had with the father of a friend of mine from high school. It particularly hurt because I have had interactions with this person before and the friend and I were really close. Also the accusation that I was trying to swindle people out of their money on a …
One of the many issues that I had when I was early on in my transition was finding positive role models in the transgender community. transgender visibility is a real issue these days. I wanted to find young professional transgender women, and all I could see were people struggling to survive. I wanted to see someone …
Within the transgender community there is a term called passing. Passing is when a transgender person becomes feminine or masculine enough to “pass” as a cisgender person. The term passing is a very controversial term within the community. When we talk about cisgender women, we treat all women as women regardless of how feminine or …
Dating is so much harder when you are transgender. One of the reasons for this is some people tend to think that we are “tricking” people if we do not fully disclose the fact that we are transgender all the time. On OkCupid currently I don’t explicitly say that I am transgender. I do leave lots …
Throughout the country, us transgender people have been relentlessly attacked this year. We have been attacked by the people who want to take away our rights to use public facilities that match our gender. This is not a post about how wrong this is, there are already plenty of people who are writing about either …
There is something that is totally unique about the trans experience that nobody else is able to properly relate to. Till recently transgender people has never been in the media, and even when we were shown it was just a dead transgender sex worker, or a crossdressing man in a very transphobic joke. The average …
While it shouldn’t be, loving a transgender person is a brave thing to do. It is well known that when coming out of the closet, the risk of us losing family and friends is very real and much too common. Something that is talked about a lot less though is what happens to our friends …