When I legally changed my name and gender in May of 2010, the Minnesota DMV (like many other states) automatically registered me for with the selective service. The selective service is the list from which young men would be “drafted”. As many of you are aware, transgendered status is something that the US military does [...]
In the past week my paternal grandmother passed away at 89 years of age. She lives several states away and we rarely saw each other. So rarely, in fact, that she never knew that I dated women or that I transitioned. I have a lot of conflicting feelings about coming out to people that it [...]
For starters, Buck Angel is one of the handful of largely successful transmen that comes across the US media. A member of the band The Cliks is an out transman as well as Cher’s son came out in the past 2 years. What has drawn me to Buck, however, is also partially what makes him [...]
The new year is beginning, I’m back in the classroom tomorrow morning. The tradition has been to work through GOTE (goals obstacles tactics expectations), and here it is again. To review last year: GOALS 1. Finish my masters degree. 2. Have top surgery and get back in shape. 3. Buy a better car for the [...]
(ah, that frustrating feeling of having saved a draft only to find that it didn’t save) I’m going to speak about we/us, the general collection of FTM men with the understanding that it is not all-encompassing. It’s interesting to find that though we transition to improve our futures, our impression of the improvement and the [...]
