I’ve become anonymous

Thinly veiled, but anonymous. My last name is gone from this website, and I will be removing the link leading here from my personal website.
Why? Because when you Google my name, this site is the number one result.
While it’s nice to know that my gender transition hijinx are the most relevant thing being perpetrated by [...]

Trans 101 PDF finally online!

I have finally managed to carve off the Trans 101 portion of my
coming out document, and I’ve posted it on a page on this site (check
the navigation bar across the top).
In other news, I am deep in the maelstrom of hormonal and social
transition, which simultaneously overloads me and fixes me. More
writing may land here soon, [...]

Dusting off the blog

For a while, my keenness for blogging disappeared. Life was far too complex and shitty. W. and I were desperately trying to hold our marriage together. Everything seemed too painful and too fraught to muse about in a public forum, even anonymously.
It had been so long since I had felt like posting, I had pretty [...]

I can’t believe I’m doing this

Yep. I’m starting a blog. It’s a big step out into the unknown.
But wait–there’s more!–it’s a blog to collect thoughts and musings on my gender transition. That’s the part that’s still a bit hard to believe, but is simultaneously completely undeniable. Life is weird.
I’m going to start by posting a visual model of the gender spectrum that I’ve been working on. I plan to incorporate it into a fold-out wallet card sized Trans 101 brochure.

This is my first cut at a visual model to help anchor discussions of gender and transness. Please feel free to post [...]