Karymé, my first commenter (thank you thank you thank you for letting me know that someone actually read a post!:), said some very nice things, and also wanted to know about my Buddhist practice. Sadly, it’s non-existent. A friend suggested I adopt a Buddhist attitude to living with my transness. It sounds like a great [...]

Various people, notably my wife, have been urging me to pick myself up off the mat. People have said it to me in different ways:

What about being trans in a Buddhist way?
You should be more than a gender–you’re a person
If you need to change your gender, then fine, but you’ve been a mess for over [...]

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 [...]