I remember when Christmas was something to look forward to. Now, Christmas is the penultimate stage in December’s anxiety-inducing social gauntlet AND the litmus test for how well the family unit’s functioning under the weight of all the personalities in the family tugging at each other.
It feels more like 2008 is a conveyor belt I’ve [...]

I’m in the final stages of my coming out process. Last week, I emailed my PDF to a pile of ex-colleagues. There may be a few people who haven’t received it yet, but I’m pretty much done.
I got lots of great feedback from people, and that was really gratifying. It’s funny–being known as being trans [...]

Ever since I began considering transitioning genders, I’ve been reading about how hard it is. From the outside, it wasn’t obvious exactly why it was hard. Now I’m not so confused.
It’s a many-headed beast, complex in countless ways. Consider only one dimension: my name and my gender, as it relates to the bureaucracy of government.
I’ve [...]