Recently I visited the offices of my cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Silver. I see him every year. I had facial feminization surgery (usually called just FFS) in the spring of 2006, and since he performs many such surgeries but doesn’t have much longitudinal data about outcomes, I agreed to come back and pose for photographs every […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s something I meant to write back when it was timely, but I was too busy with work to get to it until now. My partner and I attended the world premiere of the play Angry Fags, written by local playwright Topher Payne, at Seven Stages back in February. We learned about it (and were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This story. Transphobes often deny transsexuals’ reality (especially when commenting to online news stories (believe me, I know)) with remarks like, “If your chromosomes are XY, you’re a man. Period.” I’ve always found that a curious bottom-line assertion, since sex chromosomes were only discovered about a hundred years ago. So for most of human history […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Polish Facebook friend of mine has a website devoted to her “Transgender heroes” and recently interviewed me for it. There’s the link.
I heard Kenneth Turan’s obituary for Roger Ebert on NPR. Ebert reviewed 306 movies in 2012, a personal most, despite or maybe because of his ongoing health problems. He was also, as everyone knows, a Twitter power user and a fierce progressive. He made it to 70, which is a good run given the circumstances. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Atlanta had its Pride festival this past weekend, and I was one of eight grand marshals in the annual parade up Peachtree Street and down 10th Street. Two of those “eight” were organizations, so there were actually around two dozen people who could call themselves grand marshals this year. The full list is here. I’m […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Way back in late August (yes, the distant past of seven weeks ago), these chuckleheads at the University of Colorado predicted a victory for Mitt Romney in November, based on a model that has “correctly forecast every winner of the electoral race since 1980.” There’s a bunch like these every election year; a prediction model […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been reading the magazine Entertainment Weekly for years now. I like to keep up with pop culture, and EW is well-informed, free of gossip and rumor, and usually really well-written. The back page’s “The Bullseye” section always makes me laugh, and the recent cover story about “the new coming-out” was sensitive and unsensational. So […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A few days ago I received the following email: Date: 10 Jun 2012 09:15:33 -0700 To: vandybeth@mindspring.com Subject: Email from vandybethglenn.com From: infosri@juno.com NAME: Sharon Kass EMAIL: infosri@juno.com COMMENTS: Congress knows that homosexuality and transgenderism are preventable and treatable. They’re too scared and selfish to defend the truth, but the people will defend it. You […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every public appearance I’ve made since the launch of Glenn v. Brumby has been different, but some things happen over and over. There’s one trope that has happened pretty consistently: someone tells me “You’re just like Rosa Parks!” It’s always other white people who say the second one to me. Of course, it’s a flattering […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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