Gender reveal party but the inside of the cake is pitch black

Dude, I’m a blubbering mess at my desk just reading your description of the grown man still journeying with the aging dog who loyally accompanied his boyhood.... and I’m not pregnant (though maybe a bit stressed). I’m curious about what was in the design magazine though.

Thank you for this reasonable take. This is my view, as well, but I have been online-screeched at and shamed for saying that this is the tack I will take, if and when I should have kids (the hope is “when”, but the reality is looking more like an “if”), even though I have explicitly stated that the probability that…

Maybe don’t put money on it? When I was a kid I tended toward traditional masculine interests and clothes. I even had someone tell me in high school that of everyone they knew I was the most likely to transition. After I cut my hair I was confused for a man roughly once a week. I’m a straight cis woman. I’m doing fine…

I do admit to being miffed sometimes when someone’s like “WHY DID YOU NAME YOUR BABY A GENDERED NAME? WHAT IF THEY’RE TRANS ONE DAY?”

Can I just say that pregnancy hormones are the WORST? I’m only in my first trimester and the mood swings are off-the-charts. I cried while reading a magazine yesterday. A design magazine. There was no reason whatsoever. Then, I was fine. Then, that commercial came on with the puppy growing up alongside that kid, and…

My daughter was about a week old when I stood over her crib weeping, “She’s gotten so big! She’ll be going off to college soon.”

But I think that this is an important point to discuss about what is going on in the American society. Our girls aren’t shooting up schools, but our boys are. I was reading this article the other day about a guy that became a neo-nazi. His reasons for becoming a neo-nazi were essentially — 1)I can’t find a job within…

Like honestly if you have never *been pregnant* and experienced that bizarre and emotionally catastrophic cocktail of hormones for yourself, you can’t judge me for shit. But on reviewing your posting history, you appear to be (1) male and (2) a gun owner? so maybe you fucking protest too the fuck much and you should…

I was at the Farmer’s Market with my newborn in a front wrap and the goat cheese guy asked me what I had “there” and I said “a baby” and he said “a baby human?” Only time anyone asked me to qualify “baby.” I live in Austin so I suppose there are people walking around with other baby animals strapped to them?

I’ve always looked at it this way. I’m the exception. I am aware of this and I am okay with this.
I don’t want the rest of society to accommodate me. I just want them to accept me. I want it to be okay to be the exception. I want it to be safe to be “Abnormal”.
We don’t have to make everything gender neutral. We don’t…

god you’re exhausting.

wow it’s almost as if I copped from the outset to being irrational on this point, and yet you’re over here like “THAT IS TOTALLY IRRATIONAL”

I think people should not encourage this mother to think that this is a phase but we also can’t be sure it isn’t. Maybe when parents are faced with this we can encourage them to embrace their children instead and not worry about whether this will ultimately be a phase or not. https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/0…

I love this picture.

What makes you think that the boy will be trans?

My dad once told me that he had hoped that I’d be a girl because then I wouldn’t have to fight in a war or do compulsory military service. (Germany has abolished compulsory service a few years ago btw.)

To me, the issue is that it’s not traumatizing to be called a boy or a girl. The issue is when, as a young child, a girl wants to to something and you say, “No that’s for boys” or a boy wants to do something and you go, “That’s a girl thing!”

She didn’t attribute her silence to the NDA, but told Vox that, looking back on the situation, it was clear that the confidentiality agreement was part of a culture of silence. “Nondisclosure agreements are about following the rules,” she said, “and not rocking the boat is about following the rules.”