This article rocks. I love trans feminine people, but to see your version of trans* reflected in media of any sort is really cool.

This is amazing. As soon as I gets my next paycheck I am funding the shit out of this.

By then it would have been too late if Ryland was to become a transgender teen and adult. That would mean subjecting him to female puberty just to prove his commitment. That's horrific.

AH! This looks wonderful!!!! I really enjoyed the trailer - and the writer/director Emmett Jack was also incredibly engaging to watch! Projects like this are so important, and almost never available...I will definitely put some money into this, thanks for posting about it!

Just listen. Don't look for signs, that's not the point. Just listen to what your child is saying and consider it deeply before making any decisions.

If Ryland didn't say he was a boy and persist in doing so, you might have a point. However, Ryland is the arbiter of his own gender identity. He says he is a boy and there is no reason to disbelieve him. Ryland is not a little girl. Ryland is a boy. Gender identity comes first. I had plenty of "boy" stuff growing up.…

The gender is self-assigned, you realise that, right? I hate to even say assigned, because I don't have a memory of stopping, thinking about whether I was a boy or a girl, and then making a decision that I was a girl. I do have memories of realising I was a girl. I recognised a gender identity which had already…

If you haven't read it for your piece, I'd recommend "The broken mirror: understanding and treating body dysmorphic disorder" by Dr. Katharine Phillips. She is (was?) the head of psychiatry at Brown University, so her bona fides, are ... bona fide. It's almost 10 years old though, and I'd love to see some more recent…

It's already really long and I'm not sure I am even halfway through.

I'll be discussing this a lot more in an essay on body dysmorphia vs. gender dysphoria.

Right!? The first time he ever did something like that, we were getting a little frustrated because I was having a hard time getting there, and was bent over. He said, "I have an idea, if it's okay with you," and reached over to his jeans and pulled the leather belt out of the belt-loops really fast (with a zwiiiiiip! …

Holy Jesus, on our wedding night, my husband tied my wrists behind my back with his tie from his suit. HAWT.

See, now, I agree that the orthotics should be covered, since obviously they're very important to your quality of life. That said, the solution is to advocate for coverage of that kind of thing, rather than against coverage for trans people (and, to be fair, trans surgeries are far more expensive but also far more…

Okay:

SWPhillip has given a fairly comprehensive review of the one link you provided, which, incidentally, is the only one anyone has ever been able to provide when I ask them about the claim that surgery doesn't help. You're allowed to define words like cosmetic however you want, but the medical community and, with time,…

A rundown because THIS isn't gonna blow up at all, no way:

It's about goddamn time.