Holy shit. My hair looks better than Beyoncé's hair. Damn. I'm putting that on the calendar.

I think there's more at stake here than just medical jargon, though. When you're talking about trans narratives and you're one of the few people out there telling these stories, getting the story wrong means that you've given incorrect information that can shape people's attitudes for years to come, which has real…

I'd prefer to see a trans writer/producer guiding the production of trans stories, rather than cis women. They're both getting it close to right, but Soloway's point that a trans voice can articulate their experience better than cis voices is absolutely true. It's hard to explain gender dysphoria unless you've dealt…

Yeah, we still get less cash, even when we're childless and beyond childbearing years, so this is basically just a bullshit excuse.

Huh. I do see a lot of genderqueer and genderfluid identities on tumblr, but that's the only place. I'm struggling with the lack of understanding of gender non-binary identities in my own community in the midwest, including with my own therapist and endocrinologist. And of course from my friends, who are anxious to…

Yep - I did in another reply on this thread.

Here is what GLAAD's media guide says about "transsexual" (written with trans people's advice):

I would actually not recommend the two books I'm reading if you are wanting to get closer to understanding trans patients - because they are written over 20 years ago, their understanding and terminology is really far off. They're interesting in the sense of covering a whole lot of historical accounts of FTM gender…

Wow. That's is a cool story to uncover about your family history.

I'd love you read your stuff too.

I've read about Francisco de Loyola (aka Catalina de Erauso), but haven't read that specific title. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to my reading list.

I'll post the names of the books when I get home and can remember the exact titles. I'm reading both of them as background to a piece of historic fiction I'm writing.

I've read a couple of interesting books lately on the subject - one on "Crossdressers" in history written in 1993, and one on "FTM transsexuals" written in 1997. (I'm putting those in quotes because the language used in both books is outdated terminology that we wouldn't think of using in an academic setting today.)…

Eh. "Creativity" is no substitute for actually understanding "X" groups lived experience, especially if "X" group faces things that the majority of people never face, or has sensory experience that most people can't understand. I can't begin to catalog the number of things that heterosexual people get wrong when…

Thank you for this lovely write-up. I binge-watched the show last weekend and was excited about it - so much was familiar to me, and still new and exciting to see onscreen.

I knew I like girls when I was five. I had a huge crush on Glinda the Good Witch of the North from The Wizard of Oz. She was dreamy.

Watch the Grantland (I know, problematic site) interview with her on YouTube. I think you'll have the same reaction. She's a smart cookie. In person, she's very together.

Oh, that is a thing I had not yet thought to look up! God damn, I love the internet.

Oh, for Pete's sake. If you don't want the kid, I'll take it. I love babies and don't give a damn what their DNA is. If a kid needs a parent, I'll do it.

EXACTLY. No teen girls go running around the locker room nude in my experience, believe me. Everyone is busy trying to get dressed with some modicum of privacy, hiding in towels and behind locker doors, trying hard not to look at anyone else. A teen trans girl is going to be no different than that.