I would probably put the answer thusly: "I was assigned the gender of female at birth, but I don't really fit into the strict gender binary and I'm transitioning my appearance to be more masculine, as I lean toward feeling more masculine of center. My transition will include some hormones and surgical interventions to…

"Now what we need is more transgender men. We need more male voices in the transgender community, and that will happen."

My friend Rachel has a pretty assertive but effective response to the "are you in the wrong bathroom?" question (not that it has happened to her in years).

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No - he's still a dickhead. He was a dick in an article just a few weeks ago about gender identities and specifically teens on tumblr identifying as gender non-binary - something that it's quite possible that Leelah could have read, as she was both on Tumblr and thought about non-binary as a gender that applied to her.

Without pulling someone out of the greys that needs to be there - I'm reacting to Dan Savage's dickhead article where he was transphobic on December 10, 2014 - just a few weeks ago.

Dad has said virtually the same thing to local television stations, unfortunately - misgendering and diminishing their child while refusing to acknowledge their own role in their daughter's death.

Honestly, Dan Savage is a pretty big shithead when it comes to trans issues - especially when it comes to trans teens and how they identify, so anything he has to say about Leelah should be fucking ignored as pandering after a tragedy.

The thing is - it's tough partly because of a society that doesn't accept and find the beauty in people who don't fit conventional beauty standards of "what men or women should look like."

Christine, I'm beginning my transition at age 46. It's been really, really hard, but I'm starting, and I think I can do it. I have a good friend who is also starting to transition, and a co-worker my age who began her transition just last year. It is never, never, never too late. If you haven't been to a counselor,…

My lesbian friends are fine with them holding hands. Don't be hand-hold haters. It's the season of Peace, Love and Holding Hands with Your Platonic Friends Because You Can.

Oh, he's blowing out the candles on his cake! Took me a bit to figure out what was going on in that picture.

I really hope the woman's family sues the hell out of that police department for criminal negligence.

What are your reading? He did say that. "the second he let his jizz fly" is exactly that - he let it leave his control. That's where he lives with the consequences. If he doesn't want to pay child support, don't let it go. Keep it to yourself.

Phssssssst. Looking like a deranged Scotsman has *always* been in style.

Wow. Someone needs to go on the view and specifically go over Whoopi's rape apology list and take her to task on each one.

Peter Lawford told that story. Nancy Sinatra seems to have a cover story about it for Frank, but I could see why she might want to gloss it over or tone it down. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/an-…

Yeah, I haven't done any googling to see if there were other stories than this Daily News one; that was just the first link that came up. And it's from 1996, so possibly other reporting isn't online from that era if there was less gossipy, more hard news about it. I kind of wonder whether this story won't pop back up…

Damn - apparently back in 1996, when they were a couple. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossi…