You’ve probably noticed that there’s one topic I’ve particularly focused on over the past year, so I’ve assembled a convenient index of my major posts on trans-related issues:
- Having a gender that’s (in)comprehensible
- Why you shouldn’t dress in drag to support trans people
- Revising the self: Adjusting to a new name
- Making the choice to be a woman
- “Why do you care about being called a woman?”
- Euphoria: My first bra
- Definitional nonsense: How transphobia distorts language
- Asking people about their genitals is a very personal topic
- Why being trans isn’t like being a dragon or Napoleon
- The various functions of names
- Blaming trans people for your own attraction to them
- “Well, I’d fuck you” is beside the point
- Problems with talking about HRT in a sexist society
- Being trans is neither selfish nor vain
- Revising the self II: Handwriting and glitter pens
- Not a separate identity: How I gender my past
- Sex between men and trans women isn’t “non-straight”
- The Dogma of Gender: Speaking at the Florida Secular Rally
- Being an abomination is pretty great
- Manning trial: Being trans doesn’t make someone unstable
- Revising the self III: Psychological roles of names, and alternate cis histories
- Gender: Only important when they say it is
- Exiling trans people from their own lives
- Family closets: Why I can’t go home for Christmas
- Coming out, and discovering who truly supports me
thanks for collecting all of these in one place it is very helpful