Are You Still Interested In Girls? I just had a thought and wanted to write a quick blog post. I noted in a recent post that I came out twice, once as a trans* woman, and also as a lesbian. However, I was somewhat robbed of the second experience of coming out as a lesbian
If You Want to Know if A Department is Friendly to Trans* Students, Ask Trans* Students A recent thread on the fantastic blog, Feminist Philosophers, asks for people to weigh in about what a prospective trans* PhD student can do about her situation in applying to grad programs, and there are also questions about general
Some Unsurprising Results If you've been following my blog, you'll have noticed that I post about allies a fair bit. I also post about what constitutes poor ally behaviour (e.g., gaslighting). In fact, I recently wrote about why I'm done with the concept and term "ally." But it's still useful to talk about the term
And Whether Cis People Really Get It I think about privilege a lot. I've written a few posts about it here, including this post on a variety of forms of privilege that I have. You might notice, if you read it, that I don't list "male privilege" as one of them. That's because, well, I
Continuing Mispronouning Even After I Leave I've written in a bunch of posts how bad things got during the year following my transition at my previous department (from which I obtained my PhD). It took the bulk of the faculty (the grad students seemed to do much better) months, well over three months, to start
A Reader's Question A few people have asked me how they should refer to my past in terms of name and pronouns. In fact, people have more typically asked me more generally: how should you refer to a trans* person's past. Below the fold, I'll post a friend's actual questions and then my response. A
Why Would You Do That to A Healthy Body? This is a little follow-up to yesterday's post. I left something out that I meant to include. I want to comment on something that is common both as an insult (whether intended or not — although it's usually intended) in radfem communities, but also amongst well
Check-Raising Tourists The subtitle is a reference to the famous poker movie Rounders. Now, to "real" poker players, there are just a tonne of flaws in the realism of the movie (the underground clubs are somewhat accurate; the betting patterns in the key hands are not), but with that said, it's still a favourite. Only
My First Post with a Disclaimer! Warning: I am going to talk about sex, sexuality, orgasms, and genitals in this post. If this topic is too intimate, or if you don't want to know the personal details that I discuss, I suggest you simply not read this post. I'll place the whole post below the
How to Change the Sex Designation Marker I've written a post (or two) about changing one's sex/gender marker on one's Canadian Passport. (For this post, I'm just going to use "sex" instead of sex/gender or any alternative.) This post is about changing one's sex designation on a British Columbia birth certificate. That's my province of