For more than 60 years I felt like the dog chasing a bus. For a dog, seeing a bus going by is an overpoweringly attractive object, and… well…. he has to connect with it somehow. In my case, my bus, that went by every day, was the identity of a…

I clearly remember the dawning of my awareness that nearly all boys and girls were being segregated and trained in opposite ways solely by genital type. We were all being put on a team from which we couldn’t escape... Gender rule compliance is a source of tension in most children’s…

…and it is threatening your relationship, ou are not alone! It is horribly stressful, confusing, and brings into sharp focus a bunch of complicated things about ourselves, our partners, our families, and our society, that we really wish we didn’t have to deal with. Y ou may feel horrified, or…

As a newly emerged infant I am sure I did not understood the words ‘It’s a boy!”, but I did soon understand from the tone and chatter it was a good thing in most people’s eyes. I knew for sure the label meant something important. In childhood I quickly began…

In support of your great work to illuminate the hypocrisy inherent in all adverse discriminatory practices against groups, I suggest that this is not the last bastion of bigotry. It is alive and well and operates as a hydra, the serpents perpetually regrowing and coming into focus. It is built in to group psychology, and succeeds via the fundamentals of how power both enables and corrupts.

How I have been managing a lifelong crisis I hope my story will help you understand the journey so many crossdressers are on. This is generalized from my own experience [I’m 70 now], supplemented by that I have heard from fellow crossdressers over decades. if it is of any use for others who are struggling in the same…

I have struggled all my life to cope with my sense of misfit gender. In society, nearly every detail in our choice of feeling, dress, and behavior is classified as for ‘men’ or ‘women’, and this is the basis for ordering social rights and privileges and obligations. …

Yes, I am proposing that the discomfort of gender dysphoria is so common that we can rightfully consider it normal. And the social efforts made to suppress dysphoria are also ‘normal’. It is not talked about as a serious problem for most people- just part of the game of life…

I’ve been thinking how language either clarifies or confuses — with so many words like ‘man’ or ‘woman’, and ‘transgender’ turning out to have layers and layers of definition that changes by context and semantic purpose, and how many arguments are made with people speaking past each other because they…