September 2011
3 posts
Rewriting History
I was having dinner this weekend with several people that I’ve known for most of my life. At several points in the conversation, we were reminiscing over the good ol’ days. The question of how to refer to me in the pre-transition past has come up several times in the past, and it came up again this time.
My personal preference is that people refer to me as Kelsie even when referring to me...
Mom's Genitals
For months now, I’ve been suppressing an intense and growing anger about the fact that my mom refuses to acknowledge my female identity. I’ve decided to write about it in order to vent a little, but also because she isn’t alone with her opinion.
She has this idea that there is a distinct thing called a sex change that one can get. This sex change involves getting a sex change operation performed,...
Nuggets of truth
I read a lot of transphobic shit these days. Usually, I run across a link on Reddit about an article that somebody wrote that contained a lot of hateful crap. I’ll first click the comments to get an idea of what people are so pissed about. Then, I’ll read the article and develop my own sense of things. More often than not, I’m finding that there are nuggets of truth in the articles, but buried...