A teacher I work with requested a short story, by a trans* person, about "coming out" to use with a group of LGBT high school students. I was not able to recommend one (this may well be because my memory is bad, if you have a suggestion, please leave it in the comments and apologies if I am overlooking your work). I can heartily recommend a number ( Read more... )

I don't think that there is a single transition process, and I don't think there is a single way to transition. I don't think all transmasculine people need/want/desire chest surgery. I am also very clear that for some transmasculine people chest surgery is not a want or desire, but a need and a medical necessity. I want individuals to be able to ( Read more... )

There have been two fatal stabbings on my street in the last two months. One a block to the South of me, and one a block to the North of me. In the most recent stabbing, on December 20th, most news sources reported:

Police would only say that one of the victims was a man and couldn’t confirm if the other was male or female.

My phone started ( Read more... )

For a few days every year we look like a community. All manner of LGBTT2IQQA people that I don't see during the rest of the year come out for Pride. We come in from the suburbs, we drive down from Northern Ontario. We take the GO train, we car-pool, we cycle in from neighbourhoods East and West. We come downtown, and we throng. We march up and down ( Read more... )

While My Tender Beast was picking up The Small Boy from daycare, one of the staff there mentioned to him, kindly, that "You know, we give preferential treatment to siblings."

The same afternoon, while I was at the bank, my favorite teller asked to see pictures of The Small Boy, and after ohhing and ahhing at the ones I produced, leaning towards me ( Read more... )

Let's Get this STRAIGHT: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents, by Tina Fakhirid-Deen, with COLAGE was released in November and I was eager to get a copy. My interest is part professional and part personal. Sure on the personal side my kid is not yet reading chapter books, but it never hurts to be prepared. On the professional side, ( Read more... )

Bill 157, the "Keeping Our Kids Safe At School Act" came into effect on February 1st of this year. If you are a teacher, by now you should have been trained on it, if you're not, you may not have heard of it. If you are a queer, trans or allied student, you should know about it. If you are someone who has ever been identified (rightly or wrongly) ( Read more... )

Practice Contractions

Apparently, many pregnant people have practice contractions. Again, apparently they often start at about six weeks, but usually aren't felt by the pregnant person until about 20 weeks. Usually they are called Braxton-Hicks contractions, but I'm going to call them practice contractions. These contractions are named after John ( Read more... )

I've been doing a great deal of listen to queer, trans and even some straight people talk about their journeys towards parenthood of late. All of these hard hard stories. Some of them are hard stories that eventually get better, and some are hard stories that just keep on being hard, and then are hard some more in whole new ways.

Some of the people ( Read more... )

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