Does anyone know of a cover version of The Who's I'm a Boy by either a woman singer or a trans* man singer whose vocal range still sounds "female"? YouTube has been no help.

Crossposted at Dreamwidth (
( Read more... )

The announcement of the Twelfth Doctor's casting has again led to dismay for people who would like the next Doctor to be a woman.

I have to confess that I've always been a little uncomfortable with the assertion that if the Doctor regenerated as female it would be no big deal to the Doctor. On a Watsonian and also a personal level, I have doubts. ( Read more... )

I'd better preface this by saying that I love the deleted XMFC scene where Charles shows Angel an image of Erik in a dress. I especially love "you've never looked more beautiful, darling ( Read more... )

Well, today for the first time I had a transphobic (or at least gender-policing) insult directed at me.

I should preface this by saying that although I'm not out at work, I'm not exactly not out either. I wear men's clothes and my short hair is styled in a male way ( Read more... )

Say that someone makes a post to a fandom community and addresses the members of that community as "ladies." Is it okay to politely respond that not everyone in the fandom/on the comm is a woman? Some of us are men (trans* or cis), some of us are genderqueer, androgynous, or otherwise not women. (And I'd imagine some of the women in the fandom don' ( Read more... )

1) It was National Coming Out Day today (technically yesterday now), which means it's the one year anniversary of my coming out as a trans man. And hey, one year later, I'm still trans! Hooray! (One of my issues has been the fear that I was somehow deceiving myself and would change my mind. I haven't, and I feel a lot more certain and comfortable ( Read more... )

Finished the book (John Le Carré's Absolute Friends, which is the bleakest thing I have read in a long time ( Read more... )

If any of you who have me friended agree with this secret from today's fandomsecrets, would you please defriend/unsubscribe me now?

Especially if I have you friended/subscribed/granted access back ( Read more... )

It's Coming Out Day. So I'm coming out ( Read more... )