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Fairfax, VA, USA. Like many women out of the public eye [N1], what most women born transsexual want more than anything else is not to be noticed, at least no more so than any other woman [N2].
Women learn early that, in other than those moments of our own choosing, standing out in a crowd can invite unwanted sexual attention from males and unasked for behavioral commentary and criticism from the cultural society [N3] in which they live.
We all are judged against cultural stereotypes that va... |
06-30-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Most sexually reproducing species spend most of their evolutionary history punctuated into an equilibria equally divided into male and female. Very few of us ever check the “other” box. Boy or Girl, Girl or Boy, except after “C” and/or if the year is divisible by both 100 and 400.
Within any given representative population x, research suggests that the top level of the gay and lesbian population equals .1x +/- .05. Let’s just say ten percent of any given human popu... |
06-27-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. American Idol has been on the air for eight years and, during that time, has produced two openly gay winners, Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert, and, if rumors are true, one or two possibly lesbian winners.
I’m not telling, even if you ask.
In the six months since he took office, the American President has repeatedly broken promises he made during his campaign to the gay community. Or, sensing a certain gullibility within the liberal wing, perhaps he deliberately lied during h... |
06-21-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. A funny thing happened on the way to the Pride Festival last weekend, overnight being gay has become boring and predictable. Not that that’s a bad thing, but as Pride Parades and Pride Festivals move into middle-age (the annual Capital Pride in Washington D. C. is 34 years old), the over-the-top youthful exuberance and acting out is slowly becoming a memory.
We are no longer the sexual radicals and social revolutionaries of our youth. Being queer is becoming middle class a... |
06-17-09
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Dateline LA — Chastity Bono wowed Tinsel Town with boffo plans to formally transition from female to male. She admits to beginning the process earlier this year. Her parents, Sonny and Cher Bono, were unavailable for comment at press time ...
Fairfax, VA, USA. As most of you probably know by now, Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher, is in the early stages of transition as he changes his sex from female to male and his name to Chaz. Civil rights advocate, journalilst, author and m... |
06-13-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I am embarrassed by my home town. In a transphobic rant on their morning radio show [N1] on May 28, 2009, Rob Williams and Arnie States attacked transgender children while discussing a news story about a transgender child in Omaha, Nebraska and her parents’ decision to support her transition.
The appropriateness of the parents’ decision [N2] is not the subject of this column: Rob Williams and Arnie States are. They spent more than 30 minutes explicitly verbally attacking... |
06-12-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. We have an innate urge to examine, explain, and understand the world we live in. Who or what gave rise to this pale blue planet and the human species that ride upon it around the Milky Way?
Humanity has hundreds, if not thousands of creation stories in the folklore of peoples all over our earth.
Since the scientific revolution in the Seventeenth Century, more and more scientific observations have come in conflict with our common sense view of how things are d... |
06-06-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. It is the worst of all possible outcomes.
When the sex-change doctors get it wrong, it is the patient who pays the price as the medical team collects its quickly earned fees, yawns, and heads off for a holiday from responsibility.
The latest victims of medical ineptitude live in Australia where the only sex-change clinic has shut down and its director forced to quit in the face of a growing public outcry that patients with psychiatric problems have been wron... |
06-01-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. I do not often write of war other than the handfuls of scattered poems here and there as the mood strikes me or when I deliberately take myself back to 9-11, the Pentagon, and Flight 77 where I witnessed the fireball and black smoke from my office.
I was born in the last dying embers of the Second World War and spent my childhood surrounded by the Third World War, the “cold” one we don’t much talk about.
I graduated from college and my professional life ... |
05-24-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. I got no kick against full time transgenders unless they play it far too loose and lose the clarity of their argument until they end up sounding like some weekend crossdresser making excuses to security after they have been caught in a bathroom sweep at the mall. But that doesn’t mean full time transgenders think like women or that they are female.
I would even concede that they are transgender if anyone would come up with a definition of “transgender” that would... |
05-20-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. On behalf of the faculty of Arts, Letters, iPods, and Pop Psy and rather than make anyone of you feel bad, I hereby declare that every reader has, by definition or by divine right, met all and every requirement for some sort of very impressive degree.
Therefore, under the authority duly vested in me by TS-Si and the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon all of you the honorary degree of TrD. [N1]
No matter what your major is or whe... |
05-10-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. Young male human primates are by nature aggressive. Fueled by testosterone, they constantly test their physical prowess, jockeying for position among the other young males. Young males are noteworthy for their frequently observed reckless enthusiasm for and participation in activities that risk both life and limb.
This typical human male behavior is the end product of seven million years of primate evolution. [N1] This is not to say that young female human primates hav... |
05-05-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. The recent dramatic resurgence of the Democratic Party in the United States can be attributed to one part George W. Bush, one part Barack Obama, and one part the wars and the economy. John McCain could do little to influence the ultimate outcome. His fate was sealed when the housing market collapsed, the stock market plummeted, and the war without end continued.
To focus exclusively on those issues as sole causes of the Democratic takeover, however, would be a seriou... |
05-02-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. I herein expose the Protocols of Transgender Fundamentalism, the anti-science, anti-rational beliefs and doctrines that lie behind the transgender; those happy few, that band of brothers, denigrated and hated by a worldwide conspiracy lead by those men and women who were born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS or “Classic” Transsexuality).
According to the protocols, HBS men and women are behind a covert plan to repress transgenders and keep them out of the mainstr... |
04-08-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.Transgender and Activism (T&A) breaks down into two major categories: those who act out in public and exhibit many of the same behavior traits as rebellious adolescents, and those ladies who just watch from the sidelines while complaining about the unfairness of it all.
A third species, the patient and rational transgender who works quietly to change public law and opinion is rarely seen and can be considered functionally extinct. I have no interest in discussing th... |
03-29-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. Some people are plumbers, some are college professors. Others are taxi drivers and doctors of medicine. And some are professional transsexuals, self-appointed expert witnesses and snake oil charlatans who seldom miss an opportunity to perform in the gender circus center ring.
Public speakers without portfolio, professional transsexuals minister to whoever will accept them as the voice of transsexuality. Armed with a vague, post-mod [N1] social studies philosophy and li... |
03-22-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not a Republican or a Democrat, a Liberal or a Conservative, a Believer or a Non-Believer, nor am I White, Brown, Black, Red, Yellow, Pink or Green. I am an American, a bipedal primate living on the Northern Continent in the Western Hemisphere of a small blue planet we have named Earth [N1]: all other classifications pale before this fact.
I am the product of the 230 year old American Revolution and the six to seven million years of primate evolution that separate... |
03-19-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA.In the beginning there was the IRC, the Internet Relay Chat [N1], a real-time text messaging and conferencing program. IRC allowed users to join multiple channels simultaneously, chat rooms where you could talk both publicly and privately one on one. We could even transfer files and we thought we were the cutting edge and possibly we were.
Not like those America Online (AOL) weenies who were trapped in their corporate prison. We conceded that AOL instant messaging (IM) ... |
03-01-09
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 | ...Fairfax, VA, USA. Some of my best friends are transgender — at least they tell me so — but that doesn’t mean I would want to marry one.
Undoubtedly they make good spouses, honorable and respected personages, loving and caring parents … but I prefer my women or men straight up, in that order, and not a blurred combination of the two.
Let me start this column by saying (although it would appear that I am one paragraph late of starting) that I have nothing against transg... |
02-22-09
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 | ...Fairfx, VA, USA. Have you been through a big transgender change – a new town, a new job, a new job in a new town? Does your Friday night make-up make you look like a five dollar whore in a two bit gin joint?
Do you feel like you could use a whole new you?
Are you a presentationally challenged transgender (PCT)? Well cheer up, you’ve come to the right place. Here in a single column is everything you ever needed to know about dressing up and acting out, a veritable compendi... |
02-18-09
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