Global Warning
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Elsewhere on the internet, in the web blogs and their knee jerk ranting comments, the world wide transgender range wars rage on.
The proponents see themselves as white hats and the targets of their philippic harangues as unscrupulous villains dressed in black from head and toe.
I read very few of these blogs, other than those pointed out to us here at TS-Si as possibly being of interest to us on these pages. [N1] But that doesn’t mean I am ignorant of the essence of what... |
03-02-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I am half Sicilian. Both my mother’s grandparents arrived in the United States from Palermo. The rest of my genes come from the British Isles except for a sliver of Iroquois. My facial features are classic American Italian with the high cheekbones of the Haudenosaunee.
My father was one hundred percent mongrel British Isles, less a generation more Haudenosaunee than I have. [N1]
His skin was as dark as my olive but with distinct reddish tinge to his tan. In photographs a... |
02-28-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. We live in an age that calls into question the qualifications for excellence. No single person is allowed to be a success: no one can be that good. In a world full of queers, some of us are queerer than most.
We must have cheated, we must have been lucky; we could not have succeeded on our own. The game must have been rigged from the start.
Just when you think you have finally achieved success, the democratic American mass attempts to pull you back down. This is nothing new... |
02-23-10
Word count: 1067
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Country music is often seen as the soundtrack of the Republican Party (read White America). Many times the Democratic Party (read everyone else but white people who aren’t college students or professors) sniffs down its well educated, northern nose at country performers.
When a Democrat sees a deer, she sees Bambi where a Republican might see antlers up on his den wall.
A Democrat might see a lake as a great place for family picnic but a Republican might see a perfect pl... |
02-22-10
Word count: 1932
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar: the once enthusiastic backers of President Barack Obama are frustrated by his inability to speed up the political processes of a democratic republic. He has failed to act on the promises he made during his campaign for president.
The President is in danger of breaking the spirit of solidarity and hope. More than a broken promise is the danger of breaking people's sense of hope. Issues that were important in the campaign have taken a ba... |
02-21-10
Word count: 1159
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Some of us have been hookers in the Sixties and Seventies, early transitioners in need of money while completing our transition. Whores, harlots, women of the night, streetwalkers, call girls, courtesans, trollops, strumpets, prostitutes, working girls, and, the politically correct, if intentionally misleading, sex workers.
In our salad days, when we were green in judgment, yet cold in blood, it was not uncommon that, cast out from home and families, we turned to the street... |
02-16-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem most all transsexual youthful remembrances. Our stories are filled with great trains of fire and comets trailing dews of blood and disaster.
We feed upon childhood memories, noting each doomsday eclipse and ill-fated harbinger of deconstruction. Heaven and earth conspire to drive our climatic tales. The salt of most righteous tears seasons our emotional catharses.
You must go elsewhere if that is what you are searching for. Wha... |
02-12-10
Word count: 1899
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Psychological assessments are not magic. I no more believe in the inerrancy of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) than I do the proclamations of any other itinerant preachers prowling the back roads thumping away on a big book in their hands..
The quality of APA practitioners follows the same bell shaped curve as any other group of professionals.
Some are very good at what they do, some are average, and too many would misspell cat if you spotted them two letters. ... |
02-11-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Unless you have been hiding in a National Football League locker room, you have read, or heard, or seen that the weather gods have been angry at the mid-Atlantic states along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Last weekend’s blizzard is morphing into this week’s blizzard.
Out my back door, twenty-six inches (66 cm) of white stuff fell on the small wooden deck above the patio. Both Sharon and I measured the depth independently to be sure. Late this afternoon thro... |
02-10-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not a relationship coach. I will not center your spirituality. I certainly am not, and never have been, the Messiah of Hope or the Fountain of Unlimited Possibility. I only wish I was Lady GaGa, but then again don’t we all? Hmmmm? [N1]
Life is not a creakily constructed wooden rollercoaster or a brightly lit circus carousel. You buy your ticket, take the ride, and no complaints about the bumps and bruises. [N2] There are no money back guarantees, no refunds, no secon... |
01-31-10
Word count: 1818
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Whenever a woman born transsexual decides she must leave the safety of her home and reestablish her public life in the world, she may find her first safe harbor at a local gay bar. Whether lesbian or not is no matter, a gay bar may be seen as a non-threatening environment to continue transition.
There is nothing surprising in this. One assumes the queer and downtrodden are sympathetic when they find still another orphan. And so I found myself at the bar, drinking chilled Gre... |
01-23-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA.Do we not all have bodies? If you prick us, do we not all bleed, especially if it is our first time? There are a limited number of configurations, less than a handful of standard alternatives. Alright there are two. [cf. Note] When you fly you get to be a boy or a girl for your pat down and full body scan. The blue line or the pink one and be sure to smile when your picture’s taken.
There has been a great hullabaloo in some quarters objecting to this governmental invasion ... |
01-12-10
Word count: 1180
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Fairfax, VA, USA. The turning of the years provides exhausted writers the opportunity to examine the bones and innards of the old one and prognosticate what may befall us all in the new. In most cases this involves looking around at what’s going down, imbibing a beer or two or some other helpful medicines, and breathing deeply the fumes of prophecy and prediction.
I am no better than my betters and, as desperate for a year end thousand words as they, I have ruminated greatly about the futur... |
01-01-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I was always the funny, smart girl but the quiet one at parties. A female Oscar Wilde when I chose, in gatherings of strangers, I did not often choose the spotlight. Most often I have been the smartest person in any room and I learned early to throttle down my mind around others. Of what goes on inside my neurobiology, I have found it best to allow only seventy to seventy-five percent to escape to the world outside.
Even then, the world often finds me strangely thoughted. My... |
12-20-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Outside of the nattering of the castle bound gender theorists, no woman or man born transsexual is an island freshly thrust from the ocean bottom.
We are all part of the greater world that is humanity, sisters and brothers in need and desire to all other men and women who breathe earth’s air.
But just as no piece of land is identical to any other, some being more fertile and others barren, wasted landscapes, we are not forged from a single, continuous stamp. To say we ar... |
12-13-09
Word count: 1938
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Howdy-Doody, Crusader Rabbit, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and Ding Dong School with Miss Frances: my roots begin here.
I am older than Rock and Roll but not as old as Dick Clark.
The Woody Woodpecker Song was at the top of the charts the day I was born. Little Richard was not yet 16, Elvis was 13, Jerry Lee Lewis only 12.
It would be four years until Bill Haley and His Comets would be formed, six until Rock Around The Clock would begin climbing the charts.
I am not as ol... |
12-11-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. We Americans, you and I, spring from some Platonic conception of ourselves, forever remodeling our past even as we reconceive our multiple futures. The possibility of success, tempered by the memories our well accomplished failures, bedevils us until our dying days.
We worship a dual headed bitch goddess, pursuing fame, thinking it is success. [N1] In this, the early decades of a new millennium, we confuse our good intentions with actual accomplishment as if the act of aimin... |
12-08-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I do not know if Mike Penner was a transsexual or not. After publicly identifying himself as a woman born transsexual in 2007, at the end, he had returned to calling himself Mike and identifying as a man until he apparently took his own life on Thanksgiving Friday. Those are the facts.
Any number of transgender activists want to claim Mike as one of their own, going so far as to refer to him by the name he used when he publicly transitioned, the name he rejected a few years ... |
12-03-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I have two breasts. The doctor who read my CT Scan [N1] described them as symmetric breast parenchymal [N2] tissue, i.e. normal breast tissue.
I have a personal relationship with my breasts and found myself strangely happy that the doctor thought my breasts were symmetrical. Especially so that he found no obvious masses or abnormal calcifications.
My annual mammograms have been without problems, but I once received a note instructing me to call my gynecologist immediately ... |
11-22-09
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Fairfax, VA, USA.Desire. Lust. Rapaciousness. Romance. Lasciviousness, Lechery, Fornicatio, and the physical hunger that drives us into each other’s arms and overfills the world with sticky rug rats.
The inordinate craving for carnal pleasure experienced by the human organs of generation.
We’re talking Hot Monkey Sex, the stuff that helps us all make it through the night. A near occasion of sin, as they say, since the sixth or seventh grade in Junior High School.
The pleasure that is so... |
11-19-09
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