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Sharon Gaughan
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
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Weston, CT, USA. On 14 December 1807, a "globe of fire" flashed south across Vermont and Massachusetts, culminating in three loud explosions at 6:30 in the morning over Fairfield County, Connecticut.
In their everyday lives, most people relied on astrology and traditional wisdom to explain natural phenomena. The common folk in religious communities thought meteors were portents of impending calamities. At best, amateur scientists thought that meteors were projectiles spewed from lunar volcanoes.
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 Sharon Gaughan Sunday, 17 April 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. The essence of America and what we can bring to the world lies before us, but you wouldn’t know it from the behavior of Democrats and Republicans. The two great engines of our political will ignore the public interest, burnish their own self-indulgent resumes, and facilitate the downward spiral of our expectations.
The American political parties are demonstrably ineffective, but worse, are impediments to effective governance.
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Sharon Gaughan Sunday, 10 April 2011 Washington, DC, USA. The typical US election for president and congress is a hard sprint toward the finish line. Everything is under tight control, with campaign appearances scheduled for friendly audiences at a considerable distance from the general population. We can always expect a flashy — but largely superficial — discussion of the issues.
Somewhere in the frenzied activity that is now a year-round American political season lay all sorts of US political and cultural factions working on
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 Sharon Gaughan Wednesday, 12 January 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Ashley Love is the latest in a long line of personal targets identified by Autumn Sandeen for deconstruction, serving no purpose other than fuel for Sandeen’s perpetual self-aggrandizement.
I have nothing personal against Autumn Sandeen, but she has become an intolerable burden that saps the energy of serious people striving toward real progress in basic civil rights and the relief of those who need our help. Increasing numbers of people who care about those born with the tr
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 Sharon Gaughan Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. Whoever we were and whatever we did before transition, the tasks we now face go beyond the bromides of I can get on with my life and I can just be who I am or These days, I can just be.
Children are out there asking questions that press against heart and conscience: And who are you, really? and What about us? These are issues that have already reached the family dinner table.
Many of us today raise children; in time, there will be even more
families where one or both pare |
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Sharon Gaughan Monday, 15 March 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. The existence of transsexuality is beyond dispute, as evidenced by the large absolute numbers of people who are hormonally reconstituted, surgically corrected, and successfully transitioned into society.
Gender theorists obfuscate, blog posters dispute, and tradition-bound academic scientists dither in career-driven timidity. Nonetheless, research into the causes of the transsexual birth condition has moved beyond simplistic behavioral analysis, which often misconceives it a |
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 Sharon Gaughan Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Fairfax, VA, USA. We find ourselves swimming in an alphabet soup of heightened expectations in what appears to be a favorable political climate. [N1] Democrats have several legislative proposals pending, but they control the presidency and both Hou... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Monday, 28 September 2009 Fairfax, VA, USA. Those of us who live in a democracy have much to be proud of, given the thuggish record of authoritarian regimes. But every democracy requires continuous engagement with securing liberty and extending the benefits to all of its citi... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Thursday, 10 September 2009
Fairfax, VA, USA. TS-Si.org sustained and defeated a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack designed to prevent access by our users and disable certain site features.
The confirmed attack destination was the article entitled Classic Transsexu... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Saturday, 21 March 2009 Fairfax, VA, USA. My personal portion of TS-Si.org, Looking Glass, usually carries some weighty meditations on daily life, cross-cultural issues, science policy, allusions to important announcements (e.g., Suzy Cooke's blog), [N1] and other interesti... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Friday, 01 August 2008
Fairfax, VA, USA. Reports of a transsexual gene? The New Scientist recently flashed a breathless headline: 'Transsexuality gene' makes women feel like men, with an accompanying article by Linda Geddes. [C1] This inaccurate report caused quite a sti... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Friday, 18 July 2008 Washington, DC, USA. The Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) has long outlived its intended purpose, the legitimization of psychiatry as a medical discipline. Even if we forgive the suspect origins of the DSM and respect the intentions ... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Sunday, 20 April 2008
Springfield, VA, USA. Those of us born transsexual ("Classic", HBS, whatever) had (or still have) a correctable medical condition.
Despite the preexistent nature of our birth condition, critics on both the social left and social right o... |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 25 January 2008
Fairfax, VA, USA. I avoid commercial pastries; they are bad for my waistline. However, I do love a really good blueberry scone.
Every so often when out doing my tasks in life I simply can’t resist and swing by a coffee shop and indulge in what ... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Monday, 05 November 2007
Fairfax, VA, USA. I have met two men in my life who lost their penises to a misfortune of life. They weren’t born transsexual, but accident or disease confronted them. These are my notes on our encounters in the burn ward, my meetings with men lo... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Saturday, 19 August 2006
Washington, DC, USA. Can we at all agree and let transsexuals be transsexuals? Human language, while inherently imprecise, does convey rich meanings that frequently become the basis for action, inaction, or dismissal of real needs. Anyone up for a ... |
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 Sharon Gaughan Saturday, 15 July 2006
Springfield, Virginia, USA. Professional sports embedded my growing up years in Cleveland, Ohio.
The football Browns were dominating and the baseball Indians were elite.
We even had the Barons, the most successful team in American Hockey League ... |
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