A necessary action to improve the dialogue between Medical and Social Science ScholarsErie, PA, USA. In the fall of 2010 I began work on my Masters Thesis (which examined the life experiences of transsexual teenagers and young adults compared to the life experiences of other queer youth).

My research found disconnects between the use of the terms transsexual and transgender in the scholarly and academic literature vs my own understanding of the terms (based on a decade of living with a group that includes transsexual women in upstate New York). [N1]

Lancaster, PA, USA. It’s an ill wind that blows no good and a rare political season that brings no lessons.

Here are six salient teaching moments inspired by the finally concluded Republican presidential contest. Some are familiar; a few are surprising and all together reveal much about American politics entering the second decade of a still young century.