The Human Race
The issue of Caster Semenya, the 18 year old female athlete who has won two gold and one silver medal for her country - South Africa - makes me wonder. It makes me wonder how far we have come in the...
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Men who want to have a woman's body (Autogynephilia for Dummies)
On men who are turned on by the idea of having sex in a woman's body. Are they perverts or something natural?Autogynephilia is a concept developed by Ray Blanchard. He argues that men who have erotic...
View ArticleReflections on the Proposed DSM5 Revisions and the Role of Community...
The proposed revisions for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual edition 5 (DSM-5) -- which governs mental health diagnoses -- have been released. The DSM-5 includes diagnoses relevant to the trans...
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Nature is a DJ
Jack Molay takes a look at the current state of biological research and what it can mean for the transgendered. In my post on What brain science says about M2F transsexuals I presented some recent...
View ArticleDo You Give a Damn?
As a bisexual woman posting on a sex-positive, gender equality website, I'd be preaching to the choir if it weren't for the fact that Sex Gender Body gets many different readers."The Give a Damn...
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Gallup Poll Says 50 Percent of Americans Accept Gay Relations; Oh Really?
So, now that we're halfway there, according to Gallup, should we lay this puppy to rest? Clayton M. McCleskey of the Dallas Morning News believes so. "So, hopefully this all adds up to mean we'll soon...
View ArticleToday I Am...
I help moderate a blog called 'We haven't kissed enough pretty girls'. It is a place for anyone who rejects binary gender and sexuality identities. We like to call ourselves 'fauxmos', but we accept...
View ArticleEffeminate Tomboy
Over at Fauxmos HQ my friend Anwen has posted about her gender identity:http://fauxmos.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/effeminate-tomboy/
View ArticleSupport Brianna Freeman
Have you heard? Brianna Freeman, a transgender woman, is suing Realty Resources Hospitality. They own the Denny's in Auburn, Maine, where she was banned from using the female restroom. She's asking...
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The invisible female to male crossdressers and crossdreamers
The myth of the non-existent female to male crossdreamer or crossdresser is crumbling. It turns out that women can be gender confused as well, without being homosexual or even transsexual.Gender...
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The Harry Benjamin Syndrome Part 1: When transactivism becomes transphobic
Some of you may have heard about the so-called Harry Benjamin Syndrome.It is a term developed by transwomen who vehemently oppose any association between them and whom I have called crossdreamers,...
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The Harry Benjamin Syndrome 2: The Scientific Basis
In this post I continue to the discussion of Rose White's book The Harry Benjamin Syndrome Comes of Age.Continues from part 1. She blinded me with scienceRose White argues that crossdressers and real...
View ArticleCrossdressing and Leaving the House
My wife, mother, brother, best friend, cousins, sister-in-law and a ton of buddies and people on the internet know that I crossdress occasionally. I write about it in my blog and use it as fodder for...
View ArticleStrap-On The Sauvignon
http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/strap-on-the-sauvignon/It’s a mid-week evening in January, in a northern middle-class home. The Sainsbury’s Sauvignon is magically appearing from the...
View ArticleYnot.com Interviews Aly Sinclair!
by Peter Berton YNOT Sultry t-girl porn star Aly Sinclair has been described as “punk,” “alt porn,” “busty,” and having “legs that won’t quit.” But one last word needs to be added to Aly’s description:...
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Transgender variety illustrated
I have previously compared the birth of a personality, gender orientation included, as a remix of humanity. There are literally millions of variables that make up a human being: natural, psychological...
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Trans Flagging
Flagging Trans Ontologies, Not FetishesWe have endeavoured to make opinicus rampant completely pan gender, so that every flag can be read on any body. In this vein, we removed specific references to...
View ArticleThe Joys Of Being Trans In SA
I went to renew my driver's license today. Oh, you have no idea. It was an adventure. Funny, you would think that once you were found competent enough to drive a car or own a gun, and not having any...
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Founder's Day
On Friday I attended a Founder's Day ceremony at my old high school. It was quite something to be there again. The school was celebrating its 85th year in existence, and I will be attending my 20 years...
View ArticleHere There Be Dragons
There was a big kerfuffle last week - perhaps you heard - where a prominent online feminist, perturbed over a call out about what her blog does and doesn’t cover, suggested it was responsibility of all...
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You are not one of us!
The separatists transwomen intensify their attacks on crossdressers and "transgender", immensely fearful of contamination by association.White PrideSeparatist ideologue and HBS International general,...
View ArticleGender Queers, Transsexuals, and Masculine Bias
So today I got into a heated argument over the concept of gender dysphoria among transsexuals a gender queers. I came off as elitist, yet my position is far from it. Regardless, the matter involves the...
View ArticleA Challenge Towards Transgender Pornography
You know, this is perhaps strange -- even arbitrary -- but, there seems to be a gross lack of tasteful Nudes in the Transgender genre. D'you know what I mean? My question is, where are all of the...
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Unorthodox Transgender Love
One of my online friends, Sahar, has sent me a very interesting email about the relationship between a male to female and a female to male transgender crossdreamer.A crossdreamer is understood as a...
View ArticleEaster Day Solutions
So today’s Easter Sunday, and we’re all wearing Easter colours to work, instead of our usual uniforms. Easter colours, of course, being pastels. Easter, being the day when everyone passes around...
View ArticleWhat's In A Name?
Last night I posted a refreshingly positive sort of blog -- it's not something I do often, mind you -- that I thought you guys might find interesting. Here is an excerpt from that post.So I know a lot...
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Broad Study of Gender Variant People Confirms Gender Continuum
Extensive study confirms spectrum of gender variance and debunks theories that try to sort transgender and transsexual men and women into distinct categories. Jaimie Veale is a New Zealand scientist...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Invalidate Marginalized People
Many people seek comfort in strict stereotypes, and they do their best to police others who do not share their prejudices.A very efficient way of forcing others to adhere to whatever is considered...
View ArticleWhat the words trans and transgender really mean
There is a new movement of transsexual separatists over at tumblr who claims total ownership of the term "transgender". They call themselves "truscum" (appropriating a slur directed against them) and...
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Was William Shakespeare Bisexual or Pansexual?
In a new paper Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmonson have argued that the great bard, William Shakespeare, was bisexual.Shakespeare scholars have for a long time known that some of his...
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