The Dildo Dilemma
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A Female to Male Transsexual Reflects on Gender and Biology
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When the Trump Administration revealed their latest gambit to deny transgender and transsexual people our civil rights, I revisited the biological
Transsexual Intel on Wearing a Bow Tie
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Bowties caught my fancy about ten years ago. I took every opportunity to wear them. People complimented me on them. A few men told me how they
The Truth About Early Transgender Transition
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The self-obsession I engaged in during my early days on hormones only became apparent in retrospect. Boy was I embarrassed. The realization that I
Transgender and Bisexual Solidarity
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Biphobia runs rampant in gay and lesbian communities. Lesbians desert their bisexual friends, women they used to hang with when said women dated a
Transgender Gender Revolt (NSFW Version)
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Way back in 2010 I created a website called Revolutionize Your Gender. I had wanted to disseminate slogans that made us transgender people feel
Transgender Super Hero/ine Asks: What Do You Know About Gender?
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We need transsexual and transgender superheroes. That realization prompted me to spend time honing my drawing skills, something I had neglected to
Transgender Short Story: The Sketchbook Project
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In May of 2011 I completed my first story for the Art House Coop, the virtual extension of the Brooklyn Art Library. We were allowed to choose a
Transsexual Stories: A Day in the Life of a Transsexual
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I am proud to share with you a fictional story I wrote for the Sketchbook Project. Entitled, “A Day in the Life of a Transsexual,” it is a decent
Masculinity: What Does Self-Organizing Men Mean?
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I am often asked what does the title of my book mean? Simply put, the title suggests we organize and re-organize our self-understanding as we move
What’s My Gender Again, Part 3
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I believe the last two days of ponderings may be summed up after the jump. I suppose we reveals things to ourselves when we are ready, and, for the
The Downsides of White Privilege
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A visitor found this space by googling “the downside of white privilege.” I suspect they wanted to learn more about how racism harms white
Perpetual Peak Experiences Hurt My Health
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Perpetual peak experiences seemed mine by birthright. Growing up my father provided me and my family with opportunities to live in Hong Kong and
An FtM Superhero
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After Transition: Hair Grows, Just Not Where I Wanted
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Ahh, the growth of hair. Everywhere but on the top of my head. Besides not telling me that shaving gets boring, nobody bothered to tell me that the
After Transition: Shaving, or Drudgery
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What Will Happen After Transition? Oh, the dreams I possessed in early transition. I was going to grow a full beard! No wait, a goatee! A mustache!
It’s All About Me!
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This is one of the very first cartoons I drew. Can you tell? Me, too. White liberals, regardless of gender orientation, haven’t changed nearly as
The Control Issue
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The FtM Butt
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Do You Like My Bulge?
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The Real Reason Trannies Transition
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Forget the sex, the privilege, the clothes. I transitioned for the panel discussions
The Real Reason Gays Want Marriage
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Healthcare? I already have healthcare. I want to marry to pass on my assets for free. If you want healthcare, get a job. This cartoon is now dated.
The FtM Gets No Satisfaction
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“Was it good for you,” I asked. “No even worth a tweet,” she said
The FtM is Shocked
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I know size matters for the gays. But I had no idea that size matters for the babes, too. “Of course,” a babe told me recently, “we never say
Radical Cootiest Feminist
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I am a radical cootiest feminist. All manifestations of masculinity are cootie-filled and icky. Any masculine presence, be it on the web, at the
The FtM Makes a Declaration
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“I can’t be racist,” I told her. “I’m FtM. I’m oppressed, too!”
The FtM Receives a Compliment
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“I’m transsexual,” I told him. He said, “Wow! You’re becoming a woman.”
Queerspawn
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For femmetron and all the COLAGE folks
It Take a Village
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If only Hillary had known…
Privacy
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With a hat tip to Audre Lorde
Gender is Theater
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Gender is theater. What is your role
Worship Me!
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Permalink: /worship-me/ Worship me! I have a big dildo
My Body is Wrong
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Permalink: /my-body-is-wrong/ I was born in the wrong body. I should have been born rich
Hormones Can Save You
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Testosterone is my personal jesus
The Tao of the Transition Story
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The only thing that keeps him going is the mistaken belief that people care about his transition story
The FtM Plays God
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Permalink: /the-ftm-plays-god/ “Hey babe,” I said to her, grabbing her knees. “Pretend you’re the Red Sea and I’m God.” Then she dumped her coffee
FtM Bromance
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Permalink: /ftm-bromance/ Heterosexual FtM Love Story equals Fromance
The FtM Asks a Trick Question
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Permalink: /the-ftm-asks-a-trick-question/ Who here looks like a million bucks? Trick question. I do
Which Came First
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Permalink: /which-came-first/ Which came first: body or gender
The FtM Can’t Be Sexist
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Permalink: /the-ftm-cant-be-sexist/ “I can’t be sexist. I’m FtM.”
The FtM Loses His Gender
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I’m having an out-of-gender experience. Can I borrow some from you
The FtM Learns Something Shocking
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What do you mean as a white FtM I might have privilege
The FtM Keeps His Tools of the Patriarchy
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A zen priest once asked what objects we would keep if we had one box and one box only to keep our chosen objects in. The priest mentioned her kids
FtMs Find Meaning
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Permalink: /the-ftms-find-meaning/ Suddenly my life has purpose. (for more on the power donut)
The FtM Lets You Know the Deal
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Hey! I’m White
FtM Post-Phalloplasty Surgery
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Would you like to see my new penis
Feel Free to Worship Me
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I changed my gender. Feel Free to Worship Me
Mr Asshat Transsexual
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that’s mr. binary gender loving asshat transsexual to you
The Final Femmethology Cartoons
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I can hardly believe that Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology dedicted to femme identity, will be released next month. Two of the
So What?
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Back to life.
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Back to reality. I heard that song last night in my spinning class. I have forgotten that these cartoons are part of my true life
Why I Became a Man
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This cartoon is dedicated to those feminists who think I am straying from the feminine path and those FtMs who think they have no privilege. Rock on
Gender: Drop Dead!
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The cartoon is a checklist for your gender. I recently learned that only a judge can declare me male, in a court of law. Or so it goes in Colorado.
The Quantum Mechanics of a Pregnant Transman
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Thomas Beattie is hot right now. Pregnant transmen boggle our imaginations. Pregnant? you say. And he says he is a man?? How can this be?!? Mr.
Unto Us A Son is Born
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I Forgot
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A man says “I forgot my gender…”
A Short To-Do List
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He bolted upright in bed. The only thing shorter than his to-do list was his penis
The Origin of His Problem
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The origins of his problems: his teeny dildo
The Not Special Penis
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[Image description: A man with a smile on his face with text that reads “suddenly he realized his penis just wasn’t that special.”]
20 Years on Testosterone
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The cartoon is captioned “FtMs after 20 years on hormones.” One ftm wearing a shirt and tie says to another FtM wearing a tranarchy t-shirt, “Hey
post
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This cartoon works for different assclownish behaviors. I can’t believe I forgot to uphold ableism. I can’t believe I forgot to uphold sizeism. And
post
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[Click on the cartoon to enlarge/print/download, etc. It’s free to use at any time.] Please check out Women of Color Blog for many great links about
Imagine That
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[Click on the image to download/print/email, etc. This cartoon is free.]
Heteroflexible
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Thank you to a regular reader for hipping me to the latest in our evolving dynamic, very off-the-beaten-path terminology. Rock on
Pain
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Shaving hurts, and, after doing it off an on for thirteen years, it’s boring. Who knew
The Back of the Bus
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A man in a wheelchair says, “I can’t even get on the bus.”
Bottom Surgery I.D. Checker
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Forge Forward commissioned this cartoon. I’m here this weekend. Tonight I’m giving a keynote. I’ll let everyone know how it goes. P.S. - ‘Drop Trou’
How Come Nobody Told Me
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How come nobody told me I’m white? Other white transmen relate to that
But I’m Trans
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Whether we like it or not privilege happens to trans men. We didn’t ask for it, but now that we have it, let’s use it to make our worlds better for
Bow Tie or Balls?
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A man said this very thing to me. And yes, I was wearing a bow tie…
Something’s Wrong
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FtM with a dildo on backwards says, “something is wrong but I can’t figure out what it is…”
D.W.T.
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What Happens Next
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What happens after gender
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….?
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Is You a Feminist?
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It’s a Bird, A Plane….
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Very Important Transgenders
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The Big Scary
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What Are the Questions?
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On my mind of late…if male and female are the answers, what are the questions
Against Heteronormativity
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Embedded with heteronormavity lies assumptions about the physical nature of heteronormative bodies. They are, usually: Thin White Temporarily Able
Trannier Than Thou
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Getting What We Need
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The Zen of Gender
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Bothand
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The Natural Arc of My Life
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Oh. My. God. Alas, I now know more about domain hosting and transfer than I ever though possible. I also know that it is a very bad idea for me to
Subsets of Transphobes
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Rights Answers to the Wrong Body Question
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Folks who want to be on our side sometimes parrot conventional wisdom and say, “transsexuals are born in the wrong body.” Over the last many years,
My Squishy Brain
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Seriously! I realized yesterday that I believe I am stupider now on T than pre-T. (I realize that saying I’m stupider on T is sooooo un-PC. But who
Wishful Thinking
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Hormones Made Me Homophobic
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True Story: About six months after I had begun living as a man, I stopped by my local Bunn and Noodle. I searched for Kate Bornstein’s Gender
Becoming a White Dude
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As I read through the comments here about trans-phobic feminism a thought process has finally crystallized for me. A problem with trans-phobic
Arselicking Redux
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This is one of my favorite cartoons, which is why I’m reposting it. Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned from my cat
Barbie Made Me Do IT!
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Privacy and Going Against Genre
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Privacy and question answering seem to be twin shores I swim between. At one, I am free of the ridiculous and somtimes mindbogglingly stupid -
FtM on an LGBT Panel
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A while back I spent some time chatting with a new FtM. You know, one of the ones with less than a year’s time on hormones. So I’m sitting in my
Gender as Branding as Label
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Of course, I will probably be killed in people’s heads for claiming that gender is branding. But gender = label = brand. I thought of this equation
Gender, Physical Movement, Permission and Waiting
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USA Today reported that a majority of disability-related complaints filed with the Department of Transportation cited airline wheelchair service as
The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About Transgender
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Drawn in 2005. By far the best part of blogging is reading the comments. piny, a sometimes commenter here, yesterday offered one of the most
Using Gender to Get Into Our Bodies
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I think I’ve had this whole transsexual thing ass backwards. Then: I used medical strategies to manipulate my body to get into my masculinity.
Of Man Pies, Anatomy and Identity
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Guys with Pies. Maria over at Daily Dose of Queer emailed me about this phrase. Dan Savage, Mr. I’m Moving to Canada if Things Don’t Go My Way (Mr.
The Number 1 Reason I Became a Man
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I awoke yesterday morning, thinking again, “who knew?” Who knew that underneath all my gender issues/dysphoria/etc. I made my gender choices for
All Progress Depends on Transcatual!
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Again, the Human Rights Campaign, aka Hardly Recognizes Change, won’t support gender identity inclusion in federal legislation. They used to make me
More FtM Blues
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Indeed. In my tiny life, to pack or not to pack, haunts and sustains me. As long as I can remember, I’ve obsessed about the size of my package. And
Performativity Schnormativity
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Alas, I know I should care more about these label wars. After all, on the U.S. left, we trade in radicalness. No one wants to be average or ordinary
Conformity and Transsexualism
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My pal Az at going somewhere has a great post about the failure of nationalistic metaphors to describe transsexual experiences. The value of his
Get It Right
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(For Anna Camilleri and Maria at Daily Dose of Queer) [Update: For Ona Marae, too. And all the nelly, faggy, poofter, limp-wristed, femme, super
Future Artefact
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More on EDCs here
FtM Blues
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More on EDCs
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This article discusses emerging research linking endocrine disrupting chemicals and transsexualism. (via Deborah Rudacille) Who knew tupperware