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The A Team Girl | City & Colour and Ed Sheeran Mashup Here’s my singing voice 1 year and 5.5 months (roughly) on T. This is mostly for people who are afraid of losing their singing voice while transitioning because I want you all to know that it is still possible to sing.
You can find my Youtube here and my Tumblr here.
YA Books About Transgender Characters
There haven’t been a lot of young adult books published about transgender characters. This list is not meant to be a “best of” list — it is simply a list of the titles that we are aware of, and we are sure there are more we aren’t aware of. This list is limited to titles published specifically for a young adult audience, which means titles published for adults that teens might still enjoy aren’t included.
I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)
One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Flux)
Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf)
f2m: the boy within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy (Ford Street Publishing, Australia)
Being Emily by Rachel Gold (Bella Books)
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Knopf)
Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte)
Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)
Do you have a favorite YA book about a transgender character? Please tell us why you loved it!
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5 (DSM-V) came out two weeks ago and this is a big deal.
Let me tell you why:
The DSM is the manual that mental health professionals use to diagnose people with mental disorders. It...
“Transgender people have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered, compared to the 1-in-18,000 chance faced by average Americans (Human Rights Campaign, 2009).”
just let that sink in for a second.
HOLY FUCK.
suddenly my extreme dislike of going outside feels validated
In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately. Retired SEAL Kristin Beck’s new memoir, published on Tuesday and titled Warrior Princess, is a bit different, though. In it, Beck describes how, over the course of her 20 year military career, she became aware that was she meant to live life as a woman.
In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately. Retired SEAL Kristin Beck’s new memoir, published on Tuesday and titled Warrior Princess, is a bit different, though. In it, Beck describes how, over the course of her 20 year military career, including thirteen deployments over the globe, she slowly became more and more aware that was she meant to live life as a woman — a vexing and often tormenting realization for a long-time member of an elite all-male unit that went on to capture and kill Osama bin Laden. Beck, who identified as a man (and went by the name Chris) while in the Navy, explains that she decided to undergo hormonal therapy some time after retiring in early 2011, and eventually came out to colleagues by posting a picture of herself dressed as a woman on LinkedIn earlier this year:
That night Kris put up a new photo to her LinkedIn profile — the one taken by Christy of Kris standing in front of the American flag. This time Kris wrote, “I am now taking off all my disguises and letting the world know my true identity as a woman.” Kris also changed her name on her profile page to Kristin Beck.
To Beck’s surprise, her former SEAL buddies were supportive, even ecstatic:
Soon, the responses from SEALs stationed all around the world suddenly started pouring in: “Brother, I am with you … being a SEAL is hard, this looks harder. Peace” * “I can’t say I understand the decision but I respect the courage. Peace and happiness be upon you…Jim” * ” … I just wanted to drop you a note and tell you that Kris has all the support and respect from me that Chris had … and quite possibly more. While I’m definitely surprised, I’m also in amazement at the strength you possess and the courage necessary to combat the strangers and ‘friends’ that I’m guessing have reared their ugly heads prior to and since your announcement. …”
According to the book’s author biography, Beck worked in the private sector as a military consultant before being tapped by the Secretary of Defense to develop technology used by active-duty soldiers. Beck’s openness about her post-SEAL life makes her something of an anomaly among SEAL memoirists, who tend to write behind pseudonyms, especially when discussing classified military intelligence. By contrast, Beck includes dozens of pictures from her deployments and her life at home, pre- and post-transition, in Warrior Princess.
Having retired a few months before SEALs dispatched Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Beck’s memoir is also something of a welcome relief from the proliferating genre of Navy SEAL memoirs, particularly those centered on the details of the bin Laden raid. On Monday, Vanity Fair investigated the well-documented disagreements between two members of SEAL Team Six (one of whom was recently profiled, but not named, in Esquire) about who, exactly, killed bin Laden. “It usually takes years for a full account to emerge, for details to be unclassified, and for many participants to feel comfortable talking about it,” Mark Bowden concludes after siding with Esquire’s version of events.
At the same time, Warrior Princess is still poised to have an effect on military policy. Even after the long-sought repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which barred gay servicemembers from discussing their sexuality, transgender individuals remain banned from entering military service. (Co-writer Anne Speckhard writes that Beck “didn’t feel he was gay. But he also didn’t feel he was a man, so he didn’t really know how to negotiate a sexual relationship whilst in a man’s body. He was lost—with no maps, no compass, and no guide.”) So perhaps this memoir, which documents the secret torment of one of the U.S. military’s most effective and loyal agents, will lay the groundwork for even greater inclusion in the armed forces.
But seriously.
People will call celebrities by ridiculous stage names that were made-up to sound more unique, but they refuse to call trans* people the names they have chosen to match their gender identity.
If you can call Nicole Polizzi by the name Snooki, then you can call a trans* person by their chosen name.
“are you a boy or a girl?”
“no”
“yeah but what were you BORN as?”
*leans in and whispers* “fabulous”
why have gender roles when you could have pizza rolls
People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
even more reasons to love target
Today is the international day against homophobia and transphobia (aka an extension of everyday).
Shout out
to the ones who don't fit into boxes or under labels
who don't follow restrictive, socially imposed rules and norms for living your life
to those who have struggled to accept yourself, those still struggling, those who have come out the other side, proud and majestic like a unicorn of amazing
to those still learning and growing
to those who have either felt "different" or been told that they are "different"
You are all beautifully shaped, resiliently made, wonderful, thoughtful, strong, and brave individuals.
You belong here with everyone else.
You are loved.
look at me, doodling my dumb feelings again
I get really annoyed when people say that being confused about my identity is ‘special snowflake-y’ and that I’m just trying to make myself different. I don’t think these people have considered how incredibly difficult it is to not know what category you fit into, especially in a world that expects everyone to fit neatly into these little boxes. I don’t know who I should date, which dorm I should live in, what pronouns I should be called by, which sports team I should play on, or even which bathroom to use. I don’t feel like I really fit in the group I was ‘born into’ - and yet the other group doesn’t quite fit either.
Basically, it sucks, and I would have to be completely crazy to actually choose to feel this way.
must. reblog. infinitely.
Kai’s trans adventures part 2: because the name i have given you isn’t real it’s actually imaginary A LOT LIKE YOUR MANNERS
When you say I’m confused about my gender, you really mean you’re confused about my gender.
Aya Kamikawa: Why she kicks ass
She is the only openly transgender official in Japan at this point, and the first to seek or win elected office in Japan.
She won a four-year term as an independent under huge media attention, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya ward assembly, the most populous district in Tokyo. In April 2007, she was re-elected to her second term, placing second of 71 candidates running for 52 in the same ward assembly.
While the government announced that they would continue to consider her male officially, she stated that she would work as a woman.
She is devoted to work for various groups, the disabled, single-parent families, homeless people to evening junior high school students, LGBT people and to improve rights for women, children, the elderly. She strives to give support for these people and bring positive changes which would help them in society.
She was also a committee member for Trans-net Japan (a self-support group for transgender people) and organised meetings and social events to give support and symposiums to raise the public awareness.
GLAAD works with trans kids like Coy to ensure they’re treated equally. Help us continue the work by pitching in on GiveOUT Day: http://www.razoo.com/story/glaad
