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From Invisibility to Erasure: Being a Trans Man in 2026
Last week, I spoke in front of the Olympia City Council at the event of finishing my term serving on The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. I was made aware at the last minute that the city council would also be recognizing Transgender Day of Visability a week early due to their scheduled reception for the new police chief on March 31st, so I added a couple of paragraphs about the way I…
Coming Out as a Man: Existing as Protest
When I wrote about visibility back in March, I still had a chest I wanted gone, a mother who was alive, and a body that hadn’t yet met testosterone. I still had some illusions that visibility was the hardest part, just telling the truth out loud. I was wrong. Becoming visibile is easy compared to staying visible when the world keeps daring you to disappear.My mother died in April. In May, I had…
Finding Joy in the Face of Oppression
I know there’ll come a time beyond the firsts when I no longer count things. But I’m not yet. This year saw my existence become illegal in the eyes of a tangerine tyrant 217 days ago. I was counting those days until something inside realized the act was dragging me down. 111 days ago, I finally had my top surgery after going through the mandatory waiting and after having procured my letters…
Smashing Irony
I was 12 years old when Rachel Corrie was born in our shared hometown of Olympia, Washington — a small, rain-soaked city that raises activists the way the midwest raises corn and cattle. Rachel left for Gaza in her early twenties and was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 while trying to protect a Palestinian home. Many of my friends in Olympia at the time didn’t understand her…
Rolling Forward When Everything Feels Like it's Falling Apart
A disabled, trans perspective on new federal policy threats, survival with chronic illness, and the radical hope of community care. They aren’t just cutting budgets. They’re cutting flesh. Our flesh. Mine. keep hearing the words “rolling forward” in my head like a dare.Like a challenge whispered just loud enough to remind me I’m still here.But rolling forward isn’t easy when the world keeps…
Becoming More Visible in Troubling Times
Today (Monday, March 31, 2025) is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Although it has been an annual event since 2009 observed by the Trans community and supporters, this is the first time I have written about it. At Pride 2024 I’ve “come out” several times in my gender and sexuality journey, but when you’re constantly learning about oneself and other people, that can happen. I’m also…
How to Get A Wheelchair
Recently, it was time for me to be re-evaluated for my next powerchair. I used the opportunity to document the process. And yes, given the current government administration, I have no idea how long this process will be assured to even happen for people with Medicare and Medicaid. Many people wonder how do disabled people get a wheelchair? A chrome manual wheelchair The process of getting a…
Day Six as a Declared Non-Person
Six days ago, a person who wanted to play a dictator on TV declared me not to exist. The person several of my relatives and people who have said in the past they love me voted for this person, this wanna-be television dictator to rule over the country I live in. On the day he was sworn in, missing the book by a mile, he stated the sex we are conceived as, will follow us to the grave. The…
Free Speech is Dead
If you follow me, you’ll know that even though I haven’t been writing a lot over here, I have been very active since April 2021 on an app called TikTok. I started out as NeurodivergentGranny and eventually evolved into GrandyMarty before TikTok shuttered tonight. My TikTok Profile Page I feel like I have lost so many connections. Twenty-seven thousand people followed me at the end. I can’t…
A Day in the Life
After watching several DID Systems produce videos from their point of view, we thought it might be interesting to also show the world what a day can feel like in our brain. Here’s a three-minute video showing how it feels from our POV on a good day when we went out to the Farmer’s Market.
A Chronic Pause
For the past 69 days, I’ve been sharing a countdown in coordination with a count up of days. Today’s Countdown-Count-Up The countdown is for the first surgery that is planned for this year, a minor procedure to have my bladder nerve stimulator (Interstim) removed. It has been turned off and non-functional since I fell 10 feet onto my back in 2014. Breaking my back also changed how my bladder…
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"A Rose by Any Other Name..."
In early June 2010, upon the occasion of me changing the nickname I was publicly using from “Marti” to “Maggie,” the words my mother commented on the Facebook post were, “A rose by any other name…” Although she continued to call me Marti, the updated spelling of a nickname she had given to me as an infant, to the rest of the world I was “Maggie Slighte” from June 2010 until August 2023. In…
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"Thanks for Saving My Life"
When we were both in our middle-ages, my brother and I found ourselves living together again. We were eating lunch when Jason casually said to me, “Thanks for saving my life.” I looked back at him, confused, answering, “Which time?” “When you carried me from the fire to the swing set.” “Oh, when you tried to set the house on fire while I was reading?” Marty and Jason mid 1970s He answered…
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Favorite Time of the Year
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Zebra Hope
I wasn’t disagnosed with a connective tissue disorder that affects every part of my body until I was 52! Misdiagnosis and gaslighting have colored 54 years of my life, so what makes my current doctor so different? This doctor took over my care when my previous doctor left town. She was young, and she expressed that she hadn’t had patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome before. I shared all of the…
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The Theater of Multiple Personalities
Having DID is like:This is the experience of our system, not to be interpreted as anyone else’s. (Yes, I/we often use plural pronouns)Explaining coconsciousness in theater terms:When a personality inhabits the body, or “fronts” as we call it, they are on stage. Sometimes more than one personality or alter is on stage, but for me, if there is more than one on stage, the ones not currently talking…
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Seasonal Boobs
It’s 3:30am and I’m angry.It is the boob squishing season.When I went in the mammogram officeI teased: “Can we just ultrasound the right one while I’m here so I don’t get called back?”I tried to tease my anxiety away. Anxiety had been my enemy throughout the eviction season. Attempting to prevent a significant cardiac event through the use of humor. The technician laughed my concerns away. The…
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