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Non-Binary Specific Issues

Then Why Does Misgendering Matter?

Also known as: “It must be so nice to be comfortable in either social role (even though you say you aren’t)” and “I don’t care about non-binaries enough to find out what things are like for you, so I’m going to make snippy digs about how I have it worse and therefore don’t have to [...]

What does it mean to be in between?

I’d like to start this off by saying that I’m new at this – not only to genderblogs but to blogging in general. I read blogs, but I’ve never – strangely enough – felt compelled to comment or join the dialogue until finding this blog, which is wonderful. Thanks to all of you who write [...]

Online Networking and Strangers

“Out here we treat the internet like a public BBQ: you might talk a minute to the person eating next to you, even give them your extra fork, but once you go home neither of you don’t vouch for the other as a friend just because you both like BBQ.”

I received an email with the [...]

Stuck in Loneliness [Trans Universe repost]

Stuck in Loneliness
April 15th, 2009

By Monica F. Helms
(This is the 3rd and final installment in the “Stuck in . . . ” series.)
We all know that loneliness does not limit itself to LGB or T people. This feeling probably strikes 100% of the human population at one time of another, many living in perpetual loneliness for most [...]

When our brains are “socially constricted”

I find myself needing to comment on the issue of bathroom usage after reading a recent blog post which can be found here: ( When Does “Sex” Matter to Trans People )

I know this may seem like I’m “behind the times” in this issue, but until one has actually experienced a situation, one cannot [...]

Trans is Trans – Regardless of the Ending

A blog comment on one of my friend’s blogs came up in my email today that touched upon a subject that completely eludes me as to why a certain discussion occurs within the transgender community. The subject of these discussions is the (apparently) never-ending argument of the differences between the meanings [...]

Society and the Realities of “Blending in”

A friend of mine and I have been engaged in an email conversation, which evolved into a discussion about transgender people not being able to easily “blend” into society. My friend is a male to female transgender woman (MTF), and I am pasting here a portion of what she wrote, followed [...]

Gender Binary

The gender binary is the idea that human gender exists in two forms: masculine and feminine. The term also describes the system in which a society divides people into male and female gender roles, gender identities and attributes. Gender role is one aspect of a gender binary. Every known society has used the gender binary [...]