Three Faces of Gender

Genitals.  Brain wiring.  Society.

Which of these make you a man, or a woman?

Rock Bottom: from JK to DK

A few days back, I watched the incredible live YouTube webcast of the Harry Potter world premiere celebration. All Trafalgar and a good part of Leicester Square (very brief clip) was packed with fans, cameras, and large outdoor movie screens paying tribute to the genius of JK Rowling's entertaining and superlatively money-making creations. It did me good to see the H.P. cast and especially JK herself give stirring little speeches, and take their final Potter bows before the entire world.

But to me one of Rowling's finest creations -- and certainly one more of us can relate to -- was her extraordinary speech before the Harvard Graduating Class of 2008.  If you can believe it, the topic was one hardly associated with the (officially) Wealthiest Author Ever.  The subject was: Failure.

State of the Blog

For some of us, the more we live life, the less we tend to write about it. Between coming out to my family and you all, attending the Be-All Conference, implementing my name change, and marching in the Pride Parade ... well, I've not written much these last few weeks.

However I've recently improved my other "Pages", over there on the right, adding a Welcome page and incorporating others together, making this blog easier to digest, hopefully, if not necessarily tastier.

Freedom To Be

Possibly the first ever transgendered High School Prom Queen.

I am so happy to learn about this. Amazed, and happy.

Proud

As the date for my name-change court appearance drew closer, I began to feel pretty good about how far I'd come these last 7 years. One morning a thought possessed me: this year, I'm marching in the Gay Pride parade.

Seven Years in the Making

Set your reading glasses down and just enjoy this one.

Lucky Lady

Its been two weeks since the momentous Coming Out, on Facebook and through emails to other pals. And I can say one thing for certain. I am a Lucky Girl.

So pardon me if I take a moment to talk about a trans woman who was not so lucky.