Just over two years ago, I wrote a blog post entitled “Does a rose by 58 other names smell as sweet?” where I talked about Facebook’s attempt to allow users to specify more than just a gender binary of male…
Category: Transgender
Walking between two worlds
An observation of how differently you get treated when presenting as a guy to presenting as a woman.
Go East, young woman
Growing up in the digital age, it’s funny to see how relationships can form in ways that in previous generations would be considered unconventional. To my parents’ generation, getting to know people on-line is rather strange and they consider that…
She’s the man – getting ‘read’ in public.
It’s been said[1] that trying to ‘pass’ as other than your birth gender is like playing a game where the moment someone becomes aware that you are succeeding, then you have just failed. On Saturday I played just such a…
Comic Con – the aftermath
As I mentioned in my previous post about Comic Con, the following day I decided to drive across London to get home, and to stop off at Old Spitalfields Market at Shoreditch. I was in two minds about doing this…
What earrings and clothes say about you.
Do you know which ear a guy who wears an earring wears it in says about his sexuality? If he wears an earring in his left ear, then it means he has an earring in his left ear. If he…
Project Reorganise: The delivery
As I mentioned previously, the bed and the furniture were due to arrive last weekend and I was going all out to get my bedroom cleared in time. Fortunately I achieved that goal and by Wednesday evening the room was…
Project Reorganise
It’s been well over a month (6 weeks, in fact) since I last posted, and a few people have asked me what I have been up to and said that I should post it on a blog post. I confess…
In the News: British Army’s first transgender officer
As I mentioned a few days ago, transgender issues do seem to be appearing in the mainstream news a lot more than they used to. Is it actually (gasp!) becoming socially acceptable to acknowledge that we exist and that it’s…
Review: BBC Radio 1 – The Surgery with Aled and Dr Radha (14-Jan-2015)
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, last night the weekly Surgery with Aled and Dr. Radha on BBC Radio 1 was on the subject of Gender Identity. The entire hour of the programme was given over to the subject, and…