A big part of my brain is currently screaming, “Charge us! Charge the United Church of Canada! Charge Canadian Quakers! Charge CUPE! Charge university groups! Charge millions of Canadians under Canada’s new hate laws and lose yet another case with the resulting Charter challenge! Make yourselves look even more like idiots who do not understand the Charter!” I’m also quite upset. Read More
Category Archives: Brain Vomit
Time To Begin My Gender Therapy Homework
As you learned yesterday, I was given some homework from my gender therapist. If you have no idea what I am talking about, please read this post before continuing. Because I have OCD, I finished the relationship contract, and designed the private website, so we are all ready to go! I did this in one… Read More
In Which I’m Told To Learn To Trust
Today I had my first gender therapy session. Overall, it went very well. But my therapist (Elizabeth Holland, who I think is fantastic so far) gave me some incredibly difficult homework: rely/lean/reach out to my friends who live various distances away and my only way to “see” them for long stretches of time is via online… Read More
So Much Going On; So Much To Update
There is so much going on in my life at the moment that I’ve seriously neglected this blog space. If people are still reading this, patiently waiting via RSS, you’re awesome. For people coming here from Twitter or Google+, a lot of this may be repeated information. Anyway, some things of note: 1) GottaCon. Yet… Read More
Filled With Pride and Sadness: Unpacking The Day After The Ottawa Shooting
Yesterday was madness. But I felt safe and secure. I felt my country was safe and secure, despite what foreign armchair commentators were suggesting. However, that changes after Prime Minster Stephen Harper addressed the nation. From that moment, until I listened to him speak in the House of Commons today, I was worried he’d try and pull our nation in a direction that many of us would call un-Canadian; a direction of living in fear and distrust of our neighbours. Read More
On Why No Mother’s Day For Me – For Real Now
Just a quick follow up to yesterday’s possible confusion. If you’re interested in some insight about Mother’s Day, being called “mum,” even though I’m a trans man, why people neglecting to wish me a happy Mother’s Day made this year the best one yet, and other aspects parenting as a transgender person, you can now… Read More
Adventures In Moving
So, a couple of weeks ago, we moved. After over a year of searching, we finally found a suitable house. Four adult-sized people, a dog, and a cat moved from a roughly 800 square foot suite into a 2500 square foot home. Finally, we have room, including a proper home office. For the most part,… Read More
The Name That Just Won’t Go Away
My brain has been stuck in rant mode for over 24 hours now. Ah, the perils of a public coming out and transition; a transition that will never be “complete” by some people’s standards. If you follow me on Twitter, then you may have seen me rant yesterday about a PR person who contacted me… Read More
When Your Family Cannot Accept Who You Are and the Holiday Blues
I’ve been really angry and upset since yesterday. Like really, really, really wanting to scorch the earth angry. I’ve been needing to get it out but at the same time I’m hesitant because of reasons which may become more clear. I considered writing about it on my super secret blog of which only a handful of people… Read More
On The Need For Trans* Characters in Video Games
Just some brief thoughts as this is a topic I’ve seen discussed a lot recently, in various corners around the internet. Often, I see discussions about the need for trans* protagonists in video games. As a trans person, part of me doesn’t care because there are plenty of male characters from which to choose. Because… Read More
