Okay so the photos are horrible. Apparently my wife and I specialize in blurry photos! Ha! However, the day was not horrible. I spent the morning teaching my middle schoolers and then we jetted up to UC Merced. I gave my TG presentation detailing my decision to transition and afterwards we both fielded questions from the students. The professor there is amazing and he sent me a link to his student responses to our discussion. Here are a few of…
People often ask me what it is like to be a transgender middle school math teacher, this is what it is like. Not enough of an explanation? Okay….. I’ll give you a bit more info on the card above. This was a card that some of my students gave me about two weeks ago, on my birthday. The card was special in and of itself, but it is even more special when one understands the back story. So, the back…
My friend has an amazing filter on her camera, it removed about 20 years!! I had a fascinating set of interactions with some friends recently. One of them was with three different teachers I worked with for a few years, the second one was with a college professor who I work with in helping to teach teachers, and the third was one of my employers. While they will certainly recognize themselves in this post, I will change their names. My…
You may remember that recently my friend Dana and I began a podcast. We have been having lots of fun recording it, and sharing out bit of weirdness with the world. We recently received a great question from a listener. I was emailing her back today and thought, hey, maybe I should share this with a larger community to try and get more opinions. So I’d encourage you to reach out and give me your thoughts. Hello! My…
Well, no, not actually. Really the writing is on the label on the lid. A year and half ago or so I realized that I was going to legally transition and most likely end up fully transitioning. It was sometime around then that I realized it was time to start working on my handwriting again. It’s interesting to see what transgender people end up not liking about themselves. For many of us it is obviously body parts that we don’t…
Apparently that is the question. Confused? Possibly. Well, the other day on Insta I received the following message: When you pose in a car, may I ask a favor? Please shed the sunglasses for the time to take a selfie. As a lesbian, I want to see your whole face. I went back through my Insta feed and noticed that there are probably about 35 or so pictures with me with sunglasses on and about the same with them off. …
Wow, really, it has been two years? Hmmm….. how did that happen? In many ways, it is surprising to me that two years have passed since I first changed my hormones. It feels as though the time has flown by and that it can’t possibly have already been two years. I have felt great and it has done nothing but cement in my mind that this trans stuff is totally real!! I know, little Mrs. me, forever doubtful of the…
