If you are unaware, this is a podcast with my friend Dana Barr Galante and myself. Initially we were a pilot program of The Source, in Visalia. We recorded about 8 episodes while recording “under” them. It was fairly quickly determined that Dana and I are hilarious as fuck, however, we are also quite “adult” in nature. We like to swear like drunken sailors, talk shit about any politician or political party we chose, and on occasion we will talk about that…
How I Will Spend my Vacay
January 29, 2020In the middle of March will come my next vacation – Spring Break baby!!! Where will I be headed? Mexico? Bahamas? Hawaii? Palm Springs even? Ha! No. I will be spending my spring break vacation inside of college classrooms trying to help educate about what it is to be transgender. At heart I am an educator, so yeah, even during my vacation I will try and put forth my smallish efforts to help support both my transgender community and my…
Wanna know the last time I shaved my face? Thanksgiving. That would make it five and a half weeks ago. I had my last electro session on December 7th and my next one will be tomorrow (it was January 3rd when I first wrote this draft.) While I am not totally hair free on my face as of yet, you can see the results for yourself. I have been waiting to see if I could make it between sessions without…
I am going to try this post and see how it goes. My mission is to try and retell the events, without making too much of a judgement. That is going to be hard, as I am clearly judging this person, and what happened, however I’d really prefer for it to be a learning experience instead of a ripping experience. I honestly don’t know if that is going to be possible. So then why try? Well, I am an educator…
Supporting Local LGBT+ Youth
November 10, 2019This is what I wore to a local LGBT+ event. I live near Visalia, Ca and our main resource center is The Source. For the past few years they have been doing a fundraising event called Over the Edge. People pledge to make so much money in donations and if they meet their goal, then they repel off the highest structure in the city. I personally do not want to repel off the building, no matter what, so I just…
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…
Being a Transgender Teacher
October 15, 2019People 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…