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How I Will Spend my Vacay

January 29, 2020

In 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…

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Seriously? Male Privilege

December 17, 2019

I literally raised my hand and put my palm out towards his face and said “I seriously cannot do this,” and I walked away while asking my wife to take over. She kindly went and found the repairman while I went and had a cigarette. I thought I was pretty clear on the whole male privilege thing. I mean I have been dressing as me for about the last fifteen to twenty years. I have experienced people. I have experienced…

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Ally?

November 30, 2019

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…

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Advocating

October 26, 2019

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…

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Being a Transgender Teacher

October 15, 2019

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…

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Friends, Mis-Gendering, and Warm Fuzzies

September 4, 2019

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…

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In the Closet and In a Wedding??

August 12, 2019

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…

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