The Best Laid Plans

My mother-in-law is gravely ill at the moment. I've been too busy at the hospital to blog - or do much of anything else. More later when things aren't so uncertain.

Yes, such people exist

From a comment on gay marriage:

You should be changed completely to the gender in which you have more chemicals in your body. So if you have 60% male and 40% female chemicals, you should be changed totally to a male.

Transsexuals do not count as people.

Other gems from the same "person" :

...you have no right to talk. If you do not believe in a superior being in some capacity, then you are completely retarded.
...
The government should have the power to enforce common religious dogma on its citizens.
...

Prejudice and Reality

From MassResistance: Barney Frank's Transsexual in 2008.

Our Massachusetts horror, Rep. Barney Frank, doesn't stop at homosexual activism. He's long been pushing for a federal ENDA law banning discrimination on the basis of "gender identity or expression". Now he's appointed this woman...

...transsexual Diego Sanchez, to his Washington staff. Sanchez made news in 2008 as the first transsexual to serve on the Democrat Party platform committee.

This guy has to be female you see, to conform to their version of Reality.


This is the first post of the new year. I have over 100 draft articles, mostly from the last 2 months, that I haven't had time to polish up and post. So I'm going through them (this one's 3 years old) and those that only need a little work will get published, one every day. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to regular blogging in about a month.

Meanwhile - Happy New Year.

For Andrew

I was only a little older than he is now, when I was at this concert.

It's time.

This makes the case far clearer than mere words can. It's time.

The Meaning of Christmas

From a mailing list I'm on.

In the last 24-36 hours, I've seen our community come together from different parts of the world to help one of our own, and I am truly thankful.

Long story short, an 18 year old trans girl, kicked out by her parents, was unsafe and on the streets of a small town in Kentucky. No food, no money, no phone, no friends. She was able to borrow a computer long enough to contact me through email, and what I can only call a blessing began to unfold.

Through the power of Facebook and online networking, people from all over, including the UK & Mexico, came together to get this young gal onto a Greyhound bus, and enough food & beverages at various bus stops along the way to make it through to Phoenix where she will arrive in the early morning hours tonight to live at H.O.P.E. House.

This is not the first time we've brought someone to Phoenix on a Greyhound, nor even the first time we've had people help us; in the past it was with donations to pay for her bus ticket. This time, however, people stepped up and gave their time and energy to continue networking until contact could be made with the girl to get her something to eat during the trip at stops along the way.

So many of us lose our families and friends simply because we are trans. We reach out to our only true family, our "Chosen Family" - other trans men and women who are there to help support us and give us faith.

Thank you to everyone who has been, and continues to be through today, involved in making this journey to Phoenix a very special one. Thank you for stepping up and being there for someone in need. You are ALL AWESOME!

TransMentors International will continue to help trans men, women and youth for as long as there's a need. We provide emergency assistance, safe housing, mentoring, support, and resource referrals/connections. Your donations help make it possible. You can donate through our Cause page, our website, or even monthly through your checking account.

Contact me if you want to become involved in TransMentors International at michaelb@transmentors.org

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2942 N. 24th Street, Suite #114-337
Phoenix, AZ 85018
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OK, so Christmas has come a little early this year. And you don't have to be Christian to take part. Nor Trans for that matter. Merely Human. Moving the mountain one teaspoonful at a time.

Urogenital sinus

Adrenogenital syndrome showing masculinization of the lower urogenital tract as seen on VCUG.

Urogenital sinus, the most common appearance of the lower urogenital tract in adrenogenital syndrome. A well-developed vagina with a well-defined impression of the uterine cervix on the vaginal vault (arrow) joins the distal end of the urethra to form a long common sinus tract (urogenital sinus) that ends in the perineum at the base of a prominent phallus. Barium paste was applied on the perineum to show the distance between the vagina and perineum.

Source

Might explain a few things. Anomalous events when I was 14. Or might not - the ultrasounds are invonclusive.