TransMission: Identity vs. Identification

AgoraCosmopolitan.com – by Nikki S, Transgender Columnistssport.

The line stretches around the corner of the office, and moves predictably slowly; like most government bureaus, efficiency is the least of their concerns. However, I wait patiently in …

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A Transsexual Vs. the Government

Time.com – By John Cloud

Charlotte Preece wanted a cigarette. She was freaking out, and she needed a moment outside her Capitol Hill building in Washington to think about the odd turn her life had taken that day, Dec. 20, 2004.

Preece, who was 51…

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TransNation: Doubly Triggered

GayWired.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall

Visual artist Georgette Freeman titles her current exhibit, Up From the Depths: Triggered. When I reach the sixty-one-year-old artist by phone in the same 275-square-foot San Francisco apartment she’s reside…

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Transgender Dancers Hard Road to Love

News.NewAmericanMedia.org – New America Media, Personal voice/photo essay, Huang Ping – as told to Rian Dundon

Changsha, China – My mother had always wanted a girl, so even as I grew inside her stomach she hoped that I would come out female. Wh…

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Love triumphs across the line

SMH.com.au

When being true to yourself means you must divorce your soulmate, the law really can be an ass, writes Adele Horin.

Eric and Joan loved each other so much they could not wait to get married. At 19, they eloped, fleeing England’s marryi…

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Straight guy to wed woman born a man

TheBulletin.ca – By John Gelmon

Since my last year of high school, 1983-84, when I was 18, I had gone an awfully long time without having a girlfriend, even though at times I desperately wanted one. Going places on my own, especially when I saw othe…

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Now he really is Jahn the Man

MiamiHerald.com – By Lydia Martin

Jahn Kirchoff calls to check in, and the voice on the phone is startling. It has dropped considerably in just a couple of weeks. No way it sounds like a woman’s voice anymore.

”Yeah, my voice is getting deeper. …

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