URNA Staff 2006-04-12 00:00:00

Chicago Defender – Art Sims

Dear Chat Daddy,

I’m an 18-year-old senior in high school in Chicago. A couple of weeks ago, I came home early from school because I was not feeling well. Upon entering my home, I found my father in my parent’s bedroom…

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She-male call

BostonPhoenix.com – Dan Savage – from an August, 2005 Column

Note from Jon: Read the Question and then skip to the answer at: Okay, GIIRL, on to your issues… and I think it’s an interesting and pretty damn accurate look into the psyche or many Adm…

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Perceptions of gender too concrete

The Daily Barometer Online – Luke Sugie

?Whoa, that?s totally a DUDE!?

As I tend to identify as a man for most of my waking life, having those words thrown at me doesn?t usually unnerve me. But last Saturday night when a group of presumably strai…

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Savage Love – Tranny pack

Boston’s Weekly Dig – Dan Savage

I?m a straight guy with conventional tastes in women. But a few years ago I accidentally ended up at a bar with drag queens. I found myself surprisingly turned on by this drag queen in a G-string that came over and s…

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Trans Mission

citypaper.net – Doron Taussig

Can a 6-year-old make up his mind about being a her? Parents at a recent conference say “yes.”

Nine years ago, after five miscarriages and 11 rounds of in vitro fertilization, a 36-year-old New Jersey woman named Ste…

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I changed my sex. Now what?

creativeloafing.com – Curt Holman

Scott Turner Schofield’s rapid transit to a new identity

Signs Scott Turner Schofield is a man:

He looks, dresses and sounds like a man. He has a masculine name. He’s prone to let the dirty dishes pile up. He…

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Battle of the Sexless

citypaper.net – Ashlea Halpern

The plight of modern-day eunuchs, and why they come to Philadelphia

He could’ve filled three Pepsi cans. Maybe three and a half.

That’s how much blood Talula estimates he lost the first time he tried to castrate …

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Transgender movement emerging from shadows

By Bonnie Miller Rubin – Tribune staff reporter

Shawn Coleman bristles when an application poses the question “male or female?”–as if there are only two choices.

When it comes to sexual identity, the 23-year-old Shawn–born Patricia–sees a broa…

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Go Ask Alice!

Hey girls, I?m here today with a special summer edition of my column prepared especially for URNotalone. I?m a psychiatrist and a crossdresser, happy to discuss the many issues that come up in our colorful transgendered lives. Please send ideas for fu…

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