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Here, let me show you my scars...: April 2015
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Here, let me show you my scars. Thursday, 30 April 2015. Did you keep a journal or diary as a child? Have you ever read what you wrote years down the track and been surprised or even shocked by your own naivety and cluelessness? People grow through a process of negotiation. Even straight teenagers spend years pushing boundaries, finding out where they can and can't go. Exploring. These days I've had many, many years of socialisation as an adult woman reinforcing my female gender identity. Then it was...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: My Seventh Birthday
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Here, let me show you my scars. Saturday, 25 April 2015. There's been a lot of talk of late about reparative therapy. In the wake of Leelah Alhorn. I thought it might be good to add my own voice to the chorus of people speaking out against reparative therapy. So for me the whole thing starts when I was six years old. That wasn't when my gender identity formed - it was simply when it got the point where my parents sought professional "help" about it. The good times pretty-much ended on that day. As an...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: Raising a glass to Kevin
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Here, let me show you my scars. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Raising a glass to Kevin. Today's my wedding anniversary. I've been married to my wonderful man now for right on nine years. Prior to that we were engaged for nearly ten years. That's a long time to be engaged, I know. So like a lot of trans people then, I got good at harassing bureaucracies. When an initial request to change details was refused, I'd try another tack. I'd write letters, engage allies, push, write more letters. En gender - Helen Boy...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: Things that Really Matter - Hair
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Here, let me show you my scars. Saturday, 4 April 2015. Things that Really Matter - Hair. I'm like Samson. I derive all my power from my hair. I'm really blessed in having quite an awesome, unmanageable, thick mane. Rich and dark and just wavy enough to occasionally drive me nuts. But it's mine. It's my most treasured thing. I don't joke. So fast forward another couple of years and hair started becoming my nightmare. Not the hair on my head, but everywhere else. I started getting hair on my legs,...Now I...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: March 2015
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Here, let me show you my scars. Saturday, 21 March 2015. I recently read a surprisingly hateful opinion piece. On "stealth" transsexuals, written by someone who I'd have thought should know better, Dallas Denny. The intended audience for the piece is clear from the surrounding advertisements for breast forms. I'm not thinking transsexual women are her audience, let alone transsexual women who choose not to disclose their past. Stealth Doesn't Help the Trans Community. The Many Shades of Stealth. Just rol...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: The incredible irony of the successful trans woman - how age of transition affects your perspective.
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Here, let me show you my scars. Saturday, 4 April 2015. The incredible irony of the successful trans woman - how age of transition affects your perspective. Today I read a piece about Catherine McGregor in the Guardian. Cate rubs shoulders with politicians, industry heads and other assorted bigwigs. She's done numerous television and radio interviews, written a book on cricket, and she's responsible for the famous "the standard you walk past is the standard you accept". Except. Cate transitioned in 2...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: That to me would be success.
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Here, let me show you my scars. Friday, 15 May 2015. That to me would be success. I've been spending a fair bit of time of late putting my CD collection on the computer, as one does. It's prompted me to revisit many of my eighties favourites. As a child of the seventies, I was a teenager during the eighties, when some of the best music ever was made. INXS, Dire Straits, Foreigner, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper. All awesomely wonderfully good stuff. I want you to love me, That's all I want from you. Yeah, the...
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Here, let me show you my scars...: Craving community
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Here, let me show you my scars. Saturday, 16 May 2015. So this is where I admit to the limits of my assimilation. As I've mentioned previously I don't disclose my transsexual past to my neighbours, my workmates, my friends, or anyone in my town or even in this whole state, with the exception of my husband, and my GP, who is in Perth, a full day's drive from where I live. You may not have come across the term cis privilege before. All dominant groups have privilege, with white males being the obvious ...
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