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• Autism Awareness Flag Raising 2018
• Mental Health and Miracle Cures
• Nine Years of Transition, “Are we there yet?!”
• A Cat Named Autism
• Inking to Freedom
• The end of 2017, another year-end reflection.
• Another December, Another Deluge of Fundraising Requests
• Chanukkah Poem: From Darkness to Light
• 2017 Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience
• Do No Harm
• Coming Out: No children that I know of
• Transgender vs Transsexual
• A is for Asexual, B is for Bisexual, E is for Erasure
• Is Pride Disability/Spoonie Friendly?
• Spies Like Us: Parshat Shelach Lecha
• 2017 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
• 2017 Day of Pink
• 2017 Transgender Day of Visibility
• Misgendering: Doubling Down on Misgendering
• Misgendering: What do I do when I see it?
• Misgendering: I Messed Up
• Misgendering: What is it?
• They are not a Real…
• Caught in the Middle of Life
• Not All Comments…
• Dam It! Here We go Again.
• Engaging Stealth Mode: What is ‘Going Stealth’ and Why is it Important?
• Ally is a Four Letter Word.
• Trapped in a Standard Narrative: The ‘Wrong Body’
• Talking About Mental Health: It’s more than one day a year.
• What Happens when we are ‘Finished’ with Transition?
• A Response to Recent Media Coverage of Care for Trans Children
• Why I Continue to think of Schools as Prisons
• I Wore Boy’s/Men’s Clothing for 37 Years and it Almost Killed Me
• The Harm in Positive Thinking
• New Year 2017
• “Hi Girls, Come Home with Us”
• Salvation Army Response #1
• Follow Up: The Salvation Army at the LCBO
• The Salvation Army at the LCBO
• No cookie for you.
• Trans Lo Dayenu
• Eating of the Fruit of Knowledge – Breisheit 5777
• Coming Out [of the Closet] Day
• (Re) Assignment of a Trope
• Trans Day of (In)Visibility 2016
• Access to GCS is Easier in Ontario, or is it?
• Montreal Massacre and Hanukkah
• 2015 Transgender Day of Remembrance Ottawa Vigil
• Transgender Day of Remembrance Open Letter to the Rabbis and Jewish Congregations in Ottawa, Ontario
• Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue: Dvar on Shoftim 5775
• The Politics of Pride: Political Party Involvement
• Shhhh, it’s a Secret! How we don’t talk about surgery.
• Balak, Balaam, Blessings, Curses, and Authority
• Happy Canada Day from the Canadian Senate
• Please Continue to Hold, Your Medical Transition is Important to Us
• Please Hold, Your Medical Transition Is Important to Us.
• Responding to Apparent Abuse in A Public Place
• When One’s Name isn’t the most Beautiful Sound
• Oppression in LGBTQ “Communities”
• Nuances of Self Identification
• The Equal Marriage Debate and Those it Leaves Behind
• Transition: “You’re doing it wrong!”
• Harmful Tropes and Aggressions
• 2014 Begins with Tragedy and Hope.
• Advent: Preparation and Waiting
• Practically Creating Practical Queer Theology
• Trans*Formation Retreat: Trans Religious Leaders Coming in From the Wilderness
• Trans*Formation Retreat: Day 1
• Advocacy, Activism and Gender Transition
• Media and a perceived right to know a person’s medical status
• What Constitutes a Welcoming Faith Community? Part 4: Welcoming the person new to faith.
• What Constitutes a Welcoming Faith Community Part 3: Being welcoming to those who already call the community home
• What Constitutes a Welcoming Faith Community? Part 2: Welcoming the person seeking a community
• What Constitutes a Welcoming Faith Community? Part 1: Visiting other communities
• The Magic Pill – or how surgery will (not) solve all one’s problems
• Review: Major Crimes episode, “Boys Will Be Boys”
• Marginalizing the marginalized in our midst.
• Teaching Children.
• Reluctant Leadership
• PTHC 2013 – Experiences, Initial Observations and Thoughts
• The “Trans* Narrative”
• Tolerance, Acceptance, Inclusion
• Why I present the way I do
• Am I the same person as I used to be?
• 2013 International Day Against Homophobia, oh, and transphobia
• I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy
• Mother’s Day
• But who do you say that I am?
• Two lives? Lost years?
• Expanding One’s Horizons
• Distractions on Life’s Journey
• These are the people in your neighbourhood
• Mind, Body and Spirit
• The Wandering Armenian
• Faith in transition
• Singing voice, speaking voice and identity
• Being Visible
• Invisibility
• Walking, cycling, transit and driving
• Planning for the short term
• MMXIII – Looking ahead to the next twelve months.
• Turning the tables on what we hear
• Looking back, pronouns and names
• Reunion and Old Friends.
• 2012 Trans Health Advocacy Summit
• Toronto Pride – One Highly Sensitive Introvert’s Perspective
• What is Pride and why is it important?
• On being introverted and highly sensitive
• Trans Equality – Current activities
• Why Forms of Address Matter
• Should equality for trans people be in human rights legislation? YES.
• Rights for Transgender and Transsexual People – February 2012
• Two Competing Visions of Anti-Bullying Legislation
• Choices.
• What’s in a Name?
• 2011 & 2012: Looking Back and Looking Forward
• “Be Strong.”
• Christmas: A Time of Cheer and a Time of Sorrow.
• Passport Canada and New Fees.
• The Voice
• Remembering the Montreal Massacre
• The Salvation Army and Discrimination
• Thoughts on the Trans Day of Remembrance
• Violence Against Transgender and Transsexual People
• Update on Passports
• Men, Women and Phone Support
• A lot can Change in Three years.
• A New Season of Music
• Three Year Old, New Name and an Old Acquaintance
• Identification, Sex Marker and Passport Canada
• Denying One’s Past
• Confidence.
• Identification, Gender Markers – being outed when showing ID.
• Getting a Facelift (the blog, not me.)
• Thoughts About Moving Forward
• Becoming more active politically
• Life goes on…
• First Time Readers: About Me
• Election 2010, City Council
• Spousal Abuse, an Epidemic.
• Life, the Universe and Everything
• That Creepy Stalker Girl…
• Adventures in Moving
• Letting family know…
• Moving and the Ugly Ex
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Ex.
• Attending Church for the First Time
• Being out and About
• Speech Therapy
• It’s All About Confidence
• Moving forward…
• March Madness?
• Coming Out…
• What a Week…
• The ‘Official’ Beginning of my Transition
• Relationship in transition
• First Steps on the Long Journey