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- School Daze Ahead
- The Wheels on the Bus go Bump, Bump, Bump
- Call for Submissions—Nothing Without Us anthology
- Whistle While You Hate
- 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