Partnering through transition: Managing Shifts in Sexual Interaction
The passage below is excerpted from Reaching for Hope: Strategies and support for the partners of transgender people. Managing Shifts in...
Supporting Transgender Loved Ones: Creating Rites of Passage
For Declan's 59th birthday (his first after coming out as transgender) I staged an "it's a boy!" party, with blue decorations and male...
When a loved one comes out as trans: BELIEVE THEM
The entry below is an excerpt from my upcoming book Holding on to Hope: Help for friends and family of transgender people. It's a similar...
The river of bodies to come now that Roe vs Wade is dead
I once dreamt I was standing on the bank of a wide, smooth river, and fully formed babies floated and bobbed along the surface, all of...
Gender Identification in the Talmud
The entry below is an excerpt from TRANSFIGURED. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and...
Partnering through transition: Listen More Than You Talk
The passage below is excerpted from The Bottom Line section of Reaching for Hope: Strategies and support for the partners of transgender...
To those who keep calling us "groomers"
Two weeks ago I was the guest preacher at Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. Last Sunday the church was...
Good Friday's fetishization of inhumanity
I'm struggling with Holy week this year. It feels like I've removed a pair of hypocrisy-filtering sunglasses and am seeing various...
Starting the week with joy
It's been an extremely odd week, peppered with highs and lows from all sorts of aspects of life. We're tired, and I'm glad the weekend is...
Support for Trans Families: Expect positive change in your loved one
I wanted to post something encouraging in a week which has been filled with frightening news for trans families, so here's a draft entry...
