Employment Discrimination against the Trans Community — Two years ago, I came out on the job as transgender. I had been there for five months and had exemplary reviews. Coming out was a leap that I needed to take. It was the last hurdle between my life and living a life where I presented as a transgender…

Will you hold my hand here at the end of the world? When the oceans boil and the forests burn Will you hold me tight? All my faults seem so little next to all this. Here, at the end of all our futures, when the engine coughs, sputters and dies. I was caught with my paw in the trap. When you are a wild animal, there is only one way to go on. Lose that which is precious and crawl away And now I know what I lost and what I gained

Pariah, Pawn, Fool, or Dupe? — Presidential candidate Tim Scott is running an ad where he starts: “I am about to say something really controversial in Joe Biden’s America…,” and after a laundry list of right-wing talking points, he concludes with, “And if you are a man, you should play sports against men.” Senator Scott is…

What’s special about wanting to have the same rights as everyone else? — I never thought that I was something special. I grew up in a huge Catholic family. Growing up in such an environment, I was just another pair of hands to do the work, a mouth to feed, just another number, part of the collective, sixth of nine. On my birthday…

Is ‘Hiding a Response’ censorship? — I recently got my first Medium post ‘boosted’ for wider circulation, and it’s been an interesting experience. I knew there would be a certain number of folks who would completely ignore the substance of the article and use the comments to go off on the transgender community. I don’t care…

Apparently, I’m the Wrong Kind of Woman — For the month of June, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is festooned with rainbows and flags in celebration of Pride month. That’s a lovely gesture of solidarity and compassion. In this climate of angry folks pushing back against the mere suggestion of corporate LGBTQ acceptance, it’s really nice to…

Pushing all the buttons: kids, sports, bathrooms — The fact is support for transgender rights has ebbed over the past seven years, and that is indisputable. If you listen to right-wing pundits, you would think that the transgender community was guilty of ‘overreach’ — that Trans radical activists (that’s me) pushed an agenda that was repellent to most…

I’ll never fall in love again — Two years ago, I left the place I had lived and relocated across the country. It was the end of my previous life and the beginning of my life as a transgender woman alone. In three days, I undertook a long, brutal drive from Utah to New Hampshire. …

The Path with a heart — Even from my earliest, I have spent my life asking why. I am the child who would ask why the sky is blue, and the grass is green. Most of all, I was never satisfied with answers that ended in the dead end of “because.” It always seemed like such…