My nonbinary identity has led me down the twisting path of gender I find myself thinking a lot about the balance of energies within myself, those that are constituted by what could be called the masculine and the feminine. As a nonbinary person, what does it mean to find balance…

Working past cis normativity in a cis-centric world What does it mean to “pass” as a trans person? Typically, it means to blend in the cis world, for nobody to be able to tell you are trans. For this reason, some people call it instead “cis-passing” to be more specific…

A few words of advice for those just getting started Passing isn’t the key to happiness So this might be controversial but if your only goal in life is to pass then you are not guaranteed happiness when you achieve it. There are other things that are just as important: friendship, relationships, mental health, economic security…

When it comes to gender, a little agnosticism isn’t a bad thing The typical narrative surrounding gender involves gnosticism, the idea that we all know our gender, or that we should know our gender. That we have justified true beliefs about who we are. Decades ago, psychologists started thinking about…

Turns out you can have one without the other and vice versa — I’ve always considered myself pretty nerdy. Except that my nerdiness wasn’t usually expressed in the typical medium of being obsessed with particular fandoms like Harry Potter, Marvel, and Star Trek. Instead, I was a nerd about philosophy, science, psychology, etc. That’s what I got really obsessed about. But lately I’ve…

Trauma porn and the cis media machine We’ve all seen it. The cis media loves to digest the trauma of trans people. It’s why you will see articles like “My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy” in the New York Times but not “My New Vagina Is Awesome.” …

“Everyone is female and everyone hates it” Chu declares ethics to be “a commitment to a bit,” which tells you everything you need to know about her vision of feminism in this book. There is no real ethical seriousness. No fundamental ameliorative vision. …

The Case of Blaire White This might sound petty, but I recently retweeted infamous trans Youtuber Blaire White and called her a fascist transphobe. She replied to me and her 200k+ followers descended upon me quickly. The most popular type of comment was: “How can she be transphobic if she’s…

I wasn’t born this way and it does not matter In my book Transgressive I talk about the difference between trans people who are acorns vs trans people who are butterflies. The genetic material for a tree is contained entirely in the acorn and it slowly grows from inception into…