So much in education is framed as public vs private. I very much believe in the value and necessity of public education and sent my kids through a public school system, but my job is teaching in a private high school. …

While I'm on this topic though, do any of you other transwomen go up and down stairs with a little extra bounce in your step on purpose to feel that gravitational tug on whatever assets you've developed so far in your boob journey?

I’ll spare you a photo to go with this one. :-) So I’ve been noticing something. There are lots of guys in their mid-to-late- 30s and upwards who are putting on a little extra weight and have “man-boobs”. …

It’s graduation time. For a high school teacher like me, it’s kind of a bittersweet time as I watch these wonderful young women finish their time with me, and head on to bigger and better things. You’d think that teaching as long as I have, I wouldn’t let myself get…

I just realized that one of the ways that I cope with gender dysphoria has been semi-voluntarily removed from my life for about a year now. I’ve been bothered by it now and then, but it’s unsettling to know it’s been so long. …

I was recently at a conference for work — it was in a large East Coast city, and had participants from all over the country. I have written before about my reluctance to travel for a variety of reasons, but the most relevant is that I feel like every new…

Here’s the weird thing. As someone who is romantically and sexually attracted to women, I appreciate the beauty and attractiveness of athletic women. Maybe the champion bodybuilder type is not my personal cup of tea, but I appreciate that kind of body as a feminine form. So why do I…

Remember when your parents made you practice? And then when you actually got good and wanted to go into music and they said that wasn’t a viable career and you were only learning music so that you could play as a hobby or when you got old? Well, I’m old…

A lot of us transwomen half-jokingly weep, or half-weepingly joke that every portrayal of us in mass-market media must contain a “doing up the hair” or “putting on lipstick” scene. It doesn’t really matter if the intention is a positive or negative portrayal, it’s always there. I was sort of…