The Importance of Community

The ISSTD treatment guidelines for Dissociative Identity Disorder strongly imply that anyone who embraces the existence of their headmates and their identity as plural does not actually have DID. Under the section about “Misdiagnosis of DID”, the guidelines state, “Among other symptoms, patients…

“8 Ways to Show Respect for Someone’s Name Change”

“2. Remember That it Isn’t Your Place to Ask Certain Questions
It isn’t polite to ask someone why they have chosen to go by a new name.

There are a lot of reason why someone would want to shed an old identity…

The “trans” part of transgender has nothing to do with appearance. A trans person has always felt like they are not the gender they were assigned at birth. This feeling, this identity, causes them a lot of pain in the way of dysphoria, where they feel like their body isn’t theirs, because it doesn’t reflect who they are inside. *So they change their…

Wake Up

This is a land of blood

Blood of the innocent shed

Because this country is too weak to defend

Afraid to offend

Wanting to please everybody

I hope this is helpful.

1. The battle over gender neutral pronouns, and the emergence of new pronouns goes back quite a ways. The critical mass of people demanding recognition did not arrive until just recently. Back in the 90's when I started going to trans conferences, and had started meeting other transgender people I…