A podcast about gender, identity, orientation, and all the life that happens around them! George is an FtM transgender man, Jess is his pansexual genderqueer wife; they talk parenting, work, and such.
Episodes
Saturday Jun 24, 2017
Saturday Jun 24, 2017
The intersection of lesbian parenting and multi-cultural family life, highlights Vinnie's experiences with gender and discrimination, and we discuss how George's transition has affected his parenting interactions. Returning to their experiences as a non-transitioning female-assigned person in a male-dominated field, Vinnie clarifies a few points and we all discuss our experiences of gender in the workplace. Rambly trans conversation continues!
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Saturday Jun 17, 2017
Saturday Jun 17, 2017
Our first ever guest, from Ep#95 and Ep#96, has come back to visit! We mentioned, then, how their new car affected their frequency of traffic stops, but they have since observed the effect of various other drivers in their old truck. Following up on George and Jess' discussion of health care challenges, Vinnie contribues their doctor experiences to our discussion. Then we return to a frequent discussion topic, sexism in the workplace. Long rambly conversation commence!
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Saturday Jun 10, 2017
Saturday Jun 10, 2017
As George recovers from his last hospital stay and prepares for his upcoming surgery, he recalls his concerns about his gender and how others will be affected by it. He also expresses a sense of "nakedness" from the lack of bodily self-determination. Then he realizes, all those types of discomfort are part of dysphoria! Jess also recalls experiencing dysphoria that they didn't realize was dysphoria, although their dysphoria is often more social, while George's was more physical. How do we cope with, or work around, discomfort with our respective genders? That's a skill that we've both got a pretty good handle on, but still requires effort at times.
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Saturday Jun 03, 2017
Saturday Jun 03, 2017
When George's intestines try to kill him, when Child#3 is a stinky hoarder, when Child#2 has bizarrely unrealistic expectations of us, it's good to be able to use some coping humor. George's ability to cope with strong emotion has increased over his time on HRT, although he still finds his patience has a tendency to disappear abruptly.
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Sunday May 28, 2017
Sunday May 28, 2017
The full version of the last three episodes, with a new outtake from Episode 1!
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0:00:23 - 0:36:26
TPT#218 - Getting Your Hands On The Substance
On George's fourth manniversary we reminisce about his transgender journey, from the earliest days of his first decision to transition, to the difficulty he had in accessing HRT, and the joy of finally getting the right amount of testosterone in his body. The following episodes were referenced, at the following times:
- - 0:02:29 - Episode 1: making the decision to transition
- - 0:04:05 - Episode 1: impatience with access to transition
- - 0:09:22 - Episode 7: George's "trans narrative"
- - 0:18:03 - Episode 4: insurance and healthcare access
- - 0:27:20 - Episode 13: the joy of starting HRT
0:36:26 - 1:15:54
TPT#219 - The Royal "We"
Continuing our fourth manniversary trans-in-review, once George finally got HRT started, his body began changing. Once the changes became noticable, it was time to start coming out as male. Coming out to our kids and family was no problem. Working for the government, however, and especially in a small town, meant that nothing could be easy and especially not coming out. The following episodes were referenced, at the following times:
- - 0:37:18 - Episode 25: early changes on testosterone
- - 0:45:10 - Episode 20: coming out to the kids
- - 0:53:26 - Episode 28: trying to prepare for coming out at work
- - 1:04:25 - Episode 29: finally getting to come out at work
1:15:54 - 1:48:35
In our final installment of George's fourth manniversary reminiscings, we discuss some of the things that are better for George, now that he's regularly percieved as the man he is. From men's rooms and STPs, to clothes and how they fit, to the way he's treated in our culture, life is better for him now than it's ever been. The following episodes were referenced, at the following times:
- - 1:16:12 - Episode 56: the men's room report
- - 1:18:51 - Episode 66: packing and STPs
- - 1:22:51 - Episode 116: finding clothes that fit
- - 1:26:18 - Episode 138: self-determination, regardless of clothes
- - 1:37:35 - Episode 120: "safety math" & cultural perceptions
- - 1:42:04 - Episode 45: social perception, people are weird
- - 1:44:14 - Episode 89: being treated differently as a man
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Saturday May 27, 2017
Saturday May 27, 2017
In our final installment of George's fourth manniversary reminiscings, we discuss some of the things that are better for George, now that he's regularly percieved as the man he is. From men's rooms and STPs, to clothes and how they fit, to the way he's treated in our culture, life is better for him now than it's ever been. The following episodes were referenced, at the following times:
- - 01:06 - Episode 56: the men's room report
- - 03:45 - Episode 66: packing and STPs
- - 07:45 - Episode 116: finding clothes that fit
- - 11:11 - Episode 138: self-determination, regardless of clothes
- - 22:30 - Episode 120: "safety math" & cultural perceptions
- - 26:59 - Episode 45: social perception, people are weird
- - 29:08 - Episode 89: being treated differently as a man
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Saturday May 20, 2017
Saturday May 20, 2017
Continuing our fourth manniversary trans-in-review, once George finally got HRT started, his body began changing. Once the changes became noticable, it was time to start coming out as male. Coming out to our kids and family was no problem. Working for the government, however, and especially in a small town, meant that nothing could be easy and especially not coming out. The following episodes were referenced, at the following times:
- - 01:42 - Episode 25: early changes on testosterone
- - 09:37 - Episode 20: coming out to the kids
- - 17:54 - Episode 28: trying to prepare for coming out at work
- - 28:55 - Episode 29: finally getting to come out at work
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Saturday May 13, 2017
Saturday May 13, 2017
On George's fourth manniversary we reminisce about his transgender journey, from the earliest days of his first decision to transition, to the difficulty he had in accessing HRT, and the joy of finally getting the right amount of testosterone in his body. The following episodes were referenced, at the following times:
- - 02:29 - Episode 1: making the decision to transition
- - 04:05 - Episode 1: impatience with access to transition
- - 09:22 - Episode 7: George's "trans narrative"
- - 18:03 - Episode 4: insurance and healthcare access
- - 27:20 - Episode 13: the joy of starting HRT
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Saturday May 06, 2017
Saturday May 06, 2017
Health care is a complicated subject, and getting health care as a transgender person can be even more so. Is the doctor choosing not to touch your body because she's bigoted, or just inept? Is a nurse being snotty because he's tired after a long shift, or because he took a look at your records? As George ages, health care interactions are going to become more frequent, and it's important that his providers are all capable and competent to work with populations of all genders. The good news is, his intestines tried to kill him just in time to have a day off for the mad rush on Gallifrey One hotel reservations!
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Saturday Apr 29, 2017
Saturday Apr 29, 2017
We got Child#0 to sit down with us at the mic, and we discussed their process of discovering their identity as agender. Egg mode made a traumatic childhood more traumatic, but George and his then wife's welcoming home helped them begin to recover. They are still recovering, and as they come to a larger understanding of human gender, the recognition that "there are others like me and I'm not just broken" is something that many of us can identify with. George took a binary backseat for most of the conversation, as the genderqueer folks discussed their identities and experiences.
Dara Hoffman-Fox's book is currently being reissued by a new publisher and is available for preorder at DiscoverYourGenderIdentity.com.
Ivan Coyote has written and performed a number of amazing pieces on the nature of gender and the way it is percieved by western culture, but the ones we referenced today are at dailyxtra.com/vancouver/dear-lady-in-the-womens-washroom-4771 and slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/11/transgender_in_public_bathrooms_why_does_our_safety_always_come_second.html.
We used the problematic terms "fag" and "faggy" as shorthand for a stereotype of an effeminate gay male. We understand that as a reclamation term it is generally expected to be used only by members of a minority of which we may not be percieved to be a part. For a fuller explanation of cultural expectations around reappropriation of slurs, check out a great piece by the late Matt Kailey at mattkailey.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/ask-matt-three-criteria-for-reclaiming-harmful-language. We chose to retain this term in today's conversation because it exemplifies the conflation of gender and orientation that is common in western culture and against which we still struggle in our own processing.
The pictures Jess showed Child#0 of presentations they identify with are:
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Saturday Apr 22, 2017
Saturday Apr 22, 2017
George is a gnome, and heteronormativity is weird AF. The human brain has a propensity to fill in gaps in available knowledge with inferences based on prior experience. We categorize things and synthesize ideas to assign meaning to things we don't fully understand. But when someone's entire experience is comprised of only one type of experience, they may apply inaccurate preconceptions to those of us whose existence has been primarily outside of a majority or mainstream.
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Saturday Apr 15, 2017
Saturday Apr 15, 2017
TSA PreCheck is a great benefit to people who transition. We highly recommend it, if it's available to you. It made a lot of our recent travel less stressful, as has George's male presentation.
Child#0 is a great benefit to our sanity as we deal with nonsense caused by both the nine-year-old toddler and the seventy-year-old toddlers. And we finally get them onto the mic! (We refer to Child#0 as "her" in this, and a couple more future episodes, but it is worth noting that they have, since the time of recording, expressed an identification with the pronoun "they".) When Child#2 insists on alternative facts, reacting against routine and structure after having had none, subconsciously desiring that sense of safety in boundaries that children often seek through testing and pushing their parents' limits, it's great to have Child#0 as another sane adult with whom to check our reality.
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Saturday Apr 08, 2017
Saturday Apr 08, 2017
When We Rise is a docudrama miniseries, in four double-episodes, that highlights specific leaders in, and key moments of, the American historical struggle for LGBTQIA+ equality. After watching it, we reminisced about our own experiences as we lived through many of the events that were explored in the show, and how George's experiences with the Gay and Lesbian communities in his young adulthood were shaped by his gender, even in egg mode.
You can watch When We Rise at http://abc.go.com/shows/when-we-rise.
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Saturday Apr 01, 2017
Saturday Apr 01, 2017
The lots-o-travel month has come to an end, and George thought he could finally get back to being productive at work. But he was wrong. Thankfully, his male privilege made life easier when trying to help problem-solve for a family member who was caught driving down the highway in the wrong direction!
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Saturday Mar 25, 2017
Saturday Mar 25, 2017
When Child#2 went to stay with his mother at Christmas break, we knew there was a possibility that he would be back. We knew that his mother's family were rich, entitled, control freaks. We knew he was a bigger challenge than they were expecting. That doesn't change our disappointment that he won't get the care he was promised. Happy spring break, friends!
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Saturday Mar 18, 2017
Saturday Mar 18, 2017
That new dick we mentioned a couple weeks back? Yeah, George tried it. Medical adhesive mishaps and prosthetic penis shenanigans ensued. Fun was had. And by fun, we mean awkwardness and discomfort.
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Saturday Mar 11, 2017
Saturday Mar 11, 2017
Child#2's other mom has asked for him to move with her out of state, and we have no good reason to refuse. But the adventures of raising our most challenging child don't stop just because he's a couple hundred miles away. George went to visit him back before we went to Gallifrey One, and we recap the challenges up to the time he returned, from dealing with controlling ex-in-laws, to informing the kids of the recent death in our chosen family.
Various versions of the Family Circle comic "map" George refers to can be found at http://familycircus.com/comic_tag/billys-map/.
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Saturday Mar 04, 2017
Saturday Mar 04, 2017
George's old-guy problems haven't quit, although we get more gendery observations on them. He observes the self-segregation of people by gender, considering his place in one of the two groups that folks tend to segregate themselves into. People who've known George for a long time, but haven't seen him in a while, react to the "effectiveness" of his transition. We consider the struggles of dressing formally by gender.
Oh, and did we mention that George got a new dick? Sooner or later we'll figure out how to attach it!
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Saturday Feb 25, 2017
Saturday Feb 25, 2017
In case you missed it on our social media, we attended Gallifrey One again this year. After the usual three-ring-circus known as "the logistics of leaving our responsibilities behind", we brought pronoun ribbons (pronounribbons.org) and were lucky enough to find some folks to pass them out on our behalf. Then we went on about our merry con-going, to encounter various awkward situations, and as most transfolk have occasion to do, George overthinks the difference between gendery awkwardness and regular awkwardness.
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Saturday Feb 18, 2017
Saturday Feb 18, 2017
At the time of recording, George was supposed to be preparing to visit Child#2 at his mother's house, out of state. But emergency rooms kept happening. Thankfully, not for him this time. We consider, for a moment, the oddities of being treated as male in these situations, how it is different from his prior treatment, and then return to managing the situations.
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Saturday Feb 11, 2017
Saturday Feb 11, 2017
George's body has seemed to age a little more rapidly in the past few years, and while we're not sure whether that's a result of HRT, or stress, or environment, or a little of each, the result is the same. He weighs less, but his pants are tighter. His back and neck pain have increased. And the process of finding a mattress that will better support his aging back has been a long one.
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Saturday Feb 04, 2017
Saturday Feb 04, 2017
We attended the women's march solidarity event for our region, and it was pretty cool. George is a feminist, a TransDad, and a man who was perceived as female for decades, all of which make him a heck of a feminist father. But how to act on that feminism? How does one act as an ally and accomplice in movements for the rights of the oppressed, when one is a member of the dominant (and historically oppressive) culture?
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Saturday Jan 28, 2017
Saturday Jan 28, 2017
George's insurance plan rolled over at the new year, and he needed to re-authorize a prescription. Child#2's prescriptions may not be covered for some time until his new insurance is effective in his new state. And Republicans in congress don't care who gets insurance or not, so long as they get to enforce their expectations and worldview. But no matter what is wrong, we know that some woman, somewhere, will be competent to take care of it.
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Saturday Jan 21, 2017
Saturday Jan 21, 2017
We continue our conversation with the Gender Rebels this week, Kath and Faith discuss their experiences travelling before and after transition, and we observe the nature of the transition workload. So many things to do, and it's great that they all get to happen, but damn, it's a lot of work!
You can hear the Gender Rebels at http://genderrebels.podbean.com/ where they host a weekly question-and-answer podcast that explores life outside the gender binary.
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Saturday Jan 14, 2017
Saturday Jan 14, 2017
We can has guests?! Sweet! Today we sat down with the amazing ladies of the Gender Rebels podcast. Two transitioning people and their two partners swap stories of, among other things, the mental flexibility required to manage various stages of "outage".
You can hear the Gender Rebels at http://genderrebels.podbean.com/ where they host a weekly question-and-answer podcast that explores life outside the gender binary.
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Saturday Jan 07, 2017
Saturday Jan 07, 2017
♪♫ On the adjusted date of Christmas, the universe gave to me: twelve-hour workdays, eight forgotten presents, five diabetic crashes, two cases of norovirus, and a sex toy infomercial at the hospital! ♪♫
As usual, we celebrated Christmas on a day that was not 25 December, but as not-usual it went fairly smoothly. The fun didn't start until later, but when it did, George's status as male made his mother's care easier to manage, and his trans status made his own hospital visit slightly more confusing.
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Saturday Dec 31, 2016
Saturday Dec 31, 2016
When Child#2 was adopted by George and his ex-wife, they had no clue just how uniquely challenging he would become. We are now preparing for him to move out of state with her, with hope for his improved wellbeing as well as for our sanity. Recordkeeping and other issues could arise, however, when George is still listed on the kid's birth certificate as his mother, and his actual mother isn't listed at all!
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Saturday Dec 24, 2016
Saturday Dec 24, 2016
Can we find a home for the surprise dogs? Will George's birthday combine with Child#3's birthday well? Will Child#0 come to live with us? Is George irritable because of decreased testosterone? Holiday JOY for the whole freaking family abounds, but we don't get to have our holidays yet.
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Saturday Dec 17, 2016
Saturday Dec 17, 2016
Christmas giraffes and flamingoes and dinosaurs are a perfect wrap-up for this bizarre year. George's birthday present made him smile, but he still deals with more irritability than usual as we finish Child#3's birthday celebrations. Did we mention that this is the final section of the discussion we started two weeks ago?
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Saturday Dec 10, 2016
Saturday Dec 10, 2016
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we have birthdays and other to-do's that are unavoidable. The holiday dinner was nice, and comparatively quiet, but the string of gatherings started to pinch George's introvert sensibilities beyond managing, bringing us back to the questions about the effects of HRT on his emotional restraint.
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Saturday Dec 03, 2016
Saturday Dec 03, 2016
As we prepared for Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season, we continue to be responsible for other humans with underdeveloped self-care skills. Between a nine-year-old with fecal incontinence and a seventy-year-old with verbal incontinence, we are having a grand old time!
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Saturday Nov 26, 2016
Saturday Nov 26, 2016
The election results and the changing dynamic among the bigot class have made the world a scarier place, but life keeps chugging along. George is sick, but that doesn't keep him from being responsible for his elderly relatives, who have new adventures with recurring themes.
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Saturday Nov 19, 2016
Saturday Nov 19, 2016
It's okay to like things, to dislike things, to like or dislike people, even to have opinions on things or people. But to paraphrase a recent viral tweet, "Opinions are for things like 'I dislike coffee', not 'I dislike black people'." It is generally frowned frowned upon, and for good reason, to dislike people, for certain traits that have been historically used to justify their disenfranchisement. One would break Wheaton's Law to do so. So when we happen to dislike the company of some transgender persons, for reasons not directly related, but possibly tangentially related, to their trans-ness, how does one avoid dickishness?
To even identify traits related to mental health, education, or childlessness, seems judgemental because of the cultural connotations of these characteristics. George has professional skill in how to distance oneself from judgement regarding these concepts, but Jess can't shake the feeling of being the bigger or more advantaged sibling, pointing a finger at their smaller sibling, obnoxiously in their personal space, almost-but-not-quite-touching, saying "I'm not judging you! I'm not judging you! I'm not judging you!"
The little song Jess sang can be found at youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI.
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Saturday Nov 12, 2016
Saturday Nov 12, 2016
Did you meet us at some event? What should I do if my kid is trans? Does Jess have any voice tips for MtF's? Does George have any packing preferences for FtM's? Will we host your client on our podcast? We tried for six questions, but only got to five.
The tutorial video for the homemade STP is at youtube.com/watch?v=TLiaVVihEn4 and we have a longer discussion of George's initial experiences with prosthetics in Ep#66 "Packing, Peeing, and P*nises" at transpantastic.net/2014/06/packing-peeing-and-pnises.html.
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Saturday Nov 05, 2016
Saturday Nov 05, 2016
We continue discussing ALL THE THINGS that are kicking George's butt lately, between finding out who ate the cake, and taking the elders to vote, and continuing his game of "which doctor does mom think we're visiting today", he still feels more than a bit overwhelmed. Which has made him more than a bit irritable. And we still haven't settled on why he is more irritable lately, but there's likely some relation to HRT.
Saturday Oct 29, 2016
Saturday Oct 29, 2016
It is a common experience among those experiencing medical transition, that HRT can reorient one's emotions and expression of them. George has felt overwhelmed lately, and as many trans guys have mentioned many times before, "I can't cry about it." There's nothing particular to cry about, though, just a lot of little busy things that are each, on their own, only somewhat bothersome. When we put them all together, though, ALL THE THINGS become a bit much.
Saturday Oct 22, 2016
Saturday Oct 22, 2016
Our thoughts on the US elections, with the usual sidetracks and rabbit trails.
Saturday Oct 15, 2016
Saturday Oct 15, 2016
Why do men and women give Jess different change when they are sent to retrieve Jess' lunch from the taco truck? And why on earth would Jess plagiarize a failing term paper? And did that plagiarism report make Jess more sweary than they've ever been? And can George rename election day "taco tuesday"?
Saturday Oct 08, 2016
Saturday Oct 08, 2016
We are a podcast. Well, technically we host a podcast, which is the thing you're probably listening to right now. Unless you're reading the notes without listening, which is your right if you so choose... But as most podcasters like to also listen to podcasts, we discuss some of our favorites, as well as some new transgender voices in podcasting.
Queer & Queerer: zackfordblogs.com/queer-and-queererClimate Stew: climatestew.com/podcastCitizens Climate Lobby: ccl.podbean.comSciFri: sciencefriday.comHidden Brain: npr.org/podcasts/510308/hidden-brainInvisibilia: npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibiliaVerity!: veritypodcast.wordpress.comWeb of Queer: www.thewebofqueer.comTwo Minute Time Lord: twominutetimelord.comRadio Free Skaro: radiofreeskaro.comTrekCast: trekcast.com2Homos: 2homos.comTransPonder: OHMYGDTHERESNOLINKANYMORE!!11!!Minnesota Trans Atheist: thequeerlife.org/category/transatheistpodChanges In Latitudes: changesinlatitudespodcast.blogspot.comDiary of a Trans Woman: inkedgeekstudios.com/diaryofatranswomanGender Rebels: genderrebels.podbean.comTransgeneral: www.transgeneral.suppliesTrans Life Tho: trans-life-tho.tumblr.comYou're So Brave: soundcloud.com/youre-so-brave-podcast
Transition Transmission: transitiontransmission.comStar Talk: startalkradio.netQueer Theology: queertheology.com/category/podcast/
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Saturday Oct 01, 2016
Saturday Oct 01, 2016
Our kids' lives are hard. Admittedly they don't have to deal with a lot of problems that children in poverty or trauma survivors experience, but they have their own unique challenges, and it's our job to help them find the adaptability and resiliency to manage themselves before becoming adults. Occasionally, though, we just feel like our Child#2 when he says "I don't wanna!"
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Saturday Sep 24, 2016
Saturday Sep 24, 2016
After decades of living in a female presentation, there are a lot of ways in which George identifies with feminism and feels solidarity with women's causes. We discuss the understanding that many FtMs have of the struggles of female existence, the privilege men have, and the ways in which these causes should be championed in social and political venues.
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Saturday Sep 17, 2016
Saturday Sep 17, 2016
As one ages, one generally develops various health problems. George's mother and aunt are both suffering from age-related ailments, which both of them will alternately bemoan or deny. George helps them nonetheless, as he is a total sucker, um, we mean, he is just that good of a person. As they deal with doctors and other medical professionals, how the medics deal with him is very different from the way they deal with the old ladies. How much of that is because of the "old" part, and how much is because of the "ladies" part? George has some male privilege thoughts on that, and on being the random white guy in the convenience store at 2AM.
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Saturday Sep 10, 2016
Saturday Sep 10, 2016
The kids are back to school, and we have done what we can to help them be successful in their transition back into a more scheduled routine. Nonetheless, with these kids, there's always a laugh to be had!
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Saturday Sep 03, 2016
Saturday Sep 03, 2016
When George was a baby dyke getting catcalled or even occasionally hollering at girls, it was a completely different experience than anything that would ever happen now. There are some behaviours that are really only acceptable in a homosocial context. An interaction between members of similar genders or gender experiences can contain a subtext of common experience, but cross-gender interactions often exist in an expansive context of patriarchy, historical oppression, and cultural expectations that can make otherwise innocuous comments seem inappropriate.
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Saturday Aug 27, 2016
Saturday Aug 27, 2016
The American government has been occasionally known to do things that are only tangentially related to reality. When "7-12" is not included in "0-12", or when the number of genders finally needs to be greater than two, our careers in public service help the local government figure out some maths.
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Saturday Aug 20, 2016
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
When an old (pre-transition) picture of George resurfaces at work, what will his new intern think? Will she even notice? Will she recognize him? And what on earth were his bosses thinking in even bringing it to the intern's attention?!
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Saturday Aug 13, 2016
Saturday Aug 13, 2016
As we finish the discussion of our trip to Yosemite, we have a discussion with Jess' aunt, the one who asked which child George birthed, about Child#2's adoption and her own adoption of one of her four kids. Then continuing with our challenging children through a poopy train ride, repeated swim breaks, and George's discomfort over using an STP in the most crowded bathroom in the middle of nowhere with the dick patrol in tow.
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Saturday Aug 06, 2016
Saturday Aug 06, 2016
In the first half of our discussion of our family's trip to Yosemite, we discuss George's adaptations to a lower dose of T and how that's affected his emotions as he deals with the stresses of a family vacation. Our children's challenges didn't get left behind, and managing them in places that aren't "home" present a completely unique set of challenges, in addition to the challenges of meeting up with family when wireless coverage is spotty in a national park.
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Saturday Jul 30, 2016
Saturday Jul 30, 2016
George recently got a male privilege upgrade. Gender discrepancies in pay and treatment at work are well documented, but transgender folks often have unique insights after experiencing cultural expectations in different gender presentations. We discuss how George's colleagues, including some who have known him for over a decade, treat him differently now. Jess is jealous, but gets to rib him about his moustache, or lack thereof, so life is okay.
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Saturday Jul 23, 2016
Saturday Jul 23, 2016
Health care and insurance can be troubling. Thankfully we have good coverage, as does George's mom, but that doesn't mean it's always easy to access that coverage, or that they won't get confused when some guy needs to visit the gynecologist. Even better, when George is managing insurance troubles for himself and his mother, he is stuck making calls during the work day so his cubicle-neighbor gets to hear the very specific details about which antidepressant he takes.
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