September 2011
15 posts
Congratulations, Television! You Are Even Worse At... →
benkling:
by Linda Holmes for NPR.
I cannot help asking, even more than I usually do when I watch scripted comedies: Where, on television, are the men who both like football and remember birthdays? Where are the men who can have a highly insightful drink-and-talk with friends? Where are the men who are great dads, great husbands, great boyfriends? Where are the men who are dedicated to ...
An explanation for my lack of posts, but really an...
So perhaps it is my guilty conscience or some delusions of grandeur, but I feel like I have been notably missing from xxboy for some time now. Less frequent posting was an almost inevitable course, though, simply because as I get further into the “post transition” phase, gender and being trans is just less on my mind, so I have less post ideas filed away and I just down less notes and...
queer30 asked: Sebastian: Believe it or not, through all the bourbon and skirt chasing, we consider you to be a wonderfully mature adult. Most of the time :-P We've created a community for people on the queer spectrum who don't feel like they fit in with the younger Tumblr crowd, but not quite old enough to mesh with the older crowd. Basically the rest of us who are out of college, working, paying...
Justin Bond Is Living » An Open Letter to... →
On Sunday, September 18, 2011, Jamey Rodemeyer took his own life at the age of fourteen. Earlier this year he had participated in the It Gets Better Project, but just a week before the suicide, he wrote “I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. What do I have to do so people will listen to me?” It didn’t get better for Jamey, and he’s not alone. While the focus of many anti-bullying...
Submit Your Own 'I Am Different' Video - ABC News →
An interesting promo thing ABC’s 20/20 is doing… Never great with handling differences (20/20 and most mainstream news programs tend to go the route of exploitation), I must say I am wary of this, but also encourage any celebration of difference among adolescents. So check it out, submit a video, celebrate yrself :)
Teens: Show Us How You’re Different by Submitting a Video to...
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“This was a very, very important task. Just the title is a fundamental change —...”
– Eli Coleman, chair of the WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) revision committee, which just released Version 7 of the Standards of Care, which has long needed an update.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL.
Some key revisions:
• Psychotherapy is no longer a requirement to receive...
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Check out some amazing films on gender-variant... →
About The [Youth and Gender Media] Project
The Youth and Gender Media Project encompasses a growing collection of short films that capture the diversity and complexity of gender non-conforming youth. In The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children family members relate their transformations from denial to acceptance and finally to celebration around supporting and nurturing...
Victory! NCTE Announces Social Security Ends... →
YES YES YES.
Y’ALL THIS IS HUGE.
If you, like me, do not have your gender changed with social security and land a job and in the payment/tax form shit mark yr “new” gender or leave it blank (and then yr employer marks what is obviously yr gender), Social Security (UNTIL NOW) would send back what is called a “gender no-match” letter, essentially outing you to yr...
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Review: The Tantus Realdoe →
(Remember that if you want to buy it, do it from here: http://xxboy.tumblr.com/post/9011730850/something-for-the-bedroom so xxboy gets an affiliate kickback!)
Anonymous asked: Don't you think OP's name is pretty messed up towards trans man who get bottom surgery? "Original Plumbing"?
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Original Plumbing Issue #8: FAMILY MATTERS →
The latest issues of Original Plumbing (the transmasculine quarterly magazine) is all about family! Check it:
Original Plumbing’s Family Matters issue has been a long time coming. The longest OP to date with 60 pages of interviews with every type of family that would share their story with us, this issue isn’t just for OP fans, but is also a personal resource for family members of trans...
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Let's Hangout!
So Google Plus has this really great feature called “hangouts” which are essentially well-run group video chats. The idea was for them to be this spontaneous thing where you could set up a group video chat and anyone in yr circle could “drop by.”
But I see potential for some great stuff for our community with Google+. Ira talked to me a while back about getting a hangout...
Anonymous asked: Am I missing something, or is there no search feature on xxboy? I know that if I click on the tags at the end of each post, I can get to related posts that way. but maybe adding a search button would make it easier to find specific topics?
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...”
– Maria Robinson
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I'm not the same person I was two years ago:...
I don’t know the exact date I came out as trans. My email account doesn’t go back that far and neither does my phone. But it was September of 2009. So I’m hitting my two year anniversary of living as male. And obviously, I’m reflecting on who I was back then and who I am now - where I’ve come through all of this.
I am so different. Someone who is more than a year out...
