Yesterday (Monday, February 13, 2012), while taking my daily three-and-three-quarter mile walk, I was at a corner waiting for the walk light to turn green. Three young men in their early twenties were at the same corner, and one of them asked me a question in that way that was clearly meant to make me [...]

Since I recently received the post-gender-affirmation-surgery letter that states “[Autumn Sandeen] has had appropriate surgical treatment and has completed her transition to be female,” I have, in process, experiences of changing my M to F (male to female) at various government agencies and businesses. So, I’m going to document many of these change as I [...]

Here’s the text of a super-kewl, notarized letter I received in the mail on Saturday afternoon (birthdate redacted): GENDER TRANSITION AND CHANGE RE: Autumn V. Sandeen DOB: XX-XX-XXXX I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the forgoing is true and correct: I am the attending physician and have [...]

Hey! Where was my mandated, “ObamaCare” sex-change operation? Genital reconstruction surgery (GRS). Sex reassignment surgery (SRS). Gender affirmation surgery (GAS). Vaginoplasty. Bilateral orchiectomy (orchi). These are all terms associated with genital surgeries on transsexual people. For those who don’t know, I’m a male-to-female transsexual. The term transsexual is a term referring to a medical condition [...]

Well, “Ow.” And by that, I actually mean physical pain in my genital area due to gender affirmation surgery. Seriously, my scheduled bilateral orchiectomy (“orchi”) with Dr. Tuan Nguyen was accomplished on August 17th. And, the surgery went well, and essentially to plan. The surgery itself was an uncomfortable experience — somewhat on par with [...]

This past weekend I went searching the blogosphere for Bert & Ernie related stories, and discovered Adam Carolla had done a podcast that mentioned not only trans people. There’s a particular segment that many be of interest to many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people where Adam Carolla, and his news partner Alison Rosen, [...]

There are women of color and there are disabled women; there are lesbians and there are women of faith; there are mothers and there are servicewomen; there are women veterans and bisexual women — and that’s hardly an exhaustive list of the subcategories of women. Women’s experience intersects with multiple labels and multiple identities; each [...]

I have heard many senators and congresspeople use variants of Admiral Mullen’s pro-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)  repeal phrase of relating to how DADT “[f]orces young men and women to lie…to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.” For example, from the floor of the Senate yesterday (December 18, 2010): [...]