Identity

Pride

I went to Pride yesterday. Second time I’ve gone, and I dressed up a bit. Scared me to be honest, dressing like that but that’s the...

23 June 2024
Gender Identity Musings

Protected: I had a breakdown

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31 October 2023
Identity Musings

Shades of grey

When I was growing up, it was simple. You were straight, or gay, and everything else was an aberration to some degree. Transvestites were wrong, somehow....

5 November 2022
Gender Identity Musings

Binaries only matter in code and logic

I think the title speaks for itself. For me, the only place where binaries matter are in code (computers speak in 1s and 0s) and logical...

14 July 2022
Code Gender Identity

whoami

In computing, whoami is a command found on most Unix-like operating systems, Intel iRMX 86, every Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows Server 2003, and on...

9 August 2021
Identity

Just be yourself

Recently a dear friend told me that he thought it was awesome that I was living my true self. Granted, he was a little drunk at...

22 June 2021
Gender Identity Musings

Store-bought is fine

I have been depressed for a long time – most of my life if I’m correct in my suspicions. But I didn’t have a formal diagnosis...

11 February 2021
Identity Musings

The Terf Wars

I have traditionally given people the benefit of the doubt. When someone is declared a terf (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and I have doubts I’ll usually take...

11 February 2021
Gender Identity Musings

Names

As of today (28th January 2021) I have officially changed my name. By which I mean I did it nearly a year ago (14th February 2020)...

28 January 2021
Identity

What do I owe you?

I’ve been feeling some guilt of late. Guilt that I’d left people off of my new Facebook profile. Guilt that there were people I didn’t want...

3 May 2020
Identity