Category: gender

• Beyond My Grasp

  Advisory: I sort of choke and swallow hard before posting an article like this on the eye of paradox, in spite of the fact that I have a history of being rather candid about my experiences as a “transgendered” individual here and on deviantart. I know that many of these posts have the potential to hurt…

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  Aug 24, 2016

  despair, editorial, existentialism, free-will, gender, identity, mind, paradox, personal musings, soul, suffering, transgender, truth, understanding
• It Takes a Village to Break a Child

  I do not often get comments on my blog; if I exclude the pingbacks, spam and my own replies, I’ve received twenty-two comments from ten different individuals since I started the eye of paradox two years ago. Four of those people have identified themselves as transgendered, and like every transgendered person I’ve known, it has…

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  Jul 24, 2009

  death, discrimination, epiphanies, existentialism, fair play, free-will, gender, identity, individuality, personal musings, reader response, reflection, society, transgender, truth, understanding
• Point Penetrating Points Overlapping

  A number of my posts, particularly the ones dealing with transgender issues in my life, have been written on a long, dark night of the soul. It can be difficult to come back and read what I’ve posted and resist the urge to delete what I’ve written, because of how dark they are. I have…

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  Jul 22, 2009

  death, epiphanies, existentialism, fair play, free-will, gender, identity, individuality, personal musings, reflection, transgender
• It is Where You Can, and Yet… CAN You? On Writing What I Know.

  I may have commented on it in passing, and it is something I certainly never miss, but my art and writing have always brought out the real me. In a sense, that is appropriate enough; isn’t it a common recommendation that writers draw from their own experiences? I often feel that my escape into fantasy…

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  Jun 25, 2009

  editorial, epiphanies, gender, identity, personal musings, transgender, writing
• Recapitulation & Reflection

  A person looking at my blog might get the impression that I do not get much writing done, and it is true that there are a lot of things in my life that get in the way of me writing most of the things I want to. The inside dope is that much of what…

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  Jun 24, 2009

  epiphanies, existentialism, gender, identity, minorities, paradox, personal musings, reflection, transgender, truth, understanding
• A True Identity is Nothing to Fear

  The response I received to my last post, Conundrum, prompted me to check out the recent posts of the people who commented or posted blogs in the transgender category yesterday. As a result, I became aware of the outcry against the appointment of Dr. Kenneth Zucker, Dr. Ray Blanchard, and J. Michael Bailey, by the…

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  May 13, 2008

  discrimination, existentialism, fair play, gender, identity, individuality, minorities, personal musings, reflection, social stratification, society, transgender, understanding, voices in my head
• Being at Odds with Life

  I never imagined that I had a monopoly on being at odds with life. It is simply a state of being with which I am much too familiar. I have spent most of my life struggling with things that most people take for granted, stumbling and falling in places where most people stride with confidence…

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  Aug 9, 2007

  fair play, gender, identity, personal musings, society, transgender
• GID?

  In my bio on Helium, I confided a history of GID. That is Gender Identity Disorder, for those of you who did not know. There are a number of problems with that particular label for a condition that is poorly understood at best and entirely subjective at worst. Other terms that can be used are…

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  Jul 20, 2007

  gender, identity, transgender