Answering Our Critics
I thought I would take the opportunity to give some insight and answer some of our critics.
April Marshall, our Editor in Chief, is a ::mumblemumble:: year old trans woman from Kansas City. April has a very strange background including acting, stand up comedy, playwriting, running Rocky Horror shadow casts, and professional wrestling. You may have also seen April, in another life, on the Jerry Springer show. Yes we are serious.
I thought I would take the opportunity to give some insight and answer some of our critics.
I have never liked the way I look, as male, as female or as anything in between. People say it’s what’s inside that makes a person beautiful. That’s nonsense, of course.
HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, is a very exciting step for most transgender people. It’s often the first act of body modification.
Safety is a huge concern for the transgender community. We are constantly having to keep…
“We tried to make this kid be a boy,” said Shappley. Still, Joseph kept seeking out what the girls had and, by the age of three, he was telling everyone he was a girl.
“I have watched my clients break down and cry after their makeovers.”
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, there was a shooting last night at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando Florida. It caught so many of us by surprise, and I’m honestly still trying to process it even now.
It’s not every day that a teenage girl speaks to roomfuls of physicians at a medical conference like AACE, but Jazz Jennings is no everyday girl.
Heels are the ultimate feminine accessory, so is it any wonder that most women salivate at the sight of high heels?
You don’t have to hide who you are-but you also don’t have the right to expect perfection and immediate acceptance from a world that’s still waking up to us