As any activist in our community knows, one of the ways that we describe our community involves unwieldily odd acronyms that don’t slip off the tongue quite easily like LGBTQIA and with those acronyms, you are always leaving SOMEONE out. Well, I remember reading something in the way early stages of my transition, long before I started on my hormones and moved to Denver due to the allure of Naropa and it was very good. Hell, it was and is something that we definitely need to help show what our community truly is about, with little ambiguity. It’s, yep, you ...

One thing I definitely have to say is that I wish sexual orientation was a choice and that we could choose what gender of people we are attracted to. I say this because I wish that I were attracted to other women considering the fact that men are such lying, cheating assholes and they never seem to honour the concepts of love, trust or even honesty. They are unwilling to be loving, kind or even honest unless they are one of the rare breeds which actually seems to care about the inside of a person. I have seen the relationships ...

Many transwomen post photos of their surgeries online and while I have taken a look at these photos, I would have to say that I have no desire to ever take photos of my new vagina simply because of the fact that it just simply goes beyond my comfort level. In this post, I want to explain why it is that transwomen choose to share photos of their surgery results. I also want to explain the differences between them and me, as there are a few fundamental differences between these women and I which would prohibit me from sharing these ...

I read a post called “Why Do Women Let Themselves Go?” on Super Kawaii Mom and while that was quite an interesting post and I really did enjoy reading it, I do have to say that there are a few additional points that would inspire a transsexual woman to let herself go as well. I have thought about this and I have wondered why it is that I have seen some pretty gorgeous crossdressers on Flickr and people who really doll themselves up like Becky from Becky’s Web but most transsexuals you see are usually fairly frumpy – ...

Yes, for Erica Moen and I, there is truly no denying this fact and I do have to say that with all certainty in the world. Even though I am looking for a man, I would be truly blessed to find a partner who is a transsexual man. And even though it would be so nice to find this transsexual man of my dreams, I do not think that I would find such a man within the Denver-Boulder corridor. But I thought I would like to tell you why it is that transsexual men are just so fucking sexy ...

In this economy, it is quite expensive to develop and refine your practice and it becomes less possible what with the inability to get hired, job loss and things of that nature. And as we all know, there are a lot of classes and retreats that cost way too much for people who aren’t upper-middle class to afford. However, I have written a few things below to help you afford to develop your practice. 1. Go to Naropa The one thing that I have to say about Naropa University is that it offers you so many opportunities to develop your practice. ...

You know, this is a very funny post to be writing, especially considering that a fellow gamer geek and I were having a discussion earlier today about the viability of the Macintosh as a gaming platform. Well, today when I go to check my e-mail, I catch a story that was posted on MacWorld that says that Valve has been hinting at a release of Steam for the Macintosh. As a person who is definitely interested in many of the games that Valve makes, such as Half-Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead, I would have ...

Today, I was reading an article on Questioning Transphobia about the evil transphobic Julie Bindel and her paranoid delusions about how transsexual women are sick, evil and wrong. You know, extrapolating the things that the religious right community call all queer people upon transsexuals alone. This statement is quite apt, considering that Julie, like most transmisogynistic feminists, cozied up to the religious reich and wrote an article for them against transsexuals. She levied a number of charges against transsexual women, which I guess would be something that a transmisogynist would do but I am only going to address ...

The other night, I was checking the web statistics for jessicasideways.com and I found that a particular transmisogynist that I had written about had visited this website after seeing a post I wrote about them on the blog. They have written some hurtful misinformation about  transsexual women, without regard for intellectual honesty. In fact, if they were working for any newspaper outside of the conservative ultra-right wing spheres of influence, they would be questioned about their lack of intellectual honesty in many of their opinions and be watched… carefully, if not terminated outright. But such is the case when ...

To my surprise this week I see that a new Logan’s Run comic is due out.  Actually it was due for release on 17 February but I think it has been delayed until 24 February, according to Midtown Comics. This seems to be quite a coup for the company who is releasing the new comic series, as it’s being written by William F Nolan one of the two people who originally authored the book.  The book was published in 1967 and the film released in 1976.  I wasn’t really a big fan of the ...

I have accomplished so much in my transition and I have written a great number of words and said a great number of things about transsexuality and gender issues. I do not recant anything I have said nor am I ashamed of anything I have written but I have finally gotten to the point where this isn’t the story I really want to be telling anymore. I have focused so much on transition and queer activism that I haven’t given too much thought to the woman I intend to become, now that I am mostly past transition. Almost all of ...

There has been quite a lot of news over the past couple of weeks regarding same sex immigration in the US. Letter to Obama and Congress A letter from 60 members of congress has been sent to Obama and Congressional Leaders to encourage the passing of legislation that would end discrimination in immigration law against same sex couples.  Unlike many other countries a US citizen cannot sponsor their foreign partner to live with them in their own country.  The letter is to encourage the passing of the Uniting American Families Act and include this in comprehensive immigration reform.  The 60 members who ...

Today we experienced our first Chinese New Year Parade in Vancouver.  It was a low key affair compared to last year due to the Olympics, it started at 9.30, the parade took 45 minutes to pass, and was supposed to have completed it’s route by 11.00. It was a very colourful and noisy event, the noise of course coming from the many crackers going off.  Click on a picture to view a large one. ...

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As much as I am interested in the festivities of the Olympics its worth finding out why people are protesting it too.  Protesting the Olympics here, as we have seen in London, are a good opportunity to publicize the cause and to also motivate its followers.  So what are they protesting about? The main organization that seemed to cause disruption on the opening day of the Olympics was “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land“, please go to their FAQ section to find out more about them.  Also, another group calling themselves the Poverty Olympics is drawing attention ...

Today was the official opening of the Winter Olympics here in Vancouver.  The craziness that everyone expected to see I didn’t experience, everyone was in great spirits with people talking to strangers, taking pictures of just about everyone & everyone and generally having fun.  The public transport was kind of crazy but not in a bad way. The office went out to see the Torch Relay and as you can see by the photo’s below the children were absolutely loving it, shouting and singing their heads off, that was in Burnaby.  I was then quite surprised to see the ...

I was looking at some supermarket price comparisons between the UK and Canada this lunch time.  Prices taken from the Tesco and Market Place IGA websites. Product: Corn Flakes Size: 750g Price UK: 2.00 Price Canada: $2.98 Commentary: This product is cheaper in Canada.  Equivalent to 1.74 in the UK. Product: Pepsi (bottle) Size: 2 litres Price UK: 1.59 Price Canada: $1.79 Commentary: This product is cheaper in Canada. Equivalent to 1.05 in the UK. Product: Haagen Dazs Size: 500ml Price UK: 2.50 Price Canada: $5.99 Commentary: This product is cheaper in the UK.  Equivalent to 3.50 in the UK. Product: Gillette Mach 3 Disposable Razors Size: 3 in ...

A preface from the author: I have turned comments and trackbacks off on this post for a particular reason – the fact that this is a very serious subject that I have been wrestling with all of my life. It may very well be a contributing factor to why I am so anti-social, it may not. I do not know to be perfectly honest and do not really care to explore it much further than I need to to function in my day to day life. I do not really want to discuss this issue and I know for a ...

When I said that I wanted Apple to release a tablet Macintosh, I meant something running Mac OS X, or at least capable of running OS X and all of my OS X applications (i.e. Photoshop, CSSEdit, Transmit, Firefox, etc). I did not mean something with the watered down iPod/iPhone OS which only allows you to run applications which have been approved by Apple through the Apple store. Basically, it just looks like they took a shrink ray to the iPhone and iPod touch and reversed the process. It is horribly expensive, considering all of it’s limitations and it’s limited ...

Passports are not just identity documents but rather, they are much more than that. They have a record of every time we have left our country and went somewhere else in the world, a record that allows to flip through the visa pages of the passport and reminisce about all of our journeys throughout our life. My last passport had some seriously rich memories and even though I lost it while at Naropa one day, I will always remember what that passport meant for me. Specifically for me, it had two important journeys that I remember quite clearly, the journey ...