43 Wintersville (next to Steubenville) OH.
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43 Wintersville (next to Steubenville) OH.
By career I am a pastor.
This last week I accepted my next called position. What is interesting is that I have been out as transgender the entire search process. The church hired me knowing that...
Last week my wife and daughters and I went to see the Disney movie Frozen. For some (I think obvious) reason, when the song 'Let It Go' came on the screen it was something I could relate to on a...
Yup, both of us were in the same graduate program. We had classes together, sat near each other often, and shared beers on multiple occasions. Then years later we run into each other again here....
My wife and I had the joy of doing this together on our honeymoon. We spent the day with Clair at Wig Goddess in Vermont - www.wiggoddess.com We had an awesome experience. It was fun for us both...
Finally have a chance to get back to this site. The joys have having little kids, and a busy life. Thanks for all the great comments, it appears that just as in gender identity and expression,...
So, does that mean that individuals who are transsexual, who go through hormones and surgery, remain the gender of their birth, regardless of what they have gone through or identify as? I know a lot...
I've been away from the computer most of the day. First with my therapist, and then representing the T on a LGBT panel speaking to a university class of future teachers on diversity in the...
So if gender is more of a spectrum, is our tendency to express ourselves in a binary way a result of societal pressure and expectations? And, why is it that within much of the transgender community...
In the last year or so, in my work with the LGBT organization at our local university, more and more people are complaining and fighting against the idea that you are either male or female (the...
This is one of those questions where there is not a single answer that will fit for every person or situation. My children (3.75 and 5) know, and have known and seen me since birth. My wife and I...
I can't pinpoint an exact time or age; but...i grew up in a home where going to church was important, we never missed a Sunday. On the Sundays we celebrated eucharist, I always did everything in my...
It seems to me that, as with most things, there is not an easy answer to this question.
It does appear though that hormones do seem to have some effect on some people's orientation, or at the...
No, not looking for a single answer, and aware there probably isn't one answer. Just wanted to see the opinion of others.
Thanks to everyone who has responded. I'm still not sure there is an answer to the question of hormones and orientation. But I welcome your answers, thoughts and input.
I spent most of yesterday at a local high school speaking to the psychology classes about being transgender. It was the 6th time in 3 years I've been to the school. It's an incredible thing to be...
I think that it's really a black and white issue. All humans (in general) have a tendency to divide things into two categories; something is either this or that. Either it's good or bad, someone is...
As someone who goes to schools and other locations to educate students and the general public on the transgender community I have a specific interest in the use of terms.
I think it is of utmost...
My parents used a name book for both my brother and I. They used two different colors of ink for us. They underlined the names of interest, double underlined those that made the finals, and starred...
I'm probably in the minority here in this situation, but here's what's going on in our house. I have 2 little girls (3.5 and 2.75 years). I am not fully out to friends and family (yet), though many...
I don't want to advertise any specific sites/services (contact me privately if you want to know), but the wife and I had a wonderful experience together on our honeymoon at a transformation boutique...
Jeweler/Goldsmith full-time; pastor part-time
More than 10, way more
Dressing at college/university can be difficult. My wife and I live less than a mile from the local state university, and are both active with the schools LGBT organization as mentors, advisers and...
Just a picky grammatical note, transgendered (with the 'ed') is something that happens to you or someone, it's an effect; transgender is who you are, your identity. For example, the difference...