I recently had a commenter on one of my JK Rowling-related essays ask me: “[…] didn’t you fans ever notice no queer characters? None. In — what? — seven books? And people are ambushed by her being transphobic? I’d have been astonished if she weren’t.” There’s kind of a lot…

I’m coming up on the two-year anniversary of a friend’s death due to overdose. For the purpose of this essay, I’ll call her Bailey. We had come to know each other through trans therapy spaces and were part of each other's lives, in some capacity, for roughly four years. …

Why cis-assuming privilege is the golden standard of transition for so many — For many trans people, passing (or cis-assuming privilege) is the golden standard. That is to say, passing as cisgender rather than being seen as a person transitioning from “one gender to the other.” Effectively, it means to become not visibly trans. The term was first used similarly by Black American…

Conservatives and the Fostering of an American Dystopia — As indicated in May, the US Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, a sweeping decision that immediately impacts abortion rights across the country that has dangerous implications for the future of same-sex and interracial marriage. In the decades since Roe v. …

Musings on what I’ve learned in the last 1825 days since coming out trans — I came out about my trans identity around this time in 2017. It was nearing the end of Pride month and I was living in New York with my ex-boyfriend in a small apartment in Astoria. We’ll call him Phil. We had a tumultuous relationship, founded upon mutual anxiety and…

The Nazi History of the Problematic Diagnosis — I was diagnosed autistic around the middle of 2020. This followed years of confusion and pain regarding my inability to reconcile with the neurotypical expectations placed upon me in my personal and professional life. Until this diagnosis, I struggled to understand the nature of my own thought processes and why…