Essays
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Fresh essays and analysis — one thoughtful piece at a time.
The current, running column: essays and analysis on what’s happening now, filed with the same standards as everything else here.
Roughly one considered piece a week — less hot take, more second look.
On November 14, 2002, I picked up my little travel bag, overstuffed with dresses, skirts, shoes, shoes and more shoes, and headed off to…
Being unchained felt liberating; the air was sweeter, my sensations more vivid. Is this what non-gender-conflicted people feel every day? It was overwhelming, delicious,…
Republican groups have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender issues through October 25, 2026, according to figures the Associated…
Somewhere in Texas this month, a teenager opened the mail and found a pamphlet addressed to them by name. It called itself an LGBTQ+…
The Supreme Court on October 21 refused to let the administration enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender inmates in federal prisons. The…
The Supreme Court on October 21, 2026, denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy ending hormone therapy for…
A Washington high school wrestler identified in court papers as K.M.K. and her mother have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order the state…
Voters in Colorado and Washington will decide ballot measures on transgender students in school sports on November 3, 2026, and Colorado voters will also…
Many crossdressers learn to become liars and manipulators of the truth to avoid the humiliation of having their secret discovered. Who Are You Really…
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