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Where do things stand?
So, other than navel gazing, where do things stand around here? Mostly where they stand is that I’m putting in mountains of work on a really important grant at work, and that is taking by far the bulk...
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A year ago
About a year ago I was sitting with my friend J in our favorite bar, one of our occassional meet-ups after children were dispatched to bed. He’d picked up a couple books before we met up. I scanned one...
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Best reaction ever
I’m pretty much out in my social life, but it still happens that I run into someone I haven’t seen in a while, and need to come out to them as trans. Yesterday, we ran into folks we think of as really...
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Next stop
Meetings for me to come out at work are scheduled. HR at my university has a whole process for this and I have followed it. The letters are written and sent to HR. The first meeting is this coming...
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Tomorrow
My advisor meetings are both tomorrow (the Mon one got moved to Tuesday). I’m working from home today, and having a hell of a time concentrating. I already dispensed with many mindless tasks, but I...
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Downhill from here
The meetings with my advisors today went as well as I could have hoped. In addition to being really glad they weren’t in trouble (that call for an HR meeting is apparently scary no matter how nice they...
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Of course.
Throughout my process of coming out as trans over the last year or so, I’ve sometimes craved responses more like, “Oh, sure, that makes perfect sense. Why did it take you so long to figure it out?” I...
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Out.
I’m now 100% out socially. I’m Ezekiel everywhere. Anytime I get called my given name, it’s because someone forgot, not because they don’t know, and that will go down over time. The final large group...
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Why not then
Our family went to the Philly Trans Health Conference this past weekend. There’s a lot to say about the experience, only some of which we will manage to say here, but the short version is: it was...
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You can ask
As Gail and I have made more connections with trans parents, both online and in person (there were several great parenting conversations at Philly Trans Health several weeks ago), I’ve noticed that for...
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