I have mixed feelings about this holiday — Several trans people have told me that Halloween is their favorite holiday. They’ve described it as a rare time of safety to be themselves while in the closet and have fond memories as a result. This hasn’t been my closeted experience. I don’t recall any year that I felt safe…

Now, I can look at womanhood from the outside and admire its strength — When I lived life as a girl or as a woman, I often felt weak. Femininity didn’t feel like a source of strength from the place I was living, lost deep inside of myself. I used to think this was related to expressing femininity and the resulting victimhood that followed…

What happens when trans people start to thrive? — I’ve read so many articles and even a book or two about how to make it through a job interview, how to function at all in the workplace, or how to just survive life in general while out of the closet as a trans person. …

This dude prefers golden stilettos — When I first came out as transgender, I felt a lot of pressure to pass myself off to everyone as a real man. That was a rough time. The world shut down for the Pandemic shortly after I admitted to myself and a few friends that I was transgender. Alone…

My wife and I lived paycheck-to-paycheck in North Carolina; this would have been devastating for us — TW: Suicidal ideation mentioned without details I remember the day that I came out of the closet at work as the pansexual spouse of a trans woman. At the time, I was depressed to the point of being suicidal. …

Safe is the only emotion I can articulate — There is pain in the memory of running, but I can’t feel it. It’s the pain we can see through the surgeon’s white lights pointing to the open wound she’s stitching closed. It’s pain that can’t be touched just yet, pain that can’t be soothed because it’s still anesthetized. On…

“Do you want to do this publicly or in private,” the TSA agent asked — I wasn’t surprised when she said I’d been randomly selected for a “groin check” on my way back from Michigan. …

A love note for trans representation written by an erotic model — A Note from Logan Silkwood: For this writing, I’m offering up my platform on Medium to an erotic model and trans activist. This is a beautiful piece that deserves to reach the largest audience possible. The following was written by Meekah Fae and reposted here with their permission. …

A happy queer accident — The courtroom was empty and quiet when we arrived. It was 30 minutes before our 10:45am name change hearing. My wife considered us to be dangerously late. “But what if somebody before us no-shows and they call us early and we aren’t there?!” She went down the list of everything…