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Ask Matt Monday: Double Header
Today’s double header deals with gender perceptions in the LGBT and straight communities, and with losing a singing voice as the result of testosterone. As always, reader input is requested and...
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Ask Matt Double Header: Adoption and Coming Out
Today we have a Double Header dealing with trans people adopting and coming out to people who know nothing about trans issues. Please add your thoughts and experiences to the comments section for these...
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Ask Matt Double Header: Perplexing Pronouns
Today we have two Ask Matts dealing with pronouns – Correcting a Past Pronoun, in which a reader wonders how to reference a trans person’s life prior to transition, and Correcting the Wrong Pronoun, in...
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Ask Matt Double Header
Today we have two Ask Matts – one dealing with transition and second adolescence, and the other dealing with testosterone use by non-trans men. Check them both out below and then join the conversation...
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Ask Matt Double Header and New Book
Today we have two Ask Matts – one dealing with metoidioplasty, and the other with starting a new year of school with a new gender presentation. I hope readers will add their always-helpful insights and...
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Ask Matt Double Header
Ask Matts are still backed up a little, so today we have two offerings: a transition delay and an unintentional outing. Thanks for your input on either or both, and thanks, as always, for reading!...
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National Coming Out Day: What’s Your Best ‘Coming Out as Trans’ Story?
Today is National Coming Out Day, and I am a vocal advocate of trans people coming out and being out. I think that the greater our numbers and our visibility, the more power we have. However, I am also...
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Ask Matt Briefs: Short Questions, Short Answers
The Ask Matts are accumulating again, so we have a column of briefs, more substantial than what is in my own. A reader writes: “I am transitioning and I have decided that I don’t want testosterone...
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Sorry for All the Spam Comments
To those of you (and there are many) who subscribe to my blog and my comments, I am sorry for all the spam comments that you have been getting within the last twenty-four hours or so. For some reason,...
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Ask Matt Double Header
Today we have a post from a reader who recently started dating someone who has just come out as trans, and another post dealing with a couple of family-related questions: one about coming out to...
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Ask Matt Monday Double Header: Family Members Get Cold Feet About Transition
When confronted with a loved one’s transition, family members can be incredibly supportive – or they can be horrified, angry, and rejecting. We always hope that those in the latter category will come...
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Ask Matt Double Header
Today we have two posts (and I’m still catching up): one regarding questions that trans people get asked, and the other dealing with some questions that I got asked that I need help in answering. If...
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Ask Matt Double Header
Today we have two posts as I continue to try to get through my backlog. One post deals with the politics that the writer has experienced while dating a trans woman. The other is from a writer in...
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Ask Matt Spring Break Special
In an effort to clear my Ask Matt backlog, and because it’s Spring Break week at both my schools, I will be posting Ask Matts all this week, Monday through Friday. Monday’s post deals with writing and...
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The Best of Tranifesto (during my hiatus)
As I announced last week, I am taking a blogging hiatus for the month of July, and possibly into early August. During that time, I will be publishing The Best of Tranifesto every Monday, which is my...
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Ask Matt Double Header: Adoption and Coming Out
Today we have a Double Header dealing with trans people adopting and coming out to people who know nothing about trans issues. Please add your thoughts and experiences to the comments section for these...
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Ask Matt Double Header
I’m not 100 percent sure that my Tranifesto hiatus is finished, but I am at least taking a hiatus from my hiatus to answer some Ask Matt questions that came in during my break. Labels and identity seem...
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Ask Matt Double Header: Adoption and Coming Out
Today we have a Double Header dealing with trans people adopting and coming out to people who know nothing about trans issues. Please add your thoughts and experiences to the comments section for these...
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Ask Matt Double Header
I got quite a few Ask Matt letters while I was on hiatus, so I’m getting caught up. We have two today and more next week. Today, we have concerns about a name change and a request for information about...
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Ask Matt Double Header
The Ask Matt questions are still coming in, and I am trying to catch up from my hiatus. Today we have two letters – one about coming out at home and at school, and the other about correcting pronouns...
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