Crossdressing Among Straight Men In Small Town Petaluma

In this video I delve into a subject that I have touched upon many times. Presenting as a ’sexy woman’ gender generates resistance, anger, fear and lust among straight men. It puts me into a homologous position as a female. I get to know the ‘Man’ identity category as an outsider.
It [...]

Nietzsche, Identity Politics & Post-Feminism

Nietzsche wrote A Genealogy Of Morality (GOM) in 1880, a very interesting time. The stranglehold that Calvinist identity politics had on German public morality was beginning to slip. Bismarck had unified Germany under Prussian rule only ten years earlier. The “imaginary community” of the German Nation was being created. Nationalist and [...]

This Is What A Transwoman looks Like

I give a positive message about male femininity.

Internalized Transphobia & “Passing”

I talk about the culture of stealth and passing that I have encountered among transwomen.
The article about transwomen heirarchies of passing can be found here. I read a longer version in a new book (Trans/Form Feminsim?).
also see Monica’s critique of passing in Feministe » Stealth Was A Mistake. I think [...]

Castrating Deer and Transitioning Monkeys: Feminism and Brain Science 3

I go over the animal research on Gender. This stuff is weird.
Keywords: femininity, masculinity, gender, animals, genderidentity, miltondiamond, castration, brainsex, sexualorientation