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META magazine's interview with Julie Bindel on July 7th, 2012.

Frankly I am surprised. Of course we differ greatly on some topics such as delaying puberty in adolescents. I also think she played the victim card then went and blew up a whole lot of good will with her description of trans people who called her on her transphobia in 2008 and again in 2011 when she was nominated for all things, the Stonewall Diversity Award...but as she said, those are years past.

Some will say she was simply on her best behaviour during the interview adapting to the changing social norms and I could see a cauldron of anger swirling just below the surface of this woman. But that being said, I would say I am in agreement with Bindle on a number of topics.

We need to take a pluralistic view, accept that others disagree and find common ground.

RadFems monolithic view of men bad, woman good is ridiculous but somehow, just somehow we need to make peace with Radfems. Lord knows I have tried and failed, maybe someone else would be successful.

The only ones who will benefit directly from the Trans Radfem conflict are those who hate us and make no differentiation between cisgender and transsexuals, and believe it or not, some from within our own community who find satisfaction in the fanning the flame of the current conflagration.

Like Julie said, we journalists have the potential to greatly influence social understandings, and the winners are the ones who rise to the top.

Stand Firm Call to Action in revulsion of Episcopal GC Transgender Canonical Changes

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General Convention Updates [No Rest For the Wicked, Not Even On Sunday] Via Stand Firm

I received this article in a email call to action prefixed with the above title from Stand Firm the de facto media outlet for the followers of the virulently anti trans Fort Worth Bishop Ikers in response to the Episcopal Church's GC vote to become inclusive to transgender and all gender diverse.

Although Stand Firm states it is not a official mouthpiece for Bishop Iker's Dioceses of Fort Worth the publication is essential in disseminating information and call to action for Republican Episcopal Conservatives followers of the radically anti LGBT Iker.

Yes Iker, I was at your Church a few years ago and that was me who one of your goons deflected from the communion rail. Your article tries to give the impression gods love is the reason cradle Episcopalians like me are abandoning our beloved church. How can you live with knowing its you who is destroying gods good will and inviting the devil to manifest his presence physically?

Stand Firm Call to Action in revulsion of Episcopal GC Transgender Canonical Changes

A couple paragraphs from the Stand Firm article that say it all....

[Commentary] What does this mean, practically? Parishes who are in search processes, and who are looking for a good priest, cannot “not consider” those who “differ from majority societal gender norms” simply because of that disorder. To name two examples: those men with perfectly good xy chromosomes but who imagine that they are really women, and then undergo surgery and take hormones in order to further foster their beliefs or who simply cross-dress or otherwise “differ from majority societal gender norms” cannot be “not considered” because of that disorder in gender identity. The words “gender identity and expression” are extraordinarily broad and vague—and they are meant to encompass a variety of “expressions.”

Stand Firm goes on to condemn us all for love and acceptance.....

It has been clear for some years now that the people leading us at the national level—90% of bishops, lay and clergy deputies to General Convention, and those serving on national commissions and committees—are not competent, healthy, or ordered in their theology or foundational worldview. It is one thing to love sinners [as we all are], and to love those with mental illness [as many of us have]. It is another thing to re-name pathologies as “good and healthy”, to enshrine those with such pathologies as leaders of a church, and to force others to pretend as if disordered affections or gender identities are functional and wholesome.

Josie Romero 11 Year Old Trans Girl First Doctor Visit

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Meet Josie Romero an eleven year old transgender girl from Tucson Arizona. All of us can attest to the trepidations we felt during our first OGBYN visit as adults. Can you imagine how stressful it would be to be a adolescent in that position knowing your answers will forever shape your life? The next set of videos chronicles Josie's first visit doctors visit...

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Let's Go Fly a Kite, or A Boat Load of Pictures

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Uncle Chuck and Aunt Lara came to celebrate REH's 7th birthday (and maybe they came to celebrate my birthday too?). We spent all day outside playing. They brought a whiffle ball set and a kite and the kids had a BLAST! TJH especially enjoyed the kite; REH and SEH especially enjoyed the ball and bat. Proof is in the enormous amount of pictures. (Remember you can click on them to enlarge and accept my apologies for the amount: I couldn't decide what to keep and what to reject).

Taking a picture of him taking a picture.

Fixing the kite string was a group effort.

And then Auntie and Uncle were absolutely wiped out from playing all day. So were the kids, though. I put them down for a "nap" at 6PM and they woke up at 8 for dinner and most of them went right back to bed.

The Monday after (uh, yesterday...), TJH wanted to do nothing but go fly the kite again:

And he did a great job all by himself.

Keeping it low so Mom could get a picture with both the kid and the kite.

Talking about how much fun the kite is...

And then it all ended when it landed in the tree. :) No worries, though, I went out and got two more. At $2 each, they are well worth it.

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree

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This post is primarily for my husband. The children might look like little clones of him but they have acquired many of my habits.

Some proof in pictures:

My husband has never understood my desire to read before bed and my ability to fall asleep while I read. (Of course, I have never understood his ability to lay his head on the pillow and be absolutely and completely sound asleep within seconds...)

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Scissor Sisters Have A REAL Kiki

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Last night the Scissor Sisters played Terminal 5 in Hell's Kitchen where an already ecstatic (and virtually all-male) audience went nuts when during their current club smash, Let's Have A Kiki, the band brought out Justin Bond of the legendary cabaret act Kiki & Herb. We literally screamed in delight and later at the XL after party I got to chat with Justin who was thrilled with the reception she got. We didn't stay long at the after party, but my loyal companion Aaron and I left marveling at the Limelight Disco 2000-esque crowd of club kids, dragoons, and general wildness. We both had thought that scene was long gone and we simultaneously felt very old and very pleased.

RELATED: Terminal 5 is my favorite Manhattan concert venue in part because they usually manage to keep the place fairly cool no matter how jammed the room may be. But not last night, where it was murderously hot in the balconies. To put it in terms San Franciscans may relate to, it was 4am at Real Bad hot. It was holiday weekend Pleasuredome rear disco hot. That's how hot it was.

Presbyterians Narrowly Reject Marriage

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In an astonishingly close vote, a mainline Presbyterian denomination voted yesterday to reject an endorsement of same-sex marriage.

The vote at the church’s biannual convention in Pittsburgh was 338 to 308, with 2 abstentions. But the decisive generational shift that lies ahead for the church was made clear in a separate tally of votes by seminary students and young adult advisory delegates, known as YAADs. The students voted 82 to 18 percent in favor of changing the definition of marriage, and the young adult delegates voted 75 to 21 percent — but their votes were solely advisory. The Rev. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, president of the Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, said, “If the YAADs had voted, this probably would have passed.”

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, with about two million members. But its numbers have declined in recent years, in part because of the conflict over the gay issue. Last year, the church, like several other mainline Protestant denominations, approved the ordination of noncelibate gay clergy members. But the Presbyterians left it up to each region of the church to decide, which allowed some theologically conservative congregations to remain within the denomination — a diversity reflected in the debate and the vote on Friday.