Transgender Liberty

 I grew up in a place that was a melting pot of two ideologies, one side highly liberal, because of the university near by and the other side highly conservative, and driven by the main working industry, Timber. The side of town I lived in was round 50k people, and main street consisted of bars, pool halls, and strip clubs and full of bullies, was a tougher town, w a drug culture and lots of drinking. Growing up there was no such thing as "Transgender", I had never heard of "Trans..anything, and Gay and Lesbian wasn't even a word... though thinking back there were rumors. And my personal experiences... I was awkward growing up... with 3 siblings, a mother who was a good loving mom yet a quiet working and functional alcoholic because of trauma in her childhood. My dad, a loving father, protective, and a good man who had done much in his life. With pictures of him in life magazine as well as pictures of him in an encyclopedia as part of an organization his adoptive fat...

Thomas Covey has a rule. "Win Win" the idea is that for anything; any negotiation, discussion, argument, social change, the goal is to seek "Win Win" not "Win Lose", or worse "Lose Lose". The goal is that if we work together we ALL can win.  Life isn't a football game, it isn't red team versus blue team, it isn't them and us. Yet there are forces that seek to pit us against each other, to stir the pot, to keep us ALL living in fear, to keep us divided. The news does it, politicians do it, and religious forces can also do it. All of these forces generally resort to using Fear to control people. In Frank Herbert's book "Dune" there is a moment where Paul (a character) chants "I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer..I will fear no fear"  something like that.. paraphrased here, he is not wrong. I use this all the time, especially when facing a decision or something difficult I have to do.  So how do we address th...

My first blog post. I like to think this post is a little like attempting a first contact. First contact I would imagine would start with a question "Is anyone out there, anyone listening?" And ya.... I do believe we are not alone. So... going with that loose analogy I've decided to put thoughts and observations, my ideas out into the universe from the standpoint of my life as a human, and more specifically as a transgender woman. And since this is my first post let me share a little about myself, an introduction if you will. I am an older Transgender Woman, in process of transitioning.  I have an older brother and sister and a younger brother, I am single, divorced,  I have 3 kids all grown (well mostly),  I have an Ex who I am friends with, I work in the high tech sector, I read wide and deep, similarly I listen to and enjoy all kinds of music. I love animals and nature, hiking and quiet too. I am a human, fallible, I have feelings, I bleed red like we all d...