February 27, 2006

When rushed for time before work do not…

• Mistakenly grab and then apply your pink lip gloss as beard cover (ahhh it sticks like glue!)
• Epilate both legs and then both arms thinking "hey this will take only 5 minutes"
• Try at that moment to figure out how to style your hair - just use the wig
• Decide that rosy red cheeks can be corrected two seconds after having PUSHED the blush into the pours of your face with the same force as you would pound a 10-penny nail into a 2×4
• Choose to feed two hungry cats who decide at that exact second, when your ready to start working, that they are your bestest of buddies and snuggle oh so close and SHED white fur all over your new black blouse

There is an interesting artilce on Transgenderism (gender dysphoria) in the Lahey Clinic Fall 2005 Journal. The clinic actually features this article, and you can read it at this link here. I was referred to it from doing some reading at Andrea Jame’s outstanding TS Roadmap.

The article does a good job of outlining the potential sources for our being transgendered as well as the ethical issues in intervening in children who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. There are other good insights in the article as well, such as the authors opinion that psychological issues (such as depression, fairly common in the trans-community) are really a result of not dealing constructively with a person’s gender dysphoria.

Click here for this excellent article, from this well respected medical institution in New England

4-2-2008 Update
There is a nice Q&A Interview on the author of this Lahey Clinic article, Dr. Norm Spack. It was done in Boston.Com. You can reach the Boston.com Article by clicking here. You can read our coverage at Beck’s Cafe on this Boston.com article by clicking into Beck’s Cafe at this link here.

I have no idea how this happened but Jay Sennett’s blog appears to be the victim of web hijackers. It’s a pity, he had (has?) a very insightful blog, and some funny cartoons as well. I hope he is able to reclaim his place in the blogosphere somehow. I had to remove his name from the links list only because, it wasn’t him anymore it was linking too.

Who do you call in this kind of situation? Yet another way to mess with people in the cyberworld - yeeesh!

*update* Please read Lisa’s comment, it appears this may not be such a big mystery afterall.

*Yet another update* Mystery Solved!! Thanks to Lisa for rescuing Jay see comments for the gory details.

(cartoon courtesy of GoopyMart, used under license from Creative Commons)