April 3, 2006

What do you think of when you read the word “purge”? There’s probably a few things that come to mind like:

• Purging the attic of all the stuff you’ve accumulated the past say, 15 years
• Purging yourself of food if you happen to suffer from a purging eating disorder
• If your a plastics processor, you might be thinking of a purging compound to help in the removal of stubborn residues between color or resin changes.

But if your transgendered, purging is about that little ugly secret that those of us who are transgendered don’t talk about much. It’s that one thing that is the tease of a “cure” to having GID (gender identity disorder) that is based on self-reliance and a white knuckles attempt at changing who you are at your most basic level.

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I’ve been blogging here at Typepad for a bit and overall it’s been pretty nice. There’s alot of things I like about Typepad (pretty easy to post and pretty easy to just design a blog and focus on writing), and some things I’m not very fond of (down time, lag time, comment spam). So we’re going to pack up and move to some new digs over the next month or so. I’ll be blogging here @ Typepad until further notice, but basically I’ll be moving to a Wordpress self-hosted blog. I’ve been looking really closely at it and there is lots to like (this thing called Akismet to kill spam, lots of plug-ins, and the fact that it looks like a better tool for writing, oh and the recommendations here and here).