Ruff! Ruff!
Arf! Arf!
Yip! Yip!
Everybody's home from work and school.
Every day is a weekend.
Dogs love it!

The more distance between us, the better I look. ;-)

From the NYT review:
'At the center of “Pet” is 15-year-old Jam, a trans girl who is loved and protected by her family, and an entire city. Lucille is more than a safe space for Jam. The city represents a sacrifice redeemed, a battle won — but not forever. Emezi opens “Pet” with an evocation of the struggle of good against evil. Once there were monsters everywhere in Lucille. There was a revolution and, in the end, the angels won. We’re reminded of the simplicity of it all: Monsters hurt people, angels can save us. Yet this idea also underlies the novel’s poetic complexity. We all know what monsters are, but, as Emezi puts it, “when you think you’ve been without monsters for so long, sometimes you forget what they look like.”

Part of an email ad from Jessica London:

For the cyclists out there this is a great read about a neat idea. For the drivers, move over!

Why every cyclist needs a pool noodle

There might be a story idea here. Semi-identical twins, an apparent rarity, share three-quarters of their DNA, vs. 100% for fully-identical twins, or 50% for fraternal twins. While identical twins always have the same birth-gender, semi-identical twins can be a boy/girl pair.
Are these twins more likely to be trans? Intersex? Have a special psychic connection?

Congratulations, It’s Twins. The Doctor Is Perplexed.

Does anyone find a story idea in this?

A Rare Bird Indeed: A Cardinal That’s Half Male, Half Female

"I'ts left side is the taupe shade of female cardinals; its right, the signature scarlet of males.

Worth a read. Does the same apply to T women?
Hormone Replacement Skin Patches Don’t Raise Risk for Blood Clots

Read and discuss:
[Caution: the article discusses self-harm in the context of the movie]
Is a Film About a Transgender Dancer Too ‘Dangerous’ to Watch?

Here is the first paragraph of the article:
"The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law."

"Coming into her own
How an Amazon software engineer made the decision to come out to her team and transition at work."

Sorry about the link 404 error. Thank you, Sammi for this workaround!

blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/coming-into-her-own

Copy and paste the above into the address bar

I haven't written any TG material in ages, but I come to BCTS almost every day.

I have my ups and downs, but it seems more of the latter. It's hard to get motivated to write, TG or otherwise. So in a shameless act of self-promotion, I'm asking you to read (or reread) my few poor offerings to BCTS, here:
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28482/kris-krisrev22

Part of this podcast might be of interest to a few here:
"In a bonus segment recording during a live podcasting event at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Sarah first speaks with Ben Munson of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis about markers of gender and sexual orientation in spoken language and then Adrienne Hancock of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., talks about using what we know about gender and communication to help transgender women change their speech and communication style. "

Have you ever wondered how a new species gets started?

Have you wondered if mutants could really exist?

Have you read stories about societies consisting of mutant women who reproduced without men?

Well, here is an excerpt of this article (This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It’s Taking Over Europe) about the marbled crayfish.

Well, I opened my account, and...

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"In their intimate portraits, the photographer Lissa Rivera and her partner, BJ Lillis, are building their own fantasy world.

On a long subway ride three years ago, BJ Lillis decided to share something with his friend and co-worker, Lissa Rivera. Mr. Lillis, who describes himself as genderqueer, told her that he had spent most of his college years dressing, full-time, in women’s clothing.

But in the professional world, he’d lost his confidence. To help him regain it, she offered to take his photograph."

Uproar After ‘Survivor’ Contestant Is Outed as Transgender

Interesting article in the New York Times:
One in Every 137 Teenagers Would Identify as Transgender, Report Says

Worth a look:
7 Young People on Their Views of Gender

Sad, sad case.

Chelsea Manning Tried Committing Suicide a Second Time in October

From the New York Times.
"The photos Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst took of each other showed a young couple in love. They became an important public record of transgender life."

How Two Producers of ‘Transparent’ Are Making Trans Lives More Visible — Starting With Their Own

A New York Times editorial:
"Regardless of the mix of hormones circulating in her blood, Caster Semenya is a woman. Like the other female athletes in Rio, she deserves her shot at the gold."

Who Gets to Race as a Woman?