An Aging Trans Woman

Texas declares Unitarian Church “Not a Religion”

I am once again ashamed to be a Texan.

Hard lessons from poetry class: Speech is free unless it’s critical

The girl’s mother, also a teacher, was ordered by the principal to destroy the child’s poetry. The mother refused and may lose her job.

And people can’t understand why I would consider leaving the US forever.

Gay Couples Wed Legally in U.S. Milestone

Today, May 17 2004, will be forever remembered as the day our country took an enormous step forward in our journey towards true equality. Please take a moment on this historic occasion to congratulate all couples marrying in Massachusetts today, and honor GLAD for making it happen.

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Recent news headlines have offered a deeply disturbing view of the U.S. government’s system of detentions and interrogations in Iraq. Although much of the outrage has focused on actions taken by individual soldiers, officers at high levels authorized policies that may violate the Geneva Conventions and plainly played a role in encouraging the even-more serious abuses depicted in the photographs.

These recent events also highlight deliberate efforts, approved by the Attorney General, the White House counsel and in some cases by President Bush himself, designed to shield treatment of detainees from the safeguards provided by international law, including the Geneva Conventions, and from any scrutiny by United States or other courts.

These actions appear to meet the definition of torture under both international law and the United States criminal code — and demonstrate the Bush Administration’s continued disregard for international standards of conduct and for checks and balances. President Bush must act and ensure that American detention policies are in line with international law and American values.

Click here to get more information and to send an email to President Bush:

http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=15718&c=36

To those of you who have offered support, love, and assistance, no words can ever express how much that means to lasarina and I. There was a time not too very long ago when I was convinced that no one would ever accept us and our love. To those of you who have chosen not to judge us, I offer my sincerest gratitude and love.

To those of you (and you know who you are) who have judged us and found us lacking in some way, I have finally come to the realization that I have lost nothing in losing you and your companionship.

Sometimes quoting Jesus and the Bible is appropriate, even for us Pagans. Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matthew 7:1