I’ve re-read Male Femaling: A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing (Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-203-42645-2 [eBook]) by sociologist Richard Ekins (I got a PDF somewhere). It’s not light reading, and probably the longest academic study I have read about the whole subject. Some things will be familiar to all kinds […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
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A friend who is in transition and who just got her legal right to change her name and gender on her ID card told me about this site: http://www.virtualffs.co.uk/ It is both a site with a wealth of information on Facial Feminisation Surgery (FFS) but also provides an interesting service: […]
I’ve already written an article about escape strategies. Most people are unhappy for one reason or the other, and engage in some sort of escapism to literally ‘take their minds away’ from their problems and issues. It can be TV, it can be sports, computer games, a hobby, or just […]
This time, I’ll use a lighter tone on this article; the last one was a bit too provocative and not well-enough grounded in academic research, so it might have been offensive to some. I do apologise for that. For this article I’m just pasting together random things, without apparent connection […]