Posted on 8 June, 2008 by Tarald
Those who has been reading here a while, know that the Norwegian GID-clinic has a monopoly and abuses their power. This has caused Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, who is transgender zerself, to take action and help several people in need of treatment. Esben Esther is the best known transgender activist in Norway. Ze is now [...]
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Posted on 6 June, 2008 by Tarald
I got my prescription in the mail today. I went right to a pharmacy and picked up my box filled with small packages of testogel. I’m the happiest man in the world!
Pictures can be seen at my norwegian blog.
Filed under: Announcements, GLBT, My transition, Positive masculinity | Tagged: ftm, My transition, testogel, testosterone, transman | 16 Comments »
Posted on 12 May, 2008 by Tarald
If you have not already heard, a dangerous thing happened this week that poses a very serious threat to the transgender and allied community, and could potentially impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, and allied people as well.
The American Psychological Association (APA) recently appointed Dr. Kenneth Zucker to chair the task force responsible for updating of [...]
Filed under: Announcements, GLBT, My transition | Tagged: American Psychological Association (APA), diagnostic manual, DSM-V, harmful psychiatry, petition, psychology | 1 Comment »
Posted on 5 May, 2008 by Tarald
The week or so before I told my best friend about my transition, we discussed the film Transamerica. This was back in the spring of 2006, when it was released. He said that he thought that the next fight for human rights in the western world would be about gender and transpeople.
Yesterday, the swedish newspaper [...]
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Posted on 5 April, 2008 by Tarald
I did a little more celebrating yesterday than I had planned on. The timing could have been better. I don’t feel like leaving my appartment feeling like this when my face is on the front page of the local newspaper. Bad timing. But it will pass. Unfortunately I should have been at the University to [...]
Filed under: Announcements | Tagged: book release, drinking, front page, media, party, university | 2 Comments »
Posted on 27 March, 2008 by Tarald
I’ve created a survey to collect words we use about our selves and our bodies. The questions are very private, but the survey is completely anonymous, so I hope you are willing to help anyway.
I’m going to use the results in an article I’m writing for my social anthropology class, and later plan on having [...]
Filed under: Announcements, GLBT, My transition, Positive masculinity | Tagged: academic, ftm, language, performativity, research, social anthropology, speach act, study, survey, transgender bodies, transman | 2 Comments »
Posted on 13 March, 2008 by Tarald
Thanks to my friend Mette, I’ve been able to record some of my poems in Norwegian. She gave me a microphone for my computer, so I could install skype and talk to her for free. One of the first things I used it for, was to record some of my poems. They are now uploaded [...]
Filed under: Announcements, My transition, Poems, philosophy | Tagged: mirror, Poems, pre-t, reading, recording, self image, self reflection, skype, voice | No Comments »
