One quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago today. That's when I began my transition.
It also would have been my father's 68th birthday, had he not died a third of a year before his 60th and about a year after my mother. Them dying, as well as their parents, was intimately involved with me waiting until I was 44. Wouldn't want to embarrass the family.
I also waited until I had earned tenure. It seemed prudent.
Tom Price is no stranger to politics. This means he is a money-grubbing, hypocritical bastard
Please consult my latest essay for some back ground:
https://caucus99percent.com/content/tom-price-not-right
And in today's news:
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman
It's not your usual celebratory event. My daughter's boyfriend, who is in the National Guard (in large part to fund his education), is being deployed to Ukraine. Why? Because we're all supposed to fear Russia.
Two transgender women, Carol Ann Beal of northwest Iowa and EerieAnna Good of the Quad Cities along with the ACLU of Iowa have challenged the Iowa Medicaid ban on coverage for transition-related medical services as being a violation of equal protection under the law "as promised by the Iowa state constitution and the Iowa Civil Rights Act."
You might have been under the impression that the brouhaha over NFL players protesting during the national anthem was caused by Trump's stupid tweets, but trust me the NY Times knows better than you. Once again Russia's to blame.
