… so tired of hatred of the other, especially politicians scoring political points with it… we are so ill, can we cure ourselves?…

[Trump announced he would ask “Congress to pass legislation that recognizes only two genders, male and female,” and “that they are assigned at birth.”]((https://www.thebulwark.com/trumps-escalation-in-the-gender-war/)

06 La Veneno, Spain’s Badass Trans Superstar:

… an article about La Veneno in Hyperallergic…

… trans women interest me… it’s the one form of alternative sexuality i could fancy myself being, except i think i would make an unattractive woman and i do enjoy heterosexual life… there is a biographical miniseries on HBO about La Veneno…

… doing our civic duty by doing an absentee ballot…

…transwoman trainee, training staff struggling with appropriate pronoun… i am wondering about how she/they are being received…

… a conversation with Paris Lee, trans woman…

… i envy men who make attractive women… it is the one piece of LGBTQ+ spectrum i could have inhabited under the right circumstances… i haven’t minded being male, but i have these very feminine parts of my psyche and wonder what it might have been like to be a woman sometimes… except, i am convinced i would make an ugly woman while i am a passably handsome man… the thought that J sensed this in me and didn’t like it…