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Month: February 2023

Total 4 Posts

Slap, Punch, Kick

I’ve had a number of people ask me how I felt after learning that our son is a dysphoric man.  That’s a good question. My wife asked me the other day, “what’s worse than a slap in the face?”  I quickly replied with, “a punch in the nose”.  But I

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Disordered

In the last six weeks, I’ve probably thought about the “gender issue” more than anyone else on the planet.  I still can’t make any sense out of it. I want to start out by saying that there are people born with physical birth defects who may have both male and

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About a Boy – Part II

This is part 2. If you haven’t listened to or read part 1, I strongly recommend you do that first. The first time I noticed something might be up was when my son texted me about changing phone plans.  He’d been on our family plan forever and once he got

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About a Boy

After our son was born just over 31 years ago, we began passing milestone after milestone.  For example, one milestone was when he first realized it was himself in the mirror, another was when he became smarter than a cat and then when he became smarter than a dog. After

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