Saturday, March 7, 2015

TPT#104 - Hell-arious!

Child#2 is by far our most special and most needy of our special needs children. So when the school decides that he may not qualify for all of his special education services, we might have a problem on our hands. We try to find the bright side, or at least the bright spots, when we can, and it makes the problem closer to manageable. For now.

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

TPT#103 - With A Puppy Dog and Jesus on the Cross

We are both people of faith, but only Jess is a person of religion. We've discussed before how our respective faith backgrounds overlap and how we adapt to a mixed-faith marriage, but now Jess has invited the whole queer Jesus gang to our house. George would probably have an issue with this, if it weren't his best friend and said friend's wife in charge of the group.

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

TPT#102 - AutoPilot Failure

When a person transitions, they often find themselves becoming more aware of their status in the world, more aware of themselves, and more aware of others' awareness of them. From the gym to the job to the front porch, this week George discusses how his self-awareness has been affected by his transition experience.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

TPT#101 - Pictures Of Cats On The Internet

Pronouns are important, especially within the transgender community. Misgendering can be a horrible insult to someone who's had to struggle for the right to use the word that fits. So when Jess is so linguistically-confused and gender-challenged that he can't even get her own pronouns right, let alone everyone else's, they might just have to forgo the use of gendered pronouns for a while.

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Saturday, February 7, 2015

TPT#100 - Dick Patrol

Holy podcasts, TransMan! One hundred episodes? Wow!

Lower growth on testosterone is a highly individualized experience, and figuring out how to deal with one's body during any transition can consume a lot of one's time and one's mental/emotional energy. So when Child#2 is so terribly gendered and occasionally gets a little too focused on genitals, George doesn't always have the opportunity to get himself sorted. That said, once the kids are away, his dick seems to be functioning quite well, thank you.

Parental warning for mildly explicit discussion of genital anatomy and sexual functioning.

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

TPT#99 - Not Unless You're A Wizard

During transition, making the change from one gender's sociocultural expectations to another can be a challenge, especially when someone has trained themself to ignore those differences. For George, and many other FtMs, things like how to groom one's newly sprouted facial hair and how to behave in the bathroom can be learning experiences., and a variety of problem-solving skills can be helpful in navigating the new experiences and expectations. For us, this month's learning experience has been at the gym, as George figures out how to bench press.

Episodes #31 (with links) and #66 are some of our prior discussions of STPing as we referenced at about 21:00.

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Saturday, January 24, 2015

TPT#98 - A Merry-Go-Round With Too Many Guns

When two kids go away for holiday break, the "leftover" child is even more special-needy than usual. Between dialing 911 from the kids club, dive-bombing George's new model train with GI-Joes, running wild with classmates at the museum, and just generally being a developmentally delayed seven-going-on-three-year-old, we had our hands full.

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

TPT#97 - A Four-Cry Christmas

Christmas on the custody calendar means we had our celebrations a little late, but this year was all the more fun with extra family living in town now. Between kids, family we're stuck with, and family we chose, holiday fun was inescapable!

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Saturday, January 10, 2015

TPT#96 - My Cousin Vinnie, Pt. 2 (Family Life in Attention Whore-ange)

In the second part of our conversation with George's cousin, we discuss marriage and family life as queers in the suburbs, and how different it is from the earlier history mentioned last week.

Jess did a little googling and found the Craigslist ad we mentioned at http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/50077506.html.

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

TPT#95 - My Cousin Vinnie, Pt. 1 (Porn, Religion, and being Genderqueer)

George's cousin came to visit, and we talked them into sitting down with us by a microphone for our first guest episode. As an AFAB, genderqueer, jewish, former pornographer, they fit right in with our crazy family!

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