The Candid Thoughts of Jana
I am not an alarmist. I do not have an exit/escape plan. I live in a relative safe location for a trans woman. All that began to change last week. All that might radically change next week. Last week, the President of the United States and his administration announced a plan to define transgender people…
This week I attended my company’s employee resource group summit, which is also known as its diversity and inclusion summit. For two days I sat in a big room with about a hundred other folks that represented, among others, women, veterans, African-Americans, Latin-Americans and Asian-Americans. I was there representing LQBTQ+ employees and allies. It was…
I’ve told this story before, but I’ve never written it down… When did I know? That’s what everyone asks. When did I know that I was trans? The short answer is that I realized it almost two years ago. The long answer is that I’ve always known, but only subconsciously. When I was a child…
CW: Sexual Assault discussion. Non-graphic, non-specific. As a trans woman, I’d like to say a few things regarding our current national debate. Before I understood myself, and presented as a man, I never gave a second thought to sexual assault. It wasn’t something I expected to either do or experience. I didn’t think I knew…