The problem with passing
I am a man, who happens to be trans. I feel fortunate that I can choose if/when and whom to disclose this piece of information to. I "pass". But I have always been quite uncomfortable with this term. Let me [...]
Inside the growing industry of penile prosthetics.
Well this was a nice surprise! Thanks for the awesome write up, Nylon! "Brave New World: Inside The Growing Industry Of Penile Prosthetics" Get to know Transthetics, a truly transformative company that didn't set out to change the world. by [...]
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!
On this day of celebrating the diverse and colorful bunch of creatures that we are, I thought it appropriate to quote my favorite childhood author, Dr Seuss.
YouTube’s moderation process is failing the LGBT community. Can we fix this?
Yay!!! This time, it only took me a little under two weeks to get the Transthetics channel re-instated, rather than the three months it took last time. This time I knew which strings needed to be pulled, so I'd like [...]
YouTube shafted my channel again!!
Yep, for a second time the original Transthetics channel has been deleted. This time they canned it despite the fact that it was 100% in good standing and had zero community guideline strikes (all previous strikes were removed when an [...]
A trans man’s guide to dating straight women (part 3)
This is an update I've been wanting to write for a while as a direct follow up to "A trans man's guide to dating straight women (part 2)" (In order for this story to totally make sense, I'd recommend reading this also.) [...]
Whoot!! The original Transthetics channel is back!
Artwork by Aaron Ansuini. FINALLY!! After almost two months of beating my head against a brick wall, my original YouTube channel is back! So I thought I'd do a little video on lessons learned and thoughts on the whole process [...]
Another launch, another EZP giveaway.
So this time I'm doing things slightly differently. As you may have heard, a bit over a month ago, the Transthetics channel got the shaft from YouTube. I've since erm... erected a new YouTube channel which you can find here, [...]
YouTube gives Transthetics the shaft
So without warning YouTube decided to cancel my entire channel this week. Naturally I immediately appealed the cancellation assuming some kind of bot had removed my channel by accident and that a human being would see the informational/educational context and [...]
A trans man’s guide to dating straight women (part 2)
So a while ago I wrote an article on dating straight women as a trans man and have been thinking, there's a few things I'd really like to add to this. I still 100% stand by everything I wrote and [...]