"Soooo Much More... Than Gender" is about the actual lives of people who are transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC). The point is to present the real lives of the TGNC community. Some of us are exceptional in one way or another, most of us are ordinary in most ways, all of us are human in every way. So the series presents both my story and the stories of many others in the TGNC community. We are moving away from the religious fundamentalist abstraction of the so-called “horrors” of gender variance to the real lives of people who have left behind an obsessive concern over gender.
This episode completes the story of how my ordination as a Presbyterian minister was upheld bu the church after my gender transition. This happened on October 22, 1996, twenty-five years ago.
Note: This episode is 35 minutes long. The upcoming anniversary of the upholding of my ordination after my gender transition is wonderful, but the act of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta on October 22, 1996 was only the end of the story. This episode explores how this happened.
October1996, 25 years ago, my ordination as a Presbyterian minister was upheld by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. This is the beginning of my celebration of that arguably pivotal event.
This is my first episode in awhile, and it addresses my hesitance to talk about TGNC experience as well as the critical importance at this time to support transgender youth and their famiilies.
In order to fully understand my gender transition you must kn ow the story of my relationship with Sigrid, the love of my life.
This one is a reading from the book I never published. It's about a time when I was living with my grandparents and took an enchanted hike to the creek behind their house.
My story continues through childhood, adolescence and marriage.
This is the first of a continuing (about every second episode) series about my life, gender transition, encounter with the Presbyterian Church, and the 25 years I have lived since.
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