Keep Fighting: The Power of Resilience

27/07/2024

Butcher Babies and Carla Harvey have parted ways. She co-founded BB and was its co-frontwoman with Heidi Shepherd. They performed together for 12 years, across the world.

Butcher Babies and Carla Harvey have parted ways. She co-founded BB and was its co-frontwoman with Heidi Shepherd. They performed together…

27/07/2024

Here are three things this (transgender) woman is thinking about the assassination attempt/probable election of Trump.

What a difference 16 days can make. The assassination attempt of former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday has far-reaching impact. A…

27/07/2024

Sinclair’s tech Radika told me the morning of the would-have-been third surgery day that she tried to help me understand what it’s like to be a patient with Sinclair and Gonzalez. I wish I had gotten her signal. (It’s not her fault in the slightest.)

Receiving gender-affirming care didn’t work out for me three times in just 10 months. Thus, I went all-in for all surgeries with Dr…

20/04/2024

Meet a le***an, believing, polyamorist, churchgoing, nudist Latter-day Saint.

18/03/2024

Alysha Scarlett is glad to be continuing on the medical transition journey after having socially and legally transitioned.

I am 15 months into feminizing hormone replacement therapy. I’m glad to be continuing on the medical transition journey after having…

15/01/2024

Here are five details regarding the hearing.

I can’t believe it’s been a year since I was legally affirmed as Alysha Scarlett and a woman. But it absolutely has. And the hearing made…

25/12/2023

Who knew that how someone sees the world coincides with how kind they are? That clearly seems to be the case for Janie Wyatt Wilkinson in how she sees one of her daughters, Alysha Scarlett.

Who knew that how someone sees the world coincides with how kind they are? That clearly seems to be the case for Janie Wyatt Wilkinson in…

02/07/2023

Thomi Clinton is the head of the Transgender Health and Wellness Center, which has a handful of clinics in southern California. She is followed on Facebook by 11,000 people.
I, a woman of transgender experience, tried to get resources through her organization. After a few months — months! — passed, nothing happened.
Yet, the center wanted to get funding through me.

Thomi Clinton is the head of the Transgender Health and Wellness Center, which has a handful of clinics in southern California. She is…

02/07/2023

Since more than six years ago, Blake Wilkinson, a Utah native who currently lives and works in southern California, has committed acts of rejection.

Since more than six years ago, Blake Wilkinson, a Utah native who currently lives and works in southern California, has committed acts of…

28/06/2023

“If you peel back all of these layers in the trans community, the center of it is love. And you cannot take that away.”
Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr said that June 16 at the Trans Pride LA 2023 Trans Town Hall. Zephyr is the Montana legislator who recently was censured by other members of the state legislature. (When lawmakers censure another legislator, they formally vote in major disapproval of action by a lawmaker.)

“If you peel back all of these layers in the trans community, the center of it is love. And you cannot take that away.”

10/06/2023

Writer Alysha Scarlett talks about why she now has hope and a reason to keep going.

Possible trigger warning

29/03/2023

Women's boxers from Woxer brought Alysha Scarlett back to a time when she was wearing underwear that wasn’t affirming. At one point after trying the women’s boxers, she still needed to go back to panties for a bit.

I have had tremendous experiences wearing a bralette. Thus, I was confident that I would be satisfied once again wearing one when I saw…

28/03/2023

On Oct. 7, Alysha Scarlett accepted that she is a woman of transgender experience. Since then, numerous things have happened in several aspects of her life, ranging from disappointing to tragic. As an independent contractor, she can work from anywhere. So she moved from rural Utah to the Los Angeles, Calif. area.
In the process of doing that -- and in the process of housing falling through three times -- some things got buried under everything else she moved with her.
That included her toothbrush, toothpaste and eyeshadow brush.

On Oct. 7, I accepted that I am a woman of transgender experience. Since then, numerous things have happened in several aspects of my life…

14/03/2023

On Heroines of My Life, Alysha Scarlett talks about a major challenge to accepting herself as a woman of transgender experience and much more.

Monika: Today I have invited Alysha Scarlett. Alysha has won 13 writing awards, is an American business owner, wrote a book, and was a scree...

10/02/2023

Out Professionals, a nonprofit career, networking and education organization for LGBTQIA+ professionals, announced a corporate partnership with the rail passenger service Amtrak.

Out Professionals, a nonprofit career, networking and education organization for LGBTQIA+ professionals, announced a corporate partnership…

23/01/2023

Kylar Broadus remembers tearing out & keeping an article about Billy Tipton, a trans jazz musician. Reading about Tipton helped Broadus, who is trans, realize that he “wasn’t crazy,” he said.
“Billy Tipton and music saved me,” Broadus said.

Two of the many speakers at Genderevolution 2022: My Gender Journey were medical doctors who spoke to claims about gender-confirming care…

09/09/2022

Mental health is key and personal existentialism and belongingness seem to figure greatly into that.

As I recovered from a toxic religion, I appreciated attending, learning about, and meeting with people affiliated with religions that…

13/01/2022

"Elite universities seek out students who will finish what they start, bring something to the table, then graduate and go forth to accomplish great things, thus bestowing honor back onto their alma mater. That is the hidden yet crucial variable so many people overlook," Harvard graduate and Ivy League Challenge founder Steve Gardner writes.

This is a guest post written by Steve Gardner.

15/05/2021

Seven percent of nonprofits believe that given current conditions, they will not last beyond four months, according to the Impact of the Pandemic on Nonprofits in 2021 survey conducted by Utah Nonprofits Association.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Seven percent of nonprofits believe that given current conditions, they will not last beyond four months, according…