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Title: James "Cora" Birk on Transition and Regret
Post by: Shana A on October 27, 2008, 09:24:33 AM
Post by: Shana A on October 27, 2008, 09:24:33 AM
Sunday, October 26, 2008
James "Cora" Birk on Transition and Regret
Posted by grvsmth at 9:56 AM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/james-cora-birk-on-transition-and.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/james-cora-birk-on-transition-and.html)
I would like to thank Helen for inviting me to post here. I'm sure she's aware that some people might not like what I have to say, but I'll try to play nice, and I hope we can disagree respectfully. Here's a post that I just put up at my own Trans Blog, but since it fits in with some recent posts here, I'm cross-posting it.
In the light of the recent news that sportswriter Mark Penner has detransitioned, I went back and looked at an earlier post on regret on my personal blog. I noticed that I had linked to Cora Birk's writings on her partial transition and subsequent de-transition, but that they have since been removed from the site.
However, Birk's columns are still available via the Internet Archive, and since the last one, especially, is particularly well-written, I would like to share some excerpts:
James "Cora" Birk on Transition and Regret
Posted by grvsmth at 9:56 AM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/james-cora-birk-on-transition-and.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/james-cora-birk-on-transition-and.html)
I would like to thank Helen for inviting me to post here. I'm sure she's aware that some people might not like what I have to say, but I'll try to play nice, and I hope we can disagree respectfully. Here's a post that I just put up at my own Trans Blog, but since it fits in with some recent posts here, I'm cross-posting it.
In the light of the recent news that sportswriter Mark Penner has detransitioned, I went back and looked at an earlier post on regret on my personal blog. I noticed that I had linked to Cora Birk's writings on her partial transition and subsequent de-transition, but that they have since been removed from the site.
However, Birk's columns are still available via the Internet Archive, and since the last one, especially, is particularly well-written, I would like to share some excerpts: