With no contoversy and little fanfair, Vermont became the 1st state to not require surgery in order to get your birth certificate gender changed. http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/91314/ The woman interviewed runs http://vtveto.wordpress.com/ (VETO)

Ya gotta love this state.

Jamie

Jennifer Finney Boylan writes in today's New York Times writes regarding her worries about "What kind of men would my boys become having been raised by a father who became a woman?"

An interesting essay by Gaiman about his stories and books having gender, and also a reflection about writing his book American Gods.

I suppose it had to happen sometime - body swaps hit the mainstream media.

The NPR show On The Media had a challenge for National Novel Writing Month: Write a novel in 12 word or less.

A couple examples:
"Six words into his first novel, Sam's lonely wife murdered him."

"Obituary. First five words free, she thought. Charles dead. Yacht for sale."

I was talking with someone today about Jennifer Finney Boylan's book,
She's Not There - A Life in two genders. The ending of the book bothered me a bit because I felt Jenny glossed over the affect her transition had on her wife Grace who stuck with him/her through everything. But that is not really the subject of this post. (Anyone who wishes to pursue a critique of the book, PM me or open a forum subject about it.)

Hey all,

Newsweek had a pretty good article on "The Mystery of Gender", as they called it. Their website has more associated stories than were in the magazine. However, while the stories themselves are well done, you should see the comments,(or maybe not)some are a very depressing view of intolerance.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18618970/site/newsweek/

Jamie

I'm sure most eveyone has seen this before, perhaps many times. I was searching through my home directory at work and found the file (timestamped 1998) with the rules. It still gives chuckles.