Listen brothers sisters and siblings
How can I tell you. As bad as you think things are, they are worse.
We are under attack … More My Speech from the Rally For Transgender Rights at City Hall Plaza
This evening I went for a walk in the snow, at dusk into the darkening night. The world reducing to icy blue landscapes highlighted by grey shadows. Orange house light spilling onto drifting lawns. Wooded patches reducing in detail, fading into black. As I walked through the neighborhood, blowing sleet stinging my cheeks, icy wind … More A Winter Memory
Come on everybody! Let’s TWIST!!! Hi there! It’s Lorelei, you know, the weird tall woman who writes a newspaper column called “Ask A Transwoman” and purports to be a bona-fide pageant queen. (It’s true! Honest! Miss Trans New England 2009!! W00t!!) The Transproviser her very-own self!! Anyway, the other thing I do, and did … More Tammy’s Twist – A Trans-Tastic Evening Of Comedy
So, if you’re trans, by this point in the news and social media cycle, you will have heard about the Justin Timberlake starring trailer for a faux romantic comedy called “She’s Got A D!%k” on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. And you probably already have, or are trying to form, an opinion. The first … More “She’s Got A D!%k” A TransComic Analysis
Recently a couple of very good friends of mine decided to start an online fundraising campaign to help me raise money to finally, finally have the procedure I have been waiting all these years to have. A campaign called, “Friend Lorelei Feeling Fabulous At Forty”. I am frankly in awe of the wonderfulness of my … More Help me get my beard cleared for my 40th Birthday (at the end of the world)
As I sit here in my room in Springfield, MA, typing these words, I have tears running down my face. It’s the week when we observe the Transgender Day Of Remembrance and I’ve just read another news story about a transgender woman who was murdered. Honestly, I read a lot of these types of stories. … More Santa Monica Boulevard Through Hollwood
So, as many of you might know, my incredibly adorable and emotionally opinionated, old hippie Mom made quite a splash this week. She had the chance opportunity to meet Vice President Joe Biden, who was coming out of the Democratic Party Headquarters in Sarasota Florida when he spotted my Mom’s big blue eyes and made … More My Mom, Joe Biden and I all agree, Transgender Discrimination is the ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
Looking back at the latest posts on this here blog, I was noticing that things were getting kind of heavily political. Which is all well and good, but is not the primary focus of this here Transproviser. This was always meant to be a blog about a little bit of everything. Some politics sure, and … More Just Lorelei
There are those moments when I think to myself, “Lorelei, keep you’re your trap shut”. Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don’t. This is clearly one of those moments where I don’t. There was a sketch on SNL last weekend that’s got all kinds of folks up in arms this week. It was one of SNL’s … More A Trans-Analysis of SNL (and some really blatant self-promotion)
Okay folks, I just got off the phone from a nationwide conference call with some of the best minds and hardest workers in the trans community discussing ENDA. We discussed the realities and the misleading falsehoods, the details and the broad scope. It was a lot to take in quite frankly and I’m still trying … More Let’s All Pull Together To Pass A Trans-Inclusive ENDA Now!!!!
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