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Life, Law, Gender

Denise's musings about life in law school, transgender issues, and other odds and ends

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Last Entry: August 14, 2008 at 21:29:19

Ism's and Phobias, oh my

Posted on August 14, 2008
Every fiber in my being, every cell of intellect I am fortunate to possess tells me that I should consider the source and dismiss this out of hand and by no means allow my own feelings to be hurt by...

Rethinking Sexism: How Trans Women Challenge Feminism

Posted on August 10, 2008
It's been a long time since I wrote a blog post. And, I guess if I'm honest here, I'm not writing one now. I don't know when, or if, I'll ever blog regularly again. But, that's not the point of...

Happy Birthday, Jami!

Posted on June 20, 2008
Today is my very dear friend's 60th birthday. 60. Can you believe that shit? Wow. I mean 60. I thought it was a big deal when I turned 50 (ONLY 3 years ago!) but she is SIXTY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMI!...

I DO!

Posted on June 16, 2008
Congratulations to the people of the State of California on this historic day! How cool is it that Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin get to be at the head of the line? 55 years together. In their 80s. Legally married....

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Happy Father's Day!!

Posted on June 15, 2008
Today is a special day for me! It's Father's day! I am -- as nearly anyone who knows me surely understands -- unabashedly proud of my three daughters, and I (often) bore people as I regale them with stories of...

Obama for President!

Posted on June 03, 2008
Barack Obama sealed up the nomination tonight. I am inspired by him and excited about the possiblity of seeing him in the White House. Now, I just have to figure out how I can best support his candidacy and get...

PRIDE!

Posted on June 02, 2008
Yesterday was June 1, the beginning of Pride month here in the U.S. and the day of Motor City Pride held each year in Ferndale (and sponsored by Triangle Foundation). Rainbow Law Center had it's first booth at Motor City...

Recruiting Transgenders for Law School!

Posted on May 27, 2008
Mary and I are leaving for Florida again tomorrow, for 3 days. I was asked some months ago to speak before the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) on the subject "Best Practices in Recruiting Transgender Law Students". LSAC is a...

How do I love thee?

Posted on May 26, 2008
You all know I'm a veteran. I'm proud of my service. I consider myself a patriot (this in apparent direct contradiction to my belief that nationalism is a crime most heinous). But, I abhor war. I believe, sincerely, that there...

Marriage Equality in California!

Posted on May 15, 2008
Rainbow Law Center joins the rest of the country who values fairness and equality in applauding the decision of the California Supreme Court today in the "In re: Marriage Cases" when it said: "Our state now recognizes that an individual's...

Since you've been gone

Posted on May 09, 2008
Sunday, Mother's Day, is the 1 year anniversary of my mother's death. I still miss her every single day. Mary and I went to a concert by Cheryl Wheeler at the Ark in Ann Arbor a few weeks back and...

Our elected officials

Posted on March 13, 2008
Perhaps you think this post is about the scandalous Eliot Spitzer. No. He is simply another liar and a cheat whose crimes hurt mostly himself and his immediate family. No, here I speak about the Oklahoma state rep who gave...

Do you think I'm in the wrong business?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Stolen from GM at Lobal Warming. As she said, I'm not in Spitzer's league, however...

Gun Control, the Pink Pistols, and the Supremes

Posted on March 09, 2008
I just came across this WaPo story about a case currently in front of the US Supreme Court. For the first time in over 70 years the Supremes will decide a case grounded in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution....

Birthday presents

Posted on March 08, 2008
I am the luckiest person I know. I am going take a small tangent here and elaborate on that. My Girl asserts that she is the luckiest, by virtue of her having found me. I'll grant you that she's lucky....

Travel Month

Posted on March 05, 2008
March is a travel month for me. I fly to Washington, D.C. today to take part in a two-day training and Lobby Day for the Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network in the ongoing effort to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. That...

As good as cash! (?)

Posted on March 01, 2008
One of the unexpected perks of this new law practice (can you believe it's almost a year old now?), is that people actually appreciate what we do. Since we began, we lost one case that we believe we should have...

Celebration of Life

Posted on February 26, 2008
We had Theresa's "celebration of life" yesterday. I was simultaneously moved and annoyed by it. There were two groups of people there -- her blood relatives and her lesbian community of friends. I would guess that there was about an...

Goodbye, Dear Theresa

Posted on February 23, 2008
And just like that, she's gone. I miss her already. Monday is the memorial service. Now, we have to care for her partner. How do you console someone who's just lost her life partner?Life is too damn short.

To kill a Trannie - Part II

Posted on February 23, 2008
As if I weren't already sick of death. The week before Creating Change here in Detroit one of our local television stations reported the murder of a "Cross-dressing prostitute", with a subtitle of "Man dressed as a woman found dead"....

I am so tired of death

Posted on February 23, 2008
Most of you know me as a very optimistic person. I laugh easily and often; I love life. But, for what seems like an eternity now I have thought about death and what's on the other side of it. I...

Gay and Married -- in New York

Posted on February 20, 2008
Jami posted a question in comments about a ruling from New York state's highest court that said (unanimously) that the state must recognize marriages between same-sex couples performed in jurisdictions -- specifically Canada -- where it's legal. She referenced this...

To kill a Trannie

Posted on February 19, 2008
This article showed up in my inbox; I'm afraid I don't know where it was originally published, so I don't have a link: How to kill a transperson February 15th, 2008 By Ceridwen Troy On Saturday, Sanesha Stewart, a transwoman...

Creating Change and the City of Detroit

Posted on February 07, 2008
As my Girl and I prepare to attend the 20th anniversary of Creating Change to be held in Detroit this week, it is with great excitement that we read the following announcement from Triangle Foundation (full disclosure, I was just...

Happy -- Holidays, Christmas, New Year, Anniversary!

Posted on December 29, 2007
Warning: Long, catch-up post follows... Nope...not dead. I apologize to anyone who has been checking my blog only to find it not updated for these past 3 weeks. It's just that life has been crazy busy -- in a good...

Middle of Hanukkah -- a late Christmas tree

Posted on December 08, 2007
We now have our house all decorated for the holidays (we have no religious paraphernalia (except a random angel ornament) in our decorations. This is a completely secular holiday to us). My Girl has a tremendous stash of holiday decorations...

To think I'd let my daughters fly on this airline...

Posted on December 06, 2007
Spirit Airlines claims this ad was an innocent mistake. I might (but probably not) believe them if they could identify the island chain by name and exact location. By the way, I had to Google the term MILF to find...

Which way to go?

Posted on December 05, 2007
I recently represented a young (18) trans-woman who wished to change her first name to something that seemed to her to be more feminine. The judge initially denied her request (asserting that it seemed to him she was changing it...

Comments

Posted on November 29, 2007
When I quit blogging (so I was only gone 9 months -- did you miss me?) I decided to turn on the feature that requires comments be moderated. I'd never done this before, but I began to get so many...

A nice break

Posted on November 28, 2007
Today is Wednesday. The fact that it is Wednesday is important only to illustrate how nice our Thanksgiving break was. We quit work last Wednesday afternoon when I headed to the airport to pick up my two youngest daughters (that...

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