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Sharon Gaughan
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Sunday, 05 February 2012
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Washington, DC, USA. The typical US election for president and congress is a hard sprint toward the finish line. Everything is under tight control, with campaign appearances scheduled for friendly audiences at a considerable distance from the general population.
We can always expect a flashy — but largely superficial — discussion of the issues.
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 Sharon Gaughan Tuesday, 16 August 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. As a very small and confused girl, struggling with the mystery of my birth, complicated by fire and falling debris, surrounded by the walking wounded of my family, and lacking the vocabulary for any of it, my mind and spirit wandered in the adult world trying to make sense of what they were trying to tell me.
I didn't know until much later they were demanding an answer to their question: Who do you think you are?
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 Sharon Gaughan Sunday, 24 April 2011 Weston, CT, USA. On 14 December 1807, a "globe of fire" flashed south across Vermont and Massachusetts, culminating in three loud explosions at 6:30 in the morning over Fairfield County, Connecticut.
In their everyday lives, most people relied on astrology and traditional wisdom to explain natural phenomena. The common folk in religious communities thought meteors were portents of impending calamities. At best, amateur scientists thought that meteors were projectiles spewed from lunar volcanoes
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 Sharon Gaughan Sunday, 17 April 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. The essence of America and what we can bring to the world lies before us, but you wouldn’t know it from the behavior of Democrats and Republicans. The two great engines of our political will ignore the public interest, burnish their own self-indulgent resumes, and facilitate the downward spiral of our expectations.
The American political parties are demonstrably ineffective, but worse, are impediments to effective governance.
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 Sharon Gaughan Wednesday, 12 January 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Ashley Love is the latest in a long line of personal targets identified by Autumn Sandeen for deconstruction, serving no purpose other than fuel for Sandeen’s perpetual self-aggrandizement.
I have nothing personal against Autumn Sandeen, but she has become an intolerable burden that saps the energy of serious people striving toward real progress in basic civil rights and the relief of those who need our help. Increasing numbers of people who care about those born with the tr
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 Sharon Gaughan Tuesday, 27 April 2010 Fairfax, VA, USA. Whoever we were and whatever we did before transition, the tasks we now face go beyond the bromides of I can get on with my life and I can just be who I am or These days, I can just be.
Children are out there asking questions that press against heart and conscience: And who are you, really? and What about us? These are issues that have already reached the family dinner table.
Many of us today raise children; in time, there will be even more families where one or both parents
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Sharon Gaughan Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
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Sharon Gaughan Monday, 28 September 2009 |
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Sharon Gaughan Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
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Sharon Gaughan Saturday, 21 March 2009 |
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 Sharon Gaughan Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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 Sharon Gaughan Friday, 18 July 2008 Washington, DC, USA. The Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) has long outlived its intended purpose, the legitimization of psychiatry as a medical discipline. Even if we forgive the suspect origins of the DSM and respect the intentions of subsequent generations, the book — and that is what it is — has been overtaken by events.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has begun work on a revised version, the DSM-V. There is considerable discussion within the caring profession |
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 Sharon Gaughan Sunday, 20 April 2008
Springfield, VA, USA. Those of us born transsexual ("Classic", HBS, whatever) had (or still have) a correctable medical condition.
Despite the preexistent nature of our birth condition, critics on both the social left and social right often characterize our striving for surgical correction as an example of making a wholly optional lifestyle choice.
But how can that be so when it is a medical condition identified at birth? And why should the critics be in control anyway? Shouldn't |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 25 January 2008
Fairfax, VA, USA. I avoid commercial pastries; they are bad for my waistline. However, I do love a really good blueberry scone.
Every so often when out doing my tasks in life I simply can’t resist and swing by a coffee shop and indulge in what passes in my life for a guilty pleasure.
One day, I stopped at a shop, ordered up a coffee and a scone — blueberry, my favorite — and settled in to eat my delight and read the Science section of the New York Times. Horrors! The scone was some so |
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 Sharon Gaughan Monday, 05 November 2007
Fairfax, VA, USA. I have met two men in my life who lost their penises to a misfortune of life. They weren’t born transsexual, but accident or disease confronted them. These are my notes on our encounters in the burn ward, my meetings with men looking for their own lives to live.
A port city on the eastern seaboard of the United States drew me in for my periodic medical examination, a lifelong cycle of progress and repair. The steep stairs leading up to the hospital entrance rarely convey |
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Sharon Gaughan Saturday, 19 August 2006 |
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Sharon Gaughan Saturday, 15 July 2006 |
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Sharon Gaughan Thursday, 11 November 2004 |
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Sharon Gaughan Monday, 24 May 2004 |
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