tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48727550223192561892024-08-30T21:55:57.737-05:00Lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16764663562159178097noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872755022319256189.post-85043611235524888002010-09-09T12:20:00.000-05:002010-09-09T12:20:18.156-05:00

Part II of the continuing saga ... When I reached sixth grade, we moved to the Seattle area to accommodate my father's job at Boeing Aircraft; he was an industrial engineer, and commuted to work.  We lived in an area called Kenmore, at the North end of Lake Washington.  I went first to Kenmore Elementary, for 6th Grade, and then on to Kenmore Junior High, then Inglemoor High

Lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16764663562159178097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872755022319256189.post-90382409776985092592010-08-26T11:53:00.000-05:002010-08-26T11:53:13.669-05:00

Like others, I've been this way for as long as I remember, certainly since well before adolescence.  I  was born in Wichita, Kansas, and until I was in 2nd grade or so, we lived in town, on a street called Terrace Drive.  I remember playing hide and seek with the neighborhood kids, who were mostly girls, but also Monopoly and other indoor games.  I didn't play as well with the

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The mountain in the header of this blog is Mount Kailash, located high on a Tabetan plain. It is sacred to four world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bön (not Marché, silly). It is revered by a large swathe of the world's population, because adherents of the first two traditions alone number some 2.5 billion people. Kailash is considered the most sacred mountain on earth, and,

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There are a couple of things readers of this blog need to know about me.  The first is that Lily is my name, but not the one I'm known by in my daily life.  I am transgendered.  I have some flavor of gender dysphoria, a disjunction between my biological sex -- i.e., that dictated by my chromosomes -- and my inner workings, my inner sense of who I am.  This is commonly referred

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