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health

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

Max Gross

Jan 11, 2024
health

Testosterone Can Grow Prostate Tissue and Other Things They Don’t Tell You About T

Max Gross

Nov 21, 2023
love + sex

How to Have Sex With a Transmasculine Partner

Quinn Rhodes

Jun 12, 2023
politics + activism

New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why

Riese

May 5, 2023
relationships

When One of Us Transitioned, Our Relationship Changed for the Better

Summer Tao

Feb 6, 2023
society + culture

Mira Bellwether, Author of ‘F*cking Trans Women,’ Has Died

Ro White

Dec 27, 2022
politics + activism

Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone’s Issue

KB Brookins

Dec 21, 2022
first person

I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever

R/B Mertz

Jul 8, 2022
gender

To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing

shea wesley martin

Jun 13, 2022
sports

Cycling Has a Trans Exclusion Problem

James Stout

Jun 6, 2022

hot trans summer

trans

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first person

Brand New Party Girl

I exist in a fresh, new, virginal body now, and I’ve started to uncover what that means for me.

El Yurman —

Sep 13, 2021

hot trans summer

trans

A brown-skinned masculine person cutting a femme mermaid out of a net.

first person

The Trans Body as a Work of Art

Burlesque is my loving manifestation of what all my ancestors deserved—not simply tolerance, but unbridled celebration.

Lawrence Gullo —

Sep 7, 2021

hot trans summer

trans

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love + sex

Mirrors and Makeouts: Finding Trans Pleasure

Within the brief eternity of our car makeout, in touching her body, I felt my shame begin to melt.

Sloane Holzer —

Sep 2, 2021

hot trans summer

trans

love + sex

100 Things to Try When I Have a Vagina

Of all the unexpected changes I encountered during my transition, the most surreal had to be transforming a part of my body.

Ophi Rocks —

Sep 1, 2021

hot trans summer

trans

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first person

Change Is Magic: On Cooking and Bodies

Science fiction taught me that any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In the kitchen, my girlfriend is a witch.

V. S. Wells —

Aug 23, 2021

hot trans summer

intimate partner violence

The image of a lighthouse with a color gradient of orange to purple on it.

first person

My Body Is Revived, My Body Is A Lighthouse

How do we find dignity in our bodies after it has been taken from us by an abusive partner?

SC Dillon —

Aug 19, 2021

fanfiction

hot trans summer

love + sex

Writing Myself into the Erotic

When I tell people that I wrote myself a sexual body, I don’t know if they believe me. But our bodies are stories as much as they’re anything else.

Shelly Jay Shore —

Aug 16, 2021

hot trans summer

tarot

A dark-skinned trans woman's face with the colors of orange, purple, and pink overlaid.

first person

Tarot, Sex, & Hoodoo: A Black Girl’s Guide to the Underworld

An exploration of summer, desire, and the senses through the lens of tarot and trans womanhood.

Shaadi Devereaux —

Aug 12, 2021

hot trans summer

lesbian sex

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love + sex

The Night I Learned to Be In My Trans Body

My summer hookup with a rich businesswoman in Japan gave me something more valuable than even the room service wagyu steak.

Molly Hensley —

Aug 10, 2021

trans men

transgender

Title- Testosterone and Fertility. Images of three faces, labeled, “Me, hoping to be pregnant soon,” “Kayden X Coleman, Black trans advocate was pregnant and birthed his two daughters,” “Roman Ruddick, started the Transgender Cancer Patient Project.

gender

Myths About Testosterone and Fertility, Told Through Three Perspectives

Many who have taken testosterone have become pregnant and birthed babies, and there is no evidence that testosterone impacts fertility long-term. But the myths about testosterone continue swirling.

Will Betke-Brunswick —

Jul 12, 2021

AAPI Heritage Month

Asian American

A the upper torso and face of a person is in oversized portion coming out of a deep green sea against a dark, cloudy night sky.

first person

The Birth and Death of a Name

This is the story of the birth and death of my name, which means that it is a story about transition, which means that it is necessarily a story about…

S Sukardi —

May 26, 2021

AAPI Heritage Month

Asian American

love + sex

The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women

Our trans subject editor Xoai Pham speaks to Jayda Shuavarnnasri, Thai-American sexuality educator and resident #SexPositiveAsianAuntie, about sexual violence, myths about polyamory, and what it means to take up space…

xoai pham —

May 13, 2021

transgender

Most Popular

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

Testosterone Can Grow Prostate Tissue and Other Things They Don’t Tell You About T

How to Have Sex With a Transmasculine Partner

New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why

When One of Us Transitioned, Our Relationship Changed for the Better

Mira Bellwether, Author of ‘F*cking Trans Women,’ Has Died

Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone’s Issue

I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever

To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing

Cycling Has a Trans Exclusion Problem

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

Testosterone Can Grow Prostate Tissue and Other Things They Don’t Tell You About T

How to Have Sex With a Transmasculine Partner

New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why

When One of Us Transitioned, Our Relationship Changed for the Better

Mira Bellwether, Author of ‘F*cking Trans Women,’ Has Died

Trans Texans Are Being Surveilled, This Is Everyone’s Issue

I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever

To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing

Cycling Has a Trans Exclusion Problem