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This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know whats in these stories, or you think you dont need to know, youre wrong.--Patrick Califa, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of TransgenderismExploring the crossroads of gender and sexuality, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary offers unusually engaging narratives that create a raw and honest depiction of dating, sex, love, and relationships among members of the gender variant community. FTM, MTF, thirdgender, genderqueer, and other non-traditional identities beyond the gender binary of traditional male and female are included in this often heartwarming, occasionally heartbreaking, always heartfelt groundbreaking anthology. From monogamous love and marriage to anonymous sex and one-night hook-ups (and everything in between), these stories offer readers insight into the precarious emotional and practical mechanics of intimacy among gender-variant experiences.Features contributions from award-winning authors including Julia Serano, Sassafras Lowery, and Max Valerio, alongside outstanding new writing by Tribe 8 guitarist and acclaimed film director Silas Howard, activist Joelle Ruby Ryan, filmmaker Ashley Altadonna, SisterSpit alum Cooper Lee Bombardier, and many other unique and talented voices.Morty Diamond is the editor of the critically-acclaimed anthology From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond. His performance work includes My Year In Pink and Ask A Tranny, a public performance piece on acceptance of and education about the trans experience.

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- also edited by Morty Diamond

From the Inside Out:

Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond

Trans/Love

Radical Sex,
Love, and Relationships
Beyond the Gender Binary

edited by
Morty Diamond

Manic D Press
San Francisco

To my wife,
my one sweet songstress and keeper of my heart,
you lift me higher, help me to dream, and make it all worth it

There is not a word, sentence or paragraph that can reveal my true appreciation to the writers in this anthology so I will simply say thank you on this page and hope to one day say it to each of you in person. Thank you to Jay and Leslie Diamond, Rhani Lee Remedes, Andres Bedoya, Jeanne Vaccaro, Bonnie and Chris Crum. To the transgender, transexual, intersex, two spirit, genderqueer, and gender variant communities, my love to you all.

Note: There are many varying ways to name differently gendered individuals. Certain terms may be preferable to some, but offensive to others. Please note that phrasing and usage has not been altered to fit the editors preference. The distinct manner in which each writer names and describes their gender and preferred identity has been preserved.

Trans/Love 2011 by Morty Diamond. All rights reserved.

Published by Manic D Press. For information, contact Manic D Press,

PO Box 410804, San Francisco CA 94141 www.manicdpress.com

Printed in the USA

Cover painting:

Embrace(2009) by David Van Everen www.davidvaneveren.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Trans/love : radical sex, love, and relationships beyond the gender binary / edited by
Morty Diamond.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-933149-56-1 (pbk original) -- ISBN 978-1-933149-46-2 (ebook)

1. Transsexualism. 2. Transgenderism. I. Diamond, Morty, 1975

HQ77.9.T7153 2011

306.768--dc23

2011031464

Introduction

Transgender people maneuver in a world that seemingly offers little hope of finding love or even good sex. If they arent ignored and rendered invisible by mainstream narratives of romance, trans and gender-variant folks are consistently portrayed as deviants unsuitable to love. Prostitutes, impostors, freaks: these roles assigned to mainstream transgender characters help reinforce the normative gender binary that destroys any option for true gender fluidity in the world.

As familial, social, and personal changes abound during transition, a question arises early: Who is going to date me now? Or if currently partnered, Will my relationship survive this transition? Looking to popular media for answers will yield disparagingly dismal results.

This anthology was born from the determination to open a dialogue about transgender sex and sexuality, and the need to represent ourselves in this conversation. As a trans person, I wanted to put together our true stories of love and sex proving that we are not only loveable but charming, smart, and good in bed, too! Trans/Love is 29 transgender, transexual, two spirit, genderqueer, and intersex writers discussing sex, love, and romantic relationships, and how our gender identity shapes and interacts with these parts of our lives.

Although no anthology could give the full breadth of all the various identities and sexualities of trans love and sex, this book is a love letter to the trans community and beyond, hoping to add truth to the complex trans experience. I welcome you to read these pieces with as open a heart as the authors of the stories possess.

Moments of elation, heartbreak, and everything in between trans people go through all of this within the flux of gender identity. As we navigate our way, all we can hope for is a little love, a little sex, and for those of us who dream of it, someone to call our one and only.

Enjoy,

Morty Diamond

Embodiment of Love
Morty Diamond

When I became a transman (female-to-male transexual), my frame of reference regarding mutual attraction and having a love life changed drastically. Formerly dyke-identified, as I worked to understand and reformulate my new gender identity I figured I could throw everything I learned about finding sex and love as a woman out the window. Even though I lived in San Francisco, a place seemingly overrun with trans people, I wasnt quite sure who was going to date me. Ultimately, my life would be filled with romance found on city streets, in bars, and through the Internet, with much less struggle than anticipated.

To help paint the picture of how I explored my gender identity within my relationships and sex life, I would like to point out the two women that have made the biggest impact on my life, Kate and Rachel. Without the kindness, openness and trust of these two women I would have struggled much longer to find equilibrium in my body and mind. These two loves were especially poignant during the physical and emotional transition into my own version of manhood. Kate was there in the beginning, as my transition gained traction, meeting me a week after I changed my name to Morty. Rachel was there at the end, when I reached my final destination with acceptance and love for the trans person that I had become.

I met Kate on the streets of San Francisco in the late 90s, a time of dotcom money and a new burgeoning trans community. Be it luck, fate, or whatever brings two people together, this was a match made to last. A pair of Scorpios, eyes shining bright with lust for each other, we rollicked in the streets filling our hearts with all that our young love was about: dancing, drinking, blood, scars, and killer sex. Even though my male identity was only tentatively bubbling forth, it seemed to be the last thing on our minds when we were together. I cannot recall one moment when I had to explain myself or qualify my feelings about who I was becoming. I was simply Morty, her tranny man, and she was my girl, herself a bit skewed from traditional gender norms.

A high femme warrior, always dressed to the nines in high heels and blood red lipstick, Kate exuded strength and humor. When men would mess with her on the street, she would tell the guy to fuck off while laughing right in his face. She taught me the art of holding my own, be it in the streets or at some tedious temp job, she told me to never compromise myself for anyone. And I didnt.

Soothing me with reassuring words, Kate was the woman who held me as I injected my first shot of testosterone. The first six months of being on T were tumultuous. Within the first three months, I was thrust into a second puberty, complete with acne, and a voice that cracked every other sentence. I also experienced head and muscle aches as my body adjusted to the new surge of male hormones in my bloodstream, and during the times I felt like a wreck, Kate put me back together. She soothed my senses when they were frayed and became my cheerleader simply by staying in love with me while I melded myself into the person emerging. I am convinced that Kate ferried me to the other side when I could not do it alone.

Our love was complicate and within the five years we were together many facets of our personalities were revealed, both gorgeous and terrible. The one thing that stayed true was our ability to see beyond gender. Knowing ourselves, it came as no surprise that we had an emotionally intense breakup. I regret very few things in my life but the way the relationship ended tops that short list. Kate will always be the woman that, in my fledgling moments of becoming trans, supported me and allowed my transition to be filled with a glowing, exuberant love.

After Kate, I believed I would never again have such deep love in my life. I just didnt think it was possible for a guy like me, whose trans experience did not follow the normal trajectory. Most trans people I know go on hormones and have surgery as soon as possible. I had waited over a year to begin testosterone and another three years until I decided to complete my transition with a double mastectomy (or chest surgery). Since beginning to identify as transgender I have struggled almost constantly with my gender identity. I will never forget meeting a psychic before I even thought of transitioning who said to me, You know you dont have to choose between being male and female. In that moment I didnt understand what she meant, but years later, I do.

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