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Confessions of a Trans Dual Citizen Who Left Florida for Europe
There in Luxembourg, as a transgender immigrant from South Florida, I was safe, and so was the country I had just left behind... but that comfort has long since perished.

Brendon J. Lies
Jul 34 min read


Let Trans Youths Live the way I never could
While speaking about his top surgery recently, Elliot Page was asked what would happen if we do not stand up for trans children and their right to play sports. “Children will die,” Page had said. “And it really is that simple.” It really is. In a 2015 Williams Institute study on the trans community, 98% of respondents who had experienced four instances of discrimination and violence in the past year thought about suicide, and 51% of those individuals actually attempted suicid

Brendon J. Lies
May 9, 20215 min read


How Becoming a Man Made Me a Feminist
To all the women out there, I have bad news for you. It’s worse than you think. A lot worse. I remember how it was, and not a thing...

Brendon J. Lies
Apr 6, 20175 min read


The Solidity of Small Town Minds
Because I'm from North Dakota, I get asked the same question a lot lately, with only slight variation. "What do you think about Standing...

Brendon J. Lies
Nov 5, 20167 min read


A Transition in Society
I was ten years old the first time I learned the name of what I am — transgender. An aged documentary was playing on the television, and...

Brendon J. Lies
May 16, 20163 min read
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