Frock Magazine Article

 

One of the things I love about MuseItUp Publishing is their editors. They’re some of the best in the industry, and are also committed to seeing their authors succeed. So it was no surprise when my content editor, Tanja Cilia, approached me about writing something for an online magazine.

Frock Magazine caters to the transgender community. I have to confess that my first thought was that if I were to write something for them, I’d get grief from both my intersex friends and my Christian friends. So, at least for a while, Tanja was more enthusiastic than I was.

Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite is the coming of age story of a teen who was born with one testis and one ovary. In Jamie’s case, the sex-of-rearing decision was fairly arbitrary. The main theme of the book is Jamie’s struggles to fit in as one gender or the other. The story is set in the early 1970s, a time when most people still thought of gender strictly in terms of boy or girl.

My first impression of Frock Magazine was its outstanding production quality. Definitely first rate. After corresponding with Katie Glover, Frock’s friendly editor, I agreed to come up with something a bit lighter and less technical than what I’d ordinarily write. I hope you’ll hop on over to their site and read it.

To my friends who may object–One reason I wrote Confessions was my concern for intersex children who struggle to find their place in this world. Sometimes gender issues are a result of a disorder of sex differentiation (DSD). Sometimes they’re a result of inappropriate DSD treatment. In any case, the real question is how to help them. The readers of Frock Magazine are likely to at least have some understanding of and sympathy for the gender issues these children encounter.

Intersex and Gender Article

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