Diane's Master Page

• The Quick Tour

Diane Wilson, Generalist at Large

• Professional Experience
• Biographical Snippets

Diane Wilson or a Close Facsimile

• Differently Gendered
  • My Life and (Gender) Times
    • Establishing Empathy
    • Who is a Transgendered Person?
    • Definitions
    • Affectional (Sexual) Orientation and Gender Identity
    • Before and After
    • My Own Coming Out
    • Transition in the Workplace
    • A Response to Another Person's Musings
    • Contemplating the Choice of Surgery
    • The Difference Between Transition and the "Real Life Test"
    • Apprehensions About a First Meeting with a Transsexual
    • In Memory of Olivia Palmer
    • Can You Be Honest With Your Therapist?
    • A Dialog with Fear and Mythology
    • A Rant About the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
    • What "Support" Means
    • A View of Our Community
    • Transgender Pride
    • On the Importance of Passing
    • More Thoughts on Passing
    • For Wives and Significant Others
    • Puberty's More Fun the Second Time Around
    • Our Place in Society
    • Bizarre Verite
    • The Woman Who Used to Live in the Mirror
    • Silly Stories About Transition
  • Transgender Resources
    • Harry S. Benjamin Standards of Care
    • Dallas Denny on the Standards of Care
    • Powerful Women
    • Living with Less-Than-Perfect Passing
    • Gianna E. Israel Gender Library
    • Transsexual Pride
    • Toleration
    • Flame Retardant
    • FAQ for soc.support.transgendered
    • Links to other web sites
  • Gianna E. Israel Gender Library
  • FAQ for soc.support.transgendered
• Recovery & Support
  • Recovery from Abuse
    • Diane's Patented Magic Flame-Retardant Elixir
    • The Subjective Nature of Truth
    • Perfectionists Anonymous
    • Can You Be Honest With Your Therapist?
    • Lessons Learned from Therapy
    • Bizarre Verite
    • A Profile in Courage
    • Forgiving
    • A Gift to an Angry Person
    • The Child Within
    • I Am an Angry Person
    • Time as a Non-Linear Journey Through Anger (1)
    • Time as a Non-Linear Journey Through Anger (2)
    • Leftovers of Abuse
  • Deprssion and Back
    • People
    • Resources
      • Depression Self-Check
    • Reading Lists
    • Suicide Survivors' Mailing List
    • User Guide to alt.support.depression
    • Notes for Newbies
    • List of acronyms you may encounter in ASD
    • ASD Slang for Newbies
    • An open letter to newbies and lurkers
    • Coping with changes in ASD
    • Suggestions for dealing with trolls and flamers
    • Flame Retardant
    • Dealing with depression
    • Working through a crash
    • Coming out about depression at work
    • The Child Within
    • Emotional and Verbal Abuse
    • Can You Be Honest With Your Therapist?
    • Some Lessons from Therapy
    • Finding a Therapist
• Blackened Humor
  • Rants
    • On Predicting One's Own Obsolescence
    • A B Seizure
    • A Social Deconstruction
    • Unattended Children
    • Sympathy
    • Rants Against the Gods Themselves
    • The Despicable Art of Flaming
    • The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
    • People Who Prey on Support Groups
    • Antirants
    • Angry Candy
    • Doom
  • The Black Art of Programming
    • Object-Oriented Zen
    • Process? What's a "Process?"
    • Software Architecture
    • Seeking Geek Mythology Trivia
    • Open Heart Programming
    • Conversations from the Old Programmers' Home
    • Justifiable Homicide
    • Platform Wars
    • Warm Fuzzies
  • Bizarre and Unpredictable
    • Dysaudia
    • Dream of Garnish
    • On Belongingness
    • The Meaning of Machines
    • Origin of Species
    • Holiday Movies I Intend to Miss
    • Stochasms (Statistical Realities)
    • Ancient Egyptian Objects
    • Lizard Eyes
    • A Reader Survey
    • Places to Avoid, and Why
    • Decorator Condoms
    • Time Portals
    • Selling Out
    • Summer Reading List
    • Bert and Ernie
    • Recalled Past
    • Holy Water is the Ubik of the 90's
    • The Twelve Chairs
    • Job Profile: Panty Wedger
  • An Odd Assortment of Humor
    • Mouse Balls
    • Spaceship Earth
    • Appreciation of English Spelling
    • DSM-IV Cyber Disorders
    • Piano as Roadworthy Vehicle
    • How Not to Get a Job
    • The Anti-Christ Particle
    • Monk Gloats Over Yoga Championship
    • Bumper Stickers and T-Shirts
    • What HaHa
    • Cat Ailments
    • Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
    • Heterosexual Questionnaire
    • Ineffective Daily Affirmations
    • Managed Friendship
    • Links to other web sites
  • The talk.bizarre FAQ
  • The talk.bizarre anti-FAQ
  • Quotable Diane
• Strange Tales
  • Fiction
    • Left Brain, Bereft Brain
    • The Woman Who Used to Live in the Mirror
    • The Blood of the Covenant
    • One Small Step on the Road to Damascus
    • We Have Met the Alien
    • Paying Up for Jimmy
    • The Second Battle of Pea Ridge
    • By the Pond
    • A Shadow of Herself (1)
    • A Shadow of Herself (2)
  • Writing About Writing
    • Thinking About Extrapolation
    • Fiction Versus Non-Fiction
    • The Turkey City Lexicon
• Mundane Stuff
  • Musical Explorations
    • My recent CD purchases
    • Discoveries of 1996
    • Discoveries of 1997
      
    • Approaching Twentieth Century Music
    • On Testimony
    • Music newsgroups I'd like to see
    • Links to other web sites
  • Food
    • Generic Stir-Fry
    • Diane's Risotto
    • Chicken Kelaguen
    • World's Finest Pork Chops
    • Chicken Livers and Rice
    • My restaurant guide
      
    • Links to other web sites
  • Telling Stories About Myself
  • This is an Award-Winning Web Site!
• What's New

Digital Nirvana

• The Garden
  • Fire Lily
  • Gilded Lily
  • The Last Supper
  • Dr. Gunderson's Performing Lilies
  • Glass Lilies
  • Mosaic Lily
  • The Secret Lives of Iris, I
  • The Secret Lives of Iris, II
  • The Secret Lives of Iris, III
  • The Secret Lives of Iris, IV
  • About the Images
• The Gallery
  • Mask
  • The Arid Land
  • Joyrider
  • The Many Pieces of Me
  • Madonna/Whore
  • Tropical Snowscape
  • Sunset I
  • About the Images
• Meditations
  • About Digital Nirvana
  • Howl
  • About the Images
• Photoshop Hints
  • Fire Lily
  • The Last Supper
  • Joyrider
  • Chrome 1
  • Fire
  • Chrome 2
  • Chrome 3
  • Backgrounds
  • Partial Transparency
  • Lightning
  • Flames

Gianna E. Israel Gender Library

• Names
• Harrassment
• Telling Parents
• Talking With Your Doctor
• Post-op Living
• Damage Control
• Starting Hormones
• Passing Perfect
• Community
• Why Bother Coming Out?
• Embarrassment & Shame
• Singles Scene
• Problem Parents
• Ignorance
• Perseverance
• Transetiquette
• Impact on Children
• Employment
• Interview with Shoshanna Gillick, MD
• First Time Experiences
• Reversing Transition
• FTM-MTF Fire!
• External Homophobia
• Internalized Homophobia
• Gender Mirrors
• Castration in the Non-Transsexual Male
• Coping with the Standards of Care
• Suicidal Feelings
• Closeted Crossdresser Dilemmas
• Are Therapists Trustable?
• Coping with the Holidays
• Child Custody Issues for the Transgender Parent
• Stealth or Purge: Returning to the Closet
• Beating Up Bullies!
• Asking Questions
• Community and Interpersonal Differences
• Crossed Out!
• Starting Transition
• Riding the Bus
• A Grandfather's Dilemma
• Common Law Change of Name
• Unsolicited Attention
• Competitiveness
• A Healthy Sex Drive
• Closeted Forever?
• TG Therapy Blunders
• Relief for Transgenders
• First Romantic Date
• Hormones? Maybe Later
• Transgender Equality
• When Hope is Lost
• Stealth or Storm?
• Regrets
• Fantasy
• Anger
• Remaining Friends
• First-Time Speaker
• Insurance-Funded Genital Reassignment Surgery
• Childhood and Gender Identity Developmental Repressive Abuse
• Transgender Issues and Depression
• "Closeted" for 40 Years?
• Support Groups: An Integral Transgender Resource
• A Parent's Dilemma: the Transgender Child
• Frequent Professional Suggestions
• Transgenderists: When Self-Identification Challenges Transgender Stereotypes
• First Time Hormones Visits
• Fantasy
• Secret Lives
• Being Your Own Star!
• Guilt
• Talking with your Children about Gender Identity Issues
• Book Section Abstract: Recommended Guidelines for Transgender Care
• Review: Recommended Guidelines for Transgender Care
• HIV/AIDS
• Vigil for the Forgotten

soc.support.transgendered FAQ

• Terminology
• Privacy
  • FAQ for anon.twwells.com
• Origins
• Common Issues
• TS/TG
• TV/CD
• MTF Issues
• FTM Issues
• Other Paths
• Family Issues
• Bibliography