Grief is the only proof that I love and I love well. Love and grief are actually intertwined with each other and as "Akif Kichloo" once wrote, "the opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love."

I love the phrase lacing hands together. Intertwining yourselves with each other, knitting your nerves and veins, becoming one. Sewing your fingers, holding on to your love, claiming them as yours as you become theirs.

the world doesn’t have enough trap doors or goblins in my opinion. Where’s my Labyrinth fairytale?

when a swan hisses at someone it’s “protecting its young” but when i do it it’s “weird” and “i should seek psychiatric help”

I am going on a perilous journey (a bus ride) to a faraway magical land (the next town over) to complete a daring quest (book shopping)

Sex as a binary is based upon a lot of different factors, from hormones to chromosomes to secondary sex characteristics to more. For some of those things, people might not know if they don't fit perisex standards for their assigned sex! It's not like testing for, say, chromosomes happens often – and I've heard plenty of horror stories from intersex people whose family and doctors deliberately kept the fact that they were/are intersex a secret from them. Simply put, a person can go all of their life assuming they're perisex while actually being intersex simply due to a lack of information or lack of testing. It's no different than a trans person assuming they're cisgender, or a gay person assuming they're straight – it's all just assumptions based upon the standard that everyone is expected to fit. It's just that finding out if you're intersex is a different process (one that, relevantly, can be blocked or made more difficult by bigoted doctors who aren't interested in helping their patients discover the truth).

THE PARATROOPER WHO TURNED STRIPPERAFTER JUMPING BEHIND ENEMY LINES IN EUROPE, GI HAS SEX OPERATION, TURNS INTO WOMAN AND DISPLAYS 'HER' FIGURE TO CURIOUS BURLESQUE AUDIENCESBY DAN CHRISTOPHERBack in 1943, a lithe young figure pulled a rip-cord after dropping from a big Army plane and danced in the air, dangling from a parachute. There was a war in Europe and Robert Rees, a many-times decorated paratrooper, was jumping into enemy soil.Now 12 years later, the same figure does a considerable amount of dancing in a different setting. Instead of a ripcord, a G-string is now involved. And now the figure belongs to a young lady named Tamara Rees whose transition from paratrooper to stripper is one of the strangest chapters in the numerous sex-change operations in recent years.Unlike some others who have changed sex in a flurry of international publicity, Tamara describes herself as "a person who always was a woman and who has finally found the means of fitting properly into my own sex."Raised as a boy, then a man, Tamara never was either.

THE PARATROOPER WHO TURNED STRIPPER

AFTER JUMPING BEHIND ENEMY LINES IN EUROPE, GI HAS SEX OPERATION, TURNS INTO WOMAN AND DISPLAYS 'HER' FIGURE TO CURIOUS BURLESQUE AUDIENCES

BY DAN CHRISTOPHER

Back in 1943, a lithe young figure pulled a rip-cord after dropping from a big Army plane and danced in the air, dangling from a parachute. There was a war in Europe and Robert Rees, a many-times decorated paratrooper, was jumping into enemy soil.

Now 12 years later, the same figure does a considerable amount of dancing in a different setting. Instead of a ripcord, a G-string is now involved. And now the figure belongs to a young lady named Tamara Rees whose transition from paratrooper to stripper is one of the strangest chapters in the numerous sex-change operations in recent years.

Unlike some others who have changed sex in a flurry of international publicity, Tamara describes herself as "a person who always was a woman and who has finally found the means of fitting properly into my own sex."

Raised as a boy, then a man, Tamara never was either.