yes indeedy and I hope you all think its a pleasant one.

https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page/

By Katy Steinmetz

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Elliot Page doesn’t remember exactly how long he had been asking.

About a hundred and seventy thousand people died across the world today. Each one was a mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, friend, partner colleague, comrade. Many were loved, Many were good people. Many will be missed. Some died surrounded by their loved ones. Others alone. Some at peace. Others in pain.

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4/7/2021 8:31 PM
Kristal Larson's election to township clerk in central Lake County is being celebrated by proponents of LGBTQ rights across the Chicago area and the nation.

Larson, chosen by voters Tuesday as Avon Township's next clerk, is the first openly transgender candidate to win elected office in Lake County and only the second in Illinois' history. Larson previously served as an Avon Township trustee but was not openly transgender at that time.

Statistically, here in the UK, it is more likely to snow at Easter than Christmas

Geez, anyone would think I had everything planned out!

So apparently transgender people are no longer considered pariahs when it comes to serving in the American military. Most of us knew this was coming, it was pretty much a campaign promise of the current administration, but the Pentagon formally announced its change in policy today. This from the Associated Press: https://news.yahoo.com/reversing-trump-pentagon-release-tran...

Dr. Rachael Levine has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary of Health and Human Services. She is the first openly transgender woman to hold a cabinet-level post.

Here is the link for the NPR site: https://tinyurl.com/42fva5z7

or is that first?

to which my standard reply is 'klein'

Interesting read

https://thomasmcbee.medium.com/trans-history-you-never-learn...

WW

or maybe its Tizwoz?

There is hope!

A Native American has been appointed by President Biden to head the Department of Interior. And to make it even better the appointee is a woman, Deb Haaland, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo. By being the Secretary of the Interior it puts her over :

but it is time for an albeit late, Maddy blog!

I've done something like this before but no one bothered to check it out. Well, Our President JUST signed the stimulus/covid relief bill into law!!!! As of 11:11 today!!! Go to the url I'm providing to get info on how to apply for OTHER things like EIDL loans and GRANTS as well as PUA/FPUC and Unemployment extensions!

There seems to be a misconception that some Dr. Seuss books have been banned and that the US Government is responsible.

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

The books are not banned and it has nothing to do with the US Government despite attempts to make it appear so by some so-called conservative politicians.

The books in question are still available but the family company that controls the publishing has decided that in today's society some of the characterisations may appear racist and so they have decided not to sell any more of those particular books.

Nope no zany kids entertainment, just my Sunday post before the Sunday roast!

on the computer front!

It seems every politician wants to pass some law to force everyone else into compliance as herd animals. Too many of us don't fit in with the herd no matter how many laws are passed. Let's begin the story. Trip to OKC and my change from the Women's Clinic to a Gender Clinic. Had met several of the staff from other clinics. Seems as if anything LBGT is pretty fluid with healthcare providers covering a wide expanse of offices and clinics weekly. Remind me to NOT change in the future. The paperwork is a killer and X years of past records fills a large binder.

of the new, full edition of On The Edge!

but hopefully not too much will fall.

I wish I knew!

I had read, or heard someone say that Transgender folk have a high incidence of Autism or something on the Spectrum, but I know a woman that spent many years working with the folk and she does not see the connection.

Then I was reading on the internet and it seems to be a popular idea among PhD. Psych. folk that Transgender folk have a predominance of three serious personality disorders; Paranoid PD, avoidant PDs, and comorbid PDs. Someone else indicated that many were Borderline Personality.