It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.