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

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

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.

I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years. However, that's not the same thing as equality.

I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.

While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

I want people to see the truth.