Yum & Yuk

On a couple's choice to raise a genderless child: "We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...)."

The NYTimes' interactive feature on gay teens, Coming Out.

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A great post on body acceptance, opting out of the "assimilation race," and the power of saying "no."

Wow. This is bravery: violence and discrimination faced by transgender, poor, immigrants in California.

Supreme Court orders California to release prisoners: "One hundred and twelve California prison inmates died unnecessarily due to inadequate medical care in 2008 and 2009, analysts found. Acutely ill patients have been held in "cages, supply closets and laundry rooms" because of overcrowding, investigators found. California prison inmate suicides have been double the national average."

"Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself." - Thomas Merton