Maggie David Haynes

whiskey, you say? in the jar you say?

Whiskey? At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely in that jar?!

Whack fall the daddy-o.

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except I don't wear long-sleeve shirts or hoodies because I overheat easily and I prefer wearing nothing anyway

For the first half of 2014 (not to mention many years before that) I thought I was a cis guy. I started rethinking that in July or August of that year. By summer of '17, I'd started hormones, I'd decisively rejected he/him pronouns, I was wearing women's clothes at least as often as men's, and I'd legally changed my name. The following year I knew I was better off without testicles, and had them removed that fall. I think it was some time in '21 when I decided I wanted a full-depth vaginoplasty and since then that's seemed like a far-off goal. Except last month it happened. The recovery is a bitch, but the big surgery is behind me. This summer I'll be back to my normal activities. Maybe I'll have some of the remaining bureaucratic stuff done by then, too — though it's looking less and less likely that Ohio will let me change my marker to X in the foreseeable future. This summer will be ten years since I hatched. In the nine and a half years since then, I've come a long way.

Jennell Jaquays has passed away. She produced content for tabletop RPGs since 1976, and worked on videogames including Donkey Kong, Quake 2 and 3, Age of Empires 3, and Halo Wars.

She was trans, she was a lesbian, and she suffered from Guillain-Barre syndrome.

She was 67.