When the weather is hot and your skin is sticky from sweating, what is more practical and comfortable than flowy dress? My wife asked why I dressed up when we just went shopping, but after hours in Ikea she admitted that stockings, shorts and mini skirt combination is actually very practical.

I also walked a whole day in high heels the other day. That wasn't practical at all, but it was still fun and I wore a full suit with it.

I love how every cycle my gender fluid is flowing to "the other end", I have lost more sense of what is masculine and what is feminine. Like I'm slowly turning a container of pink and blue fluids and they are starting to got mixed to purple.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.

David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly the Department of Homeland Security has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown...

Brouillette was initially rejected by military recruiters because of his mental health diagnoses, but recruiters encouraged him to go off his medications for a year and reapply, which he did, his immediate relative said.

He was eventually able to enlist...

At 9pm Saturday evening, I leave my corner of the country to meet fellow Medium member

Kay Luna. Kay lives in the opposite corner of our island, so location is one of the few things we haven’t had in common so far. Our shared love of long walks and aversion to throngs of people mean that meeting in the middle for a hike in the remote parts of England is a perfect plan.

Although I’d gone with my sister on a road trip last year as Rachel, I’d held myself back a little. My self-expression then was enough to draw quizzical looks, but I was metaphorically flying an LGBTQ rainbow flag more than the blue, pink and white transgender one. I was clearly femme and fancy, but I didn’t always fully express myself.

My sister has of course, known me the longest and knew the person that came before.