Dave Campbell's Texas Football Is Out

One of the iconic signs that fall will soon be upon us in the Lone Star State is Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine hitting the newsstands.

It has been published since 1960 and is considered the football bible in this state.  I've been a regular reader of it since 1978 and it includes in addition to the feature article on the cover boys, in depth coverage of all aspects of football in the state from high school to the colleges.  It even included features on our two NFL franchises, the Texans and Cowchips.

On the high school level it covers all the classifications and teams in them from Six-Man to Class 5A and the private schools.  It also compiles a preseason high school Top Ten for each conference.

It not only covers all the college teams in the state, it predicts their records for the upcoming season.   The DCTF staff is predicting UH will go 11-1 probably because Case Keenum is back for a medical redshirt season, so we'll see.if that comes to pass.


Now if we can get the NFL lockout ended, everything will be alright for us Lone Star football fans.

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Team USA Watch- Playing North Korea Today

The FIFA world Number one ranked Team USA women kick off FIFA Women's World Cup play with their Group C deja vu match in Dresden against North Korea.    Just in case you're wondering, it will be broadcast like all of the FIFA Women's World Cup action on ESPN.

The 2008 Olympic champions are facing questions as to whether this Pia Sundhage coached edition of Team USA has the right stuff to win their first FIFA world title since 1999.   In addition to goalkeeper Hope Solo's recovery from reconstructive shoulder surgery last September, they are adjusting to a European styled possession based attack that's less reliant on long balls.  That change in style may be a factor in why a team that has lost only four matches from 2005-2009 has dropped three matches since November and lost a closed scrimmage to Norway 3-1 just last week. 


Coach Sundhage isn't concerned, but nervous Team USA fans (myself included) are.  Recent history will guarantee the Team USA players or their fans will take the FIFA No. 8 ranked North Koreans lightly.  

In the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup that was held in China, Team USA opened up group play against the North Koreans and found themselves trailing 2-1 after the North Koreans scored two goals in the 58th and 60th minutes.   Heather O'Reilly saved Team USA from a shocking loss with her goal in the 69th minute that helped Team USA salvage a 2-2 draw.


That game later turned out to be critical to both teams qualifying out of Group B into the knockout round.

The 2011 edition of Team USA can help quell those queasy stomachs of their fans by playing a solid game today and getting a win to get off to a good start in this FIFA World Cup Tournament.  They are also aware that how they play in this match against the mystery team from North Korea will go a long way toward determining whether this team is perceived as a pretender or contender.

Another Day, Another WWBT Lie Debunked

One of the lies the WWBTs have been loudly and incorrectly trying to pimp is that the transgender umbrella term was forced onto the trans community against our will by crossdressers, or in WWBT speak, the Transgender Borg.


Since I grew up in the 70's I recalled reading the 'transgender' term in many of the articles I'd clipped or read on transsexuality during the 80's, and remembered the debates about the issue in the late 80's-early 90's

I've pointed out that it was transsexuals who advocated that the community use this term because they correctly argued that we shouldn't be defining ourselves and our community, much less be advocating for civil rights coverage using a term created by the medical community to define us.

So I was pleased to read this Ehipassiko post of Cristan's pointing out the 'transgender term had been in use since the mid 1970's and popped up in a 1985 newspaper interview given by none other than the first well known United States transsexual, the late Christine Jorgenson.

Let's take a trip back in time to December 18, 1985 and peruse what Christine Jorgenson had to say about the word 'transsexual'.

The word transsexual irks Jorgenson because the word sex, she believes is only relevant to what one does in bed.. "I am a transgender because gender refers to who you are as a human being."

People who think they wish to switch sexes can go to 'gender identity clinics' where it can determined if they really do want to take the plunge, says Jorgenson.

Daaayum.   The world's most famous trans person identified as transgender, and oh yeah, she's post operative to boot.

After Cristan pimps slaps them with several more newspaper article clippings she summarizes her post with this comment:

So, can we please stop with the whole “crossdressers pushed that identity on us” stuff? The word was obviously used by clinicians in the 1970s, in the mass-media by transsexuals in the early 80s and then used to describe transsexuals by media in the late 1980s. Our culture was obviously using the term to talk about atypical expressions of gender, concepts of having gender neutrality, cross-gender expression and transsexuality since the 1970s. 

Sadly, I don't think the Transsexual Taliban will cease and desist with their increasingly debunked lies. 

Aww...Thanks Morgan, Jocelyn, Marti.....

Every time I get to a point I'm feeling down about some situation that's impacting my life, start beating myself up because I felt like I didn't do enough on or a quality job concerning an issue, or I feel like I'm being ignored, marginalized or disrespected, there are times I fire up the computer and read encouraging stuff that turns that frown upside down and lifts my spirits.

I sometimes forget because of the other ancillary drama that I am a role model, and the people I impact just being me have a much different opinion about Moni than my hardcore haters have or the modest one I internalize at times.

Sometimes I'm genuinely shocked at just how much respect and good will I've built up and the positive influence I have on people 

Morgan Goode hat tipped me on her prettyqueer.com page and wrote 'she considers me a constant source of inspiration'.   She's one beautiful (inside and out) intelligent and talented lady that I have much love and respect for as well and I'm looking forward to meeting her one day.  
 
I met my fellow Houstonian Jocelyn last summer and had an enjoyable wide ranging chat with her over Pappas barbecue.  She's currently a grad student at UCLA and noted on her FB page I'm one of three people that she would love to have speak on that campus.   I'd be honored to have that opportunity as well on that campus should they extend that invite to me.


Marti Abernathey over at TA is making me blush and feel like a NBA lottery pick.with all the praise being heaped on me for simply making the decision to become a contributing writer at Transadvocate.  

And yes, had a lot of fun lobbying with her in DC back in 2007.


And to all the peeps in H-town who want quality time with me like Diamond Stylz, Vanity Wilde, Angelique, Deandrea, Toni, my old CAL airlines gang...haven't forgotten about y'all.      


Thanks 'errbody'.  It's a reminder that despite my WWBT detractors who have professed their undying hatred of moi,  I have far more people that love and respect me for not only standing up for the civil rights of this community inside and outside TBLG circles, but for just being me.

Thank You!  (sniff, sniff)  Y'all don't know how much I appreciate that.