People and pets come first. Things can wait. I'm glad that neither you nor your partner were injured. I hope that the pets will be O.K.

I want to thank those EA members who have taken the time to complete the survey. Your information is valuable. We still need at least a couple responses from members who used the WPATH Standards of Care in their search for proper treatment, whether for surgery or for other care. We want to have a ...

Thanks for sharing this experience. I was always curious about the MOM events, but never made it to one. I remember they were held in Minnesota. I think Minnesota and Wisconsin are nice central locations that are fairly easy to get to and quite nice in the summer. At some point, though after the ...

NEW SURVEY – Usefulness of the WPATH Standards of Care

The Institutional Review Board at the University of Hawaii finally approved our new survey. Our goal is an article in a medical journal consisting of brief biographical accounts of the use of the WPATH Standards of Care. Should you be willing ...

I do find it ironic that there were estimates of about a million Skoptsy, while they claimed that the magic number to make JC show up was 144K - last time I checked that is considerably less than one million - didn't someone notice?

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The general interpretation of the Skoptsy is ...

I had lunch with Jamie Agapoff a couple of days ago. We talked about where next we needed to do research and writing in support of the eunuch community.

The WPATH SoC8 has been out for two years now and individuals have been able to use it to obtain proper care. We thought that an article that ...

I originally sent a version of the post below to WheelyFixed. He recommended that I post it here. While it involves minors, it is both from a current newspaper account and historical material.

An article about “bacha bazi” in Afghanistan was published in the Daily Mail on March 9, 2025 (https ...

I just received a copy of Gender in the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Lynn Budin (309 pp.). I immediately turned to the ten-page section on “ eunuchs ” in the chapter on masculinity. Budin argues that the word that means “ castrated ” when referring to donkeys, sheep, and pigs, means “ clean-shaven ...

About two years ago, I wrote a piece for EAv.2 when I finally, after a couple years of effort, managed to acquire a copy of Nadia Maria el-Cheikh’s “Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs at the Court of al-Muqtadir” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2005, 48 (pt.2), pp. 234-252 ...

The Tomb of the Prophet in Madinah is still guarded by a small group of elderly eunuchs. A large coffee-table book celebrating them was published in Saudi Arabia in 2020. The book, The Guardians (written and photographed by Adel al-Quraishi) begins and ends with large portraits of the eunuchs. In ...