TransLate just hit 20,000 page views since its inception. I’m glad the blog serves a purpose for you, dear readers. It has been helpful to me to write about my experiences and I think it has made me a better writer and a better person — imagining you out there, my friends, family, colleagues, total strangers, fellow trans* people, and writing for you as a way of hopefully avoiding dangerous self-centeredness and of assuaging your fears about my situation. I will keep writing as long as you find it useful.

Here’s the growth of the blog since its inception, week-by-week. You read it like this: at the bottom, the legend says 2007-50, which you’d translate to the 50th week of 2007.The first phase of slow growth represents the slow coming out period where we brought one person into the fold every few days. The big spikes in April were the big broadcast announcements to the world. The final few weeks of spikes come from going full-time and blogging the FFS, I suspect.

Blog Stats (weekly)

The rest of this post is simply the past 30 days’ of stats, which I read and find absolutely fascinating.

What do people read? Here are the top posts for the past 30 days
Facing East (part 1) 101
About 54
FFS Day 3, Friday (6/27) 46
Narrative Erasures 41
You Look Good in My Skirt 40
New Swimming Suit 39
Marriage 39
Trans 101 38
Letters 34
FFS Assessment by Alexandra 30
Let’s Take Your Reasoning and Run with i 29
Parting Gift 26
Parenting 23
The Force of the Wind 22
In the Swim of Things 20
Cisgendered 20
Dr. East’s Recommendations 18
Slade In, Slade Out 17
Facing Change, Changing Face 15
Trans People in Love 11
To Grad Students 11
Who Knows? 11
Dr. North’s Recommendations 10
Round the Clock 10
Trans-it from where to where? 9
Letter To Colleagues 9
What is Laser Like? 9
Childhood Transsexualism 9
Makeover at MAC 8
At the Family Table 8
To All the Men I’ve Loved Before 8
Snapshots from a Hometown Visit 8
About Face 7
Carpe Denim (seize the pants!) 7
Wisdom of Children 7
Isolation 6
Wish That I Was Jessie’s Girl 6
The Feminine Mistake 5
FFS Day 5, Sunday (6/29) 5
FFS Day 1, Wednesday (6/25) 5
Blood is Thicker than Water, part 1 5
Original Letter Draft (Dec 07) 5
FFS Day 2, Thursday (6/26) 4
Cartoon Commentary on Peeing 4
Minimalist Sex Change 4
Suits Me 3
Tapestry 3
Williamson / Mandela 3
Boys Start Therapy 3
Catalyst 3
Is Blood Thicker than Water? 3
Telling the Boys, part 1 3
New Personal Style 3
Money Changes Everything 3
FFS Surgery Day, Tuesday (6/24) 2
Be a Man 2
What? Me Worry? 2
Father’s Day 2
Beneath the High Dive 2
Requesting Legitimacy 2
Authentic vs. Legitimate 2
Lots of People in New Orleans 2
FFS Day 4, Saturday (6/28) 2
Thorny Pain 2
Gender and Technology 2
Hair Gone Missing 2
Changing Avatars 2
Maratime Reckoning 2
Ritual 2
I’m Gonna Zap that Gray Right Out of My 2
Hair Transplant 2
COLAGE 2
T 1
Iterative Human Design 1
The Wisdom of Children 1
Post Office 1
Through Sickness, Health and Sex Change 1
New Salesperson 1
The Wisdom of Children, part 2 1
Serendipity Doo-Dah 1
Blood is Thicker than Water, part 2 1
Blood is Thicker than Water, parts 3-7 1
Provost 1
Normalcy 1
Too Ra Loo 1
Room Under the Umbrella 1
Trans-gendered: Theology, Ministry, and 1
Academic Org Chart 1
Mass Consciousness 1
Sex Change Operation 1
FFS Day 6, Monday (6/30) 1
Electrolysis 1
To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before 1
The Slippery Slope 1
Whistle While You Work 1
Emotional Writing 1
Fabulous Lifeworld 1
Invisible Party Dress 1


How do people find their way here? They click on someone else’s links. Here’s the location of those hyperlinks for the past 30 days (and frequency)
google.com/reader/view 25
wordpress.com 22
myhusbandbetty.com/community/member.p… 16
myhusbandbetty.com/community/showthre… 14
wordpress.com/tag/ffs 13
granolacrunchy.blogspot.com 12
twitter.com/JoyceLocke 10
bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=669… 7
WordPress Dashboard 7
ashleylynch.com/WordPress/index.php 7
bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=673… 6
myhusbandbetty.com/community/showthre… 6
wordpress.com/tag/transition 4
wanderingaloud.wordpress.com 4
us.f811.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?… 4
cm.my.yahoo.com 4
google.com/reader/view/?tab=my 3
facebook.com/note.php?note_id=2100874… 3
facebook.com/profile.php?id=16737196 3
facebook.com/notes.php?id=16737196 3
tboyjacky.wordpress.com 2
crossingthet.wordpress.com/2008/02/22… 2
susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,199… 2
bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=254… 2
technorati.com/blogs/jmcl.wordpress.c… 2
facebook.com/note.php?note_id=1870186… 2
susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,349… 2
sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm9aebr… 2
facebook.com/note.php?note_id=1940106… 2
facebook.com/home.php 2
google.com/ig?hl=en 2
susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,368… 2
facebook.com/wall.php?id=701636111 2
ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2008/06/2… 2
google.ca/imgres?imgurl=recreonics.co… 2
profiles.yahoo.com/joycebohemia 2
bl119w.blu119.mail.live.com/mail/Read… 2
us.f811.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?… 2
us.f811.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?… 2
bl119w.blu119.mail.live.com/mail/Read… 2

They also use search engines. Here are the search terms (and number of times repeated) for the past 30 days

These terms are a total hoot — it makes you wonder what sorts of things people type into their search engines, doesn’t it?

translate jmcl 22
cisgendered 18
nice men 9
men in trunks 6
mens bathing suits 5
before after pics ffs surgery 5
swimming suit men 5
guys bathing suit 5
transitioning from male to female 4
trans 101 4
man in a bathing suit 4
jessica anderson transsexual 4
nice men body 3
jmcl.wordpress.com 3
“orbital rim burring” 3
men in swimming suits 3
origins or transgender children 3
my life as a female after a sexchange 2
transsex archives 2
men nice body 2
best bathing suit for body shape 2
translate to look good 2
makeup artists in north shore mall peabo 2
dr. toby meltzer, 2008 vaginoplasty cost 2
and i’m looking in the mirror all the ti 2
latchkey child 2
men swimming suits 2
swimming trunks men 2
bathing suit man 2
virtual ffs feminine 2
ftm trans lower surgery pics 2
translate joyce bedford falls 2
men swim suit 2
feminizing my body and growing breasts 2
endoscopic biplaner forehead technique 2
before and after ffs 2
skirt lovers transgender 2
male to female at 40 2
2008 female feminization surgery images 2
transsexual children 2
swimming suits for man 2
jcml.wordpress.com 2
dr spiegel before and after ffs 2
thedoor 2
md law if you feel like you should be a 2
ffs before and after 2
virtual ffs 2
men’s bathing suit 2
transsexual “supportive spouse” 2