The first eighteen to twenty-four months of transition for the transgender person can be an awkward period of appearance, very similar to puberty. 

It is during this timeframe that a "self-centered" person in transition would indeed not take family and friends into consideration, to allow time to adjust and accept this new exterior. 

It's common for the person in transition to feel as if they have finally exited "the cave" and now that they have finally accepted themselves, they want the world to accept them, too. 

It's that time of year where it's dark early (5:30 pm early) and colder outside.

It's the time of year where all you want to do is come home from work, relax, eat some comfort food, curl up next to a fire or under a blanket and ease into your night.

Certainly working out doesn't sound very appealing when it's cold and dark outside.

How can anyone stay motivated to exercise in such conditions?

True, it's a bit more difficult to keep motivated in the wintertime, but it's definitely not impossible.

One key tip is to create a playlist.

When combining the two modalities in the same session, is one sequence better than the other for optimizing "after-burn"?

Combining aerobic exercise and resistance training in the same workout session -- a technique referred to as concurrent training -- can be a time-efficient training method.

Perhaps one of the longest-lasting and most engaging debates for fitness professionals has been with regards to which sequence is better when combining the two modalities. 

Nature loves variety. Unfortunately, society hates it.

It is highly likely that you have passed a transgender person on the street, at the grocery store, in the bank, at the gym, and, yes, even in a public restroom, without even knowing that that person was transgender.

A transgender person is not just a clone of another transgender person. He or she is different and unique, just as is every other person.

Transgender people are those who transgress gender norms of society by attempting to transition into the correct gender of which they should have been born.