BOSTON, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Complications from
transgender procedures may be significantly minimized when treatment
of a patient with severe gender identity disorder begins prior to
puberty, according to expert opinion today at the American Association
of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 19th Annual Meeting & Clinical
Congress.
The reason, according to Dr. Norman Spack of Children’s Hospital
Boston, is that transgender people treated [...]
I am always on high alert this time of year for the appearance of anger and bigotry. All the days around April 19th make me a bit nervous. Maybe this is because I’ve lived a life which has seen the David Koresh debacle, the tragic Oklahoma City bombing, and the horrific scenes of Columbine. I [...]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/14/transgender.irpt/index.html?hpt=C1
From the Bilerico Project… http://www.bilerico.com/contributors/father_tony/
Within five minutes of my arrival at the Hollywood home of folk rock vocalist and acoustic guitarist Mark Angelo Cummings and his wife Violet, Mark took off his shirt to display his remarkable physique. (May all the handsome men I ever have the pleasure of interviewing be this candid!) Mark is [...]
Capitol T: Growing a Movement for Transgender Equality, the 5th Annual Transgender Leadership Summit
This is reposted from the website of the Transgender Law Center.
Register now for the Leadership Summit
For the past five years, hundreds of transgender and allied leaders have gathered in California to develop organizational, professional and personal leadership skills to [...]
It’s that time of the year, time to celebrate the second-ever International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2010. Originating in Michigan last year, Rachel Crandall of Transgender Michigan started a movement by posting the idea on Facebook. Since then, events have happened all over the world. According to Crandall, she wanted to show [...]
Filed by: Kelley Winters
March 16, 2010 1:00 PM
The International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) has posted an
online petition calling for removal of the Transvestic Disorder diagnosis (302.3) from the pending Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). http://dsm.ifge.org/petition/
Please help put an end to this defamatory and hurtful psychiatric label by adding your name [...]
CNN is airing the story “Her name was Steven” on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Look for it in your local listings and set your DVR. The “Buzz” is CNN has done a good job with a complicated issue. We shall see. :0)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/10/her.name.was.steven/index.html?hpt=C1
Last night I was on a GLBTQIA panel and we were talking about words. The words that others outside our community throw at us to make us less than; you know faggot, dyke, sicko, butch, sissy, dick sucker, etc, etc, etc. Those words the ones we try not to hear as they are being yelled [...]
