Gender Related Pronouns

Posted Sun, 05/02/2010 - 17:50 by AllyN


Words About Gender, Genders, and Gendering!

gender: “The social organization of different kinds of bodies into different kinds of people,” (Stryker 2008: 10). In our society, the penis is associated with males, while the lack of a penis is associated with females.

gender identity: The internal embodiment of one’s perceived gender.

gender expression/presentation: How one’s gender identity is expressed externally (may not align with one’s gender identity – for instance, prior to social transition, one’s gender identity may be a gender that is different from their gender presentation).

Attacked Transgendered Student Speaks During Anti-Hate Rally

Posted Sun, 05/02/2010 - 08:50 by AllyN

http://www.lbpost.com/ryan/9492 For the rest of the article!

The annual "Take Back The Night" anti-hate rally on the campus of California State Long Beach had extra enthusiasm after the recent attack of a transgendered graduate student two weeks ago. That student spoke before the rally, as did Los Angeles City Councilmember Janice Hahn. Check out the video below.

Trans-Genre: The Transgender Performance Art and Music Revolution

Posted Sat, 05/01/2010 - 09:58 by AllyN

Transfigurations - Peterson Toscano

Posted Fri, 04/30/2010 - 18:18 by AllyN

http://www.petersontoscano.com/transfigurations

Drawing on inspiration from interviews with transgender and genderqueer individuals, Peterson Toscano weaves their experiences into the stories of transgender and gender-variant people from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Hilarious and moving, Toscano's one-person play deepens well-known (and lesser-known) Bible stories as he presents an array of characters with an array of genders.

Key to Successful Treatment of Transgender Patients May Involve Delay of Puberty

Posted Tue, 04/27/2010 - 11:06 by AllyN

http://www.healthcanal.com/surgery-rehabilitation/7336.html

BOSTON – 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 at a younger age often have a much easier time adjusting into society than those who undergo treatment later in life. A pediatric endocrinologist can administer treatment to delay puberty, giving the patient the time to make a permanent decision later in their teens.

“The body is in a state of ‘pubertal limbo’ while the patient undergoes psychological assessment to determine the best course of action,” Dr. Spack said. “Their bodies can’t run away from them.”

An Image I'd Rather Forget: A Critique of Ticked Off Trannies With Knives

Posted Sat, 04/24/2010 - 15:35 by AllyN

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ashley-love/an-image-id-rather-forget_b_549995.html
The film Ticked Off Tra**ies With Knives (TOTWK), spreads fear, misogyny, and hateful ideology. I have seen the film and it's very upsetting that people unfamiliar with transsexual and transgender women will walk away from the film with a stigmatizing perception of trans women. This film is dangerous propaganda, whether intentional or not. TOTWK leaves the viewer with the false impression that transsexual and transgender women are unauthentic in their gender identity and really "gay men in drag." The film portrays all trans women as hyper sexualized, jokes, murderous and/or unstable. This is not only inaccurate; it's offensive and incites further misunderstanding and violence.

Transgender student slashed in campus restroom

Posted Sat, 04/24/2010 - 15:32 by AllyN

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14950443?nclick_check=1
LONG BEACH, Calif.—Police are asking for the public's help in finding whoever attacked a transgender student on the California State University, Long Beach campus last week.

University spokesman Rick Gloady said Friday the victim was approached by a man inside a restroom in a campus building the evening of April 15. The suspect said a first name and asked the student if he was that person.

When the student replied that he was, Gloady says the suspect pulled the student's T-shirt over his head, pushed him into the stall and used a sharp object to slash the student's chest. The suspect then fled the area.

Gloady says the student was treated at a hospital and released the same evening.

University police believe it was an isolated incident.

Putting the 'Trans' in 'Transform Me'

Posted Tue, 04/20/2010 - 10:12 by AllyN
The Stars of the new show.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/vh1-series-transform-stars-transgender-women/story?id=10387489&p
age=1

The three transgender female stars of the new VH1 series "Transform Me" are transforming television while transforming women across America.  New VH1 series stars three transgender women as makeover specialists.

1st International Sex and/or Gender Diversity Day: 26 April

Posted Mon, 04/12/2010 - 08:50 by AllyN

http://www.thescavenger.net/glbsgdq/1st-sex-and-or-gender-diversity-day-26-april-72456.html

The first International Sex and/or Gender Diversity Day has been declared 26 April and will be an awareness day and celebration of the existence or sex and/or gender diverse people, writes Tracie O’Keefe.

Sex and/or gender diverse people are encouraged to have picnics, tea parties, festivals or gatherings in their part of the world, inviting their family, friends and allies to join them.

We will be visible in all our sex and/or gender variations. It is for all intersex, transexed, transsexual, transgendered, androgynous, without sex and gender identity, cross-dressers, sex and gender fluid, transqueers, genderqueers, etc.

Transgender challenge to rules on birth certificates

Posted Mon, 04/12/2010 - 08:26 by AllyN

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/transgender-challenge-to-rules-on-birth-certificates-20100407-rsb0.html?autostart=1

A SYDNEY transsexual has filed a sex discrimination complaint against state and federal governments over a refusal to change his birth certificate to ''male''.

Conor Montgomery, 50, was born a female in Australia but took male hormones, had a double mastectomy and a chest reconstruction 2½ years ago to become a man.

His passport says he is male but the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages will not convert his birth certificate because he has not had genital surgery.