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New England Transgender Pride March: Photos and Reflections
2008-06-08 17:13:00 The first-ever New England Transgender Pride March took place this weekend in Northampton, and I was there with my "Episcopal Church Welcomes You" rainbow tank top and a digital camera to capture the pageantry. I was hoping to blend into the MassEquality contingent, but they were scattered around other groups this time, so I just milled around looking like I knew what I was doing, and took lots of pictures. Next thing I knew, someone had handed me a bunch of purple and white balloons, and I was marching behind the lead banner, shouting "Trans Pride Now". Without either of my moms this time, I felt anxious that I didn't have the right to be there. Straight allies are important, but on the other hand, was I co-opting someone else's oppressed subculture? (I had a Native American Studies professor in college who was apoplectic about this.) The fact is, when you're genuinely weird, and view all human social categories as potential idols to be decons...
By: Reiter's Block
Transexual British Writer Remarries Wife She First Married as a Man in 1949
2008-06-05 11:55:00 Well-known British writer Jan Morris, a transgendered woman who began her life as a man named James, has married the woman she long ago divorced to change sexes in a civil union. Elizabeth Tuckniss and James Morris were originally married in 1949, having met in London while taking an Arabic course. Morris had recently returned from ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Gender Conversion
2008-05-27 21:19:00 You can?t drive till you?re 16 or 17, can?t smoke, join the military (without parents? consent), or vote until you?re 18, and can?t buy alcohol till your 21 BUT you can start the procedures to change your gender if you believe yourself to be mature enough at age 7 (or maybe even 3) to realize you are simply in the ?wrong body?. [see for yourself]Yeah, this makes perfect sense ? Give me a break Dr. Spackle ? Are we to really believe you are ?filling the holes? or ?patching the gaps? in humanity?s mental, emotional and physical realm with this idea of Gender Conversion?I believe I find myself agreeing more with Dr. Nimocks in that, ?Just because modern medicine can accomplish certain things does not mean that these procedures should be done.?
Transgender Help - PANIC!
2008-05-26 12:05:00 Almost all transgender people doubt themselves and can suffer low self esteem and moments of panic ? or days of stress or even weeks! It could be your partner or child has told you that they dress in clothes usually attributed to the opposite sex or want to change sex! The important thing is to remember ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
9-Year-Old?s Transgender ?Social Transition? Counseling For Classmates
2008-05-07 07:16:00 “Social Transition” or Social Experiment? Cross posted from Stop The ACLU OK. This is just sick! Found via Moonbattery the latest in downfall of America. Parents of a third-grade student at Chatham Park Elementary School approached the administration on April 16 to ask for help in making a ?social transition? for their child. The Haverford School District ...
Bit of a mad day today!
2008-04-18 22:02:00 Had a bit of a mad day today, went into work as usually and then rushed home got changed and then had my monthly journey down to Cristianos for my four o’clock appointment, which is roughly about sixty miles or so, about an hour or there abouts. It was my ninth visit today, I can’t believe ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Happy re-birthday to me today!
2008-04-14 16:38:00 It’s hard to believe that this time last year I was recovering from my Gender Surgery in Leicester Nuffield Hospital, so today is my 1st “re-birthday” and I would like take this opportunity to thank all those I know for the wonderful cards I’ve received today, thanks everyone, you know who you are So ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Transgender Practitioners in the United Kingdom
2008-04-07 19:42:00 Came across this usuful list today, while searching the net: Transgender Practitioners in the United Kingdom | UK | Mental Health and SRS Surgeons Do you need a surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, counsellor or mental health practitioner who specialises in transgender care needs? The Following Practitioner Guide is a useful tool to help you find a practitioner. Where ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Pregnant transgender man visits "Oprah"
2008-04-06 15:05:00 Thomas Beatie, the transgender man who gets pregnant by artificial insemination, appeared with his wife, Nancy, on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Thursday. The program included a chat with their obstetrician -- who declared their baby "totally healthy" -- and footage of the baby's ultrasound. Beatie, 34, is six months' pregnant and on target to deliver a healthy girl -- which he is carrying in the womb he kept intact when he became a man 10 years ago, media reports said. (Source: chinadaily.com.cn) Thomas Beatie, a transgender man of Oregon, gets pregnant by artificial insemination. He has decided to carry his child as he has said, "Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire." (Source: chinadaily.com.cn) Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy pose for a magazine in 2000. (Source: chinadaily.com.cn) Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy pose for a magazine in 2000. (Source: chinadaily.com.cn)
BBC - Radio 4 - Gender Dysphoria
2008-04-05 12:34:00 BBC - Radio 4 - Gender Dysphoria In 1934 Bernadette was diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria a condition which in those days was barely heard of never mind understood. Her parents were advised by medical professionals to “make a man of him” or he would become homosexual. If you like what you see, buy me a coffee!Related PostsMarch 25, ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
PREGNANT MAN THOMAS BEATIE INTERVIEW ON OPRAH | PREGNANT TRANSGENDER MAN TH
2008-04-05 00:29:00 Oprah Winfrey aired her exclusive People Magazine interview with "The World's First Pregnant Man" on April 3rd. Pregnant man Thomas Beatie was born a female whose birth name was Tracy...
By: Binside TV
Transgender man gets pregnant
2008-03-27 12:27:00 A 34 year-old transgender man, who was born a woman and still has the necessary parts, made the difficult decision to bear a child after his wife had a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis. Thomas Beatie wrote an article for The Advocate in which he detailed the difficult and often humiliating process of trying...
A little information on Mr Tim Terry Consultant Urological Surgeon
2008-03-25 18:55:00 For those who are looking for a surgeon to perform GRS and for those that are interested here’s some information on Mr Terry the Consultant Urological Surgeon who performed my surgery in April last year at the Leicester Nuffield Hospital. Mr Tim Terry Tim Terry is a Consultant Urological Surgeon based at Leicester General and Leicester Nuffield ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Laser Hair Removal Treatment for the Transgendered Community
2008-03-16 17:32:00 Cristianos Laser Clinic Laser Skin and Laser Hair Removal Treatment for the Transgendered Community The prospect of having a hair free, smooth complexion offers freedom from the worry and practical day to day constraints caused by facial and body hair. Not having to shave or concern yourself with the inevitable 6 oclock shadow and not drawing attention ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Transgender Issues in the Workplace: A Tool for Managers
2008-03-14 23:39:00 No federal law protects employees from workplace discrimination based on their gender identity or expression. Since the 1970s, a growing number of states and localities have enacted laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. At the same time, employers have been modifying their non-discrimination policies to extend protections for gay, lesbian and bisexual workers. Today, three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies...
By: Asiaing.com
No information on Gender Dysphoria or Transgender at the HCW
2008-03-13 16:40:00 I just performed a search on the Health Commission Wales website for “Gender Dysphoria” and “Transgender” suffice to say that the first search came up with nothing at all, which goes to show that the HCW has no interest whatsoever in helping those living in Wales that have been diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria, mind ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Philippines LadyBoy Beauty Contest
2008-02-13 08:40:00 The Amazing Philippines Beauties Pageant is a Beauty Pageant with a twist, all the contestants are transsexual, transvestites and cross-dressers.
Transgender Breast Growth - a Natural Way to Transgender Breast Development
2008-02-12 22:42:00 Me, I forced them all and came to the conclusion that if you fancy transgender breast expansion the road to go is the road Here???s what I learned during my months of studying.Essential although surgery is aplishable to in the interest of transgender breast expansion the risks are very pongy chief I base out-dated that it is actually aplishable in the interest of your implants to song the pellicle on your casket to the breaking with respect to make an effort to This leads to elephantine infections and some hideous scarring.The manful casket exactly does not drink adequate skin and concatenation to buttress implants, strikingly if you fancy them tall The costs of surgery also turned me wrong It is exactly too chancy to refund that much in the interest of something that may erect up slaying me or leaving me scarred Next up, I took a look at an far-fetched amount of natural supplements.All title that transgender knocker expansion is aplishable but I was not convinced.At the end of ones...
By: medicine news
Transgender Bizarroworld Extends to Third Grade
2008-02-08 18:04:00 Check out this crazy shit from Moonbattery, un-fucking-believable!!!! The public schools of Douglas County, Colorado stand ready to pretend that a boy in the third grade is a girl. Teachers plan to avoid pronoun problems by always referring to the kid by his name (which has been withheld). Unisex bathrooms will be made available for him, so ...
The Transgender Presidency
2008-02-03 02:04:00 [Wondering where we have been the past few days? Business in San Jose California forced us to take a short sabbatical from posting but here are a few thoughts for an update.] I wish we could say that we were out on the west coast covering the Billhillary Transgender Presidency and bid for the White ...
I?ve had a wonderful donation!
2008-02-01 13:27:00 I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the kind donations made to GRS Wales and especial to my most resent donation of £20 which will help keep the website alive. If you would like to make a donation then pop on over to the GRS Wales website and click the donation button ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Transgender woman sues Catholic hospital
2008-01-07 13:30:00 "God made you a man." That's what Charlene Hastings said she was told when she called to inquire about breast enlargement surgery at Seton Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Daly City. Now the San Franciscan is suing the hospital, claiming officials there discriminated against her because she had a sex-change operation.
Merry Christmas everyone
2007-12-29 00:07:00 Well as you can see from my last post, it?s been a while since I sat down and blogged, so here I am just casually sitting here typing away, but before I started I checked my SPAM captures and I had 127 trapped, my god you wouldn?t believe what people try to add as comments ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
My 5th Laser hair removal treatment
2007-12-21 10:32:00 My God, I can?t believe how time flies, it only seems like the other day when I was getting ready to go for my 4th visit for laser hair removal and now the month has shot by and it?s my 5th visit, no wonder I?ve got no money for Christmas ;) (donation appreciated) So I?m off ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
A Transgender TV Debut In Conservative India
2007-12-09 07:43:00 CHENNAI, India -- In a congested neighborhood full of trash heaps, cows and auto-rickshaws lives a budding star named Rose. Her photographs are splashed across newspaper pages and magazine centerfolds.
By: Get rich
Thai Surgeons Experts in Penis Repair Because of Thai Girls
2007-12-08 12:38:00 Thai Surgeons and Doctor Treat Many Cases of Thai Girl Cutting off Penis of Unfaithful Partners
PEREZ HILTON WHAT A SLIME BUCKET, BY OLD BETCH?N TRANSGENDER
2007-12-07 16:12:00 WHO ARE ALL YOU DAMNED PEOPLE WATCHING MY VIDEO ANYHOW????
Words of wisdom on coming out
2007-12-05 18:32:00 Just been surfing the net and Wordpress blogs came upon this really using post on the TopOutColleges Blog. Here’s and excerpt: Sometimes the things we dread the most are the things most necessary. Coming out to one?s parents is a trip down memory lane, but coming out to yourself is not always as simple. Coming out to ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Transgender Truth Michelle Bruce
2007-11-24 07:13:00 firoze shakir photographerno1 posted a photo: photo courtesy Riverdale City Council member Michelle Bruce is the first openly transgendered elected official in Georgia and, perhaps, the Southeast, according to national gay organizations. (Photo by R.O. Youngblood) Riverdale incumbent Michelle Bruce faces lawsuit alleging gender fraud Wed, Nov 21st 2007,08: 25 Ga. trans politician accused of gender fraud Lawsuit claims Michelle Bruce lied by identifying as female By DYANA BAGBY | Nov 20,8: 06 PM http: //sovo.com/thelatest/thelatest.-cfm? blog_id=15353 One of the few openly transgender elected officials in the U.S. faces a lawsuit from opponents who allege she deceived the public by identifying as female. Two losing candidates in the Nov.6 city council election in Riverdale, Ga., filed a lawsuit last week in Clayton County Superior Court against incumbent City Councilmember Michelle Bruce, accusing her of fraud for identifying as female.The lawsuit also alleges election fraud an...
San Francisco ID?s - We Don?t Care What Gender You Are, or If You?re Legal!
2007-11-23 23:16:00 In the latest step by the San Francisco Board of “Supervisors,” illegal immigrants will be allowed to get ID cards (but not drivers licenses - yet). (For my views on this subject, check out this post). And just a side point - if I were ever to get employed by the Secretary of State, or ...
San Francisco Approves ID Cards That Exclude Gender
2007-11-21 21:14:00 Next year, San Francisco will issue municipal identification cards showing the usual name, birthdate and photo, but not gender. When other cities considered issuing ID cards without regard to legal status, the debate was over illegal immigrants. In San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors approved such an ID on Tuesday, transgender activists added gender to ...
By: The Hot Joints
Being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender is not a crime.
2007-11-08 18:31:00 HATE CRIME IS?I came across this website today, the website is funded by the police is designed to provide information about Hate Crime. The police service recognises that hate crime comes in many different forms, this includes Homophobic and Transphobic Hate Crime.The webiste includes information on how to get a self-reporting pack as well as ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
Working hard on my website
2007-11-06 19:55:00 I’ve been working hard today on my website, GRS Wales, trying to find links on the site that are out of date, I’ve found a few, but some are still there so I will continue working on it tomorrow and hopefully it will be finished. While checking out the links I came across an interesting Disclosure ...
By: GRS Wales Blog
The boy with the transgender auntie
2007-10-03 22:45:00 Uncle Prem called yesterday evening. He wanted to extend his business trip by another few days and had asked mummy if we would stay with Aunty Preeta for a bit longer. Mummy couldn’t really say no, afterall she was Aunty Preeta’s sister. Although none of us wanted to stay any longer at the time, I ...
Gender Identity and Transgenderism
2007-09-23 13:52:00 Academic perspectives on the psychology of transsexuality are represented by groups like the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) and are codified in the mental illness model of the DSM-IV-TR as Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Transvestic Fetishism (TF). This psychopathology treats transsexuality and cross-dressing as inherently bad things about us. They're not. Gender bending, gender queers, and transgenderism show society how uncomfortable it is trying to understanding gender and sexuality. Can sexologists refrain from placing value judgements upon those with gender dysphoria and instead refine the way we understand the psychology of gender, atypical gender development, and gender role socialization? I hope that by bringing a personal and non-judgemental scientific approach to understanding transgenderism, I can help transsexuals, cross-dressers, and psychopathologists grow and develop as people. It feels like everything should have been so obviou...
By: Movie video
OUTrageous: The Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film
2007-09-07 02:59:00 Date : November 1-4, 2007Place : Santa BarbaraEARLY BIRD PASSES now on sale for ONLY $60! Join Our Mailing List Don't miss OUT! Join our mailing list and get the latest OUTrageous! news on events, films, the 2007 festival, and more. Become an OUTragous! "Friend" http://www.myspace.com/outrageo-usfilmfest Submit Your Film Both shorts and features, narrative or documentary, of interest to the GLBT community can be submitted for OUTrageous! 07. Download the submission form PDF. No entry fee.
Duke Transgender Student Moved Out of Dorm
2007-08-30 00:00:00 Some students at Duke University and their parents say they were shocked by a decision to let a male student who plans to become a woman live in female dorm. ... Read more!
By: Gay Blog Ruffian
Jewish Guide Has Transgender Blessing
2007-08-10 00:00:00 (New York City) Halfway through a newly revised manual promoting inclusion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in Judaism’s Reform movement are two short blessings written by a rabbi who was raised Eliza and is now Elliot. ... Read more!
By: Gay Blog Ruffian
GLBT Leaders Proclaim ?Now is the Time? for Transgender Equality
2007-08-09 00:00:00 After a Largo Florida city commission meeting, city manager Steve Stanton was approached by a resident who held out his hand. Stanton grabbed the 93-yr-old man’s hand and the resident in turn clasped the handshake with his other hand.... Read more!
By: Gay Blog Ruffian
California transgender inmate sues prison over rape
2007-07-21 09:03:00 SAN FRANCISCO - Alexis Giraldo was born as a man and takes hormones to feminize her appearance, a fact she says prison officials didn't care about even as her male cellmate repeatedly raped and beat her. Giraldo is suing the state prison system and several guards over the state's policy of assigning inmates like her to men's or women's prisons depending on whether they have had a sex change. Prisons have a duty to protect inmates as much as possible. If they could have reasonably protected him and didn't, then I feel sympathy for Giraldo. However, it's my understanding that rapes aren't an infrequent occurrence in prisons. Do all of them have a right to sue? "Prisons are violent places, and male prisons are especially violent places," said Greg Walston, a lawyer who took Giraldo's for free and asked a jury this week for unspecified damages. "You take that boiling cauldron and you put one woman in there ? which is exactly what happened here ? and it's like throwing a ...
By: Asymmetric
Jesus: The Transgender Terminator?
2007-06-06 15:42:00 Opinion by Joanne Herman - Excerpt Original News Article Largo, FL — With dozens of citizens speaking at the February hearing that would ultimately lead to the dismissal of Susan Stanton, the transgender former city manager of Largo, Fla., the media needed a pithy sound bite, and it found an especially good one: ?If Jesus was here ...
Helpline to reduce violence against transgender people
2007-05-31 13:32:00 Chennai, May 31 (IANS) Eight stitches on the head and a bone fractured. This is what the Stanley Medical College Hospital had to deal with a few months ago. The patient was a member of the transgender community. “The transgender community is so abhorred that the common person really does not mind abusing, pushing and beating ...
By: Latest News
Pakistani court orders arrest of transgender gro...
2007-05-29 05:39:00 Pakistani court orders arrest of transgender groom and his brideLAHORE, Pakistan (AP) ? A Pakistani court ordered the arrest of a couple who married last year after a team of doctors concluded the groom was really a woman, despite a sex-change operation, officials said last week. The case casts a rare public spotlight on transsexualism, which along with homosexuality and cross-dressing are considered taboo in conservative Pakistan. The Lahore High Court issued the warrant May 9 after medics charged with examining 31-year-old Shumail Raj submitted their report, Mohammed Sharif, a judge at the court, told the Associated Press. Ejaz Bhatty, a senior doctor who led the team, said Raj told the medics he had consulted a doctor 16 years ago after noticing that his voice had changed and that he was sprouting facial hair. The doctor recommended gender reassignment surgery and operated twice on Raj, removing breasts and uterus, Bhatty said. However, the court medics concluded that ?all the ev...
News & Current Events :: Transgender Minister Reappointed in Maryland
2007-05-25 17:10:00 Author: Eric Subject: Transgender Minister Reappointed in MarylandPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 11:10 am (GMT -4) Transgender Minister Reappointed in Maryland BRETT ZONGKER A United Methodist minister who has changed gender since being chosen to lead a congregation in Baltimore will be reappointed there, church officials announced Thursday at a regional convocation. The Rev. Drew Phoenix told the church's Baltimore-Washington conference that he had gone through "spiritual transformation" in the past year, since changing his name from Ann Gordon and receiving medical treatment to become a man. The denomination bans sexually active gay clergy but does not have any rules about transgender pastors. "It is my intention and hope that by sharing my story that we commit ourselves as Christians and as United Methodists to become educated about the complexity of gender," said Phoenix, the only known transgender minister in the conference. "Each of us is a be...
Matrimonial Bliss: Korean Transgender Harisu Gets Married
2007-05-20 23:34:00 South Korean transgender beauty Harisu, 32, tied the knot in Seoul Saturday with her boyfriend singer, 27-year-old rap singer Micky Chung, pledging to become a “sexy and caring” wife. She has been dating the singer since 2005 after they met online. The marriage ceremony was carried out by Kim Suk-Kwon, a surgeon who performed Harisu’s male-to-female ...
By: Daily Dumpling
Alexis Arquette's Transgender Summit
2007-05-11 10:04:00 The powerful stories of four women who were once men are revealed in Alexis Arquette's transgender round table! ALEXIS ARQUETTE may not be more famous than siblings ROSANNA, PATRICIA and DAVID ARQUETTE -- not to mention sister-in-law and former "Friends" star COURTENEY COX -- but she sure has the most interesting lifestyle of the entire family: She's the brother who wants to be a sister!
In New York : A Transgender Haven
2007-05-03 00:06:00 Don't miss this heart-tugging New York Times video -- "A Place For Transgender Youth" -- which is about Carmen's Place. Carmen's Place is a unique homeless shelter in Queens, New York, for transgender runaways. All of the young residents are biologically male, but on their way to looking and living like women.Carmen's Place is run by an African American Episcopal priest who seems to have the spunk and generosity of a Desmond Tutu. As such, Reverend Braxton seems to possess a brilliant mix of loving acceptance balanced with the confidence to challenge his young charges to better managing their overwhelmed lives. This is one blessed man, Rev. Braxton, for doing this work to truly help some of America's least understood and most marginalized citizens. In turn, he is blessing the handful of "sparrows" who likely know more pain than we could imagine.Also check out:~ Carmen's Place at MySpace~ New York Times's complete article "After Work, Bunk Beds and a Mass"~ Transgender [Wiki]~...
By: South Side Star
Cocks in Frocks: Transgender Tribulations
2007-04-28 00:00:00 Dear [tag]Reverend Qelqoth[/tag], Me and my husband have been a happily married couple for almost 50 years. It was a [tag]teenage romance[/tag] that filled my heart with [tag]passion[/tag], one which never really died. That is, until these last few years. Since my hip gave way, it?s been difficult for us to make ... |
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