News Articles National Transgender Advicacy Coalition Press Release (NTAC) Anti-Gay Group Seeks to Overturn Allentown Human Rights Ordiance Allentown, PA., July 24, 2003 Last year, Allentown, Pennsylvania, joined a growing number of jurisdictions extending nondiscrimination protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people in such areas as housing and employment. The ink had barely dried before an anti-gay organization, Citizens for Traditional Values (CTV), began gathering signatures to force repeal of the ordinance or to place a repeal referendum before city voters. Transsexual Gets Children After Wife Disobeys Judge's Order CLEARWATER, FL - A transsexual father has been granted temporary custody of his children after a judge ruled their mother violated standing orders not to use her husband's sex change to turn the children against him. TIME MAGAZINE THE TESTOSTERONE EFFECT APRIL 24, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 16 Are You Man Enough? CA transgender bills pass first hurdles Change for the Better Bills to Ban Bias, Streamline Altering of Birth Certificates Would Help Transgendered Persons MTF Teacher Fights for her Job! ANTELOPE, Calif., Sept. 28 - David Warfield served in the Navy, worked as a political consultant and was a whitewater rafting instructor before becoming a high school journalism teacher. Prince to Pauper A royal runaway hoping for a sex change cannot return to the Gulf for fear of death by stoning Princess who wants to live happily ever after as a boy By Ros Wynne Jones Familar Men: A book of Nudes What's it like to be a man? Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Could you write about being a man? On Line Drug Store Need a place to get your T* cheaper ? Try here ! Making a Case for Community History SAN FRANCISCO - During LGBT Pride Month in June 1999, GLHS is excited to curate a major exhibition - MAKING A CASE FOR COMMUNITY HISTORY. Co-sponsored by the Pride Celebration Committee and Frameline, and supported by the art and museum community of San Francisco, this exhibition will run from Friday, June 18th to Friday, June 25th, at the mezzanine of the Castro Theater. On Sunday, June 27th, the exhibition moves to a premier location at the Civic Center Pride Celebration site, and then possibly to City Hall in July. By its finish, the exhibition will have been visited by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. Man Wins Sex Change on Birth Certificate MONTREAL (AP) -- A transsexual has won a precedent-setting legal battle to have his sex designation changed to male from female on his birth certificate. When will it end ? Someone else has been murdered. I've been crying since late last night when I first heard about it through this morning. Testosterone Update - 02/12/99 OK boys, this is the info we have all been looking for, [except, of course, those of you who live in those places where the warehouses haven't run out of our blessed testosterone scripts in the inexpensive form, and believe that you are invincible], just like every other adolescent boy that I know and work with, bio or otherwise. Yes, we do have a problem on our hands and I for one am not going to sit idilly by and let them screw me out of my hard earned money. OK, maybe I have been an organizer for too long, but some times that is motivating. Falwell Looses it... The Rev. Jerry Falwell claimed that Tinky Winky of the "Teletubbies" toddler TV show is gay. By Rob Morse, EXAMINER COLUMNIST Women Don't Care About Size - Honest Every man I have ever known has been obsessed with size. This preoccupation with bigness seems to be embedded in the male psyche and it shows up in the darnedest places ó the Sears Tower, the Cadillac and the Great Wall of China, to give a few examples. Of course, itís in the bedroom where they worry about it the most. February 22, 1997 Science News Most people have been taught to think of estrogens as female sex hormones and androgens as male sex hormones. "But that's simply not true," notes Donald W. Pfaff. Men Doing Feminism Edited by Tom Digby. New York: Routledge, 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-415-91626-7. The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic. Men are expected to resist feminism; feminists are assumed to hate men. However, that oppossitionality is thrown into question by the increasing numbers of men involved in feminist theory and practice. Defying An Intervention, Sexual Identity Prevails In a classic case of a gruesome surgical accident and its consequences that was long used as evidence of the pliability of sexual identity turns out, in follow-up, to suggest the opposite: that a sense of being male or female is innate, immune to the interventions of doctors, therapists and parents. TS Case Wins Arguement For Gays If any soul ever doubted for one moment the far reaching implications of what our community is capable of achieving, then perhaps it's time they opened their eyes this week. Creating a Gender-Friendly World Society has created a firm but arbitrary connection between sex and gender and that link is THE MAIN SOURCE of our problems. Transvestite or transsexual, male or female, gay or lesbian -- all face the same issue. We know the role of outcast; someone who just doesn't belong. We have felt shame and fear of rejection because society says there is something wrong with us. We have learned to hide our true selves in order to achieve acceptance, but that level of self-denial creates unbearable internal turmoil. We share anguish, isolation, desperation. We share pain... Secret identity of victim deepens Clovis murder mystery Chanel Chandler slipped into a black minidress with silver and gold stripes. The 22-year-old set out for a night of dancing, partying at a Fresno club until 2 a.m. It was a typical night out for a single woman, Clovis police said. Transvestite Death Case Opens in DC WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jury selection began Monday in a lawsuit based on allegations of bigotry, negligence and dereliction of duty in the death of a transvestite at a municipal hospital in the nation's capital. "Two Spirit" comes from Native American people. Two spirit is the generic term adopted by the Native GLBT Two Spirit community for persons claiming both sexes or genders. In many native tribes these are spiritual leaders, healers and teachers, and are very special people in their tribes, very respected and very much leaders. The Anthropological term has been berdach, which is of persian origin,and means male (and usually young male) sex slave. This term was used by the Spanish when they first came to the Americas to describe two spirit people, whom they considered to represent the absolute depths of depravity. The Native Two Spirit community is working to get the anthropological community to use "two spirit" rather than "berdach". Mom Fights Transsexual for Custody ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - A woman should get sole custody of her daughter because the child's father was born a woman and had surgery to become a man, making the union a same-sex marriage, her lawyer argued in court Friday. AP-NY-11-21-97 2314EST Sex-change people offer clues to obesity-researchers People undergoing sex-change operations could offer important clues to why women find it so much harder to lose weight than men, Dutch researchers said on Saturday. Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. NY Woman Sprouts Beard, Sues A woman who sprouted a beard after taking Rogaine is suing for $1.5 million, the New York Post reported today. Associated Press Sex Reassignment at Birth: A Long Term Review and Clinical Implications This report is a long term follow-up to a "classic" case in the pediatric, psychiatry, and sexology literature. In this case an XY individual had his penis accidentally ablated and was subsequently raised as a female. The initial reports were that this individual was developing into a normally functioning female. The present findings show the individual did not accept this sex of rearing. At puberty this individual switched to living as a male and has successfully lived as such from that time to the present. Pacific Center for Sex and Society University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology 1951 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822 Director: Milton Diamond, Ph.D. Milton Diamond, Ph.D. & H. Keith Sigmundson, M.D. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine March 1997 (vol. 151. pp.298-304) For Correspondence Contact: Dr. Milton Diamond diamond@hawaii.edu Test-tube baby is half-boy half-girl Medical researchers in Britain say they have found an unexpected risk in test-tube baby techniques. They have discovered a case in which two embryos, one male and one female, fused in development to form a single child. From BBC News Online, Sunday Jan 18th 1998
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