Trans Health Winter 2003 Issue is Here! WINTER 2003: THE CARE PROVIDER ISSUE This issue has some of our best content ever for care providers with transgender and transsexual clients, and several articles directed at trans people with disabilities. Make like a Polar Bear Club member and plunge in! THIS ISSUE'S FEATURE ARTICLES What are feminist and transgender theorists saying about transgender health care? How can the theories be put into practice in guiding health care policies? Mistress Krista answers these and other questions in Feminist and Trans Critiques of Health and Health Care: An Introduction, the first in a series of articles on feminism, transgender theory, and health care. Elder members of the transgender community are a hot research topic, yet very little has been written on them. Elroi waszkiewicz brings a valuable resource to Trans-Health with hir Aging in Transgender People: An Annotated Bibliography. The 519 Church Street Community Centre Older GLBT Programme in Toronto recently reported on a series of "community soundings," in which member of older GLBT communities were invited to discuss their particular concerns and suggest recommendations. Justin Cascio reports on the findings from the MTF and FTM communities in The Needs of Older Trans People. Your first question might be how to pronounce it, but beyond that, Kyle Scanlon is prepared to tell you everything (and we do mean everything) you wanted to know about undergoing and recovering from a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo oopherectormy in his article, Hyst-eria. What is fibromyalgia, and is it possibly connected to being female-bodied and gender variant? In Fibromyalgia and FTMs: a possible link? Mistress Krista draws some potential links between female to male transgender conditions and this often-misunderstood illness. She also recommends fitness tips that minimize inflammation and pain for those with fibromyalgia. 6-OXO· is a new compound that reportedly inhibits the conversion of testosterone to estradiol. Is it a useful supplement for transmen? Raverdyke tells all in 6-OXO· for the dudes. Book review: Mistress Krista reviews two recently published books on providing HIV and substance abuse care to transgender people: Walter Bockting and Sheila Kirk's collection, Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care, and Dana G. Finnegan and Emily B. McNally's Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Substance Abusers. How did the "real-life experience" requirement become part of the HBIGDA Standards of Care? Has it ever been tested? Get a crash history on gender research, hear from charter members of HBIGDA, and learn what research is being done to support the position of requiring a real-life test in Justin Cascio's Origins of the Real-Life Experience. What do you do to get or stay fit when you have limited mobility? Mistress Krista gives great practical advice to people with chronic and degenerative conditions and injuries in Training around the Owies: An "Active Rehab" Workout. The power of soy: are the phytoestrogens in soy enough to feminize? Raverdyke explains the principles of phytoestrogens, explodes a few myths, and will have your mouth watering for a soyburger by the end of Soy and Estrogen: Two Great Tastes? After Theresa Anne Travis participated in a presentation on transgender issues to a college class, a student asked her why transsexuals would mutilate their own bodies. Ms. Travis writes an historical and personal response in The Transsexual and the Body Modifier: A Letter. COLUMNS In Pandora's first Q&A column, she answers the question of whether injected silicone can be later removed, and whether or how orgasms are dependent upon hormones. All the news that fits, plus upcoming trans- and health-related conferences, and calls for trans interviewees and study subjects.
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