Transgender & Intersex: April 2009
Fortune Small Business Magazine on Transgender Workers
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 28, 2009 | 10:30 AM |Fortune Small Business magazine put out an article on transgender workers today, available on the CNNMoney.com site. Entitled "When a staffer switches genders," the subtitle emphasizes tolerance and respect: "Coping with major changes can flummox a workplace, but you can...Read More
Craiglist killer Philip Markoff also targeted men & transwomen
Filed by Bil Browning | April 27, 2009 | 6:30 PM |Another reminder that the closet and the constant socially reinforced shame of a non-heterosexual orientation can warp an individual: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy But that won't be the story... Instead, it'll be...Read More
Dwight DeLee Trial To Start June 11
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 27, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Now that Allen Andrade is rotting in jail for the rest of his life, it's now time for the transgender community's attention to focus on the other alleged murderer facing hate crimes charges for killing a transwoman. "The decision to...Read More
Transvestic Disorder and Policy Dysfunction in the DSM-V
Filed by Kelley Winters | April 27, 2009 | 9:30 AM |While the current psychiatric classification of "Gender Identity Disorder" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has drawn global GLBTQ concern and controversy, the equally defamatory classification of "Transvestic Fetishism" has been largely overlooked by transadvocates and allies....Read More
Zapata Family Statement
Filed by Dana Rudolph | April 24, 2009 | 7:00 AM |The family of Angie Zapata makes a statement after the conviction of her murderer. Have tissues handy....Read More
Why the Jury Had No Trouble Convicting Angie Zapata's Murderer
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 23, 2009 | 6:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Abigail Jensen is a trans woman and attorney in Prescott, Arizona. She is also President of QsquaredYouth, a member of the boards of directors of the Prescott Area Women's Shelter and TransMentors International, and a general...Read More
Porn for Social Activism
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | April 23, 2009 | 1:30 PM |Last month I wrote about the use of sexual media to raise awareness around different issues. That post, Porn for Education, focused on written porn, which is almost always an individual production. Getting involved in video pornography, however, requires... shall...Read More
Angie Zapata murder: Guilty on four counts
Filed by Bil Browning | April 22, 2009 | 6:00 PM |Breaking news: Allen Ray Andrade has been found guilty of first degree murder, car theft, identity theft and committing a hate crime for the murder of transgender woman Angie Zapata. The sentence will be life without parole. Justice is served....Read More
Stuck in Loneliness
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 22, 2009 | 1:00 PM |Editors' note: Monica F. Helms is the president of the Transgender Americans Veterans Association. We all know that loneliness does not limit itself to LGB or T people. This feeling probably strikes 100% of the human population at one time...Read More
Disposable
Filed by Mercedes Allen | April 22, 2009 | 9:30 AM |It's not really "murder" if the victim is disposable. That's the theme that keeps resurfacing when trans panic defenses are used to effectively stave off any chance of serious sentencing for the murder of a woman who happens to have...Read More
Jury Duty
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 18, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Paula Keiser transitioned in 1987 and is President of TransYouth of Kansas. She also maintains the imatyfa.org website. She lives in Topeka with her partner of 13 years, their cat and their two cocker spaniels. Last week I received a...Read More
Angie Zapata's Murderer is About to Cook His Own Goose
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 16, 2009 | 6:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Abigail Jensen is a trans woman and attorney in Prescott, Arizona. She is also President of QsquaredYouth, a member of the boards of directors of the Prescott Area Women's Shelter and TransMentors International, and a general...Read More
National Car Rental Responds To Harassment And Threats Story Of Sarah Vestal
Filed by Pam Spaulding | April 14, 2009 | 6:00 PM |One of my co-bloggers, Autumn, received a response from the national office of National Car Rental regarding the post "National Car Rental Employee To Trans Customer: "Screwed-Up Man Faggot"." by Autumn Sandeen, Pam's House Blend I received an update from...Read More
Stuck in Binary
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 14, 2009 | 11:30 AM |Editors' note: Monica Helms is the president of the Transgender American Veterans Association. This is the second part of her "Stuck in..." series. Think of how dull the world would be if everything came in just twos. We would only...Read More
National Car Rental Employee To Trans Customer: "Screwed-Up Man Faggot"
Filed by Pam Spaulding | April 13, 2009 | 7:00 PM |Note from Pam: This is a post by Pam's House Blend contributor Autumn Sandeen, who was contacted by the victim in this case to expose this atrocious treatment by a National Rental Car staffer and the Little Rock Police Department....Read More
Alberta Finance Minister: "I Didn't Know We Covered That"
Filed by Mercedes Allen | April 13, 2009 | 3:00 PM |When Finance Minister Iris Evans discussed the Province's decision to delist Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS) on the day after the budget was handed down, she said, "I didn't even know we covered that." Reportedly, there was a look of hate...Read More
Ruthie Johnson Is Confuzzled
Filed by Mercedes Allen | April 11, 2009 | 12:30 PM |Ruthie Johnson seems to be a little confuzzled. Back on April 3rd, when asked about equal rights for gay and lesbian people, she remarked, "If someone comes to work dressed in drag, they should be able to fire them." Now,...Read More
Transgender Constitutional Rights: How Justice Kennedy Killed the Sex Police
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | April 11, 2009 | 10:30 AM |I will be giving a talk, titled as above, at Hampshire College on April 17 in Western Mass. The working title was "Lawrence v. Texas and the Constitutional Right to Gender Autonomy," but that put even me to sleep, and...Read More
Susan Stanton working again
Filed by Alex Blaze | April 10, 2009 | 2:00 PM |Congrats to Susan Stanton, the woman who lost her job as city manager two years ago because she began the process of transitioning. She's working again in her field of expertise. Susan Stanton, fired two years ago from her job...Read More
Susan Stanton Named City Manager for Lake Worth
Filed by Nadine Smith | April 08, 2009 | 11:30 AM |Equality Florida congratulates both the City of Lake Worth and Susan Stanton on her selection to fill the position of Lake Worth City Manager. Susan was selected for the job from a group of 50 candidates. We're pleased that the...Read More
Alberta Delists Gender Reassignment Surgery Funding
Filed by Mercedes Allen | April 08, 2009 | 10:30 AM |This is a quick note for Canadian readers and those interested on the way of things for transfolk up here. On April 7th, 2009, the Province of Alberta has delisted funding for GRS surgery. I'm awaiting confirmation as to whether...Read More
The dissociation point: On manners and pronouns
Filed by Austen Crowder | April 07, 2009 | 3:00 PM |I'm probably going to open a huge can of worms with this post. I guess every person going through transition has to get to the pronoun question sometime. In my experience, this hits like a rock: one day you don't...Read More
TransTuesday on Twitter
Filed by Michael Crawford | April 07, 2009 | 11:00 AM |I'm sure that the right-wing is having conniptions over what they likely see as the LGBT take over of Twitter. First, there was #samesexsunday and now there's #transtuesday. The concept is pretty simple. Its #followfriday gone trans. Each Tuesday recommend...Read More
I'm sorry, you're just not manly enough for this interview
Filed by Austen Crowder | April 06, 2009 | 7:00 PM |I was really hoping the Tayisa Elzy reporting issue would simply be an isolated Hoosier incident -- no such luck! They scheduled an interview with me for this morning with an 8:50am arrival time for a 9:20am live air interview....Read More
Stuck in Transition
Filed by Guest Blogger | April 06, 2009 | 3:00 PM |Editors' note: Monica F. Helms is the president of the Transgender American Veterans Association. I'm sure that many of the readers have been in a situation where they needed to make a left turn at an intersection with a left-turn...Read More
I'm Joining HRC
Filed by Monica Roberts | April 01, 2009 | 11:30 AM |This may come as a shock to all of you who've known me for years as one of HRC's most virulent critics, but I'm pleased to announce that I am joining the Human Rights Campaign outreach team to the African-American...Read More
