Transgender & Intersex: December 2012
What's In a Name?
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 23, 2012 2:00 PM |Having the wrong name and gender marker can be much more than a hassle. It is a source of constant inner pain.Read More
Silver Linings: Trans Youth Accommodated Despite Politics & IFI
Filed by Austen Crowder | December 19, 2012 1:30 PM |We can't always beat groups like the Illinois/Indiana Family Institute or MassResistance, who have deep pockets, deep connections, and a lot of pent-up anger. Yet at the same time schools have a far, far bigger problem than a tussle with quasi-religious nutjobs.Read More
Bigoted Interference Edition [What You Need To Know]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | December 14, 2012 10:00 AM |As the East Aurora IL School Board mess breaks down further, a very similar story comes out of Florida. Plus, Britain honors a trans* trailblazer, House GOP raise the DOMA defense credit line, PA readies for a fight, and moreRead More
Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis to be Moved Out of Sexual Disorders Chapter of DSM-5
Filed by Kelley Winters | December 09, 2012 10:00 AM |This reclassification, along with the change in title from Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Dysphoria, is a significant improvement in the diagnostic coding used for access to medical transition care for trans and transsexual people.Read More
Correcting the 'GID Is Removed from the DSM' Reports
Filed by Mercedes Allen | December 05, 2012 1:30 PM |Yesterday morning, I woke up to a rash of headlines proclaiming that transexuality was no longer considered "disordered" by the American Psychiatric Association. No, it hasn't. That's not true at all.Read More
