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[bob.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know of a gender-neutral term for nephews/nieces? I don't think there's one in English. I suppose one could say "my siblings' children" ...

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[ardynm.livejournal.com]

Larry King is interviewing Transsexual author Jennifer Finney Boylan, on CNN right now on the west coast. (not sure if CNN is nationwide at the same time)

what does "feminine" mean?

[effeteifrit.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's not really "I'm male" but that "I'm not a woman". There is a difference between negating one identity (woman) and taking on another positive identity (male). You can be self-identified as (apologies to everyone who acknowledges more than two genders, but I'm having a hard time theorizing this as it is):( attempted analysis. a mess, but at least I tried )

But what this stems from is my thinking that maybe it's not that I'm male-identified. Being not-female identified (as an example) does not automatically mean that one is male-identified.

Maybe it's that being female-identified has caused me a lot of problems, so I decide to stop clinging so tightly to a female or "feminine" identification. But here again is that problem, the word "feminine". Is Kali feminine? Maybe I'm misusing that goddess-name, but my point is...what *is* feminine? Is it heteronormative femininity? Is it something which is exhibited by the majority of the nontrans, female population, and some (or perhaps many) of the male population, regardless of identity? Is it trained, and if so, is femininity across cultures relative and not absolute? If so, is femininity within subcultures relative and not absolute? Can you be a butch dyke to heteronormative culture and still be _feminine_--just feminine in a different way--that you may still have a mind that is recognizable as female because of its--presence? (I was never identified as a butch--I may be screwing this up.)

PFLAG Transfamily booklet.

[zabyprite.livejournal.com]

I came across this. I recall a few people posting that they were about to come out or recently come out. I thought maybe it would help someone.

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[montrealais.livejournal.com]

I just found this link and thought it might be useful. It's run by Egale Canada and has a bunch of links and information that should be relevant to Canadians and non-Canadians alike, though it appears to be a bit embryonic.

Canadian Anti-Violence Project: Working to end violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, two-spirited, intersex, questioning and queer people, and their allies.

(xposted to my journal, dykes2watchout4, gender_petition, genderqueer, lgbt_college, queer_mtl, transgender, transnews)