HBO Documentary on Trans/Intersex

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Has anyone else seen this? It debuted tonight (12/6). Unlike TransGeneration, I haven't heard anything about this till tonight. The website includes a 2 minute preview, and it looks to be really well done. It features Andrea James from www.tsroadmap.com (I love that website, it helped me so much in gathering info about transitioning) Just curious if anyone might have seen it already and what your thoughts on it are.

HBO: Middle Sexes

X-posted to mtf

Studying Gender and Sexual Identity in Amsterdam

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Hi,

I'm a sophomore at Vassar College in New York and I'm currently gauging my options for spending a semester abroad next year. I've begun to consider a program in Amsterdam: the SIT program in Gender and Sexual Identity. Although I've been extremely excited about this program for the past few months, upon closer investigation (and after receiving feedback from a few former participants), I've begun to question the program's validity and curricular perspective. The negative responses I've received include issues of a singular feminist perspective, specifically that the program is remiss in fulfilling its scholarly duty in that it offers a very narrow view, and no tools with which to critique that view; some of the program faculty (none of whom have phDs) support female trafficking and prostitution; and the syllabus readings are outdated which indicates a lack of academic rigor.

I'm very interested in a larger response. It's extremely important to me to go abroad to study gender and queer theory, and if this program seems ill-fated, I would love to learn of other options. If you have any feedback or advice with respect to this particular programs or similar ones, your response would be incredibly appreciated.

If you'd rather communicate directly, my e-mail address is albarlow@vassar.edu. Thanks!

Ally

Gender Crash Open Mic- Boston this Thursday

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Thursday December 8th
Gender Crash Open Mic!

Where you can be a Rock Star! for at least 3 minutes!
Open mic for poets/spoken wordsters/literary geeks/journal writers/queers/transgender/gender queers

Feature: Chezwic
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7:30pm Spontaneous Celebrations 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain Orange line stony brook stop all ages $5 - 10 at the door, open to everyone, more info? www.gendercrash.com

Court of Appeal Allows Exclusion of Trans Women (Canada: Vancouver, BC)

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from: http://www.egale.ca/index.asp?lang=E&menu=1&item=1192

Press Release
December 7, 2005
Court of Appeal Allows Exclusion of Trans Women
Egale calls for explicit protection of Trans people in Human Rights legislation

Vancouver—Three judges of the B.C. Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeal by Kimberly Nixon in the case of Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society. Ms. Nixon had been excluded from volunteering as a peer counselor at a women’s rape crisis centre because she is transsexual. She won her initial human rights complaint but that B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision was overturned by the B.C. Supreme Court, leading to this appeal. This is the highest level of court in Canada ever to rule on a case of discrimination against a transsexual person.
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Boston Job- Stipend Peer Recruiters Needed

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Feel free to forward

Stipended Peer Recruiters Needed

TransCEND (Transgender Care and Education while Negotiating Diversity), a new program of Cambridge Cares About AIDS, to prevent HIV transmission among transwomen women and their partners in the Greater Boston area, is looking for 2 Peer Recruiters to assist with our community needs assessment.
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For more information or to get involved, contact Lee Thornhill, Program Manager at (617) 599-0242 or email lthornhill@ccaa.org.

The mission of Cambridge Cares About AIDS, Inc. (CCA) is to prevent HIV infection through outreach and education, to provide quality care and services to people living with HIV/AIDS, and to combat societal stigmas imposed on our client populations. For more information on all of our programs or administrative information, call (617) 661-3040 or visit www.ccaa.org

Hi!

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Hello. I just joined a couple of days ago, but I haven't posted an intro, yet. I'm Michelle. I'm 17, bisexual, female bodied, but I feel like I'm both genders in my mind.

I wrote this a little bit ago, and I felt like sharing, since it seems fitting to be in here:

( My thoughts on gender constrution )

So, I have a....strange question

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( You too can know more about me than most do. Possible TMI ahead. )

kthxbai

Genes behind transsexualism possibly found

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http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/050511_transfrm.htm

May 11, 2005
Special to World Science

Scientists say they may have found genes that help explain why a tiny
percentage of men see themselves as women, cruelly trapped in the
wrong body.

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