Lobbying 101 Sessions

[ftmwolfcasey.livejournal.com]

Saturday, February 4 Johnson City, Site & Time TBA

Saturday, February 4 Knoxville, Site & Time TBA

Saturday, February 11 Chattanooga, Site & Time TBA

Saturday, February 11 Memphis, 9am to Noon, Site TBA

Saturday, February 11 Nashville #1, PLAY, 10am to Noon

Thursday, February 16 Nashville #2, TRIBE, 6 to 8 pm

Saturday, February 18 Cookeville, Site & Time TBA

Saturday, February 18 Jackson, Site & Time TBA

Tuesday, February 21 ADVANCING EQUALITY DAY ON THE HILL
                        Meet at Andrew Johnson Theater, 8:30 am

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[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

News agencies work so hard to present LG issues in a sensitive manner, as they should.  But frankly, I'm weary of reading blurb after blurb about Felicity Huffman playing a man(sic) about to have a sex-change operation. 

First of all, men don't have sexual reassignment surgery (unless they are FTM).   Second of all it is wrong to address transsexuals as anything other than the gender presented.  Bree, Felicity's character in Transamerica, is a woman.  Not a man wanting to be a woman.  Not a man pretending to be a woman.  But a woman.   She lives as a woman and is taken as such by those around her.  

Why won't CNN show as much sensitivity to trans issues as they do with Brokeback Mountain? 

Bless her heart, Felicity has done so much to correct people on their misgiven stereotypes about trans women.  Nobody asked her to, she's choosing to do this on her own.   It's a shame reporters aren't paying the slightest bit of attention.  (especially considering Felicity's performance in Transamerica won her a Golden Globe last night)

new listserve for GenderCrash.com

[gendercrash.livejournal.com]

Feel free to repost

I started a new listserve for GenderCrash.com. I will be sending out annoucements for Gender Crash open mic and other relevant news or events in and around Boston for queer, transgender, and gender queer folks. Annoucements will go out 1-3x a month.

To join send an email to
gendercrash-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Thanks
Gunner
www.gendercrash.com
Intersection of Boston's Queer, Transgender, and Gender Queer Communities

Transgender policies for various places.

[stacis-leak.livejournal.com]

Eddie Izzard said it was all about confidence but since I dant have any I'm basically polling for any advice on two things:

1) getting a female haircut

2) buying clothes/using fitting rooms in the ladieswear department.

Keeping in mind that I probably won't be passing as female at the time, (due mostly to my sheer inability to currently do so, coupled with shyness and fear of failure)

Specifically I'm wondering if anyone has had trouble with women's salons and stores like Evans (where I saw these gorgeous jeans that I just have to have).

Basically I want to look my best at a music convention coming up, where I will be trying to pass, and I think I'm going to need all the help I can get.

need some input.. whats your take?

[marikotoeii.livejournal.com]

hiya i posted earlier about my TG comic, Chaotic Kiss.. and it is once again about this comic that i have a question.. anyon can answer, wheather they are post or pre op, or even if they arent tg.. though it is the opinion of tgs im most looking for..

in the third book of my comic, Sydney, the post op mtf lead, is returning home to see her family for the first time in nearly 8 years. Like many, Sydney was without parents who supported her need to transition, and so when she was 16, she made the decision to run away from home and stay with an older friend who was also going thorugh transition.. Sydney has had very limited and very strained contact with her parents over the past years.. and it has been abot a year since she had the complete surgery.. She didnt want to see her parents until she was sure that she had done all she needed to do in her transition, for fear of the emotional backlash seeing her parents would cause. (She needed to be away from people who would have been abusive towards the idea of her doing this)

but in her recent situation, life has steadied. shes going to school, working part time, has begun to establish a real life for herself, and as she is feeling more secure wiht who she is.. she now feels like it is time to confront her parents..

they havent seen each other in person for such a long time, and so the immediate reactions of anger and fear have faded away a bit.. but there is still a lot of tension over the subject..

knowing all of this, my question and what i would like for imput is:

1.) how will this all be for Sydney as a TG? What will she be expecting>? What will her reactions be?

2.) the reactions of her parents as well as her sisters? (One older, one slightly younger)?

this meeting is not only about her having become a woman, but also the reaction to once again seeing a runaway child.. When Sydney left home, she was a 16 year old teen age boy.. and when she will b coming back, she'll be a 24 year old woman...

i have quite a few thoughts about the subject, but i thought that if I put out a post here, i could see what actual tgs feel about ths issue

thanks a lot!
Mariko

Update on the old clothing bit, for those whored it first time.

[stacis-leak.livejournal.com]

I was reading the sizeing information on some of the websites and it seems that most fashion clothes are incredibly dependant on hips.

For a wist size of 38", the hip size is about 42".

This becomes a problem if, like me, you're basically triangular with the point at my feet.

But then I also remembered that I havent had a 38" waist in about a year nad a half.

I measured myself today and found that I have a waist size of 47" and a hip size of about 45".

I think I'm going to have to lose some more weight before I continue down this avenue, and I'm also definately going to have to try on anything I buy. Even if no one else sees or knows there's a certain amount of personal embarassment in having to send back increasingly larger clothes t one week delivery intervals, trying to find one that fits.

Thanks for everyone's advice though, you were really helpful.