Yay IOWA Hugs my state

[udonman.livejournal.com]

Without debate, the Iowa House late Wednesday voted 59-37 to extend civil
rights protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  The
Iowa Senate two hours later approved House changes in the bill, sending it
to the governor's desk by a 34-16 vote. Both votes were bipartisan.

The bill forbids discrimination based on someone's real or perceived sexual
orientation or gender identity when it comes to employment, education,
credit, housing, and public accommodations.

Governor Chet Culver promises to sign the bill into law. Culver calls it
"historic civil rights legislation" and in a written statement said "we must
create an Iowa in which we do not discriminate against anyone, anywhere, at
anytime."


Prolly x posted all or at least x posted to my lj :P

We are Everywhere! :-)

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Yay us!
The best person to explain transsexualism is a good writer.
Even better, a good sports writer.
Yeah shattering barriers!

Trans 20/20

[krank-kether.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow night (27 April 2007) on ABC (In the US) there will be a special 20/20 dedicated to talking about transgender youth. My TiVo description reads:

"Transgendered Children" A 6-year-old boy begins living as a girl during kindergarten; a 10-year-old, born as a boy, lives as a girl; a transgendered 16-year-old takes testosterone injections.

So - let's watch and discuss? It's on your local ABC station at 10pm - but that's eastern, so *ahem* check your local listings. (I always wanted to say that lol..)

(X-posted to krank_kether, bostonmtf, genderqueer, mtf, transgender)

trans tipping point

[jjblue.livejournal.com]

Suddenly it seems like trans folks and trans issues are everywhere in the media. MSNBC had a show on Sunday (I think it was called Born in the Wrong Body), there is apparently something on ABC tomorrow night, Tyra has been covering it a lot...

Anyone have any idea why? What was the tipping point? The transwoman-fired-city-manager in Florida? The inclusion of gender identity in recent legislation? The labeled-male-at-birth kindergartner who is enrolled and accomodated as a girl? The rerunning of Transgeneration? The transwoman character on a soap opera?

And how does this bode for those of us who are stealth, or androgynous, when people who look and sound just like us are on the news?

xposted on ftm

And the Hit's Just Keep on Coming!

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

The great state of New Hampshire!

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[algomuyraro.livejournal.com]

i just thought some people might be interested in this. some serious craziness went down today in the birls community in regards to transpeople:

http://community.livejournal.com/birls/4970800.html

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[shemale.livejournal.com]

On the women's radio show 51% today, there was a brief biographical recount of Dr. James Barry's life (sorry, Wikipedia was the best thing I could find at the moment for those who aren't familiar with him, although there's another article here).

After talking about the rest of his life (which was introduced as "a gender-bending story"), the person telling his story reached the point at which, following his death, the person examining his body discovered his genitals. At which point she (the radio commentator) started referring to him as a woman and using feminine pronouns, claiming he'd been "pretending to be a man."

"Barry died in England in 1864. The woman who prepared his body discovered that the good doctor - was female. James Barry's real name is thought to have been Miranda Stuart. She took on the male persona to gain entrance to medical school in 1809, when it was practically impossible for women to become physicians - let alone enter the military. For the next 56 years Miranda Stuart pretended to be a man .and was, in fact, a top rate physician."

I'd like to email them about it, but I'm not sure I know enough about Dr. Barry or the standards of style on word usage for people who died a century and a half ago and may or may not have been trans, although I do know that the AP Stylebook says that journalists should "use the pronoun consistent with the way the individuals live publicly."

Does anyone have any more info on this that might be helpful?