Hey Ho lets go Eastern Maine USofA & anyone who wants to travel

[wiserube.livejournal.com]

GLBT Feeling like you live on the edge of the known universe?
Wish your alternative bar…were…alternative?
Want a little dance with your community who-ha’s?


My partner and I have decided, although Portland, Lewiston, & Augusta are loverly destinations…It’s a bit of a drive home after a hearty celebration.

Let’s create

Your very own GLBT speakeasy, operated by local lesbian transgender partners and friends, for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight friends

Come on out and play..
or dance…
or just make some new friends


Once a month my kitchen will be magically transformed into a dance floor, & my living room a lounge that accommodates a goodly number of lizards schmoozing the night away.




I’m tired of complaining about a lack of community



So

Lets get this party started





Intrested?? Suggestions???
E-mail
Wiserube1@yahoo.com

a question for the transitioned

[theslithytove.livejournal.com]

How far into your transition did you start thinking of yourself as just your gender, without any qualifiers? (IE when did you stop feeling like a girl in a boy's body and just became a girl?)

Hey there

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Just felt the need to maybe introduce myself, I've been lurking here for a few weeks.

I'm an 18-year-old FTM, I go by Cory or Lee. I'm pre-everything, out to my family and all of the friends that are important to me. I'll be starting college next year at Bridgewater State College (anybody near there?) and I feel the whole rooming situation might make transition awkward during the next few years (that is, I'll be rooming with at least one girl for a few years at least), any advice on that would be most welcome.

Other quick facts about me...I enjoy reading (older classics (shakespeare, dante, etc.), parenting books, psychology/sociology books, and fantasy/scifi books with gay romance), writing, and drawing; I intend to study psychology and business, and possibly sociology, and hope to get into either advertising or consumer experimental psychology (but that requires math skillz that I don't seem to have xD;); I was born in Texas but live in Massachusetts now, but would prefer to move back to warmer climes, both because I have a low tolerance for cold and because my girlfriend lives in Florida.

And, yes. That is me. :3

Academic critiques of Bailey/Blanchard/Zucker?

[sparsityproblem.livejournal.com]

Hello,

I'm wondering if there is any single survey article that discusses what is wrong with the Bailey/Blanchard/Zucker model of transsexuality/"gender identity disorder", from the perspective of internal consistency and adherence to scientific method. I'm not looking for a Web-based source (ideally it would be a peer-reviewed article or book) or for an article that places it in the context of arguing in favor of an alternative ideology. I'm hoping to find something that sticks to just the science as much as possible.

This is in the context of trying to convince an insurance company that maybe they shouldn't base their criteria for when to cover SRS on citations of the above folks' work, but would be good to know about in general, too.

Thanks!

a clever way to discriminate legally?

[catbag.livejournal.com]

http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/31725.html

Interesting article about how with a little bit of clever wording anti-discrimination laws can be swept under the carpet..

One sentence in particular caught my eye.. "The petition notes that many universities “require faculty, students, and staff to follow certain ‘ethical’ standards which prohibit engaging in homosexual acts,” and immediately brought the following quote from a film to mind

"If you don't do anything homosexual, and you don't tell anybody you are a homosexual... then WHAT exactly makes you a homosexual?"

And just where would a pre-op transwoman stand in the eyes of these organisations?.. (anybody who knows my friends reunited page will know I was college staff for years.. that's why I found this interesting) I'm not gay, my identified gender means I have.. to appear straight (which I am).. sleep with only men.. or biologically looking at me.. only with women.. or both.. or neither... errrr...

I guess they would use blanket discrimination against me.. just because they seem to be allowed to by the current laws.