DoR dates for this year and next

[jiawen]

Can anyone tell me what the Transgender Day of Remembrance dates are for this year and next? Is it always officially on November 20th? A school I'm involved with wants to put it on the schedule for the next two years, and I didn't see a calendar or contact info on the http://www.transgenderdor.org/ website.

Thanks!

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[eekaface.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone. Was just wondering if you might give me a few seconds of your time? What do you think are some reason why people oppose gender-neutral restrooms on college campuses besides religion? I ask because I have decided to write my last Critical Thinking argument on why colleges should institute gender-neutral bathrooms, and in order to present a good argument I need to refute the opposing arguments. I am actually having trouble thinking of reasons other than religious in matter.

Thanks Palsies!!!
:)

Edit: i am mostly talking about single-user restrooms. But if you have something to say about multi-user unisex/gender-neutral rooms feel free.

EDIT:
thank you ALL for your input. I would like to ask that the replies be frozen from here on out. I am really not trying to do anything harmful. i appreciate the people who understood that i was just looking for some reasons for my paper. I know i dont have it all figured out, however i think i should be able to learn and question this without being accused of being disablist or unwise or without people trying to find fault with everything i say. I am really trying to speak about something positive. If you would like to discuss this more or would like to enlighten me, please feel free to write. i truly learn by debating. im not sure how i became the enemy, but i apologize and just want to feel welcomed to share my point of view and learn just like everyone else. i only made the comments about being snarky becuase it seemed as if certain people only had that to contribute, instead of offering something positive. negative comments only shut people off to what you have to say, even if your opinion is completely valid. it seems wisdom should make you a better listener and with each year in my life, i learn that i have much more to learn. that is what i believe wisdom truly is. i would love to learn from people before me and i freely and proudly admit that i am still trying to figure things out in my own life.

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[iphisol.livejournal.com]

God, I know that this is throwing a rock at a hornet's nest, but I'm feeling so exhausted by seeing it over and over in the last week or two, in places where I thought people knew better or cared more, that I want to post something.

Can we talk about FtM-spectrum¹ trans folks² appropriating the word "tranny?" ( I have a lot to say. )

US: Chaz Bono Gives Voice To An Often 'Invisible' Community

[ftmichael]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7827428&page=1

Chaz Bono Gives Voice To An Often 'Invisible' Community
Trans Activists Say Chaz Bono Could Be Rare Face for Transgender Issues
By LAUREN COX and RADHA CHITALE
ABC News Medical Unit
June 13, 2009

Transgender men fighting for legal protections say Thursday's announcement by Chastity Bono, child of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, that she will be transitioning from female to a male as Chaz Bono is a welcome break from an all too common "invisible" paradox.

For reasons that are part biology and part society, transgender men say in some ways they have an easier time being accepted and recognized as masculine than transgender women have being perceived as feminine.

Yet at the same time, there has been a virtual black hole in public awareness of female-to-male transgender people.
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US: Chaz, 'Good luck, brother!'

[ftmichael]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/chastity.bono/index.html

Commentary: Chastity, 'Good luck, brother!'
By Jamison Green
Special to CNN

Jamison Green is an educator, adviser and advocate on transgender issues, and the author of "Becoming a Visible Man" (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004).

Welcome, Chaz!

Before the word "transsexual" had been coined in English, an intrepid young person whose family belonged to the British nobility set out to transform herself from female to male. He received a medical school education, obtained hormones -- relatively new substances that were poorly understood at the time -- and independently began living as a man in the early 1940s.

Eventually, he found a plastic surgeon to help him, and his physical changes were complete by 1949, but his family rejected him. The British tabloids hounded him. To escape publicity, he was forced to carve out a life for himself virtually alone. He became a Buddhist monk, and died in Tibet in 1962 at the age of 47.

His name was Michael Dillon, and he one of the Western world's first transsexual people, that is, someone who changes sex and/or gender by medical means. His extensive writings were suppressed and destroyed by his family -- only fragments survive.
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