Being First Sucks

BigThink.com | January 17, 2010

"Being first sucks." That's what Amanda Simpson, one of the country's first two openly transgender presidential appointees, told ABC News. "I'd rather not be the first, but someone has to be first."

Amanda Simpson started two weeks ago at the Department of Commerce, where her job will be to keep track of the export of American military technology. Dylan Orr, who is also openly transgender, was recently appointed to a lower-level job in the Department of Labor, but Simpson is apparently the highest-level transgender executive official ever. A former test pilot, Simpson holds degrees in physics, engineering, and business, has worked in the aerospace and defense industry for thirty years, and is eminently qualified for her position. Nevertheless, the Christian group Focus on the Family released a statement accusing President Obama of appointing her as "payback to his far-left base for their political support." And Peter LaBarbera, president of an anti-gay group called Americans for Truth asked if there was going "to be a transgender quota now in the Obama administration?" . . .Read More

Sixteen-year-old becomes Spain's youngest transsexual

• Teenager required court ruling for operation in Barcelona
• Judge granted permission after request by parents

by Giles Tremlett

12 January 2010

A Spanish clinic today revealed it had performed a male-to-female sex-change operation on a 16-year-old, making her the youngest patient to undergo the operation in the country's history.

The unnamed teenager had been taking hormones to change her body since she was 15, according to doctors who treated her at Barcelona's hospital clínico, and she had been seeing doctors and psychiatrists for even longer. "The patient has been in treatment for nearly three years," said the surgeon who carried out the operation, Dr Iván Mañero.

A sex-change operation on a minor requires the approval of a Spanish court to override a law that sets the minimum age for such operations as 18. . . .Read More

Transsexual reality star Miriam Rivera is a £300-an-hour 'escort'

Suzannah Hills and Will Payne 17/01/2010

The transsexual who rose to fame on the hit reality TV show There’s Something About Miriam is working as a £300-an-hour “escort”.

Miriam Rivera, 28, caused ­controversy on the dating show when she duped six male contestants – competing for her affections and £10,000 prize money – into ­believing she was a woman.

It was only in the final episode of the cult 2004 programme that Miriam ­revealed the truth… that she was born male. The outraged contestants then sued the producers for personal ­injury. . . .Read More

Do You Have the Perfect Hourglass Figure?

by Lesley Kennedy

January 12, 2010


Am I a pear? Or an apple? Maybe a banana? Most days I feel like a donut.

The body shape food analogies just make me hungry, so let's try measuring devices: spoon, ruler, cone or hourglass?

I, like most women (and men), according to a recent survey, prefer the hourglass description. We're talking Marilyn Monroe curves here -- tiny waist, big chest, full, round rear, everything in perfect proportion. That's the stuff legends are made of.

Unfortunately, legendary curves are hard to come by. The survey found that 72 percent of men are attracted to curvier women, and 63 percent of women wish they had the womanly bodies of stars like Helen Mirren or Kate Winslet, the Telegraph reports. . . .Read More

Obama Names "Transgender" Appointee to Commerce Department - Part 1

ABC News: President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equalitys board of directors, said that as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others.

In this three-part series that aired in May 2008, Political Perspectives host Cynthia Dickstein talks with transgender guests Amanda Simpson and C. Michael Woodward about the issues that they must confront as a result of their decisions to change their genders.

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Kindergarten Complications

By Megan A. Gex

January 2010

Editor’s Note: Silverton native Megan A.Gex is a fourth-year magazine journalism and digital art major at the University of Oregon. Her mother, Susie, was Oliver’s Kindergarten teacher and was intimately involved in his transition into grade school, as well as his gender identification process. Over the past two years, Gex and her mother have continued to be in contact with the family, and follow Oliver’s progress. The family’s last name has not been included to respect their privacy. Gex can be reached at: megangex@gmail.com


At first glance, Oliver is a healthy, jovial seven-year-old boy.

In the schoolyard he’s known for his gelled faux-hawk, and his favorite color is blue. His favorite book is The Dangerous Book for Boys. He loves to sprint the 200-meter in track and watch Sponge Bob on the weekends with his best friend. His rambunctious attitude and boyish tendencies belie a core reality: Oliver was born a girl. . . .Read More

More On Transgender Regret

Joanne Herman

7 December 2009


With the post-Thanksgiving apparent suicide death of Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner (also known for a year and a half as Christine Daniels), gender transition regret is again a topic on the blogosphere. I explainedwhy regret happens in my book "Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not". Bloggers have brought up some additional points that I thought were worthy of mention.

As background, few people regret their gender transition but it does happen. In "USA Today", Ron Lawrence of the Community Counseling Center in Las Vegas was quoted as saying that about 5 percent of his transgender patients revert. The few studies I could find on the topic had an even lower percentage. . . .Read More

Should your school’s dress code address transgender students?

Fisher & Phillips LLP
Danielle Urban

January 1, 2010

Teenagers who push the limits of school dress codes are nothing new. Experimenting with clothing, hairstyles, and even make-up is a way for teens to explore their identities and test the limits of socially-acceptable behavior. Although school officials might find dress code enforcement challenging, dress code violations in the past tended to be fairly routine and usually revolved around prohibiting overtly sexually suggestive clothing or outward signs of gang affiliation.

But a new wrinkle in the dress code debate has developed, with some students demanding to express their gender or sexual identities by cross-gender dressing. Although cross-gender dressing is not particularly widespread in schools, a growing number of students throughout the country have begun dressing according to the gender identity they have chosen, which may not necessarily reflect their biological gender.

Whether the student is gay, lesbian, transgender, or just testing the limits of a school dress code, the issue has emerged as a dress-code challenge for many school officials, and schools must face competing demands and evolving ideas of acceptable dress. . . .Read More

Autogynephilia . . .

. . . in the actor, the filmmaker, the audience?

Where is it?

Who owns it?

Also, see: "Autogynephilia" and the Clinical Gaze

Transgender 101 part 1

Interview of Joanne Herman and Diego Sanchez about what it means to be transgender - 6/21/06

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ABC Dating Show Features Transgender Contestant?

By Steven Avalos - Jan 6th 2010


Anyone watch 'Conveyor Belt of Love' on Monday night during ABC's 'Marry Me' Monday night line up after 'The Bachelor'? No? Just us?

ABC describes their new reality show as "five women [who] take a shot at finding love when 30 men are given the chance to impress them as they pass by on a moving conveyor belt." Why? Why not? Because why should you have to get out there and look for love when it can be brought to you on a fully stocked assembly line? But hold onto that remote -- was one of those men actually a transgender performance artist? . . .Read More

Give young transsexuals special ID cards: doc

January 10, 2010

By David Landes


Young Swedes who suspect they are transsexuals ought to be issued special ID cards allowing them to hide their undesired gender during their trial phase as the opposite sex, according to one of the country’s most respected child psychiatrists.

• Swedes change last names in droves (31 Dec 09)
• 'Vaginal corona' makes 2009 word list (31 Dec 09)
• Gender-reassigned face health hurdles: study (12 Dec 09)

“This has to do with the practical aspects of living life as the opposite gender,” Per-Anders Rydelius, chair of the maternal and child health department at Karolinska Institutet’s Astrid Lindgren's Children Hospital, told The Local. . . .Read More

Paper guilty of transsexual slur

BBC

January 4. 2010

A Belfast newspaper has been found guilty of breaching the press code of practice for describing a transsexual as 'a tranny.'

The Sunday Life was reported to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) by a male-to-female transsexual who had worked as a rape counsellor in Belfast.

The paper had raised concerns about her suitability for the role and described her as a 'tranny.'

The PCC said the use of the word was pejorative and upheld the complaint. . . .Read More

U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity

By BRIAN KNOWLTON

January 5, 2010


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity.

The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — and it merely formalizes what had been increasingly unchallenged government practice over several years. . . . Read More

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

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'Original Plumbing': new magazine celebrates the diversity of trans men

By Matt Kailey

December 17, 2009


Trans men, their admirers, and anyone else interested in transmasculine people and lives have a new source for entertainment, information, and super-hot photos of super-hot trans guys. Original Plumbing (note: some mature themes), the brainchild of photographer and writer Amos Mac and rapper and producer Rocco Kayiatos (Katastrophe), is a new quarterly magazine that highlights the diversity of the transmasculine population. . . . Read More

Making major changes: five trans suggestions for non-trans people

By Matt Kailey

December 30, 2009


Going through transition from female to male or male to female is a huge and life-changing step. While transition is not a choice — for most trans people, it is medically necessary and often life-saving — non-trans people can take guidance from trans experience in making changes of their own.

If you are contemplating a major change — and at this time of year, it is often a given — consider the following as you prepare your New Year’s resolutions, especially if those changes you desire will seriously affect you and those around you. . . .Read More

Amanda Simpson: transgender woman appointed to Department of Commerce

By Matt Kailey

December 31, 2009


The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) has issued the following press release:

Amanda Simpson, who has served on NCTE's Board of Directors for the past three years, has been appointed by the Obama Administration as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce. She'll be working in the Bureau of Industry and Security.

“I'm truly honored to have received this appointment and am eager and excited about this opportunity that is before me,” said Simpson. “And at the same time, as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others.” . . . .Read More