Thursday, August 07, 2008
Gender Barred
Transgender inmates sue for hormones
by Nathaniel Hoffman
August 6, 2008
Natalia Whitefeather Flores, as she calls herself, is getting her hormones.
by Nathaniel Hoffman
August 6, 2008
Natalia Whitefeather Flores, as she calls herself, is getting her hormones.
But the Idaho Department of Corrections waited until she filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against the state, got a visit from the American Civil Liberties Union and contacted BW to provide Flores, whose given name is William Ray Flores, with her estrogen pills and a testosterone blocker.
"France does the best sex changes, I hear, and that's where I want to go," Flores said in a call from the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
But she's not going anywhere until at least September 2009 when she may be up for parole. Flores was born a woman in a man's body on the Rocky Boy Reservation near Havre, Mont. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and has spoken Cheyenne, Spanish and English from an early age.
At 5 years old, Flores, who then called herself Susie, was diagnosed with gender identity disorder, a psychiatric disorder that the Idaho Department of Corrections defines as dissatisfaction with one's biological sex. The department has recognized GID since 2003, after an earlier lawsuit forced officials to develop a policy.
Flores is transgender in that she desires to become a woman. But she also considers herself two-spirited, a condition recognized in Native American society long before 2003.
"We are considered more spiritual than most people because we've got the spirit of a woman and the spirit of a man," Flores said. . . .Read More
New book explores trans kids
by Zak Szymanski
7 August 2008
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Co-author Rachel Pepper, with her daughter, Frances. Photo: Tony Ferriola |
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More children these days are insisting upon their right to claim a variety of gender identities and expressions. But for most of these kids and their families, the issue isn't about queer politics – it's about struggling through a society still ill-equipped to handle gender-variant youth, all while navigating the fine line between happiness and safety.
Writers Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper hope to make that path a bit easier with their new book The Transgender Child, published earlier this summer by Cleis Press. This Sunday, August 10, Books Inc. at Opera Plaza in San Francisco will host a 4 p.m. reading and discussion of the book. Brill, who runs the support group at Oakland Children's Hospital for gender-variant children, and Pepper, a journalist and the coordinator of the LGBT studies program at Yale University, will both be at the event. A wide variety of people are encouraged to attend. . . .Read More
Friends stand up for Angie's life
Her alleged killer appears in court, facing a crowd of people who knew the transgender woman and want to remind others of her heart and popularity.
An Open Letter to Dr Phil
August 06, 2008
Dear Dr PhilI am quite taken aback to witness the lack of actual skills you possess in the psychology fields. I did notice that you don´t actually have a doctorate but then you have always impressed me in the past with your human touch.
Perhaps you have not experienced sufficiently in your own life certain things to allow good judgment in the issues you now take up. You are casting your net wider these days and I think it is taking you beyond your realms. You really need to have someone else advising you from moment to moment as to what is cool to say/do and what is not.
Your program about Michael the transgender guy/gal made me quite mad. I even fell out with my wife about it and we never fall out and especially at bedtime. I found you to be way off beam in your assessment of the situation. I found you prejudiced and biased against your guest and your studio audience were equally prejudiced and you threw him/her under the bus. I actually wondered how on earth you ever persuaded the person to attend and be victimized and I thought he carried himself majestically in the circumstances. I really wondered for a time whether I had landed amongst aliens. . . .Read More
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Questions & Answers 1
"Just answering my viewers questions! ;) I didn't tackle the "dating" story, that's a topic long enough for one video. So, next time around! ;)" truellement
Cross Dress for Red Cross
August 6, 2008
WANT to liven up your workplace and help your local community? Dress up for Cross Dress for Red Cross on September 5.
Swap your normal daily attire for that of the opposite gender, for the fancy dress fundraising event with a twist.
You could be Marilyn Monroe, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, one of the Blues Brothers, or you could even make up your own unique character for the day.
Encourage your family, friends and co-workers to sponsor you to dress up. The money raised will support over 20 vital community services that Red Cross provides to vulnerable West Australians. . . .Read More
Controversy: Florida Citizens Unite Against 'Transgender' Activists
8/7/2008
Catholic News Agency
The concept of ‘gender identity’ was fashioned by radical homosexual groups and advocates to protect the bizarre sexual behavior of a few people,” Thomas More Law Center's Richard Thompson
GAINESVILLE, FL (CNA) - A coalition of citizens and businesses in Gainesville, Florida has formed in reaction to the Gainesville City Council’s passage of a ‘gender identity’ ordinance that allows men who perceive themselves as women to use women’s bathrooms in any school, business or public facility. The coalition, called “Citizens for Good Public Policy,” aims to enact a Charter Amendment that would oppose the addition of such categories to the city’s civil rights ordinance.
The group has gathered 8,800 signatures to place the proposal on the March 2009 ballot, though only 5,581 were required. . . .Read More
Catholic News Agency
The concept of ‘gender identity’ was fashioned by radical homosexual groups and advocates to protect the bizarre sexual behavior of a few people,” Thomas More Law Center's Richard Thompson
GAINESVILLE, FL (CNA) - A coalition of citizens and businesses in Gainesville, Florida has formed in reaction to the Gainesville City Council’s passage of a ‘gender identity’ ordinance that allows men who perceive themselves as women to use women’s bathrooms in any school, business or public facility. The coalition, called “Citizens for Good Public Policy,” aims to enact a Charter Amendment that would oppose the addition of such categories to the city’s civil rights ordinance.
The group has gathered 8,800 signatures to place the proposal on the March 2009 ballot, though only 5,581 were required. . . .Read More
Rock ‘Bobby’ Rock!
7 August 2008
The Times of India
The Times of India
Eight years back a starry-eyed Pankaj Sharma left home in Delhi with a strong determination and came down to Mumbai to make it big. But once here, one gets to know how difficult it is for a person to even survive in the city! Seems like a rip-off from a Hindi movie, doesn’t it? But it’s true-life for Pankaj, who got re-chistened as ‘Bobby Darling’ and has braved a lot of taunts, criticism, ridicule, et al. to come up to this level today, where people recognise this name well. “When I came here, I didn’t have a place to stay and I slept on railway platforms; for earnings, I worked in a dance bar where the girls would not let me share the green room and would also often push me. . .Read More |
Suspect In Transgender Slaying Formally Charged
August 6, 2008
Allen Andrade Accused Of Killing Angie Zapata In Greeley Apartment
GREELEY, Colo. -- A man accused in the brutal beating death of a transgendered teen was formally chargedAllen Ray Andrade, 31, was charged with first-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of Angie Zapata. He is also charged with a bias motivated crime and motor vehicle theft.Zapata, 18, was found dead in her Greeley apartment on July 17, and Andrade was arrested following two-week investigation into her slaying. Zapata was born a male but was living her life as a female, according to her family. . . .Read More
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Angie Zapata in Greeley, CO
BRIGHTON -- At least 200 people gathered on Wednesday night to mourn an 18-year-old transgender person who was apparently beaten to death last week.
Justin Zapata, who went by the name Angie Zapata and was living as a woman, was found dead in a Greeley apartment in the 2000 block of 4th Street on July 17.
She had fatal wounds to her head and face.
Greeley Police say they don't have the evidence to definitively call Zapata's murder a hate crime, but they are not ruling it out.
Her family and friends remain convinced that was the reason she was killed.
"Why would anybody, you would dare do something like that? Why?" said Alicia Portillo, one of Zapata's friends.
Zapata's funeral service was held Wednesday night in Brighton.
Police believe they are getting close to a suspect.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.asp...
Blurring the lines of sexual demarcation
August 5, 2008
THAT'S MEN: Our sexual orientation may be guided by culture as much as by biology, writes Padraig O'Morain
'IF YOU look at the number of women wearing trousers walking down Grafton Street any day, there is a very high percentage who appear to like wearing trousers," writes Seán, a reader responding to a column I wrote a while back about the use of cosmetics by men.
Eighty or 100 years ago, he writes, all the women walking down Grafton Street would be in dresses or skirts. "So, the question is, if there was more acceptance of cross-dressing for men, and they were freely allowed their choice in this, could you see as many men in a similar percentage to current day women, wearing skirts or dresses down Grafton Street? I think so," Seán writes. . . .Read More
Teenager 'strangled Thornton Heath transexual after date mistake'
5-August-2008
thisiscroydontoday.co.uk
thisiscroydontoday.co.uk
Shanniel Hyatt, 18, covered the body of 39-year-old Kellie Telesford with a white blanket - with the brown furry scarf used to choke her still bound tightly round her neck.
He then stole her mobile phone, freeview box and DVD player and used her Oyster card to catch the bus home, the court was told.
She was found three days later, still in her dressing gown and underwear, on the floor of her bedroom after concerned friends had alerted police.
When Hyatt was later interviewed by police he denied he had reacted violently after discovering she was a pre-op transsexual during the date. . . .Read More
Thailand's Teen Castration Ban Splits Doctors, Gay Campaigners
By Shanthy Nambiar and Suttinee Yuvejwattana
August 5, 2008
Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Paiboon Marvin started wearing dresses and makeup before he became a teenager. Now 16, he wants to be castrated as the next step toward becoming a woman.
Until recently, that wouldn't have been a problem: Boys of any age in Thailand could have their testicles removed for as little as 5,000 Baht ($150) with no questions asked. Now Paiboon may have to wait two years because the procedure will be outlawed for those under 18, after pressure from gay rights activists who say youngsters may follow a trend and regret it later.
``I don't think I'm too young to do it,'' says Paiboon, wearing a green-ribboned top, shorts, mascara and pink lipstick. ``I know I won't change my mind. I've known since I was a kid that I'm not male.''
The business school student has support from doctors who perform more than 1,000 castrations and sex-change operations annually in the Buddhist kingdom, which has one of the world's largest transsexual communities. They argue many minors seeking castration have gender identity disorder and surgery is an essential treatment. . . .Read More
Monday, August 04, 2008
Transsexual toilets for Thai school
(Daily News on http://www.parsnewz.com/blog )
A Thai school has created toilets for its transgender students with a sign that's half male, half female.
The Kamphaeng School in Si Sa Ket, in northeastern Thailand opened separate toilet facilities to accommodate hundreds of transgender students who have always longed for their own restroom.
Helen Long reports.SOUNDBITES:
# Sittisak Sumontha, Kamphaeng School Direction, saying (Thai):
"When they used the male toilets, they would be teased so they would just go to the female toilets with their female friends. When I saw that, I wondered if the girls felt uncomfortable . When I asked the female students how they felt about it they told me that it all depended on whether the transgender students were their friends or not."
# Wichai Saengsakul, Transgender student, saying (Thai):
"I want them (school officials) to decorate the toilet to make it better than this. Something like, painting the toilet pink because it suits us - maybe a flower pattern." parsnewz
Mexican sex workers want place at AIDS conference
3 August 2008
By Tan Ee Lyn
By Tan Ee Lyn
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A global AIDS conference that opens in Mexico City on Sunday is meant for people infected with HIV, but transsexual sex worker Elma Delea cannot get inside.
She will be protesting on the fringes of the six-day biennial event.
"They (Mexican health authorities) said they had no money for everyone who wanted scholarships. We are very angry," said Elma Delea, as she stood at the junction of Calle de Alfredo Chavero and Calzada San Antonio Abad, a stretch of road where transsexuals wait all night to be picked up by customers in passing cars.
Her friends nodded, citing other explanations given by organizers, such as not being able to speak English.
Some 25,000 people are expected at the event, which draws scientists, international agencies, government officials, non-government organizations and the media.
But people most at risk of the disease, such as sex workers, homosexuals and intravenous drug users, are least visible. Most are poor and cannot afford registration fees. . . .Read More
The XY Games
By JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
August 3, 2008
August 3, 2008
Belgrade Lakes, Me.
IN the 1936 Olympic Games, the sprinter Stella Walsh — running for Poland and known as the fastest woman in the world — was beaten by Helen Stephens of St. Louis, who set a world record by running 100 meters in 11.4 seconds. After the race, a Polish journalist protested that Stephens must be a man. After all, no woman in the world could run that fast.
Olympic officials performed a “sex test” on Stephens, who was found, in fact, to be female, proving once and for all that a person could be incredibly fast and female at the same time.
Forty-four years later, Walsh, who had become an American citizen, was shot to death in the parking lot of a discount store in Cleveland. Her autopsy revealed a surprise: It was Stella Walsh, and not Helen Stephens, who turned out to have been male all along, at least according to the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s office. . . .Read More
Transwoman Gives Eyewitness Account Of Knoxville Church Shooting
August 4, 2008
by Joe
Michelangelo Signorile has interviewed Carla Lewis, a transgender woman who was inside the Knoxville Unitarian Church when last week's shooting happened. Signorile:
This is a clip from my interview with Carla Lewis, who was inside the Tennessee Valley Universalist Unitarian Church when a gunman opened fire little over a week ago. She came on the program last week to take us through the tragic event, talk about the gunman's motives of hatred against gays and liberals and tell us a bit about hero Greg McKendry. The 60-year-old church volunteer was killed in the shooting, jumping in front of the gunman to protect others. He and his wife had recently taken in a transgender foster child. . . .Read More
by Joe
Michelangelo Signorile has interviewed Carla Lewis, a transgender woman who was inside the Knoxville Unitarian Church when last week's shooting happened. Signorile:
This is a clip from my interview with Carla Lewis, who was inside the Tennessee Valley Universalist Unitarian Church when a gunman opened fire little over a week ago. She came on the program last week to take us through the tragic event, talk about the gunman's motives of hatred against gays and liberals and tell us a bit about hero Greg McKendry. The 60-year-old church volunteer was killed in the shooting, jumping in front of the gunman to protect others. He and his wife had recently taken in a transgender foster child. . . .Read More
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Transgender Teen's Murder Suspect Snapped
Man Who Said He Killed Colo. Teen He Thought Was a Woman Could Face Hate Charge
August 3, 2008
ABCnews
A man accused in the beating death of a transgender teenager he met online snapped when he learned in person that the 18-year-old living as a woman had male sex organs, authorities in Colorado said Wednesday. Allen Ray Andrade, 32, is currently charged with second-degree murder in the death of Angie Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata but lived as a young woman. Andrade is being held without bond. It was unclear whether he has hired an attorney. . . .
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August 3, 2008
ABCnews
A man accused in the beating death of a transgender teenager he met online snapped when he learned in person that the 18-year-old living as a woman had male sex organs, authorities in Colorado said Wednesday. Allen Ray Andrade, 32, is currently charged with second-degree murder in the death of Angie Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata but lived as a young woman. Andrade is being held without bond. It was unclear whether he has hired an attorney. . . .
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This is a sad story. Being gay, I've known some transsexuals. I'm not sexually attracted to them, but some are by nature very feminine. But no matter how female they feel themselves to be, these stories must remind them that if they have male junk between their legs, or used to have male junk, it really is fair and safe to let men know. There is no excuse for hitting anyone else for any reason save self defense. But many men apparently just can't handle it for whatever reason. And therefore it is too dangerous, and really not ethical to deceive others.In my 50 years, the first 30 living closeted in the church world, I have heard a lot of "sinful desires". There are "straight" men who have said that they really wish they had a beautiful, feminine, woman as their spouse/girl, but when alone and intimate, these men would love to find male equipment. So there are men who like "chix with dix". I tell them, "They are out there looking for love too, go find them." Same advice to transsexuals, there are men who would absolutely be thrilled with what you have to offer. With the internet, you can find accepting prospects. Please be safe. Being a transsexual and those attracted to transsexuals puts you in a closet, and living in the closet SUCKS. Avoid Jerry Springer moments or worse.
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