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On Duanna Johnson (Murdered) - (USA)
UPDATE (11/20): An indictment returned in regards to the videotaped beating. Nothing yet on who murdered Duanna. Her lawyer spoke to the Flyer: Do you think Duanna's gender identity had anything to do with her murder?Regardless of who did it or why they did it, she was where she was that night because she had no other place to go. I think being transgender made it hard for her to live a normal life in terms of employment and relationships. Many people think that being transgender was a choice Du
http://mediaverse-memphis.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-duanna-johnson-murdered.html
Hijras Officially Recognized in Pakistan; and a Thought about India's "E" Gender Designation - (USA)
Amidst all the high-level news about terrorism, the internal war in Swat Valley, and various military/foreign-policy questions, other topics in the news sometimes get overlooked. To wit, Basim Usmani has an informative column up at Comment is Free on a recent ruling by Pakistan's recently re-constituted Supreme Court, regarding Hijras: Pakistan's supreme court recently ruled that all hijras, the Urdu catch-all term for its transvestite, transgender and eunuch community, will be registe
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005864.html
Fact Check Fact Check - (USA)
The AP spanks Sen. Patrick Leahy for his “creative rewrite of history.” AP stops short of spanking itself, but never mind, this is astonishing enough from a press agency, where coverage of matters such as the Sotomayor nomination, the 2008 presidential election, the Iraq and Afghan war, our nation’s efforts to combat terrorism, and transgendered matters has been, when not just heavily slanted, distorted to the point of obfuscation and misrepresentation.* OK, never mind all that, here’s the AP’s
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/07/15/fact-check-fact-check/
Same Sex Marriage, Religiosity & Black Civil Rights Orthodoxies - (USA)
By Sikivu HutchinsonGuest ContributorLast year’s debate over California’s Proposition 8 exposed deep racial fault lines around the issue of same sex marriage in African American communities across the state. After polls showed an overwhelming number of blacks supported the initiative some liberal whites came out swinging, blaming blacks for the initiative’s defeat in racist diatribes against African American hypocrisy on civil rights. Black religiosity and social conservatism were deemed to be
http://www.afro-netizen.com/2009/07/same-sex-marriage-religiosity-black-civil-rights-orthodoxies.html
NEPAL: Gay Jatra In Nepal - (USA)
FROM NEWSBLAZE.COM By John Child in Kathmandu Hundreds of gay Nepalis and their supporters turned out Thursday during the Gai Jatra festival for the largest gay pride demonstration ever here. Their procession started at the ancient palace square and passed through Kathmandu’s main shopping district accompanied by a marching band; rainbow balloons, umbrellas and face paints; and banners and signs proudly announcing who they were and calling for equal rights in a “new and inclusive Nep
http://beacononline.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/nepal-gay-jatra-in-nepal/
Cancel Those Orders - (USA)
An Australian blogger has laid out an ambitious first-term agenda for the Obama administration. Four major pieces of pro-gay legislation should be passed within Obama’s first term. First will be the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which will protect gays from hate crimes and discrimination in the workplace for the first time at a federal level. With a Democratic majority in both houses, transgendered protections removed from ENDA before the elec
http://www.republicoft.com/2008/11/18/cancel-those-orders/
Standing on the outside looking in ~ a TDoR post - (USA)
It’s been suggested to me that this would be an appropriate post to cross-post from my blog. For those unfamiliar with great Australian rock bands, the title is a Cold Chisel lyric. Somehow I let this slip by (TD0R is Nov 20) despite the fact that I read some related posts from other bloggers. Given how much I’ve been thinking about this phenomenon (transgender or GID) this year, I wanted to acknowledge the day. This year I think that some people who are transgender have taught me one of the
http://transcendgender.com/2008/11/25/standing-on-the-outside-looking-in-a-tdor-post/
Eating Disorders in Straight and Gay Men - (USA)
Brendan Smialowski for The New York TimesPatrick Bergstrom, a lacrosse player who struggled with an eating disorder, is among those featured in Patient Voices: Eating Disorders.Dr. Kathryn Zerbe, professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University and a longtime expert on eating disorders, recently took readers’ questions on anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and other problems. Here, she responds to one reader’s question about eating disorders in men.QMen and Eating Disorders In recent
http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/reverse-anorexia-in-gay-and-straight-men/
Rabbi brings feminism to the faith - (USA)
With 3,000 years of written tradition, a rabbi’s office is easily mistaken for a library. The Torah and the other religious texts take up one wall at Temple Shalom. But the section of feminist literature is a new addition to the catalogue. New Rabbi Annette Koch is quick to say that Jewish teaching is at the center of her work. But the first full-time female rabbi to lead a synagogue in Lower Bucks County also goes one step further - to what she calls her “meta-issue.” “There are always
http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/news/bcct/rabbi-brings-feminism-to-the-faith/
Profile: Join The Impact's/San Diego's Kelly Moyer - (USA)
Last July, a JJ In Chicago posted a comment at the Box Turtle Bulletin that included the following statement: ...How much lobbying are transgendered people doing on behalf of gay men and lesbians? (And no, trans board members on state and national non-profits don't count. I mean private citizens.) How many trans folks are lobbying to end Don't Ask Don't Tell?? How many trans folks are lobbying to end a relic of the Anita Bryant era- Florida's complete ban on gay men and lesbians to adopt ch
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8373
A Day Without Gays - (USA)
I don't know if you're familiar with the movie "A Day Without A Mexican" but the basic premise that that you don't really understand what you have until it's gone and when that something you lose is a whole class of people it can create havoc. In this vein, some great guy named David Craig decided to put together his own real life version of this scenario and put together "A Day Without Gays" The event is set up as a cause on Facebook:We are calling for a nationwide strike and economic boyco
http://cockamamieideasinc.blogspot.com/2008/11/day-without-gays.html
POC in Sci Fi Meme: Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies - (USA)
August 2, 2009 — prof susurro The Meme: Recommend, review, and/or discuss poc characters/authors in sci fiAfrolantica LegaciesDerrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies begins with a question: how to explain the innovations of the present to President Jefferson if he were to appear in the present. The answer: start with how a black man has the right to explain anything to a white one.As this question and answer imply, the book explores the progress of African Americans while questioning the legacy of
http://likeawhisper.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/poc-in-sci-fi-derrick-bells-afrolantica-legacies/
A Beautiful Letter From The Riverside Church - (USA)
A Beautiful Letter From The Riverside Church (The Reverend Brad R. Braxton, Ph.D.) The Riverside Church in the City of New York stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers throughout the United States who suffer from social and legal discrimination based upon their sexual identity. Our congregation is energized in its resolve to speak boldly on behalf of God's love and justice for all couples who wish to live in covenant love with one another and share their lives. The recent Calif
http://www.waynebesen.com/2008/11/beautiful-letter-from-riverside-church.html
Another Great NP editorial - (USA)
The NP points out more leftist hypocrisy. National Post editorial board: Selective support for fashionable causes Posted: July 30, 2009, 10:00 AM by NP Editor Editorial, Full Comment Diversity. Tolerance. Multiculturalism. Anti-discrimination. These are the supposedly universal values that inform our secular cultural canon. The words sound nice. The problem is that they're not actually "universal." Western societies -- Canada included -- exhibit zero-tolerance attitudes toward the vilificat
http://torydrroy.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-great-np-editorial.html
Gender-Conformity FAIL - (USA)
In honor of Transgender Awareness Day, I’d like to take this opportunity to come out of the closet. I am a supporter of transgender rights. First, I support the existence of transgender people. The gender binary—where everyone is slotted into either “male” or “female” roles, with societally approved modes of expression and activities—is false. It does not describe reality, no matter how much certain religions talk about the sacred eternal nature of the gendered soul. Being transgender is not
http://aloneandunobserved.com/2008/11/20/gender-conformity-fail/
UNEASY GAY ALLIANCE - (USA)
The mainstream gay-rights movement’s slow evolution on transgender issues. In April 2007, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, and others introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that was transgender inclusive, in that it would provide protections for not just gays and lesbians but for people whose gender identity and expression didn’t match their sex assigned at birth. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) advocacy groups drummed up sup
http://outgaylife.com/gay-community/gay-rights/uneasy-gay-alliance/
Comic-Con Saturday Schedule - (USA)
Saturday at Comic-Con 2009 is truly packed with so much in the way of panels, programs, presentations and more, it’s going to be hard to get in time on that massive convention floor. Here are some highlights, with Uncle D Picks noted. 10:00-11:00 Writers’ Guild Panel: PG-13 Animation— Is animation growing up, or is a PG-13 rating just an excuse for cartoon writers to use bad words and graphically kill off their characters? Alan Burnett ( Green Lantern: First Flight
http://www.buzzine.com/2009/07/comic-con-09-saturday-schedule/
Morning Coffee - 20 July 2009 - (USA)
Starting 5 Top Story: Title: HONDURAN JUNTA REJECTS COMPROMISE PLAN Body: Negotiations to settle the crisis in Honduras have ended without agreement. The junta rejected a proposed compromise plan that would reinstate ousted president Mel Zelaya as part of a coalition government and even the possibility of Zelaya returning
http://www.undispatch.com/node/8645
"Satsu Says" - (USA)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of those shows that just doesn't seem to go away – and that's a good thing. After its series finale in 2003, the story about "one girl in all the world" turned into thousands of girls continuing to fight the good fight in comic form. As Buffy fans, we know that's not all Buffy's about. For instance there's Satsu, Buffy's latest love interest, who created controversy and some main stream media hype. With write-ups in such publications as The New York Times, the new
http://buffyfest.blogspot.com/2008/11/satsu-says.html
Gender, Hormones, and Health Insurance: “We Don’t Cover That!” - (USA)
Back when I actually had health insurance I used to get these elaborate monthly account statements from my endocrinologist. I could never figure them out. They were page after page of debits, credits and adjustments. I just used to go to the last page and write a check for whatever it said next to “Pay This Amount.” What I did understand was that my doctor’s staff was playing an elaborate cat and mouse game with my insurance provider to get as much of my expenses covered as possible. (It’s
http://www.queercents.com/2008/11/25/gender-hormones-and-health-insurance-we-dont-cover-that/
Being Trans in Pakistan - (USA)
An intellectual bloggy friend who lives in Lahore, Pakistan, has written a terrific article analyzing the implications of the recent Pakistani Supreme Court ruling which gave Pakistan’s trans community legal recognition. He also explores why the trans/intersex members of Pakistani families are so marginalized. An understanding of the hijra begins with an understanding of the society. Ours is a society where, in traditional spaces, you find life strictly segregated on the basis of gender
http://apostate.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/being-trans-in-pakistan/
The Repercussions (International Transgender Day of Remembrance) - (USA)
Today is the 10th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance. I've been trying to think about how to talk about this for a few days now. This day memorializes those transgendered people who have been killed simply because of who they are.This isn't about people just dying peacefully in their sleep. That I can deal with. Death is just as much a part a life as is birth. Today is about those whose lives were cut short, those who were prematurely eliminated from the world of the living. Tha
http://bintalshamsa.blogspot.com/2008/11/repercussions-international-transgender.html
Transgender News Today - (USA)
News and views for Friday, November 21st through Sunday, November 23rd … [AZ, USA] “Namoli Brennet’s name is inspired by the word “anomaly,” meaning an exception to the rule. She is that, and also a singer-songwriter with keen talent … in 2002 she released the album “Boy in a Dress.” The title of the album hinted at a larger life issue Brennet was grappling with: Brennet was born male but identified as a female. Sometime after 2002, Brennet started the transition to living her life as a female
http://transadvocate.com/autumnsandeen/archives/2830
H.1728 is not about the bathrooms, it's about everything else - (USA)
cross posted at my blog, No Drumlins . Earlier this week, the state House of Representatives heard testimony on H.1728, titled "An Act relative to gender based discrimination and hate crimes." Opponents have called it "the Bathroom Bill," because among the myriad of changes, the bill would prohibit places of public accommodation from barring transgendered individuals from using the bathroom assigned to the gender they associate themselves with. That's right, opponents of the bill want to
http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16253/h1728-is-not-about-the-bathrooms-its-about-everything-else
Toronto: Trans Day of Remembrance Events November 18, 2008 - (USA)
This coming Thursday is Trans Day of Remembrance, with events and vigils in each city. Here are some of the Toronto events happening this month. Trans Day of Remembrance @ the 519 Friday, November 28th 7:00pm to 9:00pm Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street. We take this opportunity to join together as trans people and allies to celebrate our communities’ ability to thrive even as we experience some tremendous wounds. Please come and join us as we reflect on the tragic deaths of absen
http://uppitybrownwoman.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/toronto-trans-day-of-remembrance-events/
Profile: Miss K - (USA)
My name is “Miss K”. My preferred third person pronouns are inconsequential. I’m happy to be referred to as however people perceive me. Honestly, it’s not an issue for me. It never has been. But it is a *huge* issue for some differently gendered people, so please try and be sensitive. Words can enslave. I identify as transgendered. I’ve slid around the various traditional definitions of the spectrum. When I was younger I considered myself a male to female transsexual. As a transvestite, I’ve
http://genderfork.com/?p=588
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