Contents:
Transgender youth issues and resources
MtF transgenderism and resources for TG/TS people born male
FtM transgenderism and resources for TG/TS people born female
Intersex Information and resources for people born intersexed
Information about Intergenderism, Androgyny and Alternative Identities
Medical Issues and Standards of Care
Companies that have extended anti-discrimination protections to transgendered people
Cities that have extended anti-discrimination protections to transgendered people
Colleges and universities providing anti-discrimination protections to transgendered people
International Support and Information Sites
Human Rights Campaign (HRC): Transgender 101
Introduction to Issues Surrounding Gender Identity and Expression
By Alexander John Goodrum (1960-2002)
An MtF primer from TransFamily of Cleveland
An MtF primer from FTM International
True
Selves : Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends,
Coworkers, and Helping Professionals,
by Mildred L. Brown, Chloe Ann Rounsley
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals,
by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,
by Julia Serano
Gender Madness in American
Psychiatry: Essays from the Struggle for Dignity
by Kelley Winters, Ph.D.
Trans-Sister
Radio: A Novel ,
by Chris A. Bohjalian
Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will
by Helen Boyd
Toni Amato and Mary Davies, Editors
Transgender youth issues and resources
TransYouth Family Advocates is a
coalition of parents, friends and caring adults dedicated to educating and
raising public awareness about the challenges faced by children with gender
variant and gender questioning identities and the families who love them.
Supporting the loving and caring relationship between Transgender Parents and their children.
Family support group for children and teenagers with gender identity issues.
Gender Spectrum Education and Training / Gender Spectrum Family
Gender Spectrum is dedicated to the education and support of families raising gender variant, gender non-conforming, gender-fluid, crossgender, and transgender children and adolescents.
Support site for young TG/TS people
Transitioning Early in Life (MtF)
Very informative page by Andrea James.
Outreach Program for Children with Gender-Variant Behaviors and their Families
at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Article by T. Eve Greenaway discussing the sudden emergence of FtM trangenderism out of the shadows and into the open in many U.S. colleges and universities.
New York Times Magazine article by Benoit Denizet-Lewis about an FtM teenager who finds support at school.
I
am never going to be a man, mummy, when I grow up it will be
as a woman,
The Sunday Express (UK) article focussing on children
who want to change sex, by Gerard Greaves,
"Transgender 10-Year-Old Girl and Her Family Talk to Barbara Walters", ABC News
"My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender Children", debuted on ABC "20/20" on 4-27-07.
"Girl/Boy Interrupted - A New Treatment For Transgender Kids Puts Puberty On Hold
So That They Won't Develop Into Their Biological Sex", SF Weekly, 7-11-07 (more info)
Important article about the trend towards early interventions to help transgender kids.
Mom, I Need to be a Girl, by Just Evelyn
On-line book documenting the story of a teenager's MtF gender transition.
العربيّة, Deutsch,, Español, Français, עברית, Português
TransMan's Information Project
Transmen & FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders & Sexualities, by Jason Cromwell
Organisation Internationale des Intersexués (OII)
Bodies Like Ours - Intersex Information and Peer Support
The World Professional Organization for Transgender Health is devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender identity disorders [sic], and has approximately 350 members from around the world, in the fields of psychiatry, endocrinology, surgery, law, psychology, sociology, and counseling. The organization was formally known as The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), changing its name to WPATH in 2006.
In the
Standards of
Care (SOC) for Gender Identity Disorders [sic] (English
PDF,
Spanish PDF) WPATH publishes recommended
medical protocols for those transgendered and transsexual people
who seek medical assistance and treatment.
The
Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) website
discusses the current scientific consensus on gender dysphoria, and
includes a
synopsis signed by most of the world's most experienced researchers in
this area.
GID REFORM.ORG: A resource for the reform of language regarding "gender disorders" in the medical community's DSM manual. This site contains well-reasoned essays that challenge traditional psychiatric stereotypes of gender diversity.
Trans-Health.com: The online magazine of health and fitness for transsexual and transgendered people.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)Workplace Project
A national source of information on workplace policies surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
As of October 19, 2005, seventy-three (73) Companies in the Fortune 500
provide HR/EEO protections for transitioning and transitioned employees, as follows:
Aetna Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Air Products & Chemicals Inc., American Airlines, American Express Co., Apple Computer Inc., AT&T Corp., Avaya Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Borders Group Inc., Capital One Financial Corp., Charles Schwab Corp., Chevron Corp., Chubb Corp., Cisco Systems, Citigroup Inc., Cooper Tire & Rubber, Corning Inc., Cummins Inc., Dell Inc., Dominion Resources, Inc., Dow Chemical Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Estee Lauder Companies, Ford Motor Co., General Mills Inc., Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Illinois Tool Works Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Johnson & Johnson, Keyspan Corp, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Levi Strauss & Co., Lexmark International Inc., Lincoln National Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Mellon Financial Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co., MetLife, Inc., Microsoft Corp., Molson Coors Brewing Company, Motorola Inc., Nationwide, NCR Corp., Nike Inc., Nordstrom Inc., Owens Corning, PacifiCare Health Systems, PepsiCo Inc. Pfizer Inc., PG&E Corp., Prudential Financial Inc.Raytheon Co., SBC Communications Inc., Sears, Roebuck and Co., Sprint Corp., Staples Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SunTrust Banks Inc., Tech Data Corp., Toys "R" Us Inc., Unisys Corp., US Airways Group, Viacom Inc., Walgreens Co., Washington Mutual, Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Whirlpool Corp., Xerox Corp.
Many colleges and universities provide anti-discrimination protections for lesbian and gay students, and many schools have active LGBT offices and LGBT campus groups, and wider information available on campus climates for LGBT students to help students make well-informed decisions on which colleges to attend. In the past few years a number of these schools have extended the anti-discrimination protections to also protect transgendered students, including the following schools (as of Sept. 2006), as listed by TPLI (including date of policy change):
American University (02),
Arizona State University (04),
Brandeis University (06),
Brown University (01-02),
Bryant University (05),
California College of the Arts,
California Institute of Technology (04),
Carnegie Mellon University (03),
Central Washington University (05),
City College of San Francisco (05),
City University of New York system
(02-03),
Colby College (05),
College
of Santa Fe (05), Colorado State University (04),
Columbia
University (06),
Community College of Rhode Island,
Connecticut College (05),
Dartmouth
College (06), DePauw
University (99),
Drake University (04),
Evergreen State
College (06),
Golden Gate University School of Law
(05),
Harvard
University (06),
Iowa State University (05),
Johns Hopkins University (05),
Kalamazoo College (00),
Knox College
(01),
Lehigh University (03),
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (03),
Middlebury College
(03),
New College (06),
New York
University
(05),
North Carolina State
University (05),
Pennsylvania
State University (06),
Princeton
University (06), Occidental College (06),
Ohio State University
(04),
Oregon State University
(05),
Parkland
College (06),
Rhode Island College,
Rochester Institute of
Technology (05),
Rockport College (00),
Sarah
Lawrence College (06),
Syracuse University
(05),
Tufts University
(05),
University of Arizona (05),
University of Baltimore (06),
University of California
System (04),
University of Illinois System (05),
University of Iowa (96),
University of Maine system (06),
University of New Hampshire (05),
University of Oregon
(05),
University of Pennsylvania
(03), University
of Puget Sound
(02-03),
University of Rhode Island
(03-04),
University of Southern California (04),
University of Vermont
(05), University
of Washington,
University of
Wisconsin system
(05),Wesleyan
University (02),
Whitman College,
Williams
College (06),
Yale (06)
Many major universities and colleges now also fall under state and city laws that extend protections to transgendered people (in six states and 64 cities by the fall of 2005).
Legal Issues
Transgender Law and Policy Institute Website
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
State-by-state instructions for changing birth certificates
Laws (includes many links re LGBT and human rights issues)
Immigration Issues (more, more)
Advocacy Groups
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
National Transgender Advocacy Group (NTAC)
Organisation Internationale des Intersexués (OII)
International Support and Information Sites
Andrea James list of international links (many countries)
Wikipedia list of transgender-rights organizations (many countries)
Asociación Travestis Transexuales Transgéneros Argentina (Argentina)
Transgender Asia (Asia)
W-O-M-A-N Network (Australia)
TransAustralia (Australia)
The Gender Centre (Sydney) (Australia)
TransX: Verein für TransGender Personen (Austria)
Trans-Action (Belgium)
Organisation Internationale des Intersexués (OII) (Canada)
Canadian Transsexual Fight For Rights (Canada)
(Ecuador)
European Transgender Network (TGEU) (Europe)
European TS (surgeons) (Europe)
Bistouri Oui - Oui ! (France)
CARITIG (France)
Groupe Activiste Trans' (France)
Sans-contrefaçon (France)
Syndrome de Benjamin - le site de Tom (France)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität (DGTI) (Germany)
Háttér Support Society for LGBT People (more) (Hungary)
Trans Support Ireland (Ireland)
Tranniehaven (Ireland)
Crisalide AzioneTrans (Italy)
Trans-Net Japan (Japan)
gid.jp (Japan)
Kawagoe Circle (Japan)
Comunidad Transexual Guadalajara (Mexico)
DisforiaDeGenero.org (Mexico and Latin America)
Recursos transexualidad en México (Mexico)
The International Transsexual Sisterhood (Middle-East)
Landelijke Kontaktgroep (Netherlands)
Humanitas (Netherlands)
TRANS CARE TRUST (New Zealand)
Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP) (Phillipines (more))
ªt. * Associação Para O Estudo e Defesa Do Direito À Identidade de Género (Portugal)
ACCEPT (in English) (Romania)
TransHelp (Russia)
Síndrome de Benjamin (Spain)
Fundación para de la indentidad de género (FIG) (Spain)
CTC: Colectivo de Transexuales de Cataluña (Spain)
A.E.T. Transexualía (Spain)
CarlaAntonelli.com (Spain)
Ýnsanca Yaþam Platformu (Turkey)
The Beaumont Society (UK)
The Gender Trust (UK)
Mermaids (UK)
Gender Identity Research and Education Society (UK)
Depend (UK)
Gendys info (UK)
GRS-Wales (Wales, UK)
Prevalence
Transgenderism and transsexualism are far more common than previously recognized. Recent calculations indicate that transsexualism is at least 100 times more prevalent than the very-outdated numbers listed in current medical publications, and affects 0.2% to 0.3% of all people.
The wider range of transgender conditions probably affect at least 2% to 3% of all people. The realization that these are not "extremely rare conditions" and are not even uncommon adds urgency to efforts to provide support systems for TG/TS people.
Trans Comic Strips!
After all, we need to keep our sense of humor about all this stuff!
"VenusEnvy" (The adventures of “Zoe”, by Erin Lindsey)
http://venusenvy.keenspace.com/
http://venusenvy.keenspace.com/about.html
"T-Gina" (The adventures of a trans gal, by Gina Kamentsky)
"Trans-Generation" (cool FtM comic strip by Matt)
http://www.transe-generation.com/
Successes
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