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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  A new generation of issues for LGBT clients
Likewise, groups that have been more closeted, including transsexuals and transgendered people, are finding their voice and appearing more often in treatment to work on identity and relationship concerns.
In her work with transgendered people, New York City private practitioner and gender expert Katherine Rachlin, PhD, notes that transgendered people struggle not so much with who they are as with finding ways to fit into a society that doesn't understand them.
She says that transgendered people, who do not identify as either male or female, sometimes work on accepting a fluid gender identity.
www.apa.org /monitor/feb02/generation.html   (1836 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: List of transgendered people
Transgender is generally used as an overarching, general term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving full or partial tendancies towards that of the opposite gender.
Transmen or trans men are transsexual or transgendered people who were assigned female gender at birth (or, in some rare cases of intersexuality, later) and who feel that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves.
Transwomen or trans women are transsexual or transgendered people who were assigned male sex at birth (or, in some cases of intersexuality, later) and feel that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-transgendered-people   (6563 words)

  
 List of transgendered people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
People on the list have been described according to their self-identification.
All we can say is that by today's standards, these people or their behaviour would be considered transgender.
The people on this list have been selected because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famous_transgendered_people   (1753 words)

  
 Transgendered @ Sun
Various television shows began to use transgendered characters for shock value, and in most cases they were portrayed as crime victims, mentally deranged criminals or evil deceivers out to prey on unwitting "normal folk".
Every time a special on transgendered people airs on television or shows up in a newspaper, there is a chance that some happy, stealthy trans person somewhere will be unwillingly "outed" to friends who did not know - and have absolutely no need to know - about their past.
People in any of those groups might have an interest in what it is like to be a GLBT employee at Sun - after all, we walk among you - so an externally visible blog seems like a natural fit.
blogs.sun.com /tgsun   (3674 words)

  
 Counseling Services - Departments & Services - Student Services :: BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY
Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people who do not fit into traditional gender categories, including transsexuals, transvestites or crossdressers, intersexuals (formerly called hermaphrodites), and sometimes even people who identify as butch or femme.
People who are transgender face discrimination in their jobs, churches, and schools, as well as judgment from their friends, families and coworkers.
People who are transgender have issues similar and dissimilar to the lesbian and gay rights movement.
www.bvu.edu /studentservices/counselingservices/glbt.asp   (1796 words)

  
 People
In many ways, Brown queer social life is like that of Amsterdam: people are out, but everyone does their own thing because there are so many queer folks that the underlying tie in events and friendships does not depend on just queerness, but rather on other similarities/differences.
People, while they need to be educated, are very open-minded for the most part, and especially in the realm of genderfuck and play with gender roles, it is very much in line with the liberal thinking of the campus.
Many people have cited the slogan, "One in four, maybe more!" While this may be an exaggeration, I have met a large number of openly gay people at Yale.
www.planetout.com /people/features/2001/01/colleges/northeast.html   (5774 words)

  
 Lists of people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The biographies don't include fictional characters, e.g., people like Arthur the Knight are included but King Arthur is not.
List of famous people who have changed their name
People by lifestyle (in certain cases with a possibly biological role)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_people   (419 words)

  
 Allice
There were actually other people who, like her, had always seen themselves as belonging to the opposite gender -- and were "transitioning," with or without medical assistance, from one side of the great divide to the other.
Experts use the word "transgendered" to refer to a spectrum of people uncomfortable with their biological gender, from the occasional cross-dresser to the person who undertakes physical conversion via surgery and hormones.
People are already protected from discrimination on the basis of what's between their legs, the theory goes; why should gender be different?
www.moss-fritch.com /alice.htm   (3553 words)

  
 List of transgendered people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.
All we can say is that by today's standards, these people would be considered transgendered.
Marsha P Johnson, transgender activist, involved in Stonewall, co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_transgendered_people   (938 words)

  
 A Feminist Perspective on Transsexuality
Male-to-female transgendered people are no longer able, for whatever reason, to project their feelings of weakness and victimization onto real or fictional women.
Transgendered men are compensating for their sense of social impotence by having a powerful fantasy life -- a fantasy life which they collectively act out when they dress up together.
The male-to- female transgendered people in Paris is Burning have lost and continue to lose the social status accorded to (straight) men in gendered culture, partly because of their race and sexual orientation, but mostly because they are poor.
www.genderpsychology.org /gender_queer/gender_slumming.html   (5367 words)

  
 List of transgendered people - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Lili Elbe, Danish transsexual, one of the first women to undergo a crude form of sexual reassignment surgery, through five operations which were completed by 1930.
Countess Jeanne de Montfort, led the Montfortist faction in Brittany in the 1340s after the capture of her husband left her as the titular head of the family; wore the accoutrements of a soldier at engagements such as the siege of Hennebont.
List of transgendered people, Living individuals, 20th and 21st century individuals, Mythological figures, Earlier historical individuals, Fictional individuals, Books, See also and External links.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_transgendered_people   (1783 words)

  
 [X] : A Boy Doesn't Cry
According to the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, two transgender people were murdered every month in 2002.
Vade recommends transgendered people to take a legal process to change their name.
Vade points out that many transgendered people cannot change their sex because of the expense being too high.
xpress.sfsu.edu /archives/life/000077.html   (1072 words)

  
 List of transgendered people -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A number of noted individuals are or were (additional info and facts about transgender) transgendered.
The Norse god ((Norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with Teutonic Donar) Thor put on the wedding gown and veil of his enemy's bride, married his enemy, and then slew him at the end of the ceremony.
Azure C., a transsexual model on the (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)) soap opera (Used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain) The City.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/List_of_transgendered_people.htm   (2860 words)

  
 Sour Grapes | Fresno Famous
FRESNO FAMOUS is a website dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and discovering life in Fresno.
For those curious, the Famous test kitchen is almost ready to release Jarah Valley Ranch all-purpose flavor enhancing lipid solution to the public.
Famous user LuvlyRta points you to Fresnomommies.com, for all your playdate needs.
www.fresnofamous.com /blog/grapes.php   (887 words)

  
 UK Gay News - Dr. William Schulz: US Police Have Failed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And if you are a transgender person, a person of color, if you were born outside the United States or if you are young or low income, your chances of being abused are even greater.
For example, officers approached a Latina transgender woman in New York and asked her, “are your breasts implants or hormones?” and “what’s up with your genitalia?” One officer then asked her to show him her breasts.
Transgender people and individuals who do not conform to stereotypes about gender report that during searches police have sometimes inappropriately touched their genitals to establish their “true” sex or conducted personal body searches in public.
www.ukgaynews.org.uk /Archive/2005sept/2203.htm   (2365 words)

  
 be yourself
Some gay people say that, from the time they were very young - even just five or six - they "felt different." They didn't share the grade/school crushes about which friends talked, or thgy had crushes on friends of their own sex-and no one seemed to be talking about that.
He found that most people have some attraction to the same sex during their lives, and that many people have some sexual experiences with the same sex, or with both sexes.
Transsexuals are people who want to change their gender through surgery, and then live their lives just like any other man or woman.
members.tripod.com /~uniting/answers1.html   (1116 words)

  
 Seeds of Hope: Transgender Inclusion
This is an issue that, while many people do not understand it, is the hill on which everything we as a community have fought for is on the line.
If you know someone who is transgendered, befriend them, pray with them but most of all get to know them and what their needs and fears are.
Than a Transgender name Donna came along, who was on her way to have her final surgeries done.
www.whosoever.org /seeds/tg.html   (1360 words)

  
 Judith Light Quotes
Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.
I believe people living with HIV understand life differently and can become an inspiration to those who are not living with potentially life threatening illnesses, except life as a life-threatening illness.
People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.
www.brainyquote.com /quotes/authors/j/judith_light.html   (1270 words)

  
 List of transgendered people: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about List of transgendered people
Transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transsexuals, transvestic fetishists, cross-dressers, intersexuals, drag queens, drag kings and others.
Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their being transgender.
Kamikawa Aya, Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
www.encyclopedian.com /fa/Famous-transgendered-people.html   (455 words)

  
 Untitled Document
He is causing a sense of panic in the transgender community, as we learn that famous "scientists" are teaching university students that "transsexuals don't exist" and that we are "gay men instead".
The transgendered woman was described as "an extremely feminine gay man who decided to become a woman." Then bar graphs were presented (without error bars) purporting to show that gay men and straight men prefer "casual sex" more than straight women, and straight women more than lesbian women.
The transgendered woman was claimed (though no data given) to be as sexually active in casual sex as a straight man or gay man, and for this reason had to be considered a gay man "himself."
ai.eecs.umich.edu /people/conway/TS/BaileyStanfordLectureReport.html   (1420 words)

  
 Michael Bailey, Book Controversy Question & Answer
Second, people are often motivated to believe accounts of their own behavior that put them in the best light.
Third, people are often motivated to give explanations that make other people think well of them.
(She did not urge people to read the book first.) Conway's characterization of my book included several outrageous and false accusations that seem designed to dissuade people from looking at my book, which is available to read for free.
www.psych.northwestern.edu /psych/people/faculty/bailey/controversy.htm   (3753 words)

  
 Famous transgendered people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Please note that these people have been selected for this list because their fame or notoriety was in some way due orconnected to their transgender behaviour.
Regarding historical persons, please also note that for individuals at least until the beginning of the 20th century, therewere no names for transgender behaviour, and therefore we have no statemends that are a clear documentation for their reasons tobehave the way they did; most of the time, we have no statements by themselves at all.
All we can say is that by today'sstandards, these people would be considered transgendered.
www.therfcc.org /famous-transgendered-people-309947.html   (865 words)

  
 People Transgendered Society
Africa's gay and lesbian people combat biasMail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 4 hours ago"In Africa, transgendered people are seriously punished for being who they are," she said.
Positive Portrayals of Transgender People Seen As Promoting SinEx-Gay Watch, CT - 22 hours agoThe concerns, expressed mostly by Dr. Robert Gagnon, is that there are media portrayals of transgender people in the first place, and then that these...
Community CalendarAurora Beacon News, IL - 17 hours agoQYC is a weekly social group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth, ages 16 to 20, that meets in Naperville.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Society/Transgendered/People   (257 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Rivera, Sylvia
Perhaps already sensing that transgendered people could not rely on the gay rights movement to advocate for their civil rights, in 1970 Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson had formed a group called Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.).
Since the late nineteenth century, transgendered people have advocated legal and social reforms that would ameliorate the kinds of oppression and discrimination they suffer.
Despite some recent progress, people who do not conform to society's gender norms continue to experience discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, marriage and family litigation, medical care, prisons, schools, and hate crimes protection.
www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/rivera_s.html   (1023 words)

  
 Serial Stories: Nick Broomfield on "Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer"
Aileen also had this fantasy that we were actually a rock band that was coming to perform in the prison that night.
And when that breaks down, particularly when it breaks down in a country like this one, which the rest of the world is looking to, then you have complete anarchy.
So it's all the poor people, it's a lot of people with mental problems, it's all the unfortunates of society on death row.
www.indiewire.com /people/people_040105broom.html   (2193 words)

  
 Did You Ever Wonder
"Transgender" is generally defined as "transgressive of gender norms." It is commonly used as an umbrella term to include all manner of gender norm transgressions.
Transgendered people are much more likely than others to commit suicide, to be murdered, to be fired from their jobs, to be beaten up and to be hurt in many more ways, some as blatant as open ridicule, some as insidious as non-hiring.
Because their gender expression differs from the norm, many transgendered people are subjected to emotional trauma and physical suffering or barbaric practices such as imprisonment and shock therapy.
www.emory.edu /CAMPUS_LIFE/LGBTOFFICE/wonder/index.html   (3626 words)

  
 DaVinci: Society> Transgendered> People
Transgendered people, Bradley explains, start out as transsexuals, believing they were born women in men's bodies, or vice versa.
A few people have actually sold their NaNo novels to real publishers, just...
He (Jesse is transgendered and prefers masculine pronouns, just so you know there's...
www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Society/Transgendered/People   (299 words)

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