Transsexual Road Map Notes

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Central Florida transgender resources

Robyn Kelly notes:

Gender Identity in Florida Today (GIFT) is an Orlando, Florida, based organization dedicated to offering a safe networking environment and peer counseling support for the transgender community in Central Florida, bringing awareness of transgender issues to the public and working for full human rights for all members of the LGBT community. It is comprised entirely of transgender individuals and their supporters who volunteer their time and financial support to the organization.

Transgender Support in Central Florida
http://giftorlando.webatu.com

See also:

Selected web resources
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/links.html

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Fun new Bad Questions To Ask A Transsexual merchandise

There are over 1,000,000 views on Calpernia’s hilarious ‘Bad Questions To Ask A Transsexual’ video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjqsB1huDxg

To celebrate, we have some fun new t-shirts available to show your pride:

http://www.genderlife.com/tshirts

Stop trans pathologization: International response

Lynn Conway points to some of the great work being done under the Stop Trans Pathologization 2012 aegis:

The start of the protest march against legal change of sex and control of one’s own transgender body being held hostage to unneeded and unwanted psychiatry.

As a result of the publicity around this march and the Congreso that immediately preceded it, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) presented at the Congress of Deputies (of Catalonia) a motion for debate in the Equality Commission which calls for policy changes no longer regarded transsexualism as a disease. The initiative calls for, namely to amend the law to eliminate gender identity requirements for diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” and medical treatment for two years to access the correct registration of sex.

Once legal change of sex is depathologized the use of psychiatry cannot apply since in the new sex there is no longer any transsexualism, no longer any cross-gender identification.

Since GID absolutely requires cross-gender identification then legal change of sex extinguishes that too, AND MAKES KENNETH ZUCKER, OH SO DESERVEDLY, IRRELEVANT! Through the political process we get an end run around those who aim to harm us. And, at last, transgender and transsexual people are free from the psychiatry that has been hurting them for decades. ”

Photo-video montage of the Barcelona conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC-OeH0TaR8

Spanish news video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgOTRRQqfM&NR=1

Conference webpage:
http://www.congenid.org/en.html

“Las personas transexuales, estadísticamente hablando, son uno de los grupos más afectados por condiciones de vida marginal (prostitución, drogadicción, etc.) y por la dificultad de inserción laboral, probablemente son el colectivo con mayores índices de suicidio así como de muertes por deficiencias en la asistencia sanitaria recibida en su proceso de transición. Los logros puntuales que se han conseguido en Estados como España, Uruguay, Gran Bretaña, Holanda etc. etc. no ocultan, dado que nos movemos en una sociedad global, su alcance limitado y muchas veces no reconocido fuera de las fronteras de los Estados tutelantes.

En este contexto, Human Rights Watch, junto con varias Administraciones Públicas españolas y extranjeras han decidido la celebración de una conferencia internacional global sobre transexualidad y derechos humanos, junto a una amplia coalición de colectivos y asociaciones para el reconocimiento de los derechos del colectivo transexual y del movimiento LGTB español e internacional. La idea de realizar, por primera vez, una conferencia global con personas transexuales, por personas transexuales y para las personas transexuales . . . ”

Check out these videos as well:

Para Presidencia Asoc. Silueta X

En el siguiente enlace encontrara el reportaje realizado a nuestras integrantes: Ana Paula Velez y Maria Sol Mite por el canal ITV. El reportaje relata sobre nuestras actividades, misión, visión y proyectos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF0Va9lhP1s

TELEAMAZONAS REPORTAJE

Sobre el cambio de sexo que persigue Diane Rodriguez, es el reportaje realizado por teleamazonas. A continucación el enlace del video en nuestra red de You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC4mBDZE8aQ

CAMBIO DE SEXO CI. - ECUAVISA REPORTAJE

Ecuavisa también realiza un mini reportaje sobre el cambio de sexo en la cédula de identidad al igual que teleamazonas. Puede ver el reportaje en el siguiente enlace de nuestra red de videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLlhaayfa2o

Rectovaginal fistula: first-hand report

Amy Hunter has posted a sobering account of her vaginoplasty complications.

Chronic pain, heavy narcotics addiction, and bouts of deep depression are the hushed legacies I have battled. Left with a possibly permanent colostomy and a painful, fibrous lump between my legs where a vagina should be, it is nearly impossible not to revisit the devastation daily. It is now two and a half years later.  [...] A slight tear in my colon from a retractor, was all that was necessary to compromise an otherwise flawless procedure. I had developed a rectal-vaginal fistula. This problem happens to natal women too, often as a complication from difficult childbirth or certain cancers. Frankly, the success rate for repairing the defect in natal women is not good either. It often takes multiple surgeries for them too. What makes it even harder for the transwoman?

Full article:
Sex Reassignment Surgery: When things go wrong
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/06/sex_reassignment_surgery_when_things_go_wrong.php

See also:

Potential complications of vaginoplasty
http://www.tsroadmap.com/physical/vaginoplasty/complications.html

Living With A Rectovaginal Fistula (via Anne Vitale)
http://www.avitale.com/Rectovaginal_Fistula.html

Monday, May 10, 2010

Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) needs your help to pass!

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is a proposed bill in the United States Congress that would prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity for civilian nonreligious employers with over 15 employees. This bill has been making its way through our legislative system for some time, and transgender protections have been a major sticking point for some activists and politicians.

This federal law would help LGBT workers in 38 states that do not currently have trans protections, particularly in less populous states and states generally considered more conservative. Find out how you can get involved at the links below:

Employment Non-Discrimination Act via ACLU

http://www.aclu.org/hiv-aids_lgbt-rights/employment-non-discrimination-act

United ENDA

http://www.unitedenda.org/

Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) via The Task Force

http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/nondiscrimination/ENDA_main_page

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is also involved, but following their previous actions on this matter (throwing trans rights language away for political expediency), I do not recommend working through them.

Here is a simple one-click option for helping with this important issue:

http://bit.ly/enda123