Sexuality
Practical information about dating and sexual health, including the political aspects of texual research and taxonomies.
Safety
Disclosure
BBL Clearinghouse
Sex work
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A reader notes:
Might be useful link for your post-operative care and/or dilation pages:
• Soul Source GRS Dilators
http://www.soulsourceenterprises.com/html/products_grs.html
Further information:
• Vaginoplasty postoperative care, maintenance, and sexuality
This is talk, not advice. See Terms of Use for details.
Posted by
Andrea James on 03/11 at 01:44 PM
Physical •
Sexuality •
Permalink
Lynn Conway notes:
Columnist Benjamin Paige, a member of the Board of Directors of the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire (ICRME), recently published one of the most hideously transphobic screeds we’ve ever seen in the GayZette Denver [later retracted by the publisher]. In response to escalating criticism of Paige’s column, Tom Japhet the President of the Board of ICRME e-mailed me on March 9th, expressing mere “disappointment” with that article and saying that he’d be “discussing it” with Paige. In his e-mail, Japhet mentioned the names of several past transgender members of ICRME, using those names to support his claim that ICRME is a transfriendly organization. I’d wondered about this at the time. It seemed that Japhet was tossing out and exploiting those names, rather than letting the women speak for themselves. On March 10, 2008, Dana Yost, a former member of the ICRME and one of the women mentioned by Japhet, courageously sent us an open letter giving a very different perspective on the ICRME.
Read Lynn’s full report and Dana’s letter here:
Dana Yost: Anti-trans attitudes in the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/News/US/Benjamin%20Paige/Dana%20Yost%20letter.html
This is talk, not advice. See Terms of Use for details.
Author Julia Serano reports on recent developments in the Alice Dreger defense of J. Michael Bailey:
A “Bailey Controversy” Follow-Up, by Julia Serano
http://feministing.com/archives/008750.html
A Matter of Perspective: A Transsexual Woman-Centric Critique of Alice Dreger’s “Scholarly History” of the Bailey Controversy (PDF)
http://www.juliaserano.com/av/Serano_DregerCommentary.pdf
Even More Dreger Critiquing (MP3 audio file)
http://www.juliaserano.com/av/EvenMoreDregerCritiquing.mp3
The audio file is long and conversational in tone, but will be of interest to anyone who has followed this fiasco.
This is talk, not advice. See Terms of Use for details.
Posted by
Andrea James on 03/11 at 11:41 AM
Sexuality •
Permalink
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Click here for SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
Tamara ___* is the third most prolific contributor to transkids.us and the current public face of a site “by and about” children who are “homosexual transsexuals.” Tamara has published a helpful scientific diagram showing the validity of Ray Blanchard’s important scientific work on transsexual taxonomy.
And now, someone has finally put together an even more important scientific diagram that brings all of J. Michael Bailey’s scientific truth on sex and sexuality (not just males) into perfect scientific symmetry as well.
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
Sex and sexuality scientific diagram
Dr. J. Michael Bailey, B.S., Ph.D., scientist
* surname omitted despite thousands of trolls posts by Tamara discussing her identity and name all over the internet.
This is talk, not advice. See Terms of Use for details.
Posted by
Andrea James on 02/27 at 05:41 PM
Sexuality •
Permalink
A reader notes:
The Daily Northwestern has just reported an amazing development in the Bailey-Dreger saga:
Debate resumes on methods of psych professor’s research
by Michael Gsovski
Daily Northwestern
February 27, 2008
Excerpt:
Last month, Robin Mathy filed ethics complaints against both Dreger and Bailey with the American Psychological Association, which accredits NU’s psychology department. Unlike the most vocal opponents of Dreger and Bailey’s work, Mathy is an accredited psychologist and a clinical research fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Medical School. She also filed a charge with the Illinois Board of Examiners of Psychology for Bailey’s alleged misrepresentation of himself as psychologist.
Mathy’s charges focus on the professional connections between the board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior and Bailey. In the article, Bailey and Dreger both expressed that having sex with a research subject is not inherently wrong.
Mathy said Dreger was wrong to submit her article to the ASB, which is edited by Kenneth Zucker, who has had contact with Bailey and has similar views on transsexuality. By doing this, she said Dreger sought to bypass the peer review process, which ensures research remains unbiased.
“This is a blatant conflict of interest,” Mathy said. “(Dreger) exploited a key network friendship with Michael Bailey to get a truly horrible paper published.”
More on this as it develops.
Update: Check out Alice Dreger: The unethical ethicist?
This is talk, not advice. See Terms of Use for details.
