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Friday, November 20, 2009
Ira Basil Pauly (born 1931) is an American psychiatrist best known for his influential work on transsexualism with endocrinologist Harry Benjamin.
Pauly stands as a sort of opposite of Paul McHugh, both of whom were faculty at University of Oregon Medical School in the 1960’s, when Pauly began writing and speaking about treatment of transsexualism. He came around on sex reassignment in 1961 “after soul-searching deliberation.” Pauly noted that both transsexualism and abortion were “sex and tabooed topics” that caused strong responses. Pauly is noted for undertaking the first global review of the published outcome data on transsexualism in 1965. In the mid-1960s, he began collaborating with Benjamin, who cited Pauly’s work in The Transsexual Phenomenon. The two later worked to popularize their research in the lay press.
McHugh would become dean of the University of Oregon Medical School before leaving to close down gender services at Johns Hopkins. McHugh has continued to try to control what other people do to their bodies ever since, where Pauly (who retired in 1994) will be remembered as one of the progressive pioneers in providing trans health services.
Full article:
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ira-pauly.html
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Pioneering trans author and artist Melanie Anne Phillips has released some of her groundbreaking work in new formats:
Melanie Anne Phillips on Amazon
Raised by Wolves paperback
Website:
http://melanieannephillips.com
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Malgorzata Anna Lamacz (born 1949) is an American researcher specializing in sexuality and behavioral genetics. Under the Americanized version of her name (Margaret Lamacz), she is the co-author of the 1989 book Vandalized Lovemaps: Paraphilic Outcome of 7 Cases in Pediatric Sexology with notorious sexologist John Money.
She and Money proposed the term gynemimetophilia as part of a paraphilic model of attraction to transwomen.
Lamacz has since gone on to work on evidence of genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. This work has been done with Paul McHugh, who shut down the gender clinic at Johns Hopkins.
Full article:
Malgorzata Lamacz and transsexualism
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/malgorzata-lamacz.html
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Ray Blanchard at Toronto’s notorious Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has accused me of spreading “misinformation” about him, so let’s get all his biographical details out on the table in order to make my point more clearly.
Blanchard is widely reviled by transsexual people. He once declared that a trans woman who has transitioned is merely “a man without a penis,” and said of trans men, “They get a kind of lump that in the best, most expensive, $100,000 cases, kind of, maybe, look like a penis from across a room.” His comments on trans people’s genitalia echo his fixation on “phallometrics,” the measurement of penile length, width, and tumescence when subjects are exposed to erotic stimuli. The field of “phallometrics” was developed by Blanchard’s mentor at CAMH to determine if army recruits were gay or not. Blanchard, who has not disclosed his own sexual orientation publicly, is considered an expert in determining the size and tumescence of male genitalia.
Blanchard took umbrage at my publication of his 2008 taxpayer-funded salary and my comment that he and Zucker both left America for Canada during the Vietnam War. Why is Blanchard so touchy about military matters, and what personally motivates his life’s work? What drives this key figure in the oppression of sex and gender minorities? Since he feels entitled to ascribe labels and motivations to others, let’s turn the tables. Why is Ray so reticent about revealing his own sexual interests and behavior, when his career involves “catching” people not being open and honest about their sexual interests and behavior?
This article examines Ray’s childhood, family life, sexuality, Catholic upbringing, and interest in penile tumescence. It also examines how CAMH became the world’s largest publicly-funded forced feminization sex dungeon and transgender reparative therapy clinic. Finally, it examines what Blanchard’s most important legacy will be: the broad expansion of “paraphilia” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) to further oppress sex and gender minorities as mentally disordered.
In this section:
* Ray Blanchard motivations for oppressing sex and gender minorities
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ray-blanchard-motivations.html
* Toronto: epicenter of pathologization of sex and gender minorities
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ray-blanchard-hypotheses.html
* Ray Blanchard’s problematic place in history
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ray-blanchard-history.html
* Notes, updates, further reading
http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/ray-blanchard-notes.html
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Lynn Conway notes:
This interactive map reveals that the Centre for Addiction and mental Health (CAMH) not only controls the fate of gender transitioners in Ontario, but in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland too. It also reveals that CAMH requires a two-year RLE in all cases, in non-compliance with the WPATH Standards of Care.
Sex reassignment surgery in Canada: what’s covered and where
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Sex_reassignment_surgery_in_Canada_whats_covered_and_where-7706.aspx
Province-by-province breakdown of SRS coverage
http://www.xtra.ca/BinaryContent/stories/77/06/7706/7706-SRS/212_SRS.swf
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