Catherine McGregor (1956–) soldier, cricketer, sports writer, political aide.

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Malcolm grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, in a Catholic family. He was eight when his father died, and shorty afterwards he tried on his mother's clothes. He was a successful boy, at humanities and at cricket, at a Christian Brothers high school. He always wanted to be a soldier.

He enlisted at 18, and chose to go into the infantry, where he met David Morrison. He was known for his drinking and getting into fights.

However after a promotion, he left and joined the New South Wales Labor Party, and became press secretary to Bob Carr, then leader of the opposition. At this time Malcolm encountered Tony Abbott, who was making a name for himself in the Liberal Party, on a rugby field. In 1985 McGregor sought medical help and was offered a diagnosis of being transgender. He started going out as a woman, but lost his nerve and drank instead. He managed to stop, but had a major falling out with the Labor Party.

Malcolm went to work with the Federal Liberal Party for the 1993 election where John Hewson lost, despite expectations, to Labor's Paul Keating. 18 months later McGregor was involved in the leaking of internal polling that showed how unpopular Hewson was, and this led to Hewson being replaced.

Malcolm "having burnt my bridges with both political Parties" then became a media political commentator, and also joined the Army Reserve. After 911 he rejoined the Regular Army.
At this time Malcolm found a woman that he loved, and they married. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was working as advisor and speechwriter for Lieutenant General David Morrison, who was now the Chief of the Army.

He had a second career as a cricket commentator for The Spectator.

In October 2011, McGregor read a magazine article about Westerly Windina in The Sun Herald, and this enabled him to tell his therapist that he was transgender.

In 2012 McGregor was awarded the Order of Australia, and discussed his gender issues with the chief, who refused twice to accept a resignation. McGregor's book, An Indian Summer of Cricket, came out under Malcolm's name, and in the final chapter she announces her impending transition. Tony Abbott reviewed it, and lauded her courage. She separated from her wife and transitioned as Catherine (Cate) "rhymes with mate'.

Cate & Tony in the ABC Radio commentary booth

In general both army and cricket associates were supportive, but there were a few negative remarks, which led to spats on social media until Morrison counselled her that such was not to happen again.
In 2014 Catherine was featured on ABC's Australian Story, introduced by her old mate Tony Abbott, now Prime Minister. Catherine transferred to the Air Force. She now writes about cricket for the Australian Financial Review. She is senior delegate for women’s cricket in the armed services, and helps select the Australian prime minister’s sides, as his representative, that play touring teams. Catherine is on good terms with her ex-wife.

*Not the academic at UVic, nor the NZ journalist, nor the actress.

Malcolm McGregor. An Indian Summer of Cricket: Reflections on Australia's Summer Game. Griffith, A.C.T.: Barrallier Books Pty Ltd, 2012.
Gabrielle Chan. "The Surprising Tony Abbott". The Hoopla, December 5, 2012. http://thehoopla.com.au/tony-abbott-shades-grey.
Rick Feneley. "Cate McGregor on leaving Malcolm McGregor behind and becoming a woman". The Sydney Morning Herald, February 25, 2014. www.smh.com.au/national/cate-mcgregor-on-leaving-malcolm-mcgregor-behind-and-becoming-a-woman-20140224-33d40.html.
"Call Me Cate". Australian Story, ABC1 30 mins 4 Mar 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIpYNWwX3ww.
Mike Selvey. "Cricket has always been a game that takes people for who they are: Cricket writer Catherine McGregor was ‘humbled’ by the generous reception she received from the global cricket community after she announced that she was transgender". The Guardian, 13 August 2014. www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/aug/13/cricket-mike-selvey-column.
Tom Decent. "ABC defends airing 'transphobic' Q&A tweets about Catherine McGregor". The Sydney Morning Herald, October 14, 2014. www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-defends-airing-transphobic-qa-tweets-about-catherine-mcgregor-20141014-115rbk.html.

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Three trans women - said to be prostitutes - at the Marienkasino.

Trans women at the Eldorado Nightclub

Hansi Sturm, Miss Eldorado, 1926.

All images from:
Robert Beachy. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf, 2014.

Note Herman von Teschenberg's transvestity is not mentioned, Dörchen Richter, Carla van Crist are not mentioned at all. Lili Elbe is not named.

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Georg von Zobeltitz from Weissensee, Berlin, a scion of one of Germany's old noble families with ties to the Hohen z ollern court, was making a living in Berlin as Gerda, a women's tailor, by 1910. She was counselled by Magnus Hirschfeld.

In 1912 Gerda was arrested in Berlin for public cross-dressing, as reported in the Berliner Tageblatt: "the alleged culprit was soon released once it was determined that it was a case not of disorderly conduct but instead of transvestism". Within a year Gerda had acquired a transvestite police pass in Potsdam, and when called for military recruitment in 1913, she appeared as Gerda and was deemed ineligible.

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At the age of 72 Gerda was run over by a car on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. She is buried in the graveyard at the Friedhof Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche.

Berliner Tageblatt, 106, 27 February 1912.
Letzte Änderung. "Verzaubert in Nord-Ost". Übersicht von Invertito 12, 31.07.2012. www.invertito.de/det3/d_inv1257.html.
Robert Beachy. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf, 2014: 172.
Transvestiten in den 20er und 30er Jahren. Facebook. https://de-de.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.209317632417797.62397.203265973022963&type=3&_fb_noscript=1.

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We know of Gerda in 1912, and of her death in 1963. But what in-between? In particular, how did she survive two world wars and the Nazi regime?

Robert Beachy refers to her only as Georg, and does not give her real name.

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In Robert Beachy's Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity, p69 we find (he is paraphrasing the Tägliche Rundschau, 79, 20 March 1898):

"A gang of eight thieves arrested in March 1898 embodied this all-purpose deviancy. Employed as house servants, butcher's apprentices, grill cooks and barkeeps, according to one newspaper report, these youths appeared to earn their pocket money as rent boys and shoplifters, and they spent much of their free time dressed in women's garb. They were apparently successful passing themselves off as women, for they descended on department stores, en masse, where they stole large quantities of merchandise, which was later recovered from the ringleader's apartment. In drag they used nicknames line Die Schöne (the pretty one), Schminkjuste (Juste in makeup) and Seiden-Guste (Guste in silk), and solicited sex at the Katzenmutter."

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Some events of 2013. Some events of 2012. Some events of 2011. Some events of 2010. Some events of 2009. Some Events of 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2014.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids,
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Organizations & Activists

International:

Amnesty International. Europe: The state decides who I am: Lack of legal gender recognition for transgender people in Europe. 2014. PDF. News release. "This report illustrates the human rights violations experienced by transgender people in Europe when seeking legal gender recognition. Some countries simply do not allow for a change in one’s legal gender. Many others have made the change in one’s legal gender contingent on the fulfillment of invasive requirements, which violate the human rights of transgender people."

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 23 ^rd symposium in Bangkok February 2014. Program. Abstracts. NewsArticle.

Transgender military personnel from several NATO countries, organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, met in Washington DC in late October to continue pressure on the Pentagon to allow open transgender persons to serve in the U.S. military.

World Health Organization has urged for an end to the forced sterilisation of transgender and intersex people around the globe.

Africa:

Audrey Mbugua, Maureen Muia and Annet Jennife, Kenya, succeeded in registering the Transgender Education and Advocacy (TEA). A high court judge ordered the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) coordination board to register the group and compensate the litigants. Website.

Audrey Mbugua won a case in the High Court against the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) that they are to change her name on her academic certificates, and remove the male gender marker. “The court takes judicial notice of the fact that examinations in this country are not administered based on the gender of the candidate. Marks are also not awarded on gender."

The 2 ^nd Trans* Health, Advocacy & Research Conference hosted by Gender DynamiX, Social Health & Empowermen Feminsit Collective of Transgender & Intersex women of Africa and Transgender and Intersex Africa, 31 May- 2 June 2014 in Cape Town.

--- The Cape Town Declaration, July 2014, urged that WHO ICD-11 discard the current Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood diagnosis and refrain from replacing it with any new pathologising diagnosis, including the proposed Gender Incongruence of Childhood (GIC) diagnosis.

Americas:

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin, 'formally apologized' to trans community at the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta. Transcript. "“HRC has done wrong by the transgender community in the past, and I am here to formally apologize, I am sorry for the times when we stood apart when we should have been standing together.”

Chicago– trans billboard campaign by TransLife Center at the Chicago House in conjunction with Camp Firebelly .

Diane Rodriguez, Ecuador, Silueta X , sued government for refusing to acknowledge her gender identity, congratulated by the President for her successful work towards civil unions, sued a coffee chain for firing trans employees, made a video recording its discrimination, organized LGBT, black, aboriginal, women's groups to counter stereotyping in the media, forced into hiding after death threats.

Maryland: Sailor Holobaugh, 31, sued and now state employees in Maryland can access transgender medical care.

Oklahoma: Court of Civil Appeals reversed a 2012 ruling by a district judge that denied a name change for a transgender Oklahoman.

Los Angeles Trans Pride event evacuated due to bomb threat.

San Francisco renamed the 100 block of Turk Street after Vicki Marlane who frequently performed there.

San Francisco opened a Rainbow Honor walk and ruined it with typos and misinformation, e.g: Harry Hay, a “sexual revolutionary who defined LGBT as a cultural identity"; Oscar Wilde's "bitting wit"; Sylvester James as a "“multi-gold record singer " and Christine Jorgensen the first “trangendered American publicly to announce her change of sexual identity”. !!!!

San Francisco – dedicated suicide hotline for trans person.

Maine: Supreme Judicial Court ruled that transgender student Nicole Maines rights were violated after her school denied her access to the rest room that corresponded to her gender expression.

GLAAD – Christina Kahrl joined board of directors Nov 2013.
---- acted as if excluding drag from the trans umbrella

Andrea James. "The GLAAD Board’s “Tranny” Trouble: How Its Trans Takeover Is Reshaping LGBT Politics". Queerty, Jul 24, 2014. www.queerty.com/the-glaad-boards-tranny-trouble-how-its-trans-takeover-is-reshaping-lgbt-politics-20140724.

Free and Equal– UN campaign in Brazil.

300 Latin American, Caribbean LGBT advocates attended Peru meeting at Cayetano Heredia University’s campus in Lima.

Anonymous Toronto trans persons chalked the circular trans symbol in Cawthra Park opposite the Aids Memorial on 12 July. City council, without input from the LGBT community, decided to rename the park after former mayor, Barbara Hall, and there was a ceremony for the renaming on 16 July. While cleaning the park for the ceremony, city workers removed the chalk memorial. The politicians promised a permanent trans memorial will be installed.

Toronto had two separate trans marches at the same time in that Trans March Toronto chose to remain unaffiliated with WorldPride over concerns of commercialization.

Trails End farmers' market in London, Ontario, had in September 2011 given stall-holder Karen Clarke-McIlwain the ultimatum to fire her trans employees or leave. She filed a human-rights complaint, and in May 2014 the tribunal found for Clarke-McIlwain, ordering the market boss to pay $40,000 in damages, and he and his staff should take a human-rights training course.

Asia:

After a recent demonstration Bangalore against India's recriminalization of homosexuality in 2013, 167 hijras were arrested in a 'crackdown' on assumed beggars, although they were not begging at the time and some were dragged from their homes, and others when they went to the police station to help those already arrested. Nearly 2,000 hijras and supporters, aware of the targeted nature of the sweep marched in protest.

++Azra Has, a trans sex worker who was killed by serial killer Hamdi Ayri was commemorated in the Turkish city of Izmir. Her name was given to then Bornova Street where many trans sex workers live.

Yonatan Marto n, 32, a trans man with Israeli Health Ministry's Levinsky Clinic, offers STD testing.

L axmi Narayan Tripathi, 35, and others petitioned the Indian Supreme Court to recognize a 3^rd gender, which was achieved in April 2014.

Istanbul Pride, the largest LGBT celebration in any majority Muslim country. 100,000+. This year it coincided with Ramadan.

Trans activists at the Turkish Parliament.

1,000+ hijras led the first Bangladesh Pride march 10 November.

Half a million Indians proclaimed themselves transgender or 3^rd gender in the Indian Census.

Malaysia, Appeals Court found that a state Sharia-law ban on cross-dressing was “degrading, oppressive and inhuman”. The case was filed by transgender women who challenged section 66 of the Sharia law in Negeri Sembilan state, which prohibits “any male person who in any public place wears a woman’s attire or poses as a woman.” The state’s Religious Department has used this law repeatedly to arrest transgender women. The Deputy Prime Minister has called for a review.

Q, Hong Kong, launched a legal challenge against a new law that would ban him from marrying unless he undergoes surgery.

Sou Southevy, 74, Cambodia, was awarded the David Kato award.

Turkey: Trans Pride demonstrators vow to keep on fighting.

Europe:

The 5th European Transgender Council“Trans*: Safe & Equal!” took place from May 1-4 in Budapest. 200 delegates met to discuss, strategise and network over how to improve safety and equality for trans* people.

"C"launched court case that the Department of Work and Pensions should not retain or use the information relating to her previous name and gender.

The memorial to victims of transphobic hate crimes in Sackville Gardens, Manchester,which was vandalised last year, was restored.

The Scottish Transgender Alliance (STA) and Equality Network co-launched a campaign for trans and intersex equality:

For the Scottish Government to engage with intersex people, to understand their concerns and recognise their right to bodily autonomy and social equality
Remove the offensive psychiatric assessment requirement from legal gender recognition
Introduce legal recognition for people who do not identify as men or women
Reduce the age at which people can change their birth certificates

Vladimir Luxuria was arrested in Sochi during the Olympic Games for demonstrating against Russia's anti-gay laws.

Stonewall new CEO met with trans representatives to see how the organization can help.

Gender Intelligence secured a £10,000 lottery grant.

TGEU held a Being Trans event at the Institute for Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania.

TGEU submitted a report in May 2014 to the European Commission, lining out how trans people actually fail to be protected under the EU law.

Oceania:

The Australian and New Zealand Professional Association for Transgender Health (ANZPATH) held its Third International Biennial Conference in Adelaide. Newsarticle.

OII Australia wrote to ANZPATH requested that ANZPATH remove intersex descriptions from transgender and its remit.

Trans personnel in the Australian Defence Force, for the first time, marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.

The International AIDS Conference in Melbourne was criticized for a lack of trans speakers.

Woolworths in Wollongong was criticized for its handling of an incident that saw an employee laugh at a young trans customer.

Equal marriage & civil unions

Americas:

Alaska– marriage ban struck down
Arizona - marriage ban struck down
Coahuila– passed by legislature 19-1
Colorado– ban ruled unconstitutional, Supreme Court declined to review.
Florida– ban declared unconstitutional, but ruling on hold until 5 Jan 2015.
Idaho– marriage ban struck down
Illinois– passed by legislature 2013, available in different counties on different dates, and statewise 1 June
Indiana– marriage ban struck down, Supreme Court declined to review.
Missouri– ban ruled unconstitutional
Montana - ban ruled unconstitutional
Nevada– marriage ban struck down
North Carolina– ban struck down
Oklahoma– ban struck down
Oregon– ban struck down
Pennsylvania– ban struck down
South Carolina– ban struck down
Utah– ban struck down
Virginia– ban ruled unconstitutional
West Virginia– ban struck down
Wisconsin– ban ruled unconstitutional
Wyoming– ban ruled unconstitutional
Aboriginal Areas in the US:
Puyallup Tribe of Nations
Wind River Reservation

Asia:

Hong Kong Transgender marriage law vetoed in second reading.

Europe:

England & Wales– same sex marriage legalised under a new law that is separate and different from the Marriage Act 1949 with different rules:

non-consumation and adultery are not grounds for annulment
Church of England and the Church in Wales are explicitly banned from performing religious same-sex marriages, even if they decide they want to
pension inheritance rights for widow(er)s are based only on contributions since 1988
existing spouses can veto a gender recognition certificate

Finland– passed by Parliament, first marriages in 2017.
Ireland– referendum May 2015
Luxembourg– passed by Parliament 56-4. The Prime Minister and his civil partner will be one of the first to marry.
Malta– civil unions, same sex couples can adopt, and constitution amended to forbid discrimination against trans person - all on one day.
Scotland: The marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) – the spousal veto amendment means that a trans person will be able to obtain legal gender recognition even when married to a spouse who objects; both mixed and same sex couples may opt for gender neutral marriage ceremonies.

Oceania:

Tony and Manja Briffa, who cannot legally marry in Australia because of Tony's non-specific birth certificate, spoke at a Marriage Equality rally in Melbourne, on 16 August 2014.

Other Legislation, Litigation, other government and corporate actions, etc

International:

Trans Rights Europe Map& Index

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE, added sexual orientation and gender identity and expression to its non-discrimination code, after application by Lynn Conway and Leandra Vicci.

WHO/UN interagency statement on involuntary or coerced sterilisation. Summary.

Americas:

Canada: C-279 to add gender identity as a prohibited ground for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act was first passed by the House of Commons in March 2013. It was passed a second time after Parliament was prorogued. The Senate has not yet considered it. It has processed Bill C-13 which adds national origin, age, sex, mental disability, physical disability – but not gender. If/when C-13 is passed, C-279 will need to return to the Commons as it addressed the same part of the Criminal Code.

Mexico City gender recognition act.

US Department of Education ruled that transgender students were protected from discrimination on the basis of Title IX.

US Department of Homeland Security selected trans persons for heightened scrutiny.

California: School Success and Opportunity Act in October came into effect - lets children use sex-segregated facilities such as restrooms and locker rooms, and participate in gender-specific activities, under their gender self-identity.

----- Respect After Death Act allows a trans person's death certificate to reflect legal gender rather than anatomy.

Changes of name and gender on a birth certificate: individuals seeking a name change on a birth certificate are no longer required to publish their reflected name in a local newspaper. Additionally, they will no longer be required to attend a court hearing prior to authenticating the request.

Maine: Supreme Judicial Court reversed a lower court’s ruling from November 2012 and stated that the school was in violation of Maine’s Human Rights Act when it denied Nicole Maines (referred to in the ruling as Susan Doe) access to the appropriate bathroom when she was a fifth-grade student at Asa Adams Elementary School in 2007.

Maryland: Fairness for All Marylanders Act (FAMA) passed. Protects trans people from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, and public accommodations, based on gender identity.
---- changed its state employee health care policy to include coverage for transition-related health care.

Massachusetts on Friday became the third state in the US to cover transgender medical services, including gender reassignment surgery, as a standard benefit in its government health plan for lower-income and disabled people.

Backgrounder Report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Orlando has extended its anti-discrimination laws to cover transgender people.

Newfoundland and PEI have explicitly added protections for trans people into their human rights codes, with provincial legislatures passing amendments adding “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination.

New York drops surgery rule for changing sex on birth certificate. New York City creates ID card for residents who face obstacle obtaining other government ID.

Virgina: new governor Terry McAuliffe, moments after inauguration signed “Executive Order Number 1,” a directive prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities in Virginia state government.

US: Government, for the first time, filed trans-related cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 1964.

US: President Obama signed an executive order barring LGBT discrimination by federal contractors.

US Medicare now pays for transgender surgery etc.

Department of Justice is to provide training on trans issues to police forces nationwide.

Vancouver Catholic Schools first in Canada to have transgender policy.

Asia:

India: Supreme Court ruling that provided recognition to a “third gender” on official documents such as voter ID cards. The decision could potentially lead to the reservation of government jobs for transgender people and legal guarantees of educational rights in the future. In the meantime, the vast majority of India’s estimated 1 million-plus trans women are relegated.

Delhi: Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has declared that transgender children are now eligible for 25 per cent reservation under the economically weaker section (EWS) and disadvantaged students for admission into city schools.

Europe:

Belgium: Anti-Discrimination law and Gender Law are since April 24 fully inclusive of gender identity and expression. The anti-bullying law is also now inclusive of gender identity and expression.

Camden Council, London listed 'transsexualism' alongside mental illness on its forms for applying for housing.

Denmark: Gender Recognition Law does not require surgery, must be 18 and wait a 6-month reflection period. Also can now get an 'X' gender marker in passport without approval from a gender clinic.

Ireland has revised its announced Gender Recognition Bill and stated that it will pass it in 2015. "legislation would include intersex affected individuals and that the medical criteria would not include a diagnosis".

Georgia: new anti-discrimination law includes gender identity and gender expression.

Greece: added gender identity to its hate speech law.

Lithuania refused to consider a bill establishing procedure of legal gender recognition (in defiance of the L vs Lithuania ECHR ruling).

Malta has become the first country in Europe to protect trans people in the constitution, and introduced civil unions and gay adoption.

Netherlands passed legislation that allows trans people to change their gender classification on official documents without being required to undergo surgery and sterilization or obtain court permission.

Norway: Norwegian Equality Ombud Ørstavik, took a decision in the case of John Jeanette Solstad Remø. The Equality Body found that the responsible Ministry of Health could not provide substantive arguments to uphold the sterilization requirement, but referred to a practice established since the 50s.

Oceania:

Australian Capital Territory (ACT) passed new laws allowing trans and intersex people the right to alter their birth certificates.

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Salon.com currently has an article on the New York Times and its less than adequate reporting on trans issues. In the comments below, there is the following, which is copied from a comment on a article on the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. The anecdote needs wider distribution in these days of scaremongering about public toilets:

Sunnyside_Lady

Thursday 2:40pm

When I was around 13 years old in the early 90s, the rule was I had to be on a bus BEFORE dark fell or else I'd be in trouble. Well, I missed my last bus and it wasn't for another hour that one would come along. At the time, the Port Authority wasn't a place you "hung out" at and I knew as much. As night fell, the dark side of pre-gentrified NYC, from prostitutes and pimps to crackheads and dealers, came out and I got a little freaked out so I ran to the bathroom hoping to wait out my hour unnoticed. There, I met a transgendered (or transvestite? I was too young to really know anything more than she was likely born a male) prostitute who scolded me for being at the Port Authority so late. I was completely shaken by this and freaked out, as I had no place to go and knew I was in a dangerous spot (back then the only thing that remained open late at the PA was a bar/pool/bowling hall that is still open - but back then it was for drunkards and prostitutes). She pitied me, and stayed with me in the bathroom for the next hour, teaching me makeup tricks and braiding my hair as we "girl talked". When the hour was over she walked me to my bus depot and saw me on the bus, safe and sound.

Anyway, whenever I walk through the mall that is the Port Authority now, I always think about her. Hope she's well. Thanks lady!

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids,
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Nemeses,
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Persons
This is a general persons section. In additional there are sections below on transkids, trans and families, celebrities, show biz, political, sports, cops & military, inmates, schools and universities, doctors, etc.

Africa:

Cameroon: 7 trans person in a police raid in Yaoundé. Later released for lack of evidence.

Bad Black, Uganda. After the Anti-Homosexuality Act she was kidnapped, beaten and extorted, and then received death threats. She overstayed her visa in South Africa. Toronto group raising funds toward her visa overstay fee, her asylum application and two months of living expenses, which will cover her for the time before she can legally work.

Hush Ainebyona is losing her eyesight after suffering a transphobic attack in 2012. Funds are being solicited.

Ricky Nathanson, from Bulawayo, arrested in Harara and forced to strip naked after using a female toilet at her hotel.

Tampose Mapotheng, Lesotho, studied in the US as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative.

Tiwonge Chimbalanga from Malawi, was in the news in December 2009 when she and her boyfriend were sentenced to 14 years hard labour for “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” - the first such sentence since independence. They were adopted by Amnesty, and after a presidential pardon, Tiwonge was brought to South Africa, where she lives in a Malawian community near Cape Town.

An apparent suicide attack on Muhammadu Buhari, military ruler of Nigeria 1983-85, was blamed on an unnamed trans woman who was found nearby.

Americas:

A trans woman was held and enslaved by three Louisiana residents and has now been rescued by the local sheriff.

Ailén Noemí Chambi, first surgical transsexual in Jujay province, Argentina, died 26 October, but death certificate was in her male name, and confusion, perhaps discrimination at the funeral home. An investigation proceeds.

Alex Myers, Maine, published a first novel about his distant ancestor Deborah Samson, trans man in the US revolution.

Angela Ingram, Oklahoma, allowed to change her name after previous refusal.

Antonette Rea featured in a 10 minute film by Gwen Haworth, but injured when hit by a car.

Barbie Swallows spoke of her involvement with alleged murderer Luka Magnotta (currently on trial in Montreal)

Bea Sullivan Knoff came out as trans while studying in Argentina, and continues at Northwestern University.

Brooke Guinan, 27, New York fire fighter.

Cameron Partridge, Boston University's chaplain, first openly trans priest to preach at Washington National Cathedral.

Charlene Lauderdale, Houston, born intersex, USAF veteran, discriminated against at veterans hospital.

Dawn Munro, research scientist, activist, honored at Outfest 2014.

Dean Spade, legal scholar, cautioned against the emphasis in the US on trans and the military: “Here’s the problem: Trans people, trans organizations, the trans movement did not choose this battle ... one very wealthy individual has picked this issue and is funding advocacy about it.”

Elizabeth Beth, Argentinian-Israeli artist in Buenos Aires.

Enza Anderson, 50, Toronto, was harassed by construction crews.

Eri Haywards, Mormon, featured in a documentary, and then she and her family went to Thailand surgery.

Essay Anne Vanderbilt, 60, inventor of an improved golf club, attracted press attention, and committed suicide when she realized that she would be outed. More. The article in question.

Freiya is interviewed.

Gabby Benaventa, from Peru to Miami, still undocumented.

Giowana Cambrone Araujo, Rio de Janeirio, after a four year struggle, has a female ID card.

Grace Kely, Costa Rica, campaigned against the military card requirement that prevents trans women from getting jobs.

Gwen Howarth honoured as one of Vancouver’s 12 Remarkable Women for International Women’s Day.

Hex, at the University of Chicago, whose preferred pronoun is 'it', claimed to feel "unsafe" during a meta-discussion of 'tranny', and demanded censorship, and began a petition demanding an apology and future censorship. It got 1,700 signatures.

Jessica Dempsey, Dalhousie University, filed human rights complaint.

Jessica Mizzar, Barranquilla, Colombia, obtained a court order to prevent police harassment of herself and other trans women.

Kaye Bowens, Arkansas, McDonalds employee fired for using the women's restroom.

Jade, 28, from Guatemala, emigrated and is in San Luis Potosi.

Kimberley Reed and coming out at father's funeral.

Lauren Hennessy, an actor and artist, identifies as a transgender man but has no intention of changing his physical appearance to fit societal definitions of what that would look like.

Maria Muniz, Rio de Janeiro, was fined by school officials for wearing a skirt. A group of her Colégio Pedro II classmates decided to stage a protest: both male and female students would all wear skirts on the same day.

Martine Rothblatt, entrepreneur, featured in New York Magazine, and proclaimed highest paid female CEO. GVWW. Martine's reply.

Meggan Sommerville, a 16-year employee of Hobby Lobby was fired for using the women`s restroom. The case is before the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

Miki Mappin, 58, Saskatoon, help by her MP to change names on documents,

Monica Jones, Phoenix, Arizona, arrested and found guilty of 'manifesting prostitution' after accepting a ride to a bar from two undercover cops. Because of this conviction she was denied entry into Australia because she was considered a possible threat.

Monica Roberts, author of TransGriot blog, faced homelessness.

Nanci Blu, 63, Vancouver, ex-biker, transitioned in her late 50s.

Nati, Cordoba, whose 2007 surgery when she was 17 was an Argentinian precedent, and falsely claimed as HBS, lived for 5 years in Spain, and is now back in Argentina, and is an artist.

Nina Arsenault spoke about her involvement with alleged murderer Luka Magnotta (currently on trial in Montreal)

Parker Marie Mollo y, 26, published a 47-page autobiography, led the attack on the use of the word 'tranny', and its use by RuPaul, told another trans woman to drink bleach, and resigned from The Advocate. Trans* Violence Tracking Portal issued an advisory. The recipient.. Comment.

Patrick Califia is now living in Florida with a new life partner and has appealed online for help with his medical bills.

Brazilian Rebekah Shelton, (previously Rodrigo Lopes who was in British Big Brother) started transition in 2012, has come down with a brain tumour.

Renee Ramsey, South Carolina, transitioned at 77.

Rodrigo Lehtinen, 28, now works as a fundraiser for GLAAD. His mother, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, is a Republican congressperson who is unique in her party for voting for LGBT issues.

Taylor Lianne Chandler, 29, self-proclaimed girlfriend of Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps, ex-model and stuntwoman, mentioned, while he was in rehab, that she was assigned male at birth. Comment.

Vanessa Champagne Paris, Belize City, was attacked by a mob on the street, was arraigned for assaulting a woman, on remand for burglary. More.

Yasmien Love, 25, arrested after gun fired between her and her ex.

Zach Kerr, 20, Boston, a triplet, LGBT activist.

Zelda Marshall, bi-gendered drag queen with a female partner, organized Queens in the Hall at Ottawa City Hall.

Zoey Tur and Dana Vahle, both helicopter pilots, both covered the OJ Simpson chase 20 years ago, now are both women.

Asia:

Two Bahraini prostitutes also charged with homosexuality lost appeal against jail term.

Crackdown on trans women in Kuwait.

35 Arabian'men in women's clothes' arrested after neighbours compalined about the loud music.

16 Malaysian trans women arrested at a wedding in Bahau, fined RM950 and jailed 7 days each.

Tel Aviv trans prostitute attacked by 11 men, who in turn were quickly arrested.

25-year-old Vietnamese who had surgery in the US, stripped to her panties to protest her car being pulled over in Bac Giang’s Viet Yen District. Images went viral on internet.

Bülent Coşkun, 34, Düzce, intersex who has undergone botched surgeries to make him a man, and three to restore her womanhood, cannot go out because of local transphobia.

D emet Yanardag, Izmir, graduate in tourism and hotel management but got treated as a whore anyway.

Devan, oracle, Manipur.

Eliana Rubashkyn, from Colombia, studying for an MBA in Health Administration in Taiwan on a government scholarship, had to go to Hong Kong, the nearest Colombia consulate to renew her passport. Hong Kong officials refused to let her in until a fuss was made by local LGBT groups. A conditional release was secured for Eliana by the Colombian consulate – which meant that she would have to return to Colombia, which she had fled after two murder attempts. Eliana thus filed a refugee claim with the local UNHCR office, which was granted in 12 days rather the usual years. She has been allowed to immigrate to New Zealand.

Ikki Jin, Tokyo, arrested for drugging and robbing several men.

Karen Mke, 38, and Kamilla Satto, 33, hairdressers from Amazonas, Brazil, were detained in Dubai for “imitation of women by men”.

Liu Ting, 28, previously named a 'National Moral Model' for looking after mother who suffers with uremia, wrote an autobiographic screenplay, and came out as trans.

Manoj Shahi Monika, 35, Nepal, intends to be first 3^rd-gender person to climb Everest/Chomolungma (not counting Maurice Wilson or Jan Morris)

Nabiullah Khan, Pakistan, 22, hospitalized and found to be more male, but cannot afford the surgeries.

Serap, Corum, Turkey, was shot in the leg and stabbed. The assailants were apprehended, but the bar association refuse to assign her a lawyer: “We do not assign lawyers to transvestites".

S Swapna & Gopi Shankar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, forced to protest in that name on education cerificates still not changed.

Tanisha Yasmin Chaity, Dhaka, seeking legal recognition as a hijra.

Yi Ling, 84, Forshan, Guangdong, in transition.

59-year-old company owner in Japan ejected from golf club when became a woman. Sued and awarded 1.1 m yen.

Europe:

29 April seven trans women in Athens were arrested, but not informed about alleged crimes.

A trans man in Chelyabinsk obtained a court ruling that the local civil registry recognize his acquired gender.

Abby-Grace Hughes, has left her second wife and 5 children in the UK and is in the US. Newsarticle. Interview.

Alex White, Bromley, profiled by Grayson Perry.

Andrian, Astrakhan, owed 130,000 as Natalya. Now owes more money as Andrian.

Ann Edmead, 72, Bethnal Green, author, arrested for sexually assaulting a boy 1972-9.

Antonia Belcher, building consultant, 94 on IOS Rainbow List, director of Trans Media Watch, on being trans in business.

Avery Edison, 25, who had overstayed on a previous visa, was detained by Canada Border Services on re-entering Canada to visit her girl-friend. She had a female passport, but being pre-op was placed in a men's prison. After a twitter campaign, Avery was transferred to a women's prison, and then given permission to fly home.

Charlotte Goiar, 41, has a judicially ordered referral to the clinic of Iván Mañero. GVWW

Chelsea Attonley, 30, was drag performer as Miss Malibu, had surgery on NHS 7 years ago, now finds heels and make-up exhausting, and wants NHS to pay for a reversal.

Christie Elan-Cane, a non-gendered activist, has campaigned for 20 years for non gender-specific X passports and the rights of individuals who identify as neither male nor female.

Fred McConnell remembers his transition.

Gabriel, Cádiz, intersex, was assumed to be female until puberty.

John Jeanette Remø, 65, Norway, was refused legal gender recognition in that she declines both hormonal therapy and surgery. She was supported by Amnesty, and then by the Norwegian Ombudsman.

Julie Clarke, 58, Hebrides, ferry worker, transitioned with support from local community. Published autobiography.

Kate Stone while on a new-years break near Fort William in Scotland, was was attacked and gored in the throat and chest by a stag that had gotten into the fenced garden. Kate was airlifted to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, and survived.

Kay Browning banned from using the men's toilets in a nightclub in Tiverton, Devon.

Kelly Maloney, 61, ex-boxing promoter, ex-UKIP candidate, transitioned and was on Celebrity Big Brother.

Lydia Foy, after 17 years of litigation was informed by the Irish government that her gender would finally be recognized, and was awarded €50,000 in compensation.

Miranda Ponsonby is still disowned by her family.

Natalie Rachael Gale, Greenoch, published fictionalized autobiography.

Nayla Ziadeh on going out as male.

Rachel Mann, 44, is now Minor Canon of Manchester Cathedral.

Rona Rees, 63, awaiting surgery.

Oceania:

Allyson Hamblett, disability activist, and 4 other artists featured in a national campaign aimed at changing attitudes and behaviour toward people with disabilities, sensory impairment and mental illness.

Anahera Rangitaawa, 33, fell from a tree.

Cindy Macardle, of Flinders University, secretary of ANZPATH.

Indiana Kelly Edwards attacked the long-running Tranny Bingo over its name.

Kai Bogert, 19, supported by his parents.

Kai Clancy, from the Wakka Wakka and Wulli Wulli nations, featured in the Guardian's IndigenousX.

Mikayla Novak, Queensland, economist.

Norrie May-Welby's four-year struggle to be neither male nor female went to the the Court of Appeal where it was ruled that it was within the Registrar's power to record in the register that the sex of May-Welby was 'not specific'. Was suspended from Facebook for 24 hours after mentioning a visit to Tranny Bingo in Sydney.

Saolele Tauialo Pelu, 45, Samoan, convicted of indecency and sex attacks on boys was to be deported – but has been given a chance to stay in New Zealand so she can complete transition.

Victoria Crawford arrested for stealing from pharmacies.

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Some Events of the Year 2014: Part 3: Marriage, lovers; Transkids

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids,
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses,
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Marriage, Lovers and Family

Two lesbian couples, each with a trans partner, married in same Dallas courtroom.

Alessandra Bernaroli, 43, and her wife won their case to remain married, although no same-sex marriage in Italy.

Alexis Taborda, 26, and Karen Bruselario, 28, Entre Rios, had a baby by natural means.

Buck Angel sought $2000 a month spousal support from estranged wife Elayne Angel, who in return said that he is not a man, and therefore they cannot be married in Louisiana. However the California Superior Court ruled in August that they are married. GVWW

Dana McCallum, Twitter engineer, pled guilty to raping her wife, after serving divorce papers.

Gillian Simpson, 46, Lancashire, suing her family for forcing her out of the family business.

Harper Robertson, 23, son of singer Thomas Dolby, married.

Heli Hämäläinen, wanting to retain a Lutheran marriage to her wife, and was unable to have her identity number changed to one that indicates female because she would neither divorce nor convert to a civil union. She appealed through to Finnish court system, and then to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the grounds that they should not be compelled to degrade their marriage sacraments. This while not supporting secular gay marriage. "I have more privileges than lesbians". The ECHR rightly dismissed the case in that it is basically a conflict between Hämäläinen and the Finnish Lutheran Church.

Irina Shumilova, St Petersburg, able to marry her bride in that her passport still says 'male'.

Jackson Mukasa, 19, and her husband, in Uganda, arrested and charged with sexual activity against 'the order of nature'.

Jenny Kate married in a religious ceremony in Teresina, Piaui.

Katie Hill and Arin Andrews, Oklahoma, broke up as a couple, are still friends, were in the Barney's fashion film, have each written an autobiography.

Kieran Moloney, 23, New Zealander in London, set to marry.

L uisa Paz, the coordinator in Santiago del Estero Association of Transvestites, Transsexuals, Transgender Argentina and Jose Coria, her partner of 29 years married.

MB who transitioned but decided as a Christian to stay married "in the sight of God" to her wife of 38 years and the mother of their two children – a decision which blocked MB's entitlement to a female pension - lost her case in the appeal court.

M eghan Stabler– Working Mother of the Year Award

Nick and his bride, Mississippi, posted a picture of their wedding license on Facebook. American Family Association saw it, denounced them on its radio show, which led to employment problems.

Nick and Bianca Bowse r, Kentucky, neither being able to afford transgender surgery, have had two children.

Paige Phoenix, recording artist with a male passport, and his wife had their marriage invalidated in that Victoria state will not reissue his birth certificate until after surgery. Appealing to UN Human Rights Committee.

Ryan/Ria, 22, bi-gender, has found a girlfriend who does not mind.

Mr & Mrs Ratcliffe divorced when Andrew became Kate, and now they have remarried as a same-sex couple.

Sawyer Steele, 32, San Francisco, married.

Thomas Beatie secured permission to divorce his wife in Arizona, that their Hawai'i marriage was not considered to be 'same-sex'. Later he was charged with stalking her by fixing a GPS device to her car.

An American trans man, residing in Sweden, who gave birth to a child earlier this year has won the right to be registered as the father of the child. The decision has been appealed by the Swedish Tax Agency.

Berlin man who gave birth must be registered as the child's mother, a court has ruled.

"Parents say love for transgender child is unconditional". WRAL, January 14, 2014. www.wral.com/parents-say-love-for-transgender-child-is-unconditional/13299129.
"Research Suggests that Substantial Numbers of Transgender People are Parents and Report Positive Parenting Experiences". The Williams Institute, October 28, 2014. http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/press-releases/28-oct-2014.
Robin Marantz Henig. "Transgender Men Who Become Pregnant Face Social, Health Challenges". NPR, November 07, 2014. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/07/362269036/transgender-men-who-become-pregnant-face-health-challenges?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&u tm_content=202507.
Donna Rachel Edmunds. "54 Australian Men 'Gave Birth' Last Year". Breitbart, 16 Nov 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/11/16/54-Australian-Men-Gave-Birth-Last-Year.

Transgender Parents. Dir: Rémy Huberdeau Canada 2014. Website. Newsarticle. A variety of trans parents and children.

Trans & Intersex Kids

A.J. , 6, Kansas.
Aly, 17, New Hampshire, has completed surgery.
Ashton, 16, has transitioned
Cee Cee given time on KOLO 8 news station.
Eli, 17, started transition at age 8, testified to an education committee in Sacramento, and graduated high school.
Harriette, 11, BC, among first to change sex on birth certificate after law changed.
Isabella, 8, Winnipeg, school went well until one parent starting screaming and harassing.
Isabelle, 11, Australia
Jazz posted a Youtube video urging accepting all as they are.
Jaden, 17, in Murrieta, Peru, treated well at school.
Jake, 6, successfully at school as a boy, but father is seeking custody to force him to go to school as a girl. Mother needs to raise $19,000 for legal fees.
Jay, 13, son of singer R Kelly, started transition.
Jes, Las Vegas, transitioned at 19, his mother put a celebratory announcement on FaceBook.
Liam, son of actress Adjoa Andoh.
Naomi, 15, Utah, makes YouTube videos.
Nicole– Miane Supreme Judicial Court ruled that she should use the girls' restroom.
N.H., 5, Oregon, moved to school where he can be a boy.
Rachel, 13, New Jersey, has a new school.
Renn, 6, Saskatoon. Mother complained to Human Rights Commission re refusal to revise daughter's birth certificate.
Riley, 17, Pennsylvania, committed suicide.
Ryan, 4^th grade, Chicago.
Ryland, 5, San Diego,
Scott, Oregon.
Wren, 12, Alberta got a revised birth certificate.
A 2-year-old with ambiguous genitals was surgically re-assigned to male at Sishu Bhawan hospital in Cuttack, Odisha.

Books:

Jack Dresher & William Byne. Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Discussion. Routledge, 2014.
Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings & Shelagh McNicholas. I am Jazz. Dial, 2014. Newsarticle.
Katie Rain Hill. Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Susan Kuklin. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak out. Candlewick, 2014.
Elizabeth J. Meyer & Annie Pullen Sansfaçon. Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth: Schools, Families, and Communities in Action Peter Lang International Academic, 2014.
Marilyn Phillips. The Daughter We Didn't Know We Had: The Tears, Fears, and Joys of a Mother of a Transgender Child. Authorhouse, 2014.
Nanny Swift. OMG! My Kid is Transgender: A Parents Handbook. Kindle, 2014.

Articles:

Beatriz García Manso. "Niños transexuales, entre el ser y el parecer". El Mundo, 11/01/2014. www.elmundo.es/yodona/2014/01/10/52cd8955268e3e702e8b457d.html.
"My daughter transitioned as a child". Star Observer, February 13, 2014. www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/soapbox-opinion/my-daughter-transitioned-as-a-child/117839.
Kelley Winters. "Methodological Questions in Childhood Gender Identity ‘Desistence’ Research". GID Reform Weblog, February 25, 2014, and presented to the 23^rdWPATH symposium in Bangkok Feb 16, 2014. http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/methodological-questions-in-childhood-gender-identity-desistence-research. Conclusions:

(1) Evidence from these studies suggests that the majority of gender nonconforming children are not gender dysphoric adolescents or adults.
(2) It does not support the stereotype that most children who are actually gender dysphoric will “desist” in their gender identities before adolescence.
(3) These studies do acknowledge that intense anatomic dysphoria in childhood may be associated with persistent gender dysphoria and persistent gender identity through adolescence.
(4) Speculation that allowing childhood social transition traps cisgender youth in roles that are incongruent with their identities is not supported by evidence.
(5) These studies fail to examine the diagnostic value of Real Life Experience in congruent gender roles for gender dysphoric children.

"Transgender children know their identity. Bigots in the media don't: 'NHS to give sex change drugs to children' screamed the newspaper headlines last week. The reality is so different for families dealing with the condition known as gender dysphoria. Here, a mother writes of the pain such coverage causes". The Observer, 25 May 2014. www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/25/transgender-children-gender-identity-bigots-media.
"CBS News Poll: Transgender kids and school bathrooms". CBSNews, June 8, 2014. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-transgender-kids-and-school-bathrooms.
"Gender a new challenge for schools". Newstrib, 6/25/2013. http://newstrib.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=37&ArticleID=29797. "survey found 1.6 percent of high school students and 1 percent of middle school students identified as transgender or gender variant "
Alan Mozes. "Transgender teens become happy, healthy young adults". CBSNews, September 10, 2014. www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-teens-become-happy-healthy-young-adults.

Films:

I am Leo. With 13-year-old Leo. UK CBBC 17 November 2014.
In the Turn. Dir: Erica Tremblay, with 10-year-old Crystal. Canada 113 mins 2014. IMDB Newsarticle.
My Child. Dir: Can Candan. Turkey 83 nibs 2013. Raising trans and queer kids. IMDB Newsarticle.

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Some Events of 2014: Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals

December 11, 2014, 10:40 am

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Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids,
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Politics & Government

International.

Nikki Sinclaire lost her seat in the May 2014 European elections, and was charged with money laundering and misconduct in public office. Article by Nikki.

National

Indian transgender and hijra citizens registered and allowed to vote for the first time.

Several UK trans groups issued a joint manifesto asking all political parties to review the Gender Recognition Act and to encourage positive images of trans persons in government publications.

Zoe O'Connell. "A brief history of trans parliamentarians [in the UK]". Complicity, 9 December 2014. http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2014/12/a-brief-history-of-trans-parliamentarians.

Ben Panico is a Congressional staffer for Jared Polis, Democrat and gay, from Colorado.

Bharathi Kannamma, 52, ran for the Lok Sabha elections from Madurai.

++Charlie Kiss is the Green Party candidate in Islington South and Finsbury.

Dana Beyer ran for Senate seat in a Maryland primary, but lost to the incumbent. She was inducted into the Montgomery County Human Rights Hall of Fame for her work re the Maryland trans law that took effect October 2013.

Emily Brothers, blind since childhood, two children, Labour candidate for Sutton and Cheam.

Georgina Beyer stood as the Mana Party candidate in the Te Tai Tonga Maori constituency. Results. GVWW

Kelly Ellis, New Zealand, ran for Labour in Whangarei.

Kelly Maloney, UKIP candidate 2004, 2010, who made homophobic comments as part of the campaign, has transitioned.

Melissa Star ran for the Sex Party in Port Melbourne in 2013, and is now the leader of the party in New South Wales.

Michelle Suarez, lawyer, Uruguay, elected alternate senator for the Communist Party.

Paula Overby, Minnesota, after being excluded by the Democratic-Farmers-Labor Party, ran uncontested for the Independence Party nomination, but came third to the Republican incumbent.

Petra de Sutter, Belgium, placed second on the Green Party list for the European elections, but they gained only one seat. In July 2014 it was announced that De Sutter was appointed to the Senate as a Green Party nomination, where she will focus on health care and environmental issues.

Penny Whetton's wife, Janet Rice, elected to Australian Senate for Green Party.

++Stella Gardiner is the Green Party candidate in Bexleyheath and Crayford.

Tara Hewitt, on Conservative Party Candidates List, 43^rd on 2013 IOS Pink List, diversity advisor to the NHS, Chair of Wirral Conservative Future, Tweeted her stance as pro-life, and against IVF, surrogacy and female couples using sperm banks to have a child. More.

T Bhavana ran as an independent in Bangalore.

Provincial

The Su-Raj Party in Goa supported trans in their manifesto, stating that poverty and neglect by the society was forcing them to beg and indulge in prostitution.

Domala Mary ran for an Assembly seat in Khamman, Telangana.

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, currently chair of the Oahu Island Burial Council, and ran for a seat on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs board of trustees. Wikipedia.

Kikey Morales, economic development coordinator in Veracruz.

Larissa Sneider, Evanston, Wyoming, was Democratic candidate for the state House of Representatives, but lost to the Republican incumbant.

Lauren Scott won the Republican nomination for the Nevada Assembly's 30th District, but lost to the incumbent Democrat.

Paula Sophia, ex-police, came second in the Democratic Primary in District 88, Oklahoma.

Sophia Hawes ran in the Democratic Primary for District 40 of the Utah House of Representatives.

Steve Wiles, ex-drag performer Mona Sinclair, and ex-Miss Gay America employee, now supports a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina, ran for North Carolina Senate. He came third out of three.

Cities, towns and regions

Alejandra Gonzále, councillor in Lampa, Chacabuco, suffered harassment, and filed a complaint.

++Anna May Booth ran for Labour in Manchester.

++Anwen Muston ran for Labour in Wolverhampton

Bobby Beckett ran for Toronto Council in Ward 18.

Charlie Kiss ran for the Green Party in Islington.

Jamie Lee Hamilton sought election to Vancouver’s Board of Parks and Recreation for the third time, this year under the Independent Electoral Alliance banner.

++Jess Key ran for the Liberal Democrats in Lincoln.

Luisa Revilla Urcia won a seat on the local council in La Esperanza in the province of Trujillo in northwestern Peru. More

Menaka Kinnar ran for council in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Nicole Joliet ran for Surrey school board, Vancouver.

Osh Gantly was elected as a Labour councillor for Highbury East in Islington, London.

Öykü Özen ran for council in Osmangazi.

Liberal Democrat Sarah Brown lost her seat on Cambridge Council to a Labour challenger.

Tatiana Piñeros, 34, accountant, chief of Bogota's tourism agency, and Pamela Mena is Bogata's liaison with LGBTI.

Tony Briffa, previously Mayor of Hobsons Bay, Victoria, resigned as councillor.

Vered Meltzer elected to city council in Appleton, Wisconsin.

++Zoe Kirk-Robinson ran for the Conservatives in Bolton.

++Zoe O'Connell ran for the Liberal Democrats in Cambridge.

Zuliana Araya, elected councillor of Valparaiso in 2012, doing disaster relief after a major fire, was refused co-operation by other authorities.

Santiago del Estero had two municipal candidates: Pamela Ordoñez and María José Ybáñes.

Celebrities

Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell did a drag routine with Michelle Obama on The Tonight Show.

Joan Rivers declared Michelle Obama to be a 'tranny'.

This was then repeated, not as a joke, by Alex Jones:

Casper Smart broke up with Jennifer Lopez after affairs with 2 trans models.

Rumours that Bruce Jenner is in transition.

Charice Pempengco considers her soul to be male, but is not transgender. More.

Ellen Degeneres, at the Oscar ceremonies, quipped of Lisa Minelli: “Hello to the best Liza Minnelli impersonator I’ve ever seen. Good job, sir". For some reason this was denounced as transphobic.

Sports

The British Medical Journal has published an article on the current policies of the IOC, IAAF and FIFA, reporting that several women have recently been coerced into “partial clitoridectomies” and gonadectomies (removal of gonads) in order to compete. Partial clitoridectomies/clitorectomies are understood to be a form of Female Genital Mutilation. Summary Abstract

The UK Football Association has issued new guidelines: Any transgender person wishing to play in their affirmed gender can seek to do so by contacting the FA to obtain clearance.

4 players in Iran 's women's national football team were deemed not to be women – they were intersex or trans women who had not yet had correction surgery. Mandatory sex tests are now required.

Australian Sports issued Anti-Homophobia & Inclusion Framework For Australian Sports. Comment

Bobbi Lancaster, LPGA Golfer thinks that her pre-transition past does give her an unfair advantage, and therefor chooses to play against younger women.

Catherine McGregor, cricket writer. GVWW

Chloie Jonsson, personal trainer, Santa Cruz, California, banned from competing in women's section of CrossFit Games. Sued.

Dutee Chand, 17, cis Indian athlete, dropped from the Commonwealth Games contingent at the last minute after the Athletic Federation of India stated that hyperandrogenism made her ineligible to compete as a female athlete.

Enza Anderson and Savannah Burton, after two months practice, as part of Team TRANS-fusion, came 4^th out of 5 in a 22km rowing race on the Ottawa river.

Fallon Fox, 38, the controversy of her fighting in female MMA matches continues. The Case Against. Fallon's reply.

Jaiyah Saelua played football for American Samoa in a FIFA qualifier, and broke a long losing streak.
Kelly Maloney, ex-boxing manager and promoter transitioned.

Kinnon MacKinnon, 28, Toronto, won in powerlifting at Gay Games 9 in Cleveland.

Michelle Diamond, goal umpire, officiating Victorian Amateur Football Association matchs.

Pinki Pramanik, track athlete, previously charged with rape and assault by her girlfriend, exonerated

Natasha Payne, 51, took bronze in the World Pole-Dancing Championships.

Pat Cordova-Goff, Azusa, California, allowed to play on girls' softball team.

Minnesota State High School League, having problems deciding about trans athletes.

An all-trans football club in Colombia.

Brynn Tannehill. "Do Transgender Athletes Have an Unfair Advantage?". Huffington Post, 03/07/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/do-transgender-athletes-have-an-unfair-advantage_b_4918835.html.
Parker Marie Molloy. "Heroes, Martyrs, And Myths: The Battle For The Rights Of Transgender Athletes". Vice Sports, November 6, 2014. https://sports.vice.com/article/heroes-martyrs-and-myths-the-battle-for-the-rights-of-transgender-athletes.

Festivals

Koovagam, 2014.

Juchitán:

Fantasia Fair, 2014

Trans March, World Pride, Toronto, 27/06/2014.

Gender Bender Festival, Bologna, sponsored by Il Cassera LGBT Centre.

Bangladesh's Trans Pride Parade.

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Some Events of 2014: Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.

December 14, 2014, 5:46 am

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids.
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Schools, Universities & Colleges

Teachers:

Jan Buterman, who was fired in 2008 from the Greater St. Albert School, Edmonton, because his sex change was not in line with Catholic values, obtained a ruling that his case should be heard by Alberta human rights tribunal.

Jennifer Finney Boylan named Barnard College's inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer-in-Residence.

Judith Butler on Raymond, Jeffries, construction, genetics, etc.

Laura Jane Klug, teacher, suspended, reinstated, outed, banned at Lumberton. Texas.

Karen Adell Scot, 56, teacher in California.

Pham Van Hiep, Binh Phuoc, has continued as a teacher for 6 years since transition.

Sophie Gilbert, California.

Walter Williams pled guilty to one offence and is facing <5 years in prison.

Students:

At North Carolina Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), Andraya Williams was detained by a school guard on leaving the women's restroom despite showing her female id card, and next day suspended for "not presenting her ID to the guards".

At George Fox University, Oregon, Jaycen denied the right to live with his friends in a male dorm.

Karine Espineira obtained a PhD at the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis in Information Science and Communication.

Institutions:

California schools adjusting to new law to treat students according to gender identity.

Delhi University introduced third gender category on its post-graduate application form.

Downey Unified School District, California, has settled a government claim that it discriminated against a transgender student.

University of Houston passed the Josephine Tittsworth Act, which allows students, faculty and staff “to apply their preferred first name, title and personally discerned gender in all standard forms of documentation or record keeping”.

Mills College, California, became the first higher education, all-female institution in the US to consider an application from any individual who self-identifies as a woman.

Northwestern University has 50 beds available for gender-open housing, but other problems remain.

At Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, protests continued against the continuing exclusion of transsexuals.

Spring Arbor University in Michigan and Simpson University in California granted the right by the US Department of Education to expel trans students. Spring Arbor also sought and was granted the right to expel gay and lesbian students.

TransTech,to equip people with a technical skill set for survival.

Vancouver School Board now allows trans students to dress, within existing school rules, according to their self-identified gender and to be called by a name or pronoun that matches their identity.

Benjamin Riley. "Enforced gendered school uniforms harming trans*, gender-diverse students" Star Observer, May 13, 2014. www.starobserver.com.au/news/local-news/victoria-news/enforced-gendered-school-uniforms-harming-trans-gender-diverse-students/122687.
Kiera Feldman. "Who Are Women’s Colleges For?". The New York Times, May 24, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/who-are-womens-colleges-for.html.
Katy Waldman. "The Wellesley Man: In the era of transgender rights, women’s colleges are struggling to figure out where their loyalties lie". Slate, June 2014. www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/06/transgender_students_at_women_s_colleges_wellesley_smith_and_others_confront.html.

Cops & Military

A Greek police officer hoping to continue in the job after transition to male.

Amanda McKay, ex-soldier, ex-cop, Glasgow, 51, transitioned.

Bradley Robert, Nevada, school district police officer, humiliating comments after transition, and told to use women's restroom, passed over for promotion.

Debbie Vincent, 52, ex-army, activist with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) group against Cambridge-based Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) was jailed for six years.

Deborah Perry, 47, bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan.

Francesca Quaranta, 46, police officer in Connecticut, filed a complaint in 2013 against the department saying they had created a hostile work environment. Faith Jackson, the city's human relations director, says not so.

Helen Doe, 52, of the Croydon Trans Group and employed by the Metropolitan Police Uniform Services, charged with attempted murder of her brother.

Hereditary billionaire Jennifer Pritzker, 63, ex-army, donated money re trans in military, included in Forbes 400. GVWW.

Jenny, CIA officer.

Jessica Hawkins, D.C. Police Sergeant in transition.

Landon Wilson, US Navy cryptologic technician in Afghanistan, 24, told to choose between transitioning and continuing to serve.

Laura de Costa Teixeira, 33, Goiana, Pernaambuco, cop in charge of anti-drugs squad. GVWW.

María Pachón Monge is the first open trans woman in the Spanish Army.

Mykayla Connell, first openly transgender officer to graduate from San Francisco Police Academy.
M Shakti and K Shanmuganathan and 4 other trans trained by police to be part of Tamil Nadu Home Guard.

Nangai, 24, Chennai, was terminated from police training when a medical outed her as trans. However she got a writ from a judge that she was to be accepted.

Ruth Rose, 81, ex-RAF, oldest person in UK to have transgender surgery.

Tamara Lusardi, disabled, civilian US Army employee won a discrimination suit.

Imprisonment

Rikers Jail, New York to re-open gay-trans unit (previous version closed in 2005).

The Gay wing of the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.

New Zealand, which has only 9 trans prisoners in its system allows inmates to be moved to jails of their identified gender, except for those facing or serving sexual offence charges.

93 days in a Turkish Transvestite ward.

Avsa on 64 days hunger strike after sexual harassment and violence.

CeCe McDonald, sentenced in 2012 to 41 months, for self-defense, in a Minnesota men's prison was released. More

Chelsea Manning petitioned for a legal name change, but was refused medical care.

Eisha Love, 26, Cook County, Illinois, forced into self-defense and now charged with murder.

"Jane Doe", under 16, has been held for nearly a year in a male detention center, despite having no pending criminal charges, forced to wear male clothing, and repeatedly referred to by her male name and male pronouns. She is now suing.

Michelle Kosilek, 65, Appeals Court affirmed previous judgement transgender inmates have a constitutional right to access transition-related care, including gender-confirming surgeries.

Kristina Olvera, 26, Oregon, 28 months for stealing 9 pairs of jeans, had been taking estrogen and living as a woman, but Oregon DOC will not let her do so while incarcerated.

Lakisha Short, serving 55 years for first-degree robbery and as a habitual offender, wishes to change his name to Kai. However Delaware law permits name changes only for religious reasons.

Marichuy, 23, held for over a year in immigrant detention center in Phoenix, Arizona, was raped by her cellmate.

Ophelia De’Lonta, has served 34 of 73 years for bank robbery, Virginia, who had sued for transgender surgery in 2011, was granted parole. "the possibility of a court forcing the state to pay for an inmate’s sex-change operation was not a factor in the parole decision" !

Paris Green, convicted of murder and approved for transgender surgery, was discovered having sex at Scotland's Cornton Vale women's prison, and was moved to the women's section of Edinburgh's Saughton prison.

Synthia China-Blast is serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Ebont Williams in 1993, although it is likely that she is a patsy. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) focused on Synthia China-Blast as part of its project of ending the practice of isolating trans prisoners in solitary. The SRLP asked Laverne Cox to read a letter from Synthia China-Blast on video, but did not share details with her about the murder of Ebony Williams. When apprised of the details, Laverne Cox, asked for the video to be removed.

Whitney Lee, 36, lived as a woman since was 18, Ohio, serving 3 years for forgery and theft, not allowed continuance of hormones, sued, judge ordered resumption.

Zahara Green, convicted of shop lifting, was placed by Georgia Department of Corrections in a men's prison. She was repeatedly raped by a gang member who considered her to be his property. She applied for protective custody to get away from him, but her rapist was moved to protective custody at the same time and put in the same cell.

"Avşa’s Letter: Transsexuals and Turkish Prisons". LGBTI News, 2014/05/04. http://lgbtinewsturkey.com/2014/05/08/letter-from-trans-prisoner-on-hunger-strike.
"UK: Prison officials concerned inmates may be identifying as transgender for ‘a soft life’". Pink News, 28 July 2014. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/07/28/uk-prison-officials-concerned-inmates-may-be-identifying-as-transgender-for-a-soft-life.
Samantha Melamed. "Trans rights behind bars". Philly.com, August 22, 2014. http://articles.philly.com/2014-08-22/news/53078077_1_transgender-people-lip-gloss-laverne-cox.
Daniel Genis. "A Gentleman's Guide to Sex in Prison". The Concourse, 9/18/14. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-gentlemans-guide-to-sex-in-prison-1634995425/+danielgenis.
Jessie Burkett. "The US Prison System May Be Exposing Transgender Prisoners To Rape". Vice News, October 4, 2014. https://news.vice.com/article/the-us-prison-system-may-be-exposing-transgender-prisoners-to-rape.
"Why did the U.S. lock up these women with men?". Fusion, November 2014. http://interactive.fusion.net/trans. "Immigration authorities claim they have one of the largest populations of trans women behind bars in the world."

Homeless shelters

Alexis, Los Angeles, advocating for a Transsexual Empowerment Shelter.

Christopher Hambrook, 37, Toronto, falsely claimed to be trans and attempted rape while in a women's shelter. Now in a men's jail indefinitely.

Finn, homeless in Vancouver.

Jodielynn Wiley, Dallas, refused by Salvation Army.

Alex Abramovich. "1 in 3 transgender youth will be rejected by a shelter on account of their gender identity/expression". Homeless Hub, June 13, 2014. www.homelesshub.ca/blog/1-3-transgender-youth-will-be-rejected-shelter-account-their-gender-identityexpression.

Nemeses

"Now one of the things I find puzzling about it is that, when I look at the House of Lords debate on this legislation, those I agree with most are the radical right. Particularly the person I find that I agree with most, in here, and I’m not sure he will be pleased to find this, is Norman Tebbitt… Tebbitt also says that the savage mutilation of transgenderism, we would say if it was taking place in other cultures apart from the culture of Britain, was a harmful cultural practice, and how come we’re not recognising that in the British Isles." - Sheila Jeffreys, PhD, author, lecturer & academic, speaking at the Andrea Dworkin Commemorative Conference given at Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of Justice.

Sheila Jeffreys on ABC Radio’s Sunday Night Safran in February: “Transgenderism for men is about the right to imitate and pretend to be members of the subordinate class even though they are members of – biologically and were brought up in – the superior class. That was problematic for the black and white minstrels. It’s problematic generally when a group of people claim to be another group of subordinate people.”

Ernest Istook, former Oklahoma Republican Congressman: the transgender movement is nothing more than government propaganda.

Gavin McInnes was asked to leave the ad agency that he co-founded after publishing "Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural". He stands by his views. He was defended by trans woman Justine Tunney.

Jorge Lanata mocked Argentina's Gender Identity Law on his radio show and in particular attacked Florence de la V.

Julia Gasper, ex-UKIP candidate and chair claimed that the party is plagued with grotesque transsexuals referring to Nikki Sinclaire and Kellie Maloney.

Julie Burchill wrote some comments in a piece by Paris Lees, deleted them and apologized. Later in the year she attacked her local lesbian rabbi.

Keith Ablow, Fox News, "I don't see anything but toxicity from the notion of a person with female anatomy feeling free to use the urinal in the boys' rest room while a boy stands next to her and uses one, too. Governor Brown is one of the liberal politicians in the world who wants to sell people on the idea that he loves freedom when he is actually addicted to disempowering people."More.

Norman Tebbit, writing in the Daily Telegraph, 19 February 2014: "Who would feel safer if just before take-off the pilot of the airliner told the passengers that she had been promoted to command because they needed more transsexual Muslim captains to meet the airline's inclusivity target?"

Paul McHugh had an article published in The Wall Street Journal where he still repeated that being 'transgendered' is a mental disorder like anorexia or bulimia.

Phil Burress, head of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio, said that a proposal to expand Cleveland’s nondiscrimination ordinance to include protections for transgender people would allow “mentally disturbed” people to “be around women and girls in a women’s restroom".

Peter LaBarbera, Americans for Truth about Homosexuality: "“I have seen healthy young girls in their twenties with their healthy breasts removed to appear like men. Now imagine that. I saw that on stage at a so-called transgender conference a long time ago – this was in DC – and it was just shocking to me. These doctors who perform these operations — this should be illegal — these guys need to go to jail. This is almost the most analogous thing to the abortionist on that issue I can think of: these doctors exploiting these gender-confused individuals and making money off of them. Imagine a woman in her twenties who thinks she wants to be a man so she doesn’t want her breasts, and to have them removed; isn’t that awful? To pay for [that] as taxpayers [is] shocking.”

Toronto School Board trustee Sam Sotiropoulos tweeted that he "reserve[s] the right to not believe" in transgender identity until it is "scientifically proven" that trans people are not "mentally ill". When Global News interviewed him he backtracked.

Terry Wallbank and his mean-spirited article on New Zealand's welcome to Eliana Rubashkyn.

The Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg and Craig James have called for an amendment to the US constitution to ban legal recognition of trans people.

Southern Baptist convention: trans people don't exist. Text by the author of the resolution.

RESOLVED, That we oppose efforts to alter one’s bodily identity (e.g., cross-sex hormone therapy, gender reassignment surgery) to refashion it to conform with one’s perceived gender identity; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we continue to oppose steadfastly all efforts by any governing official or body to validate transgender identity as morally praiseworthy (Isaiah 5:20); and be it further
RESOLVED, That we oppose all cultural efforts to validate claims to transgender identity; and be it finally

Mark Angelo & Jessica Lynn Cummings softly interviewed Cathy Brennonon on Transition Radio TV.

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Some Events of 2014: Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids,
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Doctors & Sexologists

American Medical Association: Trans people shouldn’t need surgery for legal gender recognition.

2 ^nd Eurasian Trans Health conference, Moscow October 27-8.

Douglas Ousterhout, craniofacial surgeon, lives in house featured in Mrs Doubtfire.

James Bellringer, who has been doing the majority of vaginoplasty work for Charing Cross Hospital has resigned.

Jill Jacobson, endocrinologist, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas – treating 28 trans children.

Maud Belanger, Montreal surgeon who does operations for British Columbia's Medical Services Plan notes that it is odd that in the two years since the lifting of the funding ban, they have provided 67
MTF surgeries but zero FTM.

Peter Walker, New Zealand's only sex change surgeon, retired.

Richard Ekins– the early years in Jazz

Clinics:

Aedan Wolton, a caseworker at the UK’s only transgender-led sexual health and wellbeing clinic.

VUmc, the largest provider of transgender care in the Netherlands and the only hospital offering transgender surgery ceased doing so citing insurance concerns.

Hospital Las Higueras de Talcahuano is the only one in Chile providing transgender treatment.

Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, has limited theatre time and a shortage of specialists, but has 148 patients waiting for transgender surgery, some of whom may wait 15-20 years.

Irish Health Service Executive paid for 22 public patients to have transgender surgery 1999-2010, and a further 27 since.

Reconstructive Unit Genito-Urinary and Sexual (URGUS), at the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, Portugal, set up in 2011. Since then 13 FTM and 5 MTF reassignments.

Fred Hollows Foundation organized first free eye clinic for trans women in Bangladesh.

Legal issues:

Director (also trans) of Minatogawa clinic in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, committed suicide after police decided that death of trans man who died during breast-reduction surgery was medical malpractice.

H.C., Turkey, following transgender surgery, visited Dr. Fatma Hut at the Reşat Berger Hospital in order to get her prescriptions filled. Dr. Fatma Hut denied H.Ç. her right to medical care and refused to prescribe medications that were necessary for H.Ç’s treatment following her surgery, arguing: “You are a man, I do not condone your situation, I will not examine you". Afterwards, Dr. Hut had filed a criminal complaint against H.Ç., arguing that she had insulted her. H.Ç. and her lawyer filed their complaint against the doctor that same day.

Naya Taylor, Illinois, suing doctor's office that refused treatment.

Molly Jane Knefel. "It’s Not ‘All Psychological': How the Medical Establishment Fails Transgender Patients". Reproductive & Sexual Health and Justice, January 30, 2014. http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/01/30/psychological-medical-establishment-fails-transgender-patients.
Allison Bond. "For Transgender People, a Good Doctor Is Hard to Find". Scientific American, February 20, 2014. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/02/20/for-transgender-people-a-good-doctor-is-hard-to-find.
Jane Fae, Shuvojit Moulik & Indrani Kar. "Trans Indians mocked and left to die by health workers: Transphobic health workers mock their patients and even put their lives at risk through their negligence, report says". Gay Star News, 26 March 2014. www.gaystarnews.com/article/trans-indians-mocked-and-left-die-health-workers260314.

Medicine & Genetics

A report of a 1779 sex-change surgery.

NHS Scotland sent an open email chain to transgender patients, advertising a new service – that is not using BCC.

US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it would remove the provision requiring Federal Employment Health Benefits (FEHB) providers to exclude transition-related care for transgender federal employees.

Medi-Cal expansion incorporates trans patients.

New York City has had a program since 2010 that provides transgender surgery for those without insurance. The second beneficiary, a 21-year-old in foster care, had the surgery in January.

District of Columbia required that its insurance plans must cover transgender health care.

Largest Study to Date: Transgender Hormone Treatment Safe.

4 foods packed with estrogen.

Very little difference between men's and women's brains.

Womb transplants

Artificially-grown pen i s es.

Lab-grown vaginas.

Kashmira Gandar. "International Women's Day 2014: What's the difference between men and women's brains? Very little, says neuroscientist". The Independent, 08 March 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/international-womens-day-2014-men-and-women-do-not-have-different-brains-says-neuroscientist-9178661.html?origin=internalSearch.
Anna Gorman. "With Coverage Through Obamacare, Transgender Woman Opts For Surgery". Kaiser Health News, August 25, 2014. http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/with-coverage-through-obamacare-transgender-woman-opts-for-surgery.
Kyle Knight. "From Diagnoses to Dignity -- Barriers to Health Care for Transgender People". Huffington Post, 09/12/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/kyle-knight/from-diagnoses-to-dignity_b_5808680.html.

Legal

Anne Kelly, 45, Charleston lawyer, is transitioning.

Lawyer Fawzia Janahi has obtained legal permission for two Bahraini trans men to undergo surgery abroad and be legally recognized on return.

Katie Sprinkle, ex-public defender, Dallas County, Texas, now has her own law firm. Hosts free legal clinics for trans persons.

Nikki Araguz, the appellate court voided the state district court judge's summary judgment in favor of Thomas Araguz's parents and ordered the case returned to the original courtroom for further litigation.

Robina Asti, 92, transitioned 1976, pilot, denied survivor benefits after her husband died.

California bans gay or trans 'panic' defenses.

A Lebanese woman, born intersex, who had had corrective surgery, but still had male ID, was charged with her husband of 'unnatural sexual intercourse'. Judge Naji al-Dahdah threw out the case citing a 2009 ruling by Judge Mounir Suleiman that consensual homosexual relations were not against nature and could therefore not be prosecuted under Article 534. Suleiman found in 2009 that, ‘man is part of nature and is one of its elements, so it cannot be said that any one of his practices or any one of his behaviors goes against nature, even if it is criminal behaviour, because it is nature’s ruling.’

Deaths

Trans Obituaries – other than being murdered

Stormé DeLarverie (1920 - 2014) Jewel Box Revue, Stonewall veteran.

Lily McBeth (1934 – 2014) school teacher.

Mario Montez (1935 - 2013) avant-garde actor.

Katia Beckman (1944 – 2014) Buenos Aires, activist, of pneumonia.

Katherine Anne Johnson (1947 – 2014) convicted of 2^nd-degree murder, held in women's prison in BC. Co-author of Prisoner of Gender.

Leslie Feinberg (1949 – 2014) advocate of term 'transgender', author, revolutionary. More.

Christie Lee Littleton (1952 – 2014) lost widows pension after suing against medical malpractice and lost because 'male'. Remarried.

Asha Devi (1952 - 2013) mayor of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 2000-3, from a kidney disorder.

Matt Kailey (1955 - 2014) author, activist, from a heart condition.

Junie Tate Sugar (? - 2014) Richmond activist.

Jaci Adams (1957 – 2014) Philadelphia activist, from cancer.

Charl Marais (1958 - 2013) bookkeeper, activist in Gender DynamiX.

Angela Clayton (1959 – 2013) physicist, activist, PFC VP.

Maryani (1960 – 2014) Islamic teacher in Yogyakarta.

Joy Hightower Morris (1963 - 2014) Chicago activist, from cancer.

Giuseppe Campuzano (1969 – 2013) founder of Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú.

Jennifer Gable (1982 – 2014) Well Fargo employee, from an aneurysm. Family presented her in the coffin and in an obituary as if she were still male.

Elizabeth Mía Chorubczy (1989 – 2014) Buenos Aires, performer as Effy Beth, suicide.

Riley Moscatel (1997 – 2014) Philadelphia, suicide by train after a period of depression.

Killed or assaulted by a trans person:

Donna Perry's pre-transition self, Doug, killed 3 prostitutes in Spokane, Washington in 1990. The trial continues.

Jacobus Marinu (Mark) van Nierop, 50, wanted for dental mutilation in France, arrested in New Brunswick, admitted killing his wife in the Netherlands, claims to be transgender.

Janaie Jones, 27, who performed as Kryzie King, charged with starving, torturing and killing a 4 year old whose father was in prison.

Lynn Edward Benton, ex-cop, Oregon, is charged with the murder of his ex-wife. Trial scheduled for 2015.

Lynnsey Evakarla Braun, 32, Sacramento, shot dead a man on a train.

Melissa Cae, 51, who started transition after being in the UK army in Northern Ireland where three friends were killed, repeatedly stabbed a 16-year-old boy in Porthcawl in Northern Ireland. Now sentenced to 7 years.

Melisa Young, 37, Edinburgh, killed a neighbour Christmas Day 2013 after he rejected her Christmas present. She was on 14 prescription drugs, inhaled solvents daily, drank to excess and had smoked heroin the morning before the alleged murder. She described seeing a very bright light and voices in her head when she “flipped” and stabbed her friend. She has been tried and is now jailed for life.

Sri Lankan fled to Thailand after a murder, transitioned with surgery, arrested for murder of a security guard after return to Moratuwa.

Death resulting from Silicone Injections

Armani Nicole-Davenport, 32, Dallas, pageant winner, is accused of homicide.

Alejandra Aguilera-Ortega, Sacramento, is accused of homicide.

Black Madam, Padge Windslowe, charged with killing Briton Claudia Aderotimi, (see 2011) is still on remand being unable to pay 10% of her $10 million bail, and her trial is scheduled for February 2015.

Tracey Lynn Garner, US Georgia, convicted of depraved-heart murder.

Yessica Betancur Gomez, Colombia, charged with manslaughter.

Murdered Trans persons

Andrea Quintero from Colombia was murdered in Rome, July 2013, and her body left in the morgue. In January 2014 a priest at Chiesa Del Gesu, one of the most prominent Jesuit churches in Rome arranged a Catholic funeral, persuaded government officials and the mayor to attend, and referred to her throughout as 'she'.

US: Osman Ahmed & Chai Jindasurat. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trangender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2013. National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2014. http://avp.org/storage/documents/2013_ncavp_hvreport_final.pdf.
"Suicide attempts among Transgender and Gender Non_conforming Adults". American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. January 2014. http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf. 60% of trans people refused medical care attempt suicide.
"Prejudice plague transgender people". United Nations Regional Information Centre, 09 January 2014. www.unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/28959-prejudice-plague-transgender-people.
"2013 Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence". NCAVP, May 29, 2014. www.avp.org/storage/documents/2013_ncavp_hvreport_final.pdf.
"Transgender Women Survive Violence in Colombia". USAID, July 2014. www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/resilience-face-violence.
"Denuncian 168 crímenes contra la diversidad sexual en Honduras". Diario Cordoba, 24/07/2014. www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/internacional/denuncian-168-crimenes-diversidad-sexual-honduras_896451.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed.
Ed Pilkington. "Fear and violence in transgender Baltimore: 'It's scary trusting anyone': The murder of two African American women in the span of six weeks has left an already marginalised community on edge". The Guardian, 1 August 2014. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/murder-transgender-women-baltimore-heighten-fears-mia-henderson.
Addison Rose Vincent. "State of Emergency for Transgender Women of Color". Huffington Post, 09/16/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/addison-rose-vincent/state-of-emergency-for-tr_b_5792722.html.
"Brasil é o país com mais mortes de transexuais do mundo: Foram 486 mortes no período entre janeiro de 2008 e abril de 2013, segundo o relatório da ONG internacional Transgender Europe". O Tempo, 19/09/14. www.otempo.com.br/capa/brasil/brasil-%C3%A9-o-pa%C3%Ads-com-mais-mortes-de-transexuais-do-mundo-1.918770.
"A shocking number of LGBT people have been murdered in Brazil". Pink News, 1 October 2014. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/10/01/a-shocking-number-of-lgbt-people-have-been-murdered-in-brazil.
Patrick Strudewick. "Nearly half of young transgender people have attempted suicide – UK survey: Mental health charity says society’s attitudes towards transgender people are not changing fast enough". The Guardian, 19 November 2014. www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/young-transgender-suicide-attempts-survey.
Mary Emily O'Hara. "Trans Women of Color Face an Epidemic of Violence and Murder". Vice, November 20, 2014. http://www.vice.com/read/trans-women-of-color-face-an-epidemic-of-violence-and-murder-673.
Zeynep Bilginsoy. "Evaluating Hate Murders based on SOGI in Turkey: Shortcomings and Proposals". LGBTI News Turkey, 30/11/2014. http://lgbtinewsturkey.com/2014/11/30/infographic-hate-murders.
"Memphis – No Justice fir Transgender Murder Victims". Trans* Violence Tracking Portal.www.transviolencetracker.org/index.php/articles/107-memphis-no-justice-for-transgender-murder-victims.
"Transgender Violence Escalates in 2014 in US". Trans* Violence Tracking Portal. www.transviolencetracker.org/index.php/articles/103-reports-of-transgender-violence-escalates-in-2014.

226 murders of trans persons were recorded in 2014, and many more died without being recorded. These are but a small sample.

Joy Añonuevo (1958 – 2014) Quezon City bar owner stabbed 33 times.

Yaz'min Shancez (1983 – 2014) Fort Myers, Florida, shot and burned to death. Acquaintance Terry Brady arrested.

Neelam (1985 – 2013) Mumbai, fell between train and platform while fleeing hooligans, lost a leg, and bled to death from lack of care.

Figen (? - 2014) suicide by jumping into the sea in August after being tortured by the police in July.

Mayang Prasetyo (1987 – 2014) Indonesian married to an Australian chef in Brisbane who killed and partially cooked her.

Çağla Joker (1988 – 2014) Istanbul, killed by 2 teenagers. Ambulance team refused to help, or to carry her body.

J ennifer Laude Sueselbeck (1988 – 2014) murdered by a US Marine in Olongapo, Philippines.

Mia Henderson (1988 – 2014) Baltimore, sister of Reggie Bullock, basketball star.

"Joseph" Sanchez (1995 – 2014) Belize City pageant winner stabbed by thieves.

Gabriel Fernandez (2006 – 2014) Los Angeles, beat to death after eight months of torture by his parents for playing with dolls.

Here is the best list of names for October 2013-September 2014
www.transrespect-transphobia.org/uploads/downloads/2014/TDOR2014/TDOR-14-Namelist-EN.pdf

Note the general increase: 162 in 2009
                                           179 in 2010
                                           221 in 2011
                                           265 in 2012
                                           238 in 2013 (which is slightly less bad than 2012)
                                           226 in 2014 (again slightly less bad)

Of course most countries did not supply data.

Trans* Violence Tracking Portal            Report.

The outrageously bad Wikipedia page called List of unlawfully killed transgender people lists zero persons being killed in 2014.

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Some Events of 2014: Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,

December 19, 2014, 12:53 pm

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids,
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies,
Part 10: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

Dress Reform

Women who wear men's underwear.

Men's lingerie featuring lace and frills, etc.

Male suits for female bodies.

Couple who live their entire life in 1950s clothing suffer abuse.

Why the need for a gender divide in school uniforms? Or loos?

Homeogender Surgeries

Homeovestity is dressing up as one's own gender. Some such go futher and have surgeries to enhance the gender that they were born as.

Women, after vaginal implants, left in constant pain and unable to have sex.

Woman, 41, goes to great lengths to hide her real body from her husband.

Two identical twins have spent £15,000 on having identical cosmetic procedures.

Human Ken Doll has had 150 cosmetic surgeries.

C raniofacial surge ry so effective that can't get past airport security.

Man, having spent £50,000 on botox and plastic surgery, got free nose job on NHS, and is suing because he doesn't like it.

In Venezuela extreme beauty factories lead young girls to various surgeries. "Venezuela has produced more winners of international beauty pageants than any other nation is a source of national pride.""Dozens of teenage girls die every year during cosmetic surgery in the country. A recent campaign aimed to educate Venezuelan girls about the dangers of liquid silicone butt injections before the age of 12 to 'get to them early, as parents tend to offer these injections as 15th birthday presents'."

Fashion

The Bangkok-based Apple Modeling Agency has launched the first transgender model division. 18 models on its books.

Barneys has launched their 2014 Spring-Summer range with a campaign, Brothers, Sisters, Sons, & Daughters, featuring 17 trans persons, shot by Bruce Weber in New York.

The 10 Greatest Transgender Models

Andreja Pejic, 23, androgynous Bosnian model, announced that she had transgender surgery.

Ava Sabrina London, 25, after 18 surgeries and $50,000, became celebrity other woman.

Carmen Carrera, ex RuPaul's Drag Race, now a model. More. Change,org petition that she should represent Victoria's Secret. To be featured in a docu-reality series: TransAmerica. On the cover of Dress To Kill

Camila Rebeiro, photographed for French magazine Stories Collective.

Carol Marra, São Paulo, in-demand model. Photos.

Franky Nguyen, fashion designer has had transgender surgery.

Geena Rocero, Philippine-born model after 12 years in the business came out at TED conference. More.

Ines Rau, 24, in a photoshoot for Oyster Magazine.

Isis King, 28, featured in Daily Mail.

Jenna Talackova posed for Elle Canada.

Lan Phuong was chosen as the main model of designer Thuan Viet's latest ao dai collection, but is still banned from beauty pageants.

Lea T became the face of hair-care brand Redken. GVWW

Pauk Pauk, Burmese fashion designer.

Sarina Thai, is photographed bare-breasted in New York's Grand Central Station by Allen Henson.

Sofie Vissa in news media for an affair with Casper Smart, as was Xristina Marie.

Valentijin de Hingh featured in Tom Ford's autumn campaign.

Rebecca Adams. "Tim Gunn On Transgender Models, His Sexuality & Finding Role Models". Huffington Post, 02/25/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/tim-gunn-transgender-models_n_4830882.html.
Taylor Barnes. "Transgender Models Prosper in Brazil, Where Carnival and Faith Reign". The New York Times, March 15, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/world/americas/transgender-models-prosper-in-brazil-where-carnival-and-faith-reign.html.
Leanne Italie. "Fashion industry, retailers and the challenges faced by the gender binary". LGBTNation, August 3, 2014. www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/08/fashion-industry-retailers-and-the-challenges-faced-by-the-gender-binary.
Sandiso Ngubane. "The long walk to a transgender catwalk career: Overseas, models like Lea T and Andreja Pejic are much in demand, but SA still seems too wary of transgendered SA women". Mail and Guardian, 14 Nov 2014. http://mg.co.za/article/2014-11-14-the-long-walk-to-a-transgender-catwalk-career-1.

Beauty Pageants

Jordan Davis finalist in Miss Coventry, suffered online abuse, and finally withdrew.

Addie Vincent named Miss Congeniality at a California University.

Isabella Santiago of Venezuela was crowned Miss International Queen 2014 at the beauty pageant in Pattaya November 7, 2014.

Myo Ko Ko San, 20, Miss Myanmar

M iss Tiffany Universe in Pattaya.

Turkey's first trans beauty pageant won by Yanki Bayramoglu, 23.

Amy Brosnahan in national final of Miss Bikini New Zealand, after going to Human Rights Commission, but would not be able to represent New Zaeland in the International pageant.

Miss T Brasil 201 4

1^stMiss Transformista held in Cali.

The Trans Queen National Beauty Contest in Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh.

Lou Cutler, 33, won the Mr Gay Philadelphia competition.

Maximus won Mr Queensland Leather, and will go to Mr International Leather in Chicago.

Music & Performance

Abhina Aher, 37, Mumbai, dancer.

Aiza Seguerra, 31, popular singer in Philipines since childhood, came out as a trans man.

Alison Grillo, educator turned comedian.

Alyssa Kai toured with a punk band.

Arcade Fire. We Exist music video with Andrew Garfield as a young man exploring gender options. Coached by Our Lady J. Criticized by Laura Jane Grace for not casting a trans woman.

Asifa Lahore, (86 on IOS Rainbow list) UK's first Muslim drag queen, attended the BBC3 Free Speech live at Birmingham Central Mosque and raised the question: 'When will it be accepted to be gay and Muslim?' However the audience was not allowed to debate the question.

Dana International: Europeans should 'shut their mouths' about Gaza. Her video, showing dancing in a synagogue, to promote Tel Aviv Gay Pride was taken down after complaints from family of boy incidentally featured. GVWW.

Felicia Gar z a, previously Felipe Gil, Mexican composer and singer, vice president of musicians union, transitioning at age 74.

Fresh Meat Festival. San Francisco's transgender and queer performance performance festival, 19-21 June.

Hurray for the Riff Raff includes trans fiddle player Yosi Perlstein.

Jayne County was banned from Facebook for using the words 'tranny' and 'shemale'.

Kiara de Souza, Sao Paulo, actress & classical ballet teacher, who was a child star in the Mara Wonder show, in transition.

Cis woman, Kate Pierson of the B-52s released a catchy single 'Mister Sister""nothing hurts when you are a beautiful girl", which she describes as a trans anthem. Criticism. Criticism. Endorsed by GenderTrender. 37 better trans anthems.

Lewis Walsh, 24, in the band The Love Junkies, is just coming out.

Nikki Exotika– with The Secret Girls, an all trans group.

Our Lady J - US tour

Sara Buechner– Canadian tour.

Tona Brown, violinist, at Carnegie Hall.

TrannyShack rebranded to T Shack, but Trannyshack London not changing.

Vid Hiper R Siam sings Transgender Woman Never Cheats, Thai song about a trans woman who becomes the lover of her old friend from school.

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Some Events of 2014: Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Television, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema

December 21, 2014, 8:30 am

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids.
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Television, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, Magasines & Newspapers, Journal Articles & Studies,
Part 10: Archives, Theses, Books.

Internet

Facebook greatly expanded pronoun and gender options.

As did Google+

Facebook decided that legal names would be required on profiles which affected a variety of users. Drag queens made the most fuss until the policy was reversed. "Facebook has offered a genuine apology and agreed that our real names are the ones we make for ourselves".

Jaden Remy joined private Facebook group All Transmen Know Each Other. His name and photograph were taken to sell prosthetic penises. When he objected he was banned and blocked.

Eva– a transgender voice training App. Newsarticle.

9,000+ responses on Reddit on how to cope with a magical change to female, and not one consulted a real-world trans person.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde erroneously revealed 86 email addresses of trans clients by not using the BCC feature.

Lauren Voswinkel is building Transgress, "a tool that lets people bypass web filters to access sites about transgender issues and only transgender issues".

Art, Photography & Exhibits

Mariette Pathy Allen. TransCuba. Daylight Books, 2014.

Allyson Hamblett, artist.

April Ashley: Portrait of a Lady. Museum of Liverpool. September 2013 – December 2014.

Bettina Rheim s' photographs of those who flee the categorization of being male or female.

Breaking Barriers: Transgender Trends in Popular Culture, San Diego Comic Con, Thursday, July 24.

Gabrielle Le Roux, Cape Town, exhibited in New York.

Pep Bonet's photographs of Brazil: Transgressing gender norms can have consequences.

Photographs of the aging from Home of the Golden Gays, Pasay, Philippines.

Paola Revenioti exhibited her photographs at East London’s George and Dragon gay bar, 19 October-3 November 2013. In November 2014 the collection was shown in Cyprus, where the exhibition was raided by the police on TDOR after one complaint was received.

Reinas de Quito, photographs by Raul Chacon of Quito's drag queens at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo.

Sakimichan has gender-switched Disney characters.

W ynne Neilly, Toronto, self portraits, Female to 'Male

Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, transitioning in opposite directions, had their photographs of their transitions exhibited as part of Biennial 2014 at The Whitney Museum of American Art from March 7 to May 25.

16 Beautiful Portraits Of Humans Who Happen to Be Trans.

PHOTOS: Seriously Sexy Trans Men Make Us Say “Mmmm!”

How Lucien Freud turned Jerry Hall into a man.

Radio

Stephanie Hirst, presenter of a breakfast show on Capital FM Yorkshire, is in transition. More.

Kimberly Ray and Barry Beck, hosts of the The Breakfast Buzz on 98.9 FM, WBZA, Rochester, New York, "“you’re probably a nut job to begin with” if you’re seeking reassignment surgery. They were fired a day later. In September they had a new afternoon show on 95.1 The Brew.

The Rush Limbaugh Program, May 29, 2014. A woman, Tina, objects to his linking of same-sex marriage and trans rights, he pretends not to know that 'tranny' is controversial, and he asks how a trans woman might 'trick' a man into having sex. NewsArticle.

Television

Jay Richardson. "From Boy Meets Girl to Orange Is the New Black: Meet the new transgender faces of TV". The Independent On Sunday, 18 May 2014. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/from-boy-meets-girl-to-orange-is-the-new-black-meet-the-new-transgender-faces-of-tv-9392393.html.
Alana Avery. "Changing the way the media represents transgender people". The Guardian, 23 September 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/23/media-transgender-people-bbc-radio-one

Trans playing trans

Brothers. Dir/scr: Emmett Lundberg, with Emmett Lundberg as Jack, Jamie Casbon as Davyn, Hudson Karkowski as Aiden and Will Krisanda as Max. US 8 episodes 2014. A web series about four trans-masculine friends in Brooklyn. IMDB NewsArticle.

Emmerdale. UK ITV 1972 – now. Long-running soap recruited Samantha Valentine for one day's work as a barmaid in a scene where women compete to get other women's phone numbers leading up to the punch line: ‘That’s not fair, that’s a he not a she’. With the help of Press for Change, Valentine complained and the scene was cut.

The Fosters. Created: Peter Paige, Bradley Bredeweg. With Tom Phelan as Cole. US ABC Family 2 seasons 2013-14. IMDB Cole is a teenage trans boy.

New Tricks. Scr: Nigel McCrery, Roy Mitchell. Episode 11.5. "London Underground" with Ad è le Anderson as Cecily Watkins, a trans woman among the suspects. UK BBC 60 mins 15 Sep 2014.
BBC A murder mystery of art, occult and the hidden underground Fleet river. Review.

Orange is the New Black Creator: Jenji Kohan, with Lavern Cox as Sophia Buset. US Netflix 3 seasons 40 episodes 55 mins each IMDB Cox was nominated for an Emmy for this role. Wikipedia.

Announced:

Bananas. Scr: Russell T. Davis, with Bethany Black as Helen. UK Channel 4 2015. IMDB

Underage & Gay and My Million View Sex Change"a project showing young women using Testosterone Diaries to record online the progress of their sex changes " Also Channel 4.

Boy Meets Girl. Created: Elliot Kerrigan, dir/scr: Eric Schaeffer, with Rebecca Root (18 on IOS Rainbow List) as Judy. BBC 2015. Newsarticle. IMDB.

Sense8. Dir/scr: The Wachowskis and others. US Netflix 2015. Wikipedia. IMDB. Includes scenes shot at the Fresh Meat Festival in San Francisco.

Cis playing trans

Carlotta. Dir: Samantha Lang, scr: David Hannam, with Jessica Marais as Carlotta and Kai Lewins as Richard (young Carlotta). Australia ABC1 19 June 2014. A drama based on the life of Sydney showgirl Carlotta. It is ironic that Carlotta, who pioneered trans playing trans in 1973, is now portrayed by a cis actor. Drag artist Courtney Act had been initially announced for the part. IMDB Newsarticle.

The Centre, Created by Marian Cullen & Warren Meyler, with Gary Cooke as Nuala Mooney. Ireland RTE2 1 season 6 episodes 2014. A comedy set in a community centre in north Dublin with Nuala as a stereotyped trans character played for laughs. Travellers and Muslims are also laughed at. IMDB Newsarticle Newsarticle TENI.

Coronation Street. UK ITV 1960 – now. Hayley Cropper, played by Julie Hesmondhalgh, was the first trans character in a UK soap in 1998. In January, suffering from cancer, Hayley chose to end her life, and was commemorated with a Humanist funeral. Newsarticle. Comment by Hesmondhalgh.

Dr Who. UK BBC 26 seasons 1963-now26/8.11. "Dark Water"The Master now played by Michelle Gomez and previously by 8 different male actors, last seen in 2009, has regenerated as a woman.

Hollyoaks. UK Channel 4/E4 1995 – now. Created by Phil Redman, with Modupe Adeyeye as Blessing Chambers who reveals her past when investigated. Paris Lees also makes a quick appearance. NewsArticle.

Orphan Black with Tatiana Maslany as a series of identical clones. In Episode 2.8 one of them is a trans man. BBC3 2014 Newsarticle.

Transparent. Dir/scr: Jill Soloway, with Jeffrey Tambor as Maura, trans actress Alexandra Billings as Davina and trans actor Ian Harvie as Dale. Advised by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Zachary Drucker, Rhys Ernst. US Amazon 10 episodes 2014. Newsarticle. Interview with Alexandra Billings. Our Lady J hired as writer for second season.

Announced:

Three Generations. Dir Gaby Dellal, scr: Nikole Beckwith, with Elle Fanning as a trans boy just starting transition and Naomi Watts as his mother. Newsarticle. IMDB

Trans playing cis

American Horror Story: Freak Show. Creators: Brad Falchuk & Ryan Murphy, with Erika Ervin as Amazon Eve. US FX 13 episodes 2014. IMDB Newsarticle.

Trans being themselves

Lt Col Cate McGregor. "Call Me Cate". Australian Story, ABC1 29 mins 4 Mar 2014. Full Version.

Conchita Wurst, bearded and in drag, the Austrian entry, won The European Song Contest in 2014 held in Copenhagen. Russia, Belarus and Armenia had protested and threatened to block the broadcast. Paris Lees' comment. Dusty O's comment.    Zagria's historical summary.

Dana International hosted Yeshnan Banot on Channel 24 in January.

Don/Dawn Ennis, ABC News assignment editor, after transition, detransition and transition again, was fired.

Dennis Croft, a security guard is one of several people featured inSmall Town Security, a docu-reality series filmed in a small town in US Georgia. US AMC 3 seasons 2012-4. IMDB   Newsarticle.

Grayson Perry's Who Are You? Episode 1, Grayson explores identity, with Alex White among others. Channel 4 22 October 2014 Newsarticle.

Irish Lives: My Transgender Journey, documentary with Louise Hannon, Sam Balancksee transitioning at 19 with strong parental support, and Kay Bear Boss from Indiana whose mother back home is getting her birth certificate changed. Ireland, TV3 April 16 2014. Newsarticle. Newsarticle

Jamaica's Underground Gays. Dir: Andrew Carter. Channel 4 Unreported World 2014. IMDB Newsarticle Full version.

Kellie Maloney was on Celebrity Big Brothe r 14 with. Channel 5 Aug-Sep 2014. The fifth evictee. Newsarticle.

Lady Valour: The Kristin Beck Story. Dir: Sandrine Orabona & Mark Herzog. US CNN, Sept 4 2014. Newsarticle More

True Trans with Laura Jane Grace. US AOL 2014. IMDB Newsarticle.

Lavern Cox Presents:The T Word . US MTV/Logo 2014. Documentary about 7 young trans persons. Newsarticle LogoTV

On 11 August 2014 BBC's Newsnightattempted to set a discussion re the boxing promoter and UKIP candidate, Kellie Maloney, who had recently come out as trans. They approached some feminists such as Julie Bindel and Sarah Ditum, but based on previous experience none of them would have anything to do with the topic. Therefore Newsnight settled on two trans women and one trans man: Miranda Yardley, Paris Lees and Fred McConnell. Paris took umbrage with the lineup and tweeted that she was “not prepared to enter into a fabricated debate about trans people’s right to exist/express themselves". Fred tweeted that it was a “TERF-filled trap”. Then Newsnight had to inform Miranda that the proposed session was cancelled. Miranda's version.

Padmini Prakash, 31, Lotus News, Tamil Nadu, became first trans TV news anchor in India. More.
The Pearl of Africa. Dir: Jonny von Wallström, with Cleopatra Kambugu. Life in Uganda Web TPOATV 7 parts 2014. Trailer Newsarticle   Newsarticle

P anti Bliss, Dublin, appeared on RTÉ's The Saturday Night Show with Brendan O'Connor where they discussed homophobia and Panti alleged that some individuals (David Quinn, founder of the Iona Institute, Irish Times columnists John Waters and Breda O’Brien, and Institute members Dr Patricia Casey, Dr John Murray and Ms Maria Steen) involved in Irish journalism were homophobic. Those mentioned threatened RTÉ and Panti with legal action. RTÉ subsequently removed that section of the interview from their online archive. On 25 January episode of the Saturday Night Show, O'Connor issued a public apology on behalf of RTÉ to those mentioned by O'Neill in the interview held two weeks previously. RTÉ paid €85,000 to those named. On 1 February 2014, Panti gave a speech at the Abbey Theatre in response which garnered over 200,000 views in two days. As of March 2014 the video has over 600,000 views.

Piers Morgan, CNN, Interview with Janet Mock. “Why Is It So Offensive To Just Say That Transgender Women Grew Up As Boys?”

Pointless. BBC game show. Stephanie, a contestant, was met by transphobic Tweets. Richard Osman, co-host, Tweeted in her defence.

Rafalala, a 'transsexual poet' and Artur Zawisza, leader of Poland's far-right National Movement, were on a live TV show on Polsat News. Zawisza stormed out when she threw water in his face after he called her a "whore".

Stephen Fry's Out There in which Stephen visits LGBT persons around the world. Part 2 in India features Hijras.

Transphobic

Aab Tak, Pakistan opened transmission with ‘Ladies, Gentlemen and She-males’, and then the show Khufia bullied trans persons on the streets of Karachi. Ansar Burney, "human right activist and physician" said trans is "psychological misbehaviour" and that trans persons could be agents of foreign countries.
Michelle Demishevich, Turkey's only openly trans broadcaster was fired.

Other

Woody Talkshow, MTV Thailand, asked if a kathoey can be a monk.

Adverts

Barneys, New York used photographs by Bruce Weber.

Indian trans women urge motorists to use seatbelts:

Pornography

Tobi Hill-Meyer makes feminist trans women porn.

Tranny Awards renamed to Transgender Erotica Awards.

Theatre

"Theatrical thesis explores transgendered lives". Massey University, 26/11/2014. www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=14024D0B-F19D-2B1F-DC05-7021525EF5AF.

Trans Playwrights & Actors

Maids! The Transgender Version. Dir/scr: Aleksa Lundberg, with Aleksa Lundberg. Stockholm's Theatre three. GVWW

Bayside: The Musical. Presented by National Lampoon. Dir/.scr: Bob & Tobly McSmith. Theater80, 80 St Marks Pl (1st Ave). December 17-20.

On a Stool at the End of the Bar. Dir: Michael Parva scr: Robert Callely, with Antoinette Thornes as Chris, living in stealth with three teenagers and a boyfriend of 10 years. Nov 30 – Dec 14 off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theatres.

Jo Clifford has adapted Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (opening in February) and several of her plays are being revived by other thespians.

Cis Playwrights & Actors Exploring Gender Options

Hamlet. Dir: Sarah Frankcom, scr: William Shakespeare, with Maxine Peake as Hamlet. Several other characters also cross-cast. Manchester Royal Exchange. Review. There have been female Hamlets back to the 18^th century. This is a fine example.

Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy. Dir: Shirley Serotsky, scr: Leah Napolin, based on the short story by Isaac Singer, music by Jill Sobule, with Shayna Blass as Yentl. Theatre J, Washington. Review.

Casa Valentina. Dir: Joe Mantello, scr: Harvey Fierstein, with Patrick Page as George (Susanna Valentina), Mare Winningham as his wife Rita, Reed Birney as Charlotte (Virginia Prince). Manhatten Theater Club, April-June 2014. Website. Newsarticle. Wikipedia. A gay appropriation of heterosexual cross-dressing – but who else would do it? The first dramatization of the FPE-TriEss story.

Kava Girls. Dir & Scr: Sani Muliaumaseali'l, with AJ LeRoy as Sinalei, Ninotchka Tingleff, as Debra. World premiere is set for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 10 - Aug 25. Newsarticle. Samoan Fa’afafine struggle to start in London's West End theatre.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John Cameron Mitchell, who along with Stephen Trask created the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will return to the stage as the titular East Geman-trans-punk rocker after Michael C. Hall finishes his turn as Hedwig.

Cinema

Actor Rüzgar Erkoçlar, Turkey, having completed transition, was summoned for military service, but the military medical board found him 'not suitable for military service'.

Bobby Darling has announced that she will not be pursuing transgender surgery if it results in less work.

Kay Brown on why Tootsie and Mrs Doubtfire are transphobic.

Jonathan Demme, director of Silence of the Lambs, now understands why the film was considered transphobic.

Paris is Burning, 24 years later.

"LGBTQ* Movies You Should Know: Trans* and Non-Binary Films". Neutrois, Jan 1^st, 2014. http://neutrois.tumblr.com/post/71890632217/knowhomo-lgbtq-movies-you-should-know-trans.
Matthew Hammett Knott. "10 Trans Actors Who Could Have Played Jared Leto's Role in 'Dallas Buyers Club'". Bent, February 20, 2014. http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/10-trans-actors-who-werent-offered-jared-letos-role-in-dallas-buyers-club-20140220.
"Eddie Redmayne and Elle Fanning Set For Trans Roles: When Will Hollywood Learn?". Queerty, 4/11/2014. www.queerty.com/eddie-redmayne-and-elle-fanning-set-for-trans-roles-when-will-hollywood-learn-20141104?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29.
Em & Lo. "Top 10 transgender films". SundanceTV. www.sundance.tv/top-ten/top-ten-transgender-films.
Juliet Jacques. "10 great transgender films". BFI, 6 December 2014. www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-transgender-films.

Trans Playing Trans

Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum). Dir/scr: Guillaume Gallienne, with Guillaume Gallienne as himself and as his mother. France 85 mins 2013. IMDB Newsarticle. An autobiographical film by Guillaume who did not like boyish things, but did like dance and women's clothes. Mother tells him that he is gay, and was annoyed when he dated women and married one.

Quick Change. Dir/scr: Eduardo Roy Jr., with Mimi Juareza as Dorina Pinedo, Shola Luna (Miss Gay Philippines 1982), Francine Garcia (Super Sireyna Queen of Queens 2013) as Hazel, Migs Cuaderno as Hiro, Barbie Anderson as Madame Lilia. Philippines 82 mins 2013. Dorina, trans herself, provides collagen injections for pageant queens. IMDB Trailer Review Review Wikipedia. Mimi Juareza won "best actor" at the Philippine Independent Film Festival.

Shirts vs Skins. Dir/scr: Terésa Dowell-Vest, with Tajir S. Hawkins as Dale Michels. US 23 mins 2013. IMDB Full film

Cis Playing Trans/Intersex

Une nouvelle amie/The New Girlfriend Dir/scr: Francois Ozon short story by Ruth Rendell, with Romain Duris as widowed new father David who starts cross-dressing. France 105 mins 2014. IMDB   Trailer   Wikipedia

Bruno and Earlene go to Vegas. Dir/scr: Simon Savory, with Miles Szanto as Bruno, Ashleigh Sumner as Earlene. UK/US/France 95 mins 2013. Two persons on a road trip, one of whom, Bruno. is intersex. IMDB   Website   Trailer   Review

Hai-Hil/Man on High Heels. Dir/scr: Jin Jang, with Cha Seung-won as Ji-wook. South Korea 139 mins 2014. Tough cop wants to be a woman. IMDB    Trailer   Newsarticle   Newsarticle KoreanFilm   Wikipedia.

Pierrot Lunaire. Dir: Bruce La Bruce, poem: Albert Giraud, music: Arnold Schoenberg, with Susanne Sachße as Pierrot. Canada/Germany 51 mins 2014. The queercore version with Pierrot as a trans man. IMDB    Trailer   Newsarticle    Wikipedia

Più buio di mezzanotte/Darker than Midnight Dir/scr: Sebastiano Riso with Davide Capone as Davide Italy 98 mins 2014. Androgynous Davide runs away from home and is adopted by street queens. IMDB   Trailer   Newsarticle   Wikipedia

Announced:

Danish Girlwith Eddie Redmayne (a cis male) as Lili Elbe (Nicole Kidman, Rachel Weisz, Gwyneth Paltrow etc had previously been proposed for the part). US 2015. IMDB

Trans Playing Cis

Announced:

Dirty. Dir: Daniel Ringey, scr: Benjamin J Alexander, with Chaz Bono as Jerry the Hoader. US 90 mins 2015. IMDB Newsarticle

Trans Being Themselves

52 Tuesdays. Dir Sophie Hyde, scr: Matthew Cormack, with Tilda Cobham-Harvey as Billie and Del Herbert-Jane as her mother James. Australia 109 mins 2014. IMDB   Website   Trailer   Newsarticle Billie meets her mother one day each week as the latter becomes a man.

Better Things, Dir: Maria Cabardo, with Jeffrey Catherine Jones. US 2014. GVWW   IMDB Website   Trailer. The life of the fantasy artist.

Bevor der letzte Vorhang fäll /Before the Last Curtain Falls, Dir & scr: Thomas Wallner, with Vanessa van Durme, Andrea De Laet, Griet De Backer. Canada/Belgium/Germany 92 mins 2014. Six ageing gay men, drag queens and trans women who are touring Europe in a dance performance called Gardenia. IMDB   Website    Trailer   Review Review

Boy. Dir: Stammen, with Laura Hancock as Emilie. Denmark 16 mins 2014. Full film   Newsarticle

Chuppan Chupai/Hide and seek. Dir: Saad Khan and Saadat Munir. Pakistan 68 mins 2013. Secret, yet open lives of a group of Pakistani sexual minorities, while raising questions about trans activism, religion, underground gay life, social acceptance and collective familial customs of trans people in urban Pakistan. IMDB   Trailer   Newsarticle

Heaven's Gate. Dir: Coco Solid. NZ 2014. The annual FAFSWAG Ball in South Auckland, an event which celebrates the city's thriving fa'afafine and transgender scene. Website   Trailer   Newsarticle

I am the T. Dir: Tony Zosherafatain. US 2014. Trailer   Newsarticle

Karma. Dir: Vana Hem with Krel Pao, with appearance by rights activist Sou Sotheavy and the founder of rights group Licadho, Pung Chhiv Kek, as well as a monk, Ioeung Harmony, who preaches acceptance of LGBT people. . Cambodia 39 mins 2014. NewsArticle

Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger. Dir/scr: Sam Feder, with Kate Bornstein, Justin Bond, Sandy Stone. US/Canada 72 mins 2014. IMDB   Website   Trailer

Kumu Hina. Dir: Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson, with Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (see Part 4 under Provincial Politics). US/Fiji 75 mins 2014. A mahu Hawaiian inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the school's male hula troupe, even as she struggles with her own relationship. IMDB   Website   Trailer   Newsarticle   Newsarticle

The Last Gospel of the Pagan Babies. Dir/scr: Jean Donohue, with James Herndon. US 90 mins 2014. LGBT lives in Lexington, Kentucky. IMDB   Website   Newsarticle   Proposal

Mala Mala. Dir: Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, with Denise “Sandy” Rivera, Ivana Fred, Samantha Close, Soraya Santiago Solla, Alberic Pradoc, April Carrion, Queen Bee Ho, Sophia Voines, Paxx Moll. US 90 mins 2014. Life in Puerto Rico. IMDB   Website   Trailer Newsarticle Review

Next Goal Wins. Dir: Mike Brett & Steve Jamison, with Jaiyah Saelua (see Part 4:Sports). UK 97 mins 2014. Turning the American Samoa football team from perennial losers – with a trans woman on team. IMDB   Website   Trailer   Newsarticle   Wikipedia

Mr Angel. Dir Dan Hunt, with Buck Angel, Elayne Angel, Tyra Banks, Dan Savage. US/Canada/Germany/Mexico 68 mins 2013. IMDB   Website   Trailer Newsarticle Review

My Prairie Home. Dir/scr: Chelsea McMullen, with Rae Spoon. A concert tour of the prairies, Canada 76 mins 2014. IMDB Website   Trailer Review Wikipedia.

One Zero One. Dir: Tim Lienhard, with Morrocan/German Mourad Zerhouni/BayBjane & Antoine Timmermans/Cybersissy. Germany 90 mins 2014. Multi-disabled Mourad was adopted by drag queen Antoine who helped him develop his own drag persona. IMDB   Website   Trailer

Shunned. Dir/scr: Janice Villarosa, with Mimi Juareza. Philippines/US 70 mins 2014. IMDB   Newsarticle

TransMormon. Dir: Torben Bernhard, with Eri Haywards. US 15 mins 2014. IMDB   Website Full film   Newsarticle   Newsarticle.

A Woman with a Past. Dir: Gwen Haworth, with Vancouver poet activist Antonette Rea. Canada 10 mins 2014. IMDB Website   Trailer Newsarticle.

Young and Gay: Jamaica's Gully Queens. US Vice 25 mins 2014. IMDB   Full film   Newsarticle Newsarticle

Who We Become. Dir: Adam Perez & Jan Hendrik Hinzel, with Jace Jones, Kim Watson-Benjamin, Cris Benjamin, Daisey Lopez. US 2014. Life in New York. Website   Trailer   Newsarticle.

Zanderology. Dir/scr: Megan Rohrer, with Zander Keig. US 42 mins 2014. IMDB   Clip   Newsarticle.

Spouses of Trans

The Dog. Dir: Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren, with John Wojtowicz. US 100 mins 2014. Documentary about the main protagonist in the Dog Day Afternoon robbery. IMDB Website Trailer Newsarticle Review

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Some Events of 2014: Part 9: Jargon, Magazines & Newspapers, Journal Articles & Studies

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids.
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Television, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, Magazines & Newspapers, Journal Articles & Studies,
Part 10: Archives, Theses, Books.

Jargon

Utah language school fires blogger for writing about ‘homophones’.

Cisplaining - To explain, without ever having felt the necessity to investigate the issue, that there are only two genders which are fixed and invariable for every individual at birth. Usually assumes equal lack of introspection on the part of transgender people who are likely to have spent their whole life questioning what gender means. The cisplainer is often shocked and angry when their cisplanation is not taken as absolute fact, criticized or even rejected altogether. Urban Dictionary.

SWERF - Acronym for "Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist". A person who espouses to be a feminist but who does not believe that women engaged in ANY form of voluntary sex work should be included in the fight for equality, especially in employment or salary parity. This rabid exclusion of an entire class of women is usually a belief based on misplaced uptight morality. Urban Dictionary.

Transface - When a transgender character in a movie or television show is portrayed by a non-transgender man or woman. Considered to be offensive by some transgender people, analogous to blackface portrayals of people of African descent. Modified from Urban Dictionary.

Dead Name - The birth name of somebody who has changed their name. Most commonly attributed to trans people, but can be attributed to any person who has changed their name. (sometimes written as two words: dead name). It has not caught on re the maiden name of a married woman. Modified from Urban Dictionary.

trans*sexual – as the * in trans* = vestite or gender or sexual, to put the * in the middle of trans*sexual is to lose the plot.

Kat Callahan. "Stop Confusing Gender Dysphoria With Body Dysmorphia Already". Roygbiv, no date. http://roygbiv.jezebel.com/stop-confusing-gender-dysphoria-with-body-dysmorphia-al-1583049920.

The Tranny words

Parker Marie Molloy. "RuPaul Stokes Anger With Use of Transphobic Slur: The controversial drag queen makes use of the transphobic term 'shemale' in a segment reminiscent of Maury Povich's 'Man or Woman?' episodes". Advocate, March 18 2014. www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/03/18/rupaul-stokes-anger-use-transphobic-slur.
Andrea James. “I F*cking Hate @RuPaul”. Boingboing, Apr 4, 2014. http://boingboing.net/2014/04/04/rupaul.html.
Dana Beyer. "Anti-Trans Slurs and Drag: Who Exactly Is Transgender, and Does It Matter?". Huffington Post, 03/24/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/anti-trans-slurs-drag_b_5022301.html.
Our Lady J. "RuPaul's Drag Race and the Danger of Overpolicing Language". Huffington Post, 04/14/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/our-lady-j/rupauls-drag-race_b_5148719.html.
Calpernia Adams. "Op-ed: Burning Books, One Word at a Time: A new movement cracks down on 50 years of LGBT culture.". Advocate, April 17 2014. www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/04/17/op-ed-burning-books-one-word-time.
Cristan Williams. "On policing RuPaul’s 'free speech'". The Transadvocate, April 19, 2014. www.transadvocate.com/on-policing-rupauls-free-speech_n_13537.htm.
Cristan Williams. "Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review". The Transadvocate, April 28 2014. www.transadvocate.com/tranny-an-evidence-based-review-2_n_13593.htm.
Julia Serano. "A Personal History of the 'T-word' (and some more general reflections on language and activism)". Whipping Girl, April 28 2014. http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-personal-history-of-t-word-and-some.html.
Zagria. "Some observations on the tranny word". A Gender Variance Who's Who, 01 May 2014. http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2014/05/some-observations-on-tranny-word.html.
"Lady Bunny Refuses To Bow To 'Tranny' Word Police, Says To Fight The Real Enemy". Queerty, May 28, 2014. http://www.queerty.com/lady-bunny-refuses-to-bow-to-tranny-word-police-says-to-fight-the-real-enemy-20140528.
Jayne County. "Transgender Icon Jayne County Is Fed Up With Being Banned And Censored". Queerty, Jun 5, 2014. http://www.queerty.com/exclusive-transgender-icon-jayne-county-is-fed-up-with-being-banned-and-censored-20140605.
Dan Tracer. "Candis Cayne Will Keep On Saying 'Tranny', Whether You Like It Or Not". Queerty, Jun 11, 2014. http://www.queerty.com/candis-cayne-will-keep-on-saying-tranny-whether-you-like-it-or-not-20140611.
Mx Justin Vivian Bond. "About the Word "Tranny": Banning Words Is Censorship, and Censorship Is a Conservative Tactic". The Stranger, June 25, 2014. www.thestranger.com/seattle/about-the-word-tranny/Content?oid=19946137.
Jack Halberstam. "You Are Triggering me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma". Bully Bloggers, 5 Jul 2014. http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/you-are-triggering-me-the-neo-liberal-rhetoric-of-harm-danger-and-trauma.

Magazines and newspapers:

Kate Stone, after surviving being gored by a stag, was dismayed by the cavalier way that her past personal life had been featured in some newspapers while she was still in a coma. The Press Complaints Commission accepted her complaint, and six newspapers agreed to amend their online stories.

Murder victim Mayang Prasetyo, referred to as a 'she-male', and mainly bikini photographs used. Media anlysis.

Janet Mock named a contributing editor at Marie Clair.

Gr a yson Perry was guest editor at The New Stateman.

Chelsea Manning has written for The Guardian.

Jillian Page, Montreal Gazette, denounced Chelsea Manning as a 'traitor' and, strangely for a journalist, was surprised to find that her opinion is not universal.

T Cooper. "What not to say to a transgender person". CNN Living, February 5, 2014. www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/living/transgender-identity/index.html.
Ryan Schuessler. "For aging transgender population, retirement can be bittersweet refuge". Aljazeera America, February 20, 2014. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/20/for-aging-transgenderpopulationretirementcanbebittersweetrefuge.html.
Mitch Kellaway. "8 Myths About Transgender Men's Genital Reconstructions". Huffington Post, 03/14/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/mitch-kellaway/8-myths-about-transgender-mens-genital-reconstructions_b_4510196.html.
Fred McConnell. "Things you wanted to know about trans people and were rude enough to ask". The Guardian, 19 March 2014. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/19/trans-people-rude-questions-sex-lives.
Leigh Stein. "'I Would Have Followed Them Into Battle': Female Civil War re-enactors march proudly onto the battlefields where their forerunners disguised themselves to fight.". Slate, April 27 2014. www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014/04/female_civil_war_re_enactors_portr ay_women_who_passed_as_men_to_fight.html.
Katy Steinmetz. "The Transgender Tipping Point". "Laverne Cox Talks to TIME About the Transgender Movement". Time, May 29, 2014. http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point. http://time.com/132769/transgender-orange-is-the-new-black-laverne-cox-interview.

Jane Fae. "We're at a tipping point for transgender equality: An unstoppable impulse is about to sweep away traditional ideas of gender – and we'll all benefit". The Guardian, 30 May 2014. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/tipping-point-transgender-equality.
Tracie Powell. "Why the news media need to get it right in covering transgender people". The Washington Post, June 5, 2014. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/06/05/why-the-news-media-need-to-get-it-right-in-covering-transgender-people.
Morgan. "Intersex, brain differences, and the transgender tipping point". OII Australia, 5 June 2014. http://oii.org.au/27298/intersex-and-brain-differences.
Tessa Stuart. "TERF Battle: A New Book Reignites the War Between Radical Lesbian Feminists and Trans Women". The Village Voice, Jun 24, 2014. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/06/terf_battle_a_new_book_reignites_the_war _between_radical_lesbian_feminists_and_trans_women.php.
"Staying a step ahead of HIV/AIDS". Science, 11 July 2014. About the Cover. Reaction more

Roz Kaveney. "Woman Enough". Advocate, July 16 2014. http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2014/07/16/woman-enough.
Mari Brighe. "The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women". Autostraddle, July 29, 2014. www.autostraddle.com/the-new-yorkers-skewed-history-of-trans-exclusionary-radical-feminism-ignores-actual-trans-women-247642.
Leela Ginelle. "TERF War: The New Yorker's One-Sided Article Undermines Transgender Identity". Bitch Media, August 1, 2014. http://bitchmagazine.org/post/terf-war-the-new-yorkers-one-sided-article-undermines-transgender-identity.
Michelle Goldberg. "What Is a Woman?: The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism". The New Yorker, August 4, 2014. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2.
Julia Serano. "Op-ed: An Open Letter to The New Yorker: When The New Yorker took a look at the tension between transgender women and radical feminists, one writer says the examination was unfair.". Advocate, August 05 2014. www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/08/05/op-ed-open-letter-new-yorker.
Juliet Jacques. "On the 'dispute' between radical feminism and trans people". New Statesman, 6 August 2014. http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/08/dispute-between-radical-feminism-and-trans-people.
Lucy Mangan. "Lucy Mangan: if we get bogged down in the Terf war we'll never achieve anything: 'My heart fills with despair when feminists and feminism convulse in another self-induced set of agonies'". The Guardian, 9 August 2014. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/09/lucy-mangan-terf-war.
Lee Hurley. "How to ask a woman out when you’re a transgender man". Metro, 7 Sep 2014. http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/07/how-to-ask-a-woman-out-when-youre-a-transgender-man-4857999.
Nicole Pasulka. "Why It Could Get Easier to Come Out as Transgender at Work". Takepart, October 02, 2014. www.takepart.com/feature/2014/09/30/why-it-could-get-easier-come-out-transgender-work.
Jos Truitt. "Trans people need more than beloved celebrity spokespeople. We need equality: President Obama’s executive order protecting transgender federal employees racked up its first win. We still deserve more". The Guardian, 23 October 2014. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/transgender-celebrity-spokespeople-discrimination-equality.

Places:

Afghanistan: Ruth Styles. "The Afghan girls forced to live as BOYS: Families make their daughters dress, act and play like males - all for fear of being shunned because they have no sons". The Daily Mail, 2 October 2014. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2776387/The-Afghan-girls-forced-live-BOYS-Families-make-daughters-dress-act-play-like-males-fear-shunned-no-sons.html.
Albania: Annabel Fenwick Elliott. "'I became a Sworn Virgin to inherit my family's land and protect my nine younger sisters': The Albanian mountain women prepared to take a vow of celibacy and forever dress, work and live as men". The Daily Mail, 12 March 214. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2577855/Dont-confuse-lesbian-Meet-tribe-Albanian-mountain-women-dress-work-live-men.html.
Argentina: Sarah Raphael. "Prostitution Is Argentina's Last Hurdle for the Equality of Trans People". Vice, May13, 2014. https://news.vice.com/article/prostitution-is-argentinas-last-hurdle-for-the-equality-of-trans-people.

Ignacia de los Reyes. "Por qué Argentina lidera la revolución trans en el mundo". BBC Mundo, 16 mayo 2014. www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/05/140516_argentina_trans_derechos_revolucion_lgbt_irm.shtml.

Cambodia: Sean Teehan & Vandy Muong. "‘I know it’s bad for my health, but I want to be a woman’". The Phnom Penh Post, 29 November 2014. www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/%E2%80%98i-know-it%E2%80%99s-bad-my-health-i-want-be-woman%E2%80%99.
Costa Rica: Fabiola Pomareda. "Transgender Costa Ricans fight discrimination over name-change rights". The Tico Times, September 6 2014. www.ticotimes.net/2014/09/06/transgender-costa-ricans-fight-discrimination-over-name-change-rights.
Cuba: Jeremy Lybarger. "New Photobook Documents the Travails of Transgender Cubans: A living hell has become hopeful under Raúl Castro.". Mother Jones, May 8, 2014. www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/transcuba-transgender-photos-cuba-castro.
Europe: Emine Saner. "Europe's terrible trans rights record: will Denmark's new law spark change? Denmark has become the first European country to allow legal change of gender without a medical expert statement. Why are clinical diagnosis and surgery still insisted upon elsewhere?". The Guardian, 1 September 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2014/sep/01/europe-terrible-trans-rights-record-denmark-new-law.
India: Murali Krishnan. "Indian transgender community not keen on voting". Deutcher Welle, 26.03.2014. www.dw.de/indian-transgender-community-not-keen-on-voting/a-17520812.

Arshiya Khullar. "The transgender community: Legally invisible no more?". CNN World, April 17, 2014. www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/world/asia/countries-introduce-gender-neutral-policies-for-transgenders.

Indonesia: Ratna Fitriana. "My Experience Working With Jakarta’s Transgender Community". Jakarta Globe, May 15, 2014. http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/features/experience-working-jakartas-transgender-community.

Jess Engebreston. "Transgender women find a safe place to practice their faith in Indonesia". PRI, July 03, 2014. www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-03/transgender-women-find-safe-place-practice-their-faith-indonesia.

Iran:"Gay Iranians pressured to surgically change gender, seek asylum". CBCRadio, November 28, 2014. www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2014/11/28/gay-iranians-pressured-to-surgically-change-gender-seek-asylum/index.html.

Rocelle Terman. "Trans[ition] in Iran". World Policy Institute. www.worldpolicy.org/transition-iran.

Ireland: Kat Callahan. "New Report Details Ireland's Problem of Transphobic Violence"Jezebal, 6/22/14. http://roygbiv.jezebel.com/new-report-details-irelands-problem-of-transphobic-viol-1594601489.
Malaysia:"Malaysia: Transgender People Under Threat: Eliminate Discriminatory Laws, Practices; End Violence". Human Rights Watch, September 25, 2014. http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/24/malaysia-transgender-people-under-threat.

"Malaysia among worst countries in world for transgenders-report". The Daily Mail, 25 September 2014. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2768923/Malaysia-worst-countries-world-transgenders-report.html.

Mongolia: Jordan G. Teicher. "Transgender in Mongolia". Slate, March 3 2014. www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/03/03/_lvaro_laiz_photographs_the_transgender_community_in _mongolia_in_his_series.html.

Alvaro Laiz. "The secret lives of transgender Mongolians". CNN Style, 8 April 2014. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/08/asia/gallery/the-secret-lives-of-transgender-mongolians.

New York: Chris Arnade. "Transgender Latinas' stories reveal how much intolerance they still endure: Facing poverty and with no support network, some Latina transwomen turn to the streets to survive". The Guardian, 18 May 2014. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/18/transgender-latina-women-sex-work-intolerance.
Peshawar: Beenish Ahmed. "Pakistan's Transgender Community Is Hiding Out in a Hostile City". Vice, May 16, 2014. www.vice.com/read/pakistans-transgender-community-is-hiding-out-in-a-hostile-city.
Russia: Dinah Pavlovna. "Russian drag queens reflect on anti-gay law one year later". Xtra, Oct 12, 2014. http://dailyxtra.com/world/news/russian-drag-queens-reflect-anti-gay-law-one-year-later.

Yana Sitnikova. "Transgender Activism in Russia". Freedom Requires Wings, January 2014. http://www.freedomrequireswings.com/2014/01/report-transgender-activism-in-russia.html.

Spain: Raquel Martinex Carrascal. "El 80% de los transexuales de Castilla y León emigran por la discriminación". El Norte de Castilla, 22 noviembre 2014. www.elnortedecastilla.es/palencia/201411/22/transexuales-castilla-leon-emigran-20141122130506.html.
South Africa: Leigh Ann van der Merwe. "There is a Voice that is Silent from Africa". IGLHRC, December 27, 2013. http://iglhrc.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/there-is-a-voice-that-is-silent-from-africa.
Turkey: Jody Sabral. "Turkey's Transgender Community Finds New Voice". Huffington Post, 04/06/2014. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jody-sabral/turkeys-transgender-community-finds-new-voice_b_5091128.html.
Ukraine: Nadzeya Husakouskaya. "The sex change commission in Ukraine" ODR, 22 October 2014. https://opendemocracy.net/od-russia/nadzeya-husakouskaya/sex-change-commission-in-ukraine.
Vietnam. "Transgenders seek black market sex changes amid Vietnam ban". Thanhnien, May 04, 2014. www.thanhniennews.com/society/transgenders-seek-black-market-sex-changes-amid-vietnam-ban-25907.html.

Autogynephila

Jaime F. Veale. "Evidence Against a Typology: A Taxometric Analysis of the Sexuality of Male-to-Female Transsexuals". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43,6,August 2014:1177-86. Abstract. PDF
Anne A. Lawrence. "Veale’s (2014) Critique of Blanchard’s Typology Was Invalid". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43,6,August 2014:1679-83. Abstract.
Joseph Burgo. "Autogynephilia: Aroused by the Image of Yourself as the Opposite Sex". After Psychotherapy, June 30, 2014. www.afterpsychotherapy.com/autogynephilia.
Jack Molay. "The Autogynephilia Theory, Again ...". Crossdreamers, July 5, 2014. www.crossdreamers.com/2014/07/the-autogynephilia-theory-again.html. A reply to Burgo.
KJ Hsu, AM Rosenthal and JM Bailey. "The Psychometric Structure of Items Assessing Autogynephilia.". Archives of Sexual Behavior, October 2014. Abstract.
Miriam Afloat. "Delineations of Trans, or: Non-Comedic Varieties of Impersonation". Miriam Afloat, November 5, 2014. http://miriamafloat.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/delineations-of-trans-or-non-comedic-varieties-of-impersonation. Republished: https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/delineations-of-trans-or-non-comedic-varieties-of-impersonation.
Kay Brown. "What the NEXT Wave of Transgender Activists Need to Know". On the Science of Changing Sex, December 9, 2014. http://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/what-the-next-wave-of-transgender-activists-need-to-know.

And of course Jack Molay's blog in general, and from a very different approach, Kay Brown's defence-of-blanchardism blog.

Journal Articles & Studies

Horacio Roque Ramírez. "Archives of Sexual Crossings: The Meanings of Puerto Rican Topless Transgender Performer Vicki Starr". American Historical Association, January 3, 2014. https://aha.confex.com/aha/2014/webprogram/Paper14140.html.
Joycelyn Elders & Alana M. Steinman (co-chairs). San Francisco State University's Department of Political Science – Palm Center. Report of the Transgender Military Service Commission. Concludes that there is no compelling medical reason for the US military to continue its ban on transgender service members. Newsarticle. Report.
Human Rights Watch. 'I’m Scared to Be a Woman': Human Rights Abuses Against Transgender People in Malaysia, September 2014. Report Summary.

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Sari L. Reisner, Katie Biello, Joshua G. Rosenberger, S. Bryn Austin, Sebastien Haneuse, Amaya Perez-Brumer, David S. Novak & Matthew J. Mimiaga. "Using a Two-Step Method to Measure Transgender Identity in Latin America/the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 8, November 2014: 1503-14. Abstract.
John F. Strang, Lauren Kenworthy, Aleksandra Dominska, Jennifer Sokoloff, Laura E. Kenealy, Madison Berl, Karin Walsh, Edgardo Menvielle, Graciela Slesaransky-Poe, Kyung-Eun Kim, Caroline Luong-Tran, Haley Meagher & Gregory L. Wallace. "Increased Gender Variance in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 8, November 2014: 1525-33. Abstract.
Cecilia Dhejne, Katarina Öberg, Stefan Arver & Mikael Landén. "An Analysis of All Applications for Sex Reassignment Surgery in Sweden, 1960–2010: Prevalence, Incidence, and Regrets". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 8, November 2014: 1525-33. Abstract.
Fernanda T. Bianchi, Carol A. Reisen, Maria Cecilia Zea, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Felisa A. Gonzales, Fabián Betancourt, Marcela Aguilar & Paul J. Poppen. "Sex Work Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Bogotá". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 8, November 2014: 1637-50. Abstract.
Jesse B. Fletcher, Kimberly A. Kisler & Cathy J. Reback. "Housing Status and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Transgender Women in Los Angeles". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 8, November 2014: 1651-61. Abstract.
Anne A. Lawrence. "Gender Assignment Dysphoria in the DSM-5". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 7, October 2014: 1263-66. Abstract.
Sean Roerink, Diane Marsman, Arianne van Bon & Romana Netea-Maier. "A Missed Diagnosis of Acromegaly During a Female-to-Male Gender Transition". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 6, August 2014: 1193-1201. Abstract.
Doug P. VanderLaan & Paul L. Vasey. "Evidence of Cognitive Biases for Maximizing Indirect Fitness in Samoan Fa’afafine". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 5, July 2014: 1009-22. Abstract.
Lisette Kuyper & Ciel Wijsen. "Gender Identities and Gender Dysphoria in the Netherlands". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 2, February 2014: 377-385. Abstract. "Results showed that 4.6% of the natal men and 3.2% of the natal women reported an ambivalent gender identity (equal identification with other sex as with sex assigned at birth) and 1.1% of the natal men and 0.8% of the natal women reported an incongruent gender identity (stronger identification with other sex as with sex assigned at birth). "
Vickie Pasterski, Liam Gilligan & Richard Curtis. "Traits of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adults with Gender Dysphoria". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 2, February 2014: 387-93. Abstract.
Mathieu Lemaire, Barbara Thomazeau & Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault. "Gender Identity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder in a 23-Year-Old Female". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 2, February 2014: 395-8. Abstract.
Tahiana Signorini Andreazza, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Raffael Massuda, Jaqueline Salvador, Esalba Maria Silveira, Felipe Piccon, Renata Carvalho, Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, Walter Koff, Paulo Belmonte-de-Abreu & Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato. "Discordant Transsexualism in Male Monozygotic Twins: Neuroanatomical and Psychological Differences". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 2, February 2014: 399-405. Abstract.
Katrien Wierckx, Julie De Zaeytijd, Els Elaut, Gunter Heylens & Guy T’Sjoen. "Bilateral Non-arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in a Transsexual Woman Using Excessive Estrogen Dosage". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 2, February 2014: 407-9. Abstract.
Robyn A. Jackowich, Thomas W. Johnson, Pierre Brassard, Maud Bélanger & Richard Wassersug. "Age of Sex Reassignment Surgery for Male-to-Female Transsexuals". Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 1, January 2014: 13-5. Abstract.

International Journal of Transgenderism

Chiara Manieri, Elena Castellano, Chiara Crespi, Cataldo Di Bisceglie, Carlotta Dell’Aquila, Anna Gualerzi & Mariateresa Molo. "Medical Treatment of Subjects with Gender Identity Disorder: The Experience in an Italian Public Health Center". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,2, August 2014: 53-65. Abstract.
SJ Langer. "Our Body Project: From Mourning to Creating the Transgender Body". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,2, August 2014: 66-75. Abstract.
Stephanie Beryl Gazzola & Melanie Ann Morrison. "Cultural and Personally Endorsed Stereotypes of Transgender Men and Transgender Women: Notable Correspondence or Disjunction?". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,2, August 2014: 76-99. Abstract.
Louis F. Graham, Halley P Crissman, Jack Tocco, Laura A. Hughes, Rachel C. Snow & Mark B. Padilla. "Interpersonal Relationships and Social Support in Transitioning Narratives of Black Transgender Women in Detroit". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,2, August 2014: 100-113. Abstract.
Yadavendra Singh, Abhina Aher, Simran Shaikh, Sonal Mehta, James Robertson & Venkatesan Chakrapani. "Gender Transition Services for Hijras and Other Male-to-Female Transgender People in India: Availability and Barriers to Access and Use". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,1, April 2014: 1-15. Abstract.
D. Brienne Hagen & M. Paz Galupo. "Trans* Individuals’ Experiences of Gendered Language with Health Care Providers: Recommendations for Practitioners". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,1, April 2014: 16-34. Abstract.
Crystal Boza & Kathryn Nicholson Perry. "Gender-Related Victimization, Perceived Social Support, and Predictors of Depression Among Transgender Australians". International Journal of Transgenderism, 15,1, April 2014: 35-52. Abstract.

Journal of Homosexuality

Heidi M. Levitt & Maria R. Ippolito. "Being Transgender: The Experience of Transgender Identity Development". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 12, September 2014: 1727-58. Abstract.
François Soyer. "The Inquisitorial Trial of a Cross-Dressing Lesbian: Reactions and Responses to Female Homosexuality in 18th-Century Portugal". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 11, July 2014: 1529-57. Abstract.
Jamie Feldman, Rebecca Swinburne Romine & Walter O. Bocktin. "HIV Risk Behaviors in the U.S. Transgender Population: Prevalence and Predictors in a Large Internet Sample". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 11, July 2014: 1558-88. Abstract.
Carla A. Pfeffer. "Making Space for Trans Sexualities". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Apr 2014: 597-604. Abstract.
Talia Mae Bettcher. "When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach About Sexual Orientation". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Apr 2014: 605-620. Abstract. "This erotic experience of self is necessary for other-directed gendered desire, where the two are bound together and mutually informing. One consequence of the theory is that the controversial notion of “autogynephilia” is rejected. Another consequence is that the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation is softened."
Lucas Cassidy Crawford. "Derivative Plumbing: Redesigning Washrooms, Bodies, and Trans Affects in ds+r’s Brasserie". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Apr 2014: 621-35. Abstract.
Sara Davidmann. "Imag(in)ing Trans Partnerships: Collaborative Photography and Intimacy". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Apr 2014: 636-53. Abstract.
Tamar Doorduin & Willy van Berlo. "Trans People’s Experience of Sexuality in the Netherlands: A Pilot Study". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Apr 2014: 654-72. Abstract.
Elijah Adiv Edelman & Lal Zimman. "Boycunts and Bonus Holes: Trans Men’s Bodies, Neoliberalism, and the Sexual Productivity of Genitals". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Dec 2013: 673-90. Abstract.
Sel J. Hwahng & Larry Nuttbrock. "Adolescent Gender-Related Abuse, Androphilia, and HIV Risk Among Transfeminine People of Color in New York City". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Dec 2013: 691-713. Abstract.
Laura E. Kuper, Laurel Wright & Brian Mustanski. "Stud Identity Among Female-Born Youth of Color: Joint Conceptualizations of Gender Variance and Same-Sex Sexuality". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Dec 2013: 714-31. Abstract.
Kristen Schilt & Elroi Windsor. "The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men: Negotiating Sexuality Through Gender". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Jan 2014: 732-48. Abstract.
ELiza Steinbock. "On the Affective Force of “Nasty Love”". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Dec 2013: 749-65. Abstract.
Avery Brooks Tompkins. "“There’s No Chasing Involved”: Cis/Trans Relationships, “Tranny Chasers,” and the Future of a Sex-Positive Trans Politics". Journal of Homosexuality, 61, 5, Dec 2013: 766-80. Abstract.

TransQueer Workshop, Sydney, 13-14 February 2014, organized by Peter Jackson, Australian National University, attracted international leaders in the field from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. Key note addresses by Meaghan Morris and Raewyn Connell.

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Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Marriage, Lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids.
Part 4: Politics & Government, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Cops & Military, Imprisonment, Homeless Shelters, Nemeses.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Deaths
Part 7: Dress Reform, Homeogender Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music & Performance,
Part 8: Internet, Art, Radio, Television, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema
Part 9: Jargon, Magazines & Newspapers, Journal Articles & Studies,
Part 10: Archives, Theses, Books.

Theses

Ronnie M. Ali. A transpositive approach to therapy with transgender clients: An exploration of therapists' subjective experiences. MA Thesis. University of Western Ontario, 2014. Abstract. PDF.
Abby Marie Haak. The Embodiment of Masculinity among Trans* Identified Men. MA Thesis Minnesota State University, 2014. Abstract.
Austin Haney Johnson. Doing cisgender vs. doing transgender: An extension of 'doing gender' using documentary film. MA Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. Abstract.PDF.
Marie Margaret Keller. Salmacis' alchemical pool: Gender diversity and the transformation of culture. Phd Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. Abstract PDF
Sergio I. Lagman. "Je suis une Schtroumpfette!": Reading Transgender and Transsexual Identities in Children's Comics: Peyo's "Smurfs" and "La Schtroumpfette". PhD Thesis, University of Lousiana at Lafayette, 2014. Abstract. P DF.
Jessica Magallanes. Experiences with formal and informal support: A case study of a female-to-male transgender individual. Psy D thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. Abstract PDF
Andrew Smith. A neuropsychological exploration of autistic traits in a transgender population. D Clin Psy thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. PDF.
Emylia N. Terry. An Exclusionary Revolution: Marginalization and Representation of Trans Women in Print Media (1969 – 1979). BA Degree, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2014. Abstract.
Jaime F. Veale. Biological and Psychological Correlates of Gender-Variant and Gender-Typical Identities. PhD Thesis, Massey University, Albany, NZ. Abstract PDF

Books

$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books.

Niko Besnier & Kali Alexeyeff. Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay and Other Pacific Islanders. University of Hawaii Press, 2014.
$£¥ € Thomas Edward Bevan. The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism: A New View Based on Scientific Evidence. Praeger, 2014.
Joanne Borden. The Transgender Monologues: Gender, Sexuality, and LGBT Life. Kindle, 2014.
Sara Collins. The History of Transgender People in America. Lulu, 2014.
Kirstin Cronn-Mills. Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices. Lerner Publishing Group, 2014.
Paisley Currah & Susan Stryker (eds). Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Duke University Press, 2014.
Paisley Currah & Susan Stryker (eds). Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary. Duke University Press, 2014.
Aaron Devor. The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future. University of Victoria Libraries, 2014. PDF.
Laura Erickson-Schroth (ed). Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. Covers topics like the gender spectrum, US trans history, health, cultural and social topics, and gender theory.
Karine Espineira, Maud-Yeuse Thomas & Arnaud Alessandrin. La Transyclopedie : Tout Savoir Sur Les Transidentites. Lulu, 2012.
Olivia Garson. Rencontrer des trans: rencontres du 3° sexe. Kindle, 2014.
$£¥ € Dan Irving & Rupert Raj (eds). Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. Women's Press, 2014. Review
Todd Kachinski Kottmeier & Robyn Walters. CommUnity In Transition: I am greater than a sign, More important than an emblem. Lulu, 2014.
Zander Keig & Mitch Kellaway (eds). Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family, and Themselves. Createspace, 2014.
$£¥ € Helen King. The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence (The History of Medicine in Context). Ashgate Pub Co, 2014. A re-evaluation of Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud.
Nia King, Jerssica Glennon-Zukoff & Terra Mikalson. Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives. CreateSpave, 2014.
Brigitte Marcoux. Récits transgenres, Kindle, 2014.
Jenny Nordberg. The Underground Girls of Kabul. Virago, 2014. Newsarticle. Afghan families turn a girl into a boy for fear of being shunned thanks to their inability to have sons and to create a useful pair of extra hands in a society where girls are kept behind closed doors at all times.
Luise Richter. Transsexualität. Ein gesellschaftliches Phänomen im Wandel. Grin Verlag Gmbh, 2011.
Kristen Schilt. Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality. University of Chicago Press, 2011. Newsarticle
Hélène Soumet. Les Travesties de l'Histoire: Portraits de ces femmes qui ont choisi de vivre en homme pour rester libres. First, 2014.
$£¥ € Jami Kathleen Taylor & Donald P. Haider-Markel. Transgender Rights and Politics: Groups, Issue Framing, and Policy Adoption. University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Isaac West. Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law (Sexual Cultures). NYU Press, 2013.
$£¥ € Chantal J. Zabus & David Coad (eds) . Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility. Routledge, 2014.
Naval Postgraduate School. Transgenders in the U.S. Military: Policies, Problems, and Prospects. Createspace, 2014.

Spiritual

Naomi Zeveloff (ed). Transgender & Jewish. Kindle, 2014.

Legal

$£¥ € Ally Windsor Howell, with a forward by Phyllis Frye. Transgender Persons and the Law. American Bar Association, 2014.
$£¥ € Jens M Scherpe (ed). The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons. Intersentia Uitgevers N V, 2014.

Health

WHO Regional Office. Regional Assessment of HIV, STI and Other Health Needs of Transgender People in Asia and the Pacific. WHO Publications, 2014.

Guidebooks

Joanne Borden. Transgender Complete,: A Virtual Handbook. Kindle, 2014.
Jennifer Corbett. On Becoming a Woman: A Transsexual and Transgender guide for transitioning from male to female. Kindle, 2014.
$£¥ € Christine Michelle Duffy. Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace: A Practical Guide.
Jenny Husk. The Ultimate Transgender Before and After Transgender Surgery Survival Guide for Transgender People with Transgender Issues about Transgender Equality. Kindle, 2014.
Robyn Kelly. One Woman's Story: A Trans-Activist Sourcebook. Kindle, 2014.
Taline Mare. A Trans Popstar's World: When Life Dreams and Being Transgender Collide. Kindle, 2014.
Snow McNally. The Transition Process. Kindle, 2014.
Carollyn Olson. More Tricks of the Trade -- A Beginners Guide To Cross Dressing. Kindle, 2014.
Michelle Spicer. The Transgender Handbook, Lulu, 2014.
Dean Thornton (ed). Letters for my Sisters. Transgress Press, 2014. "If you could write just one letter to someone who is beginning their gender transition or to your younger, pre-transition self, what would you say?" 35 trans women answer.
Isabella van Vence. Frau sein kann Mann lernen: Das Crossdressing Handbuch. Kindle, 2014.

Spouses & Family

Terri & Vince Cook. Allies & Angels: A Memoir of Our Family's Transition. Hallowed Birch Publishing, 2013.
Laurence Hérault. La parenté transgenre. Université de Provence, 2014.

Transphobic

$£¥ € Sheila Jeffreys. Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism. Routledge, 2014. Review.
Joan Rivers. Michelle Obama "America's First Transgender Lady". Kindle, 2014.

(Auto)Biography

Nora Alex. De haut en bas: TG transformation & more! Kindle, 2014.
Diane & Jacob Anderson-Minshall. Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders. Bold Strokes Books, 2014. Advocate editor Diane whose wife became her husband over 16 years.
Arin Andrews. Some Assembly Required. Simon & Shuster, 2014. Joint publication with Katie Hill.
S. Bear Bergman. Blood, Marriage, Wine and Glitter. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013.
Catherine Burns (ed). The Moth: This Is A True Story. Serpent's Tail, 2014. Includes a chapter by Kimberly Reed.
Christine Burns. Pressing Matters: Volume 2. Amazon Digital, 2014.
Julie Clarke. Becoming Julie. Fledgling Press, 2014. Newsarticle. Webpage.
Lovemme Corazón. Trauma Queen. Biyuti publishing, 2013.
Elliott Deline. Show Trans: A nonfiction Novel. Createspace, 2014. About trans male sexuality and how trans people are pushed to become 'spectacles,' examining DeLine's experiences with sex addiction, sex work, and navigating the MSM scene
Suzanne Falkiner. Eugenia: A Man. Xou Pty Ltd, 2014. The life of Harry Crawford, who was convicted in 1919 of his wife's murder, and demonized as a 'man-woman'. There has previously been a film I, Eugenia, and a play, Eugenia, but that is not reason to continue putting his pre-transition name in the very title of the book.
Sophia Maria Flores. Überschreitung der Grenzlinie: Ein Transgender-Leben in Deutschland. Selbstbeschreibung. Kindle, 2014.
Natalie Rachel Gale. Being Tom. Kindle, 2014.
Katie Hill. Rethinking Normal. Simon Shuster, 2014. Joint publication with Arin Andrews.
Dominique Jackson. The Transsexual from Tobago: Where I've Been and Where I'm Going. Createspace, 2014.
Mar Cambrollé Jurado. Mar cambrollé, una mujer de verdad. La Calle, 2014.
Bobbie Lang. Transgender Christians in Chains. Createspace, 2014.
Thomas Page McBee. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man. City Lights, 2014.
Janet Mock. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. Atria Books, 2014.
Parker Marie Molloy. My Transgender Coming Out Story. Thought Catalog, 2014.
Marie-Pierre Pruvot. La Chanson de Bac (Tome 4 de J’inventais ma vie). Ex-Aequo, 2014. Webpage.
Marie-Pierre Pruvot. Le Gai Cimetière (Tome 5 de J’inventais ma vie). Ex-Aequo, 2014. Webpage.
Kelly Rockhart. Life of a Punk Rock Transsexual from England 1: The Innocent Years. 2: Breaking Chains. Kindle 2014.
Judith Rudakoff. TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work. Intellect Ltd, 212.
Christian Seidel. Die Frau in mir: Ein Mann wagt ein Experiment. Heyne Verlag, 2014.
Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote. Gender Failure. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014. Explores the lived realities of nonbinary masculinity and "failing" at gender expectations -- both within and without trans communities.
Tenika Watson with Jennifer Daelyn. My Life is No Accident. Kindle, 2014.
Danièlle Weiss. Die vergessene Königin: Leben in Transidentität. Pomaska-Brand, 2013.
Cary Wilson as told to Sunny Cook. I Am Cary: A Transgender's Life Story. Kindle, 2014.

GLB history with Trans Content

Robert Beachy. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf, 2014. Newsarticle.
Ralf Dose. Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. Monthly Review Press, 2014 (English translation by Edward H Willis)
$£¥ € Genny Beemyn. A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C. Routledge, 2014.
Sam Carroll & Maeve Devine (eds). Brighton Transformed. Gemini Brighton, 2014.

Graphic

Sam Orchard. Family Portraits: Stories about who we are and how we love. 2014. Queer and trans in New Zealand. Newsarticle.

Fiction

CharlieB. "Transgenderism: the last taboo of teen fiction?: LGB characters are turning up in teen books more and more these days, but what about the T? For our Amnesty Teen Takeover, site member CharlieB shares two books that explore transgender identities". The Guardian, 21 August 2014. www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/aug/21/transgender-last-taboo-young-adult-teen-fiction-amnesty-takeover-2014.

Alyssa Brugman. Alex as Well. Henry Holt & Co, 2015. Newsarticle.
Lizzie Crowdagger. Une autobiographie transsexuelle (avec des vampires). Dans nos histoires, 2014.
Tenzin N. Gentso. Two Sides of a Coin: A Story of a Transgender's Emotional Struggle. Outskirts Press, 2014.
Rachel Gold. Being Emily. Bella Books, 2012.
Armistead Maupin. The Days of Anna Madrigal. Harper, 2014. Digest.
Alex Myers. Revolutionary. Simon & Shuster, 2014. About his distant ancestor Deborah Samson/Robert Shurtliff. Review.
J W Stextellton. Jane's Intersex Struggle, Kindle, 2014.
Irina Theisen. Transberlin. Homo Littera, 2014.

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In the 1980s when Thatcher was UK Prime Minister, and perhaps in reaction to her predecessor as Conservative leader whose homosexuality was an open secret, she caused to be enacted Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1986 to inhibit positive statements about homosexuality, and without saying so transsexuality. This was not the only similarity of Thatcher to Putin, and it not the only homophobic action of the Thatcher government. At the same as this opposition to adults joining in consensual loving, there was, we now know, an acceptance or at least a looking the other way with regard to predatory paedophilia.   1) Jimmy Savile, now posthumously openly revealed as such a paedophile, was a close friend of Thatcher, and she tried and tried again against official advice, based on reports of his sexual activities, until she obtained a knighthood for him, and he was a frequent guest at Chequers, the official residence of the Prime Minister, especially at New Year’s Eve. 2) Peter Morrison, scion of a dynasty connected to the Conservative party for many generations, inherited the Isle of Islay in the Hebrides where the Thatchers were invited guests year after year.   Peter became MP for Chester, and after Thatcher became PM he was given various government jobs, became deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, was given a knighthood and became Thatcher’s Parliamentary private Secretary. By then his interests in young boys were known and now (he died in 1995) he is regarded as a central figure in the North Wales child abuse scandal. C) Now the story is coming out that a VIP sex party ring, which included a yet unnamed Conservative minister, actually killed at least 3 boys in the 1980s.    We knew at the time that the Thatcherites were a bunch of hypocrites but it is still surprising how far it went.

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In my article about Catherine McGregor I mentioned the support that she got from Prime Minister Tony Abbott. This does not mean that Abbot is supportive of transsexuals.   In fact he is known for his fierce opposition to equal marriage despite his sister being lesbian. And in his Australia, Tori Johnson, the heroic cafe manage in Sydney who lost his life in December’s siege, was a second-class citizen in that he was unable to marry his partner of 14 years.   Abbott is supportive of Catherine because she is a mate going back many years.   There is something similar in the position of Ayla Holdom in Britain’s RAF. While trans persons are permitted in all the UK’s services, Ayla Holdom does seem to get special attention because she is a mate of William Windsor, an hereditary prince.

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Articles continue to pop up in the press and on-line re persons who transition and then regret and even detransition (change back). While many of such articles attempt to spin the facts to suggest that transition is not a good idea, it is interesting that so many mention Alan Finch who reverted 17 years ago, and who has long since dropped out of the public eye. Example, another. The reason that Finch is mentioned again and again is that the percentage of transsexuals who revert is actually rather low, and it is difficult for the anti-transsexual polemicists to find recent examples.   As is true of so many aspects of the history of transgender, the most comprehensive list of persons who reverted is found on this site which lists 32 such, persons who reverted for quite a variety of reasons.   Given that over 1000 persons are discussed in some detail, this suggests that less than 3% do in fact revert.
Charles Kane reverted in 2004 giving a sort-of reason:

"In fact, I found being a woman rather shallow and limiting. So much depends on your appearance, at the expense of everything else. I wasn't interested in shopping. My female friends would spend hours shopping for clothes, trying on different outfits. But having been a man I knew exactly what would suit me and appeal to men. I could walk into a shop and be out again in five minutes with the right dress. Nor have I ever been interested in celebrity magazines or the things that interest other women, but when I tried to talk to men about blokey things they didn't take me seriously.”

Which leaves some of us appalled about his conception of womanhood. There are loads and loads of women who are not at all described by that, and in fact it would be an insult to describe them in such terms. I included a person in my Year End Part 2 this year who wants the NHS to pay for a reversal because she finds heels and make-up exhausting.   She, like Kane, should explore some the intriguing and delightful ways of being a woman that do not include high heels or make-up or stereotyped behaviour.
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It is with chagrin that I note that The Danish Girl film has been resurrected. They have switched from a cis-female to a cis-male actor for the part of ‘Lili Elbe’ - the very idea of using a trans actor seems to be totally alien to the production. Likewise the idea of using a trans writer.   The following is the first line of the story description from IMDB: “Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife”.   Gerda Wegener was Danish.   The story cannot be true if she is anything else.   The film is fact-free and transsexual-free.   It will be a film to avoid.

What is that you say: Gerda was from California in the novel by David Ebershoff.   Yes I know that. He also has her have a first husband and child before meeting Wegener.   In the true story, she was a pastor’s daughter and married Wegener at age 18.   Hardly time to get in a first marriage.   There is a tradition of filming trans stories by filming a novel ‘inspired’ by the story instead of using the original story – examples: Psycho, M Butterfly.    This is not a good tradition. If they had in fact filmed the ‘true story’ they could have saved paying a fee to Ebershoff.

Charlotte Goiar, whose instincts about what is good for transsexuals are always somewhat askew, was excited when Nicole Kidman was announced for the part, and is still proclaiming“Nicole Kidman will reportedly play the world's first reported case of a woman born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome … based on the true story”. !!!

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I put together the list of books in Part 10 partly by going to Amazon and entering ‘transgender’ as a subject.   This was dispiriting in that for every book of interest there were at least 10 that treat trans topics as if they are a fetish: forced femininity etc.   While such books are an established tradition going back to the 1950s and earlier, one would have hoped that with the present-day opportunities for real life transgender such books would be no longer required.   I suppose that the existence of the books is an indication that many, maybe most, trans people remain crossdreamers, and maybe other terms are required.

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Let us return to the quote from Sheila Jeffreys on ABC Radio’s Sunday Night Safran which I mentioned in Part 5:

“Transgenderism for men is about the right to imitate and pretend to be members of the subordinate class even though they are members of – biologically and were brought up in – the superior class. That was problematic for the black and white minstrels. It’s problematic generally when a group of people claim to be another group of subordinate people.”

Whilst this is an Australian academic speaking on Australian radio, this does not seem to address the Australian experience at all. Without saying so, it seems to be addressing the tradition of blackface in the US. However in the middle is a reference to the “black and white minstrels”. The Black and White Minstrels was sing-a-long show on BBC television from 1958-78. An academic should know better than to mix up cultures like that. There is the same mishmash on p37 of her new book. (It is just as well that she is ignorant of the part that US minstrels shows played in the evolution of glamour drag – as I have commented about Janice Raymond’s comments on Jan Morris, the quality of research in transphobic books is usually rather low.)

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Hugo Otto Arno Ebel was raised in Berlin, the eldest of eleven children. Ebel left home because of what was taken to be homosexuality, and worked, as a woman, in a women's dress shop while studying painting in Munich. She then travelled abroad with an older man.

However in 1911 Ebel was back in Berlin and had reverted to being male. He married and they had a son – however he was not comfortable in this role and attempted suicide several times. He was able to cross-dress only in private. He was drafted into the Army in 1916. After the war he became involved with the workers' movement, painted and made a living as a commercial artist. His wife became sick.

In 1928 his wife died. Ebel became Toni again and obtained a transvestity permit. A friend introduced Toni to Magnus Hirschfeld. From 1929-33 Toni lived in the basement and supplemented the domestic staff at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft as she was too poor to pay for treatment, but did also donate paintings. She made a formal application for a legal name change. The surgeries by Drs Erwin Gohrbandt, Felix Abraham and Ludwig L. Lenz took only two years (compared to the seven years for Dörchen Richter) and were complete in 1931.

In 1934, after the Nazi takeover, Toni fled to Czechoslovakia, claiming to be a Jewess. She settled in Prague using the name Antonia Ebelová. In 1937 she moved to Brno.

Portrait by Josef Brück, 1952.

After the Second World War, Toni was able to claim compensation from the German Democratic Republic as a victim of Nazism. She was a minor painter and was recognized at the Akademie der Künste in East Berlin.

She died at age 80.

Felix Abraham. "Genitalumwandlungen an zwei männlichen Transvestiten". Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualpolitik, 18, 1931: 223-226. Translated as "Genital Reassignment on Two Male Transvestites". The International Journal of Transgenderism, 2,1, Jan-March 1998. www.iiav.nl/ezines/web/ijt/97-03/numbers/symposion/ijtc0302.htm.
Sander L. Gilman. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999: 276.
Rainer Herrn. Schnittmuster des Geschlechts. Transvestitismus und Transsexualität in der frühen Sexualwissenschaft. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2005: 203-4.
Ralf Dose. "Ralf Dose, Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany: Thirty Years of Collecting Our History - Or: How to Find Treasure Troves". LGBTI ALMS 2012: The Future of LGBTI Histories, 2012.06/18. http://lgbtialms2012.blogspot.ca/2012/06/thirty-years-of-collecting-our-history.html.
Julie Nero. Hannah Höch, Til Brugman, Lesbianism, and Weimar Sexual Subculture. PhD Thesis, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University, 2013: 269. PDF.
Ralf Dose. Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. 2014: 55.
Přehled Historických Událostí Vztahujících Se K Tématu. (Overview historical events related to the topic) [Czechoslovakian Artists]:101. PDF.

Kunst in der DDR    Deutsche Digitale Bibiothek    Deutsche FotoThek
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Karl Giese, Hirschfeld’s lover, also fled to Brno, where he committed suicide after the German occupation.   It is not known whether Toni and Karl were in contact.

The document on Czechoslovak artists is not sure whether Toni was Jewish or Protestant.   There are claims both ways. If was very difficult to claim refugee status as a transsexual in 1934, so it may have been easier to pretend to be Jewish.   Or maybe she was Jewish.

We do not know how she survived from the German occupation of Czechoslovakia until the creation of the German Democratic Republic in 1949.

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Jo Shanley (1936 - ) machinist

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Joseph Shanley of Billerica, Massachusetts, had felt since childhood that he was the wrong sex. In 1969, at age 33, Shanley went to Casablanca and had surgery with Dr Burou.

However on return Shanley continued dressing as a man to keep his job as a machinist. Shanley dressed and lived as Jo outside work.

Shanley retired in 2001, and with her sister, Ann Cavanaugh, bought a house in Claremont, New Hampshire. After a few weeks, it was apparent that the arrangement was not working, and the house was put back on the market. On October 4^th three real estate agents and two prospective buyers heard gunshots, found Shanley apparently intoxicated, and Cavanaugh dead on a bedroom floor.

Joseph Shanley was arrested, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and was sentenced to 22 years to life. Shanley also filed a motion to be declared a woman. The state attorneys objected to the motion on procedural and jurisdictional grounds in that the court had no power to make such a ruling.

However, after Shanley's physical state was confirmed, the prosecutors were agreeable that she be placed in a Connecticut prison with a special transgender unit. A year later she was transferred to the Correctional Center for Women, in Purdy, Washington.

Stephen Seitz. "Murderer's pre-sentence plea: I am a woman"The Union Leader, October 8, 2002. Online at: http://avitale.com/VL.238-10.14.2002.htm.
"Murderer Who Had Sex Change Sentenced to Transgendered Unit". Corrections.com, 12/16/2002. www.corrections.com/articles/7993-murderer-who-had-sex-change-sentenced-to-transgendered-unit.
"Prison near Purdy houses transsexual murderer". Seattle PI, December 7, 2003. www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Prison-near-Purdy-houses-transsexual-murderer-1131533.php.

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There are unanswered questions. Was the sister unaware of Jo’s womanhood? If not, what was Jo thinking in agreeing to share a house? Shanley was presenting as male at the time of arrest, even though she had retired and moved to another town.

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4 Trans mayors in India

January 6, 2015, 1:48 pm

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Kamla Jaan (1954 – ), although illiterate, was elected mayor of Katni, Madhya Pradesh, in 1999. She won 28 of 45 wards, finishing 1,897 votes ahead. She sank wells, fixed the drains and renovated the bus station, and dismissed the advisory council. In 2003, the High Court upheld that Kamla Jaan was not a "woman" and hence she was asked to step down from the post of mayor, reserved for female candidate. NYTimes

Asha Devi (1952 – 2013) in 2000 ran for the post of mayor in Gorakhpur, eastern Uttar Pradesh, a post reserved for a woman. The pradesh Election Commission ruled that her sex was to be decided by how she was enrolled in the voters’ list. She won over one lakh (1,09,849) votes. Every other candidate including the one from Bharatiya Janata Party lost her deposit. During her tenure she concentrated on the construction of roads and drainage. In May 2003 her election was declared invalid on the grounds that the post was reserved for a female, and that Asha is not female. This was in response to a petition by from the Samajwadi Party candidate, who had had come second but received over 60,000 fewer votes.

Kamla Kinnar (1954 – ) was elected mayor of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh in 2009. She ran independent candidate with a margin of over 43,000 votes defeating her nearest BJP rival Suman Ahirwar. Two years after the election, the Sagar district court declared Kamala Kinnar's election as "null and void" because the mayor's seat was reserved for a 'woman' belonging to scheduled caste category.

Madhu Kinnar (1979 – ) who previously worked as a singer/dancer on trains, was elected mayor of Raigarh, Chhattisgarh by 4357 votes on 4 January, beating the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate.

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Let us hope that unlike Kamla, Asha and Kamla, Madhu is allowed to complete her term of office.

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IOS Rainbow List 2014

November 8, 2014, 9:30 pm

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The 2014 Independent on Sunday Rainbow List (previously Pink List) of 101 LGBT persons who made a difference is just published.

One of the good things about this list is that most people on have not yet been featured in either GVWW or Wikipedia. I, of course, certainly disagree with who is on the list, who is not and the rankings - but lets put that aside.

2013 list.

Trans persons included:

2 Paris Lees, journalist

13 Kate Stone, scientist. GVWW

18 Rebecca Root, actress

24 James Morton of the Scottish Transgender Alliance

36 Natacha Kennedy, Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, co-chair of Camden LGBT Forum, sits on LGBT Labour’s national committee and is a founder member of London Trans Diversity and the Trans Teachers’ Association.

47 Isabella Segal, accountant.

58 Jane Fae, journalist GVWW

65 Jay Stewart, Co-founder of Gendered Intelligence

68 Jess Key, head of UK Trans Info

74 Juliet Jacques, columnist and blogger,  blog longlisted for the 2011 Orwell prize. WIKIPEDIA

86 Asif Quaraishi, the UK’s first Muslim drag queen.

87 Juno Roche, primary schoolteacher

89 Cat Burton, British Airways pilot

92 CN Lester, musician, writer, activist.

93 Ayla Holdom, RAF pilot

94 Antonia Belcher, building consultant

96 Sarah Brown, previously Cambridge Councillor. WIKIPEDIA

98 Stephanie Hirst, radio presenter

Supplementary lists.
National Treasures

April Ashley GVWW WIKIPEDIA

Stephen Whittle   WIKIPEDIA

Paul O'Grady/Lily Savage GVWW   WIKIPEDIA

George O'Dowd GVWW WIKIPEDIA

Alice Purnell    GVWW

Roz Kaveney          GVWW

Ones to Watch

Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter, UKIP candidate    WIKIPEDIA

Michelle Ross, CliniQ for trans sexual health.

Naith Payton, first-person piece in The Sun

Sophie Green, artist & illustrator

Nicole Gibson, model

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