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04/24/2008 Lonely road: Why school is hell for transgender pupils
When 'Lauren' decided she wanted to
be recognised as a girl, life at school became a nightmare. Should teachers be
doing more for transgender pupils?
03/01/2007
Right to Sex Change Upheld
By: ARTHUR S. LEONARD
A judge has
ruled that the city's Administration for Children's Services (ACS) made
"misdirected and unsubstantiated claims" that gender-reassignment
surgery "is controversial, risky, and experimental" when it refused to
provide such procedures for a male-to-female transsexual in its custody.
An
article from Lesbian and Gay New York on Gender Identity in Youth
An
Attack On Our Most Vulnerable : the Use and abuse of Gender Identity
Disorder
Now, there is a growing chorus
among some gay, Transgender, and youth groups to either reform the GID
diagnosis or eliminate it altogether from the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM, the official list
of disorders published by the 38,000-member American Psychiatric
Association.
The Feasibility of
Endocrine Interventions in Juvenile Transsexuals
A large number of adult
transsexuals recall that their gender dysphoria started early in life,
well before puberty. They remember puberty with abhorrence, since the
hormones of puberty precisely induced the body characteristics they
perceived as improper in relation to their gender identity. The latter
often reinforced their determination to rid themselves from the primary
and secondary sex characteristics.
Six Kathoeys in Pattaya, 2000
Young
Ts's in the East
The British men's magazine FHM
did a topless beach photoshoot of six Thai kathoey dancers from one of
Pattaya's cabaret clubs for their September 2000 issue. Most of the
text was sexist innuendo and smut, but some of the information in the
short personal interviews is worth recording.
Why I have to be a
man for Christmas
Although Rachel was born male,
she's lived as a woman for three years. But when she goes home for the
holidays, Rachel will become 'Daniel' once more. Here she explains
why...
If You Bend Gender Far Enough, Does It Break?
When Daphne Scholinski was
fourteen years old, her distraught parents had her committed to a
psychiatric institute in Chicago. She had become unmanageable, they
said......
Voices - Identity
Crisis; Duncan Osborne
OUT magazine (Los Angeles,
USA), April edition, 2003
While psychiatrists and psychologists debate gender identity disorder,
Duncan Osborne finds support for this diagnosis from a surprising group
- young transsexuals.
About a Boy Who Isn't
By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
A story about a young FTM from
the NY Times
A Review of .Is
Transsexualism Really Independent of Sexual
Orientation?.
a Public Lecture From the CAMH Gender Identity Clinic
An Article on this lecture from one of our own list members.
Feminine Boy
forced out of Private Georgia School
by Dan Sewell
30 October 1998 The Story of Alex McLendon and the Georgia School
System
Ali the
6ft schoolgirl
who hides an extraordinary secret
By Sarah Chalmers
The Story of UK 17-year-old Ali Gregory
Schoolboy
pursues sex change
by Amanda Watt
A BRISBANE boy is determined to become the first Australian school
student to go through a sex change. The Year 11 teenager has finally
admitted to himself and his family that he wants to become a woman.
McKinley
lets male-born student graduate in dress
State attorneys help convince
the principal in a case of gender ID
By Treena Shapiro
Teen
transsexuals
When do children have a right
to decide their gender?
by Maria Russo
Associate editor of Salon Books
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'It's me in a different way'
By Jeff Kass, Rocky Mountain News On the first day of eighth grade, Melaina Marquez wore a polo shirt, wedge shoes and denim skirt with ruffles.
The year before, that outfit would have been out of the question. At that point, Melaina was a boy known as Manuel.
Sex Reassignment of Adolescent Transsexuals: A
Follow-up Study
Objective: To investigate
postoperative functioning of the first 22 consecutive adolescent
transsexual patients of our gender clinic who underwent sex
reassignment surgery.
Sammy: Gender Identity Concerns in a 6-Year-Old
Boy
Sammy, a 6-year-old new
patient, came to his pediatrician for a health supervision visit....
Sammy's mother said that she was concerned about his tendency "to do
things like a girl."...
Seeking a
Gendered Adolescence: Legal and Ethical Problems of Puberty Suppression
among Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
Changes in attitudes have
encouraged increasing numbers of young people to identify as
gender-dysphoric.1 In order to reduce the distress caused by the onset
of puberty, young people with gender-dysphoria are increasingly seeking
pubertal-suppression therapy. Health care professionals must then
confront a variety of clinical, ethical and legal issues.
Marie Claire real lives: Young Ts's in the UK
Imagine living your life
feeling trapped in a man's body, unable to dress, behave or be treated
as the person you feel you are. Chris Morris hears the inspirational
stories of three male-to-female transsexuals.
A Mother takes on
the Ayatollah
The battle for Iran's Muslim
soul could go on for years, and may depend on the cumulative importance
of modest figures like Mahin Yusefi, 51, a slender, soft-spoken woman
who went from being a retiring, fairly conservative professional in
Iran to a Transgender rights activist in the United States.
An
article on a young FTM from Amber Magazine in the UK
22-year-old Nick, formerly
Lianne, is halfway through a sex-change procedure and, because of more
flexible laws in the rest of Europe, will soon be able to live life as
a man
Straddling Sexes
Young lesbians transitioning
into men are shaking the foundation of the lesbian-feminist world
Her Own Woman
By Aree Chaisatien and
Thaweechai Jaowattana
Does your body belong to you?
For transsexual and renowned makeup artist Pansit Sukarom, aka Pok, it
definitely did not. She experienced excruciating pain before the happy
realization that her body belonged to her - and not to society.
"Roberta Close"
At one time (and perhaps still)
the most
famous trans woman of the Latin world, the facts of the life of Roberta
Close have been embroidered extensively by scandal-sheets, and perhaps
publicists. Many of the stories were clearly total inventions, but
still eagerly consumed.
Gay
high school eyes level field
By MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Harvey Milk wants to establish sports teams in PSAL by next year
Male
to female/Female to male
A year ago, few students on
local campuses would say they were much aware of the fact that there
were transsexuals among them.
However, during the last academic year the issue suddenly came to the
fore at several colleges.
More than
Meets the Eye (Lady Boys in Thailand)
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