The U.S.Social Security Administration has issued a new (and better) policy for transsexuals.

JoAnn Roberts: Rest in Peace

There must be suffering for art to exist.

All marriage is a legally binding written contract between two people who swear an oath to that contract in front of a qualified magistrate. All marriage begins in the courthouse, and all marriage that ends via divorce ends only within the courthouse. Marriage is therefore a judicial...

He understood it to be an odd,
even ridiculous occupation:
out of love, titled every painting
lower-case because she wasn’t God,
though her proportions were
oil and canvas
perfection.

I buried the memory deep inside me and didn’t think about what happened until thirty-six years later, when I sat in a dimly lit room looking across a cluttered old desk at the flaccid face of my therapist and told him what had happened.

When I learned Routledge Press was planning to publish a book about transgenderism by Australian academician Sheila Jeffreys, I was astonished.

A Never-Before-Told Tale of Intrigue, Enforced Secrecy, and Missing Transgender Archival Material.

How important transgender history is, and how easily it can be misplaced!

Harry Benjamin was an endocrinologist and gerontologist who emigrated to the United States during the First World War. He is best known for his clinical work with transsexuals and as the author of 1966 text The Transsexual Phenomenon, which defined the clinical syndrome and argued for compassionate medical hormonal and surgical treatment in select cases.

As soon as I heard about Second Life I was excited and curious, since I saw its potential for creative projects of all kinds, for doing teaching and therapy in new ways, for meeting people from all over the world, for finding just about any interest group I could think of, and for just having fun.

We’re happy to bring you Genderfork as our first featured website.
The Genderfork website was created in 2007 by Sarah Dopp, “a genderqueer woman in San Francisco who likes to build websites.” She soon began including volunteers to help with the postings. Today Genderfork has outposts on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
Genderfork is a place where anyone can tell their story in brief or point readers to something they think is interesting. It’s amazing to scoll down through the entries and see the many ways readers define themselves.
Take a look for yourself.

Just as it is impossible to imagine the study of Black history without the contributions of Black scholars, or the study of homosexuality devoid of the writings of gay men and lesbians, it has become impossible for there to be meaningful study of transsexualism or crossdressing without input from those who have been directly affected.