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AEGIS Internet News, October 1996

Posted on May 29, 2013 in AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout, Gender

In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.

In those days there wasn’t much news to repost. Consequently, the News was initially distributed every other month; it took that long to compile enough material to create a newsletter. Within two years, however, there was almost too much news to handle.

I posted material as I came across it, both from primary sources and from other newsfeeds. Rex Wocker’s LGBT newslist was a valuable resource. Soon, subscribers were sending me material.

In November I moved the News to a majordomo automated list which kept track of subscribers; before that I handled subscriptions, unsubscriptions, and address changes manually and sent out the news via blind carbon copy. The name was changed to AEGIS Internet News and the introductory material about AEGIS was removed because it was available to readers on demand from the server. The list, initially hosted by my ISP (Mindspring) was eventually moved to a server hosted by Kymberleigh Richards, the publisher of the magazine Cross-Talk. This enabled me to send e-mails to the server as I came across news items, yet distribute them as a digest once per day– sometimes twice or three times daily if there was a lot of news. This was easier on both me and the readers, who had been receiving up to eight e-mails a day.

I stopped publishing AEGIS Internet News in mid-1998.

On January 1, 2000 AEGIS was repurposed as Gender Education & Advocacy. Under the supervision of the late Penni Ashe Matz, news went out as Gender Advocacy Internet News.

Many posts have been lost, but we preserved several hundred. Here are issues of AEGIS Internet News from October, 1996:

1996, 2 October

Subj: AEGIS-NEWS Digest Date: 96-10-02 04:10:43 EDT From: aegisnws@xconn.com (List Server) Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com To: thexgrrrl@aol.com

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:35:52

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sat 28 Sep 1996 07:22:09 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E93ov; Sat 28 Sep 1996 07:22:09 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Message-Id: <9609280722.E93ov@xconn.com> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:22:09

Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:22:09 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: <receipent!address!incerted!here>

Original Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 09:51:59 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

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AIDS WORKER DENIES MISUSING LIST

TAMPA, Fla. — A state health worker on Friday denied that he’s responsible for leaking a confidential list of nearly 4,000 AIDS patients that was sent to two Florida newspapers.

“Somebody knows what I do and used my name, I would suggest, as a personal vendetta,” said William B. Calvert III, who is on paid leave pending an investigation. Calvert claims he took the disk out for field work, and that it was stolen.

A computer disk containing the list was sent anonymously to two newspapers, with a letter claiming that Calvert showed it to friends on his laptop computer outside a gay bar. The letter said the sender copied the disk after Calvert became intoxicated and dropped the disk.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sat 28 Sep 1996 07:22:10 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E64Yz; Sat 28 Sep 1996 07:22:10 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Intl. Congress Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:22:10 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609280722.E64Yz@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:06:06 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Please repost this to any and all bulletin boards. Feel free to pass this to friends and colleagues.

** CALL FOR PAPERS **

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SEX & GENDER ISSUES June 19 – 22, 1997, The Park Ridge at Valley Forge, Pa (suburban Phila.)

**** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JAN 15, 1997 ****

INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS Major Themes of Interest: * Brain Sex and Gender Identity: Nature vs. Nurture * Gender Identity in The Third Millennium: Social and Legal Issues * Counseling Issues & Methods * Transgender Identity and the Arts

Format Three Plenary Sessions: Fri., Sat., Sun. mornings (Jun. 20-22) Four sets of 45-minute concurrent sessions Workshops; one and two hour formats (optional)

Each conference day will be structured to provide ample time to attend sessions and conduct general discussions. Meetings and workshops will take place between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM. Social and business functions will be in the evenings.

Papers Papers offering research data and theoretical positions are welcome.

Experimental work is particularly desired. Clinical material is welcome particularly to illustrate how counseling helps resolve transgender issues. Non-clinical presentations on the social and legal issues of gender and gender identity are especially welcomed.

Workshops There will be opportunity to present significant material in workshops. Submit topic, length of time required, goals of the workshop, and facilities required for presentation. Workshops are open to all conference registrants.

HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS/WORKSHOPS 1. Two copies of abstracts of papers and workshops must be submitted to both of the Program Committee Co-Chairs: Vern Bullough, Ph.D., R.N., 17434 Mayall St., Northridge, CA 91325, and Sheila Kirk, M.D., PO Box 38114, Blawnox, PA 15238-9998. Submission deadline: January 15, 1997

2. Abstracts and Workshop Descriptions should contain sufficient information to adequately judge the proposal. Those proposing a workshop are not required to submit an Abstract but rather include information about the format of the workshop, e.g., experiential, demonstration, discussion, et al., and what the workshop will accomplish.

3. Proposals should be typed on 81/2″ by 11″ paper, one side only, double-spaced. Send four (4) copies. Proposals may also be submitted by email to <SheilaKirk@aol.com>.

4. All proposals must include: Title Author’s name, position and/or title, address of affiliation or institution, phone#. Specific area of contribution (educator, therapist, counselor, researcher) Objectives of presentation Methodology of presentation Outline of presentation content Time needed to make presentation A list of equipment and aids required: slide projector, overhead projector, chalkboard, newsprint pad, etc. This information should be included even though it may be tentative.

All questions on programs and presentations must be directed to Drs. Kirk and Bullough.

The Park Ridge Hotel is located in King of Prussia, Pa., about 30 minutes from Philadelphia International Airport. The hotel is served by several limousine services for which the cost is about $18. The hotel is located close to Valley Forge National Park and the now-famous King of Prussia Shopping Mall. Rooms rates are $90/single, $100/double (1997 rates) + 8% occup. tax. Free Parking. Participants should make their own room reservations by calling The Park Ridge at 800-337-1801 [610-337-1800] or by FAX at 610-337-4624 and mention the Renaissance Education Association.

General correspondence *only* may be directed to: JoAnn Roberts, Ph.D., PO Box 61263, King of Prussia, Pa 19406. Phone: 610-640-9449, Fax: 610-648-0257; Email: <cngrs2@cdspub.com>. This conference is co-sponsored by the Human Sexuality Program in the Graduate Department of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and The Renaissance Education Assoc., Inc. — END —

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sat 28 Sep 1996 07:22:10 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E68BW; Sat 28 Sep 1996 07:22:10 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Intl. Congress Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:22:10 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609280722.E68BW@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 10:07:21 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Please repost this to all bulletin boards and feel free to pass this around to friends and colleagues.

PRESS RELEASE King of Prussia, Pa., USA September 1996 For Immediate Release

**** SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SEX & GENDER ISSUES **** June 19 – 22, 1997 The Park Ridge at Valley Forge, (King of Prussia, Pa.)

The Second International Congress On Sex & Gender Issues is cosponsored by the Human Sexuality Program in the Graduate Department of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and The Renaissance Education Assoc., Inc. The Second Congress will be held at the Park Ridge Hotel in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Activities begin Thursday evening, June 19, with a Welcome Cocktail Reception at the hotel.

Special Plenary Session speakers are *Kate Bornstein*, playwright and author, and *Dr. Louis Gooren*, Professor of Medicine at the Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ms. Bornstein is best known for her play “Hidden: A Gender” and her book “Gender Outlaw.” She will also speak at the banquet on Saturday night. Dr. Gooren is one of the preeminent sex and gender researchers in the world. His research team made the recent finding of significant similarities between the brain structures of MtF transsexuals and genetic females. A partial list of participants giving one of the 48 presentations or workshops includes: Dr. Randi Ettner; Dr. Carl Bushong; Phyllis Frye, Esq.; Jacob Hale; Holly Boswell; Dr. Roger Millen; Maxwell Anderson; Dr. Lee Etscovitz; Michael Saffle; Dr. Michael Gilbert; Alison Laing; Dallas Denny; Niela Miller; Dr. Mary Ann Schroeder; Dr. Bill Stayton; and Dr. Carol Cobb-Nettleton.

** New to this congress will be a vendor area with an emphasis on publishers and professional organizations. If your organization/company would like to exhibit at the conference, please contact Ms. Dallas Denny at <aegis@mindspring.com> or call (770) 939-2128. **

Registration Fee: $80 per person. **** Register before January 1, 1997 for only $60 per person and your name will be entered in a drawing to win a complimentary room for the conference. **** Note: Rooms and meals are not included in the Registration Fee.

Make check or money order payable to the Renaissance Education, Assoc., Inc., Congress Registration, 987 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 719, Wayne, PA 19087. The Saturday evening banquet with Guest Speaker Kate Bornstein, author of “Gender Outlaw,” is extra cost ($37). Please indicate if you will attend the banquet.

Questions, ideas, and general correspondence may be directed to JoAnn Roberts, Ph.D., PO Box 61263, King of Prussia, PA 19406. Phone: 610-640-9449; Fax: 610-648-0257. Email — congrs2@cdspub.com

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. A 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation P.O. Box 33724, Decatur, GA 30033-0724 (770) 939-2128 Business (770) 939-0244 Information & Referrals (770) 939-1770 FAX aegis@mindspring.com E-Mail

Visit the AEGIS FTP Site: ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/aegis/ User ID: anonymous Password: (your email address)

We have several electronic mailing lists: AEGIS NEWS: Trans-related news, press releases, and items of interest GENDER HELP: Discussion of issues related to transition and personal growth

(Send e-mail to listserv@xconn.com; on separate lines in the message, include the following: subscribe aegisnws subscribe gendhelp

If you’re on AOL, try the keyword AEGIS

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 29 Sep 1996 17:48:34 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E77HH; Sun 29 Sep 1996 17:48:34 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: High School Crossdresser Suspended in Vermont Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:48:34 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609291748.E77HH@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:58:50 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted with permission from Southern Voice, 26 September, 1996.

High School Student Suspended in Vermont

A gay Burlington High School student suspended several times for wearing a dress, makup and a wig to class says he has no plans to change his wardrobe. “This is who I am,” said 15-year-old Matt Stickney, who showed up

for school Sept. 13 in a black top with a flowered shirt. Administrators say the outfits are disruptive in class and therefore violate the district’s

dress code. About 100 students cut class to protest the suspensions, with some boys wearing pink lipstick and some girls wearing button-down shirts and ties.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 29 Sep 1996 17:48:34 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E40Bf; Sun 29 Sep 1996 17:48:34 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Rupaul and Rodman? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:48:34 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609291748.E40Bf@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:58:52 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted with permission from Southern Voice, 27 September, 1996

RuPaul and Rodman?

Look out, Jay. Move over, Dave. There’s a new girl in town. Cable’s VH1 is throwing their push-up bra into the late-night talk show ring, with the help of none other than supermodel/crossdresser/actress RuPaul. The early awaited “The RuPaul Show” will do some dishing of its own on celebrity lives, which premieres October 12. The show will be taped before a life audience at VH1’s New York studios. Guests scheduled so far include Chicago

Bulls star and ex-Madonna man Dennis Rodman, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, Eartha Kitt, and Dionne Warwick. Finally, an alternative to stupid pet tricks.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 30 Sep 1996 15:20:43 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E45jk; Mon 30 Sep 1996 15:20:43 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Transvestite Gets Wed License Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:20:43 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609301520.E45jk@xconn.com>

Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:00:18 -0400

(Area Coordinator’s note: Judging from the title of this piece (Transvestite

Gets Wed License) I think it is hurridly time that the Associated Press begins to learn just what a Travsvestite (rather than a transsexual) is…)

.c The Associated Press

PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — It’s not a same-sex wedding, yet. But a judge issued a marriage license today to a man who plans a sex change after he marries a lesbian.

Since Ohio law specifies marriage as a partnership between a man and a woman,

Lake County Probate Judge Fred V. Skok asked for a doctor’s note specifying that Paul Smith of Willoughby still has male sex organs.

Smith agreed to the request and got the license to marry Debi Easterday of Medina, said Smith’s attorney, Les Evan Rockmael.

Smith dresses in women’s clothes, except for work, and expects to complete his sex change within three years. The two say they are lesbians.

The license issued to the couple is good for two months. Rockmael said the wedding date is Oct. 12 but might change.

Smith, who began counseling five years ago over his feeling more like a woman, has applied in the same court to change his name to Denise.

Smith and Easterday are in their 30s and have children from previous marriages. Smith has boys ages 9 and 12 and Easterday has three adult-age sons and a 16-year-old daughter.

Two weeks ago President Clinton signed a law denying federal recognition of same-sex marriages.

AP-NY-09-30-96 1406EDT

Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press.

**As posted in the Transgender Community Forum **On America Online (Keyword: TCF) **TCF Info: http://members.aol.com/glcfwendy/tcf

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 30 Sep 1996 15:20:43 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E78Lw; Mon 30 Sep 1996 15:20:43 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Groom-to-be plans sex change operation Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:20:43 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609301520.E78Lw@xconn.com>

Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:00:29 -0400

(Area Coordinator’s note: This one is a lot better worded than the AP article…)

The Repository Canton, OH Saturday Sep 28 p A-10

Groom-to-be plans sex change operation

Painesville – A groom-to-be who plans a sex change after he marries must provide a judge with a doctor’s note certifying that he stitll has male sex organs, his attorney said Friday.

Paul smith, who has applied to change his name to Denise, expressed amusement

at the requirement for receiving a marriage license.

“Physically, I’m still a male. Legally, I will always be a male,” Smith, of

Willoughby, said in a telephone interview.

He plans to marry Debi Easterday, of Medina, On Oct 12. He expects to complete his sex change within three years. The two say they are lesbians.

Both are in their 30s and have children from previous marriages – Smith has boys ages 9 and 12 and Easterday has three adult-age sons and a 16-year-old daughter.

For Easterday, their marriage isn’t a male-female question.

“I love Denise very much,” she said. “Personally, I look at her as a person.

I do not put her in a box. I do not know the male side of her. I love a person.”

**As posted in the Transgender Community Forum **On America Online (Keyword: TCF) **TCF Info: http://members.aol.com/glcfwendy/tcf

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>From listserv@xconn.com Tue 1 Oct 1996 16:04:32 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E49ih; Tue 1 Oct 1996 16:04:32 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Demo Called for Embattled TG Teen Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:04:31 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610011604.E49ih@xconn.com>

Original Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 18:49:52 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:01:31 GMT Subject: DEMO CALLED FOR EMBATTLED TG TEEN From: riki@nyc.pipeline.com (Riki Anne Wilchins)

Media Advisory – For Immediate Release

CONTACT: Riki Anne Wilchins, Riki@Pipeline.Com, (212)645-1753

CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION PLANNED FOR EMBATTLED TRANSGENDERED TEEN ================================

[Burlington, VT – October 1, 1996] THE NATIONAL PROTEST group Transexual Menace and the Vermont -based organization T.R.A.N.S. today announced a city-wide demonstration of support for suspended crossdressing teen Matthew Stickney for Saturday, October 5th, in downtown Burlington, VT.

The demonstration quickly drew endorsements from a wide spectrum of city groups, including the Burlington Women’s Council, Outright Vermont , Bi-Net, the Vermont Coalition for Gay & Lesbian Rights, and local queer newspaper “Out in the Mountains.”

In a case that attracted national attention, Matthew was suspended on September 9th from Burlington High School for wearing a dress to class. Matthew, who identifies as both gay and crossdressing, explained his attire as both an expression of identity and pride.

However, after Matthew was verbally assaulted by other students, principal Ridgley Shott claimed Matthew was “creating a disturbance” and suspended him from school. During the ensuing national media barrage, Matthew went into hiding, from which he has only recently emerged.

The October 5th demonstration marks the first city-wide expression of support for the embattled gay youth, and hundreds are expected to attend.

WHERE: Unitarian Universalist Church, top of Church St., Burlington town center.

WHEN: Press Conference at 11:45 am. Demonstration at 12:00 noon.

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1996, 5 October

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 04:23:23

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>From listserv@xconn.com Thu 3 Oct 1996 16:08:48 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E10DB; Thu 3 Oct 1996 16:08:48 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Detroit CD Boutique Destroyed By Fire Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 16:08:48 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610031608.E10DB@xconn.com>

Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:20:02 -0400

Originally from Kathryn (SalonGirl@aol.com)

The Dressing Room, a Detroit boutique and salon catering to members of the midwestern transgender community was completely destroyed by a fire late Sunday, September 22, 1996. Arson has been ruled out as a cause of the fire. The staff had just completed a photo shoot for a soon to be published catalog and a model’s still smoldering cigarette in a trash can seems to have caused caused the fire according to Michigan State Police investigators. No one was injured in the fire, but the boutique and all its contents were consumed in the blaze.

The Dressing Room had only been open 5 months at the time of the fire. The Dressing Room was to be a vendor at the recent Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta but that appearance was forced to be canceled due to the fire.

The owners of The Dressing Room have already begun to rebuild and hope to be open in time for the halloween holiday weekend, traditionally the busiest time of year for those in the wig, and specialty clothing trade.

**As posted in the Transgender Community Forum **On America Online (Keyword: TCF) **TCF Info: http://members.aol.com/glcfwendy/tcf

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>From listserv@xconn.com Thu 3 Oct 1996 17:00:49 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E61rI; Thu 3 Oct 1996 17:00:49 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Court to Hear Transsexual Custody Case Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:00:49 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610031700.E61rI@xconn.com>

Original Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 20:01:16 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

I apologize if I posted this before…

— Dallas

From: Michelle Steiner <steiner@best.com> Subject: Fwd: Courtship?! To: GLB-NEWS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

Here’s an article from the 18 September St. Louis Post Dispatch:

COURT TO HEAR TRANSSEXUAL CUSTODY CASE

by Tim Bryant of The Post Dispatch Staff

After a father undergoes a sex-change operation, begins living as a woman and calls himself (sic) Sharon, should he (sic) still have an active role in his (sic) children’s lives?

The Missouri Court of Appeals has to answer that tricky question.

The mother, who lives in St. Charles County, has said “no” in court records. She contends that it is in the best interest of her two sons, age 9 and 6, to deny their father visitation and temporary custody.

Her oldest son has expressed “suicidal ideations” and was put on antidepressants, court records state. The youngest son has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder.

But the father’s lawyer said Tuesday that the father should have regular, unsupervised visitation. The children’s father now lives in suburban Washington, D.C.

“It’s fairly obvious that we feel any restrictions are unwarranted at this time,” said the father’s lawyer, Elizabeth Harris Christmas.

Last year, a St. Charles County judge granted the wife, who uses the pseudonym Karen to protect the children’s identities, primary physical custody.

The father, now called Sharon, got weekend temporary custody and unsupervised visitation for two weeks in the summer and on alternate major holidays. However, Sharon could not cohabit with a transsexual or sleep with another woman during those visits.

“We think she is ‘married’ [to another transsexual] but we don’t know what that means,” said Susan Hais, Karen’s lawyer.

Both parents appealed. The issue could be heard in the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis as early as December.

This may be the first time the issue of child visitation with a divorced transsexual parent has come before the appeals court, Hais said Tuesday. However, that issue may not be the one heard in this case, she added.

State law prohibits the divorce judge, Judge William T. Lohmar Jr., from giving the father unsupervised visitation without a prior hearing to determine whether it would be proper, Hais said. The appeals court could decide the case on that issue alone.

As part of his decree, Lohmar had ruled that the father’s visitation with the children could begin one year after the divorce was granted, or last June.

The father wants to delete from the divorce decree the requirement that that the father cannot “cohabit” with other transsexuals while the boys visit.

Karen and Sharon met in 1982. He was an Air Force Academy graduate stationed at Whitman Air Force Base in Knob Noster, Mo., near Sedalia. Karen was a junior at a state university in Missouri. The couple met at a Bible study group. They married in March 1983.

Karen said in an interview last year that their relationship was always strained.

In the summer of 1991, Karen’s husband — “Tom,” as he (sic) is called in the case — refused to go with the family to visit Karen’s relatives. When she and the boys came home three weeks later, Tom told Karen that he had spent the whole time living as a woman.

The couple separated in August 1992. Tom underwent a hair transplant, electrolysis, hormone treatments and psychotherapy. Karen filed for divorce in June 1993.

While the divorce was pending, Tom underwent sex-change surgery in Montreal.

Hais said Tuesday that the case was “fascinating in a lot of ways.”

“Emotionally, I suppose, it’s complicated for everybody,” she added.

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Original Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 23:37:42 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 02:54:54 GMT Subject: ACTIVISTS PICKETING SF CHRONICLE From: riki@nyc.pipeline.com (Riki Anne Wilchins)

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Jess Bell (510)528-3977 Riki Wilchins Riki@Pipeline.Com

ACTIVISTS PICKETING SF CHRONICLE ================================ [San Francisco – October 3, 1996] RESPONDING TO provactive and transphobic coverage by the conservative SF Chronicle, TRANSEXUAL MENACE – SF today announced they would picket the newspaper Tuesday, October 15th. [See related story below]

Said an unnamed Menace spokestrans, “Every time we step forward to try to make our lives a little more livable, someone tries to push us back in the closet. They figure transpeople are a ‘free shot’ since we never fight back… Well, guess what: the rules have changed.”

Those interested in participating should contact Jess Bell at (510)528-3977. ###

SF CHRONICLE HAS TRANSPHOBIA ATTACK ===================================

[San Francisco – September 23-30] LOCAL TRANS- ACTIVISTS inquiring after the exclusion of trans-related medical services from the city’s insurance plan became national news as the SF Chronicle ran an exaggerated story hinting at mass sex-change surgeries at taxpayer expense, following up with a transphobic cartoon about an reptile who felt “trapped” in a cat’s body.

Members of the SF Transgender Community Task Force and the SF Human Rights Commission had originally approached Supervisor Tom Ammiano on Friday, September 20. Referring to the 2-year old SF city ordinance outlawing discrimination against the transgendered, they pointed out that exclusions in the city health plans of trans-related medical case appeared to place the city in violation of its own statues.

This pro-forma inquiry was met by a SF Chronicle story on Monday, September 23, headlined “Move to Cover City Worker’s Sex Changes.” The Associated Press (A.P) wire service then picked up the story and alleged that were 6,000 in the SF area who could potentially apply for sex-change surgery. Arthur Bruzzoni, Chairman of the SF Republican Party then chimed in with public statements comparing sex-change surgery to cosmetic breast enlargement.

Said Jamison Green, local activist and founding member of Transexual Menace-Men, “Transpeople are once again being used as pawns for local conservatives to score some safe points at the expense of another minority.

“The figure used by some press of 6,000 transpeople covers *everyone* trans-identified, including drag, genderqueer, crossdressing, transvestite, *and* transexual people. Actually, according to our figures there are only 7 transexuals city employees, so the effects of any change would be negligible.

“Also, city taxpayers are not being asked to pay a single penny. We are asking for the removal of an exclusion from *existing* insurance coverage, *not* a tax on the citizens. We deserve to have our medical needs covered just like anyone else – trivializing our situation out of ignorance is something we will no longer tolerate.”

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 01:08:49 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: ales@wamani.apc.org (Alejandra Sarda) Subject: razzia and threats Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 01:10:07 +0100

Escrita en el Cuerpo – Lesbian/Pansexual Women’s Archives and Library Electronic News Service

RAZZIAS AND THREATS

Buenos Aires’ new statute will come into force next October 10. From then on, police edicts allowing the police to arrest people at whim, with no actual offense committed, will be null. Nevertheless, police harassment of gays and transvestites has increased during this week.

* On Tuesday, October 1, a gay disco -In Vitro- was raided by the police. Cross-dressing artists performing at the place were arrested, as well as customers. Everyone spent more than 24 hours in jail, without charges being pressed against them.

* 12 transvestites were arrested that very same night, and 8 more yesterday (October 2).

* Two very visible transvestite activists working for OTTRA – Argentinean Republic’s Transvestite and Transexual Organization- are being severely harassed by police. Marlene, the group’s secretary, has been arrested every night since Saturday, September 29, to be released the next morning, after having endured threats and verbal abuse by policemen. And Nadia Echazu, the group’s leader, has received death threats both through her cellular and home phone.

Lesbian, gay, transgender and pansexual groups that were active in the struggle for the repealed of Police Edicts have denounced the above mentioned facts to the media, Statuory Convention and Internal Affairs Ministry. We fear more razzias and arrests will take place during the weekend. A demonstration is being prepared for next Tuesday, October 8, right in front of the Police Central Department.

Alejandra Sarda

Piedras 1170 – 1ero. B (1070) Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: (54 1) 581 01 79 Fax (54 1) 373 89 55 E.mail: ales@wamani.apc.org

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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1996, 6 October

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:11:29

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Originally From: OnQGwen@aol.com Original Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 18:26:42 -0500

UK TS Surgeon Regains Admitting Priveledges

In a surprising move, the medical committee of the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London reversed an earlier decision disallowing Sarah Muirhead-Allwood (who was William Muirhead-Allwood) from practicing medicine. Ms. Muirhead-Allwood is no free to again admit patients, and move that has both her and their Chief Executive of the hospital “very pleased.”

Ms Muirhead-Allwood was considered one of Britians leading orthopedic surgeons, and even assisted in the replace ment of the hip of the Queen Mother last year. When she chose to go public with her gender reassignment plans (under the threat of being outed by a british tabloid), the committee withdrew Muirhead-Allwood’s admitting priveledges.

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Original Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 22:14:35 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

The following seems to be a press release from It’s Time, Delaware…

— Dallas

From: transman@netgsi.com Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 01:11:27 -0500 To: amboyz@netgsi.com Subject: IT’S TIME DELAWARE

IT’S TIME DELAWARE

You folks, and you know who you, have been sitting on your asses because you think it’s too damn dangerous to be out in Delaware. You’re right. You are absolutely fucking right–and a little boy has been murdered because nobody dared stand up for what was right.

I’ve been verbally harassed in Delaware, I’ve gotten into bar fights in Delaware, I’ve been with transgendered people when we got wretched service in restaurants and had things were stolen from us in Delaware.

Delaware is the worst place I have ever been for homophobia and transphobia.

IT’S GOT TO STOP.

I’ve been nice. I asked people to help. I’ve suggested we could really used an alliance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and straight people in Delaware.

Now I’m going to scream bloody murder at the top of my lungs because Middletown’s not more than fifteen minutes from where I live and I have two children and somebody has been painting the word “DIKE” across my car.

Are my kids next?

My son is a cute little boy who is learning disabled who likes to play with Barbies and the other kids in the neighborhood pick on him. They run right up to him and kick him and they don’t even care if I’m standing right there and see them do it. Just like the little boy who was killed.

The message: If you’re different, you aren’t human.

IT’S TIME DELAWARE.

If you live, work, or travel in the state of Delaware you have to be concerned about what happens to people here.

IT’S TIME to stop being AFRAID and to start being ENRAGED.

How many little children have to die before the adults who live, work, and spend money in Delaware get up the guts to put a stop to it?

ORGANIZING MEETING:

1 December 1996 at 5 pm, courtesy of the American Boyz. The Cactus Bar and Grill on Route 202 in Wilmington, DE. Directions: take I-95 to Wilmington. Take 202 north. Go several miles, restaurant on right. If you reach the Concord Mall you overshot slightly.

Gary Bowen Director at Large, It’s Time America Coordinator-in-Chief, the American Boyz

>I cried and cried when I read this. >This could have been me as a child. I hate-hate-hate this. Read, mourn, beware. > >>> P.E.R.S.O.N. Project Archive Message >>> ——————————————————————– >>> [Prev][Next][Index] >>> >>> THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ‘SISSY’ >>> >>> ——————————————————————– >>> >>> * To: (Recipient list suppressed) >>> * Subject: THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ‘SISSY’ >>> * From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) >>> * Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:12:31 -0800 >>> >>> ——————————————————————– >>> >>> PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS >>> 400 N. Broad St.,Philadelphia,PA,19101 >>> >>> Tuesday, October 31, 1995 >>> Column by Victoria Brownworth >>> BY VICTORIA*BROWNWORTH* >>> MEMO: Victoria A. Brownworth’s column on gay issues appears every other >>> Tuesday in the Philadelphia Daily News, alternating with Mubarak Dahir’s. >>> THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ‘SISSY’ >>> Tonight, kids will be going door to door in Halloween costumes. There >>> will be the usual high-pitched shrieks of laughter and shouts of ”Boo” as >>> children run through the streets, bags of candy swinging. >>> In Middletown, Del., neighbors caught up in the excitement of the >>>holiday >>> may actually stop thinking about 9-year-old Steven Wilson for a while. For >>> Karen Wilson, the boy’s mother, the pain of hearing the happy voices of >>>other >>> children may be almost unbearable. Her son won’t be among the revelers. Her >>> son is gone for good. The shrieks she hears in the streets outside may make >>> her wonder again what the last moments of her son’s life were like. May make >>> her want to scream out her own anguish. >>> It’s been two weeks since little Steven disappeared; two weeks since he >>> was murdered not far from the apartment complex where he lived. >>> Fifteen-year-old Lamont Harden has been charged with the murder. >>> Police say Harden has confessed. But that is only part of the story of >>> the short and terribly sad life of Steven Wilson. The rest of the tale is >>> just as grim. >>> Steven wasn’t like other boys. He had a learning disability, he was shy >>> – a loner, his mother told reporters when he was still missing. And he liked >>> to play with dolls, with girl’s toys. >>> ”They teased him a lot,” said one neighbor who admitted her child was >>> among his persecutors. >>> ”He would hide in my house,” said one of his baby sitters. >>> Steven was afraid of the children in his neighborhood. Afraid of the >>> taunts, afraid of being ”picked on,” afraid of how being different >>>had made >>> him a target. >>> Steven was right to be afraid. >>> There was shock in Middletown when Steven’s little, battered body was >>> found in a nearby creek. There was horror a few days later when police >>> announced Harden’s arrest at a town meeting and told a packed hall how >>>brutal >>> Steven’s murder was. But while Steven was missing, and in the days >>> afterward, as Harden and other children were questioned about his >>>murder, the >>> mothers of Middletown worried: Had their children been involved in the >>>boy’s >>> death? Because apparently they had all been involved in the daily torture he >>> endured in life. Several mothers admitted their fear; others found it >>> difficult to believe Harden committed the killing alone. >>> ”Steven didn’t go with people,” said one mother, adamantly. >>> Whether or not Harden had accomplices who helped him fracture Steven’s >>> skull in several places, break his jaw, crack his teeth, viciously rape him >>> and drown him in the creek, we may never know. But if Steven hadn’t been a >>> ”sissy” who liked to play with dolls, if he hadn’t been the target of >>> nearly every child in the neighborhood, perhaps he would not have become the >>> victim of murder. >>> Homophobia has many guises. A boy who likes girl’s toys or clothes gets >>> taunted, hit, assaulted or raped. The perpetrators often say they were >>> trying to teach the victim a lesson, teach him the difference between >>> masculine and feminine. Perhaps that’s what Harden wanted to do to Steven. >>> Perhaps the kind of ”games” the neighborhood children played with Steven – >>> taunts, bullying, violence – just got out of hand and he was killed. >>> Harden will be tried and likely convicted. But while what Harden stands >>> accused of doing to Steven is certainly the most awful of the many crimes >>> committed against this child, there were many others. There was a climate in >>> Middletown that made Steven afraid every day of his short life. And that >>> climate may have contributed to his death; made Harden believe no one cared >>> what happened to Steven, that his death was no one’s loss. The climate in >>> Middletown has changed since Steven’s murder; mothers say they are afraid, >>> but don’t say of what. Something happened in this small town, but it could >>> have happened anywhere. This Halloween night, a ghost hovers over >>> Middletown. His name is Steven Wilson, and he’s seeking the justice and >>>peace >>> he never found in life. >>> >>> [P.E.R.S.O.N. Project note: >>> DELAWARE’s DEPT. of Ed. IS ONE WHICH DID NOT REPLY TO ANY OF OUR >>> MULTIPLE REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION when we were writing >>> our organizing manual on textbook/curriculum adoption >>> policies for each state. Clearly, Delaware’s Dept. of Ed. needs >>> to do some serious anti-homophobia work RIGHT AWAY. We >>> do NOT want Stevie’s horribic death to have been in vain, its >>> terrible lessons unlearned by a stubborn and uninformed >>> bureaucracy. We do NOT want other Stevies to die, in Delaware >>> or anywhere else. Please send your thoughts about this sickening, >>> preventable tragedy to: >>> >>> Superintendent of Public Instruction >>> State Dept of Public Instruction >>> Townsend Bldg., P.O. Box 1402 >>> Dover DE 19903 >>> >>> State News,P. O. Box 737,Dover,DE,19901 >>> -(Fax 302-674-3609, print run 31,800) >>> >>> The News Journal,Box 15505,Wilmington,DE,19720 >>> -(Fax 513-382-4392, print run 119,300)] >>> >>> AND to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and Board of >Education >>> of YOUR own state. >>> >>> IF you are in DELAWARE, please join others in organizing around >>> this issue… so that brutality is NEVER AGAIN visited upon one of >>> our own or one perceived to be LGBT! It could happen in your >>>area… >>> not too many years ago, a boy child was beaten to death by >>> HIS OWN FATHER because the child insisted upon playing with >>> dolls and acting effeminate in other ways.] >>> >>> *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ >>> YOU MAY RE-POST. Jessea Greenman <jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu> >>> The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project*; ph/fax: 510-601-8883, 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA >>> 94609-1245 >>> Gopher to “gopher.outright.com” >>> Web sites: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ >>> http://www1.usa1.com/~furball/glb/person.html/ >>> http://www.pride.net/pridenet/person >>> The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is *always* looking for volunteer organizers. >>> Please cc us (for our files) on correspondence you send or receive re our >>> action alerts. >>> *Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally. >>> >>> ——————————————————————– >>> >>> * Prev: FYI: right wing plan to infiltrate libraries >>> * Next: More ed. equity organizing resources >>> * Index: P.E.R.S.O.N. Project Archive >>> >>> ——————————————————————– >>> [Outright Home] | [Search Archive] | [Main Index] >> >> >> >> >> >outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. >Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. > >- –Groucho Marx– > > >”Honk” > >Harpo Marx > >=== >- ——————————————————————– >tgs-pflag: The Transgender Support List of PFLAG > >To unsubscribe from tgs-pflag, send mail to listproc@critpath.org >with the body saying: > >UNSUBSCRIBE tgs-pflag > >- —————————— > >Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:16:13 -0500 >From: “Emily Rizzo” <RIZZOE@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu> >To: tgs-pflag@critpath.org >Subject: Forwarded message >Message-ID: <19376FA5B39@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu> > > >- ——- Forwarded Message Follows ——- > > >Rejected message: sent to tgs-pflag@cpp.critpath.org by JMICKIHART@AOL.COM >follows. >Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. >- >————————————————————————— >—- >I’d like to personally invite you and/or your group >to attend, exhibit, do seminars and/or speak at >The NEW ORLEANS FANTASY FEST >February 20-23, 1997. >Please say yes… >Looking forward to hearing from you. >Mikki >=== >- ——————————————————————– >tgs-pflag: The Transgender Support List of PFLAG > >To unsubscribe from tgs-pflag, send mail to listproc@critpath.org >with the body saying: > >UNSUBSCRIBE tgs-pflag >=== >- ——————————————————————– >tgs-pflag: The Transgender Support List of PFLAG > >To unsubscribe from tgs-pflag, send mail to listproc@critpath.org >with the body saying: > >UNSUBSCRIBE tgs-pflag > >- —————————— > >Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:30:04 -0500 >From: “Hoffman, Matthew R. ,Corp,US” <mrhoffman@himail.hcc.com> >To: “‘TGS-PFLAG list (id for posting)'” <tgs-pflag@critpath.org> >Subject: RE: the little silver cake-decorating balls >Message-ID: ><c=US%a=ATTMAIL%p=HOECHST%l=BRW-EXC-03-961101153004Z-81643@brw-exc-02.bridg >ewater.ne.hcc.com> > >~~ >What we came up with was that we all, as children, ate those >~~ >little silver balls that are used in cake decorating that are really >~~ >supposed to be for decoration only! >~~ > >~~ >Matthew >~~ >~~ I ate them too..*smile* >~~ >~~ Coral Sage > >Hmmm, so it works in the other direction as well… > >Matthew, wondering if we could get this patented >=== >- ——————————————————————– >tgs-pflag: The Transgender Support List of PFLAG > >To unsubscribe from tgs-pflag, send mail to listproc@critpath.org >with the body saying: > >UNSUBSCRIBE tgs-pflag > >- —————————— > >Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:45:59 -0500 >From: ludfordc@pinellas.k12.fl.us (Coral) >To: tgs-pflag@cpp.critpath.org >Subject: RE: the little silver cake-decorating balls >Message-ID: <v01540b00ae9fcb7a8bf4@[168.213.192.50]> > >>~~ >What we came up with was that we all, as children, ate those >>~~ >little silver balls that are used in cake decorating that are really >>~~ >supposed to be for decoration only! >>~~ > >>~~ >Matthew >>~~ >>~~ I ate them too..*smile* >>~~ >>~~ Coral Sage >> >>Hmmm, so it works in the other direction as well… >> >>Matthew, wondering if we could get this patented >>=== > >*thinking Mathew is confused* I’m the SO of a mtf, rememer? *l* >Thats’ ok. *smile* > > >=== >- ——————————————————————– >tgs-pflag: The Transgender Support List of PFLAG > >To unsubscribe from tgs-pflag, send mail to listproc@critpath.org >with the body saying: > >UNSUBSCRIBE tgs-pflag > >- —————————— > >Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:15:06 -0600 >From: daviwayne@mail.interconnect.net (D. W. Disney) >To: tgs-pflag@cpp.critpath.org >Subject: RE: the little silver cake-decorating balls >Message-ID: <19961101161505031.AAA192@Daviwayne> > >At 10:54 AM 11/1/96 EST, you wrote: >>>~~ >What we came up with was that we all, as children, ate those >>>~~ >little silver balls that are used in cake decorating that are really >>>~~ >supposed to be for decoration only! >>>~~ > >>>~~ >Matthew >>>~~ >>>~~ I ate them too..*smile* >>>~~ >>>~~ Coral Sage >>> >>>Hmmm, so it works in the other direction as well… >>> >>>Matthew, wondering if we could get this patented >>>=== >> >>*thinking Mathew is confused* I’m the SO of a mtf, rememer? *l* >>Thats’ ok. *smile* >> >> >I not only ate the silver ones, I ate the red, green, and gold ones. > > > Davi > >=== >- ——————————————————————– >tgs-pflag: The Transgender Support List of PFLAG > >To unsubscribe from tgs-pflag, send mail to listproc@critpath.org >with the body saying: > >UNSUBSCRIBE tgs-pflag > >- —————————— > >Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 22:22:33 -0500 >From: Jennifer Lynn <Jenstar@voicenet.com> >To: tgs-pflag@cpp.critpath.org >Subject: Re: http://www.outright.com/project21/mail/msg00074.html >Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961102032233.006e9d2c@voicenet.com> > >I got this from another list, I know some of you are on it, just delete it >It’s just a damn sin > >At 01:05 AM 11/1/96 EST, you wrote: >>I cried and cried when I read this. >>This could have been me as a child. I hate-hate-hate this. Read, mourn, >>beware. >> >>>> P.E.R.S.O.N. Project Archive Message >>>> ——————————————————————– >>>> [Prev][Next][Index] >>>> >>>> THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ‘SISSY’ >>>> >>>> ——————————————————————– >>>> >>>> * To: (Recipient list suppressed) >>>> * Subject: THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ‘SISSY’ >>>> * From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) >>>> * Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:12:31 -0800 >>>> >>>> ——————————————————————– >>>> >>>> PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS >>>> 400 N. Broad St.,Philadelphia,PA,19101 >>>> >>>> Tuesday, October 31, 1995 >>>> Column by Victoria Brownworth >>>> BY VICTORIA*BROWNWORTH* >>>> MEMO: Victoria A. Brownworth’s column on gay issues appears every other >>>> Tuesday in the Philadelphia Daily News, alternating with Mubarak Dahir’s. >>>> THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD ‘SISSY’ >>>> Tonight, kids will be going door to door in Halloween costumes. There >>>> will be the usual high-pitched shrieks of laughter and shouts of ”Boo” as >>>> children run through the streets, bags of candy swinging. >>>> In Middletown, Del., neighbors caught up in the excitement of the >holiday >>>> may actually stop thinking about 9-year-old Steven Wilson for a while. For >>>> Karen Wilson, the boy’s mother, the pain of hearing the happy voices of >other >>>> children may be almost unbearable. Her son won’t be among the revelers. Her >>>> son is gone for good. The shrieks she hears in the streets outside may make >>>> her wonder again what the last moments of her son’s life were like. >>>>May make >>>> her want to scream out her own anguish. >>>> It’s been two weeks since little Steven disappeared; two weeks since he >>>> was murdered not far from the apartment complex where he lived. >>>> Fifteen-year-old Lamont Harden has been charged with the murder. >>>> Police say Harden has confessed. But that is only part of the story of >>>> the short and terribly sad life of Steven Wilson. The rest of the tale is >>>> just as grim. >>>> Steven wasn’t like other boys. He had a learning disability, he >>>>was shy >>>> – a loner, his mother told reporters when he was still missing. And he >>>>liked >>>> to play with dolls, with girl’s toys. >>>> ”They teased him a lot,” said one neighbor who admitted her child was >>>> among his persecutors. >>>> ”He would hide in my house,” said one of his baby sitters. >>>> Steven was afraid of the children in his neighborhood. Afraid of the >>>> taunts, afraid of being ”picked on,” afraid of how being different had >made >>>> him a target. >>>> Steven was right to be afraid. >>>> There was shock in Middletown when Steven’s little, battered body was >>>> found in a nearby creek. There was horror a few days later when police >>>> announced Harden’s arrest at a town meeting and told a packed hall how >brutal >>>> Steven’s murder was. But while Steven was missing, and in the days >>>> afterward, as Harden and other children were questioned about his >murder, the >>>> mothers of Middletown worried: Had their children been involved in the >boy’s >>>> death? Because apparently they had all been involved in the daily >>>>torture he >>>> endured in life. Several mothers admitted their fear; others found it >>>> difficult to believe Harden committed the killing alone. >>>> ”Steven didn’t go with people,” said one mother, adamantly. >>>> Whether or not Harden had accomplices who helped him fracture Steven’s >>>> skull in several places, break his jaw, crack his teeth, viciously rape him >>>> and drown him in the creek, we may never know. But if Steven hadn’t been a >>>> ”sissy” who liked to play with dolls, if he hadn’t been the target of >>>> nearly every child in the neighborhood, perhaps he would not have >>>>become the >>>> victim of murder. >>>> Homophobia has many guises. A boy who likes girl’s toys or >>>>clothes gets >>>> taunted, hit, assaulted or raped. The perpetrators often say they were >>>> trying to teach the victim a lesson, teach him the difference between >>>> masculine and feminine. Perhaps that’s what Harden wanted to do to Steven. >>>> Perhaps the kind of ”games” the neighborhood children played with >>>>Steven – >>>> taunts, bullying, violence – just got out of hand and he was killed. >>>> Harden will be tried and likely convicted. But while what Harden >>>>stands >>>> accused of doing to Steven is certainly the most awful of the many crimes >>>> committed against this child, there were many others. There was a >>>>climate in >>>> Middletown that made Steven afraid every day of his short life. And that >>>> climate may have contributed to his death; made Harden believe no one cared >>>> what happened to Steven, that his death was no one’s loss. The climate in >>>> Middletown has changed since Steven’s murder; mothers say they are afraid, >>>> but don’t say of what. Something happened in this small town, but it could >>>> have happened anywhere. This Halloween night, a ghost hovers over >>>> Middletown. His name is Steven Wilson, and he’s seeking the justice and >peace >>>> he never found in life. >>>> >>>> [P.E.R.S.O.N. Project note: >>>> DELAWARE’s DEPT. of Ed. IS ONE WHICH DID NOT REPLY TO ANY OF OUR >>>> MULTIPLE REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION when we were writing >>>> our organizing manual on textbook/curriculum adoption >>>> policies for each state. Clearly, Delaware’s Dept. of Ed. needs >>>> to do some serious anti-homophobia work RIGHT AWAY. We >>>> do NOT want Stevie’s horribic death to have been in vain, its >>>> terrible lessons unlearned by a stubborn and uninformed >>>> bureaucracy. We do NOT want other Stevies to die, in Delaware >>>> or anywhere else. Please send your thoughts about this sickening, >>>> preventable tragedy to: >>>> >>>> Superintendent of Public Instruction >>>> State Dept of Public Instruction >>>> Townsend Bldg., P.O. Box 1402 >>>> Dover DE 19903 >>>> >>>> State News,P. O. Box 737,Dover,DE,19901 >>>> -(Fax 302-674-3609, print run 31,800) >>>> >>>> The News Journal,Box 15505,Wilmington,DE,19720 >>>> -(Fax 513-382-4392, print run 119,300)] >>>> >>>> AND to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and Board of >>Education >>>> of YOUR own state. >>>> >>>> IF you are in DELAWARE, please join others in organizing around >>>> this issue… so that brutality is NEVER AGAIN visited upon one of >>>> our own or one perceived to be LGBT! It could happen in your >area… >>>> not too many years ago, a boy child was beaten to death by >>>> HIS OWN FATHER because the child insisted upon playing with >>>> dolls and acting effeminate in other ways.]

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E77Kf; Sun 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: It’s Time, Delaware Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611031908.E77Kf@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 22:14:48 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

>From Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, October, 1996.

Killer of Transsexual Woman Pleads Guilty as Activists Conduct Vigil.

Michael Thompson of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty last month to second degree murder in the death of Deborah Forte, a transsexual woman, also of Haverhill. While a small group of gender activists conducted a vigil outside the court, Judge Howard Whitehead sentenced Thompson to life in prison with eligibility for parole in fifteen years. Thompson is 25 years old; Forte, who had been called “John” by the press and police, was 56.

Forte was killed early in the morning, May 15, 1995, in her home. She was stabbed in the chest three times and severely beaten on the head, face, and neck. Forte was found by Phillip Feole, her companion of 27 years.

Less than 24 hours into the murder investigation, police issued a warrant for Thompson. After two weeks in hiding, Thompson turned himself in. He was released on bail during the year before the hearing.

Essex County Assistant District Attorney Kathe Tuttman said the outcome of the plea bargain was “appropriate given all the facts and circumstances surrounding the case.” Defense attorney Larry McGuire of the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Salem, Massachusetts, declined to comment.

Members of Debbie Forte’s family expressed relief over the pretrial resolution of the case. “I don’t think any of us could have lasted through a trial that would have [tried] to drag her name through the mud and bring up issues that didn’t need to be brought up,” said Kathy St. Pierre, Forte’s niece.

Nonetheless, Forte’s sister, Ellen Hurn, said that her family were the true losers in the case. Referring to Forte as male in her victim’s impact statement addressed to the Court, she said, “We’ll never again see my brother or his wonderful smile, his compassion for his family, and his love for people and animals. I lost a wonderful friend.”

Memorial Vigil

A small group of activists gathered outside Essex County Superior Court on the morning of the proceedings to honor Forte and her family. Demonstrators distributed leaflets headlined “Transpeople Are Not Disposable People” and carried signs reading and carried signs reading “Debbie Was Our Sister” and “Difference is Not a Crime Punishable by Death.”

The vigil was organized by WMBR (88.1 FM) “Gender Talk” radio show host Nancy Nangeroni, Fenway Community Health Center’s —————————————————————————- Victim Advocate Robb Johnson, and Transexual Menace and GenderPac founder Riki Anne Wilchins.

“We demonstrated to highlight the social conditions that foster such crimes against those who transgress the unwritten rules of gender,” said Nangeroni. “Too many people who do not fit our narrow stereotypes are victimized by ridicule, harassment, and violence.”

Forte was one of several recently murdered transgendered and transsexual people. Last November, Chelsea resident Chanelle Picket was strangled. In March, a 24-year-old transsexual woman in Chicago, was beaten, strangled, stabbed, and set on fire. Earlier this summer, Deanna Wilkinson, Brenda Ludgate, and Shawn Keegan were shot in the back of the head in Toronto [Note– only one of these three were transgendered– Dallas].

The Transexual Menace has responded to each murder with a vigil, similar to the one held for Forte. “The sad thing about gender activism is that it is extremely reliable work,” said Wilchins. “Sometime in the next four to five months there will be another hate crime somewhere else in the country. This will happen again and again until we can stop it.”

Editor’s note: The Transexual Menace and the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project have organized a national study of hate crimes against transgendered and transsexual people. For information, e-mail Riki Anne Wilchins (riki@pipeline.com) or call the Fenway Community Health Center Victim Recovery Program at 617-267-0900 x 311 or in Massachusetts, 800-834-3242 x311.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E25JT; Sun 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: GenderPAC Meeting Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611031908.E25JT@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 22:14:53 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Outside of Philadelphia, near Valley Forge, representatives from eight national transgender and intersex organizations and several local organizations signed Articles of Association for the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GPAC).

GPAC will focus (and has in fact already be quite active) in lobbying on the national level; compilation of statistics on hate crimes against trans and intersex persons, and a variety of other material.

I will post the GPAC press release when it is released.

— Dallas

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 3 Nov 1996 19:08:31 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E13Fm; Sun 3 Nov 1996 19:08:31 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: ITA! Director Sarah DePalma Resigna Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 19:08:30 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611031908.E13Fm@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 22:14:55 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Effective 1 November, Sarah DePalma has resigned as National Director of It’s Time, America!

DePalma cited a mix of personal and community-related issues. She did not discuss the private issues, but said the community-related issues involved the general apathy and closeted nature of transgendered and transsexual people and the uncontrolled egos of gender community “leaders.”

Some quotes form her message follow:

“I recently did a radio program about the meaning of the word “community.” In soliciting responses for the program I received literally hundreds of replies. The anger, bitterness, and near hatred expressed toward the activists among us was absolutely stunning. It was clear to me that most people who call themselves transgendered are either deeply closeted (with every intention of staying that way) or are living for the day they can assimilate and disappear. Either way, issues like ENDA or nearly anything else related to legal rights simply do not matter to them. They want activists to shut up and leave them alone. Well at least in my case, you have your wish

“It was also clear that those who do care about the political issues of being transgendered have little to no faith in the “leadership.” They feel that the “leaders” are actually far more interested in building power bases than they are in actually doing anything productive. The attitude of these individuals toward the “leaders” could easily be summed up with, ” A plague on all your houses.

“My response is that transgenders are getting the leadership they deserve. The lack of actual participation by larger numbers of transgenders has left a vacuum which makes the bickering not only possible but inevitable. I freely admit that I found all the bickering , posturing, and ego massaging to be draining and a major distraction from the work that needed to be done. In fact, it was a major contributor to my decision to resign. But I am going to repeat what I’ve been saying for years: If you want the bickering to stop, fix it. You hold the controls through the power of the purse string and your involvement in these organizations. Use your controls or stop complaining.

“Finally I want to say a word about Gender Pac, and let me stress that this is my personal opinion. I am not speaking in any way shape or manner on behalf of ITA or anyone else.

“The concept of an umbrella organization which pools the resources of the various gender organizations to avoid duplication of time, effort, and money is a good one. Unfortunately the reality is that this group is being run by a small group of East Coast elitists who seem to think they know what’s best for you. No matter how much they disguise this with “outside participation,” the fact is that the organization is actually being run by two or three individuals whose main goals appear to be attracting publicity to themselves and figuring out how they can get their hands on your money.

“Meanwhile in the states and towns where you live, legislature and city councils are passing laws that will impact on you immediately. I understand it is much easier to go to a big “lobby day” than it is to work at home. No one knows you in Washington D. C. so it feels good to do and it’s safe. Wonderful. By all means attend either the event in February or the later event. Support these events and tell your stories.”

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E21xj; Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Tranny Town Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:28:21 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611041828.E21xj@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:15:14 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: JTF3%CnoFfIocVen%CTS@go50.comp.pge.com Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 11:52:55 PST

Subject: Housing Focus Project (please repost)

The Housing Focus Project of San Francisco is now in the process of creating a trans-friendly neighborhood in the lower Haight area. FHP will pay any transsexual person $125 for establishing a household at a qualifying address. Says HFP’s Jennifer Freeman, “We hope to create an alternative to the inner-city Tenderloin. Once enough proud transsexuals move into the area, the idea of a ‘trans-town’ will become self-sustaining.”

For more information, contact Jennifer Freeman at HFP at 41 Sutter St #1124, SF, Cal, 94104-4903, or 415-973-4836 (days), or 415-552-3577 (eves).

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E46eV; Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Calendar of Events Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611041828.E46eV@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:15:49 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

AEGIS Master List of Services

Updated 3 November, 1996

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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8 November – 11 November, 1996 Rainbow Spirit Convergence Highlands, NC Holly Boswell P.O. Box 18332 Asheville, NC 28814 Phone: (704) 253-9882

31 October – 2 November, 1996 Fall Harvest ’96 Sheraton Inn, Cedar Rapids, IA Iowa Artistry P.O. Box 75 Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-0075

6-10 November, 1996 Ninth Annual Creating Change Conference: The National Conference for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement Washington, CD Creating Change Conference 2320 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009-2702 Phone: (202) 332-7483 x 3329 (202) 332-0207 FAX cc96@ngltf.org http://www.ntltf.org/cc96

6 – 10 November, 1996 Holiday en Femme Chicago, IL Chi Chapter P.O. Box 40 Wood Dale, IL 60191-0040 Phone: (708) 364-9514

14 – 17 November, 1996 Annual Meeting, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Michael Ross, Ph.D. Center for Health Promotion Research & Development School of Public Health University of Texas P.O. Box 20186 Houston, TX 77225 Phone: (713) 745-1051 (713) 794-1756 FAX

16 November, 1996 Long Island Femme Expressoin 11th Anniversary Ball PlainView Plaza 150 Sunnyside Blvd. PlaneView, NY mail to LIFE P.O. Box 3015 Lake Ronkonkoma,NY 11770-0417 516-471-6037

11-16 March, 1997 9th Annual Texas “T” Party P.O. Box 17 San Antonio, TX 78163 Phone: (210) 980-7788 txtparty@aol.com

3-5 April, 1997 Sexual Desire: What Do We Know? What Do We Need To Know? The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Western Regional Conference Hyatt Newporter, Newport Beach, CA 1-800-233-1234 (Hyatt) Marty Klein, Ph.D. 881 Thornwood Palo Alto, CA 94303 415-856-6533 MKlein@SexEd.org

10-12 April, 1997 Perspectives on Progress The 3rd Annual Symposium on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues Holly J. Nichol, Chair 3rd Annual Symposium Women’s Studies Program URI, Roosevelt Hall Kingston, RI 02881 401-874-5150 pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu

15-20 April, 1997 California Unity ’97 (IFGE Conference) Long Beach, CA IFGE, c/o P.O. Box 229 Waltham, MA 02254-0229 617-899-2212 ifge@world.std.com

18-20 April, 1997 1997 Eastern Region Twentieth Annual Conference Challenges to Sexual Freedom Philadelphia, pA James C. Achtzehn, Ph.D. Gallaudet University Dept. of Education Washington, DC 20002-3695 202-651-5530 (voice/TDD) 202-651-5860 FAX jchachtzehn@gallua.gallaudet.edu

21-25 May, 1997 Esprit ’95 Port Angeles, WA Esprit ’95 P.O. Box 873 Kirkland, WA 98083-0873

19 June – 22 June, 1997 Second International Congress on Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender Issues Renaissance Education, Assoc., Inc. Congress Registration 987 Old Eagle School Road, Suite 719 Wayne, PA 19087 Phone: (610) 640-9449 (610) 648-0257 FAX congrs2@cdspub.com

27-29 June, 1997 Atlanta Pride Celebration Atlanta, GA

4-7 September, 1997 Rites of Passage 7 Guerneville, CA c/o Wendy Kaiser 246 Lebanon Road North Berwick, ME 03906 207-676-5870 WKaiser@aol.com

10-13 September, 1997 15th Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Symposium Vancouver, BC, Canada HBIGDA 3790 El Camino Real, #251 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Phone: (415) 322-2335 (415) 322-3260 FAX

2-5 October, 1997 Southern Comfort Atlanta, GA P.O. Box 77591 Atlanta, GA 30357 Southern Comfort Convention Phone: (404) 633-6470 scc95@aol.com e-mail

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E63kg; Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: AP Post Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611041828.E63kg@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:15:24 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

To: aegis@mindspring.com Subject: AP Story

(Now, maybe it is just me, but I think that the AP *really* needs to learn about TG folks. They did do better than they have — they generally seen to refer to all TG folks as “Transvesties.” Repost on the AEGIS list if you wish).

Odd Campaigns Hardly Dull

.c The Associated Press By MITCHELL LANDSBERG AP National Writer Space aliens have not kidnapped President Clinton. Bob Dole has not offered to pose nude in Playgirl. Ross Perot is not transsexual. This election season has been perfectly normal — at the top of the ballot. Some might even call it dull. But lurking elsewhere on the ticket, and around the country, are unusual, interesting or downright weird races, contests that put the camp back in campaign and the crass in democracy. Consider the campaign for Volusia County Council in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Nothing unusual here, except that incumbent Lynne Plaskett said she was rousted from her bed one night by space aliens, who levitated her and cured her of cancer. Her opponent says he’s glad she was cured. Or the race for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, where Republican John Kimble, running in heavily Democratic territory, said he’d pose nude for Playgirl if radio shockmeister Howard Stern would help him raise $1 million. The response was uncharacteristic silence from Stern. Or Southern California’s 27th Congressional District, where Libertarian Elizabeth Michael is trying the scattershot approach to identity politics. She identifies herself as a transsexual and lesbian of black, white and American Indian ancestry, and a practicing Jew who accepts Jesus as the Messiah. Her heroes include Margaret Thatcher and Gen. Robert E. Lee.

AP-NY-11-03-96 1206EST Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E91xk; Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: RuPaul Talks the Talk Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611041828.E91xk@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:15:35 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

GLAAD Media Alert

RuPaul Talks the Talk

Making television history, RuPaul became the first openly gay African-American drag queen to host his own ongoing national talk show then The RuPaul show premiered on VH-1 October 12. His first featured guest was trans-fabulous Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman, who gave Ru a big kiss to the delight of the audience. The two went on to discuss Rodman’s own show on MTV as well as youth and sexuality. RuPaul’s style is very natural and comfortable, and his presence on the airwaves is both positive and entertaining.

Let VH-1 know that entertaining and progressive programming like The RuPaul Show not only breaks new ground, it’s also a lot of fun. Contact: John Sykes, President, VH-1, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036; FAX 212-258-7955; e-mail vh1@here.viacom.com.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E39vV; Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: RuPaul Dies Her Roots Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611041828.E39vV@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:15:38 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted with permission from Southern Voice, 24 October, 1997

>From the column “Sound Advice” by Audese Green

RuPaul Dies Her Roots

I predicted this would happen: drag personality RuPaul’s first full studio release since her ground-breaking “Supermodel of the World” in 1991 absolutely pales in comparison to her debut. It was easy to see this coming– not because RuPaul, Andre Charles’ beloved alter-ego, has crossed over into the mainstream, but because of the mediocrity of the music she has put out in the interim.

And now “Foxy Lady” has affirmed what all of us hoped wouldn’t happen– a disappointing sophomore.

Some would suppose this because the novelty of this likeable prima donna has worn off; we’re used to her now, so we must put her to a higher standard. Whatever the case– novelty or not– “Supermodel” succeeded because it held its own as a good album.

There is so much to love about RuPaul, who looks more fit and beautiful than ever, but those character traits are pushed aside. “Foxy Lady” has too little of the charm and punch we’ve come to expect from her in other forums, namely her many guest appearances and her touted chat show on the VH-1 cable network. Despite recruiting a team of vanguard producers (Nick Martinelli, Eric Kupper, Jimmy Harry, among others), the largely dance- oriented “Foxy Lady” comes out bland, if not downright contrived.

RuPaul gives us no surprises, except for a few embarrassing attempts that have worked for other artists in the past. “A Little Bit of Love” is the singer’s stab at the techno genre known as “happy hard-core” a la Real McCoy (boy, that’s aiming high, there); “R.U. Nasty” comes about as close to being an authentic hip-hop booth jam as Juice Newton’s “Queen of Hearts.” Both are generic.

The 6’7″ wonder co-wrote most of the 12 tracks, which makes the album’s lack of sista’ funk even more shocking. Instead of lines like “peace, love, and hair grease,” the record is saturated with diluted chants of good cheer and fun.

It’s OK that he’s trying to make a transition into elevated territory, but he shouldn’t abandon his veracity with it.

RuPaul is not a good song-writer, certainly not of the realm to which he’s like to categorize himself. And instead of writing about the places and events of his precocious life, RuPaul’s original songs on “Foxy Lady” reveal little about the person who wrote them.

This proves a vital point: it doesn’t matter how talented a producer is (or, in this case, six of them), it is the “song” itself that determines its worth.

The one stand-out comes in the form of a ballad, a modes love tune called “Falling.” RuPaul was particularly committed to this song, and he told Billboard magazine the light, crisp number is where he’d like to steer his future efforts.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:23 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E14lu; Mon 4 Nov 1996 18:28:23 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Young Ryder Gay-Bashed Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:28:22 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9611041828.E14lu@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:15:46 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted with permission from Southern Voice, 24 October, 1997

>From the Dish column

Young Ryder Gay-Bashed

(on, more realistically, trans-bashed– Dallas)

Actress Wynona Ryder told in an interview with the Nashville Tennessean recently that as a 12-year-old she was mistaken for a boy and beaten up by two young thugs who thought she was gay. “I got six stitches in my head, was slammed into a locker, got a fractured rib,” she said. Ryder said she saw a woman who was the girlfriend of one of the boys a couple years ago. Ryder asked the woman if she recalled the incident at school. “She remembered and said, ‘Oh, that faggot?’ And then I said, ‘That was me.’ I got a thrill out of that.” Now Winona just need to hook up with somebody like Geena Davis’ character in “The Long Kiss Goodnight” and go look those guys up.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Tue 5 Nov 1996 20:08:53 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E89et; Tue 5 Nov 1996 20:08:53 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Message-Id: <9611052008.E89et@xconn.com> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:08:53

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:08:53 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: <receipent!address!incerted!here>

Original Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 23:17:09 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: FTMOLInfo@aol.com Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:24:22 -0500

On Tue, Nov 5, 1996 1:00 AM PST, Spencer sends this note:

ATTENTION: (PLease distribute)

There is an article in this months GQ about someone I would consider FTM but who is constantly referred to as she and by his birthname throughout the article. The article basically paints this guy as a wealthy eccentric and discounts the guys’ trans status because he did not (to the authors knowledge) have SRS. I urge you all to read the article (too long to send via e-mail) and respond to GQ.

Spencer

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Original Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 23:17:11 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 15:46:52 -0500 From: Riki Anne Wilchins <riki@pipeline.com> Subject: TRANSCOMMUNITY FOUNDS NATIONAL MOVEMENT

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Riki Anne Wilchins (212)645-1753, GPac@Gpac.Org

TRANSCOMMUNITY FOUNDS NATIONAL MOVEMENT ========================================

[King of Prussia, Pa. – Nov. 2, 1996] IN WHAT AT least 1 attendee called “the most important political event for transpeople since the Stonewall Riot,” 12 organizations representing the heart of the transcommunity signed Articles of Association for GenderPAC today in this small suburban town outside Philadelphia, highlighting an often intense, day-long meeting.

The signing marks the first time the gender-community has ever assembled together to found a unified, national movement against gender-based oppression. GenderPAC is a “public advocacy coalition,” dedicated to “gender, affectional and racial equality.”

The meeting, which convened early this morning and ran into the night, covered a wide variety of subjects, including diversity and minority outreach, deaf and disabled accessibility/participation, GenderPAC’s political objectives and mission, the scope of its activities, and what shape its national structure should take in the coming months. Discussions were cordial and often fervent.

GenderPAC began in June of 1995 as a loose-knit advisory group of trans- organizations to raise money and direct activism. However it’s focus quickly grew to include such activities as congressional lobbying, hate crimes, employment discrimination, National Gender Lobbying Day, community-based research, and legal advocacy. Only a year later, member organizations called for the Novemeber 2nd meeting to formalize its structure and mission.

Said a GenderPAC spokestrans/spokes-herm, “This marks the first time we have joined together to start a unified, national movement. We seek a struggle which embraces not only trans-bodies, but *all* kinds of bodies which are politically, culturally and economically oppressed due to gender, affectional and racial discrimination.”

Signatories at the event included American Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS), FTM International, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), It’s Time America!(ITA), Renaissance Education Assoc., Society for the Second Self (Tri-Ess), the American Boyz, Intersexed Society of North America (ISNA), Transgender Health Action Coalition (TEAC), Transgender Officers Protect & Serve (TOPS), Deaf Transgendered Alliance, and Expressing Our Nature, Inc. Organizations unable to have representatives at the meeting included the Outreach Institute, which sent word of its support, and the International Conference for Transgender Law & Employment Policy (ICTLEP). Both will be given an additional opportunity to sign the Articles.

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1996, 9 October

Subj: AEGIS-NEWS Digest Date: 96-10-09 09:14:39 EDT From: aegisnws@xconn.com (List Server) Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com To: thexgrrrl@aol.com

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:39:18

============================================================================= AEGIS-NEWS DIGEST

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 6 Oct 1996 09:46:22 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E35uR; Sun 6 Oct 1996 09:46:22 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Matt Stickney Back in State Custody Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 09:46:22 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610060946.E35uR@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 12:13:26 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted from Etc., 4 October, 1996

Matt Stickney, the Vermont teenager who made news by insisting he be allowed

to wear a dress to high school, was back in state custody September 20, after running away from his state-supervised group home in Burlington a week

earlier. Stickney’s determination to wear a dress caused consternation among school officials, a walk-out protest in support of him by about 100 students and a physical assault against him by another student. That student has been charged with a hate crime.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 6 Oct 1996 20:32:28 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E95Ab; Sun 6 Oct 1996 20:32:28 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Vermont Rallies for Crossdressing Teen Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 20:32:28 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610062032.E95Ab@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 23:21:23 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Riki Anne Wilchins (212)645-1753, GPac@Gpac.Org

BURLINGTON RALLIES FOR CROSSDRESSING TEEN ============================================

[Burlington, VT – October 5, 1996] AS DOZENS OF LOCAL supporters sprawled across the green lawn, a procession of speakers mounted the front steps of the downtown Unitarian Universalist Church today to voice their fervent support and concern for suspended crossdressing teen Matthew Stickney. The event had been called by several chapters of the group Transexual Menace.

Posters declaring “Support Our GenderQueer Youth,” “Freedom of Gender Expression!” and “Liberty, Freedom, & Pleats” framed the church doors. During the event demonstrators handed out hundreds of fliers to the amused and often supportive local crowds enjoying a last warm Saturday afternoon in this normally quiet ] New England town.

Stickney, who identifies variously as gay, drag, and crossdressing, was suspended from Burlington H.S. September 9th when he wore a dress to class. He stated it was his way of showing pride in his identity. But after he was verbally assaulted by other students, the principal claimed it was Stickney who was “creating a disturbance,” and demanded he change his attire. A series of confrontations then ensued, which led to Stickney’s suspension.

The case quickly attracted a barrage of national media attention as one of a growing number incidents involving transgender and genderqueer gay youth. Stickney responded by going into hiding. He has not returned to school or appeared in public since, and at the rally it was two of his high school friends who spoke on his behalf and took a black Menace T- shirt for him as a keepsake.

Said Jane Ellen Fairfax of Tri-S, the nation’s largest crossdressing organization and a rally sponsor, “This is not about one high school student, but about *everyone’s* basic right to express gender without the fear of harassment, hate-speech, or punishment. Whether you are straight or gay makes no difference: wearing a dress is not grounds for intolerance or bigotry.”

The event was organized by Jess Bell (Transexual Menace Vermont), Nancy Nangeroni (Transexual Menace Boston), and Riki Anne Wilchins (Transexual Menace NYC) and attracted sponsorship from a broad spectrum of local groups including the Burlington Women’s Council, Outright Vermont, Bi-Net Vermont, the Vermont Coalition for Gay & Lesbian Rights, the Peace & Justice Center, and Vermont’s queer newspaper “Out in the Mountains.” both local television stations sent camera crews to conduct interviews.

Adding to the rally’s flavor, the local Ben & Jerry’s provided scores of free ice-cream coupons to event attendees. ###

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>From listserv@xconn.com Tue 8 Oct 1996 19:23:02 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E92EX; Tue 8 Oct 1996 19:23:02 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Lexis/Nexis and You Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 19:23:02 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610081923.E92EX@xconn.com>

Original Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:52:12 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

The following is reposted from a humor list.

— Dallas

Greetings, all.

This is a bit off-topic for this list, but what LEXIS-NEXIS is doing here is really outrageous. Apparently, LEXIS-NEXIS has made a database available which contains more information than you might want to give out to the public at large.

Paul Scivetti Central Minnesota Gateway, Inc. sysop@cmgate.com

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This was sent to me…

FYI (sent to me by one of our attorneys):

Your name, social security number, current address, previous addresses, mother’s maiden name, birth date and other personal information are now available to anyone with a credit card through a new Lexis database called P-Trax. As I am sure you are aware, this information could be used to commit credit card fraud or otherwise allow someone else to use your identity.

You can have your name and information removed from this list by making a telephone request. Call (800)543-6862, select option 4 and then option 3 (“all other questions”) and tell the representative answering that you wish to remove your name from the P-trax database.

You may also send a fax to (513) 865-7360, or physical mail to LEXIS-NEXIS /

P.O. Box 933 / Dayton, Ohio 45401-0933. Sending physical mail to confirm your name has been removed is always a good idea.

As word of the existence of this database has spread on the net, Lexis-Nexis

has been inundated with calls, and has set up a special set of operators to handle the volume. In addition, Andrew Bleh (rhymes with “Play”) is a manager responsible for this product, and is the person to whom complaints about the service could be directed. He can be reached at the above 800 number. Ask for extension 3385. According to Lexis, the manager responsible is Bill Fister at extension 1364.

I called this morning and had my name removed. The representative will need your name and social security number to remove you from the list. I suggest that we inundate these people with requests to remove our info from

the list and forward this e-mail to everyone we know.

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I finally got through to the Lexis/Nexis phone number. They are playing a recording that says the only way to get your name removed from the list is to fax a written request to them at 513-865-1930 or write to them at:

LEXIS-NEXIS P.O. Box 933 Dayton, Ohio 45401-0933

The recording says that they only track your name, your maiden name, your current address plus 2 previous addresses, your birhtdate and your phone number.

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1996, 12 October

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 05:31:21

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>From listserv@xconn.com Thu 10 Oct 1996 16:29:05 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E51oX; Thu 10 Oct 1996 16:29:05 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: GenderPAC Names Legal Services Coordinator Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:29:05 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610101629.E51oX@xconn.com>

Original Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:28:42 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Riki Anne Wilchins (212)645-1753, GPac@Gpac.Org Christopher DiEdoardo, sdtlc@juno.com

GENDERPAC NAMES LEGAL SERVICES COORDINATOR ===============================================

[WASHINGTON – October 1, 1996] GenderPAC, the nationwide advocacy group dedicated to “gender, affectional, and racial equality” today announced Christopher DiEdoardo as its first National Legal Services Coordinator.

“This community already possesses well- considered legal policies on a variety of matters,” said Executive Director Riki Anne Wilchins. “But we lack anything like Legal Defense and Education Fund to litigate them or provide basic advocacy services. This is a small first step in that direction.”

One of GenderPAC’s first entries into the legal arena will be completed later this month with an amicus brief in a case currently before the Missouri Court of Appeals. At the request of Elizabeth Harris Christmas, Esq., a Brentwood, Missouri attorney representing a postoperative transexual client, GenderPAC will focus on the harm to the children that would take place if visitation with their parent was restricted or eliminated.

“This case is exciting because it appears to be the first time the parental rights of transexuals have ever been considered by the Missouri Court of Appeals,” said DiEdoardo. “It’s also important because the Supreme Court of Missouri has a unique history of hearing family law cases on a fairly regular basis. A decision in this case, whether it is disposed of at the Court of Appeals or goes on to the Supreme Court, will have ramifications across the country.”

Explained DiEdoardo, “We will begin working on the issues that affect the lives of our community. Being differently-gendered shouldn’t mean you lose your rights to your children, fair treatment in the workplace, or equal protection under the law, but it often does. It will be my job to assemble a nationwide team of attorneys, paralegals and other legal personnel to help change that.”

DiEdoardo is a paralegal based in San Diego whose legal experience ranges from civil rights to family law. Before working in the legal field, he was an investigative reporter for nearly a decade. In addition to his work with GenderPAC, he is a volunteer with the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer’s Program.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Fri 11 Oct 1996 20:31:44 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E42Is; Fri 11 Oct 1996 20:31:44 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Unsolved Midtown (Atlanta) Murder Linked to Transvestite Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:31:44 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610112031.E42Is@xconn.com>

Original Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:03:42 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted (with permission) from Southern Voice, 3 October, 1996

Unsolved Midtown Murder Linked to Transvestite Hustling

by Gareth Fenley

Atlanta– Police say a man shot to death in Midtown this summer may have been killed during an encounter with a transvestite prostitute. A continuing investigation has not identified a suspect.

Jerry C. Truelove, 50, was found in the passenger seat ofhis car August 11 at the corner of Durang and Fourth Street. The empty driver’s seat was in a reclining position, and Truelove was known to have picked up transvestite prostitutes in the neighborhood, said Atlanta homicide detective M. Walker.

There are no known eyewitnesses, although one man told police he overheard conversation in the car before the shotting. “He can’t be sure if it was a woman’s or a man’s voice,” Walker said.

Truelove, a carpenter originally from Gainesville (GA), was living inthe Morningside area. “People said he kept to himself and drank a lot of beer– cheap beer,” said Walker. “His family members didn’t think he was gay.”

Atlanta police administrator Mickey Lloyd briefly described the killing at the September 17 meeting of the Atlanta City Council Public Safety Committee’s gay and lesbian task force. The meeting disbanded early due to lack of a quorum. The task force meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7 pm in City Hall’s committee room one.

Detective Walker has previously run into dead ends in Midtown crime investigations. “In a couple of assault cases with homosexuals [involved], when we find the [victims] they don’t want to prosecute,” Walker said. “At some point, you’re going to have to stand up.”

Anyone with information about the death of Jerry Truelove may call Detective M. Walker at 404-853-3400.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Fri 11 Oct 1996 20:31:45 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E09HE; Fri 11 Oct 1996 20:31:45 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Police Edict’s Last Day: Fear and Hope Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:31:45 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610112031.E09HE@xconn.com>

Original Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:39:38 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Escrita en el Cuerpo – Lesbian and Pansexual Women’s Archives and Library Electronic News Service

POLICE EDICTS’ LAST DAY: FEAR AND HOPE

Today, October 10, the new statute for the autonomous Buenos Aires city was swore by the Governor, Mr. Fernando de la Rua, at 11 a.m. From then on, police has lost its power to arbitrarily arrest people. But, is it really so?

Transvestites and sex workers have been arrested in growing numbers during last week, to be inmediately released after police officers dutifully explained to them how their lot will be much worse under the new legislation. Why?

– Because the police makes considerable profit – estimated in $ 1.000.000 a week- by bribing and blackmailing sex workers, transvestites, illegal gamblers and others. It is very unlikely that they will voluntarily give up such a profitable business.

– Under the new legislation, people can be arrested only if they are caught in ‘a flagrant criminal act’. It is very easy for police officers to ‘produce’ those criminal acts, through the use of false witnesses, or by placing drugs in the house/car/clothes of anyone they want to accuse, etc.

Other worrying factor is that those contraventional judges who are needed for the new legislation to be enforced have not been appointed yet. They will be chosen by the Governor, Mr. de la Rua, a well known conservative politician. The first veredict issued by those judges will be the utmost importance – as it will settle a precedent.

This morning, a noisy and courageous group of transgender people, lesbians, gays and pansexuals placed themselves right in front of the Colon Theatre, where the statute was being sworn. Three people from the community were inside, invited along with other NGOs representatives. But the militant action took place in the street. For about 3 hours, members of ACT UP and Young Gays and Lesbians Group used their microphones to denounce the above stated facts to the representatives, specially invited guest and passers by. Sandra – a transgendered lawyer for whom it is almost impossible to practice her profession- used hers to educate the public on the daily sufferings of transgender people in police’s hands and also to provide pratical advice on how to act under police brutality in the light of the new legislation. A huge banner read: ‘Police Edicts are gone, the Federal Police is still killing us”.

Our VP, a very homophobic Mr. Carlos Ruckauf, had to face a crowd of activists demanding in angry voices for an answer to the unsolved deaths of 50 transvestites during his term as Internal Affais Minister (1993-1995). Activists resorted to irony when thanked those representatives who had contributed to the Edicts’ repeal against their will -mentioning them by name, as their were going out of the theatre. OTTRA’s activists were carrying a huge coffin with several names of police victims written on it.

Once the statute was swore, a few representatives walked through downtown giving copies of the statute to people who were passing by. The queer contingent followed them, helped them to distribute the copies, and enthusiastically greeted those who were the advocates of both the Edict’s repeal and the non-discriminatory clause: representatives Maria Jose Lubertino, Patricia Bullrich and Eugenio Zaffaroni. The event ended at the city cultural’s heart, the Obelisco, where the queer contingent plus Ms. Lubertino released a lot of colorful balloons as a symbol of ‘freedom for all genders’, in Nadia Echazu -OTTRA’s president- words.

>From now on, we will live among hopes and fears, in equal amounts.

Alejandra Sarda

Piedras 1170 1ero. B (1070) Buenos Aires, Argentina Phone: (54 1) 581 01 79 Fax: (54 1) 373 89 55 E.mail: ales@wamani.apc.org

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1996, 16 October

Subj: AEGIS-NEWS Digest Date: 96-10-16 04:52:28 EDT From: aegisnws@xconn.com (List Server) Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com To: thexgrrrl@aol.com

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:25:47

============================================================================= AEGIS-NEWS DIGEST

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 13 Oct 1996 09:08:48 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E73Fy; Sun 13 Oct 1996 09:08:48 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: “Transsexual” Challenges Group’s Membership Rules Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 09:08:48 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610130908.E73Fy@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:32:48 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

The following is reprinted from Etc., 11 October, 1996

Atlantan Dallas Denny, describingherself as “popularly believed to be a six-year post-operative transsexual woman,” sent a letter to the Society for

the Second Self, aka Tri-Ess, requesting full membership. Denny, who would not confirm in the letter whether or not she had had gender reassignment surgery in 1991, took the action to challenge Tri-Ess’s policy of granting full membership status only to heterosexual crossdressers and their female partners. “Because of categorizing people as they do and restricting membership, people get hurt,” Denny explained. “People often have issues around sexual orientation and transsexuality, so they go undercover for fear

of the other members. Then they pursue things unwisely, like having safe sex or getting hormones without counseling.” Denny says she met with Tri-Ess officersa t the Southern Comfort trans-community conference, held in

Atlanta Sept. 26-29, and that they expressed concern about the issues she raised. Denny does not expect her request to be granted, but has agreed to stop criticizing the group in exchange for Tri-Ess’ pledge to work with her to meet the needs of members who may be gay or transsexual. Nevertheless, Denny said after the conference, “The bottom line is, any organization that excludes gay people or transsexuals has a real problem.”

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 13 Oct 1996 09:08:48 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E36rZ; Sun 13 Oct 1996 09:08:48 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: DOMA Results in Genital Check for Marriage Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 09:08:48 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610130908.E36rZ@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:32:51 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

The following is reprinted from Etc., 11 October, 1996

Paul Smith of Painesville, OH, who has applied to change his name to Denise and plans to have sex reassignment surgery, must provide a judge with a doctor’s note certifying he still has male sex organs before he weds Oct. 12. Smith and bride-to-be Debi Easterday say they are lesbians. Lelia Rupp, who teaches history of gay and lesbian sexuality at Ohio State University, said the case highlights the difficulty of legisltating the status of relationships, while attorneys and government officials agree the marriage would still be legal after Smith’s surgery.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Tue 15 Oct 1996 18:55:26 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E48sF; Tue 15 Oct 1996 18:55:26 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Message-Id: <9610151855.E48sF@xconn.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:55:26

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:55:26 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: <receipent!address!incerted!here>

Original Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 21:11:16 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTS: Cheryl Chase, (415) 436-0585, CChase@ISNA.Org Riki Anne Wilchins, Riki@Pipeline.Com

INTERSEXED DECRY AMERICAN GENITAL MUTILATION ============================================

[San Francisco, CA – October 14, 1996] WHEN CONGRESS PASSED a bill outlawing African genital mutilation last week, American advocates of the intersexed were quick to point out that there is *plenty* of home-grown genital mutilation here at home — it’s the mutilation of intersexed children and it occurs in US hospitals every day.

Said Cheryl Chase, Executive Director of the Intersex Society of North America, “About 1 in 2,000 babies is born with genitals that are “queer,” and the response of American doctors is to cut them off, simply because they judge a clitoris to be ‘too large’ or a penis to be ‘too small.’ These infants have no say whatsoever in how their bodies are cut, and its outrageous that Congress didn’t address Intersex Genital Mutilation or IGM.”

“It’s For Your Own Good” ———————–

Doctors contend IGM is for the child’s own good. “Not so,” rejoins Chase hotly. “Ask any ISNA member. IGM has robbed us of our genitals and our sexual feeling. Most who survive IGM are also psychologically scarred for life, while others have committed suicide. Cutting infant genitals to fit heterosexist norms is *not* medicine; it’s mutilation in every sense of the word and it’s got to stop.”

Since Congress refused to act, some ISNA members have banded together to form “Hermaphrodites with Attitude” or HWA, a protest group which recently announced plans to picket hospitals where IGM is being performed.

5 Children Mutilated Each Day —————————-

Said an unnamed HWA spokes-herm, “Doctors are now cutting into 5 intersexed infants every day. If we can save just one helpless child from IGM it will be worth it. Congress has decided that African infants have the right to keep their genitals — now we’re fighting to win the same right for American children.”

Both HWA representatives were subjected to IGM at New York City’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Articles in the September issue of OUT Magazine and in a January issue of the NY Times profiled ISNA’s activities.

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1996, 19 October

Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:18:16

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>From listserv@xconn.com Thu 17 Oct 1996 17:29:23 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E50dq; Thu 17 Oct 1996 17:29:23 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: First-Ever Intersex Demonstation Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:29:23 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610171729.E50dq@xconn.com>

Original Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:46:34 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTS: Cheryl Chase 415-436-0585 CChase@ISNA.Org Riki Wilchins 212-645-1753 Riki@Pipeline.Com

HERMAPHRODITES WITH ATTITUDE CALLS FOR DEMONSTRATION ==============================

[New York City – October 17, 1996] IN AN unprecedented development, the new national protest group Hermaphrodites With Attitude (HWA) has called for a picketing of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The AAP has drawn heavy criticism from HWA activists for their complicity in Intersexed Genital Mutilation or IGM. The AAP is holding their annual meeting in Boston the last week in October, and the demonstration is believed to be the first ever by intersexed gender activists.

Said HWA spokes-herm Cheryl Chase, “The AAP will be teaching conference attendees how to ‘manage’ intersexed and queer genitals with surgery, secrecy and outright lying. No other patient group is cut up as we are without even a hint of consent. HWA is committed to stopping the barbaric practice of IGM so no more infants suffer through the mutilation we have endured.”

[See related article below.]

WHERE: the Hynes Center in Boston, MA WHEN: Saturday Oct 26, 12 Noon

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

Visit the AEGIS FTP Site: ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/aegis/ User ID: anonymous Password: (your email address)

If you’re on AOL, try the keyword AEGIS

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>From listserv@xconn.com Fri 18 Oct 1996 22:37:11 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E81jc; Fri 18 Oct 1996 22:37:11 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Virginia Prince: “Transsexuals Aren’t Human” Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 22:37:11 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610182237.E81jc@xconn.com>

Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:55:43 -0400

Virginia Prince: “Transsexuals Aren’t Human”

Contact Anne Lawrence, M.D., <LawrenceMD@aol.com>

Aging transgender pioneer Virginia Prince, writing in the October 1996 issue

of Cross-Talk, has denounced transsexuals as a group, compared them to terrorists and religious fundamentalists, and stated that transsexuals aren’t even human.

Prince is an Associate Editor of Cross-Talk, and is co-founder of the heterosexual cross-dressers’ group Tri-Ess, which does not admit transsexuals. In her editorial, Prince made the following controversial remarks:

” [Transsexuals] … are the fundamentalists who know what is best for everyone….”

“After all, for every TS in the country there are probably a thousand heterosexual males who [crossdress]….”

“…[N]obody made them have surgery, so now that they have had it, why don’t they just go about living their own lives, forming their own organizations and building their own amorphous (sic) psychology and leave the rest of us alone?”

“‘[W]hat is the difference between an Iranian terrorist…and a transsexual?’ The answer is that ‘you can negotiate with a terrorist.'”

” [Transsexuals] … look back … remembering the days when they were a kind of human…”

Prince serves as an honorary member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), an organization that seeks to represent the entire transgender community. All IFGE Board members are specifically required to pledge that they will represent the entire transgender community without bias. It is not clear whether IFGE regards Prince’s denunciations of transsexuals as consistent with this requirement.

A member of the transgender activist organization Transexual Menace, speaking under condition of anonymity, remarked: “We all owe a debt of gratitude to Virginia Prince for her past accomplishments; but as she becomes more senile, and her phobia about transsexuals becomes more virulent, she is an increasing embarrassment to the transgender community. If IFGE is to have any credibility with its transsexual members, it will have to remove Virginia from the Board.”

IFGE can be contacted at: voice (617) 899-2212; fax (617) 899-5703; e-mail <ifge@world.std.com>.

Cross-talk can be contacted c/o Editor Kym Richards at: <kymmer@xconn.com>.

**As posted in the Transgender Community Forum **On America Online (Keyword: TCF) **TCF Info: http://members.aol.com/glcfwendy/tcf

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1996, 26 October

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Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:28:14 -0400

Presbyterian Transsexual Ministers Ordination Upheld!

On October 22nd, Presbytery of Greater Atlanta followed the recommendation of the Committee on Ministry in voting to continue the ordination and authorize the ministry of counseling of Erin Swenson, a male-to-female transsexual minister.

In 1995, the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta (which is the local governing body for the Presbyterian Church (USA) declined an earlier recommendation from the committee to affirm her ordination. After some members indicated that the issue would have theological implications that could resonate on a national level, the presbetery sent the request back to committee.

“It’s actually the first time, that I know of, that a mainstream Protestant denomination has upheld the ordination of a minister who has transitioned within ordained office,” Ms. Swenson said. “The future seems a little brighter for all of us today.”

Ms. Swenson will be a guest in the Transgender Community Forum’s “Gazebo” chat room on America Online on Sunday, November 3rd, at 9 p.m. EST. Come and congratulate her on her victory, and discuss the implications of being both transsexual and a minister.

**As posted in the Transgender Community Forum **On America Online (Keyword: TCF) **TCF Info: http://members.aol.com/glcfwendy/tcf

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———————————————————————— NOTE: The AEGISNWS list is a one-way newsfeed. You may not post to it. Your comments and news items should be sent to <aegis@mindspring.com>. For listserv assistance, send the message HELP to <listserv@xconn.com>. Originally From: sysadmin@xconn.com Original Date: Sat, 19 Oct 96 20:44:56 PST My apologies for using my authority as Cross Connection’s system administrator to post directly to you, but a great injustice has been done and I do not believe you all should have to wait for the next digest to read my response.

I speak as the publisher and managing editor of “Cross-Talk” and I speak both for the magazine and for Virginia Prince, who is an associate editor and regular editorial columnist.

Dr. Anne Lawrence, posting to the Transexual Menace mailing list, called for action to be taken against Dr. Prince on the grounds of remarks she made in her October column, entitled “Gender Fundamentalists”. The remarks were taken out of context and thus the original meaning has been obscured.

Since I have the privilege, as copyright holder, to republish anything in the magazine’s pages (a legal privilege that Dr. Lawrence violated by using those out-of-context remarks without my permission), I am releasing the entire sections of Dr. Prince’s column from which the remarks are excerpted.

I believe that seeing the remarks in context will allow each individual reader to come to their own conclusions regarding Dr. Prince’s intent.

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EXCERPT: “[Transsexuals] … are the fundamentalists who know what is best for everyone …”

IN CONTEXT: The so-called “she-males” have grown long hair, had electrolysis, tracheal shaves maybe, face lifts and nose jobs but have not had genital surgery. They live full time and in many cases make their living from various kinds of sexual activities. Now I personally share many of these changes with them except for the sexual activities. But since I don’t share that aspect of their life with them I can’t share much empathy with them and certainly would not presume to speak for them in any debate about various aspects of their lives. By the same token I would not want any one of them to undertake to speak for me and other heterosexual transgenderists. So similarity is not the same as identity.

But there are those out there who feel that they can. I refer to them as Gender Fundamentalists because, like all other fundamentalists, they think they know best and know how things ought to be. So their message is “we have a hold on the *truth* and the *right* way … we know what’s best, so come over to our point of view and do things as they should be done.” It is strange but true that the ones who are most vocal, most in print and most publicly active are the transsexuals. Their main point of attack is Tri-Ess because of the policy (which in their anointed wisdom they like to term “exclusionary”) of selecting heterosexuals only, which conflicts with what they proclaim to be the only right way for a group to be … open to all comers. Why can’t they just let things lie and be the way the members of Tri-Ess want it to be? Because they are the fundamentalists who know what is best for everyone and take it as gender gospel that since God created all kinds of people (many of whom crossdress in one way or another and in various degrees), any group in our field should be open to anyone who walks in the door.

EXCERPT: “[Transsexuals] … look back … remembering the days when they were a kind of human …”

(and)

“… [N]obody made them have surgery, so now that they have had it, why don’t they just go about living their own lives, forming their own organizations and building their own amorphous (sic) psychology and leave the rest of us alone?”

(and)

“After all, for every TS in the country there are probably a thousand heterosexual males who [crossdress] …”

IN CONTEXT: The gays pay no attention to Tri-Ess because they don’t have to. They have their own political action activities, their own newspapers and magazines, their own restaurants and meeting places and they have achieved a pretty good level of social tolerance (I can’t quite say social acceptance). Why should they care if some hetero organization doesn’t want gays as members?

But those poor transsexuals! They don’t have any of the confidence building mechanisms that gays have. They don’t have anywhere to go because there are no effective organizations for TSs. So they remember somewhat longingly that they were crossdressers once and they kind of look back on those days with a kind of what might be called “sexual nostalgia” … remembering the days when they were a kind of human, a male or a female burdened with requirements and expectations to be sure, but nevertheless they fitted in somewhere. Now after surgery they are neither fish nor fowl since they have no reproductive organs of any kind and they probably could not survive without synthetic hormones of one kind or the other the rest of their lives. They are not really male and really not female and that has to be a major mental burden (although I am sure they would be the last to admit it). But nobody made them have the surgery, so now that they have had it, why don’t they just go about living their own lives, forming their own organizations and building their own amorphous psychology and leave the rest of us alone? We feel no need to bother them; why do they feel a need to bother us? (“Bother” in this case refers to their complaints about Tri-Ess’ policy of selectivity.) After all for every TS in the country there are probably a thousand heterosexual males who enjoy their little occasional “micro-vacations” of an evening, a weekend or a convention away from the limitations of masculinity.

>FROM THE DICTIONARY: a-mor-phous adj. formless

[Editor’s Note: I don’t know why Dr. Lawrence didn’t look up the word, choosing instead to treat it with the notation (sic), as if the word had either been misspelled or fabricated.]

EXCERPT: “`[W]hat is the difference between an Iranian terrorist … and a transsexual?’ The answer is that `you can negotiate with a terrorist.'”

IN CONTEXT: But some of the various kinds of people who make up our “coalition” are fundamentalists and believe that they know best how others should run their lives and their groups. It is bad enough when the facts led someone to make up the riddle “what is the difference between an Iranian terrorist (who are well known fundamentalists) and a transsexual?” The answer is that “you can negotiate with a terrorist.” But now we are being deprived of even that outlet since the fundamentalists have become the transsexuals and the transsexuals have become fundamentalists.

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Why has Dr. Lawrence carefully chosen remarks to take out of context and use them in an attempt to discredit Virginia Prince? Only she can answer that question, and I hope she will.

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List members:

I just got back from 10 days away. I know all hell broke loose while I was gone.

To recap:

Almost certainly in response to some of my recent writings, Virginia Prince wrote an article which appears in the most recent issue of Cross-Talk, entitled “Gender Fundamentalists,” in which she made some extremely derogatory statements about transsexuals. Anne Lawrence wrote a respone to the piece, which was posted to this list by Gwen Smith of AOL. Kym Richards, the publisher of Cross-Talk (and, incidentally, the person who is system administrator of XCONN, on which this list resides) made a post to the list providing longer excerpts from Virginia’s essay.

A number of list members have sent me e-mail for posting on the list; I’m still wading through the more than 150 posts which accumulated during my absence.

Although this obviously is a matter which needs discussion, this list is for news and press releases and was never meant to be a forum for disussion of issues, however important. Anne’s post should be considered for its news value, and Kymberleigh’s response an amplification.

I’ve been considering whether to post the various comments as letters to the editor.

Perhaps we could take the discussion to aegisnws’ sister newsgroup, gendhelp. Gendhelp is up and running, also on XCONN. It is designed to be a place for discussion of self-help, self-development, and transition-related issues, but I think discussion of issues about posts to aegisnws would be an acceptable use, providing that we remain civil. Anyone who is subscribed can post to gendhelp.

It’s not how I had planned to kick of the list, but it must start somehow. I’m going to post the letters to gendhelp, and those who wish can subscribe, read them, and begin discussion.

To subscribe to gendhelp, send e-mail to listserv@xconn.com. On the first line in the message area, type

subscribe gendhelp.

That should do it.

— Dallas Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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1996, 30 October

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 28 Oct 1996 20:51:21 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E73DD; Mon 28 Oct 1996 20:51:21 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: True Spirit Conference Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:51:21 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9610282051.E73DD@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:45:56 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: transman@netgsi.com

PRESS RELEASE TRUE SPIRIT CONFERENCE

If you identify as a f2m, mtm, transman, butch, tomboy, masculine female, drag king, or crossdresser, or are you a significant other, friend, family member, or ally (soffa) this conference is for you.

All gender variant people categorized at birth as female but feel that is not a complete description of their total selves are welcome to come and join others in exploring our true spirit within.

Keynote speaker: Leslie Feinberg author of Transgender Warriors and Stone Butch Blues. Feinberg came of age during the 1960s as a young drag king in the factories and gay bars of Buffalo, New York. Since then s/he has been a grass roots activist, journalist, and lecturer on behalf of the lesbian/gay/bi and transgender movements.

Other authors will include Gary Bowen, author of the Stoker Finalist novel, Diary of a Vampire; Cecilia Tan, editor of Genderflex; and others. The two day conference will feature speeches, presentations, workshops, panels, informal caucuses, a dance with live music by transgendered musicians, a pool party, and an exhibit hall with vendors and displays.

The Native American theme addresses the Spirit which moves within each of us, granting us visions of who we are and describing our complete essence. We will attempt to explore the manifestation of that essence in the material world as completely as we are able.

The Conference will take place February 22 – 23, 1997, at the Best Western Hotel in Laurel, Maryland (near Washington DC). Conference registrations are $15.00 before January 1, 1997, and $25.00 after. Deaf intrepretation, child care, scholarships, and other services are available on a first come, first serve basis.

Conference registrations to: True Spirit Conference Registrations, 26-A Ridge Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770-1759. Make checks payable to the American Boyz. Hotel reservations at: 301-776-5300 ask for the True Spirit Conference to get the special room rate: $65.00 for single or double occupancy.

Vendors and/or educational organizations with items or information of interest to the conference membership are welcome to advertise in the program book and/or to rent tables in the exhibit. Prepaid, camera-ready copy only, please. For more information, contact: True Spirit Conference Vendors, The American Boyz, POBox 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922-1118

Volunteers and input are appreciated. Pitch in to help make this a conference that addresses your needs. Liasons are available for people of color, soffas and differently-abled. The general contact eddress is: transman@netgis.com; the paper mail address is: True Spirit Conference, c/o The American Boyz, POBox 1118, Elkton, MD, 21922-1118.

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — The American Boyz is a mailing list for gender variant people of any orientation and those who support them; including but not limited to tomboys, butches, f2ms, transmen, drag kings, intersexuals, with our SOs, friends, family, and allies. For more info send a message to <majordomo@netgsi.com> with ‘info amboyz’ in the body of a message. Or write us at: P O Box 1118, Elkton, Md, 21922-1118. For more info about the True Spirit Conference, email: transman@tantalus.clark.net, or write to the American Boyz.

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Original Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:46:17 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: Riki Anne Wilchins <riki@pipeline.com> Subject: HERMAPHRODITES with ATTITUDE PICKET PEDIATRICIANS

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CONTACTS: Cheryl Chase CChase@ISNA.Org (707)775-3121 Riki Wilchins (212)645-1753 GPac@Gpac.Org

HERMAPHRODITES with ATTITUDE PICKET PEDIATRICIANS =============================

[Boston, MA – October 26, 1996] It was the *first* public demonstration by intersexuals in modern history, as 26 gender activists from across the spectrum gathered on this unseasonably warm fall day to protest the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) for their continued support of Intersexed Genital Mutilation (IGM). The protest, outside the AAP’s annual meeting, was jointly called by Hermaphrodites With Attitude (HWA) and The Transexual Menace.

IGM, touted by some as helping intersexed bodies achieve “normal genitals,” has been roundly denounced by hermactivists as the moral equivalent of giving homosexuals electroshock and lobotomy and help them achieve a “normal heterosexuality.”

Indeed, an astonishing statement issued to the attending media by the AAP’s PR department coolly observed that “6 weeks to 15 months seems the optimal period for [IGM].” Unable to find any medical justification, it relies entirely on concern for the infant’s “body image” and emotional development as the basis for IGM. [See AAP Statement excerpted below].

Conference attendees were by turns shocked, bewildered, and defensive as they emerged for lunchtime to face a battery of hermactivists armed with fliers, banners proclaiming “Hermaphrodites With Attitude!”, and brandishing posters demanding “Keep Your Scalpels OFF Intersexed Bodies!” A number of pediatricians stopped and chatted with protesters about their concerns. [See Flier text below].

Said spokes-herms Cheryl Chase and Riki Wilchins, “Queer sexuality, queer gender or queer genitals — medicine is obsessed with policing, regulating and suppressing difference. Cutting into an infant’s flesh and removing its genitals only to force it into an acceptable body image has *no* place in a civilized society; it is barbarism – there’s simply no other word.”

Perhaps the protest’s most poignant moment came when one HWA member who had lost all erotic sensation to IGM, was informed that her pediatrician was inside, chairing a panel on “managing” intersexed children. “That [deleted] cut off my clitoris, put it in formaldehyde, and has it in a jar” she cried, and then broke down in tears.

[AAP RELEASE BEGINS – Excerpted]

American Academy of Pediatrics Position on Intersexuality

…The Academy is deeply concerned about the emotional, cognitive, and body image development of intersexuals, and believes that successful early genital surgery minimizes these issues.

Research on children with ambiguous genitalia has shown that a person’s sexual body image is largely a function of socialization, and children whose genetic sexes are not clearly reflected in external genitalia can be raised successfully as members of either [sic] sex if the process begins before 2 & 1/2 years.

…From the viewpoint of emotional development, 6 weeks to 15 months seems the optimal period for genital surgery.

[AAP RELEASE ENDS – Excerpted]

[FLIER TEXT BEGINS]

PEDIATRICIANS TO INTERSEXED: DROP DEAD!

********************************* American Pediatricians cut into 5 intersexed infants every day to make their genitals cosmetically “normal.” Most will lose their genital sensation, some will later commit suicide. *********************************

Did you know… Pediatric surgeons admit they cut off our genitals just to make them “look better” and not for any medical reason. Intersexed Genital Mutilation (IGM) is not medicine!

Did you know… Pediatric surgeons operate on non-complaining intersexed children as young as 2 weeks to 2-3 years of age? Have they ever heard of “informed consent?”

Did you know… The AAP cravenly takes no stance on the surgical removal of infants genitals simply because a clitoris is “too large” or a penis “too small,” and it is our bodies which must pay the price.

HEY AAP! Get Your Scalpels OFF Our Bodies!!

We’re not quiet. We’re not well-behaved. And we’re not going away.

>From Hermaphrodites With Attitude: We’re here. We’re queer. Stop cutting into our goddamn bodies!

[FLIER TEXT ENDS]

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Original Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:46:25 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Subject: ACTIVISTS LEAFLET ACCUSED L.I. PRISONER RAPIST From: riki@nyc.pipeline.com (Riki Anne Wilchins)

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ACTIVISTS LEAFLET ACCUSED L.I. PRISONER RAPIST =========================

[Lindenhurst, Long Island NY] A SMALL GROUP of activists from The Transexual Menace leafleted this sleepy LI town this morning, protesting the alleged case of multiple prisoner rape against current Chief Roy Fries of the Lindenhurst Fire Department. Fries was a Sgt. in charge of Internal security for the Suffolk County Jail at the time of the alleged incidents.

According to an article on the front of the NY Times Metro section, Wednesday October 9th, for 6 years Maurice Mathie has pursued his charges that Fries sodomized him at least 20 times while he was in the Suffolk County Jail, including at least once after handcuffing him to a pipe.

Mathie, an openly gay prisoner currently in state prison for manslaughter, has just been awarded $750,000 by LI Federal Judge Arthur D. Spatt. Spatt reportedly based his finding on a long-standing internal report revealing Mathie had been to Fries office 35 times, that all visits were in the evening, that Sgt. Fries spent 7 times more time with Mathie than any other prisoner, and that Mathie had Fries unlisted home phone and address.

Asked why the Menace took on this action, a spokestrans declared, “Prison rape is a national disgrace. Yet gay activists ignore it for fear it will be once again be mis-labeled homosexual rape, and feminists ignore it for fear it dilutes their focus on womens rape. But gender-based oppression includes *all* forms of sexual violence because the person involved is genderqueer, genderdifferent, or as in this case, simply in a situation where they are gendervulnerable.

The group Stop Prison Rape reports that nearly 1 in 5 prison inmates will be sexually assaulted or harassed. About 90% of these incidents occur in prisoner-to-prisoner assaults, and almost all are between heterosexual inmates. Because they are at the mercy of other inmates and the prison system, it is extremely rare for prisoners to come forward.

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Original Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:46:28 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: riki@nyc.pipeline.com (Riki Anne Wilchins)

MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Riki Anne Wilchins (212)645-1753, GPac@Gpac.Org

PROTESTERS MEET WITH APA ===========================

[October 19, 1996 – Chicago, IL] IN WHAT MAY prove to be an historic meeting, four dozen demonstrators held a hour-long meeting with representatives of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) today during their national conference for hospital administrators and managers.

The demonstrators, a remarkably diverse group including members of Transexual Menace (NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Tampa), It’s Time America (Illinois, Wisconsin), Queer Nation, the Lesbian Avengers, TOPS, various leatherboys and at least one intersex person, spent the morning outside this conference at the downtown Marriot vigorously protesting the APA’s use of Gender Identity Disorder or GID.

Demonstrators carried signs saying “Hey APA! How Many GAY KIDS Did You Treat TODAY?”, “Get Your Laws OFF Our Bodies,” and and handed out a thousand fliers headed “FLASH! APA Discovers Members Have New Disorder: GenderPatho-Philia — an unnatural need to pathologize any gender behavior which makes you feel uncomfortable.” In a bit of guerrilla theater, some protesters managed to insert the flier in hundreds of the APA program guides so they were the first thing attendees saw when registering.

GID has drawn increasing fire from genderqueers for its use in pathologizing transpeople who simply want sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) as well as in diagnosing and “treating” queer teens whose sole symptom is their parents discomfort over gender- variance. While demonstrators expressed anger over GID, many stressed the need to maintain some basis for insurance reimbursement for individuals seeking SRS, but as a physical condition, like pregnancy, rather than a mental disorder, like schizophrenia.

Said Menace spoketrans/spokes-herm Riki Wilchins, “If I want my nose done, it’s a `nose job’ if I want my breasts done, it’s a `boob job,’ but if I want my groin done, suddenly I have a `mental disease.’ GID is *not* about psychiatry, it’s about punishing difference under the guise of practicing medicine.”

In a related development, the Menace, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), Hermaphrodites With Attitude (HWA), and the Int’l Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) have jointly called for picketing the APA’s national offices in Washington DC, as part of NGLTF’s annual “Creating Change” conference. The conference regularly attracts 2-3,000 queer activists from across the US, and this year will be held November 8-10 in DC.

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Original Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:46:54 -0500 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

BROTHER SISTER – QUEER NEWS FROM DOWNUNDER

TRANSGENDER IN SCHOOL ROW

*Tabloid newspapers and TV have pounced on the story of a male to female transgender teacher that has been forced into an office job away from the classrooms.*

Lee Oliver is at the centre of a row that has current affair programmes pitting parent against pupil.

Oliver was banned from drama teaching duties while the subject of disciplinary action stemming from her drama course at Rosebud Secondary College.

Now based at Dromana Secondary College, Oliver is working as an administrator but has requested to return to the classroom.

Oliver has to attend a disciplinary hearing later this month following complaints about a play that students were taken to see that featured male nudity.

There were other complaints from parents who felt that drama workshops that involved teenage girls talking about loud orgasms were inappropriate.

The teachers’ union representing Oliver, who is currently undergoing hormone treatment, are demanding that she be allowed back to teach immediately.

They have implied that Oliver has been removed from teaching duties because of her sex change treatment.

Susan Ure, a spokesperson for the Education Department denies that transgenderism is an issue with Oliver’s relocation.

One TV report showed Rosebud students as supporting Oliver and also demanding her return to teaching.

The Herald Sun reported one parent she was distressed by the situation after her daughter came home from school comparing her breast size with Oliver.

Other parents complained that Oliver was “flaunting” her sex change.

Mary Bluett, the vice-president of the Australian Education Union has said that it would have been better for Oliver to remain at home until the sex change was complete.

PRISCILLA MISSES THE BUS

The drag performers are hurriedly sewing on sequins; the DJ is joyfully unwrapping new CDs and the organisers are secretly stocking up on Valium. >From the “it had to happen” file is a drag queen tour heading out across the upper, dryer regions of this nation.

Known as the “Not the Priscilla Tour” , this drag show will be setting out in early November, cutting a glamourous path through the top end of Australia. “This tour is not just about having a good night out,” said organiser David Wells.

“More importantly,” he added, “it is about community development and bringing people together and providing a safe and secure venue by which people who do not normally feel comfortable about going out, can go out”.

The organisers in each of the towns they visit are putting together gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender “mini- expos” that will precede the drag performance. Steve Lambert, another spokesperson for the touring group said, “The idea is that as many community groups, organisations, and businesses who work with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community will display their services and wares”.

Unfortunately, the idea of taking a big bus has not eventuated. Organisers did not get enough takers to make the big bus idea viable, but they are hoping that six drag queens hitting any town will be enough to cause a bit of a stir.

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American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. P.O. Box 33724 Decatur, GA 30033-0724 770-939-2128 770-939-1770 FAX aegis@mindspring.com For Immediate Release

30 October, 1996 As an organization dedicated to serving the needs of transsexual men and women, AEGIS is egregiously offended by “Gender Fundamentalists,” an article by Virginia Prince which appeared in Cross-Talk #84, October, 1996.

In the article, Dr. Prince declares transsexuals non-human and otherwise lambasts them:

(Transsexuals) remember somewhat longingly that they were crossdressers once and they kind of look back on those days with a kind of what might called “sexual nostalgia”… remembering the days when they were a kind of human, a male or a female burdened with requirements and expectations to be sure, but nevertheless fitted in somewhere. Now after surgery they are neither fish nor fowl since they have no reproductive organs of any kind and they probably could not survive without synthetic hormones or one kind or the other the rest of their lives. They are not really male and really not female that has to be a major mental burden (although I am sure they would be the last to admit it). But nobody made them have the surgery, so now that they have had it, why don’t they just go about living their own lives, forming their own organizations and building their own amorphous psychology and leave the rest of us alone?

We deplore Dr. Prince’s untrue and unfounded characterizations of transsexual people, and register our indignation on behalf of transsexuals and right-thinking people everywhere.

Please contact Cross-Talk publisher Kymberleigh Richards and the Society for the Second Self to make your feelings about Dr. Prince’s article known.

Kymberleigh Richards Society for the Second Self Publisher, Cross-Talk P.O. Box 194 P.O. Box 944 Tulare, CA 93275 Woodland Hills, CA 91365 (210) 438-7788 (Central) (818) 776-3053 (209) 688-9246 (Pacific) kymmer@xconn.com jeftris@aol.com

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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