AEGIS Internet News, September 1996

Original Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 22:10:09 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Posted by Rex Wockner; reposted with Permission

NEWS from the Human Rights Campaign

1101 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20005 email: communications@hrcusa.org WWW: http://www.hrcusa.org ________________________________________________________

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Sept. 5, 1996

SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERS TORPEDO DEBATE AGREEMENT ON DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT Motivation: Fear that ENDA Would Pass

WASHINGTON — The so-called Defense of Marriage Act will not come to a vote in the Senate today because Republican leaders proposed a series of amendments intended to undermine the terms of debate, the Human Rights Campaign asserted.

“We believe these amendments were offered when it became clear that our side was on the verge of passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as an amendment to the Defense of Marriage Act,” said Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s deputy director for legislation. “However, the odds remain very favorable that ENDA will still come up for a vote in the this Senate.”

Late Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., announced that the anti-gay marriage bill was mired in controversy. They said they would continue negotiating over possible amendments, and indicated that the bill would probably come up for a vote in the Senate next week.

The terms of debate on the anti-gay marriage bill were defined by a unanimous consent agreement reached before Congress recessed last month. Each side had agreed to offer up to four amendments to the overall bill.

Almost immediately, HRC proposed offering the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as an amendment to the anti-gay marriage bill as a means to call the bluff of those extremist senators who claimed the Defense of Marriage Act was not motivated by bigotry. ENDA would outlaw employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., James Jeffords, R-Vt., and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., agreed to offer the ENDA amendment. However, the other amendments to the overall bill were not revealed publicly until Wednesday.

The GOP’s amendments were proposals to reimburse the legal fees of White House travel office employees; to revoke the District of Columbia’s authority to reform its welfare program; and to block unions from using dues for political purposes.

The Democrats offered three other amendments that would have expanded federal jurisdiction in hate crimes against gays; guaranteed new mothers up to 48 hours in the hospital after delivery; and deny guns to anyone convicted of domestic violence.

The Human Rights Campaign is the largest national lesbian and gay political organization, with members throughout the country. It effectively lobbies Congress, provides campaign support and educates the public to ensure that lesbian and gay Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.

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Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 22:10:15 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reposted with Permission

From: Rex Wockner <rwockner@NETCOM.COM> Subject: NC1531: EXTREMELY URGENT: READ THIS AND ACT NOW!!! OUR “FRIENDS” HAVE APPARENTLY CAVED IN ON DOMA! CALL YOUR SENATOR RIGHT NOW!!! To: GLB-NEWS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

FORWARDED BY GAY ACTIVIST DOUG CASE Doug.Case@sdsu.edu

———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:02:58 -0800 From: Doug Case <Doug.Case@sdsu.edu> Subject: EXTREMELY URGENT: READ THIS AND ACT NOW!!! OUR “FRIENDS” HAVE APPARENTLY CAVED IN ON DOMA! CALL YOUR SENATOR RIGHT NOW!!!

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM BEHIND ENEMY LINES (THE AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION) WAS RECEIVED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON (SEPTEMBER 4):

Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!

SUBJECT: THE FEDERAL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)

We have just received word that Senator Kennedy has broken the unanimous consent agreement and withdrawn his cronies’ amendments to DOMA. This means that it is very likely that the GOP will ask for a cloture vote to stop any more stalling. If this gets 60 votes, then DOMA gets voted on in clean fashion.

We need to urge the Senate to act immediately (today or tomorrow at the latest). Word from the Hill is that the liberals are folding because of relentless grass-roots pressure. There will likely be a vote on Friday (September 6) for cloture on a motion to precede, then vote on Tuesday on a second cloture to get to DOMA itself, and then a vote for the bill itself.

ACTION ITEM: Keep calling senators. We can’t afford to let this drift. We want a clean, swift vote on cloture for DOMA. Callers need to get specific about these votes, just request that the senator vote for DOMA. Here is a list of question-mark senators on DOMA:

(The area code for Washington, D.C. is 202)

AL Howell Heflin (D) 224-4124 fax 224-3149 AK Ted Stevens (R) 224-3004 fax 224-2354 AR David Pryor (D) 224-2353 fax 228-3973 Dale Bumpers (D) 224-4843 fax 224-6435 DE Joe Biden (D) 224-5042 fax 224-0139 FL Bob Graham (D) 224-3041 fax 224-2237 GA Sam Nunn (D) 224-3521 fax 224-0072 IA Tom Harkin (D) 224-3254 fax 224-9369 KS Shelia Frahm (R) 224-6521 fax 228-1245 Nancy Kassebaum (R) 224-4774 fax 224-3514 LA John Breaux (D) 224-4623 fax 224-4628 Bennet Johnston (D) 224-5824 fax 224-2952 ME Bill Cohen (R) 224-2523 fax 224-2693 Olympia Snowe (R) 224-5344 fax 224-1946 MO Christopher Bond (R) 224-5721 fax 224-8149 MT Max Baucus (D) 224-2651 fax 224-1974 NE James Exon (D) 224-4224 fax 224-5213 NV Richard Byron (D) 224-6244 fax 224-1867 Harry Reid (D) 224-3542 fax 224-7327 NY Alfonse D’Amato (R) 224-6542 fax 224-5871 ND Kent Conrad (D) 224-2043 fax 224-7776 Byron Dorgan (D) 224-2551 fax 224-1193 OR Mark Hatfield (R) 224-3753 fax 224-0276 PA Arlen Specter (R) 224-4254 fax 224-1893 SC Ernest Hollings (D) 224-6121 fax 224-4293 WA Slade Gorton (R) 224-3441 fax 224-9393 WV John Rockefeller (D) 224-6472 fax 224-7665 WY Alan Simpson (R) 224-3424 fax 224-1315 Craig Thomas (R) 224-6441 fax 224-1724

*You may also call 1-800-962-3524 and ask to speak with your senator.

===================================================================== Please tell a friend about the AFA ACTION ALERT Register on the world wide web at: http://www.gocin.com/afa/home.html

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

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Originally From: aegisnws-digest@xconn.com Original Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 04:08:57

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A MESSAGE FROM KYMBERLEIGH RICHARDS, SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR AT CROSS CONNECTION:

If part of this digest looks familiar, it’s because I’m erring on the side of caution and duplicating everything that’s come through here since Sunday morning the first.

We had severe problems with our mail server the first part of the week and I can’t tell for certain if we managed to send the Tuesday morning digest or not. So if we did and the first part of this digest is a duplication, my apologies.

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>From aegis@mindspring.com Sun Sep 1 06:49:15 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id F9317xv; Sun 1 Sep 1996 08:07:47 Received: from answerman.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id GAA00626; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 06:49:15 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by answerman.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA12560 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 09:49:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199609011349.JAA12560@answerman.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 10:05:26 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: Britain Supports Gays Abused with Aversion Therapy

>From Wockner/Int’l News #120 Reprinted with permission.

Aversion therapy is a procedure (a series of procedures, actually), designed to reduce the frequency of or eliminate a behavior. It is frequently done on children who do not conform to traditional gender norms.

Some of these gender nonconforming children grow up to be heterosexual, and some homosexual. Few grow up to be transgendered. However, even if only a small proportion of these children are pre-trans, many trans children are gender nonconforming from an early age, and at risk for aversion therapy. Some of my acquaintances have in fact had aversion therapy– so the following news from the UK is of considerable interest.

— Dallas

><< BRITAIN SUPPORTS GAYS ABUSED WITH AVERSION THERAPY >> ** > > Britain’s Health Ministry says gays who were treated with >”aversion therapy” to make them straight deserve compensation >from the doctors who abused them. > Such therapy — no longer available in Britain — usually >involved showing homosexuals gay pornography while administering >strong electric shocks, or drugs that cause vomiting. > The ministry’s statement came in response to a demand for >comment issued by Peter Tatchell of the activist group OutRage, >which itself was responding to new interviews with aversion- >therapy victims by the BBC and the gay publications Thud and Gay >Times. > “Those doctors have wrecked lives,” Tatchell said.

>From aegis@mindspring.com Sun Sep 1 06:49:28 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id F8208RV; Sun 1 Sep 1996 08:07:48 Received: from answerman.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id GAA19241; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 06:49:28 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by answerman.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA12586 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 09:49:24 -0400 Message-Id: <199609011349.JAA12586@answerman.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 10:05:38 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: More from Deb Price

From: StressGone@aol.com

The continuation of Deb Price’s article follows for those who are interested. Deb Price is a nationally syndicated columnist and writes articles on gay and lesbian issues. Her column appears in majoe newspapers around the U.S.

The original e-mail ended with the paragraph beginning… Now, nearly a century later, a growing number………and ends with— a family.

” Take the Hensons, for example. Two years ago, when Brenda and Wanda sparked a ruckus by building a lesbian retreat in the Mississippi backwoods, even folks who’d rather be bitten by a rattlesnake acknowledge the legitimacy of a gay relationship called them “the Hensons.” ( Brenda traded in her ex-husband’s name for her mother’s single name, Henson. Wandapaid a $22 legal fee to share the name.)

News accounts of the women’s determination not to be run off their land kept repeating, “the Henson’s, who consider themselves married,” even though Brenda and Wanda had never used that phrase. Brenda now says, ” If you have the same last name, it’s the world that considers you married.”

Having started a food bank in Ovett, Miss., the Hensons’ new reputation is as the women “feeding grandma.” Brenda says their shared name helped reduce tensions by causing quite a few locals to think, ” Well, you know, they’re a family. They care about each other. They didn’t come here to cause any trouble.”

By contrast, the Chandlers of Delaware have had to fight to use the same last name. Kim applied to take Chris’ name before their holy union ceremony last year. ” I just wanted to do everything traditionally,” she explains.

Changing a name tends to be simple, if it’s not done to flee from cops or creditors. Yet a judge said Kim couldn’t become a Chandler. The state, the judge ruled, mustn’t help her set up an “informal substitute for marriage between members of the same sex.” A higher court recently intervened to let Kim and Chris be joined at the surname.

Meanwhile, the Layton-Rodins haven’t had a fight at all. Dennis and Joshua alphabetized and hyphenated their last names to show they’re equal partners. When the couple mingles at parties or goes through Customs, their hybrid name makes clear they’re together.

Since American men rarely change names, people often jump to the wrong conclusions if they meet just one Layton-Rodin. ” In the States,” they explain via e-mail,”people tend to think you are a progressive straight guy married to a liberated woman. but we lived this past year in London, and in Great Britain double – barreled names…. (are ) a sign of snooty upper-class pprestige.”

Same sex couples always have sailed through this world in search of power and respect. Invisibilty once seemed the only route to those prizes. Now, thank goodness, visibilty is a surer course.

>From aegis@mindspring.com Sun Sep 1 18:53:10 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id D6631VS; Sun 1 Sep 1996 20:28:19 Received: from itchy.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id SAA10914; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 18:53:10 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by itchy.mindspring.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA18601 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:53:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609020153.VAA18601@itchy.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 22:09:20 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: Call Your Congress Person and Charge it to the Religious Right!

Check the toll-free number near the end of this message. It can be used to call toll-free your congressperson– senators for sure, and I believe, also representatives. The number is paid for the the Christian Coalition.

— Dallas

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>Dear Friend, > >Using the toll-free, hassle-free Christian Coalition direct line to Congress >(given at the end of this plea), I ask all Gays and Gay-friendlies in Georgia >to call the office of Senator Nunn. > >The message? Vote for ENDA (the Employment NonDiscrimination Act), which >will prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the >workplace. It is the brainchild of the Human Rights Campaign. > >On September 5, a vote over our human rights will take place on the floor of >the U.S. Senate. ENDA will be offered in the form of an amendment to the >so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA, as you may know, is designed >to curtail legal recognition of same-sex marriages, if and when they become >reality in Hawaii. Politically speaking, however, DOMA is nothing more than >gratuitous election-year gay-bashing that religious political extremists >think will work for them. > >The reason why DOMA has been stalled as long as it HAS been in the Senate is >because our friends Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. John Chafee (R-RI) >threatened to amend DOMA with ENDA. Quite simply, this proposed ENDA >Amendment calls the bluff of any and all senators who say they are not >anti-Gay, but will vote for DOMA. > >If this ENDA Amendment strategy fails, then voters throughout the U.S. will >see DOMA as the gay-bashing election-year tactic that it is and will hold >anti-Gay senators accountable at election time. According to the latest >Newsweek poll, 84 percent of Americans oppose job discrimination against gay >people. A poll by the Mellman group found that 73 percent of Americans feel >that other issues are more important for Congress to consider than DOMA. > >If this ENDA Amendment strategy succeeds, then we will have taken some lemons >and made some lemonade. We most probably will lose the big unconstitutional >fight over gay marriage recognition in the legislative arena, but, at the >same time, we would BEGIN to have in our court system some legal redress of >employment discrimination on a national basis–NOT just in seven states that >have us already protected on the basis of sexual orientation. > >Senator Nunn is a BIG, big target for grassroots lobbying from us. If we can >get the support of Nunn for ENDA (which strategically exempts military >service), then about 4-7 other senators will follow his lead. We are not >that far away from a simple majority to pass ENDA, and Nunn is showing signs >of softening his knee-jerk resistance against our employment >nondiscrimination issue. Let him hear from you. > >Realizing that there was momentum in our building support for ENDA, the >Christian Coalition (who thinks it’s asking too much that we keep our jobs) >was pushing for a Senate vote on DOMA BEFORE the Labor Day recess (August 5 >through September 3). The fact that it did not happen back then was a good >sign that senators are taking this issue seriously. > >Once again, Thursday, September 5 is the scheduled vote, but don’t put off >until later to call, fax or write Nunn’s office. Do it now! > >During business hours, call the aforementioned toll-free, hassle-free >Christian Coalition line to Congress at 800-962-3524. Ask for Senator Nunn’s >office. When they answer, leave a message with a staff member that you are a >constituent and that you want your senator to co-sponsor ENDA. No bill >number is necessary. ENDA has a life of its own and they will know EXACTLY >what you mean. > >Here are some back-up info, as well. > >D.C. phone: 202-224-3521 >D.C. fax line: 202-224-0072 >Atlanta, GA district office phone: 404-331-4811 >Columbus, GA district office phone: 706-327-3270 >Perry, GA district office phone: 912-987-1458 > >for letter-writing (the best form of grassroots lobbying), address as such: >The Honorable Sam Nunn >United States Senate >Washington, DC 20510 > >I could also use help, ESPECIALLY in non-metro Atlanta Georgia, in pushing >postcards asking Nunn to vote for ENDA. They are ideal for getting those >Gays and Gay-friendlies with writer’s blocks to bombard Nunn’s office with >mail. Just reply back to me as to how many postcards you want. Limit is 30 >cards. > >Sorry, Nunn is behind the times for e-mail correspondences. If you want one >hand-delivered by the Human Rights Campaign, access the HRC website at >http://www.hrcusa.org. > >Thank you for your attention and interest in keeping Nunn’s office hopping on >this issue! > >Marlin Knapp, >concerned citizen and HRC member, >Atlanta, GA >

________________________________________________________________________ Caitlin Flowers Telephone: 404.894.7195 Electronic Systems Laboratory Fax: 404.894.7080 Georgia Tech Research Institute email: caitlin.flowers@gtri.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0800

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

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>From GLCFWendy@aol.com Mon Sep 2 19:57:33 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id D8120Rh; Mon 2 Sep 1996 20:57:27 Received: from emout12.mail.aol.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id TAA02427; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 19:57:33 -0700 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Received: by emout12.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA20477 for aegispst@xconn.com; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:57:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:57:32 -0400 Message-ID: <960902225731_275582413@emout12.mail.aol.com> To: aegispst@xconn.com Subject: True Spirit Conference, Please Repost

Originally From: transman@tantalus.clark.net

Please repost to interested forums. Please drop a line to <transman@tantalus.clark.net> to let us know where you reposted it. If you received this announcement, you will receive other announcements about the conference. If you do not wish to receive further announcements, please let us know and we will be happy to remove your name from our mailing list.

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True Spirit Conference

Are you struggling to define and to defend your True Spirit? Do you identify as a f2m, mtm, transman, butch, tomboy, masculine female, drag king, crossdresser, intersexual, third sex, bigender, shape shifter, or morpher? Are you a significant other, friend, family member, or ally (soffa)?

Then regardless of self-identity, race, color, orientation, gender, or physical ability, you’ll find conference and community at the True Spirit Conference, “True to the Spirit Within” in February, 1997, in Washington, DC. All gender variant people assigned female gender at birth who feel that is not an adequate description of who they are–including, but not limited to this list above–are welcome.

Conference chairperson Gary Bowen, who is Apache-Welsh descent, explains the Native American conference theme: “We must be true to the Spirit within. The Spirit moves in each of us, granting us visions of who we are and how we are supposed to be, and our duty as human beings is to manifest our spirit in the material world as fully as we are able, by whatever means enables others to see who we really are.”

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@tantalus.clark.net; 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 guys of any orientation and those who support them; including but not limited to tomboys, butches, f2ms,transmen, drag kings, intersexuals. For more info contact: <f2m-admin@tantalus.clark.net> and ask for the ‘Welcome & Info’ article; or write: P O Box 1118, Elkton, Md, 21922-1118. For more info about the True Spirit Conference, email: transman@tantalus.clark.net

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

>From aegis@mindspring.com Mon Sep 2 22:34:00 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id D4248sp; Mon 2 Sep 1996 22:57:47 Received: from itchy.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id WAA25751; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:34:00 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by itchy.mindspring.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA14093 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 01:33:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609030533.BAA14093@itchy.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 01:50:12 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: True Spirit Conference

From: transman@tantalus.clark.net

Please repost to interested forums. Please drop a line to <transman@tantalus.clark.net> to let us know where you reposted it. If you received this announcement, you will receive other announcements about the conference. If you do not wish to receive further announcements, please let us know and we will be happy to remove your name from our mailing list.

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True Spirit Conference

Are you struggling to define and to defend your True Spirit? Do you identify as a f2m, mtm, transman, butch, tomboy, masculine female, drag king, crossdresser, intersexual, third sex, bigender, shape shifter, or morpher? Are you a significant other, friend, family member, or ally (soffa)?

Then regardless of self-identity, race, color, orientation, gender, or physical ability, you’ll find conference and community at the True Spirit Conference, “True to the Spirit Within” in February, 1997, in Washington, DC. All gender variant people assigned female gender at birth who feel that is not an adequate description of who they are–including, but not limited to this list above–are welcome.

Conference chairperson Gary Bowen, who is Apache-Welsh descent, explains the Native American conference theme: “We must be true to the Spirit within. The Spirit moves in each of us, granting us visions of who we are and how we are supposed to be, and our duty as human beings is to manifest our spirit in the material world as fully as we are able, by whatever means enables others to see who we really are.”

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@tantalus.clark.net; 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 guys of any orientation and those who support them; including but not limited to tomboys, butches, f2ms,transmen, drag kings, intersexuals. For more info contact: <f2m-admin@tantalus.clark.net> and ask for the ‘Welcome & Info’ article; or write: P O Box 1118, Elkton, Md, 21922-1118. For more info about the True Spirit Conference, email: transman@tantalus.clark.net

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)

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ICTLEP ————————————– THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSGENDER LAW AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY, INC. aka The Transgender Law Conference aka TRANSGEN”__ (year of conference)

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INDEX OF PROCEEDINGS I – IV (01 Se 96)

Beginning in August of 1992, ICTLEP has held an annual conference (with continuing legal education credits) dealing with issues of transgender law and employment policy that have been attended by both attorneys and laypersons, both transgendered and not transgendered, and both from inside and outside of the United States. Each year many of the reports and presentations are transcribed by a court reporter and are published along with relevant other documents to become that year’s Proceedings.

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(NOTE: The following index was compiled by one volunteer. As you discover errors or omissions, please write them down or mark them on a copy of the Index and send to ICTLEP office.)

(NOTE: It is hoped that Proceedings V will be available in late Fall of 1996, but much of that depends upon the amount of volunteer help we receive.) ______________________________________________________________________________

AIDS in Transgender Community and High-Risk Behavior — “High-Risk Project Update”, IVpp125-127

Areas of Transgender Law, Reports from — Anti-Discrimination Law Project Report 1992, Ipp276-282; also findings and recommendations leading to adoption of San Francisco ordinance, IIIppM-1thru22; also Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17 — Criminal Law Project Report 1992, Ipp283-294; IIIp104 — Documentation Law Project Report 1993, IIpp76-80, A2-1thru4; 1994, IIIpp104, 119-135, G-1thru32; 1995, IVpp141-162, H-1thru24 — Education in Transgender Issues Project Report 1993, IIpp83-88 — Employment Law Project Report 1992, Ipp185-204; 1993, IIpp116-125, A6-1thru10; 1994, IIIpp59-70, 104-106; 1995, IVpp71-78(6) and E-1thru25 — Family Law Project Report 1992, Ipp295-323; 1993, IIpp142-150, A10-1thru4; 1994, IIIpp86-87, 105 — Health Law Project Report 1992, Ipp244-275; 1993, IIpp101-107, A5-1thru16 and reprinted IVppC-1thru13; 1994, IIIpp107-117; IVppiv-vii — Housing Law Project Report 1992, Ipp138-149 — Imprisonment Law Project Report 1993, IIpp3, 134-141; 1994, IIIpp83-86; 1995, IVpp136-139 — Insurance Law Project Report 1992, Ipp150-159, 267-268; 1993 IIpp126-133; 1994, IIIppF-1thru12; 1995, IVpp121-125 — International Bill of Gender Rights Project Report 1993, IIpp6-7, 151-156, A12-1thru4; 1994, IIIpp2-3, 78-83; 1995, IVppviii-xi, 70-85 — Intervention Law Project Report 1993, IIpp90-96; IIIpp103-106 — Military Law Project Report 1992, Ipp115-133; 1993, IIpp96-100; Survey, IippA4-1thru4; 1994, IIIpp75-78; 1995, IVpp87-94 — Probate Law & Civil Commitment Project Report 1992, Ipp161-173; IIIpp103-106

Award Winners — Transgender Advocate (tg or non-tg, atty effecting tg legal changes) — 1st: 1994, Connie Moore, “Challenging the System, Honestly and Out!”, IIIpp150-154 — 2nd: 1995, Shelly Salieri (on audio tape) — 3rd: 1996, Stephen Whittle, (in Proc V) — Transgender Champion (non-tg, non-atty, effecting tg legal changes) — 1st: 1995, Raymond Wayne Hill (on audio tape) — Transgender Pioneer (tg, non-atty, effecting tg legal changes) — 1st: 1994, Cissy G. Conley, “A Successful Transistion with the US Air Force Civil Service”, IIIpp54-58 — 2nd: 1995, Jane Fee, “Minnesota: The First State to Enact Legislation That Explicitly Protects the Transgendered From Discrimination”, IIIpp14-21 — 3rd: 1995, Jamison Green (on audio tape) — 4th: 1996, Sarah DePalma (in Proc V) — 5th: 1996, Jessica M. Xavier (in Proc V)

Bill of Gender Rights, The International; 1993, IIpp6-7, 151-156; 1994, IIIpp2-3, 78-83; 1995, IVppviii-xi, 70-85

Book Citations and References: — The Apartheid of Sex, (Martine Rothblatt) IIIp107-117; Ivpp33-41 — The Bell Curve, IVpp39 — Bodyshock: The Truth About Changing Sex, Ip257 — Hitler’s Justice, The Courts of the Third Reich, Ip64 — The Men with the Pink Triangle, IIppA1-1 — “Self-Transformability”, 65S.Cal.L.Rev.121,165 (1991), (Ron Garrot) Ip271; IIpp175-182 — Stone Butch Blues, and Transgender Liberation, (Leslie Feinberg) IIp66 — Transgender Nation, (Gordene MacKenzie) IIIp92 — The Transsexual Empire, (Joan Raymond) IVpp22-33 — Transvestism, Transsexualism and the Law (Stephen Whittle, England, cover page and table of contents only), IIIppK-18-20; IVpp22-33

Case Law Citations: — Abston v Levi Strauss & Co., 683F.Supp.152 (E.D.Tex. 1987), Ip91 — Adoption of B.L.V.B v E.L.V.B (full text) IIPPA11-1thru12 — Aiello v United Air Lines, 818F.2d.1196 (5thCir. 1987), Ip90 — Anonymous v Anonymous, 67Misd2d.982 (NY 1971), Ip312 — Anonymous v Weiner, 50Misc2d.380 (NY 1966), Ip311; IVppA-5 — B. V B., 78Misc2d.112 (NY 1974), Ip312 — Baker v Baker, CauseNo.92-B0410,300thJudicialDistrictCourt, BrazoriaCounty, Texas, Ip313; Pleading Ipp319-323 — Baker v Wade, 553F.Supp.1121 (N.D.Tex. 1982), Ip84 — Barnett v Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, 1994WL400819 (9thCir. 1994), IIIppF-6thru7; IVp124 — Ben-Shalom v Marsh, 881F.2d.454 (7thCir. 1989), Ip77 — Berry v Doctor’s Health Facilities, 715SW2d.60 (Tex.App.-Dallas 1986), Ip90 — Blackwell v Treasury Dept, 830F.2d.1183 (1987), Ip206; IIppA6-2 — Boland v King County Medical Blue Shield, 798F.Supp.638 (WA 1992), IIIpF-7 — Bowers v Hardwick, 478U.S.186 (1986), Ip73 — Breen v Kahl, 419F2d.1034 (7thCir. 1969), Ip292 — C & D (falsely called C), FLC90-636 (Austl. 1979), Ip312 — Christian v Randall, 516P2d.132 (CO 1973), Ip314 — Cisek v Cisek, 1982WL6161 (OH App 1982), Ip314 — City of Chicago v Wallace Willson, et.al., 389NE2d.522 (1978), Ip287 — City of Cincinnati v Adams, 330NE2d.463 (1974), Ip287 — City of Columbus v Zanders, 266NE2d.602 (1970), Ipp286, 288 — City of Houston v Raymond Wayne Hill, 107 S.Ct.2502, Ipp47-57 — Collins v Secretary of the Commonwealth, 556NE2d.348 (Mass. 1990), Ip99 — Columbus v Rogers, 324NE2d.563 (1975), Ip288 — Corbett v Corbett, 2All E.R.33, 1970, Ipp251, 312; IVppA-7thru14 — Cowan v Myers, 232Cal.Rptr.299 (1987), IIIpF-8 — D.C. and M.S. v City of St. Louis, Missouri, 795F2d. 562 (8thCir. 1986), Ip288 — Daly v Daly, 715P2d.56 (Nev 1986), Ip313 — Davidson v Aetna Life & Casualty, 101Misc2d.1, 1979, Ip256 — Dean v Ford Motor Credit Co., 885F.2d.300 (5thCir. 1989), Ip93 — Doe v Department of Public Welfare, 257NW2d.816,818 (Minn. 1977), Ip254 — Doe v McConn, 489F.Supp.76 (S.D.Tex. 1980), Ip288 — Doe v State of Minnesota, 257NW2d.816 (1977) IIIpF-2thru3 — Doe v USPS, 37FEP Cases1867 (D.C.DC 1985), Ip206; IippA6-2; IVppE-4thru5, 10thru15 — Dronenburg v Zech, 741F.2d.1388,1398 (D.C.Cir.1984), Ip74 — East Line & R.R.R. Co. V Scott, 72Tex.70, 10SW2d.99 (1888), Ip88 — Fiorenza v First City Bank Central, 710F.Supp.1104 (E.D.Tex. 1988), Ip94 — Griswold v Connecticutt, 381US479 (1965), Ip293 — Grossman v Bernards Township Board of Education 538F.2d.319 (3rdCir.1976), Ip205; IIppA6-2 — High Tech Gays v Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office, 668F.Supp.1361,1368 (N.D.Cal. 1987), Ip78 — Holloway v Arthur Anderson and Company, 566F.2d.659 (9thCir.1977), Ipp205, 247; IippA6-6; IVpE-4 — In re Darnell, 619P2d.1349 (OR 1980), Ip313 — In re Ladrach, 32Ohio Misc2d.6 (1987), Ip313 — In re Marriage of C. And D., 35F.L.R.340 (Austl. 1979) — In re T.J., 1988WL8302 (MinnApp 1988), Ip314 — In the Matter of Anonymous, 57Misc2d.813,815, 1968, Ip248 — Jacob v Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oregon, 92Or.App259 (1988), IIIpF-8 — Jane Doe v Boeing, 823P2d.1159 (WA 1992), IIpp120-121, A6-4; IVppE-17thru18 — Jantz v Muci, 769F.Supp.1543 (D.Kan. 1991), Ip80 — Joachim v AT&T Information Systems, 793F2d.113 (5thCir. 1986), Ip90 — Johnson v District 2 Marine Engineers, 857F2d.514 (_thCir. 1988), IIIpF-8 — Johnson v Ford Motor Co., 690SW2d.90 (Tex.App.-Eastland 1985), Ip91 — Johnston v Del Mar Distributing Co., 776SW2d.768 (Tex.App.-CorpusChristi, 1989), Ip95 — Jones v Laborers Health & Welfare Fund, 906F2d.480 (9thCir. 1990) IIIppF-7thry8 — K. V Jealth Division, 560P2d.1070 (OR 1977), Ip311 — Kelly v Johnson, 425US238 (1976), Ip292 — Kirkpatrick v Seligman & Latz, Inc., 475F.Supp.145 (M.D.Florida 1979), Ip206,250,258; IIppA6-2 — Loring v Virginia, 388US1 (1967), Ip269 — M.T. v J.T., 355A2d.204 (NJ 1976), Ipp302, 312-313; IVppA-9thru14 — Madsen v Erwin, 481NE2d.1160 (Mass. 1985), Ip98 — Marty Phillips v Michigan Department of Corrections, 731F.Supp.792,796 (W.D.Mich. 1990), Ip257 — McClendon v Ingersoll-Rand Co., 779SW2d.69,70 (Tex. 1989), Ip92 — Morales v State, No.461,898 (Dist.Ct.Travis Cnty, 200th Judicial Dist.Texas, 15MR1991), Ip85 — Padula v Webster, 822F.2d.97 (D.C.Cir.1987), Ip74 — People v Simmons, 70Misc2d.249 (1974) — Pinneke v Preisser, 623F2d.546 (8thCir. 1980), IIIppF-4thru5; IVpp123-124 — R. V Harris & McGinnis, 35 A Crim R 146 (Austl. 1988), Ip312 — Regina v Tan, ___Q.B.1053 (C.A. 1983), Ip312 — Rees v United Kingdom, 7Eur.Ct.H.R.429 (1985), Ip311 — Reynolds Manufacturing Co. V Mendoza, 644SW2d.536 (Tex.App-CorpusChristi, 1982), Ip89 — Richards v United States Tennis Association, 93Misc2d.713, 1977, Ip249, Ip256 — Roe v Wade, 410US113 (1973), Ip293 — Rush v Johnson, 565F.Supp856 (GA 1983), IIIpF-3thru4 — Rush v Parham, 440F.Supp.383,391n.14 (GA 1977), Ip256; IIIpF-3thru4 — Sabine Pilot Service, Inc. V. Hauk, 687SW2d.733 (Tex. 1985), Ip95 — Scott, Dred Scott, _____________, Ip65 — Smith v City of Jacksonville Correctional Institution (full text of decision), IippA9-1thru34; IVppE-18thru19 — Sommers v Budget Marketing, Inc., 667F.2d.748 (8thCir.1982), Ip205, Ip248; IIppA6-1; IVppE-6thru8, 16 — Sommers v Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 337NW2d.470 (8thCir. 1983) Ip___; IIpA6-2; IVppE-15thru16 — Sterner v Marathon Oil Company, 767SW2d.686 (Tex. 1989), Ip94 — Ulane v Eastern Airlines, Inc., 742F.2d.1081 (7thCir. 1984), Ip205,247,262; IIpp164-166, A6-1; IVpE-6 — Underwood v Archer Management Services, Inc., 857F.Supp96 (DC Cir. 1994), IVppe-16thru17 — Watkins v United States Army, 875F.2d.699,711 (9thCir. 1989), Ip75,259 — Webster v Doe, 486U.S.592,601 (1988), Ip79 — Woodward v United States, 871F.2d.1068 (Fed.Cir. 1989), Ip77

Census, Transgender — Martine Aliana Rothblatt, “The Headcount: A Transgender Census”, IIpp109-111

Children and Students, Advising Parents of — Students Rights Update, IVpp94-98

Closets, Successes Out of the Closet — Cissy G. Conley, “A Successful Transistion with the US Air Force Civil Service”, IIIpp54-58 — Conference Marque, Ip326, IIp52, III(inside front cover) — “About Joann Conti and Karen Ulane”‘ IIpp164-166 — Phyllis Randolph Frye, as a lawyer, I-pp9-11; Iipp55, 113-116, 172; IIIpp24-25 — April Renee Lauper, as an engineer, Ipp229-233 — Connie Moore, “Challenging the System, Honestly and Out!”, IIIpp150-154 — Martine Aliana Rothblatt, in satellite communications industry, IIpp54-55; “Successful Transition in the Aerospace Engineering Industry”, IIIpp43-46; “Is He or Isn’t She”, IIIppB-1thru7 — Daniel J Shea, “Civic Virtue: When in Doubt, Disclose!”, IIpp55-58 — Laura Elizabeth Skaer, in oil & gas industry, Ipp234-235; “Laura, It’s Okay, We Know Why”, IIpp27-29, A6-7; “Successful and Open Transistion Within Oil and Gas Industry”, IIIpp7-9; “What Can One Person Do? What Can You Do?” IIIpp9-14&21-22 — Sharon Ann Stuart / Thomas R. Heitz, “Not a Coming Out Story; But Instead, My Actual Coming Out”, IIIpp142-150 — Melinda Marie Whiteway in personal injury law area, “Perhaps We Are at the End of the Beginning of our Freedom”, IIIpp39-41 — Jessica M. Xavier, “Goals, Strategies, Funding and Grassroots Organization and a Tip for Those Who Remain Closeted”, IIIpp25-30

Coalition with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community — “A Network Explanation of the Transgender Movement in Relation to the Homosexual Rights Movement”, IIIppH-1thru14 — “Building Bridges with the Gay and Lesbian Communities”, Ivpp48-69 — Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17 — “Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America”, Ivpp93-94 — “High-Risk Project Update”, IVpp125-127 — International Gay and Lesbian Conference: Helsinki, A Report On”, IVpp85-87, G-1thru6 — National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, Unanimous Resolution from Board, IIIpL-1thru2 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22

Continuing Legal Education Notification Letters: Ip8, IIp1, IIIp1, IVpiii

Cross-dressing Laws — from the Criminal Law Project Report 1992, Ipp285-293 — “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, IVpp1-5 — “Respecting Choice: Heterosexual Crossdressing”, IVpp5-8 — “Repeal of the Houston Crossdressing Ordinance”, Ipp104-107

Definitions of Sex and Gender and similar topics — “The Apartheid of Sex”, IVpp33-41 — From Eugenics to the New Biology: The Impact of Science on the Law’s Intimate Relationship with Gays and Lesbians, IIppA1-1thru20 — Gender Bipolarity Kills, and Sex is Not the Same as Gender, IIIpp92-96 — Gender Non-Conformity and the Law: A “Crying Game” in More Ways Than One, IIppA3-1thru10 — “Insurance, The DSM, a New Tort, Gatekeepers, No Divorce, Apartheid of Sex, Violence, and the Non-Op Option”, IIIpp107-117 — “International Aspects of Human Genome Research”, IIIppK-2thru15 — “The Large ‘n’, Non-Clinical Surveys of Boulton & Park Society”, (n=934) IIIppD-1thru17 — “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, IVpp1-5 — “A Legal Path of Androgeny”, IVppD-1thru10 — “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16 — “M” or “F”, from Family Law Project Report 1993, IIpp143-144 — “Non-Operative TS: Clitoral Hypertrophy”, IIpp107-109 — “Philosophy and How-To’s of Documentation Changes”, IIIpp119-135 — “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17 — Sex or Gender, Ipp247-253,263-264; Iipp5; IIpp148-149 — Self-Definition: Taking the Next Step, Iipp58-60 — “Self-Transformability”, 65S.Cal.L.Rev.121,165 (1991), Ip271; IIpp175-182 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22 — Transsexual and Transgender, Ipp254-258 — “Unisexuality: The Wave of the Future”, IIIppE-1thru6

Documents, Name Change, Birth Certificate, Passport, Social Security, others — A Bill to Be Entitled (draft still working through Texas Legislature, concerning name and gender change) 1993, IIAPP10-3thru4 — Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17 — Documentation Law Project Report 1993, IIpp76-80, A2-1thru4; 1994, IIIpp104, 119-135, G-1thru32; 1995, IVpp141-162 — Driver’s License, from Family Law Project Report 1993, IIp144 — “In Bubbaville With Dignity”, IIpp80-82 — “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16 — New York State Update”, IVpp153-157 — Oregon documents, IVppH-1thru24 — “Philosophy and How-To’s of Documentation Changes”, IIIpp119-135 — “Texas Legal Name Change Update”, IVpp150-153, 157-159

Drug Counseling of Transgendered, IIpp55

Employment Law and Policy Considerations — Case Law Outline “Transgender Law and Employment Policy 1992, Ipp205-209 — Comments on 501(c)(3), Lobbying and the ENDA Bill”, IIIp46, C-1thru2 — “Dealing With Quislings, Coalitions and Federal Legislation”, IIIpp30-39 — Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17 — “Employment Discrimination and the Transsexual”, IVppE-1thru25 — Employment Law Project Report 1992, Ipp185-204; 1993, IIpp116-125, A6-1thru10; 1994, IIIpp59-70; 1995, IVpp71-78(6) — The Employment Non-Discrimination Act — ENDA” IIIppA-1thru26 — ” Equal Employment Opportunity Commission”, IIpp172-175, A6-1 — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Charge of Discrimination, IVppF-9thru11 — ethics and lawsuit strategy, IIp34-35, A6-6 — “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, IVpp1-5 — “A Resolution to be Presented to the United States Congress by It’s Time America”, IIIpp137-140 — “A Successful Transistion with the US Air Force Civil Service”, IIIpp54-58 — with respect to womens’ salary, IVp84

Endowed Gifts —Writing Competition on Transgender Law, Ipp103A-B — Comment: Sexual Orientation as a Prohibited Basis of Employment Discrimination”, Ipp72-102 — From Eugenics to the New Biology: The Impact of Science on the Law’s Intimate Relationship with Gays and Lesbians, IIppA1-1 — Gender Non-Conformity and the Law: A “Crying Game” in More Ways Than One, IIppA3-1

Equal Protection Arguments Ip258-263 — In Equal Protection and Due Process, The Black Experience and the Transgender Experience are the Same, IIIpp96-102

Ethics, 1992, Ipp268-271; 1993, IIpp29-36, 55-60, 60-65, 132, A1-1thru20; 1994, IIIpp97-102, 102-106; 1995, IVp84, 99-119

Evidence, Techniques for collection of, Ipp201-204

Female to Male, The Transgendered Man — “Choice and the Human Experience”, Ivpp22-33 — “Discriminatory Incident”, IVppF-1thru6 — “Perspective from a Transgendered Man”, IIIpp46-53 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22 — “Texas Legal Name Change Update”, IVpp150-153, 157-159 — “We Must Actively Recruit our Transgendered Men to Join With Us”, IIIpp53-54

Gender Identity Disorder, Gender Dysphoria, and DSM discussion — “The Apartheid of Sex”, IVpp33-41 — from “Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care”, IIIpF-5 — in 1992 Health Law Project Report, Ip254, 257, 274; IIp33; 1993 IIppA5-1thru16 and reprinted IVppC-1thru13 — “Insurance, The DSM, a New Tort, Gatekeepers, No Divorce, Apartheid of Sex, Violence, and the Non-Op Option”, IIIpp107-117 — “International Aspects of Human Genome Research”, IIIppK-2thru15 — “The Large ‘n’, Non-Clinical Surveys of Boulton & Park Society”, (n=934) IIIppD-1thru17 — “Laypeople, Who Should Be Writing the Laws?”, IIpp65 — “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, IVpp1-5 — “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16 — “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17 — “Transgendered Behavior and the DSM-IV”, IVpp127-132, B-1thru7

Handicap and Reasonable Accomodation — Doe v Boeing (Washington, later overrulled but with good language on reasonable accomodation), Ipp236-241; IIA6-4 — “Report on Admisistrative Hearing for TS Seeking Social Security Disability” IVppF-7thru8 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22 — Smith v City of Jacksonville Correctional Institution (Florida, full text of decision), IIppA9-1thru34 — Jessica Stearns (New Jersey, perceived handicap) beats back Continental Airlines, Ipp242-243

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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———- Forwarded message ———- ****************************************************** National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Alert Contact: Helen Gonzales 202-332-6483, ext. 3236 hgonzales@ngltf.org http://www.ngltf.org ******************************************************

IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED TO STOP SENATE BAN ON SAME-GENDER MARRIAGE

The full Senate will consider and vote on the ill-named “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) legislation on Thursday, September 5.

ACTION NEEDED; CONTACT YOUR SENATORS RIGHT AWAY and TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON DOMA. Contact your Senators, by phone, fax or e-mail, right away and urge your friends and colleagues to do the same. To talk to someone in their Washington, D.C. offices, call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121 and ask them for the phone and fax numbers; the switchboard can also connect you with one of the offices right away. Ask to speak with the staff person handling DOMA. You can also send a telegram to both your Senators by using the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s marriage hotline number, 1-800-651-1482. (You can send telegrams urging opposition to DOMA to both your Senators, and the President, through this Western Union hotline, for $9.95 – the telegrams were drafted by NGLTF.)

Talking Points

Urge your Senators to vote NO on DOMA no matter what their position is on same-gender marriage. Tell them that this legislation is (1) unneeded – – since no state now allows for same gender marriage and the Hawaii case will not be final for about another year or more – – and (2) discriminatory against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender individuals – – since it seeks to deny to same gender couples federal rights and responsibilities granted to heterosexual couples. The bill also raises constitutional questions since it purports to give states the power to ignore the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution which currently requires states, among other things, to give legal recognition to marriages sanctioned in other states.

Remind your Senators that domestic relations issues, such as marriage, are usually issues dealt with by the states and that this year 36 states introduced legislation to ban same-gender marriages. Congress should not be legislating on this issue. At least 18 of the states which introduced this legislation have defeated or withdrawn such legislation, including: Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Tell your Senators that the marriage issue is merely a substitute for previous anti-gay initiative campaigns led by these same political extremists who have used both vehicles to belittle and demean the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals. These political extremists clearly do not believe in our democratic principles of respect and tolerance. Instead they seek to divide our country in ways which pit groups of citizens against each other, be they immigrants, single mothers or gays and lesbians.

Two Possible Floor Amedments to DOMA

Tell your Senators that there may be an amendment to add the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to DOMA. ENDA would prohibit discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation. Urge your Senators to vote YES on ENDA if that amendment is introduced during the Senate floor consideration of DOMA.

Also tell them there may also be an amendment offered by to expand current federal jurisdiction to prosecute egregious incidents of hate violence to include such crimes directed at gays and lesbians.

It is important to tell your Senators to vote NO ON DOMA, whether or not ENDA or other amendments are added to DOMA. Urge them to join with their state legislative colleagues who were courageous enough to stand up for fairness and against intolerance and discrimination.

For further information, contact Helen Gonzales at (202) 332-6483, ext. 3236.

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Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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>From aegis@mindspring.com Tue Sep 3 19:51:38 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id B2030tP; Tue 3 Sep 1996 20:44:13 Received: from answerman.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id TAA02119; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:51:38 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by answerman.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA21779 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 22:51:33 -0400 Message-Id: <199609040251.WAA21779@answerman.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 23:08:00 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: New Orleans Fantasy Fest

I don’t know anything about these folks,but it sounds like a lot of fun…

— Dallas

From: JMickiHart@aol.com Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:45:53 -0400

NEW ORLEANS FANTASY FEST & “All That Jazz” TG/TS/TV/CD, Gays, Lesbians, their Families and friends come together from all over the world for a weekend of VACATION, FUN, EDUCATION, SIGHTSEEING, A Costume (optional) MARDI GRAS PARTY/BALL in The “BIG EASY” (An Alternate Lifestyle Friendly City). FEBRUARY 21 – 23, 1997, TRADE SHOW, CONVENTION, SEMINARS, MARDI GRAS PARTY/BALL & more!! The Pallas Suites Hotel, Canal Street, (downtown, 6 blks. from The FRENCH QUARTERS) convenient to “CITY PARK” and Beautiful LAKE PONCHITRAIN. ROOM RATES: $79.00sgl/$89.00dbl/Suite Rates upon request. *ATTENDEES: $199.00pp (Registration, credentials and admission to all FEST EVENTS. *COMMERCIAL EXHIBITS:: $299.00 per 10’X10′ booth (electricity included). *(10% discount for payments received in full by December 15, 1996). STRICT SECURITY POLICY & CONFIDENTIALITY at All FEST EVENTS FOR COMPLETE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS / RESERVATION FORMS /INFORMATION: (Airline Travel, Amtrac, Chartered Motorcoaches (From select cities), Rental Cars, Airport Transfers, Accommodations, etc.) E-MAIL: TCI Travel@AOL.Com or write: TCI Travel Services, P.O. Box 16104, Jacksonville, FL 32245-6104 RESERVATION 800# Upon Request Major Credit Cards on Travel & Accommodations portions Only. Check or Cash on Fest Events. LOOK FOR OTHER FEST EVENTS (Chicago, NYC, London etc.) in 1997.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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>From aegis@mindspring.com Tue Sep 3 19:51:48 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id B4283HU; Tue 3 Sep 1996 20:44:13 Received: from answerman.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id TAA13646; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:51:48 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by answerman.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA21792 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 22:51:44 -0400 Message-Id: <199609040251.WAA21792@answerman.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 23:08:10 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: Deb Price’s Address

To those who wanted Deb Price’s contact info:

From: StressGone@aol.com Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 16:02:16 -0400

I called the local newspaper to obtain a mail address for Deb Price. The column is syndicated by Gannett News Service, 1000 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22229-0001. They said she does not have an e-mail address but can be contact by letter at this address.

Gannett’s phone number is (703) 276- 5800.

Deb Price is with the Detroit News, 615 West Lafayette Street, Detroit, MI 48226. phone (313) 222- 6400. They also said they do not have an e-mail address for her.

I suggest you send correspondence to both addresses!

Hopefully someone will read the message on the TCF Forum on AOL and provide an e-mail address.

This is the best I can do.

Thanks for your interest in this.

Nancy

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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>From aegis@mindspring.com Wed Sep 4 20:00:04 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id C8730Ec; Wed 4 Sep 1996 20:56:27 Received: from answerman.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id UAA06418; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:00:04 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by answerman.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA16673 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 22:59:59 -0400 Message-Id: <199609050259.WAA16673@answerman.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 23:16:28 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: WigStock Bites the Big One?

>From Village Voice, 27 August, 1996

Wigged Out Drag Stripped of Festival by James Hannaham

Wigstock, the annual celebration of every man’s right to wear women’s clothing, has been canceled this year pending a fundraising miracle. Instead a benefit will take place on September 1 to raise money for 1997’s festivities. Once held semi-improvisationally in Tompkins Square park, the ever-expanding extravaganza sparked crossdressing crossovers from RuPaul to Wong Foo during its 11 years of existence. In the process, the event grew to accommodate crowds of more than 40,000 persons and God knows how many personas.

In 1994, Wigstock shifted to the Christopher Street piers, which are unavailable this year due to construction. Forced to move again, organizers Scott Lifshutz, David O’Connell, and the “Lady” Bunny, after much publicized ado, settled on a blocked-off Astor Place and Cooper Square. Enter 2nd District councilman Antonio Pagan, who according to Bunny “has never been a supporter of Wigstock” and “always gave us the blues in Tompkins Square Park.” In 1993, the last time the transvestual festival was held in his district, Pagan attempted to cut the event to a meager four hours. (Pagan has rarely been a local favorite. A small poster appeared low on East Village walls at one point bearing his picture and the legend “– is here”). But with the tide of anti-street fair sentiment rising, Pagan led a successful effort backed by Cooper Union to revoke the location permit Wigstock organizers had obtained in May. With less than six weeks to go before the fete, feathers were ruffled– not to mention sequins. According to Bunny, “We won the battle in 1993, and he’s always wanted to get back at us.” (Pagan did not return phone calls seeking comment.”

Help came, ironically enough, from City Hall. Omar Alvarellos, a special assistant in the deputy mayor’s office, and members of the Department of Transportation suggested an area by the South Street Seaport on Water Street, ostensibly saving the day. However, according to O’Connell, it became increasingly difficult to sell vending space or advertising in the program– two of the few ways in which the free bash can turn a profit– because the financial district has a reputation among vendors for being remote and unprofitable. The organizers failed to convince concessionaires they could drag in so many with drag on. “We couldn’t even get $5000 in advance sales– usually it’s $10,000 to $15000 because four weeks before the event, we didn’t know where it was going to be, griped O’Connell.

As if that weren’t enough financial drain, corporate sponsorship from Naya spring water, MAC cosmetics, and others dried up like a bad silicone injection. This year MAC decided to more fully sponsor the San Francisco Wigstock, taking out only an ad in the New York program this year instead of offering its usual $20,000 donation. “The only person who came though,” the ‘Lady’ Bunny quipped, was the much-maligned Peter Gatien.”

The concert and floor show, which was to have featured the B-52’s Fred Schneider and psychochanteuse Nina Hagen as well as regulars Debbie Harry, will be replaced by the fundraiser, which will be held at the Palladium. More tragically, the loss of momentum could signal the end of a cultural moment. “The benefit is not a substitute for Wigstock,” the Lady Bunny said. “It’s gonna be indoors, so wear extra perfume.”

>From aegis@mindspring.com Wed Sep 4 20:00:10 1996 Received: from netcomsv by xconn.com with uucp id B7958RI; Wed 4 Sep 1996 20:56:28 Received: from answerman.mindspring.com by netcomsv.netcom.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/SMI-4.1) id UAA06470; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 20:00:10 -0700 Received: from LOCALNAME (user-168-121-21-72.dialup.mindspring.com [168.121.21.72]) by answerman.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA16686 for <aegispst@xconn.com>; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:00:04 -0400 Message-Id: <199609050300.XAA16686@answerman.mindspring.com> X-Sender: aegis@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 23:16:33 -0400 To: aegispst@xconn.com From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Subject: Rodman Puts on Manhattan in Nuptial Garb

Rodman Puts on Manhattan in Nuptial Garb

by Larry McShane Associated Press Date Unknown

Dennis Rodman, power forward! publicity hound of the world champion Chicago Bulls, sported blonde hair, a white wedding gown, and multi-colored tattoos at a Manhattan book signing where he coyly deflected questions about his marital status.

One things for certain: Married or single, the 35-year-old Rodman is a bridal party:

“Oh, yes, I’m so thrilled,” the over-the-top Rodman teased between autographs when asked if he was tying the knot yesterday. While appearing with David Letterman the night before, Rodman promised he was getting hitched in Rockefeller Center.

But there was no bride (or even his current squeeze, a Manhattan stripper, at Dennis’ side when he arrived inside a horse-drawn carriage– just four tuxedo-clad women. Rodman lifted his face veil to greet the howling crowd, revealing a blonde wig reminiscent of ex-flame Madonna, twin nose piercings, and bright red lips.

Rodman, best-selling author of the autobiography “Bad As I Wanna Be,” signed copies of his $22.95 book beneath a mural of the 20th century’s other great writers: Hemingway, Orwell, Nakobov, Joyce. His pen was clasped in a half delicately sheathed in silk arm-length gloves.

This was a sideshow so appalling– yet lucrative– that it could have convinced P.T. Barnum to dump the circus and buy an NBA franchise.

Fifth Avenue was packed with hundreds of Dennis wanna-bes. Free Rodman temporary tattoos were distributed. The crowd, which stretched for two blocks, began assembling at 6 am for a peek at their head-butting hero.

As he does on the court, Rodman was creating chaos.

“Out sound guy got arrested in the stupidity and hysteria coming over here,” complained Patrick Byrnes, an MTV producer working on the new fall program, “The Rodman World Tour.” The sound man was held by police and then released– just in time to record the latest fix for publicity jungle Rodman since the Bulls’ title.

Remember these previous stops? Hey! There’s Dennis with luscious supermodel Helena Christensen in a racy Victoria’s Secret ad! (No, she didn’t show yesterday, either).

Whoa! Dennis is gonna be the bad guy in a new movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme!! (He was leaving for Rome later in the day to start filming.”

What? Bob Dole picked Dennis as his running Mate??? (Sorry– that was a skit from Rodman’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance).

The buzz about Rodman’s wedding drew some folks who left disappointed by the lack of a ceremony. One UPS worker, after watching Rodman sashay inside Barnes & Noble, dismissed the wedding tale as a “lie to get Knicks fans here.”

Rhonda Fusaro of Manhattan was there to get a signed copy of the book for her 11-year-old son. Did she consider Dennis Rodman a role model?

“Weeelll…” she said, her teeth gritted and eyes rolling skyward. “Let’s just say….”

“Could be worse,” interrupted Eddie Cochrange of the Bronx. “He could be like (Dallas Cowboys star) Michael Irvin,” who is on court probation over a drug bust.

In the middle of the mess, a pair of publicists from Radio City Music Hall plugged its “Christmas in August” promotion, going on simultaneously just three blocks away.

Nobody seemed interested.

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Original Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 02:52:48 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Erin Swenson, a list subscriber, pointed out that I should point out that it is the right-wing that wants DOMA passed now, while ENDA is not included as a rider. Please DON’T contact your congressperson and ask that DOMA be passed immediately.

DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) will prevent gay and lesbian (and most likely, transgender) marriages. ENDA (Employment Nondiscrimination Act) will prohibit discrimination in the workplace against Gay and Lesbian (and transgender, depending upon which version is passed) persons. Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 02:52:48 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Erin Swenson, a list subscriber, pointed out that I should point out that it is the right-wing that wants DOMA passed now, while ENDA is not included as a rider. Please DON’T contact your congressperson and ask that DOMA be passed immediately.

DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) will prevent gay and lesbian (and most likely, transgender) marriages. ENDA (Employment Nondiscrimination Act) will prohibit discrimination in the workplace against Gay and Lesbian (and transgender, depending upon which version is passed) persons. 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

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sat 7 Sep 1996 07:45:01 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E35Xh; Sat 7 Sep 1996 07:45:01 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: ICTLEP INDEX, Part 2 Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 07:45:01 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609070745.E35Xh@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 10:13:58 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Folks, Part 1 of the Index to ICTLEP’s proceedings was split between the two halves of the digest you received on Saturday. This is Part 2 (of 2) of the index.

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Hate Crimes and Violence Against Transgenders — Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17

Imprisonment and Criminal Law — Criminal Law Project Report 1992, Ipp283-294 — Imprisonment Law Project Report 1993, IIpp3, 134-141; 1994, IIIpp83-86 — with respect to 42USA1983, IIp33

Insurance Law Reports and Appendices — Insurance Law Project Report 1992, Ipp150-159, 267-268; 1993, IIpp126-133; 1994, IIIppF-1thru12; IVpp121-125 — “Insurance, The DSM, a New Tort, Gatekeepers, No Divorce, Apartheid of Sex, Violence, and the Non-Op Option”, IIIpp107-117

International — Specifically, outside of the USA — “Choice and the Human Experience”, Ivpp22-33 — “High-Risk Project Update”, IVpp125-127 — “International Aspects of Human Genome Research”, IIIppK-2thru15 — International Gay and Lesbian Conference: Helsinki, A Report On”, IVpp85-87, G-1thru6 — “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16 — “The Legal Situation for Transsexuals in Europe and Human Rights”, IIIppK-21thru29 — Press For Change Handout, Ipp324-325; IIIppK-16thru17 — Transvestism, Transsexualism and the Law (in England, cover page and table of contents only), IIIppK-18-20

Interpersonal and Peer Group Relationships — Nan Duhon, Assistant Dean of Admissions of University of Houston Law Center, “Assertive Integrity: Cockroaches Scurry”, IIpp42-44 — Joe Kegans, 230th District Ct Texas, “You Can Do It!”, IIpp113-115 — Phyllis Randolph Frye with her son, Ipp12-16; on being “out” in law school, Ipp27-32; on being “out” in the League of Women Voters, Ipp45-46; on being “out” with National Association of Women Business Owners, Ipp67-70; “The Dollars and Cents Price of Freedom”, IIp172

It’s Time America — “Building Bridges with the Gay and Lesbian Communities”, Ivpp48-69 — Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17 — “A Resolution to be Presented to the United States Congress by It’s Time America”, IIIpp137-140

Laypersons (non-attorneys) at ICTLEP Conference — “Comments of the Non-Attorney ICTLEP Director”, IIIpp89-91 — “Importance of Conference for Lay People”, IIp11 — “Law Conference is For Laypeople Too!”, IIpp167-168 — “Laypeople, Who Should Be Writing the Laws?”, Iipp65; “From Eugenics to the New Biology: The Impact of Science on the Law’s Intimate Relationship with Gays and Lesbians”, IIppA1-1thru20 — “Neat Idea: Laypeople at a Law Conference”, IIpp40-42 — “Non-Lawyer Checklist for Transgenders Who Comsume Legal Services”, IIIpp102-106

Marriage — Family Law Project Report 1992, Ipp295-323; 1993, IIpp142-150, A10-2; 1994, IIIpp86-87 — “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, IVpp1-5 — “Insurance, The DSM, a New Tort, Gatekeepers, No Divorce, Apartheid of Sex, Violence, and the Non-Op Option”, IIIpp107-117 — “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17 — “Taped Speech from March on Washington”, Iipp168-171

People of Color Transgendered and ICTLEP Working for Inclusion and to End Racism — “Discrimination in Ethnic, Black and Transgender Communities”, IVpp105-118 — In Equal Protection and Due Process, The Black Experience and the Transgender Experience are the Same, IIIpp96-102 — “Personal Observations on Discrimination”, Ivpp100-105

Religious Concerns — “Ambi-Gendered, God’s Special Gift” (see Reports) — Christian conflicts with Transgenders, Ip218 — Colorado Christian News, IIIpa-26 — Concerns of a Jesuit, Iipp55-60 — from Our History speech by Leslie Feinferg, IIp72

Reports, Thesis and Handbooks (not presented orally at conference, these have limited copyright and can be obtained either through author or by purchasing entire Proceedings in which they appear) — “Ambi-Gendered: God’s Special Gift”, IIIppJ-1thru13 — “Gender Change Employability Issues Including Transsexual Employment Survey Results”, IIA7-1thru75 — “What Is S/he Doing?” An Information Booklet for Co-Workers, IIppA8-1thru18 — “Why Is S/he Doing This To Us?” An Employer’s Handbook, Ipp214-228B — “Women in Relationships with Cross-Dressing Men: A Descriptive Study from a Non-Clinical Setting” (n=106, the first page only from Archieves of Sexual Behavior, Vol 23, No. 5, 1994), IIIpD-17

Restroom Concerns — from Criminal Law Project Report 1992, Ipp289-291 — for the Employer, Ip226 — as a Gendered Space, IVpp79-83 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22

Speakers, Workshop Presenters and Authors of Included Papers: — Judges: — Eric Andell, 315th District Ct Texas (now on 14th Ct App Texas), “Building Bridges”, Ipp17-26 — Charles Baird, Associate Justice, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, “Treatment of the Accused”, Ipp108-113 — Fred Biery, Associate Justice, 4th Ct App Texas (now Federal District Court), “Beware the Gradual Erosion of Your Rights”, Ipp58-66 — Joe Kegans, 230th District Ct Texas, “You Can Do It!”, IIpp113-115 — David Mendoza, Harris County Criminal Court at Law #11, “Neat Idea: Laypeople at a Law Conference”, IIpp40-42 — Alice Oliver-Parrott, Chief Justice, 1st Ct App Texas, “Cherish the Lawyers that Protect Your Freedom”, Ipp33-44; “Every Failure Gets You Closer to Success”, Iipp44-51 — Carl Walker Jr., 185th District Ct, Texas, “Discrimination in Ethnic, Black and Transgender Communities”, IVpp105-118 — Law Professors: — Richard Aldeman, Professor at University of Houston Law Center, “Become Intolerant of All Intolerance!”, IIpp14-20 — Ron Garet, Professor at University of Southern California Law Center, “Self-Transformability” (65S.Cal.L.Rev.121), Iipp175-182 — Louis H. Swartz, Professor at State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, ” New York State Update”, IVpp153-157; “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16 — Stephen Whittle, Professor at University of Manchester, England, Law School, “Choice and the Human Experience”, IVpp22-33 — Legislators and Members of Congress — Debra Danburg, “My Job Also is Consciousness Raising”, IIpp39-40 — Yolanda Navarro Flores, “Need to Sensitize Our Legislators”, IIpp22-23 — Attorneys and Law Students: — Helen Cassidy, Anti-Discrimination Law Project Report 1992, Ipp276-282 — David Elliot, Probate Law & Civil Commitment Project Report 1992, Ipp161-173 — Latisha Frederick, “Laypeople, Who Should Be Writing the Laws?”, Iipp65; “From Eugenics to the New Biology: The Impact of Science on the Law’s Intimate Relationship with Gays and Lesbians”, IIppA1-1thru20 — Phyllis Randolph Frye, Employment Law Project Report 1992, Ipp185-204; “In Bubbaville With Dignity”, IIpp80-82 ; “Non-Operative TS: Clitoral Hypertrophy”, Iipp107-109; “A Summary of Conference’s Achievements”, IIpp160-162; “Taped Speech from March on Washington”, IIpp168-171; “The Dollars and Cents Price of Freedom”, Iip172; “We Must Actively Recruit our Transgendered Men to Join With Us”, IIIpp53-54; Family Law Project Report 1994, IIIpp86-87; “Non-Lawyer Checklist for Transgenders Who Comsume Legal Services”, IIIpp102-106; “A Resolution to be Presented to the United States Congress by It’s Time America”, IIIpp137-140; “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, Ivpp1-5; “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17; “Texas Legal Name Change Update”, IVpp150-153, 157-159 — Michael Hernandez, “Perspective from a Transgendered Man”, IIIpp46-53 — Sharon Kahn, “Welcome from the BAHR”, Iipp21-22; Education in Transgender Issues Project Report 1993, Iipp83-88; “Gender Non-Conformity and the Law: A “Crying Game” in More Ways Than One, IIppA3-1thru10 — Karen Ann Kerin, “Dealing With Quislings, Coalitions and Federal Legislation”, IIIpp30-39 — JoAnna McNamara, “Employment Discrimination and the Transsexual”, IVppE-1thru25 — Jim Kuhn, Insurance Law Project Report 1992, Ipp150-159; 1993, IIpp126-133 — Betty J. Luke, “Report on Admisistrative Hearing for TS Seeking Social Security Disability” IVppF-7thru8 — Connie Moore, Family Law Project Report 1992, Ipp295-323; 1993, Iipp142-150; “Challenging the System, Honestly and Out!”, IIIpp150-154 — Ken Okorie, “In Equal Protection and Due Process, The Black Experience and the Transgender Experience are the Same”, IIIpp96-102 — Martine Aliana Rothblatt (previously Marla Aspen), Health Law Project Report 1992, Ipp244-275; “People Want You for Your Brain”, IIpp54-55; Health Law Project Report 1993, IIpp101-107, A5-1thru16 and reprinted IVppC-1thru13; “Successful Transition in the Aerospace Engineering Industry”, IIIpp43-46; “Insurance, The DSM, a New Tort, Gatekeepers, No Divorce, Apartheid of Sex, Violence, and the Non-Op Option”, IIIpp107-117; “Unisexuality: The Wave of the Future”, IIIppE-1thru6; “International Aspects of Human Genome Research”, IIIppK-2thru15; “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17; “The Apartheid of Sex”, IVpp33-41 — Jim Sacher, Prosecutor for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ” Equal Employment Opportunity Commission”, IIpp172-175 — Linda Sanchez, “Comment: Sexual Orientation as a Prohibited Basis of Employment Discrimination”, Ipp72-103B — Daniel J. Shea, “Civic Virtue: When In Doubt, Disclose!”, Iipp55-58; “Self-Definition: Taking the Next Step”, IIpp58-60 — Marshall A. Shelsy, Staff Counsel for Harris County Criminal Courts at Law, “Until You Are Honest With Your Clients”, Iipp29-36

— Laura Elizabeth Skaer (previously Laura Smiley), “Charitable Giving and Methods and Tax Benefits”, Ipp174-183; Case Law Outline “Transgender Law and Employment Policy 1992, Ipp205-209; “Laura, It’s Okay, We Know Why”, IIpp27-29; “Transgendered and Proud and We Vote!”, IIpp37-39; Employment Law Project Report 1993, IIpp116-125, 162-164, A6-1; “About Joann Conti and Karen Ulane”‘ IIpp164-166; “Successful and Open Transistion Within Oil and Gas Industry”, IIIpp7-9; “What Can One Person Do? What Can You Do?” IIIpp9-14&21-22; “Report from Employment Law and Policy Project”, 1994, IIIpp59-70; 1995, IVpp71-78(6) — Keith K. Stewart, Housing Law Project Report 1992, Ipp138-149; Intervention Law Project Report 1993, IIpp90-96 — Sharon Stuart / Tom Heitz, Military Law Project Report 1992, Ipp115-133; 1993, IIpp96-100 and Survey, IIppA4-1thru4; International Bill of Gender Rights Project Report 1993, IIpp6-7, 151-156, A12-1thru4; 1994, IIIpp2-3; Report from the Rights Project — Military Law, The Bill of Gender Rights, The Imprisonment Watch and Family Law, 1994, IIIpp75-87; “Not a Coming Out Story; But Instead, My Actual Coming Out”, IIIpp142-150; “Your Rights Workshop Report”, IVpp 70-85; Military Law Update, IVpp87-92; “Personal Observations on Discrimination”, IVpp100-105; “Prisoner Rights Update”, IVpp136-139 — Melinda Marie Whiteway, “How This Conference Affects First Time Attendees”, IIIpp23-24; “Perhaps We Are at the End of the Beginning of our Freedom”, IIIpp39-41; “Philosophy and How-To’s of Documentation Changes”, IIIpp119-135; “Documentation Workshop Report”, IVpp141-162 — Clyde Williams, Criminal Law Project Report 1992, Ipp283-294 Others: — Marian Beddill, Documentation Law Project Report 1993, IIpp78-80 — Dianna Cicotello, “The Good Samaritan — A Transgendered Person”, IIIpp70-73 — Collier M. Cole, PhD, Director Gender Treatment Programin Galveston, Texas, “Transgendered Behavior and DSM IV”, IVppB-1thru7 — Cissy G. Conley, “A Successful Transistion with the US Air Force Civil Service”, IIIpp54-58 — Yvonne Cook-Riley, Operations Director of IFGE, “IFGE: Strategic, Vision 2000”, IIpp158-160 — Dallas Denny, “Writing Ourselves”, IIIppI-1thru2; “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17; “Survey Results on TG Opinion of Harry Benjamin Standards”, IVpp132-136 — Nan Duhon, Assistant Dean of Admissions of University of Houston Law Center, “Assertive Integrity: Cockroaches Scurry”, IIpp42-44 — Sister Mary Elizabeth, SSE, Documentation Law Project Report 1993, IIpp76-80 — Jane Ellen Fairfax, “Respecting Choice: Heterosexual Crossdressing”, Ivpp5-8 — Jane Fee “Minnesota: The First State to Enact Legislation That Explicitly Protects the Transgendered From Discrimination”, IIIpp14-21 — Leslie Feinberg, “Our History: As a Transgendered People”, IIpp65-75 — Tere Fredrickson, “Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America”, IVpp93-94 — Jamison Green, San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22 — Lynn Edward Harris, “A Legal Path of Androgeny”, IVppD-1thru10 — Raymond Wayne Hill, 107S.Ct.2502, “Citizen Provocateur”, Ipp47-57; Report fromthe Imprisonment Law Project 1993, IIpp134-141 — Melanie Jimmerson of Houston Chapter of National Association of Women Business Owners, “Just Bring Your Money and Come On!”, IIpp12-14 — Sandra LaFramboise, “High-Risk Project Update”, IVpp125-127 — Evelyn Lindenmuth, “Students Rights Update”, IVpp94-98 — Emilio L. Lombardi, “A Network Explanation of the Transgender Movement in Relation to the Homosexual Rights Movement”, IIIppH-1thru14 — Gordene Olga MacKenzie, “Gender Bipolarity Kills, and Sex is Not the Same as Gender”, IIIpp92-96 — Dee S. McKellar, “Comments of the Non-Attorney ICTLEP Director”, IIIpp89-91; Report On International Gay and Lesbian Conference: Helsinki”, IVpp85-87, G-1thru6 — Lisa Janet Middleton, “Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care”, IIIppF-1thru12; “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, Ivpp8-17; “Northridge Conference”, IVpp43-48; “Health Insurance Reform”, Ivpp121-125; “Transgendered Behavior and the DSM-IV”, IVpp127-132 — Annese Parker, “Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help”, IIpp24-26 — Linda Phillips of Boulton and Park Society, “Importance of Conference for Lay People”, IIp11; and Cynthia Phillips “Law Conference is For Laypeople Too!”, Iipp167-168 — JoAnn Roberts, early work in Bill of Gender Rights IIppA12-1thru4; IIIp3 — Jenny Sand, “The Legal Situation for Transsexuals in Europe and Human Rights”, IIIppK-21thru29 — Jessica M. Xavier, “Goals, Strategies, Funding and Grassroots Organization and a Tip for Those Who Remain Closeted”, IIIpp25-30; “Paths to Acceptance”, IVpp77-78(3)

Standards of Care for Transsexualism — ICTLEP, Ip265; IIpp4-5, 101-107; IVppiv-vii — Harry Benjamin, IIppA5-4; IIIpF-6 — “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16 — “Survey Results on TG Opinion of Harry Benjamin Standards”, IVpp132-136 — “Transgendered Behavior and DSM IV”, IVppB-1thru7

Strategies for Progressive Changes — “The Apartheid of Sex”, IVpp33-41 — “Building Bridges with the Gay and Lesbian Communities”, Ivpp48-69 — “Challenging the System, Honestly and Out!”, IIIpp150-154 — “Cramming Their Laws Down Their Throats”, from the Family Law Project Report 1992, Ipp306-308, 314 — “Dealing With Quislings, Coalitions and Federal Legislation”, IIIpp30-39 — Discrimination case studies, IVppI-1thru17 — Education in Transgender Issues Project Report 1993, IIpp83-89 — ” Equal Employment Opportunity Commission”, IIpp172-175 — from Criminal Law Project Report 1992, Ipp289-291 — from Employment Law Project 1993, IIpp122-123, 162-164, A6-6; 1995, IVppE-19thru23 — from Family Law Project Report 1993, IIpp142-150, A5-1; 1994, IIIpp86-87 — from Health Law Project Report 1992, Ipp258-273 and and reprinted IVppC-1thru13 — from Imprisonment Law Project Report 1993, IIpp134-141 — from Insurance Law Project Report 1993, IIp128-131 — “Goals, Strategies, Funding and Grassroots Organization and a Tip for Those Who Remain Closeted”, IIIpp25-30 — “In Bubbaville With Dignity”, IIpp80-82 — “Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care”, IIIppF-1thru12; IVpp121-124 — “Insurance, The DSM, a New Tort, Gatekeepers, No Divorce, Apartheid of Sex, Violence, and the Non-Op Option”, IIIpp107-117 — Intervention Law Project Report 1993, IIpp90-96 — “Legal Aspects of Transgendered Behavior”, IVpp1-5 — Legal Guidelines IIppA5-6 — “Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Scientific Logic Versus Compassionate Flexibility in the U.S. and the U.K.”, IVppA-1thru16

— National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, Unanimous Resolution from Board, IIIpL-1thru2 — “Non-Lawyer Checklist for Transgenders Who Comsume Legal Services”, IIIpp102-106 — “Non-Operative TS: Clitoral Hypertrophy”, IIpp107-109 — “Philosophy and How-To’s of Documentation Changes”, IIIpp119-135 — Press For Change Handout, Ipp324-325; IIIppK-16thru17 — “Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option”, IVpp8-17 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22 — “Taped Speech from March on Washington”, IIpp168-171 — “Texas Legal Name Change Update”, IVpp150-153, 157-159 — “We Must Actively Recruit our Transgendered Men to Join With Us”, IIIpp53-54 — “What Can One Person Do? What Can You Do?” IIIpp9-14&21-22

Victories, Existing, Changing or Making Transgender Protective Law — District of Columbia, Code Annotated 1-25-1 (1991), Ip261 — “Minnesota: The First State to Enact Legislation That Explicitly Protects the Transgendered From Discrimination”, IIIpp14-21 — M.T. v J.T., 355A2d.204 (NJ 1976), Ipp302, 312-313; IVppA-9thru14 — National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, Unanimous Resolution from Board, IIIpL-1thru2 — Ordinance to Prohibit Discrimination in City, County of Denver, Ip208 — Ordinance to Prohibit Discrimination in City of Santa Cruz,, Ip209 — “Repeal of the Houston Crossdressing Ordinance”, Ipp104-107 — “Report on Admisistrative Hearing for TS Seeking Social Security Disability” IVppF-7thru8 — San Francisco Human Rights Commission Findings and Recommendations on Discrimination against Transgendered People, IIIppM-1thru22 — Smith v City of Jacksonville Correctional Institution (full text of decision), IIppA9-1thru34 — Jessica Stearns beats back Continental Airlines, Ipp242-243

Veterans (see Military in Areas of Law), IVpp93-94

Voir Dire for Transgender Client or by Transgender Attorney, IIIpp103-104; IVpp117-118

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 8 Sep 1996 10:32:50 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E29OC; Sun 8 Sep 1996 10:32:50 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Wigstock Cancelled Amidst Controversy Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 10:32:50 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609081032.E29OC@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 12:21:44 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

>From Etc., 6 September, 1996

Wigstock, the annual New york drag fest created by former Atlanta performer Miss Lady Bunny, did not take place as scheduled Sept. 1.

According to Wigstock representative David O’Connell, the festival, now in its 12th year, could not take place because New York City Council member Antonio Pagan felt the event was too large to be held on the Christopher Street piers.

In a press release, Miss Lady Bunny confirmed the cost of the event– an estimated $100,000– was also a factor as corporate sponsorship was down this year. “We are disappointed that a company such as Cheseborough-Ponds, the maker of Aqua Net, refused to consider a sponsorship,” she offered, “given the fact we use so much of their product.”

O’Connell intimated that openly gay council member Pagan had a personal grudge against the celebration.

Wigstock, as well as the gay and lesbian community, do not have a history of getting along with this man,” he stated. “In the past he’s opposed AIDS housing and more.”

Although the event did not take place, an alternate indoor festival, titled WigNot, was held at the Palladium the same day. Reportedly, organizer Bunny is considering moving the event to San Francisco.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Mon 9 Sep 1996 18:46:23 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E92Us; Mon 9 Sep 1996 18:46:23 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Question About ENDA Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 18:46:23 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609091846.E92Us@xconn.com>

Original Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 21:53:39 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Hi Dallas!

The AEGIS newslist’s feature on next week’s congressional ENDA vote didn’t specify whether, or not, transpersons are included in ENDA’s present form. Do you think it might be desirable to follow with a post that addresses this concern? For one, I should very much appreciate this information.

Thank you for being you.

Warmly,

Jordynne

Thanks for the question. To the best of my understanding, trans is NOT included in this year’s ENDA. However, even if we’re not in, we would be decidedly better off if ENDA were included with DOMA than if it were not.

— Dallas

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Subject: New York Times Prints Groundbreaking Article on TransActivism From: riki@nyc.pipeline.com (Riki Anne Wilchins)

NY Times Prints Groundbreaking Story on TransActivism ==============================

[New York City – Sept 8, 1996] IN A MOVE which caught many in the queer and straight press by surprise, today the New York Times printed a groundbreaking story on the emergence of transactivism as a national movement.

The piece, penned by Times writer Carey Goldberg, detailed the growth of the Transexual Menace and GenderPAC in their fight against gender oppression. It featured a wide variety of movement figures, including Nancy Nangeroni, Dana Priesing, Jamison Green, Susan Stryker, Dr. Barbara Warren, Alison Laing, Kerry Lobel (NGLTF), and Riki Anne Wilchins.

Headlines “Shunning ‘He’ and ‘She,’ They Fight for Respect,” the article set the tone by opening with the planned September 16th Memorial Vigil for murdered transexual Deborah Forte, illustrating the emergence of transactivism through National Gender Lobbying Day, the growth of the Menace, and GenderPAC’s Congressional lobbying efforts.

Ms. Goldberg, who works for the Times’ LA office, managed to sound authoritative, balanced, but sympathetic all at once. She spent weeks interviewing transpeople and collecting a wealth of background notes and material in preparation for the article. The story appeared across the US on the front page of the “Nation” section of the Sunday Times.

In one of those unplanned but completely fortunate coincidences, the Times article hit the streets just as 5 members of GenderPAC were at the annual conference of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) in Miami, FL, feverishly pitching writers on gender activism stories and handing out newly-minted GenderPAC presskits. Donning black Menace T-shirts, they printed up hundreds of copies of the article, and made certain every NLGJA participant had a least *one* copy to read on their way home.

Said an unnamed Menace spokestran: “The importance of this story goes far beyond the content. An article on front page of the Nation section of the Times is a huge step towards legitimizing gender activism as valid news rather than the customary “Geraldo-ization” of our lives. We hope the media take note, and begin giving our national movement the serious journalistic attention it has earned.

In the thoroughly professional way she covered this story, Ms. Goldberg has done this community and the cause of gender activism a tremendous service.”

[Copyrighted piece follows.]

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Shunning ‘He’ and ‘She,’ They Fight for Respect

By CAREY GOLDBERG

c Copyright 1996 The New York Times

LOS ANGELES — In Boston, Nancy Nangeroni is helping arrange a courthouse vigil for a slain male-to- female transsexual. In Washington, Dana Priesing lobbies for laws that would ban discrimination against “transgendered” people.

And in Southern California, Jacob Hale and the rest of the local Transgender Menace chapter occasionally pull on their black Menace T-shirts and go for a group walkabout, just to look people in the eye with collective pride in who they are.

All see themselves as part of a burgeoning movement whose members are only now, nearly two decades after gay liberation took off, gathering the courage to go public and struggle for the same sort of respect and legal protections.

The name that scholars and organizers prefer for this nascent movement is “transgender,” an umbrella term for transsexuals, cross-dressers (the word now preferred over transvestites), intersexed people (also known as hermaphrodites), womanish men, mannish women and anyone whose sexual identity seems to cross the line of what, in 1990s America, is considered normal.

That line has certainly blurred. Dennis Rodman preens in his bridal gown, Ru Paul puckers for MAC cosmetics, and viewers flock to movies like “The Crying Game.”

But members of the movement say they still cannot escape the feeling that in a society that has grown more responsive to other minorities, they are among the last pariahs.

When they give up the old dream of simply “passing” as their desired sex, they face painful battles both in everyday life and in the political arena, where they are roundly condemned as deviants by religious conservatives and often spark controversy among more mainstream gay and lesbian groups.

Their very existence, they say, is such a challenge to universal gut-level ideas about a person’s sex as an either- or category — as reflected in everything from binary bathrooms to “he” and “she” pronouns — that they are often subjected to scorn, job discrimination and violence.

“There’s finally a voice saying, ‘Enough,’ ” said Riki Anne Wilchins, a Wall Street computer consultant and organizer in the movement. “We pay taxes. We vote. We work. There’s no reason we should be taking this. When you have people in isolation who are oppressed and victimized and abused, they think it’s their own fault, but when you hit that critical mass that they see it happening to other people, they realize it’s not about them. It’s about a system, and the only way to contest a system is with an organized response.”

No one knows exactly what that critical mass is. Experts say that in the more than 40 years since George Jorgensen emerged from the operating room as Christine, several thousand Americans have undergone sex-change surgery; they are believed to include nearly even numbers of men and women.

Perhaps as many as 60,000 Americans consider themselves valid candidates for such surgery, based on what psychiatrists call “gender identity dysphoria,” according to the Harry Benjamin Gender Dysphoria Association, the leading medical association of specialists — including sex-change surgeons — that sets guidelines for treating transsexuals.

But that is only the tip of a far larger iceberg, organizers say, of cross-dressers — many of whom are heterosexual men — and people who live as the opposite sex but never undergo surgery.

The movement’s growth, however, is easy to discern. Scores of participants rallied as part of a new advocacy group called Gender PAC for the first time in Washington last fall and plan to do the same in May, and transgender conventions now draw hundreds of people and number nearly 20 a year.

Increasingly, a “T” can be found tacked onto the “G, L and B” of gay, lesbian and bisexual events and groups, from community centers to pride parades.

In San Francisco, which a survey has shown is home to about 6,000 of the movement’s constituents, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission has formed a Transgender Community Task Force, and the protest group Transexual Menace now counts 46 chapters nationwide, some of which are called Transgender Menace. There is even a new national group, Transgendered Officers Protect and Serve; members act as marshals at events when needed.

The movement’s coalescence, which members say began over the last five years and accelerated in recent months, has gained particular momentum from the Internet, with its ability to connect far-flung people and afford them a sense of safety.

On-line groups that began by swapping tips on using makeup and obtaining hormones now also spread word of the latest victims of violence and the next political protest.

But “the fundamental building block of the whole movement,” said Dr. Barbara Warren of the Gender Identity Project at New York City’s Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, “is the willingness of transgender folk to put themselves out there and be visible.”

That takes more than the courage to face funny looks in the checkout line. The most painful of rallying points is the frequency with which they are attacked and even killed.

“I know so many people who’ve suffered from vilification in their daily lives just because people have heard they’re transsexual, not because they look weird or act weird,” said James Green, a female-to-male transsexual and head of FtM International, the biggest group for what many members call “transmen.” “As soon as the fact is known, they’re just targets, and people are still being murdered.”

Since last year, Ms. Wilchins and Transexual Menace have taken to organizing vigils after the slayings of transsexuals. In May 1995 they protested outside the Lincoln, Neb., courthouse where the rapist and killer of a young woman living as a man — named Teena Brandon and known as Brandon Teena — was coming to trial. Since then, they have marked the deaths of several transsexual women who were killed by men they dated.

The next will come Sept. 16 in Lawrence, Mass., where Deborah Forte, a transsexual, was killed.

“We’re so invested in being men or women that if you fall outside that easy definition of what a man or woman is, a lot of people see you as some kind of monster,” said Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transsexual with a doctorate in history whose book on changing sex is to be published by Oxford University Press next year.

Gender PAC, the advocacy group, is lobbying to have crimes against “transgendered people” included in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, which lets the Justice Department track crimes based on race, religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

(These crimes do not fall under the orientation category because “transgenderism” concerns sexual identity, not sexual practices, Gender PAC says; some male-to-female transsexuals are lesbians, for example.)

Gender PAC’s other priority, said Dana Priesing, its main lobbyist — and a prominent Washington litigator until she began her sex change — is to get the group’s constituency included in the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, a bill in the House of Representatives that would protect gay people from job discrimination.

Employees currently have no recourse if they are dismissed because they reveal their sexual identity or undergo “transition” except in a handful of cities — including San Francisco, Seattle and Santa Cruz — and the state of Minnesota.

If Nancy Nangeroni is any judge, transsexuals still need help in the workplace. A 42-year-old, MIT-educated computer designer, she found she could not get a job if she volunteered that she was a male-to-female transsexual, but had no problem if she kept silent.

Ms. Nangeroni is not only open about her identity but also runs “Gender Talk,” a radio talk show every Wednesday evening on WMBR-FM, a Boston-area station.

“There’s a widespread discontent with gender roles,” she said, “and transgenderism is trying to speak to that in a compassionate way, speaking only liberation and not doctrine. It’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel sometimes. People are very ripe for it.”

Not everybody. Christian conservatives and advocates of traditional family values condemn the movement as decadent and unhealthy.

“This is yet another social pathology,” said Robert H. Knight, cultural studies director for the Family Research Council, a think tank in Washington. “This is deviant behavior that seeks legitimization in the social, legal and political realms. It is part of a larger cultural movement to confuse the sexual roles and to usher in a relativistic mindset concerning sexuality itself.”

The movement has also created some friction within the gay and lesbian groups that have generally accepted and aided it. Some gay and lesbian organizers have balked because its issues do not concern sexual orientation but rather identity.

Others argued, usually sotto voce, that flamboyant “drag queens” and “stone butches” would further alienate straight America and belie their claims that gay people are really just like everybody else.

But “transgendered people” have long been at the heart of the gay rights movement, said Kerry Lobel, deputy director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Now, she said, “they’re seeking and have found their own political power.”

“All of a sudden a lot of people feel, ‘Hey, I am proud,’ ” said Alison Laing, director of the International Foundation for Gender Education in Waltham, Mass. “It’s like gay pride. People say, ‘I didn’t choose this, but I do choose my behavior and my attitude.’ ”

Alison Laing’s life demonstrates the kind of freedom the movement espouses. A husband and father, “M. Laing” (to use the honorific proposed as an ungendered alternative to Mr. and Ms.) spends about 80 percent of the time dressed in women’s clothes and 20 percent as Al, in men’s clothing, showing that “we don’t have to live in gender boxes.”

c Copyright 1996 The New York Times

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 01:41:01 -0400

September 8, 1996

Shunning ‘He’ and ‘She,’ They Fight for Respect

By CAREY GOLDBERG

LOS ANGELES — In Boston, Nancy Nangeroni is helping arrange a courthouse vigil for a slain male-to-female transsexual. In Washington, Dana Priesing lobbies for laws that would ban discrimination against “transgendered” people.

And in Southern California, Jacob Hale and the rest of the local Transgender Menace chapter occasionally pull on their black Menace T-shirts and go for a group walkabout, just to look people in the eye with collective pride in who they are.

All see themselves as part of a burgeoning movement whose members are only now, nearly two decades after gay liberation took off, gathering the courage to go public and struggle for the same sort of respect and legal protections.

The name that scholars and organizers prefer for this nascent movement is “transgender,” an umbrella term for transsexuals, cross-dressers (the word now preferred over transvestites), intersexed people (also known as hermaphrodites), womanish men, mannish women and anyone whose sexual identity seems to cross the line of what, in 1990s America, is considered normal.

That line has certainly blurred. Dennis Rodman preens in his bridal gown, Ru Paul puckers for MAC cosmetics, and viewers flock to movies like “The Crying Game.”

But members of the movement say they still cannot escape the feeling that in a society that has grown more responsive to other minorities, they are among the last pariahs.

When they give up the old dream of simply “passing” as their desired sex, they face painful battles both in everyday life and in the political arena, where they are roundly condemned as deviants by religious conservatives and often spark controversy among more mainstream gay and lesbian groups.

Their very existence, they say, is such a challenge to universal gut-level ideas about a person’s sex as an either-or category — as reflected in everything from binary bathrooms to “he” and “she” pronouns — that they are often subjected to scorn, job discrimination and violence.

“There’s finally a voice saying, ‘Enough,’ ” said Riki Anne Wilchins, a Wall Street computer consultant and organizer in the movement. “We pay taxes. We vote. We work. There’s no reason we should be taking this. When you have people in isolation who are oppressed and victimized and abused, they think it’s their own fault, but when you hit that critical mass that they see it happening to other people, they realize it’s not about them. It’s about a system, and the only way to contest a system is with an organized response.”

No one knows exactly what that critical mass is. Experts say that in the more than 40 years since George Jorgensen emerged from the operating room as Christine, several thousand Americans have undergone sex-change surgery; they are believed to include nearly even numbers of men and women.

Perhaps as many as 60,000 Americans consider themselves valid candidates for such surgery, based on what psychiatrists call “gender identity dysphoria,” according to the Harry Benjamin Gender Dysphoria Association, the leading medical association of specialists — including sex-change surgeons — that sets guidelines for treating transsexuals.

But that is only the tip of a far larger iceberg, organizers say, of cross-dressers — many of whom are heterosexual men — and people who live as the opposite sex but never undergo surgery.

The movement’s growth, however, is easy to discern. Scores of participants rallied as part of a new advocacy group called Gender PAC for the first time in Washington last fall and plan to do the same in May, and transgender conventions now draw hundreds of people and number nearly 20 a year.

Increasingly, a “T” can be found tacked onto the “G, L and B” of gay, lesbian and bisexual events and groups, from community centers to pride parades.

In San Francisco, which a survey has shown is home to about 6,000 of the movement’s constituents, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission has formed a Transgender Community Task Force, and the protest group Transexual Menace now counts 46 chapters nationwide, some of which are called Transgender Menace. There is even a new national group, Transgendered Officers Protect and Serve; members act as marshals at events when needed.

The movement’s coalescence, which members say began over the last five years and accelerated in recent months, has gained particular momentum from the Internet, with its ability to connect far-flung people and afford them a sense of safety.

On-line groups that began by swapping tips on using makeup and obtaining hormones now also spread word of the latest victims of violence and the next political protest.

But “the fundamental building block of the whole movement,” said Dr. Barbara Warren of the Gender Identity Project at New York City’s Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, “is the willingness of transgender folk to put themselves out there and be visible.”

That takes more than the courage to face funny looks in the checkout line. The most painful of rallying points is the frequency with which they are attacked and even killed.

“I know so many people who’ve suffered from vilification in their daily lives just because people have heard they’re transsexual, not because they look weird or act weird,” said James Green, a female-to-male transsexual and head of FtM International, the biggest group for what many members call “transmen.” “As soon as the fact is known, they’re just targets, and people are still being murdered.”

Since last year, Ms. Wilchins and Transexual Menace have taken to organizing vigils after the slayings of transsexuals. In May 1995 they protested outside the Lincoln, Neb., courthouse where the rapist and killer of a young woman living as a man — named Teena Brandon and known as Brandon Teena — was coming to trial. Since then, they have marked the deaths of several transsexual women who were killed by men they dated.

The next will come Sept. 16 in Lawrence, Mass., where Deborah Forte, a transsexual, was killed.

“We’re so invested in being men or women that if you fall outside that easy definition of what a man or woman is, a lot of people see you as some kind of monster,” said Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transsexual with a doctorate in history whose book on changing sex is to be published by Oxford University Press next year.

Gender PAC, the advocacy group, is lobbying to have crimes against “transgendered people” included in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, which lets the Justice Department track crimes based on race, religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

(These crimes do not fall under the orientation category because “transgenderism” concerns sexual identity, not sexual practices, Gender PAC says; some male-to-female transsexuals are lesbians, for example.)

Gender PAC’s other priority, said Dana Priesing, its main lobbyist — and a prominent Washington litigator until she began her sex change — is to get the group’s constituency included in the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, a bill in the House of Representatives that would protect gay people from job discrimination.

Employees currently have no recourse if they are dismissed because they reveal their sexual identity or undergo “transition” except in a handful of cities — including San Francisco, Seattle and Santa Cruz — and the state of Minnesota.

If Nancy Nangeroni is any judge, transsexuals still need help in the workplace. A 42-year-old, MIT-educated computer designer, she found she could not get a job if she volunteered that she was a male-to-female transsexual, but had no problem if she kept silent.

Ms. Nangeroni is not only open about her identity but also runs “Gender Talk,” a radio talk show every Wednesday evening on WMBR-FM, a Boston-area station.

“There’s a widespread discontent with gender roles,” she said, “and transgenderism is trying to speak to that in a compassionate way, speaking only liberation and not doctrine. It’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel sometimes. People are very ripe for it.”

Not everybody. Christian conservatives and advocates of traditional family values condemn the movement as decadent and unhealthy.

“This is yet another social pathology,” said Robert H. Knight, cultural studies director for the Family Research Council, a think tank in Washington. “This is deviant behavior that seeks legitimization in the social, legal and political realms. It is part of a larger cultural movement to confuse the sexual roles and to usher in a relativistic mindset concerning sexuality itself.”

The movement has also created some friction within the gay and lesbian groups that have generally accepted and aided it. Some gay and lesbian organizers have balked because its issues do not concern sexual orientation but rather identity.

Others argued, usually sotto voce, that flamboyant “drag queens” and “stone butches” would further alienate straight America and belie their claims that gay people are really just like everybody else.

But “transgendered people” have long been at the heart of the gay rights movement, said Kerry Lobel, deputy director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Now, she said, “they’re seeking and have found their own political power.”

“All of a sudden a lot of people feel, ‘Hey, I am proud,’ ” said Alison Laing, director of the International Foundation for Gender Education in Waltham, Mass. “It’s like gay pride. People say, ‘I didn’t choose this, but I do choose my behavior and my attitude.’ ”

Alison Laing’s life demonstrates the kind of freedom the movement espouses. A husband and father, “M. Laing” (to use the honorific proposed as an ungendered alternative to Mr. and Ms.) spends about 80 percent of the time dressed in women’s clothes and 20 percent as Al, in men’s clothing, showing that “we don’t have to live in gender boxes.”

Copyright 1996 The New York Times

**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 Wed 11 Sep 1996 18:31:24 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E44pB; Wed 11 Sep 1996 18:31:24 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Candy of a New Strips Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 18:31:24 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609111831.E44pB@xconn.com>

Original Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:10:04 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

>From the “Dish” column in Southern Voice, 29 August, 1996

Candy of a New Stripe

How about Angela Bassett playing Lady Chablis in the upcoming film version of John Berendt’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” Naturally, Savannah’s first drag queen expected to play herself when the movie was made. When producers made it clear that wasn’t gonna happen, she named Angela as her first choice. This being bhe best and only real transgendered character ever in a major motion picture, Dish will quiver with rage if Jaye Davidson or some other tranz thespian doesn’t get a shock at it.

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Original Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:10:12 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

reprinted with permission from Southern Voice, 5 September, 1996

Harlem’s Annual Queer Extravaganza

by Maria Helana Dolan

I tell you, in Harlem, almost anything went. What about Harlem’s yearly extravaganza– The Dance of the Fairies? Held annually since 1869, “the most spectacular homosexual events were the costume balls held at the cavernous Rockland Palace on 155th Street.” (“The Harlem Renaissance,” Steve Watson). Organized by Hamilton Lodge No. 710 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, it was known officially as “The Masquerade and Civic Ball,” but by the late 1920’s everyone in Harlem knew it as The Faggots Ball.” (Gay New York, George Chauncey). Langston Hughes, central Renaissance figure, offers an account of the ball in his autobiography, “The Big Sea,” which covers his first 40 years. Of course, if you didn’t know that every man in the Renaissance was in love with him, you certainly wouldn’t pry it out from within these pages. “Strangest and gaudiest of all Harlem spectacles in the ’20s… [wa]s the annual Hamilton Club Lodge Ball at Rockland Palace casino… “It is the ball where men dress as women and women dress as men… It was fashionable for the intelligensia and social leaders of both Harlem and the downtown area to ocdcupy the boxes at this ball, and look down from above at the queerly assorted throng on the dancing floor, males in flowing gowns and feathered headdresses, and females in tuxedos and box-black suits. “Prizes are given to the most gorgeously gowned of the whites and Negroes who, powdered, wigged and rouged, mingle and compete for awards.” It presented quite a spectacle. According to Watson, “Not all guests were homosexual: many came to gawk. These onlookers ascended a gold-banistered staircase to the box seats that ringed the huge ballroom and looked down on the Grand March of ersatz divas promenading beneath a colossal crystal chandelier and a sky-blue ceiling. “The women mostly dressed in drably colored loose-fitting men’s suits… while the men outdid themselves in backless dresses and huge spangles; and as a creature called ‘La Flame’ who wore only a white satin stovepipe hat, a red beaded breast plate, and a white sash.” Not only was this the gaudiest and largest of events in the year for New York’s Queers; the Ball also drew thousands of spectators, as well as participating cross-dressers. In Chauncey’s description, “the ball’s popularity grew steadily… and peaked in the early 1930s, when a ‘panzy craze’ seized the city.” We’ll get into that in a future column. Sure, “New Negro” tabloids such as the widely-read Interstate Tattler reported on the doings at Rockland. But even venerable journals such as The Amsterdam News, while adopting a cheeky tone, reported on the proceedings. For instance, in 1934, it sassily recounted that “4,000 citizens, numbering some of Harlem’s best, elbowed and shoved each other aside and squirmed and stepped on one another’s toes and snapped at each other to obtain a better eyeful.” Chauncey elaborates. “In the 1930s the black press paid more attention to the Hamilton Lodge ball than to any other ball held in Harlem, regularly publishing photographs or drawings of the winning contestants, interviewing them and describing their costumes, and listing the dozens of society people in attendance– almost all int he news section on the first or second pages, not buried in the society pages where the balls thrown by other social clubs got briefer notices.” Plus, the Black press open rooted for the Black contestants over the white ones. THEIR drag queens represented the REAL Harlem, and so rightfully earned a place within the pages of the papers. No wonder that this instution became a community and family fixture. As Chauncey recounts, “Harlemites turning out to see the balls included celebrities, avant-garde writers, society matrons,prostitutes, and whole families. “At the begiing of her career, the singer Ethel Waters not only attended the balls but boasted about the prizes won by drag queens (fans from a local club) to whom she had loaned her gowns.” Funny; I don’t recall reading any of this in her autobiography, “His Eye on the Sparrow.” Not that everyone in Harlem was thrilled with The Faggot’s Ball. Churchmen and striving-for-respectability blacks were appalled, and attributed the presence of drag queens and homos to disgusting whites infecting Harlem from the vile bohemia of Greenwich Village. Their cries went mostly unheeded, until the late ’30s. The really amazing thing about the Rockland Ball wasn’t the mixing of black and white in a segregated city. It wasn’t the overt presence and dominance of the “third sex.” I believe it was instead the fact that Harlem society itself, and all the wellsprings which fed it across the country, so genuinely and openly embraced this event and its attendees.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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>From Southern Voice, 5 September, 1996

Soldier Charged in Hawaii Transgender Death

Army member Anthony Tyrone Briscoe, 22, will stand trial on a charge that he killed Thomas Hall, 33, whom Associated Press identified as a transvestite. Anthony “Angel” Marcos, Hall’s friend and sister sex worker, testified that s/he saw Hall with Briscoe behind Dot’s restaurant on Mango St. Aug. 14 before hearing Hall screaming. Marcos ran to the victim and found hir bleeding from the head. Anthother witness placed Briscoe’s car at the scene. Police said Hall suffered facial and head injuries when beaten with a brick and died the following day. Briscoe is charged with second-degree murder and if convicted will face a mandatory life prison sentence with the possibility of parole.

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>From Southern Voice, 5 September, 1996

A 58-year-old father of 10 who teaches math at Santa Rosa (CA) Junior College has come out on the job and wearsz a dress to class every day. Dick Giles, also known as Diane, said, “I just decided I needed to quit living a lie.” This summer, with the support of his wife, Diane began dressing full-time in women’s clothing, and visited his family in Quincy, IL, and attended his 40th high school reunion in a dress. “I’ve known about it all the time we have been together,” said Anne Giles. “I’m glad the hiding, the worrying, and the concern for the mental health of Diane is over. This is the person she is.” School administrators said Giles can teach in a dress as long as it does not interfere with his duties.

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Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:48:22 -0400

Originally From: Janet@ccia.com (Janet Elizabeth Flecher)

They’re Wife And Wife, Legally By Anna Dubrovsky Post-Gazette Staff Writer

Jan and Mary Lou are married.

It happened in a church ceremony some 21 years ago, charming as weddings are and legal in every way. The Roman Catholic Church had approved the union, and the state had given its nod.

They promised to love and to cherish one another, they kissed, and that was that. Then came the joint bank account, the house and the health insurance policy that covered them both. There have been rocky times, but the Ellwood City couple have man-aged to stay together. As marriages go, they have beaten the odds.

They also have beaten the law.

Jan and Mary Lou Flecher are two women legally married in a state where it is illegal for two women to marry. And they aren’t the only ones. The Flechers, who decided early in their relationship not to have children, know of at least two other legally married same-sex couples in the Pittsburgh area.

The lawmakers never imagined this scenario.

Back in 1976, when the couple married, laws were laws, but Jan was John. John was a young college graduate, working as a craneman in a steel mill. He had been born in Ellwood City to conservative, first-generation Polish parents, though he had strayed from the Catholic church in his late teens.

The previous year, he had been hospitalized for a kidney stone and had met Mary Lou, a nurse. (“I got rid of a kidney stone and brought home a registered nurse,” Jan jokes.) And their marriage seemed have gone off without a hitch.

Of course, there was a hitch. Since the age of 4 or 5, John had imagined being a girl. “I thought It was something I could hide from the world forever,” said Jan, now 44. “I was scared to death anyone would find out.”

It wasn’t until 18 months into the marriage that John began to cross-dress. “Up to that point, I thought I was married to a regular man,” Mary Lou, 42, says. She was repulsed at first, and tried her hardest to dissuade John from cross-dressing. He tried his hardest to make her happy and went weeks without wearing women’s clothing.

But it was straining him. When he wasn’t cross-dressing, he was irritable, awkward in his attire, uncomfortable in his own skin. He would grow so despondent that, sometimes, Mary Lou would order him to put on women’s clothing.

Eventually, John was spending half of his time at home dressed as a woman. When the active couple set off on wilderness treks, they would pack lightly, but for three.

“It was like having two people inside of your head,” Jan said. About three years ago, the need to spend time as Jan became overwhelming. So did the thoughts of suicide.

“Each day you forced yourself to put on the suit of clothes that said John, it was harder than the day before,” Jan recalled. “John was going to die. The question was: Kill John and be a woman? Or kill both of us?”

John found part of the answer on-line. In chat rooms and on bulletin boards, he discovered a community of peers who understood his habits and his growing sense of hopelessness. They weren’t cross-dressers who, from time to time, assumed the role of the opposite sex. Rather, they were transsexuals who had shed their gender altogether.

On-line, John finally admitted his transsexuality. The following night, he took Mary Lou to their summer home, poured some wine and broke the news. He expected to hear from her: “I want a divorce.”

But Mary Lou said, “I know. What are we going to do about it?”

The revelation had not come as a surprise. It had been prefaced by years of cross-dressing and a book transsexual Jan Morris’ autobiographical “Conundrum,” which John had given Mary Lou to read.

Still, Mary Lou wondered if she was the only woman in the world in love with a man who wanted to be a woman. She feared that people would perceive her as lesbian. And she came close to divorcing John.

While he enrolled in a 12-month program in Pittsburgh that evaluates candidates for sex-change operations, Mary Lou searched out other wives who shared her experience. She found them on-line, at a support group in the Pittsburgh area and at a gender conference here. On Aug. 30, 1995, a psychiatrist granted John a letter for surgery. A week later, John went before a judge in Lawrence County to ask for a name change, and on Sept. 11, John Edmund Flecher became Janet Elizabeth Flecher. .”

Also in September, PennDot considered the letter for surgery and the court-approved name change and issued a new driver’s license to Jan, marked F for female. That’s when Jan and Mary became outlaws-of-sorts.

They didn’t stop there. On April Fool’s Day this year, Jan underwent a sex-change operation. And on April 12, she had her birth certificate formally changed to reflect her new name and sex. “According to the state of Pennsylvania, this body is a female body,” she said. “That’s it. That’s the way I’m treated.”

Jan and Mary Lou have made no secret of their unique union, and they continue to enjoy the benefits afforded to spouses. But even though legal professionals doubt that their marriage can be challenged, the Flechers worry about pending legislation, about being “found out” by policy makers.

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

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Original Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 23:10:17 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: MtMInFo@aol.com Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 21:19:32 -0400 Subject: FtM Outreach: Now you can talk one on one with an FtM

Ingersoll Gender Center here in Seattle is starting a new phone night. There will be FtMs maning the phones on Wednesday nights from 6-8pm PST, 7-9pm MST, 8-10pm CST and 9-11pm EST. If you have a questions, please don’t hesitate to call 206-329-6651 on Wednesday nights. If it is a success, Ingersoll will add another night and more volunteers. To start out David Schreier and Aaron Davis will man the phones with more volunteers to be added soon.

I think this is a first so let’s make it a success. Please tell all the support groups, lists, TG organizations and especially get the word out to those guys who are in areas with no groups.

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Original Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 23:10:19 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

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

CONTACTS: Dana Priesing DPriesing@aol.com (703)578-0903

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

GENDERPAC CALLS FOR “FAMILY PRESERVATION ACT” TO RESCUE EXISTING SAME-SEX MARRIAGES FROM DOMA ====================================

[Washington, DC – September 11, 1996] Decrying the recently-enacted Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the national advocacy organization GenderPAC has called on Congress to enact a “Family Preservation Act” to exempt existing, legal, same-sex marriages from DOMA-induced nullification.

At risk are scores of transgender couples in stable, long-term, marriages – many with school-age children – in which one partner or the other has legally changed their sex. Although the change of sex is recognized by the Federal government, under DOMA the marriage is not.

Not only are such families at risk of losing federal recognition but – – in case of death or disability — the surviving spouse risks losing all rights to his or her partner’s federal benefits, including federal pensions, Social Security, and portions of Worker’s Compensation.

Said GenderPAC Congressional Advocacy Coordinator Dana Priesing, “Just like everywhere else, in the transcommunity people meet, fall in love, get married, and have children. Later one spouse undergoes gender reassignment, but just because he or she has legally changed sex, doesn’t mean they suddenly cease being one-half of a working and productive family. Now DOMA has unnecessarily placed scores of such marriages in jeopardy.”

Declared Riki Anne Wilchins, GenderPAC’s Executive Director, “It is unconscionable that stable, long-term marriages are being pulled asunder by the federal government. How can nullifying a loving, two-parent marriage, which is successfully raising children, possibly help `family values?’ These are exactly the kinds of families everyone wants to preserve.”

In an effort to protect validly- contracted same-sex marriages from DOMA’s reach, GenderPAC has drafted corrective legislation, and is beginning its search for Congressional sponsorship. At the same time, Ms. Priesing is seeking clarification from the Department of Justice on the fate of existing same-sex unions under DOMA. ###

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Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:44:35 -0400

The following is from the keyword: OPRAH area on America Online, as the synopsis for Friday’s show. This sounds like a “better than most” talk show coverage, and, from what I heard, also includes Dr. Randi Ettner as part of the panel. It doesn’t sound, however, like it has much FTM coverage (I hope I am wrong!)

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**All programming is subject to change.**

Young Children Who Cross Dress

Is it a “phase” or something parents should be concerned about? Experts are calling it Gender Identity Disorder, and it refers to children who feel they were born with the wrong gender. Today we’ll talk to parents of very young sons who feel trapped in boys’ bodies. They like to play with Barbie dolls, wear their mother’s earrings and play dress-up with their sisters’ dresses. Many of these parents feel pressure about how they are raising their children. Should they allow them to experiment with their identities? We’ll also introduce you to one female teenager who was institutionalized for dressing like a boy. He explains the “treatment” she received for it. And her story may shock you!

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. . . . /\\//\ Gwendolyn Ann Smith *** GLCF Wendy@AOL.com /\\//\ > () < Area Coordinator and Conference Hostess > () < \/()\/ Transgender Community Forum (AOL – Kw: TCF) \/()\/ “I want this to be a harmony of voices” – Lauren D. Wilson TCF Info Page: http://members.aol.com/glcfwendy/tcf/

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Original Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:54:28 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Update on the Ingersoll Project:

FtMs will not be manning the phones at Ingersoll Gender Center 206-329-6651 on Wednesday nights starting October 9, 1996. Please spread the word to each and every TG organization and support group.

The times will be Wednesdays 6-8pm PST; 7-9pm MST;8-10pm CST; 9-11pm EST. beginning October 9th.

Thanks,

Aaron Davis

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:52:58 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

VIGIL AT FORTE MURDER TRIAL ========================== KILLER PLEADS GUILTY, GETS LIFE

[LAWRENCE, MA – September 16, 1996] A DOZEN MEMBERS of the Transexual Menace, GenderPAC and IFGE gathered in a quiet memorial vigil outside the imposing red-stone courthouse in suburban Lawrence, MA this morning, commemorating the 1995 violent slaying of Deborah (“Debbie”) Forte.

Ms. Forte, a resident of Haverhill, MA, was brutally murdered by Michael Thompson on May 15, who afterwards confessed to a coworker he had taken her home, began “messing around”, and – upon discovering she had a penis – killed her.

Guilty of Murder Two —————————-

Activists had sought to focus public attention on Ms. Forte’s murder both because it was ignored by mainstream and queer media, and because of its extraordinary violence. Thompson had strangled Ms. Forte, beaten her severely about her head and shoulders, and then deeply stabbed her multiple times in the chest and breasts.

Jury selection was originally scheduled to begin Tuesday, with the trial starting as early as the following Wednesday. But in a surprising development activists outside the courthouse learned that at about 10am EST Thompson entered a Guilty plea to 2nd Degree Murder, following a negotiated plea bargain. He was immediately sentenced by the presiding judge to Life Imprisonment, with possibility of parole in 15 years.

The plea down to 2nd instead of 1st Degree Murder was considered possibly due to the prosecution_s lack of evidence of premeditation, which could have mandated the higher 1st Degree charge. Conviction for 1st Degree Murder carries with it a sentence of Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole.

Members of Debbie’s surviving family, including her older sister, emerged from the courthouse appearing shaken but resolute. They were interviewed by the press, declaring themselves satisfied with the conviction and sentence. Many then stopped by the demonstrators, thanking them repeatedly thanked for showing up.

Terrible Violence, But Little Coverage ————————————–

Said a Menace spokestrans, “The level of almost unhinged violence in Debbie’s murder echoes that of the recent murders of Brandon Teena, Jesse Santiago, Christian Paige, and Chanel Picket. One thing coming out of these Memorial Vigils is that they are finally forcing the media to cover these terrible crimes like they deserve. And this is one small step in stopping the toll of gender-based violence.”

The event was well-attended by local media including several gay papers, 2 regional newspapers, one TV news show, and a journalist from the Boston Globe, who — in a fortuitous coincidence — happened to be inside the courthouse on business, encountered the demonstration on his way out, and called the story in to his editor.

The Memorial Vigil had been called by Riki Anne Wilchins and Nancy Nangeroni, and it was Ms. Nangeroni, with Mr. Rob Johnson of Boston_s Fenway Community Health Center (Victim Recovery Program) who handled the local logistics and planning. Except for some minor harassment from local police, the Vigil came off without incident as activists distributed over 200 leaflets headed “Transpeople Are NOT Disposable People,” and others carried signs reading “In Memorium: Debbie Forte” and “Difference is NOT a Crime Punishable by Death.”

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Original Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:07:25 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Information on ENDA from the Human Rights Campaign.

Below is a list of the Senate vote count on ENDA, as well as a sample “Thank you” letter and a letter to Senators who voted against ENDA. Please take a moment to write a letter of thanks to your Senator if he/she voted for ENDA, or to send a letter to those Senators who voted against ENDA. Please send copies of your letters to WorkNet at WorkNet@hrcusa.org. A complete list of the Senate vote on ENDA can be found at our website at “http://www.hrcusa.org/”. Please pass this email on to others.

U.S. SENATE VOTE ON THE EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT YEA (Y): 49 NAY (N): 50 NOT VOTING (NV): 1

ALABAMA Heflin-N Shelby-N

ALASKA Stevens-N Murkowski-N

ARIZONA McCain-N Kyl-N

ARKANSAS Bumpers-Y Pryor-NV

CALIFORNIA Feinstein-Y Boxer-Y

COLORADO Brown-N Campbell-N

CONNECTICUT Dodd-Y Lieberman-Y

DELAWARE Roth-N Biden-Y

FLORIDA Graham-Y Mack-N

GEORGIA Nunn-N Coverdell-N

HAWAII Inouye-Y Akaka-Y

IDAHO Craig-N Kempthorne-N

ILLINOIS Simon-Y Moseley-Braun-Y

INDIANA Lugar-N Coats-N

IOWA Grassley-N Harkin-Y

KANSAS Kassebaum-N Frahm-N

KENTUCKY Ford-N McConnell-N

LOUISIANA Johnston-Y Breaux-Y

MAINE Cohen-Y Snowe-Y

MARYLAND Sarbanes-Y Mikulski-Y

MASSACHUSETTS Kennedy-Y Kerry-Y

MICHIGAN Levin-Y Abraham-N

MINNESOTA Wellstone-Y Grams-N

MISSISSIPPI Cochran-N Lott-N

MISSOURI Bond-N Ashcroft-N

MONTANA Baucus-Y Burns-N

NEBRASKA Exon-N Kerrey-Y

NEVADA Reid-Y Bryan-Y

NEW HAMPSHIRE Smith-N Gregg-N

NEW JERSEY Bradley-Y Lautenberg-Y

NEW MEXICO Domenici-N Bingaman-Y

NEW YORK Moynihan-Y D’Amato-Y

NORTH CAROLINA Helms-N Faircloth-N

NORTH DAKOTA Conrad-Y Dorgan-Y

OHIO Glenn-Y DeWine-N

OKLAHOMA Nickles-N Inhofe-N

OREGON Hatfield-Y Wyden-Y

PENNSYLVANIA Specter-Y Santorum-N

RHODE ISLAND Pell-Y Chafee-Y

SOUTH CAROLINA Thurmond-N Hollings-Y

SOUTH DAKOTA Pressler-N Daschle-Y

TENNESSEE Thompson-N Frist-N

TEXAS Gramm-N Hutchison-N

UTAH Hatch-N Bennett-N

VERMONT Leahy-Y Jeffords-Y

VIRGINIA Warner-N Robb-Y

WASHINGTON Gorton-N Murray-Y

WEST VIRGINIA Byrd-N Rockefeller-Y

WISCONSIN Kohl-Y Feingold-Y

WYOMING Simpson-Y Thomas-N

Thank you:

Dear Senator:

I am tremendously grateful for your “yes” vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), S. 2056.

As you know, fairness in the workplace is not only good business, it is what an overwhelming majority of Americans want. The fact that the vote was so close clearly demonstrates the Senate is beginning to understand that discrimination in the workplace hurts real Americans, and that no federal law protects workers from unfair hiring practices based on sexual orientation, a characteristic, that has nothing to do with job performance. I look forward to and am counting on your support in the next Congress.

Thank you for standing up for fairness in the workplace.

Bad vote:

Dear Senator:

I am extremely disappointed in your vote against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), S. 2056.

Having the ability to obtain and hold a job based on ability and merit should be the sole factor in employment decisions. Eighty-four percent of American voters agree. ENDA included a broad religious exemption and specifically denied quotas and preferential treatment based on sexual orientation. The debate by opponents on the Senate floor was based on misinterpretation of the bill itself, and myths about gay and lesbian Americans in general.

I am convinced that fairness in the workplace for all Americans will become law in the very near future. I strongly urge you to take a closer look at ENDA, and when this bill reaches the Senate floor next Congress, please support what is fair, and what Americans want: vote “yes” on the ENDA bill.

I look forward to hearing from you on this matter.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:47:44 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Because this is long, I’m posting it separately.

— Dallas << From: LawrenceMD@aol.com Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:28:38 -0400 Subject: Transgendered Doctors Publish in JAMA

Dear friends,

Thought you might like to see that some of us wear our black Menace T-shirts under our white coats:

Transgendered Doctors Publish in JAMA (Contact: Anne A. Lawrence MD, <LawrenceMD@aol.com>)

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a letter to the Editor entitled “Health Care Needs of Transgendered Patients” in its September 18, 1996 issue. The letter is authored by Anne Lawrence MD, and co-signed by Joy Shaffer MD, Wynelle Snow MD, “Cat” Chase MD, and Bo Headlam (Medical Student). All of the doctors identify as transgendered or transsexual, and are also members of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA).

In their letter, the doctors comment on the report “Health Care Needs of Gay Men and Lesbians in the United States”, by the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs. They stress the overlap between the issues of gender identity and sexual orientation, and urge the Council to explicitly address the health care needs of the transgendered in future reports. They go on to briefly outline some of the issues transgendered patients face. In a reply, James R. Allen, MD, Secretary of the Council on Scientific Affairs, responds favorably, and strongly encourages further research concerning the health care needs of sexual minorities.

The text of the letter, and Dr. Allen’s reply, follow:

Health Care Needs of Transgendered Patients

To the Editor. –As transgendered members of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), we wish to commend the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs for its report (1). The Council Report is an excellent resource for physicians who wish to provide effective and respectful care to lesbians and gay men.

When the Council next updates its recommendations for the care of sexual and gender minorities, we hope it will expand its focus to include the needs of a population that overlaps and is frequently associated with the lesbian and gay community — namely, the transgendered.

Transgendered individuals are those who live full- or part-time in the gender role opposite to the one in which they were born. They often seek medical assistance, including hormonal therapy and cosmetic surgery, in order to more completely approximate the appearance of the gender in which they choose to live. This is especially true of transsexuals, who also usually seek genital reassignment surgery.

Transgendered patients appear to share many of the risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases that occur in lesbian and gay patients. They are likewise subject to discrimination from health care professionals based on their gender-deviant physical and social presentations. Indeed, a close reading of a source(2) cited in the Council Report suggests that much of the discrimination experienced by lesbians and gay men is cued as much by gender-related appearance and behaviors as by explicit clinician knowledge of sexual preference.

In addition, transgendered patients have special health care needs related to their use and occasional abuse of cross-gender hormones. They require periodic surveillance for malignancy in their reconstructed genitalia. An often-neglected aspect of care of the transgendered involves preservation of fertility options (ie, sperm and egg banking) in patients who receive hormonal gonadal suppression or surgical gonadectomy.

Recognizing the difficulty of separating issues of sexual orientation and gender expression, GLMA has welcomed transgendered physicians as members since 1994. By similarly expanding to become “trans-inclusive”, future Council Reports could more completely address the health care needs of sexual/gender minorities.

Anne A. Lawrence, MD Seattle, Wash

Joy D. Shaffer, MD San Jose, Calif

Wynelle R. Snow, MD Avon, Conn

C. Chase, MD Pittsburgh, Pa

Bo T. Headlam, MS Milwaukee, Wis

1. Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association. Health care needs of gay men and lesbians in the United States. JAMA. 1996; 275: 1354-1359.

2. Schatz B, O’Hanlan K. Anti-Gay Discrimination in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Physicians. San Francisco, CA: American Association of Physicians for Human Rights; 1994.

In Reply. — Dr Lawrence and colleagues properly view the recent Council on Scientific Affairs report on health care for gay men and lesbians as a work in progress. The health care needs of transgendered patients would be appropriate for consideration by the Council in a future report. Quality research on transgendered persons is lacking. We strongly encourage further research on the relation of health care needs and all sexual orientations.

James R. Allen, MD, MPH Council on Scientific Affairs American Medical Association Chicago, Ill >> ——————— Forwarded message: From: owner-tsmenace-digest@zoom.com Reply-to: tsmenace@zoom.com To: tsmenace-digest@zoom.com Date: 96-09-18 05:00:44 EDT tsmenace-digest Wednesday, 18 September 1996 Volume 01 : Number 308 ———————————————————————-

From: “Jennifer Petersen” <jennifer@cybercomm.net> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 06:26:04 -0400 Subject: Fw: : A view of the future

——————————————————————— Jennifer Ann Petersen – Brick, NJ, USA mailto:jennifer@cybercomm.net http://www.cybercomm.net/~jennifer/ http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/4403/ ———————————————————————

– ———- > From: Martin Maloney <martinma@unix.ieway.com> > To: queerlaw@abacus.oxy.edu > Subject: *QL*: A view of the future > Date: Tuesday, September 17, 1996 5:15 AM > > Righteousness in defense of marriage > STEPHANIE SALTER > Examiner columnist. > “I’m sorry, Mr. Smith, but I can’t issue you and Ms. Jones a marriage > license. You are both in violation of several sections of the Defense of > Marriage Act.” > What? We just got the full list of guidelines a month ago. What are you > people doing, adding new prohibitions every week? > “As a matter of fact, we are. Your U.S. government takes its defense > seriously, whether we are protecting our oil interests in the Middle East or > our sacred and holy institution of marriage. > “Sen. Robert C. Byrd, R-W.Va., laid down the basic principle back in > September 1996 when the act passed and then-President Clinton signed it. Sen. > Byrd said: Let us defend the oldest institution: the institution of marriage > between male and female as set forth in the Holy Bible. Remember?” > Of course. But Ms. Jones and I are a heterosexual man and woman, not gay > or lesbian. We’re both home owners, not renters – you made that a requirement > in January 1997, right? We contribute 10 percent of our income to Republican > and Democratic candidates, tithe another 10 to our Christian church, and we > have the required number of Bibles between us: six. > “Well, for starters, Mr. Smith, Ms. Jones, has contributed more than > $1,500 to the National Organization for Women.” > So? > “Saint Paul said that wives must be submissive to their husbands. A wife > cannot serve two masters, Mr. Smith. The federal government sees NOW as a > Godless enemy of the sacred and holy institution of marriage and its most > blessed natural fruit, the family. When the Defense of Marriage Act was > passed, Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tex., said: “The traditional family has stood for > 5,000 years. Are we so wise today that we are ready to reject 5,000 years of > recorded history? I don’t think so.’ Remember?” > It’s too bad nobody called Gramm at the time on that arrogant > implication. The modern American family unit isn’t the only traditional > family configuration in 5,000 years of history. > “Oh, I believe there were complaints of that sort from the feminists of > NOW and other Godless subversives who want to destroy our sacred and holy > institution of marriage and family as set forth in the Holy Bible.” > Look, the Bible is just one of the major holy books in the world. And > with our Bible, there are dozens of translations and interpretations of > scripture. Taking one version as a literal prescription for federal law is > dangerous. The Bible says Jonah spent days in the belly of a whale. > You don’t believe that is literally true, do you? > “Get thee behind me, Satan! Of course I do. That very question was on the > civil service polygraph test I had to take to get this job.” > Look, my fiancee is in the women’s room. What if – God, she’ll kill me – > what if she resigns her membership in NOW and gives $3,000 to, um, the Eagle > Forum? > “I’m sorry. As I said, you two are in violation of many sections of the > Defense of Marriage Act.” > What else? > “Well, you and Ms. Jones are both divorced. The Bible says . . .” Wait a > minute. Almost half of U.S. marriages end in divorce. And what about Congress > and the White House? Lots of those people are divorced and remarried. > “Oh, there is an exemption in the Defense of Marriage Act for Congress, > the president and his staff. It’s like their immunity from certain kinds of > prosecution. Of course, the exemption does not apply to females in Congress > or the administration. Ladies have always been held to a higher standard of > purity when it comes to the > sacred and holy institution of marriage. So it has been for 5,000 years. So > it must remain.” > I’m a glutton for punishment. Tell me: What else disqualifies us? > “God forgive you, Mr. Smith. You had a vasectomy last year.” > How did you know that? > “Your medical records were open to this bureau when you applied for a > marriage license. We know about Ms. Jones’ chlamydia in ’95, too. I told you > the federal government takes its defense seriously. > “Remember, the Defense of Marriage Act was written by Rep. Steve > Largent, R-Okla. Gays and lesbians, he pointed out, don’t procreate. This is > only a logical extension of that thinking. The Bible says that it is better > to spill your seed into the belly of a you-know-what than, uh > . . .” > How could a law that started out just to keep gay men and lesbians from > marrying each other have gotten so out of hand? Everybody said it was nothing > but election-year political posturing. > “I guess everybody was wrong, weren’t they, Mr. Smith? The driving force > behind the Defense of Marriage Act wasn’t politics but what used to be > called, the Christian Right,” and is now the heart of the federal government. > We do not engage in political posturing, sir. We are loyal and ferocious > soldiers, engaged in a holy war. As you see, we are winning.” > > > > > **************************************************************************** * > * To subscribe to QUEERLAW, send mail to: majordomo@abacus.oxy.edu * > * In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: subscribe queerlaw * > * To unsubscribe to QUEERLAW, send mail to: majordomo@abacus.oxy.edu * > * In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: unsubscribe queerlaw * > * Words in the Subject: line are NOT processed! * > * There is also a QUEERLAW-DIGEST mailing list available * > **************************************************************************** ** ——————————

From: LawrenceMD@aol.com Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:28:38 -0400 Subject: Transgendered Doctors Publish in JAMA

Dear friends,

Thought you might like to see that some of us wear our black Menace T-shirts under our white coats:

Transgendered Doctors Publish in JAMA (Contact: Anne A. Lawrence MD, <LawrenceMD@aol.com>)

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a letter to the Editor entitled “Health Care Needs of Transgendered Patients” in its September 18, 1996 issue. The letter is authored by Anne Lawrence MD, and co-signed by Joy Shaffer MD, Wynelle Snow MD, “Cat” Chase MD, and Bo Headlam (Medical Student). All of the doctors identify as transgendered or transsexual, and are also members of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA).

In their letter, the doctors comment on the report “Health Care Needs of Gay Men and Lesbians in the United States”, by the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs. They stress the overlap between the issues of gender identity and sexual orientation, and urge the Council to explicitly address the health care needs of the transgendered in future reports. They go on to briefly outline some of the issues transgendered patients face. In a reply, James R. Allen, MD, Secretary of the Council on Scientific Affairs, responds favorably, and strongly encourages further research concerning the health care needs of sexual minorities.

The text of the letter, and Dr. Allen’s reply, follow:

Health Care Needs of Transgendered Patients

To the Editor. –As transgendered members of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), we wish to commend the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs for its report (1). The Council Report is an excellent resource for physicians who wish to provide effective and respectful care to lesbians and gay men.

When the Council next updates its recommendations for the care of sexual and gender minorities, we hope it will expand its focus to include the needs of a population that overlaps and is frequently associated with the lesbian and gay community — namely, the transgendered.

Transgendered individuals are those who live full- or part-time in the gender role opposite to the one in which they were born. They often seek medical assistance, including hormonal therapy and cosmetic surgery, in order to more completely approximate the appearance of the gender in which they choose to live. This is especially true of transsexuals, who also usually seek genital reassignment surgery.

Transgendered patients appear to share many of the risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases that occur in lesbian and gay patients. They are likewise subject to discrimination from health care professionals based on their gender-deviant physical and social presentations. Indeed, a close reading of a source(2) cited in the Council Report suggests that much of the discrimination experienced by lesbians and gay men is cued as much by gender-related appearance and behaviors as by explicit clinician knowledge of sexual preference.

In addition, transgendered patients have special health care needs related to their use and occasional abuse of cross-gender hor “, future Council Reports could more completely address the health care needs of sexual/gender minorities.

Anne A. Lawrence, MD Seattle, Wash

Joy D. Shaffer, MD San Jose, Calif

Wynelle R. Snow, MD Avon, Conn

C. Chase, MD Pittsburgh, Pa

Bo T. Headlam, MS Milwaukee, Wis

1. Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association. Health care needs of gay men and lesbians in the United States. JAMA. 1996; 275: 1354-1359.

2. Schatz B, O’Hanlan K. Anti-Gay Discrimination in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Physicians. San Francisco, CA: American Association of Physicians for Human Rights; 1994. In Reply. — Dr Lawrence and colleagues properly view the recent Council on Scientific Affairs report on health care for gay men and lesbians as a work in progress. The health care needs of transgendered patients would be appropriate for consideration by the Council in a future report. Quality research on transgendered persons is lacking. We strongly encourage further research on the relation of health care needs and all sexual orientations.

James R. Allen, MD, MPH Council on Scientific Affairs American Medical Association Chicago, Ill

(END)

Anne A. Lawrence, MD <http://members.aol.com/tssource>

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End of tsmenace-digest V1 #308 ******************************

 

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)

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>From listserv@xconn.com Wed 18 Sep 1996 11:59:49 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E97Cn; Wed 18 Sep 1996 11:59:49 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Boy Who Wore Dress to School Listed As Runaway Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:59:49 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609181159.E97Cn@xconn.com>

Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:29:56 -0400

>From The Boston Globe

Boy Who Wore Dress to School Listed As Runaway

By Aaron Nathans, 09/17/96; 20:29

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – The boy who sparked controversy when he wore a dress to Burlington High School last week has been listed as a runaway with Burlington City Police.

The report came after Burlington High School officials were set to meet with

Matt Stickney, 15, Tuesday morning to mediate their differences. But school officials said the session never happened because not all parties were present.

Burlington Police Lt. Emmet Helrich said Stickney was reported as a runaway at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, and there have been no reports of his whereabouts.

Stickney, who is gay, has been showing up at school in a dress, and the administration has been sending him home. Administrators say his clothing disrupts class and therefore violates the school’s dress code.

About 100 BHS students had cut class Friday morning to protest the school’s decision to suspend him.

In a statement Friday, the Burlington School District said it was concerned that allowing Stickney to wear the clothing he chose would disrupt learning. “We are responsible for protecting the educational environment from disruption and maintaining a safe environment for all students,” it said.

The situation has attracted national notoriety. David Hyde Pierce of TV’s “Frasier” referred to Stickney in an interview on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” And Karen Eade, executive director of Outright Vermont, a gay services

organization, said a representative of the daytime “Jerry Springer Show” left

a card at her office Tuesday.

“This has been such a media circus,” Eade said. We have a young person who is

at great risk right now. There are a million different reasons a young person

would feel isolated and condemned at this turn of events.”

[addendum from person in area: “According to local radio here in Burlington this morning someone from OUTright Vermont (the glbt youth support group) says Matt is “in hiding” but OK.]

[note from The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project:

Vermont has prohibited discrimination based upon sexual orientation in its education code. [16 V.S.A. ss 11].

Vermont also has a “public accomodations” statute which *may* be applicable to anti-LGBT abuse in public high schools. {See 9 V.S.A. ss 4502}.

All decisions regarding curricular policy are handled at a local level. Nonetheless, a State Dept. of Ed. DOES exist, and the Commissioner should be contacted regarding treatment of LGBT students in his state. It is time for his department to take a leadership role, and it could start with sensitivity trainings for school principals, superintendents, and other administrators.

State Dept. of Ed., 120 State St., State Office Building, Montpelier, VT 05620-2501; Departmental Faxes: 802-828-3140 or 802-828-3146. Richard P Mills, Commissioner, phone= 802-828-3135]

*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ OK TO RE-POST. Jessea Greenman <jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu> The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) CHECK THIS OUT FOR TONS OF INFO – – <http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/> Please cc us (for our files) on

correspondence you send or receive re our action alerts.

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

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Original Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:22:33 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

The movie Stonewall, featuring all sorts of drag and transgendered characters, opens this weekin art cinemas across the nation.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Wed 18 Sep 1996 20:30:05 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E54mp; Wed 18 Sep 1996 20:30:05 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Drag Decadence in Crescent City Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:30:05 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609182030.E54mp@xconn.com>

Original Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:22:30 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Reprinted with permission from Southern Voice, 12 September, 1996

Drag Decadence in Crescent City

New Orleans held its 24th annual Southern Decadence Day celebration over the

Labor Day weekend. A five-day round of drag shows, a leather contest, dances, cocktail parties, beer busts and barbecues culminated in the traditional Sunday afternoon costumed walking parade through the streets of the French Quarter. In keeping with his chosen theme, “Queen of Da’ Nile,” grand marshal Wayne White and his retinue of slaves were dressed in King Tut-inspired gowns and loincloths. Following behind were several hundred drag queens, leathermen, and members of costumed contingents including a purported passel of Hooter’s girls, “pink ladies,” and Value Jet stewardesses.

Transsexual Claims Parenthood in Eurocourt

A women who became a man took Britain to the European Court of Human Rights recently to win recognition as father to the child of his long-time female companion. The child was born in 1992 through artificial insemination by sperm from a third person. The British transsexual, named only as X, argues

that the Registrar’s refusal to register him as the father breached the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees respect of family life.

Lady Bunny Dolls Up

>From Atlanta Queen and current czarina of that fabulous NYC extravaganza Wigstock, Lady Bunny has now been immortalized. She’s one of eight dazzling

real-life divas featured in a new, one-of-a-kind book called “Drag Dolls.” Subtitled “Eight Cut-Out Drag Queens and Their Fabulous Over-the-Top Ensembles,” it is all that and more. Along with Bunny (who can sport twooutrageous ’70s outfits or a country queen ensemble complete with gingham

mini apron), you can also play dress-up with the intimitable Joey Arias, the

formidable Misstress Formike, the ubiquitous Hedda Lettuce, and a few lesser-known luminaries. Published by Chronicle Books ($12.95,), it features the photographs and illustrations of David Croland.

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>From listserv@xconn.com Fri 20 Sep 1996 17:39:50 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E97gJ; Fri 20 Sep 1996 17:39:50 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Transsexual Custody Case Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:39:50 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609201739.E97gJ@xconn.com>

Original Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:10:58 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: ASuper8069@aol.com Subject: TRANSSEXUAL CUSTODY CASE

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: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:01:47 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

September, 1996 For Immediate Release Transsexual Challenges Tri-Ess

Dallas Denny, popularly believed to be a six year post-operative transsexual

woman, has sent an application to the Society For the Second Self, claiming to be a heterosexual crossdresser and asking for full membership status. The Society, popularly known as Tri-Ess, is a sorority for heterosexual crossdressers. Only heterosexual crossdressers and their female partners are allowed full membership status. Some chapters offer affiliate status to those who do not meet requirements for full membership.

Denny, formerly a full member of Tri-Ess, has been an associate member of Tri Ess’ Atlanta-based Sigma Epsilon chapter since 1990, when she submitted

her letter of resignation to Sigma Epsilon and was told she was welcome to attend functions as a friend of the chapter.

Over the years, Denny, who has remained active with Tri-Ess, has become increasingly concerned about Tri-Ess membership requirements, which she calls exclusionary. And not only exclusionary, she says, but hypocritical.

“There are members, chapter officers, and even some members of the national Tri-Ess board who are not heterosexual crossdressers by any common-sense definition of the term. Some live full-time as women, some take hormones. And yet I am identified by Tri-Ess as transsexual and denied full membership

privileges. I presume it’s because I’ve had sex reassignment surgery, but I

don’t recall a panty check. My genital status is my own business, and not Tri-Ess’ . If I say I’m a heterosexual crossdresser, then by golly, I’m a heterosexual crossdresser. For the purposes of joining Tri-Ess, I’m a heterosexual crossdresser, and as such, I am applying for full membership privileges. If Tri-Ess denies me membership, then I’m going to insist on a clear explanation why. I don’t want to hear that I don’t believe in and support the mission of the organization, which is to serve heterosexual crossdressers and their partners. I do. And I don’t want to hear that I’m transsexual. Tri-Ess has no right to label me. If they want to deny my membership on the basis of my presumed genital status, then I’m going to insist on a panty check, not only for myself, but for all Tri-Ess members. And I’m going to ask why others born male who live as woman are allowed in, while I’m not. ”

Denny, who founded and is director of the American Educational Gender Information Service, a national clearinghouse for transsexual and transgender issues, was also concerned by the number of Sigma Epsilon members who approached her privately to talk about their issues with homosexuality and transsexualism. “Cumulatively, over five years, it was more than half of the organization,” she said. “We re talking 30 or 40 people. Eventually, I said Wait a minute. Something is not adding up here.”

In May, Denny published an article entitled “Heteropocrisy: The Myth of the

Heterosexual Crossdresser,” in which she brought up her concerns about the massive amounts of denial she had seen in various Tri-Ess chapters. Tri-Ess

officials responded by asking the AEGIS Board of Directors to counsel with Denny for her criticism in Heteropocrisy and other articles. The AEGIS Board has not yet taken action on Tri-Ess request.

Denny received a Friends of Tri-Ess award in 1992 at the organization’s national convention in 1992. She displays the award prominently in her home

office. “It’s because I am a friend of Tri-Ess that I’m doing this,” she says. “Supporting the organization does not require me to condone the membership policy. Let’s face it: any organization which excludes homosexuals from membership can only be called homophobic; any organization which excludes transsexuals can only be called transphobic; and any organization which differentially enforces its own rules is in need of reform.”

>11 September, 1996 > > >Society for the Second Self >P.O. Box 194 >Tulare, CA 93275 > > >Dear Tri-Ess: > >Enclosed is my $40 membership fee. I am requesting full membership in Tri-Ess as a >heterosexual crossdresser. As you know, I have been a long-term supporter of Tri-Ess. I’ve >been reasonably content to be an associate member of Sigma Epsilon, the local chapter here >in Atlanta– but I’ll be much happier as a full member with voting privileges. > >Now, most people would say I’m transsexual, and in truth, that’s a designation that I have >proudly used for myself. I have lived full-time as a woman for more than six years, and >have every intention of continuing to live as such. However, I know some Tri-Ess members, >including some Board members, cross-live full time; if they are heterosexual crossdressers, >then I certainly am too! > >I’m not sure if it’s possible to be a heterosexual crossdresser after genital sex reassignment >surgery. I do admit to making a two-week trip to Belgium in 1991, and it’s

commonly >believed that I went there for SRS. However, I would submit that my genital status is my >own business. Tri-Ess, to my knowledge, does not do physical examinations on its members, >and I should certainly hope that it would not begin with me. Of course, there will be a Tri- >Ess physician present at Southern Comfort, should you insist on a panty check. > >So far as my sexual orientation goes, it’s difficult to say what constitutes the “opposite” sex. >The only person I’ve have a sexual relationship with within the last six years was a pre- >transition FTM transsexual. I can happily say that heterosexual is as good

a term as any to >use to describe my sexual orientation. > >It’s swell to be a heterosexual crossdresser who, like so many Tri-Ess members, cross-lives >full-time, has taken hormones, has had electrolysis, and maybe even (I’m not tellin’) had >SRS. Why, if everyone just understood that no matter what they do with their bodies and >who they have sex with, they can be heterosexual crossdressers just by saying that they are, >they would know that Tri-Ess’ membership criteria aren’t really exclusionary. > >I’m happily awaiting my full membership status. > > >Proudly heterosexual, proudly crossdressin’ > > >Dallas Denny >P.O. Box 33724 >Decatur, GA 30033-0724 > > >cc Just about everyone you can think of

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>From listserv@xconn.com Sun 22 Sep 1996 07:35:47 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E55Pn; Sun 22 Sep 1996 07:35:47 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Ordination Question Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 07:35:46 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609220735.E55Pn@xconn.com>

Original Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 10:35:01 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

>From Atlanta Journal/Constitution, 21 September, 1996

Ordination Question

The effort of a transsexual Presbyterian minister to have her ordination affirmed will again come before the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta on Ocdt. 22 after the Committee on Ministry recommended approval for the second time Sept. 11.

Last year, the presbytery, the local governing body for the Presbyterian Church (USA), declined the committee’s earlier recommendation that it affirm the ordination of Erin Swenson, a family therapist ordined in 1973 as Eric Swenson. After some members said the matter had theological implications that would resonate nationally, the presbytery sent the request back to the committee for further study.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:36:58 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

THE DESERET NEWS Box 1257, Salt Lake City, UT 84110 FAX 801-237-2121 E-MAIL: letters@desnews.com

Cross-dressing bandit receives prison term

Ogden man robbed credit union, made bomb threat at Bear River High School.

Associated Press

A federal judge has ordered prison time, with psychiatric treatment, for a cross-dressing bandit who threatened to blow up a high school.

Robert Edward Heinze was given a sentence of five years and 10 months by U.S. District Judge David Sam, who said he would recommend that the 30-year-old Ogden man go to a facility where he could receive medication and counseling.

Defense attorney Robert Copier urged the judge to give Heinze a reduced sentence Wednesday, saying his client has suffered psychological problems for years.

But Sam noted that Heinze also has a long criminal record, and he said that the severity and premeditated nature of Heinze’s crimes diluted any argument for diminished capacity.

The bomb threat to Bear River High School ”put students in fear and danger, and their parents as well,” the judge said. ”And his conduct in the matter . . . was very thoroughly thought-out and planned.”

Heinze pleaded guilty in May to the Jan. 24 robbery of the America First Credit Union in Ogden and the Jan. 23 bomb threat phoned into the high school in Garland.

Federal prosecutors said Heinze confronted a credit union teller while clad in a plastic rain scarf, blond wig, turquoise sweater, black stretch pants and tennis shoes. He also was wearing pink lipstick.

On the previous day, Heinze had called the high school in Garland, claiming a bomb ”was going to explode at the school if . . . not found and disarmed.”

Local police, assisted by the FBI, caught up with Heinze within a few hours after the bank robbery.

Police also said Heinze stole a car to escape from the credit union and made an attempt at stealing a second car in Tremonton — each time dressed as a woman calling herself ”Rhonda.”

Heinze showed up for sentencing Wednesday in standard Davis County Jail garb — a T-shirt, blue pants, white canvas shoes and a waist chain, manacles and leg restraints.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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Original Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:41:16 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: TheXGrrrl@aol.com

Subject: It’s Time, Maryland!’s Legislative Agenda

Dear Friends of It’s Time, Maryland!:

This is an update on our past and future activities, including our legislative agenda for 1997. ITM truly appreciates the help, support and encouragement of all our friends, and would like to specifically acknowledge here the efforts over the past year of Phyllis Frye, Martine Rothblatt, Sharon Stuart and our anonymous donor who contributed $1,000 towards paying our Annapolis lobbyist. It’s nice to have friends who care about transgendered rights in the free state!

This post is for its intended recipients and *not* for forwarding without the expressed permission of its author (me!)

ITM’s ACTIVITIES TO DATE: It’s Time, Maryland! was founded at a meeting of MAGIC (Metro Area Gender Identity Connection) in Falls Church, VA in December, 1994. During 1995, we completed and distributed several versions of our Investigation into Acts of Discrimination Committed Against Transgendered People in the State of Maryland. This report became an important educational tool to convince our allies and representatives of the amount and kinds of discrimination, harassment and violence faced by transgendered citizens of Maryland. ITM continues to document such cases and thus additional contributions are welcome at any time. Remember that the names and addresses of both the victims and employers are omitted in the report, but the county or city where the incident occurred is included.

By August, 1995 we successfully lobbied the statewide gay and lesbian lobbying group, the Free State Justice Campaign, for inclusion in their anti-discrimination bill. Unfortunately, ‘gender identity’ was excised from that bill by three delegates who were co-sponsors on the committee hearing it. At that point, Delegate Sharon Grosfeld of Kensington, the sponsor of our other bill (see below), agreed to sponsor a separate bill for educational purposes. Thus HB 325 became the very first bill introduced at a state level in this country which would prohibit employment discrimination based on ‘gender identity’. Gender identity was defined as “having or being perceived as having a self-image, expression or identity not traditionally associated with one’s sex at birth”.

Our other bill, HB 323, was a Birth Certificate Reform measure. Current practice in the state of Maryland is to simply amend the birth certificate when changes of name and sex occur, producing an “official” copy that looks like an obvious forgery. Our bill simply allowed for the issuance, upon court order, of a brand new birth certificate, sealing the original. Hearings for HB 323 were on February 13 of this year, before the Environmental Affairs Committee of the House of Delegates, with Delegate Grosfeld, myself and TJ Stockus testifying in person. And we came so very close. The vote to favorably report the bill for a floor vote dead-locked at 10-10, with one abstention. However, Delegate Grosfeld has promised to seek administrative relief for us on this issue by appealing directly to the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Baltimore for us. Stay tuned.

Since HB 325 (the gender identity anti-discrimination bill) was more controversial, we lobbied other organizations for their support for it. Besides the Free State Justice Campaign, we obtained the endorsements of the Maryland Lesbian and Gay Law Association, the Interfaith Council for Free State Justice, the Baltimore chapter of the ACLU and Maryland NOW. We also became part of the Legislative Agenda for Maryland Women, a coalition of 450 Maryland women’s groups. We testified at three different Human Relations Commissions in the state, and we also obtained another co-sponsor, Delegate Salima Marriott of Baltimore. And seven of us – Gary Bowen, Mary Newman, Helen Garfinkle, Lisa Babcock, Donna and Dee Kirkpatrick, and myself – went to Annapolis on February 5 for our first lobby day, with the rest of the Legislative Agenda for Maryland Women.

Hearings for HB 325 were held March 7, with Delegate Grosfeld, myself, Karen-ann Giles, Meredith Hoag, Andrea Conner, Martine Rothblatt, Jan Nyquist of FSJC, Reverend John Manwell and Joanne Salzberg of the Maryland Commission for Women testifying before the House of Delegate’s Commerce and Government Affairs Committee. The testimony of Karen-ann, Meredith and Andrea was very powerful and had a significant impact on the delegates. Unfortunately, the issue was still too new and too difficult for them to support, and the bill was later killed in committee by a 20 to 0 vote. However, we have been told that many of the delegates were impressed by us and they are now sympathetic to our issues, so we have succeeded in our educational mission.

THE COMING YEAR: Today, It’s Time, Maryland! has 45 members in ten counties (out of 22) in the state of Maryland. On August 6, Gary Bowen, Mary Newman and myself met with Delegate Grosfeld to discuss some possibilities for the coming legislative year. Some key points from our meeting:

Anti-Discrimination: It has become evident that more educational work must be done to get a gender identity anti-discrimination bill passed at a state level. Therefore we decided it would be better to pursue anti-discrimination measures locally, with the best possibilities being Montgomery County and Baltimore City. If we can get some local ordinances passed, they would help educate the public and more importantly, set precedents for another state measure at a future date.

Birth Certificates: Delegate Grosfeld re-affirmed her intentions to seek administrative relief for our birth certificate issue. If she is unsuccessful, she will re-introduce last year’s bill in the next legislative session (January to April, 1997).

Driver’s Permits: We decided that our next best issue for a statewide initiative would be to seek either legislation or administrative action on driver’s permits. Many of us have had to suffer the ignominy of going to the MVA and leaving with new driver’s licenses that bear our former (uncorrected) genders on them. Over the summer, It’s Time, Maryland filed a freedom of information request with the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, and we recently received their reply.

Contrary to what many of us have been told at MVA offices around the state about the existence of an “official” policy, no such policy exists. Indeed, the MVA has been breaking the law – common law – that is, when it comes to following the proper procedures for issuing driver’s permits in common law name changes. But only, it seems, when it involves transgendered persons.

Accordingly, ITM will seek to require the state to issue us new driver’s permits in our new names and correct sex without a surgeon’s affidavit – that is, without surgery. Seven states currently have such procedures in place, and thus there is ample legal precedent. It’s Time, Texas!, our sister chapter in the Lone Star state, is also pursuing similar legislation. It’s time for sanity with our driver’s licenses!

——————————– The above legislative agenda was adopted at It’s Time, Maryland’s Annual Meeting on Sunday, September 15. ITM will issue periodic updates to interested parties as the year progresses.

Dallas Denny, M.A., Executive Director

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>From listserv@xconn.com Wed 25 Sep 1996 07:14:07 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E51qD; Wed 25 Sep 1996 07:14:07 From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Oct LA Gender Group Features Janis Walworth Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 07:14:07 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609250714.E51qD@xconn.com>

Originally From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Original Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:23:32 -0400

Originally From: Michele Kammermer (Firewomon@aol.com)

The Los Angeles Gender Center is now offering monthly support & informational

group meetings for the transsexual (FTM & MTF), transgender communities, their partners, families and friends. Meet others, share ideas, include the

family. Second Sunday of the month

October 13, 1996: Interfacing with the Lesbian Community: Protesting transsexual exclusion, promoting understanding, and creating inclusive events Speaker: Janis Walworth Janis Walworth has been a lesbian since before Stonewall and has been an activist and advocate in the gender community since 1991. She was instrumental in protesting the exclusion of transsexual women from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. In 1994, she created “Full Circle of Women,”

an annual conference for all kinds of women that helps to build bridges between the trans, lesbian, and women’s communities.

Location: The Women’s Center 1512 S. Robertson Los Angeles, California Thomas Guide 632 H4 Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm Admission: $5.00

For information, call Elise, Amanda (ASLive@aol.com), or Marie at the Los Angeles Gender Center (310) 475-8880 or e-mail Janis: Merkin77@aol.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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>From listserv@xconn.com Thu 26 Sep 1996 21:58:11 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E31qM; Thu 26 Sep 1996 21:58:11 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: San Francisco Mulls Sex-Change Comp Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:58:11 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609262158.E31qM@xconn.com>

Original Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 00:23:42 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: GLCFWendy@aol.com Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 22:05:34 -0400

.c The Associated Press By KARYN HUNT Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco, the city that has made nonconformity practically a civic virtue, is considering broadening municipal employees’ insurance to cover sex-change operations.

The idea came from what’s known as the “transgender community” in San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors in recent years has considered such things as legalizing marijuana for the terminally ill and prostitution.

Supervisor Tom Ammiano, a gay man who sidelines as a comedian, said he will introduce the measure at the request of those who consider gender transformation a medical necessity.

“People don’t choose to be transsexual. They’re born that way,” said police Sgt. Stephan Thorne, who is undergoing the change from female to male at his own expense. “I haven’t `opted’ to do anything. I am taking the medical treatment that is required for my medical condition.”

Kiki Whitlock agrees. She worked three computer jobs at once to raise the $10,000 she needed to have her gender changed from male to female in Colorado in 1985.

“I think it’s important that people recognize we’re not trying to get a free ride,” she said. “We’re taxpayers, too, just like anybody else. I’m able to be productive to society now. I’m happy. I’m complete. Whereas before the surgery, I was suicidal.”

No one knows how many of the 28,000 municipal employees might want the procedure. The surgery costs $10,000 to $20,000, not counting psychiatric evaluations and hormone treatments before and after.

“This is not a problem for Boise, Idaho,” complained Arthur Bruzzone, chairman of the city Republican Party. He called sex reassignment, like breast enhancement, a “lifestyle decision” and said that “special interests” are ignoring more urgent problems like homelessness.

“That allows them to propose what is viewed by the outside world as absurd proposals while we’re facing all the normal problems of urban America,” he said.

San Francisco is believed to have about 6,000 transsexuals.

In recent years, the Board of Supervisors has flouted federal law in offering sanctuary to Latin American refugees. And the city can’t complete its $40 million emergency radio system because the two companies building it do business with Burma, which the board has declared an “evil empire.”

AP-NY-09-25-96 1922EDT

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 Thu 26 Sep 1996 21:58:12 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E78il; Thu 26 Sep 1996 21:58:12 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: Police Edicts Repealed in Buenos Aires Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:58:12 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609262158.E78il@xconn.com>

Original Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 00:23:36 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

Subject: Police Edicts Repealed in Buenos Aires Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:29:00 +0100

Escrita en el Cuerpo – Lesbian Archives and Library Electronic News Service

POLICE EDICTS REPEALED IN BUENOS AIRES

Yesterday, the city’s Statutory Convenction passed a clause that, in practice, repeals the infamous Police Edicts that were the force’s key weapon to arbitrary detain young people, transvestites, gays, lesbians and prostitutes (among others) for years.

400 people are arrested every day in Buenos Aires without having comitted any crime, simply because Police suspects they are ‘dangerous’. Those people usually spend around 12 hours in a police station, where most of them are blackmailed and verbally, emotionally and even physically abused. No judge ever intervenes in the process, and they are not even notified of the arrest. In 1995, 150.000 people were arrested to ‘check their police records’ and only a 2% of them were previous offenders (which by no means implies they had actually comitted a crime at the time of their arrest and/or Police had any right to arrest them)

In this last years, due to several denounces of police brutality through torture followed by death and street murders having young males and transvestites as their main victims, mainstream society became increasingly aware of what Police Edicts meant and started to oppose them. Human Right organizations like Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora, FUBA (university students) and transvestite, gay and lesbians groups followed closely the events at the Statutory Convention. Police -backed by the country’s president, Carlos Menem- tried to exert pressure on political parties to keep the Edicts, by threatening the city with ‘chaos’ and ‘lack of protection’. Nevertheless, the Convention again chose to favour the citizen’s interesest and not to fear the ‘powers’, and the Edicts were repealed.

Once the new city Statute is promulgated, a Contravention Justice will have to be created in a 90 days period, to see over those cases of infrigments like illegal gambling, being drunk in public places and causing trouble, etc. Police will only be able to arrest somebody who is effectily contravening and she/he should be inmediately sent over to a Contravention Judge. Nobody could be arrested in Buenos Aires simply for being ‘suspicious’ or to check her/his police records. Police will not be allowed to hold IDs or to take statements.

Conventional Maria Jose Lubertino (UCR), who advocated this project as well as the anti-discriminatory clause including sexual orientation (already passed), said both were related as the Edicts are “a vestige from the past, aimed at separating those considered ‘different’ from the mainstream society; to repeal them is a way to make non-discrimination effective”.

In the l/g/b/t/t community, transvestites and transsexuals are the most benefitted by this measure, as they suffered police brutality in its cruelest forms during all these years. Facts: more than 40 transvestites were murdered in these last 4 years; a 43 years old transsexual estimates she has spend a total of 6 years in jail during her life; transvestites working in the street spend in average 3 nights in police stations every week.

This achievement is the work of those who denounced police brutality and fought against it during all these years: transvestites, transsexuals, sex workers, young people, victim’s families and their lawyers who in many cases were arrested and beated themselves when defending their clients. The support provided by human right, feminists, g/l/b/t and community organizations was also important in order that politicians finally decided to listen to what people claims.

Alejandra Sarda

Piedras 1170 1ero. B, (1070), Buenos Aires Phone: (54 1) 307 66 56 y/o 581 01 79 Fax: (54 1) 373 89 55 E.mail: ales@wamani.apc.org

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

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>From listserv@xconn.com Thu 26 Sep 1996 21:58:12 Received: from xconn by xconn.com with uucp id E81kr; Thu 26 Sep 1996 21:58:12 From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com> Reply-to: aegisnws@xconn.com Subject: The 3rd Annual Symposium on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:58:12 X-Sender: UUPlus Listserver 2.01 for DOS To: anechoxc Message-Id: <9609262158.E81kr@xconn.com>

Original Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 00:24:34 -0400 Originally From: Dallas Denny <aegis@mindspring.com>

From: “Christine E. Coffman” <coffman@scf-fs.usc.edu> Subject: CFP: Perspectives on Progress (Lesbigay, transgender)

Subject: CFP: Perspectives on Progress (Lesbigay, transgender)

[ALL questions and submissions to Holly Nichols: HNIC7061@uriacc.uri.edu ] *Call for Papers/Presentations*

“Perspectives on Progress” The 3rd Annual Symposium on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues

The University of Rhode Island April 10-12, 1997

We invite members of the LGBT and Straight communities, Civil Rights Leaders

and Activists, Students, Faculty and Staff to submit proposals for presentation at the 1997 Conference. We welcome both academic and non-academic submissions, including those which are artistic, research-based, and discussions of exper- ience within activists movements.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

-Activism -Assimilation vs. Dissidence -Unity vs. Separatism -Strategies for change -Parental rights -Civil Rights -Domestic Partnership Benefits -History of the LGBT Rights Movement

-Sexuality in Literature, Film, Video, Drama, Opera, Music, Television and Popular Culture (this coud be either a presentation of your own work or an analysis of others’ work)

-Gay Bashing

-The Diverse Representations of Spirituality within the LGBT Community

-Health Issues -AIDS Lesbians and Breast Cancer -Living Wills -Substance Abuse -Suicide -Mental Health

-Sexual Abuse

-Campus Life -The Greek System -Residential Life -Classroom Climates -Queer Studies

-Politics of S/M

-Relationship between Homophobia, Heterosexism, Racism, Sexism, Classism & Ageism

-Transgender Issues

-Scientific Research in Sexual Orientations

—- Please submit a one-page description that provides the nature of your presentation, including the title, approximate length, expected visual/ audio aids required, and brief summary. Proposals must be received by November 1, 1996 to be considered. Submissions should be mailed to Holly J. Nichol, Chair, 3rd Annual Symposium, Women’s Studies Program, URI, Roosevelt Hall, Kingston, RI 02881. Phone inquiries can be made by leaving a message at (401) 874-5150.

— Rosa Maria Pegueros 217C Washburn Hll Department of History e-mail: pegueros@uriacc.uri.edu 80 Upper College Road, Suite 3 telephone: (401) 874-4092 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0817

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