Gender Dysphoria Update (1995)
AEGIS distributed thousands of copies this excellent article by Blaine Beemer. I was responsible for layout and editing.
Read MoreA Guide to the HBIGDA Standards of Care (1993)
In 1993 we developed this brief guide to the HBIGDA Standards of Care and sent it, along with the Standards, to people seeking information and support.
Read MorePride Special (1994)
Member of the Atlanta Gender Explorations Support Group, including myself, passed out thousands of these flyers at Atlanta Pride events during the 1990s—and we distributed them to activists and organizations around the world for use at their local events.
Read MoreTranssexualism: Sex and Gender Dilemma (1991)
Between 1990 and 1998, I mailed many thousands of these tri-fold brochures.
Read MoreThe AEGIS Catalog of Publications (1994)
The nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service maintained a mail-order bookstore with more than 60 products, many of which we produced ourselves. I edited and laid out this booklet, which dates from 1994 or so, and had thousands of copies run on newsprint. I would fill orders every other day or so and drop boxes and envelopes off at the post office on the way home from work.
Read MoreFantasia Fair Program Book / Participants’ Guide
For five years I edited, laid out, and published the program guide for the transgender event Fantasia Fair.
Read MoreIFGE Consistently Disappoints (1998)
In 2011 the International Foundation for Gender Education quietly drained the “never to be touched” Winslow Street Fund of its approximately $100,000 USD balance and effectively disappeared as an organization. I called attention to this with a press release and published it simultaneously on this website and Transgender Forum. That wasn’t the first time IFGE had violated public trust by dipping into the Winslow Street Fund. I covered an early escapade in 1998 in AEGIS Online News—first as news, and then with an editorial.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, March – April, 1998
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, February 1998
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, Nov. 1997 – Jan. 1998
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, June – October, 1997
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, May 1997
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, April 1997
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, March 1997
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, February 1997
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, January 1997
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, December 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, November 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, October 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, September 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, August 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Internet News, Nov. 1995 – July 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreAEGIS Online News, May 1995 – Feb. 1996
In May, 1995 when I was Executive Director of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, I compiled and transmitted what I believe was the first transgender-specific online news feed. It was called AEGIS Online News. The News initially went out to several hundred AEGIS members and other subscribers as a plain text file over the fledgling internet.
Read MoreIntroduction to Gender Dysphoria Syndrome (Sister Mary Elizabeth, 1990)
In 1992 Sister Mary Elizabeth passed on to me the privilege and responsibility of reproducing and distributing the publications of the Erickson Educational Foundation, a clearinghouse for information on transsexual issues. That included this paper, which she distributed through her nonprofit (with Jude Patton) J2CP. I distributed it throughout the 1990s.
Read MoreMy Son, My Daughter (Jane McDowell, 1992, 2013)
In 1992 Sister Mary Elizabeth passed on to me the privilege and responsibility of reproducing and distributing the publications of the Erickson Educational Foundation, a clearinghouse for information on transsexual issues. This article was first published in Ladies Home Journal and then reprinted and distributed by the Erickson Foundation. I laid out, published and distributed this version throughout the 1990s.
Read MoreBibliography of HIV & AIDS in Transgendered Persons (1995)
Back in 1995 there were only a handful of scientific papers about HIV & AIDS in the trans population. Most researchers included male-to-female transsexuals and transgendered people in the Men Having Sex With Men group. I did find a few articles, and published a brief bibliography in the fourth edition of AEGIS News. AEGIS News was one of the newsletters of the nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service.
Read MoreChrysalis Quarterly Issues (1991-1998)
Chrysalis Quarterly was the house journal of the nonprofit AEGIS, The American Educational Gender Information Service. It averaged sixty pages, with glossy cardstock cover. The cover, and, when we could afford it, the interior pages, were printed with gray ink and a burgundy spot cover.Each issue was themed.
Read MoreAEGIS Southern Comfort Giveaway Cookbook (1991)
1991 was a heady time. The American Educational Gender Information Service was up and running, and the Southeast was about to have its first trans conference— Southern Comfort. The cookbook was Margaux Schaffer’s idea, and the design is hers. We placed it the SCC registration packet and every attendee received one.
Read MoreRites of Passage: Editor’s Remarks (1993-1994)
Rites of Passage began as a magazine published by activist Anne Ogborn. It became a newsletter after the second New Woman’s Conference; in fact, it became the official newsletter of the conference. I edited the magazine and did layout. The New Woman Conference was a three-day retreat for post-operative transsexual women. It ran for perhaps a half-dozen years.
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