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The Transgender Community’s Lack of Consensus Around Identity Politics (1998)

Posted on Aug 16, 2013 in Columns, Gender, Magazines, Newsletters, TG Forum

When we fight for our rights on the basis of our constructed social identities, we of necessity exclude those with other identities. This leads to a series of political movements in which groups campaign separately for their rights rather than uniting to fight for rights which encompass all categories.

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The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry: Canada’s shame (1998)

Posted on Aug 15, 2013 in Columns, Gender, Magazines, Newsletters, TG Forum

The Clarke is a Jurassic gender clinic, an anachronism. It is a national embarrassment, a holdover from the dark ages of the early gender clinics, when transsexuals were treated with contempt and impunity– a place which should be censured rather than licensed as Canada’s ultimate experts on transsexualism– for, you see, despite its opinion to the contrary, The Clarke in fact knows very little about transsexuals or transsexualism, and most of what it does know is wrong.

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Technologies of Transformation (2011)

Posted on Aug 14, 2013 in Columns, Gender, Newsletters, Newspapers, TG Forum

The last half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth saw advances in medical procedures that made it possible for men and women to more effectively alter their bodies toward that of the non-natal sex. While none of these technologies were developed with sex reassignment in mind, they were easily adapted and modified by medical professionals and by transsexuals themselves and have come into common use to create somatic changes.

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The Real ID Act: A Catastrophe in the Making (2012)

Posted on Aug 13, 2013 in Columns, Gender, Magazines, Newsletters, Politics, TG Forum

I felt compelled to write this essay because of the effect of the Real ID Act upon a friend. She has had a driver’s license here in Georgia since the 1970s. When she went to the DMV last week she was turned away because she could not produce a birth certificate. Unless she can locate a copy and copies of two divorce decrees she no longer has to show changes to her name, she will most likely lose the right to drive a motor vehicle.

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CUGA Newsletter (1990-1992)

Posted on Aug 9, 2013 in Computers, Developmental Disabilities, Newsletters

By the time I moved to Atlanta in 1989 the home computer craze was on the wane. I nonetheless looked up a Commodore users group in DeKalb, my home county: The Commodore Users Group of Atlanta. I remained a member and sometimes board member as we all slowly moved (most of us reluctantly) from our beloved C-64s to Macintoshes and PCs.

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Transsexualism: Information for the Family (1977-1993)

Posted on Aug 7, 2013 in AEGIS, Erickson Foundation, Gender, Offprints

In the 1970s the Erickson Educational Foundation produced a series of booklets about transsexualism. Rights eventually came to my nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service, and we reprinted and distributed this and some of the other booklets.

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Preening Behaviors of Flies (1984)

Posted on Jul 15, 2013 in Ethology, School Papers

Casual observation of the common housefly, Musca domestica or of related species will reveal that these insects spend a good deal of their time in preening movements. Although there is some evidence that preening has functions other than cleaning, the terms preening, grooming, and cleaning have been used interchangeably in the literature, and will be so in this paper.

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Identity Management in Transsexualism (1994)

Posted on Jun 12, 2013 in Books, Gender

I wrote this book to help transsexuals with the formidable challenge of changing their legal identities from one gender to the other.

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AEGIS Internet News, Nov. 1997 – Jan. 1998

Posted on May 31, 2013 in AEGIS, AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout, Gender

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

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AEGIS Internet News, June – October, 1997

Posted on May 30, 2013 in AEGIS, AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout, Gender

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

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AEGIS Internet News, May 1997

Posted on May 30, 2013 in AEGIS, AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout, Gender

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

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AEGIS Internet News, April 1997

Posted on May 30, 2013 in AEGIS, AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout, Gender

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

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AEGIS Internet News, March 1997

Posted on May 30, 2013 in AEGIS, AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout, Gender

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

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AEGIS Internet News, February 1997

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

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

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AEGIS Internet News, December 1996

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

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

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AEGIS Internet News, August 1996

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

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

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AEGIS Internet News, Nov. 1995 – July 1996

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

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

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AEGIS Online News, May 1995 – Feb. 1996

Posted on May 28, 2013 in AEGIS, AEGIS Online News, Editing & Layout

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.

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AEGIS Medical Advisory: Blanket Criterion for RLT Before Hormones is Unethical (1992)

Posted on May 25, 2013 in Advisories, AEGIS, Gender

AEGIS periodically released medical advisories. This one addressed the then-common practice of therapists to require an (often extensive) period of real-life experience before initiation of hormonal therapy. Our advisory board felt this constituted unnecessary risk for transsexuals and set them up for failure.

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Electrolysis in Transsexual Women: A Retrospective Look at Frequency of Treatment in Four Cases (1997)

Posted on May 12, 2013 in Book Chapters, Gender, Journals, Research

This study is, so far as I am aware, the only empirical study of electrolysis in transsexuals.

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Letter to the Editor, Archives of Sexual Behavior (1993)

Posted on May 10, 2013 in Gender, Journals, Letters

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Gender Dysphoria: A Guide to Research (1994)

Posted on May 9, 2013 in Bibliographies, Books, Gender

I didn’t realize it as I was preparing the manuscript. It was only when I was listening to Phyllis Frye speak at her International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy in Texas that it came to me: I was the first transsexual to produce a book-length nonautobiographical contribution to the medical and psychological literature of transsexualism—the only out-of-the-closet transsexual, anyway. It astonished me.

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Introduction to Gender Dysphoria Syndrome (Sister Mary Elizabeth, 1990)

Posted on May 8, 2013 in AEGIS, Editing & Layout, Erickson Foundation, Flyers & Pamphlets, Gender, Offprints

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.

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An Annotated Bibliography of Gender Dysphoria (1992)

Posted on May 6, 2013 in AEGIS, Bibliographies, Flyers & Pamphlets, Gender, Offprints

My efforts to catalog materials which I had located in my efforts to learn about transsexualism slowly grew into a huge computer file which was published in book form in by Garland Press with the title Gender Dysphoria: A Guide to Research.

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Do Transgender Issues Affect the Gay Community? (1992)

Posted on May 5, 2013 in AEGIS, Gender, Magazines, Press Releases

Margaux Schaffer and I wrote this article in response to the murders in Atlanta of three crossdressed women of color in Atlanta in as many months.

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The Strange Case of Mimicry in the New World Coral Snakes: A Review (1985)

Posted on Apr 25, 2013 in Ethology, Reviews, School Papers

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature of coral snake coloration and examines the plausibility of the various proposed causal mechanisms. Natural selection operating on predators is proposed as the mechanism which is most likely to be responsible for the evolution of and maintenance of coral snake mimicry.

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Chrysalis Quarterly Issues (1991-1998)

Posted on Apr 13, 2013 in AEGIS, Chrysalis Quarterly, Editing & Layout, Gender, Magazines

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.

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Female-to-Male Reassignment Surgery in the ’90s (1991)

Posted on Apr 3, 2013 in Gender, Magazines

In 1984, the publication of an article by T.S. Chang and W.Y. Hwang marked a major improvement in phalloplasty techniques. The radial forearm flap provided a hairless donor site, allowed sufficient material for construction of an urethra, and required but a single surgery.

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Are Transsexuals as Reliable as Other People? (1990)

Posted on Mar 26, 2013 in Gender, Newsletters

Are transsexuals reliable? That is the theme of this issue of Insight. The question might as well be “Are relatives reliable?” or “Are politicians honest?” The answers, or course, are yes and no.

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Walk a Mile in My Shoes (1982)

Posted on Mar 23, 2013 in Developmental Disabilities, Journals, Magazines

Throughout that evening the vans and station wagons trickled back in. They discharged the ride-weary but happy individuals who were eager to try out new ideas, programs, and projects they had seen in operation.

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My Transsexual Experience (1997)

Posted on Sep 12, 2012 in Gender, Magazines

This article was prepared for and rejected by Allure magazine; editor Linda Wolf informed me they had already “done” transsexualism.

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How To Start and Maintain a Gender Support Organization (With Holly Boswell) (1992)

Posted on Jul 10, 2012 in AEGIS, Chrysalis Quarterly, Gender, Magazines

For many of us, finding a support group is the lifeline we need, for there we meet people who we scarcely dared believe existed— those who are like us.

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A Discussion of Stereotypic Behavior in Normal Infants And Developmentally Delayed Individuals (1985)

Posted on Jul 8, 2012 in Developmental Disabilities, Ethology, School Papers

This paper defines stereotypic, or rhythmic, behavior. The stereotypies of normally developing infants are discussed and compared with the stereotypies of institutionalized individuals with developmental delays. Animal studies are cited, where relevant.

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Halfway to Where? Why Halfway Houses for Transsexual People Aren’t a Good Idea (1993)

Posted on Nov 14, 2011 in Gender, Journals

Rather than dream of transsexual halfway houses, we should focus on helping those transsexual men and women who are already in society to stay there by serving as advocates and educators rather than as landlords.

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Their Fifteen Minutes in the Sun (1995)

Posted on Nov 14, 2011 in Editorials, Gender, Magazines

The takeover of the Transgender Health Symposium wasn’t born out of concern for transgender and transexual health issues. It happened because of the decades-old rage of Margaret O’Hartigan against the transexual program at the University of Minnesota. It happened because her colossal ego caused her to believe only she was capable of addressing transgender health issues.

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Transgendered Youth at Risk for Exploitation, HIV, Hate Crimes (2003)

Posted on Nov 5, 2011 in Book Chapters, Gender, Young People

Many transgendered and transsexual persons are rejected by their families or are victims of hate crimes, rape, persecution, discrimination in employment and housing, and denial of social services based either on their appearance or because others possess knowledge that they are transgendered.

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Changing Models of Transsexualism (2004)

Posted on Nov 2, 2011 in Book Chapters, Gender, History, Journals

The transgender model has opened a middle ground that was not possible under the medical model it replaced. Before about 1990, transgendered persons were expected to declare themselves to be crossdressers, who were not expected to seek sex reassignment; or transsexuals, who were expected to and who came under pressure from peers when they didn’t.

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Letter to Paul McHugh (1994)

Posted on Nov 1, 2011 in Gender, Letters

I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that despite the immediate effect of causing other clinics to close, the closing of the gender clinic at Johns Hopkins caused the rise of a consumer-centered movement which has made hormonal and surgical treatment available to any American who desires it. You actually did transsexual people a favor by moving to Hopkins and working to close the clinic there.

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The Girl With No Name (1992)

Posted on Oct 31, 2011 in Gender, Journals, Magazines

… and the girl-with-no-name was dismembered as effectively as if we had cut her up and thrown her chunk by bleeding chunk from a speeding car on a moonless summer night.

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Three Levels of Transgender Health Care (1998)

Posted on Oct 30, 2011 in Gender, Presentations

Obtaining routing health care can be a problem for transexual and transgendered people, who often find that medical treatment is denied them simply because of their status.

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Accommodating Trans Students in Colleges and Universities (1998)

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 in Book Chapters, Gender, Young People

It’s safe to say that sooner or later almost every post-secondary school will be confronted with the issue of gender-variant students.

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Outcome of Five Cases of Transsexualism (1997)

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 in Gender, Presentations, Research

Why have there been few studies outside of clinical settings? Is it because non-clinical populations of transsexuals are unavailable? I think not. Perhaps there are no such follow-up studies because non-clinicians have not had funding sufficient to conduct such studies. Or maybe it’s just that nobody has bothered to look.

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Results of a Questionnaire on the Standards of Care (1995)

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 in AEGIS, Book Chapters, Gender, Offprints, Presentations, Research, Standards of Care

We prepared and distributed a questionnaire which solicited the opinions of transgendered and transexual persons about the HBIGDA Standards of Care. In this paper, we present some results of that survey and discuss some of the issues involved in imposing such standards on transexual bodies.

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Bad Advice (1992)

Posted on Oct 22, 2011 in Gender, Magazines, Newsletters

It will behoove you to spot bad advice and avoid it. You only go around once, Esmerelda, and you’ll have to live with the consequences of your actions for years to come– the ones who are giving your bad counsel won’t, and neither will they be around to hear your laments.

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Cheekbones from Hell (1992)

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 in Gender, Magazines, Tapestry

If the FDA has maintained for more than 25 years that injected silicone is dangerous even when given by physicians, it stands to reason that it is unthinkable to seek it from a nonphysician. Those who are desirous of enhanced body contours should seek a plastic or cosmetic surgeon.

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Letter to HBIGDA (1993)

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 in Gender, Letters

I am convinced that the peculiar relationship between persons requesting sex reassignment and those who are placed in the position of gatekeepers result in both false presentations by the clients and false expectations by the caregivers.This translates into a literature so far removed from reality that much of it cannot be taken seriously.

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Review of Stephanie Castle, Feelings (1991)

Posted on Sep 30, 2011 in Gender, Journals, Reviews

Once I was able to concede to myself that Ms. Castle had written the book she had written, and not the book I wished she had written, I was able to settle down and enjoy it.

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Review of Jason Cromwell, Transmen & FTMs (1999)

Posted on Sep 29, 2011 in Gender, Journals, Reviews

When anthropologists turn their attention to contemporary Western culture and, in particular, to subjects studied by Western social scientists, it would behoove social scientists to pay attention.

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What’s That Transsexual Doing Here, Anyhow? Part II (1994)

Posted on Aug 24, 2011 in Gender, Newsletters

I may be transsexual, and I certainly won’t betray your confidence, but that doesn’t mean I’ll condone foolish and illegal behavior. If you are feeling gender dysphoric, then fine. Explore it. Do so honestly, and let it take you where it will lead you. But don’t go skulking around in the shadows, deluding yourself and those who love you and breaking the law when there is absolutely no reason for you to do so, and becoming angry when someone innocently speculates about what is becoming more and more obvious every day.

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The Case Against Camping (2008)

Posted on Jun 18, 2016 in Computers, Editorials, Uncategorized, Virtual Worlds

Rebecca took great offense at the illustrations and turned her venom on me. She threatened to sue me. Telling her I did not select the images made no impression on her, nor did she seem to understand just what an editorial is. I eventually told her to go f**k herself. It made for a most interesting comments section.

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