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Bias in writings on Gender Identity Disorder
Justin Cascio
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Blog: The road to GRS
From the author: "I have begun Trannswoman Times on 7 July 2008. One year from that date, I plan to undergo Male-to-Female (MTF) Gender Reassignment Surgery (SRS). In Transwoman Times, I plan to recount the medical, emotional, spiritual and other events of the "last" year of my current life."
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Book Reviews
Mistress Krista reviews two recently published books on providing HIV and substance abuse care to transgender people: Walter Bockting and Sheila Kirk's collection, Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care, and Dana G. Finnegan and Emily B. McNally's Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Substance Abusers.
Mistress Krista
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Clinician, Heal Thyself (Or, It's All Your Problem)
Like Bailey, James Cantor of the Clarke Institute in Toronto has developed a taxonomy of trans people that defies reality. Mistress Krista and Pandora report on a lecture by Cantor.
Mistress Krista and Pandora
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I'm Me, Therefore I Am (Or an antidote to Binary Androgenic Taxonomies - BATs)
J M Bailey's newest book, The Man Who Would Be Queen, has struck nerves in the trans, academic, and medical research communities. Christine Burns of UK trans rights organization Press for Change offers discussion questions to help activists read Bailey.
Christine Burns
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LGBTI Health Summit in Boulder, Colorado
The LGBTI Health Summit in Boulder, Colorado, this year brought providers and activists together to talk about the major issues affecting the health of our communitities. Bobbi Williams was there, and also took part in the pre-Summit meetings on transgender health; she reports on the Boulder events in this issue.
Bobbi Williams
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Lower Income Trans Health Concerns
Kyle Scanlon of The 519 in Toronto returns to the pages of Trans-Health with a very frank overview of the multiple health risks to which trans homeless people are exposed in "Lower Income Trans Health Concerns," including social services and networks of support that don't meet the needs of trans sex workers, homeless trans people, and those with addictions and serious, chronic illnesses.
Kyle Scanlon
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Mental Health in the Transgender Community study
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Much Ado About Bailey: The Man Who Would be Knowitall
Pandora critically examines the science upon which Bailey bases his theories of transsexuality's origins in trans women.
Pandora
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Out of the Prozac Bottle and onto the Treadmill: Exercise and Depression
Mistress Krista talks about the links between exercise and depression, and how to use that knowledge to manage your personal stressload.
Mistress Krista
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Psychopathia Transsexualis: Early Psychological Theories of Transsexualism
What are the biases of the researchers working on gender identity disorder? Read an historical overview of transgender research.
Mistress Krista
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Rethinking the Gender Identity Disorder Terminology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV
The overwhelming success gender role transition has enjoyed world wide in the last four decades, leads me to believe that the current reference to gender issues in the DSM IV---as a subset of the sexual disorders---is inaccurate and should be revised.
Anne Vitale, Ph.D.
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The Mexican Transsexual Movement
The challenges ahead and current status of the Mexican Transsexual Movement
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The Tempest Over Sex Identity
Lisa M. Hartley, ACSW-DCSW takes on the aetiology of transgender— the theories behind what causes us to be trans— and presents her theory on a stress disorder caused by cultural pressures on transgender people to conform to their assigned-at-birth gender roles.
Lisa M. Hartley, ACSW-DCSW
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The Transsexual and the Body Modifier: A Letter
After Theresa Anne Travis participated in a presentation on transgender issues to a college class, a student asked her why transsexuals would mutilate their own bodies. Ms. Travis writes an historical and personal response.
Theresa Anne Travis
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Timeline of Gender Identity Research
The Trans-Health Editors
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TJob Bank: new employment resource
Employment resources for unemployed trans professionals.
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Trans people: are we nuts?
based on a presentation by Justin Cascio at the Transcending Boundaries Conference this year, explores the links made in the medical literature between mental illness and transgender experience, and offers suggestions to improve mental health in the transgender community.
Justin Cascio
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Trans PULSE survey officially launched
We know transphobia is bad for our health. We need your help to prove it.
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Trans-Health Readers Talk Back: The answers
An overview of the demographics and concerns of Trans-Health readers.
The Trans-Health Editors
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Trans/Forming Feminisms: Transfeminist Voices Speak Out
New book by Mistress Krista!
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