Differently Gendered
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Opinions, Support, Resources
| Important Resources | There's an incredible amount of information on the web for transgendered people. Here are a few key places you'll want to go. |
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| Establishing Empathy with the Transgender Condition | Do we seem foreign? Unreal? Step into my life for a minute, and learn what we feel. Each step is full of surprises. |
| Who Are These Transgendered People? |
Transgender is a blanket term that covers all people whose sense of gender identity does not match their physiological sex. For some... |
| Some Transgender Definitions | "Definition" is perhaps too strong a word; if our gender is ambiguous, then so is the rest of our existence. These definitions are approximately correct, but they are soft around the edges. Sorry, but that's the only kind of definitions you'll get from anyone! |
| Affectional Orientation and Gender Identity |
Where am I going? Who will go with me? These questions correspond closely with the difference between affectional orientation and gender identity. |
| What "Support" Means | Support is what we're here for. Yes, there are community issues to talk about, and those are important as well, but these are secondary when someone comes in with a specific problem. |
| Can You Be Honest With Your Therapist? |
This is a serious question for many transsexuals. The fear is always that if one is honest, one may be denied treatment, that it is more important to "say the right things" than to say the truth. |
| Is it really possible to keep your marriage? | |
| My purpose was to attach a human face to what--for some people--was previously just a label; it is harder to discriminate against a person than to discriminate against a label. | |
| A View of our Community | Right now the gender community is about where the gay community was around the time of Stonewall. At that time, homosexuality was formally classified as a mental illness, and there were clinics... |
| A Dialog with Fear and Mythology |
I ask you to get to know who we are before you give us advice on how to live our lives according to your imagination. |
Guest Articles |
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| The Mirror Cracked |
Well, one shouldn't stand naked in front of full length mirrors. It's a very stupid thing to do! |
| Living with Less-Than-Perfect Passing |
I'm definitely not a "trans activist", but I do believe that feeling forced to "pass" can be much more stressful and exhausting than not worrying about passing. Passing can be equivalent to shame, silence and the "closet". |
| Toleration |
I have to go on a business trip, early tomorrow morning to a city where I have no friends and I can hope for no more than toleration, with a colleague who tolerates me. So I can't sleep, of course. |
| Powerful Women |
When I got so stressed out at work that I needed a vacation, I took a chance and flew up to visit a woman I'd never met. It was worth the risk. |
| Dallas Denny on the Standards of Care |
Access to hormonal therapy and plastic surgery (including SRS) is a critical need for transgendered and transsexual persons. Access has been limited since 1979 by the Standards of Care... |
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