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During our conversation after some remarks were made. It appears that I may have some traits toward transexuality, trangendism and why did I take the COGIATI test before reading the latest argument on why these certin gender identity tests do not work?

Okay, if this is true, I can live with this but she wants to discuss this further next week.

so wonderful it kept me from napping, because I was excited.

So here’s what it could be. I would get a team of people, including a medical doctor, clinical or other professional psychologist, and some other specialists together (among their number would be at least one intersex or transgender professional) and we would develop a training program for hospitals and primary care workers about emergency and routine care for said individuals. If you’ve seen the “safe space” pink triangle stickers, that certifies that the room/building you enter is a space safe from racism, sexism, and especially homophobia, and the people in charge of the room were specifically trained in making this so. I forget the name of the program, but this is along the lines of what I want to do. Except it would certify that healthcare providers are sensitive to and supportive of their transgender and intersex clients. Maybe I could possibly expand this for insurance companies as well when they have clients who underwent emergency care and who are intersex or transgender.

Of course there is also discrimination for sexual orientation, but I wouldn’t want to discuss that for this program. Sexual orientation, as we all know, is an issue of correct and complete disclosure. The providers cannot discriminate if they do not know the orientation, but transgender and intersex people are different. They have actual physical indicators of their difference that will probably be discovered by the health care providers, even if they are completely pre-op. And they are way more at the mercy of who happens to be in the emergency room or ambulance that day; accidents don’t allow the careful picking and choosing of supportive doctors like long-term care does. Plus, far more people are exposed to each others’ situations in the emergency room—nurses, specialists, radiologiets, etc. and so forth. So all those people need to be up to date on what those patients need, how they are different, and to best care for them, especially if they have injuries relating to their trans/intersex status (e.g., genital injuries).

And the providers will need their questions answered, too. Hence the large panel. I’m envisioning some sort of workshop-like situation for the whole hospital staff, with perhaps more one-on-one contact or even training some people at said hospital to give the workshop to newly-hired people. They would then be acknowledged for their training, adding it to policies, etc…of course the hospital would have to want to do it, too. I envision the program being funded by non-profits and such, but I didn’t really go into logistics, as this is simply an idea. But wouldn’t it be wonderful to try?

It’s sad we live in a culture where a person is brutely beaten to death because they thought that person was not who they thought they were. http://www.Lifetimetv.com should be commmended for the courage to educate people on the plight of transgender people who grow up feeling like they are trapped in another person’s body and sexaul idnetity.

The movie replays on Sunday June 25 at 7:00 PM and again on Friday June 30 at 9:00 PM. If you go to there web site you will see a discussion group of over 1,200 commments on the movie that was just televised tonight. Some of the comments are from teens, parents and couples of transgender people who tell there own personal stories.

The movie told the story of a trangender youth whose mother let raise him to be accepted in society and how he was bullied, tormented in his teenage years.

Please visit the web site for more information about the movie.

Geo :)

Two transgendered women were refused entrance into a jail as visitors because their identification did not match their clothing. One of the guards said to one of the women, who had explained that she was born male but was transitioning, “You don’t look like a man to me.”

And he was well within his legal rights to bar her from visiting based only on his judgement of her clothing. I guess that happened to traditionally-gendered women before feminism, too. But tranny fags, hell, typical fags and lezzies don’t count as people, can’t reap the progress of more mainstream acceptance. In fact, if it isn’t legally sanctioned to discriminate based on whether someone is expresses gender typically or not, the law is extremely permissive. This is the only group I know of since the Civil Rights movement that the law encourages discrimination for.

God, I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to retreat to my ivory tower of books and gender theory, but I don’t know enough about anything to help fix it.

If you’re really into it,trying to figure out how to get it done, and are in Michigan (like I used to be), Jeff and Sean at the Triangle Foundation in Detroit can be a big help if you need it.

Otherwise, I’d recommend joining the local PFLAG or GLSEN speakers bureau, depending on which audiences you want to target.

Keep your head up….Lincoln

I did a presentation on gender issues for my sociology class my junior year of high school. In such a homophobic area, it was important to make sure people at least had some idea what was going on. I mean, such issues are so taboo here…