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Resources & Information
- Transguys.com- The Internet's Premier Online Magazine for Transmen
- The Art of Transliness: Advice on Life for the Modern Transman
- Hudson's FTM Guide
- The Transitional Male
- T-Vox: Comprehensive Resources for the Trans Community
- Transbucket: Photosharing for the Trans Community
- Trans Health: Health & Fitness for Trans People
- FTM-trans Yahoo Group
- FTM Surgery Info Yahoo Group
- FTM: Scouting the Unknown
Friday, November 15, 2013
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition [trans youth]
Jazz, an 11-yr-old transgirl, has made many national television appearances on shows ranging from Oprah to 20/20 to Good
Morning America and has quickly become one of the strongest voices of trans youth today.
She is an incredibly intelligent, poised, and confident girl and has wonderfully supportive parents and siblings. She wants to "pay it forward" with all the love and support she has received from her family by helping raise money for medical grants for trans youth through the foundation she helped start with her parents (her father is an attorney), TransKids: Purple Rainbow Foundation.
Jazz and her family were recently profiled in the OWN documentary I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition.
Jazz was recently honored at the Trevor Live Gala, where she gave a touching acceptance speech.
She was also recently named in the Advocate's Forty Under 40, making her the youngest person ever to receive such an honor.
For more information and resources for trans youth, click here.
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Dr. Brownstein is Retiring - Dr. Crane to Take Over Practice
Dr. Michael Brownstein, whose name is synonomous with “top surgery” for many, is retiring at the end of this year. Dr. Curtis Crane will be taking over his practice in the new year under the name “Brownstein & Crane Surgical Services.” In addition to male chest reconstruction, Dr. Crane will also offer metoidioplasty and multiple types of phalloplasty.
Dr. Brownstein pioneered FTM chest reconstruction and has been performing the procedure since the late 1970's in San Francisco.
Brownstein & Crane Surgical Services Facebook
Friday, August 17, 2012
46th Anniversary of Compton Cafeteria Riot March & Rally - San Francisco
46th Anniversaryof Compton Cafeteria Riot March & Rally
5:oopm - August 20, 2012 - San Francisco, California
Meet at City Hall at 5:00pm on the Polk St. side to march,
or join us at 5:30pm at the corner ofTurk & Taylor.
via the Facebook Event Page:
Join in celebrating the legacy of LGBTQ homeless youth in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.
March from City Hall to Gene Comptons' Cafeteria (former site) on the corner of Turk and Taylor, where we will have speakers (more to be revealed as we get closer to the event), refreshments and use sidewalk chalk to leave remembrances on the sidewalk.
The Compton's Cafeteria Riot was spurred by a group of transgender women and the Vangaurd youth (queer street hustlers). The contemporary group of LGBTQ homeless youth known as Otro Vanguard will participate in this event with some of the heroes of the movement including Felicia Flames who was featured in the Screaming Queens documentary.
Clergy are invited to wear collars or a sign of their faith.
Confirmed speakers include: Felicia Flames, Pastor Megan Rohrer, Supervisor Scott Wiener and Trans Law Center Executive Director Masen Davis.
While most GLBTQ historians cite the
Stonewall riots in 1969 as the start of the gay liberation struggle,
in 1995 a new slice of LGBTQ history was brought to light by
transgender historian Susan Stryker while she was researching her now
best-selling book, “Gay by the Bay.” Stryker discovered an
article in the 1972 Gay Pride program about a riot that took place in San Francisco at Gene Compton's Cafeteria in August of
1966.
Tired of the constant harassment by the
SFPD, the drag queens refused to leave the cafeteria and rioted
against the police. This event marks the first time in history where LGBTQ people fought back against the police and took a stand for themselves.
Susan Stryker, a transgender
historian, author, professor, and filmmaker co-directed the 2005 documentary "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria" which profiles these courageous women.
There are also several clips from the film available on YouTube:
You can watch the first 24 minutes of the film here:
There are also several clips from the film available on YouTube:
Transgender Books & Film
When I was first transitioning one of the things that helped me most with coming to terms with my identity and navigating the world as a transgender person was reading books and watching film (especially documentaries) with transgender subjects. I put this list together so those new to transition (or their curious friends and allies) have a reference point in terms of trans media that is available.
This list is by no means complete - there are scores of movies with "trans" characters (often as marginalized sex workers), so I tried to stick with books and film that positively represented trans and gender variant folk rather than trying to compile a complete list of every book or film that happens to have a trans character.
If you have any suggestions for a title to add to this list, leave it in the comments below or e-mail me at charliewarhol@gmail.com
Books:
Leslie Feinberg
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Transgender Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Stone Butch Blues
Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaws: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
A Queer and Pleasant Danger, a memoir
Jenny Finney Boylan
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: a Memoir
Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men, Henry Rubin
Emergence, Mario Martino
Body Alchemy, Loren Cameron
Becoming a Visible Man, Jamison Green
Transfigurations, Jana Marcus, Jamison Green [foreward]
Second Son: Transitioning Toward My Destiny, Love, and Life, Ryan Sallans
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, Chaz Bono
Susan Stryker
Transgender History
Gay by the Bay
The Transgender Studies Reader
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transition from Female-to-Male, Max Wolf Valerio
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Matt Bernstein Sycamore (editor)
Morty Diamond [editor]:
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Julia Serano
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities, Jason Cromwell
Just Add Hormones, Matt Kailey
Trumpet, Jackie Kay
Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger
Becoming Alec, Darwin Ward
Hung Jury
Film
Documentary
Southern Comfort
Trained in the Ways of Men
Red without Blue
The Brandon Teena Story
Transgeneration
The Cockettes
Screaming Queens
Gendernauts
Enough Man
Sex Change Hospital
She's a Boy I Knew
No Dumb Questions
Prodigal Sons
Becoming Chaz
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Fiction/Dramatizations
Boys Don't Cry
Albert Nobbs
Soldier's Girl
The Crying Game
Trans America
By Hook or Crook
Ma vie en Rose
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
This list is by no means complete - there are scores of movies with "trans" characters (often as marginalized sex workers), so I tried to stick with books and film that positively represented trans and gender variant folk rather than trying to compile a complete list of every book or film that happens to have a trans character.
If you have any suggestions for a title to add to this list, leave it in the comments below or e-mail me at charliewarhol@gmail.com
Books:
Leslie Feinberg
Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Transgender Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Stone Butch Blues
Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaws: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
A Queer and Pleasant Danger, a memoir
Jenny Finney Boylan
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: a Memoir
Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men, Henry Rubin
Emergence, Mario Martino
Body Alchemy, Loren Cameron
Becoming a Visible Man, Jamison Green
Transfigurations, Jana Marcus, Jamison Green [foreward]
Second Son: Transitioning Toward My Destiny, Love, and Life, Ryan Sallans
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man, Chaz Bono
Susan Stryker
Transgender History
Gay by the Bay
The Transgender Studies Reader
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transition from Female-to-Male, Max Wolf Valerio
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Matt Bernstein Sycamore (editor)
Morty Diamond [editor]:
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond
Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Julia Serano
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities, Jason Cromwell
Just Add Hormones, Matt Kailey
Trumpet, Jackie Kay
Parrotfish, Ellen Wittlinger
Becoming Alec, Darwin Ward
Hung Jury
Film
Documentary
Southern Comfort
Trained in the Ways of Men
Red without Blue
The Brandon Teena Story
Transgeneration
The Cockettes
Screaming Queens
Gendernauts
Enough Man
Sex Change Hospital
She's a Boy I Knew
No Dumb Questions
Prodigal Sons
Becoming Chaz
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Fiction/Dramatizations
Boys Don't Cry
Albert Nobbs
Soldier's Girl
The Crying Game
Trans America
By Hook or Crook
Ma vie en Rose
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Southern Comfort Conference 2012
Southern Comfort Conference is the largest transgender conference in the world and is held every September in Atlanta, Georgia. This years dates are the 18-23rd. While SCC has a largely transfeminine presence, since I first attended in 2006 they have been doing a lot to improve programming and other activities for transmasculine-identified individuals – the best of these being the Robert Eads Health Partnership (REHP).
Robert Eads was a transman who lived in rural Georgia and was a long-time attendee of SCC who died of ovarian cancer after suffering from extreme transphobia at the hands of healthcare professionals. The critically acclaimed 2001 documentary chronicles his story.
REHP allows transmen to get the needed (and dreaded) yearly pelvic exam in the company of other transmen in a trans-positive environment. Getting the necessary exams in the company of other transmasculine-identified men can reduce the anxiety many transmen feel at even the thought of these procedures.
Transgender healthcare can be difficult to navigate anywhere, but this can often be a difficult space to even find in the Southeast, Midwest, rural areas, and other non-metropolitan areas; I live in a city in the south with a population of over one million and no physician here will treat me - I drive an hour and a half each way to a college town to see a physician for my transgender-related medical care. REHP is a great option for those who live in an area where they do not have access to basic healthcare or trans-friendly and knowledgeable physicians.
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Robert Eads was a transman who lived in rural Georgia and was a long-time attendee of SCC who died of ovarian cancer after suffering from extreme transphobia at the hands of healthcare professionals. The critically acclaimed 2001 documentary chronicles his story.
REHP allows transmen to get the needed (and dreaded) yearly pelvic exam in the company of other transmen in a trans-positive environment. Getting the necessary exams in the company of other transmasculine-identified men can reduce the anxiety many transmen feel at even the thought of these procedures.
SCC is a bit pricey, especially with lodging, food, and travel expenses, but if you're in the Atlanta area, I'd definitely recommend going to the hotel where the conference is being held because you can always find a cool group of trans people to hang with - nothing beats the sense of community one feels when around 1,000 other trans people. Transitioning in the south, this was a rare occurrence for me, so I cherished all of the moments just socializing with other trans people - I think most conference attendees would agree that the best parts of the conference aren't the seminars or even anything scheduled at all, but in the late-night parties and 3am conversations.
This year FTM adult film star and producer Buck Angel is attending the conference and will be at the Transmen's Welcome Party on September 20th, so come on out and meet him!
This year FTM adult film star and producer Buck Angel is attending the conference and will be at the Transmen's Welcome Party on September 20th, so come on out and meet him!
Since the full conference registration is $375 on site (or $355 & $365 in August and September), a variety of registration packages are available at a lower cost. The full registration includes luncheon and dinner on both Friday and Saturday and all non-extra cost activities.
Friday & Saturday only is $330 on site or $310 if you register this month, or $320 if you register in September before you arrive.
Saturday only registration is $260 on site or $240 if you register this month, or $250 if you register in September prior to your arrival and includes luncheon, dinner, and all non-extra cost activities.
The most affordable rate is the "conference only" registration (and is what I purchased every year I attended), and includes all seminars and non-extra cost activities. The cost is $125, regardless of when you register. Meals are not included.
SCC believes that money should not be a barrier to attendance and offers scholarships to first time attendees (and their partners or a friend!).
Southern Comfort quick links:
YouTube
Yahoo Group
Transmasculine Program
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