Speaking Out About Trans People's Equality
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Between Ourselves play >
Between Ourselves
7/27/2008 | Download File (6.44 MB) - right click to download
Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together two people who have had profound and similar experiences, to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term effects on each of their lives. In this candid broadcast from 17 July 2008, two spouses of transsexual people discuss how they have coped with their partners' gender transition.
TG Law Center Interview play >
TG Law Center Interview
5/17/2008 | Download File (7.09 MB) - right click to download
On March 14th -- 16th, 2008 the Gender Equity Resource Center of University of California, Berkeley hosted the 3rd Annual Transgender Leadership Summit. One of our readers, Cheryl Morgan, was lucky enough to be able to attend. Her report of the event is below. She was also able to take the opportunity to interview Masen Davis, the Executive Director and Kristina Wertz, the Legal Director of the Transgender Law Center in downtown San Francisco. California Transgender Leadership Summit Being lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the San Francisco Bay Area (with my very wonderful boyfriend), I happened to be here at the same time as the 3rd Annual California Transgender Leadership Summit was taking place. It sounded interesting, and PFC said they’d welcome a report, so I went along. Things got going on the Thursday night with a welcome party at Asia SF, a restaurant in San Francisco staffed by trans people. It was a little early for most of the out of town people, but it got me to see a place I’d heard a lot of good things about. I must go back and try the food sometime. The conference proper began on Friday evening on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, a location that is synonymous with the civil rights movement. Huge thanks are due to Billy Curtis and his staff at the university’s Gender Equity Center for helping stage the event. (Go Bears!) Thanks also to the Transgender Law Center who did most of the work to make it happen. The evening began with a selection of speeches from politicians. These varied from local councilors up through the State Assembly and Senate to the Federal Government in the shape of a representative from Berkeley’s Congresswoman, Barbara Lee. The theme of the conference was "trans grows up", and this was cleverly showcased in the opening session by using two speakers, one of whom worked with trans youth and the other of whom admitted to being "60 and perhaps a few years more". Shannon Garcia of Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA) is an amazing woman. She’s a mother of six, an achievement in itself, including a trans daughter, and she’s fighting for her little girl’s rights with a huge amount of motherly pride, affection and determination. Much of what she said can be found in an online article at The Bilerico Project, but perhaps the most moving part of her presentation was when she described the time she took her family away for a week’s holiday and allowed her daughter to present as a girl in public for the first time. Her husband, who had been somewhat reluctant about the project, was blown away by the transformation of his shy, sullen and depressed son into a happy, confident and outgoing girl. It was a magnificent affirmation of how easily allowing trans people to be themselves can make such a huge difference to their lives. Miss Major, an African-American trans woman, didn’t say much about being old, aside from complaining about not being allowed to move into a retirement home along with her parents even though she was of an age to qualify for entry. I’m not sure that being old is part of her vocabulary. She’s much more at home being sassy and funny and entertaining. If you are looking for a good trans speaker, this woman is for you. Saturday opened with more political speeches and an overview of work being done by trans activist groups and their allies in California. It is a mistake to view the USA as a single country. State laws can vary dramatically – sometimes even more so than they do in Europe. In California trans people have many of the same sorts of legal protections and rights as they do in the UK. In some areas they may even be ahead of us. Others states, however, are far less enlightened, and the Federal Government is also lagging sadly behind. The next three sessions were devoted to workshops, of which there was a huge variety on offer. You could learn about fund raising, about political lobbying, about working with youth or deaf people, and about how to tackle an uncooperative health insurance company. I spent much of the day in the media stream, mainly because I’ve been involved in PR and journalism in other areas of my life so it was an area I could contribute to. We spent a lot of time talking about images of trans people in the media, how they are improving, and what we can do to make things even better. Given the number of smart, enthusiastic and talented people I met (several of whom were from Los Angeles and were involved in film and TV), I have no doubt that this will happen. I did, however, take time out to listen to Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). Tackling America’s Federal Government on trans issues is very much a full time task. Americans may talk a lot about limiting the role of government, but like any other bureaucracy Washington generates regulations at an astounding rate, and many of them impact trans people in unexpected ways. A very simple example is that men who dodged the draft for Vietnam are not allowed to enter law school, but what happens if you were exempt from the draft because you were a woman at the time? Mara and her colleagues have not only fought that one, but have ensured that the certificate of exemption does not state the reason why you were exempt. In many ways NCTE’s work mirrors what happens in the UK. America doesn’t have a national health service, but the creation of one is very much on the political agenda. (In California Governor Schwarzenegger has expressed support for the idea, and he’s a Republican.) Making sure that trans people are fairly treated by such a system, if it happens, will be a major challenge. The US government is also trying to introduce a national ID card, and all of the same issues of data protection apply. (In this case Mara finds herself allied to Libertarians from Montana – the same people who have threatened to secede from the US if their right to own guns is ever curtailed – politics surely d
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Amelia Bullmore talks about Mrs Inbetweeny
3/8/2008 | Download File (3.98 MB) - right click to download
Amelia Bullmore as Mrs Inbetweeny A new one-off comedy drama, Mrs Inbetweeny, appeared on BBC Three in March 2008. Notwithstanding the excruciating title, the one hour show is centred around a depiction of a transsexual woman that is radically different to anything attempted before. The central part of 'Emma' is played by a familiar and much liked British actress, Amelia Bullmore. Christine Burns met up with Amelia a few days after Mrs Inbetweeny was screened and, after sharing a lunch of scrambled eggs on toast, she asked her about her acting and writing career and how she had approached the challenges of playing a trans woman.
WHFamily: Gender Identity Disorder play >
WHFamily: Gender Identity Disorder
3/2/2008 | Download File (3.25 MB) - right click to download
One of the big new areas of discussion in the last few months, and on both sides of the Atlantic, has been the question of how best to support and treat young people (both young children and teenagers) when they assert the desire to be the opposite gender to the one in which they've been born and raised. In the US, much of the debate centres around schooling, and the actions that are necessary if a young child is to be supported to explore their feelings in role to the full. In the UK, with two recent health service booklets already published, the current focus is more actively centred on the issue of whether hormone blocking drugs should be prescribed in order to put puberty on hold for older children, so that they can buy time to be sure of their course in life before irreversible changes of either kind are allowed to take place in their bodies. Treatment of this kind has already been practiced for several years in the Netherlands and United States. UK clinicians have other views. This BBC Radio Four Womans Hour discussion, broadcast on 28th Feb 2008, features Lee Gale, a trans man in his twenties, who first talks about his own childhood experiences. Lee is then joined by Manchester University bioethics lecturer Dr Simona Giordano, who is critical of current UK practice, and Dr Polly Carmichael. Dr Carmichael is a consultant clinical psychologist at the Gender Identity Development Service at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust - the UK's only centre treating young people, and which believes hormone blocking medication should not be prescribed until normal puberty has completed, around the age of 16.
WHFamily: Gender Identity Disorder play >
WHFamily: Gender Identity Disorder
3/2/2008 | Download File (3.25 MB) - right click to download
One of the big new areas of discussion in the last few months, and on both sides of the Atlantic, has been the question of how best to support and treat young people (both young children and teenagers) when they assert the desire to be the opposite gender to the one in which they've been born and raised. In the US, much of the debate centres around schooling, and the actions that are necessary if a young child is to be supported to explore their feelings in role to the full. In the UK, with two recent health service booklets already published, the current focus is more actively centred on the issue of whether hormone blocking drugs should be prescribed in order to put puberty on hold for older children, so that they can buy time to be sure of their course in life before irreversible changes of either kind are allowed to take place in their bodies. Treatment of this kind has already been practiced for several years in the Netherlands and United States. UK clinicians have other views. This BBC Radio Four Womans Hour discussion, broadcast on 28th Feb 2008, features Lee Gale, a trans man in his twenties, who first talks about his own childhood experiences. Lee is then joined by Manchester University bioethics lecturer Dr Simona Giordano, who is critical of current UK practice, and Dr Polly Carmichael. Dr Carmichael is a consultant clinical psychologist at the Gender Identity Development Service at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust - the UK's only centre treating young people, and which believes hormone blocking medication should not be prescribed until normal puberty has completed, around the age of 16.
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