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Transgender children who express their “real” gender identity can become extremely unhappy and depressed when adults try to prevent them being their true selves. Being transgender is not the cause of their distress. Instead, not being understood and feeling like there is something wrong with them causes them to suffer. And pressure to change their core sense of who they are causes emotional suffering, as well.
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Following reassignment surgery, transgender patients usually maintain the same type of relationships, often with the same individuals, as prior to surgery. It is important to understand the difference between the terms “gender” and “sexual orientation”. Gender refers to the role, male or female, that an individual wants to present to themselves and to the world. Sexual orientation is a completely different issue and refers to whether an individual wants to have sexual relations with another individual of the same or different gender. For example, a transgender patient may wish to present as a male or a female and have a “normal” heterosexual life in that role. However, this individual may wish to have homosexual relationships in the new gender role.
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All Gender Health Seminars are designed by and for Minnesota's transgender community. Whether you are transsexual, a crossdresser, bigender, a drag queen, a drag king, genderqueer, gender questioning, intersex, or a partner - this seminar is for you! Featured guest speakers include Vanessa Sheridan, Monica Meyer, Max Gries, Karin Anderson, Ethan Laubach, Kris Maul, and Connie Moore. Performances by S. Bear Bergman and Ovation. For more information or to register, click here. For more information, contact Andrea Jenkins at 612-625-5508 or ajenkins@umphysicians.umn.edu.
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This book was 12 years in the making as author Gordene Olga MacKenzie became involved with the transgender community and the Gender Movement in the U.S.A., which she calls the civil rights movement of the 1990s. MacKenzie teaches courses on sex and gender, popular culture, and media politics, in the American Studies Department and the Women Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She is an advocate and activist for transgender equal rights, which she believes is the key to a much needed Gender Revolution.
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A group of transgender and gender queer identified students met with the USHIP/GSHIP committee in February 2005 to ask the committee to remove the exclusion. Specific statistical documentation regarding potential costs were shared, as well as personal stories of transitioning students. The committee did not recommend to remove the exclusion from the policy. Unless significant activism causes concern, the current policy will not be revisited until 2007 by the USHIP/GSHIP committee.
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According to numerous surveys, over 60% of likely voters in the U.S. support a transgender-inclusive federal employment non-discrimination law. Polling data from 2006 shows that voters are more likely to support a candidate who votes for an LGBT discrimination law than they are to vote against. There is ... state-specific polling data. In New Jersey, for example, voters supported state legislation to add gender identity protections with a high margin: 70%-19%.
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