A Gender Variance Who's Who: December 2013

This site is the most comprehensive on the web devoted to trans history and biography. Well over 1700 persons worthy of note, both famous and obscure, are discussed in detail, and many more are mentioned in passing.

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29 December 2013

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 10: Archives, Books.

Some events of 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons.
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Archives
The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive, which contained donations from many British trans persons, is no more.

It had been maintained by Richard Ekins since its founding in 1986, but was never inventoried. After he retired Ekins offered the collection to the London School of Economics’ LGBT Hall-Carpenter Archives, but was told it would not be accepted because of a lack of an inventory listing what it contained. They also insisted that they would need him to get rid of any items subject to copyright or containing personal information like addresses. Ekins actually starting destroying content under this imperative, but did not get to a position when the Hall-Carpenter Archives would accept the collection. Apparently other possible UK sites were not consulted.

The collection has now been acquired by The University of Victoria Transgender Archives. Opinion by Christine Burns, Catherine Baker.
Books
$£¥ €=Excessively overpriced books.

Muhammed Ahmed Abdullah, Yahya Ahmed & Zeeshan Basharat. Sex, Disease and Confusions among Pakistan's Transgenders: A Cross-sectional Study . LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013. "The hijra(Transgender)community in Pakistan are at a great risk of both contracting and spreading many sexually transmitted diseases. Once held in high esteem, these caretakers of the king's harem are now socially excluded from many mainstream social activities. The present study looks into the knowledge, attitudes and practices of this community regarding various sexually transmitted infections."
Ryka Aoki. Seasonal Velocities .Trans-Genre Press, 2012. "Ryka Aoki has challenged, informed, and shared with queer audiences across the United States. Seasonal Velocities was honored as a 2013 Lambda Award Finalist."
Jesse Bering. Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us . Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. The trans section is mainly Blanchardian. "Reading the book was like ‘homecoming week’, as Bering references and mentions many of my favorite (and not-so-favorite*) sexologists: Anne Lawrence, Michael Bailey, Ray Blanchard, Meredith Chivers, Milton Diamond, James Cantor, Kurt Fruend, Richard Green, Ken Zucker, *John Money, and *Charles Moser." -- Kay Brown.
$£¥ € Howard Chiang. Transgender China . Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Chiang is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Warwick. "This book has an impressive breadth in both historical reach and the cultural forms addressed. From historical investigations of androgyny in classical ethics and religion, eunuchism, and literary and theatrical cross-dressing to critical analyses of trans representations in contemporary popular film and the trans pride movement in Hong Kong, the collection is both intellectually exciting and politically engaged."
$£¥ € Susanne Dengler. Ethnologische Perspektiven auf Zweigeschlechtlichkeit: Transgender, Queer, Dritte Geschlechter: Storungsszenarien des Hegemonialen . Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller E.K., 2013.
Laura Erickson-Schroth (ed). Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community . Oxford University Press, 2014. " Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful compendium written for and by women, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the transgender population, providing authoritative information in an inclusive and respectful way and representing the collective knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. Each chapter takes the reader through an important transgender issue, such as race, religion, employment, medical and surgical transition, mental health topics, relationships, sexuality, parenthood, arts and culture, and many more."
Raoul Fortner & Helmut Graupner. Regenbogen-Hausjurist: Rechtsratgeber für Homo-/Bisexuelle und Transgender in Österreich. Manz'sche, Wien, 2013.
Marcus Greatheart. Transforming Practice: Life Stories of Transgender Men that Change How Health Providers Work . Ethica Press, 2013. "Despite the challenges the men describe having positive, even enjoyable, transition experiences while demonstrating resilience and self-efficacy. Coping strategies and impacts on mental health and substance use are discussed, as well as implications for mental health practice."
Darryl B. Hill. Trans Toronto: An Oral History . Lulu, 2012. Review. An exercise in post-modernism, with a small amount of history.
Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam. A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships . Plume, 2012. "Men are aroused by visual cues, according to the authors, and many trans women possess two cues that men find particularly stimulating: traditional femininity and, often, the penis."
Anna Morcom. Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion . C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2013. "Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in social and cultural life. Women's roles were often also taken by boys and men, some of whom were simply female impersonators, others transgender."
Jo Barraclough Paoletti. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. "When did we start dressing girls in pink and boys in blue? - She chronicles the decline of the white dress for both boys and girls, the introduction of rompers in the early 20th century, the gendering of pink and blue, the resurgence of unisex fashions, and the origins of today's highly gender-specific baby and toddler clothing."
Alissa Quart. Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels . The New Press, 2013. Discusses trans persons among others.
Julia Serano. Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive . Seal Press, 2013.
$£¥ € Francois Soyer. Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World). Brill Academic, 2012.
Susan Stryker & Aren Z. Aizura. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 Routledge, 2013.
Amanda Lock Swarr. Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender & Race in South Africa . State University of New York Press, 2012. "Argues that South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation relied on an unexamined but interrelated system of sexed oppression that was at once both rigid and flexible. ... It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender."
Naoko Tachibana. Yuri-Danashi. Myway Mook, 2013. Photographs of 9 Japanese crossdressers. Article.

Spiritual

Sakhi Bhava. Transgender Spirituality: Man into Goddess . CreateSpace, 2012. "This book presents a historical survey of male transgenderism in spiritual life - including biographies of well-known figures who used their crossed-sex identification as vehicles for worship and self-discovery. It also discusses ways for the transgender male to turn his yearning for sexual transformation into a powerful tool for spiritual transformation - to turn what may be seen by some as a curse or abnormality into a blessing." Although such expected trans persons as Rachel Pollack and Cathryn Platine are not mentioned.
Jkiesha Elder. Jesus Remnant Endtime Prophecy News Letter By His Watch Transgender Female J'kiesha Elder . CreateSpace, 2013.
Ashley Ford. Transitional Belief: Christianity as Viewed through the Lens of a Transgender Believer . CreateSpace, 2013.
Bobbie Lang. Transgendered Christians in Chains: The Life Story of a Transsexual Struggling with Gender Confusuion and His Search for God's Plan for His Life. CreateSpace, 2013.
Katie Leone. The Transsexual and the Cross: Disproving the myth that transsexuality is a sin . CreateSpace, 2013.
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus. All-Soul, All-Body, All-Love, All-Power: A TransMythology . CreateSapce, 2012.
Gina Pond et al. Gender And Transgender In Modern Paganism . Lulu, 2012.
Rhiannon M Tibbetts. A Sad Love Song to God: Sung in a Peaceful, (Heavenly) Transgender Key CreateSpace, 2012.
Rhiannon M Tibbetts. Listening to God's Healing Love Song: As Heard by a Downhearted Transgender Woman in an Uplifting Major, (Heavenly) Key . CreateSpace, 2013.

Legal

Shahnaz Ali, Christine Burns & Loren Grant. Making Equality Work . Plain Sense Ltd, 2013.
$£¥ € Sally Hines. Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Difference (Citizenship, Gender and Diversity) . Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. "The meanings and significance of, and contestations around, recognition in relation to the aptly named UK 'Gender Recognition Act'".
$£¥ € Jens M. Scherpe. The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons . Intersentia Ltd, 2014.
$£¥ € Ally Windsor Howell. Transgender Persons and the Law . American Bar Association; Pap/Dvdr edition, 2014.
Isaac West. Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law (Sexual Cultures). New York University Press, 2013.

Guidebooks

Joanne Borden. Transgender Complete, A Virtual Handbook . Kindle, 2013.
Arlene Istar Lev. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families . Routledge, 2^nd edition 2014.
Des McCabe & Fiona McLeod. Transgender People - Practical Advice, FAQs and Case Studies (Best Practice Guides in Equality and Diversity - The Diversiton Series) . New Activity Publication, 2013.

(Auto)Biography

Ryka Aoki. Seasonal Velocities . Trans-Genre Press, 2012. Aoki is a writer, performer, musician, and educator who appears in the documentaries "Diagnosing Difference" and "Riot Acts." Her work is featured in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and Tranfeminist Perspectives.
Kristen Beck & Anne Speckhard. Warrior Princess A U.S. Navy Seal's Journey to Coming Out Transgender . Advances Press 2013. Article.
Dana Bevan. The Transsexual Scientist:: The Causation and Experience of Transgenderism and Transsexualism . Bevan Industries, 2013.
Kate Bornstein. My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity . Routledge, 2013.
Jennifer Finney Boylan. Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders . Crown, 2013.
++Christine Burns. Pressing Matters: Volume 1. Amazon Digital, 2013. The first account of Press for Change.
Lina Pagniacci Capoli. Life Goes on I Know Mine Will: A True Transgender Story! ! Trafford, 2013.
Martina Castellana. Sulla mia pelle. La mia vita senza bavaglio. Edisud Salerno, 2011.
Megan Chavalier. X-Rated: The True Story Of Transsexual Adult Film Superstar Meghan Chavalier. Amazon Digital Services, 2013. No longer available on Amazon.
Ronald Cohn & Jesse Russell. Havelock Ellis. VSD, 2013.
Lovemme Corazón. Trauma Queen . Biyuti publishing, 2013.
Molly Cutpurse. The Tragic and Transgendered World of Margaret Allen. Lilith Books, 2012. Bill Allen was executed for murder in 1949. Why Cutpurse, trans herself, would use his female name in the book title is unclear.
Jill Davidson. Undercover Girl: Growing up Transgender. Smashwords, 2012. A school psychologist.
Barbara Deloto & Thomas Newgen. An Addicted Cross-Dresser, Married and a Happy Ending - A True Story. Amazon Digital Services, 2013.
Ceyenne Doroshow edited by Audacia Ray. Cooking in Heels: A memoir cookbook. Red Umbrella, 2012.
Dylan Edwards. Transposes. Northwest Press, 2012.
Geoffrey Gray. Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper. Broadway, 2012. Another book on the famed skyjacker, and the idea that he may have been Barbara Dayton.
Molly Haskell. My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation. Viking, 2012. Excerpt. Author interview.
Kay Henderson. Finding Kay/A Transgender Odyssey. Smashwords, 2012. Reprinted as Kenna Henderson. Kenna/ A Transgender Life. Kindle, 2013.
Linda Jucovy. Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane. Stampede Books, 2012
Matt Kailey. Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects. Outskirts Press, 2012. More from the author of Just Add Hormones.
David L. Kaufman. Untying the Knot: A Husband and Wife's Story of Coming Out Together. Addicus Books, 2013. Mainly a story of a husband and wife both coming out as gay, and at the end David goes further and becomes Danielle. See also Obituaries: Danielle died this year.
Michelle Lynne Kosilek. Grace's Daughter. Smashwords, 2012. The Massachusetts inmate who is suing to be allowed a gender change tells her own story.
Norma Kristie. My Life, My Pageant, My Crown. 2012.
Ellen Krug. Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change. Stepladder Press, 2013. A lawyer.
Alan Kurtz. Manning: The Soldier Who Leaked on His/Her Country. CreateSpace, 2013.
Rachel Love. Things My Mother Should Have Told Me Before I Had My Manhood Removed... Skye Publishing, 2013.
Evie David Marks. My Life In Stolen Pantyhose: One man's journey into the closet. CreateSpace, 2013.
Everett Maroon. Bumbling into Body Hair: A Transsexual's Memoir. Booktrope, 2012.
Cindy Martin. Still Standing: Musings of a Christian Transsexual. Cindy Martin, 2011.
Rachael McGonigal. Country Boy to City Girl. Kindle, 2012.
Neil Mckenna. Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England. Faber, 2013.The best telling yet of Fanny & Stella.
Chelle Padraigin. Finally Chelle: The Musings of an Average Transsexual Woman. Kindle, 2012.
Jack A.Shelia. My Transvestite Addictions: The Story of One Individual's Odyssey Through Crossdressing, Alcohol, Escorts, Strippers, Sex, and Money. Booklocker, 2013.
Alana Nicole Sholar. Hung in the Middle: A Journey of Gender Discovery. EWH Press, 2012.
Nikki Sinclaire. Never Give Up!: Dr Klinefelter, Secrets and Lies, and the Gravy Train . Junius Press, 2013. Nikki was a UKIP MEP without being read.
Mark Tedeschi. Eugenia: A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage . Cammeray, N.S.W.: Simon and Schuster, 2012. About Harry Crawford – why use his girl name in the title? Article.
Rizi Xavier Timane. An Unspoken Compromise. Createspace, 2013. A Nigerian-born transgender minister and certified grief recovery specialist residing in Los Angeles,
Living Smile Vidya. I Am Vidya: A Transgender's Journey. Rupe, 2013. A linguist in Chennai.
David Weekley. In from the Wilderness: She-R-Man with Study Guide. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock, 2011.
Caitlin West. Cynthia's Chance. Amazon Digital Services, 2013.
Helen Wright & David Algeo. From Alan to Helen: A journey through Time and Gender. CreateSpace, 2013.

Poetry.

Roz Kaveney. Dialectic of the Flesh (Body Language) A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2012.
Rose Lamberg et al. Here, We Cross: a collection of queer and genderfluid poetry from Stone Telling 1-7 . Stone Bird Press, 2012.
Andrea Waddell. Sounds of the Soul: Adventures in Time Scribbulations, 2013. Andrea was murdered in Brighton in 2009.

Fiction

Tanya Allen. When I Count to Three. Amazon Digital Services, 2013.
Steve Berry. The King's Deception. Hodder, 2012. A modern thriller around the idea that the Bisley Boy was Elizabeth Tudor. Article. GVWW.
Imogen Binnie. Nevada. Topside Press, 2013. "a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail."
PR Ellis. Painted Ladies: A Jasmine Frame Story. Kibworth Beauchamp : Matador, 2013. Article. Transvestites are being murdered. "Jasmine is asked to act as a decoy to draw the "tranny killer" to a meeting in a pub. Jasmine is torn as she has to go against her instinct as a pre-op transsexual to remain hidden. What response will she get dressed as a flamboyant drag queen? Will it be enough to draw the killer into the trap or is Jasmine just putting her own sense of identity to the test?"
Rachel Gold. Being Emily. Bella Books, 2012. "They say that whoever you are it’s okay, you were born that way. Those words don’t comfort Emily, because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong."
Renee James. Coming Out Can Be Murder. Chi-Towne Fiction, 2012. "The gutsy hairdresser is determined to live her “new” life authentically, even as she is drawn into the investigation of her brutally murdered friend."
Roz Kaveney. Reflections: Rhapsody of Blood, Volume 2. Plus One Press, 2013. Reviewers said that RITUALS was one of the most exciting fantasy debuts of 2012. REFLECTIONS is its worthy successor. RITUALS also received Honor List recognition for the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Crawford Award.
Armistead Maupin. The Days of Anna Madrigal. Harper, 2014. "follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past."
Alex Myers. Revolutionary. Simon & Shuster, 2013. Based on the life of 18^th century trans man Deborah Sampson. Article.
Michael Quadland. Offspring. Red Hen Press, 2012. " To add to Hank’s problems, his transgendered boss at the Strand Bookstore is in love with him."
Grigory Ryzhahov. Becoming Agie: The Adventure of a Russian transgender scientist entangled in fiction, romance and mystery. CreateSpace, 2012.
Rae Spoon. First Spring Grass Fire. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012.The first novel by the indie singer-songwriter. "a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada."
Peter Joseph Swanson. Bad Movies. CreateSpace, 2013. "In the mid-70s, Jill, a sex-change in denial, buses west with the hope of becoming a star".
Abigail Tarttelin. Golden Boy. Atria Books, 2013. Article. " Max, an intersex individual living his life as a boy. He is turning 16 when his father, the local crown prosecutor, decides to run for parliament."
Maxwell Zachs. The People's Republic of Nowhere. Smashwords, 2013. Article. Max previously was on My Transsexual Summer.

27 December 2013

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal

Some events of 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons.
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Jargon
Associated Press reminded its staff to use "husband" and "wife" without quotes only if couple is heterosexual.

Cisplaining: To explain, without ever having felt the necessity to investigate the issue, that there are only two genders which are fixed and invariable for every individual at birth.

Jack Molay's Creative Crossdreamer Vocabulary.

Truscum = FTM separatists (who incidentally embrace the term 'transgender')

News Media
Don Ennis, ABC News editor and producer, was Dawn for a while.

New Statesman Trans Issues Week.

The New York Times: Room for Debate: "Are ‘Trans Rights’ and ‘Gay Rights’ Still Allies?". www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/15/are-trans-rights-and-gay-rights-still-allies.

Magazines and newspapers:

Erika L. Sanchez. "Transgender Latinos forge their own path, help others". NBCLatino, 01/04/2013. http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/04/transgender-latinos-forge-their-own-path-help-others.
James & Evelyn Whitehead. "An epiphany of transgender lives reveals diversity in body of Christ". National Catholic Reporter, Jan 5, 2013. http://ncronline.org/news/people/epiphany-transgender-lives-reveals-diversity-body-christ.
Charlie Hallam. "As the #transdocfail hashtag showed, many trans people are afraid of their doctors: Trans patients should not have to please medical staff before they can access treatment, writes Charlie Hallam.". New Statesman, 09 January 2013. www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2013/01/transdocfail-hashtag-showed-many-trans-people-are-afraid-their-doctors.
Suzanne Moore. "I don't care if you were born a woman or became one". The Guardian, 9 January 2013. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/09/dont-care-if-born-woman.
Paris Lees, Jane Fae, CL Minou & Stuart Crawford. "Why I'm trans … and a feminist". The Guardian, 18 January 2013. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/18/trans-feminist-panel.
Rahila Gupta. "Transgender: the challenge to feminist politics ". 50.50 inclusive democracy, 16 April 2013. www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rahila-gupta/transgender-challenge-to-feminist-politics.
Paul Grondahl. "Transgender people the focus: Health care providers holding event to urge shift in long-held views". The Times Union, April 25, 2013. www.timesunion.com/local/article/Transgender-people-the-focus-4464899.php.
Crystal Cheatham. "Increasing Transgender Acceptance One Family at a Time". Huffington Post, 05/28/2013. www.huffingtonpost.com/crystal-cheatham/increasing-transgender-acceptance-one-family-at-a-time_b_3325235.html.
Anne Hendershott. "The Transgender Culture Wars". The Catholic World, August 27, 2013. http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2527/the_transgender_culture_wars.aspx.
Joe McCormack. "Op-ed: What's Wrong With Executive Recruiters?: An executive recruiter argues that education and protections are essential to combating discrimination against transgender people in the hiring process. ". The Advocate, August 22 2013. www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/08/22/op-ed-whats-wrong-executive-recruiters.
Ruth Tam. "Use of preferred gender pronouns indicates expanding acceptance of transgender people". Washington Post, September 5 2013. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/use-of-preferred-gender-pronouns-indicates-expanding-acceptance-of-transgender-people/2013/09/05/25ffdb7e-1595-11e3-804b-d3a1a3a18f2c_story.html.
Roey Thorpe. "Where have all the Butches Gone?". She Wired, 2013-09-05. http://www.shewired.com/lifestyle/2013/09/05/op-ed-where-have-all-butches-gone.
Tony Merevick. "Report Details Discrimination Faced By Undocumented Transgender Immigrants". Buzzfeed, October 4, 2013. www.buzzfeed.com/tonymerevick/undocumented-transgender-immigrants-face-violence-and-discri.
Jordan Flaherty. "Are police profiling transgender Americans?". Aljazeera America, Oct 16 2013. http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/10/16/rise-in-transgenderharassmentviolencebypolicelinkedtoprofiling.html.

Places:

Bandung. Yuli Krisna. "How Bandung’s Transgender Community Is Taking on HIV/AIDs One Test at a Time". Jakarta Globe, October 11, 2013. www.thejakartaglobe.com/features/how-bandungs-transgender-community-is-taking-on-hivaids-one-test-at-a-time.

Bangalore: Sangeetha Neeraja. "Transgender-men yet to break free" The New Indian Express, 25^th Februray 2013. http://newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/article1477941.ece.

Canberra. Phillip Thomson. "Trans sex workers: Hankering to cross the divide". The Canberra Times, September 15, 2013. www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/trans-sex-workers-hankering-to-cross-the-divide-20130914-2trwr.html.

Ecuador. Rochelle Jones. "The Word on Women - Transgender Rights in Ecuador: A Legal, Spatial, Political and Cultural Acquittal". UpsideDownWorld, 08 January 2013. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/4059-the-word-on-women-transgender-rights-in-ecuador-a-legal-spatial-political-and-cultural-acquittal.

Gulf States. Saeed Kamali Dehghan. "Gulf countries consider medical checks to bar transgender expats. Kuwait proposal aimed at preventing transgender migrant workers from entering six-member Gulf Co-operation Council countries criticised as 'immoral' ". The Guardian, 11 October 2013. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/gulf-countries-medical-checks-transgender-expats.

Hokkaido, Japan. Adam Westlake. "1 in 2,800 of Sapporo residents struggle with gender identity disorder". Japan Daily Press, Apr 22, 2013. http://japandailypress.com/1-in-2800-of-sapporo-residents-struggle-with-gender-identity-disorder-2227407.

Hong Kong: Lana Lam. "Sex change patients getting younger, and are more likely to be women: Doctor says information age has encouraged people to seek surgery at an earlier age, and women seeking to become men are in majority". South China Morning Post, Nov 3, 2013. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1120895/sex-change-patients-getting-younger-and-are-more-likely-be-women.

India. Ekatha Ann John. "Govt delays sex change surgeries". The Times of India, Mar 20, 2013. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-20/chennai/37871550_1_surgeries-govt-delays-quack.

Jackson Heights, New York: Chadwick Moore. "Paradise Nights". Out, 5.15.2013. www.out.com/news-opinion/2013/05/15/jackson-heights-queens-transgender-immigrant?page=0,0.

Juchitan, Oaxaca. Helen Pow. "The Muxes of Mexico: Inside the community where cross-dressing has been accepted since the time of the Aztecs". Daily Mail, 20 September 2013. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426141/Nicola-kin-Frioli-Inside-Mexican-community-cross-dressing-accepted-time-Aztecs.html.

Kuwait. Belkis Wille. "Being Transgender in Kuwait: 'My Biggest Fear Is a Flat Tire'". Human Rights Watch, July 15, 2013. www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/15/being-transgender-kuwait-my-biggest-fear-flat-tire.

Madura. D. Karthikeyan. "Real change comes only when our family accepts us: transgender". The Hindu, August 11, 2013. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/real-change-comes-only-when-our-family-accepts-us-transgender/article5012026.ece.

Mexico. Amy Lieberman. "". The Atlantic, Jul 18 2013.Gay and Transgender Migrants Face Staggering Violence in Mexico: LGBTQ people endure a treacherous journey on the way to a better life. www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/gay-and-transgender-migrants-face-staggering-violence-in-mexico/277915.

New York: Emily Gogalak. "Profiled by NYPD, Transgendered People in New York Fear Carrying Condoms". The Village Voice, Mar 7 2013. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/transgendered_condoms.php.

Bahawalpur, Pakistan: Amna Nasir. "The tale of transgender people: When hate starts ruining lives". The Express Tribune, February 25, 2013. http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/15948/the-tale-of-transgender-people-when-hate-starts-ruining-lives.

Pakistan. Majeed Baber & Ron Synovitz. "Despite Gains, Pakistan's Transgender Community Under Attack". Radio Free Europe, October 26, 2013. http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan-transgender-eunuchs/25148690.html.

Seattle. Lornet Turnbull. "Overshadowed by gay and lesbian compatriots, the transgender community is fighting for acceptance". Las Vegas Sun, July 1, 2013. www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jul/01/overshadowed-their-gay-and-lesbian-compatriots-tra.

Vietnam: Jonathan DeHart. "Thai Transgender Community Finds its Voice". The Diplomat, Februray 20, 2013. http://thediplomat.com/sport-culture/2013/02/20/thai-transgender-community-finds-its-voice.

US Military. Adam Klasfeld & Brett Brownell. "The Pentagon's Transgender Problem: New studies suggest that transgender civilians are twice as likely to enlist, and that suicidal behavior is 20 times more prevalent in transgender vets.". Mother Jones, Aug 15, 2013. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/transgender-troops-twice-likely-serve-twenty-times-likely-commit-suicide.

Washington DC. John Riley. "D.C. Hit with Anti-LGBT Attacks: Community shaken as summer starts with six assaults, one fatal". Metro Weekly, July 1, 2013. www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=8446.

Journal

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Announced to be edited by Susan Stryker and Paisley Currah.

24 December 2013

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema

Art, Photography & Exhibits

April Ashley: portrait of a lady. Museum of Liverpool and Homotopia. 27 Sep 2013 – 21 Sep 2014.

Christer Strömholm, photographs of Paris circa 1960. Exhibition at the Swedish Institute, Paris, 15 November 2013- 12 January 2014.

Drag Queens & Covered Bridges of New Hampshire.

Grayson Perry awarded a CBE.

Chris Fittock, of Burnley, Lancashire, who came out at 52, dedicated a show to Lucy Meadows.

David Rosenbery on Mariette Pathy Allen. "35 Years as the Unofficial Photographer of Transgender Life". Slate, May 3, 2013.

www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/05/03/mariette_pathy_allen_the_unofficial_photographer_of_the_tr ansgendered_community.html.

XXXora, "an Anglo-Spanish, bilingual, hermaphrodite artist " presented her debut solo exhibition, The Newer Gender, at East London’s Vyner Street Gallery from 14-24 June.

Katie Herzog. "Based on Gerhard Richter’s 48 Portraits of men of letters (1972) and Gottfried Helnwein's response with 48 portraits of famous women (1992), my piece consists of 48 portraits of transgender men and women of letters." Herzog also aligns her project with Senate Bill 48 signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011 requiring the inclusion of trans individuals in school textbooks.

Lorenzo Triburgo, Transportraits

DC Comics introduces its first trans character:

Television & Radio

Lavern Cox played a trans woman in Orange is the New Black, and her twin brother was cast her earlier self.

Lavern Cox interviewed.

Sean Bean won an International Emmy for playing a transvestite in the series, Accused, BBC 1, 2011.

Michelle Demishevich, TV reporter for channel IMC in Turkey.

James Gardner, previously Sheila, news anchor at Puget Sound Radio, Victoria, BC, 54, announced his transition.

Sheena Metal, Los Angeles, radio host, actress, journalist, comic, spoke of being intersex in 2011 to little response.

After a trans woman was shot and robbed, and the attackers bragged and insulted the victim's gender, Lex and Terry, who are broadcast nationally by Clear Channel and Sirius XM, said, “There’s a teen that shot a tranny after finding out that it was a man ... I don’t blame him. I would have shot his ass too.” A week later they apologized. SiriusXM made it clear that it does not support the comments.

Crossover Kids, reported by Jeannette Francis, with Cot Mathis, Eli and Max, Walt Heyer, Max Jensen. SBS, 20 April 2013. Transcript.

"The King Came Calling". Ripper Street, 1.3. BBC Andy Wilson (dir), with Matthew Macfadyen as Det Insp Edmund Reid, and Jonathan White as the madam. 5 men are dead of poisoning, and the police search for a common factor. One has a shaved body and legs, and a second has ingested sperm, which leads to a Molly House.

"The Face of Change". Grey's Anatomy, Feb 7 2013. ABC. Brian and Jess, a trans teen couple. Brian is having top surgery and his father arrives to protest, although later he gives Jess some money for the rent.

What Not to Wear. TLC feb 7. Casey D., a Philadelphia firefighter who transitioned 9 years ago, n seeks a wardrobe and make-over that reflects the confident woman she has become over the past nine years. Co-hosted by out fashion consultant and media personality, Clinton Kelly.

Lost Girl 3.1 14 "Caged Fae" Jan 2012 Sarain Boylan sadistic women's prison warden turned out to be a man.

The Switch. 6 trans persons in Vancouver, acted by tg actors.

Jonathan Creek, Easter Special, "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb". Robert styles as Jeffery/Jacqueline Hyde has kept her previous genitals in a jar.

Adverts

The advert shows a woman who is so surprised by a sale item that she speaks with a male voice. The man she is with looks shocked and horrified. The last scene of the advert shows the man running away as the woman carries a box of flat-packed furniture by herself.
The letter from Thai Transgender Alliance demands that IKEA Global issue an official public statement about the advert.

Theatre

BB Gandanghari in a double role in a stage version of Kiss of the Spider Woman as both Molina (William Hurt in the film) and Irena the spiderwoman (Sonia Branag in the film).

Stu for Silverton, book by Peter Duchan, music and lyrics by Breedlove. Directed by Andrew Russell, with Mark Anders as Stu Rasmussen, Intiman Theatre, Seattle, 125 minutes.

A Kid Like Jake, written by Daniel Pearle, based on an article in New York Magazine re a trans boy. Lincoln Center Theater, New York.

Rüzgar Erkoçlar, actor in Turkey.

Jo Clifford completed the book of The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven and collaborated with Chris Goode as deviser/performer in his new work Albemarle.

John Stevens. "Is this the end of the panto dame? Productions do away with characters as they bid to become more politically correct". The Daily Mail, 2 December 2013. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516608/Is-end-pantomime-dame-Productions-away-characters-bid-politically-correct.html.
Ice Maiden. "The end of the panto dame? This activist thinks it is time!". TransgenderZone, Dec 02, 2013, http://forum.transgenderzone.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4076.
Alfred Hickling. "Panto dames: still going strong at 70: At 70, it's time to retire. Oh no it's not, say these two veteran panto dames. What makes them keep putting on the slap and telling the same old jokes?". The Guardian, 18 December 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/dec/18/pantomime-dames-york-nottingham.

Cinema

Thai actress Rose won a Chinese contract after her walk-ons in Lost in Thailand.

Mitch Kellaway. "Beyond Transition: Documentaries Capture Rich, Complex Transgender Lives ". Huffington Post, 10/08/2013. www.huffingtonpost.com/mitch-kellaway/beyond-transition-narrati_b_4025760.html.

Bambi. Sébastien Lifshitz (dir) with Marie-Pierre Pruvot. France 58 mins 2013. A documentary about the pioneer Le Carrousel performer, school teacher and novelist. IMDB Wikipedia. Winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The Dallas Buyers Club. Jean-Marc Vallée (dir) Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack (scr) with Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, Jared Leto as Rayon, Jennifer Garner as Dr Eve Saks. US 117 mins 2013. IMDB Review Trailer Wikipedia. Both McConaughey and Leto lost weight to portray AIDS sufferers, Leto went to the audition in character as trans woman Rayon and lived in character while filming. However no trans actors were auditioned; while the story is more-or-less true, Rayon is a composite; Rayon's friends refer to her as 'he'.

Drunktown's Finest. Sydney Freeland (dir & scr) with Carmen Moore as Felixia, a Navajo Nadleeh. US 2014. IMDB Article. Made with Kickstarter financing.

Her name is Sowmya. Kalki Subramaniam (dir) with Sowmya. India 10 mins 2013.

Finding Kim. Aaron Bear & Consuelo Crow (dir) with Kim who is transitioning at 49. Made with Kickstarter financing. Website

Ian Harvie Superhero. Liam Sullivan (dir) featuring the performance of Ian Harvie reflecting on his own transition. US 75 mins 2013. IMDB Trailer Website

The Look of Love. Michael Winterbottom (dir) Matt Greenhalgh (scr) based on the book Members Only by Paul Willetts, with Steve Coogan as Paul Raymond. UK 101 mins 2013. You wouldn't realize if from the trailer, but Raymond was a pioneer in the 1970s in putting on fancy drag shows. IMDB Trailer

Namess Ba'geshem / Melting Away. Doron Eran (dir) Billy Ben-Moshe (scr) with Hen Yanni as Anna. Israel/Canada 86 mins 2011. A trans entertainer and the parents who locked her out of the home many years ago. IMDB Trailer. Wikipedia (IMDB does not say who played the teenage Assaf before she became Anna)

R.I.P.D. Robert Schwentke (dir) with Jeff Bridges and Marisa Miller as Roy Pulsipher. US 2013. A fantasy about undead cops. Pulsipher, although male uses a female avatar when interacting with living people. IMDB Trailer. Wikipedia.

Shunned. Janice Villarosa (dir) Janice Villarosa & Mark Celestino, with Philippines/US 70 mins 2013. IMDB. Lives of Filipino trans women.

Sticks and Stones. Silas Howard (dir) with Bambi Lake and Justin Vivian Bond. US 2013. Article.

Valentine Road. Marta Cunningham (dir) US 98 mins 2013. A documentary about 8^th-grade Brandon McInerney who shot gender-non-conforming fellow student in Oxnard, California. IMDB. Director interview. Trailer.

What's the T? Cecilio Asuncion (dir) with Rakash, Vi, Mia, Nya and Cassandra Cass. Review.

Zanderology. Megan Rohrer (dir) with Zander Keig. An extension from the book Letters from my Brothers, 2012. "Zanderology is an illustrated documentary about Zander Keig, a transman who was born dead, paralyzed at age six, put in a mental hospital as a teen, was in a Mexican gang, joined the military, became an undercover drug officer, obtained three graduate degrees and is now a social worker for homeless veterans." A kickstarter project.

Announced:

director Roland Emmerich is going to work on a new movie on the Stonewall’s riots of 1969.

X-Rated, Chad Darnell (dir & scr) with Willam Belli as Karen Dior, Rtan O'Connor as Chi Chi Larue.
Through her Eyes. A new short film campaign, which is currently raising funds, and aims to give a different perspective on trans issues by showing discrimination, abuse, and her own thoughts. Financed by Kickstarter.

Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger. Sam Feder (dir) Article.

Also see the trailer for 22 Jump Street – almost at the end - where a tough guy in prison forgives the punk who shot off of his penis for he has a vagina now which is more fun.

22 December 2013

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.

Moira Redmond. "Women in trousers: fiction's sartorial trailblazers: From Agatha Christie to Bridget Jones women wearing trousers has been a developing story in the world of fiction. Who were the pioneers of the pant?". The Guardian, 2 October 2013. www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/02/women-trousers-fiction-breech-of-etiquette.
Graeme Paton. "School bans girls from wearing 'unladylike' short skirts: Girls as young as nine have been banned from wearing skirts to school because of concerns they are getting too short and “unladylike”. Daily Telegraph, 28 July 2013. www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10207263/School-bans-girls-from-wearing-unladylike-short-skirts.html.
Todd Lindeman & Brenna Maloney. "High heels can be a pain in the feet". The Washington Post: Health & Science, June 17, 2013. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/high-heels-can-be-a-pain-in-the-feet/237.
"Sweden male train drivers wear skirts after shorts row". BBC News, 8 June 2013. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22828150.

The Let Toys be Toys campaign has achieved some success in persuading retailers and toy makers to tone down the genderization of toys.

Cis Surgeries

Homeogender Surgery. "Having lots of cosmetic surgeries to achieve an idealized body is not peculiar to trans women. An equally small percentage of cis men and women do it also."

" 'It hurts so much I can't sit down': The dangerous practice of butt implants that is ruining women's lives across Venezuela". The Daily Mail, 15 November 2013. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507891/Dangerous-butt-implants-ruining-womens-lives-Venezuela.html.
Charlie Cooper. " 'Designer vagina' boom: Unnecessary, harmful operation not to be offered to girls under age of 18, say experts ". The Independent, 15 November 2013. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/designer-vaginas-unnecessary-harmful-and-not-to-be-offered-to-girls-under-age-of-18-say-experts-8940386.html.

Fashion

Andrej Pejic, on cover of Serbian Elle January issue.

Casey Legler, Olympic swimmer, male model.

Carmen Carrera, RuPaul's Drag Race alumna, been featured as a W Magazine Showgirl. Change.org petitioned to make her a Victoria's Secret model.

Ines Rau featured in IIB magazine with male model Tyson Beckford.

Lea T featured in Benetton campaign.

Nicole Gibson walked the runway at London Fashion Week, just days before undergoing gender confirmation surgery.

Miss saHHara, has moved from Nigeria, where she was jailed, to the UK.

American Apparel put out a call for transgender models.

Beauty Pageants

Amelia Maltepe was featured as page 3 Sunshine girl in Canadian Sun newspapers. She hopes to enter Miss World contest. More.

Dani St James, nightclub manager, entered Miss Diamond Queen.

Jenna Talackova reached the top 12 stage of Miss Universe Canada in Toronto, but failed to make the final five.

Kasey Caron, Pennsylvania, denied right to run for homecoming king.

Kylan Wenzel moved her surgery up by six months so that she could compete for Miss California.

Sorrawee "Jazz" Nattee, Thailand, winner of the Miss Tiffany Universe 2009 contest, has had breast implants removed and has become a monk under the name Phra Maha Viriyo Bhikku.

Jaclyn Schultz is Miss Michgan USA.

Miss Gay San Juan pageant at Tarapoto, Peru, erupted into a brawl when the wrong result was announced.

Raika Ferraz, who runs a thriving escort service, winner of Brazil's Miss T competition. She won an all-expenses-paid excursion to Thailand for the global version of the beauty contest, Miss International Queen 2014, plus the right to a sex change operation in a Bangkok hospital. Ferraz, however, demurred: “I love being the way I am,” she said.

Cassidy Lynn Campbell, Homecoming Queen, Marina High, Huntington Beach.

Performance

Stacy Lambe. "10 Transgender People Shattering Entertainment's Glass Ceiling". Out.com, 8.22.2013. www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2013/08/22/10-transgender-people-shattering-entertainments-glass-ceiling#.UiTcAS7Lm7g.facebook.

Diane Anderson-Minshall. "The 5 Hottest Transgender Comedians: From a goth lesbian to a socialite with man-hands to an FTM who passes for gay, here are the funniest trans comedians today.". The Advocate, March 18 2013. www.advocate.com/comedy/2013/03/18/5-hottest-transgender-comedians.

Luis Hidalgo. "Circus Life for Transgender Chileans". Edge, Nov 4, 2013. http://www.edgeptown.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=151464.

Sara Buechner, pianist, find greater acceptance.

Camilla Rose, who is also blind, was chosen by the Portland (Oregon) Folk Music Society as their featured artist for November and December 2013. The Oregonian Newspaper refused to a story on her, or to review her music.

Sean Dorsey, choreographer, interviewed.

Vanessa Van Durme performed at Vancouver's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

"Annabel" by Goldfrapp featured a boy who finds freedom in a dress.

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