"America's Next Top Model" Has Transgender Contestant Isis, August 8, 2008 – US – The Huffington Post & Isis/Transgender - Tuesday November 9, 2010 - The Tyra Show

One of the 14 girls who will compete on the new season of America's Next Top Model - which returns to The CW on September 3 - is transgender.

"My cards were dealt differently," Isis, a 22-year-old former receptionist, tells Us Weekly exclusively in its new issue, on newsstands now.

Read more:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/americas-next-top-model-h_n_118682.html

Isis/Transgender - Tuesday November 9, 2010 

- The Tyra Show

http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/thisweek/

http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/search/?q=Isis%2FTransgender+&button.x=20&button.y=12&button=Search

"We're 7 & 8 Years Old and Know We Are Transgender" 

- The Tyra Show

Two brave kids share their stories.

At only 7 and 8 years old, these children are living as the opposite gender. We'll hear from the kids and their families about what it's like growing up transgender. Later, the two families will get a chance to meet. Then, we get an update on a former guest who has transitioned from girl to boy through the use of hormones. Finally, a heated debate on the subject -- with the executive director of Transyouth Family Allies, plus a transgender doctor and a professor/minister.

Read more:

http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/2010/09/were_7_8_years_old_transgender.php

Coming Out as Transgender 

- The Tyra Show

Transgender people often feel as though they are trapped in the wrong body -- they were born one sex but feel more like another. Dr. Marci Bowers offers this information for people who are transgender and their loved ones.

Read more:

http://tyrashow.warnerbros.com/2007/05/coming_out_as_transgender.php

TransEpiscopal -- a group of transgender Episcopalians

TransEpiscopal 

is a group of transgender Episcopalians and our significant others, families, friends and allies dedicated to enriching our spiritual lives and to making the Episcopal Church a welcoming and empowering place that all of us truly can call our spiritual home. http://www.transepiscopal.blogspot.com/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009

Building Momentum 

in 

Interfaith Transgender Organizing

Starting in 2007, several of us started building a group called the Interfaith Coalition for Transgender Equality (ICTE), and last week this group, along with Keshet (which works for the full inclusion of LGBT people in Jewish life), held its first event, called "An Act of Faith: Massachusetts Communities of Faith Speak Out for Transgender Equality." You can learn more about ICTE here and about Keshet here. I've described my own experience of "An Act of Faith" here. To read more

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Boston 

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2008 

Zara Tzanev

Last Thursday, November 20th, my parish, St. Luke’s and St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (or ‘SLAM,’ as it is affectionately known) hosted Boston’s Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). For coverage of the event by the Allston/Brighton Tab, click here, and for coverage by Bay Windows, click here. Bay Windows photographer Marilyn Humphries took some wonderful photos, which you can view here. To read more

Other Links found on      

TransEpiscopal 

http://www.transepiscopal.blogspot.com/

Peculiar Honors
Reflections from various community-based contexts: ecclesial (especially Episcopal/Anglican); academic studies of religion, early Christianity, and theology; LGBTQ theory and politics; and life in the Boston Area. http://peculiar-honors.blogspot.com/

Interfaith Coalition for 

Transgender Equality 

Declaration of Religious and Faith-Based Support for Massachusetts Legislation, An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes 

http://www.interfaithcoalition.org/ 

Keshet 

"Keshet is a lifeline. It affirms that there is an honorable place in the Jewish community for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities."

http://www.keshetonline.org/