Dallas TDOR 2010 Transgender Day of Remembrance - planetransgender

The Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual international memorial honoring persons who have been murdered in the past year because of their gender identity or expression.

Sunday, November 21 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2010/10/dallas-tdor-2010-transgender-day-of.htm

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Transgender Day of Remembrance - Human Rights Campaign

After the November 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a transgender woman living in the Boston area, Gwendolyn Ann Smith and other organizers formed the "Remembering Our Dead" project and accompanying vigil in San Francisco in 1999.

The annual November 20 observance has grown into the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is an opportunity for communities to come together and mark the passing of transgender or those perceived to be transgender individuals who have been murdered because of hate.

Although the day primarily memorializes those lost to hate crimes, it also serves as a forum for transgender communities and allies to raise awareness around the threat of violence faced by gender variant people and the persistence of prejudice felt by the transgender community. Activities also make anti-transgender violence and bigotry visible to such key community groups as police and medical services, the media and elected officials. Communities often include a variety of events including town hall style "teach-ins," photography and poetry exhibits, along with candlelit vigils.

Read complete report & events:

http://www.hrc.org/issues/transgender_day_of_remembrance.asp

Someday, 

maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of

all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”

Erik Erikson

Transgender Day of Remembrance - Human Rights Campaign

After the November 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a transgender woman living in the Boston area, Gwendolyn Ann Smith and other organizers formed the "Remembering Our Dead" project and accompanying vigil in San Francisco in 1999.

The annual November 20 observance has grown into the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is an opportunity for communities to come together and mark the passing of transgender or those perceived to be transgender individuals who have been murdered because of hate.

Although the day primarily memorializes those lost to hate crimes, it also serves as a forum for transgender communities and allies to raise awareness around the threat of violence faced by gender variant people and the persistence of prejudice felt by the transgender community. Activities also make anti-transgender violence and bigotry visible to such key community groups as police and medical services, the media and elected officials. Communities often include a variety of events including town hall style "teach-ins," photography and poetry exhibits, along with candlelit vigils.

Read complete report, events & related links:

http://www.hrc.org/issues/transgender_day_of_remembrance.asp

planetransgender 

A place for everyone. No exceptions.

http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/

Someday, 

maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of

all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”

Erik Erikson

"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

Early Childhood Development – Your Options – How Do I Know If My Child Is Transgender? By Stephanie Brill and Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW - National Association of Social Workers

What Is Transgender?

Everyone has a gender identity. Gender identity is our internal sense of being male or female. For most people, our basic awareness that we are male or female matches our physical body. When we’re born, people decide if we’re male or female based on our genitals. But for children and adults who are transgender, their basic sense of being male or female – their gender identity – does not match their body. So a transgender person may have a male body, but feel inside that they are female. Or a transgender person may have a female body, but feel inside that they are truly male.

Can a Child Be Transgender?

What Makes a Child Transgender?

Why Can’t My Child Be “Normal”?

How Should I Respond?

How Can I know If It’s a Phase?

Where Do I Get Help, Support, and More Information?

Resources for Families & Providers

Read more: National Association of Social Workers

http://www.helpstartshere.org/kids-and-families/early-childhood-development/early-childhood-development-your-options-how-do-i-know-if-my-child-is-transgender.html

Social worker, Caitlin Ryan’s interview for the ABC Television News Program 20/20 story on transgender children broadcast in April 2007

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3091799

Caitlin Ryan - Family Acceptance Project:  Research on LGBT adolescents and young adults and their families. Developing family education materials, and assessment and intervention materials for providers. Read more:

http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/

Stephanie Brill is a gender specialist and the Director of Gender Spectrum Education and Training, a national education and training organization on gender identity and transgender children and adolescents.

Read more: National Association of Social Workers

http://www.helpstartshere.org/kids-and-families/early-childhood-development/early-childhood-development-your-options-how-do-i-know-if-my-child-is-transgender.html

About Social Workers

Every social worker is uniquely qualified to help people right in their own environment, by looking at all the different aspects of their life and culture. We work to ensure your personal well-being, prevent crises and to counsel individuals, families, and communities. We make sure people get the help they need, from the best resources available. And for more than 100 years, we’ve been doing just that.

Social workers care for people in every stage of life, from children to the elderly. We help them overcome life’s most difficult challenges, and the troubles of everyday living, including: Read more: National Association of Social Workers

http://www.helpstartshere.org/about-social-workers

Transgender Children

“The Dr. Oz Show” Raises the Bar for Transgender Talk Show Coverage -February 18, 2010 by Anna Wipfler, GLAAD's Transgender Advocacy Fellow 

… episode featuring transgender children and their families aired, exhibiting some of the best nationally televised conversations about gender identity, …

In the introductory segment of his hour-long health show, Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted two transgender children and their families to discuss their process of realizing and embracing their respective identities. Read more  Photo

Born With the Wrong Body - By ALAN B. GOLDBERG – April 25, 2007 – abcNEWS/20/20

This past Christmas, Riley Grant received a present that can be described as bittersweet -- a video game that allowed her to morph a digital body into anything she wanted. Almost immediately, Riley, a 10-year-old transgender girl who is biologically a boy, adopted a virtual female persona. If only life were so easy, that she could punch a button and turn into a girl.

"She has a birth defect, and we call it that. I can't think of a worse birth defect, as a woman to have, than to have a penis," Riley's mother, Stephanie, told Barbara Walters. "She talks about the day she'll have a baby. That's not in her future. But she sees herself as growing up to be a woman." Read more - Born With the Wrong Body – abcNEWS/20/20

Pakistan Recognizes Third Gender – by Ria Misra – Politics Daily

Late on Wednesday, the Supreme Court in Pakistan ordered that the government officially recognize a separate gender for Pakistan's hijra community, which includes transgendered people, transvestites, and eunuchs. The court told the federal government to begin allowing people to identify as hijras when registering for a national identity card.

Such cards are necessary for everything from voting to more informal situations; patrons must present the card at cybercafes before surfing the Internet, for example. Not having an identity card, or having one with incorrect information, leaves a person vulnerable and easily excluded from society. Photos

In India, voters are required to identify their sex both on their voter ID cards and at the polls. The insistence that they identify as male or female effectively barred many transgendered and transvestite people from the polls until late this year, when the government declared that for the purposes of voting it would recognize a third option. Read complete article - by Ria Misra – Politics Daily

Related link:

Pakistani Supreme Court Officially Recognizes Transgender People - by Evan Hurst – Truth Wins Out

DignityUSA’s Transgender Day of Remembrance

By Fredrikka Joy Maxwell, a DignityUSA member from Nashville, Tennessee

Do you know that more than 434 transgender people have been killed around the world so far this year, and those are just the ones we know about? That's according to the website www.Transgenderdor.org which keeps track of such statistics. All those people will be memorialized at the Transgender Day of Remembrance as celebrated in local communities on or about November 20, 2009. Photo

The November date was chosen to memorialize Rita Hester, whose November 28, 1998, murder in Boston sparked the Remembering Our Dead web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil, which gave rise to the transgender day of remembrance. Because of the violent nature of Hester’s death—her assailant stabbed her in the chest 20 times and failed to steal valuable jewelery or anything else of value in her apartment—transgender persons came to see her death as a hate crime. Photo - International Transgender Day of Remembrance

Matthew Shepard’s violent death was still fresh in the GLBT community’s mind when Hester was violently murdered. Shepard’s death caused an outpouring of empathy. But Hester’s death showed the media still very disrespectful as it reported her death. This disrespect touched off angry demonstrations at the Boston Herald and the Bay Window.

The news media still hasn’t learned the proper way to report the deaths of transgender persons and is still fixated on genitals. It seems their default setting is to refer to people by their birth gender even if a person wasn’t presenting or hadn’t lived as that gender for years. So the media disrespect and the ongoing hate crime deaths of transgender persons still leaves a smoldering outrage.

Aware of this situation, what can Dignity Chapters and friends and allies of transgender persons do to successfully pull off a day of remembrance? Many things. Photo

For example, my transgender support group in Nashville, the Tennessee Vals, usually hires a venue—often one of the local Unitarian Universalist churches or the local GLBT cultural center—and holds a candlelight memorial service where the names of local victims and those on the Remembering Our Dead list are read by group members. The event usually features music and poetry, speechmaking and is often followed by a brief reception where coffee, punch, and cookies are served, and people socialize a bit before going out into the night. Read complete article – by Fredrikka Joy Maxwell – DignityUSA

Related Links:

International Transgender Day of Remembrance

TransFamily Website

Barbara Walters on transgender children - Advocate.com

Barbara Walters Wins GLAAD Award By Rex Wockner - SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES - March 2008

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

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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/