Who put the "Trans" in Transgender? Gender Theory and Everyday Life & Sexing the Body: How Biologists Construct Human Sexu
2 articles on transgender.
1: by Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna
2: by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Intersex and Trans Demands
Two lists of demands for Intersex and trans people(s) made by activists.
An excerpt:
INTERSEX LIST OF DEMANDS
• Don't assume you know someone's sex based on how you perceive them or their gender.
• Don't assume all women have a vagina, uterus, etc.
• Don't assume all men have a penis, testes, etc.
• Don't fetishize our bodies.
• Don't use the word hermaphrodite to describe us unless we identify that way and give permission.
• Don't feel sorry for us.
Reporting Transgender Violence: Encounters with the Police by The Gender Centre Inc
This article arises out of research conducted in Sydney between May and July 2000 into experiences of violence of transgender persons.
Polare 69- October/December 2006
Journal of the Gender Centre
Trans/queer issues, community and support.
Contacts and event details.
More available at their archive site: www.gendercentre.org.au/polare_archive.htm
A compilation of Trans/Intersex Resources around sexual assault
The Survivor Project
The Gender Centre
Trans Violence
Transsexual womens resources
(see also the latest edition of Polare journal for contacts and resources)