(en)Gender by Helen Boyd

How the hell did it get to be October already? Is this year speeding by for everyone else, or am I just way too busy?

Finally, I have all the details on the stuff we’ll be doing in Colorado! On October 9th, I’ll be speaking at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Where: MSCD Campus, Denver When: Tuesday, October 9th, 1-3PM then, in Boulder: We’ll be part of the TRANSforming Gender 2007 Conference at the University of Colorado @ Boulder. More details about other speakers [...]

i’ve had some time to be on the boards this weekend, despite the insanity around what’s going on in Burma & with ENDA - both of which occupied a lot of my time - and it’s nice to get a visit in. teaching has kept me really busy, as has the commute. it’s really a full [...]

Yesterday was the start of Banned Books Week, so go out & buy one of the many books people objected to this year. Among them, the regulars: Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War, two by Toni Morrison, and new ones on the list seem to have been chosen for having homosexual themes/characters: And Tango Makes Three, [...]

(1) If you’d like to be added to a letter being sent to HRC from the leaders of the transgender community asking them “for an unequivocal statement that HRC will oppose this new strategy and any bill that is not inclusive,” then send an email to Shannon Minter at sminter(at)nclrights(dot)org. Do add any affiliations you have [...]

House Democrats are taking out transgender inclusion for ENDA: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Reps. George Miller, D-Martinez, Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., believe that they lack the votes in the Democrat-controlled House to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if it includes gender identity along with sexual orientation as a prohibited [...]

Monks have already been beaten and several people have been killed. Please sign this petition to get the UN Security Council to help protect them, to enable them to peacably assemble, as they have done for the past few weeks. They are raiding the monasteries and cutting off contact with the rest of the world: “The big [...]

The funniest thing about Aurora is that she gets on your desk, as if to hang out with you, but then if you do anything - type, use your mouse, pet her - she attacks your hand.    

Betty & I are watching Law & Order SVU - of course that’s what we do when I get home - and we got to see a neighborhood right near us as they chased an ex-IRA hitman around the Gowanus Canal neighborhood. The SVU cops are coming in for him from either side, so he [...]

from NCTE’s website: Senate Passes Historic Hate Crimes Bill The Hate Crimes Amendment to the Defense Authorization Act (S. 1105) was passed on a voice vote of the Senate today, September 27th.  Immediately prior to the voice vote, a cloture vote to end debate of the Amendment was [...]

Our message board are a bit wonky and that may be due to a server upgrade by our hosting company. In the meantime, our own DSL is down so Betty isn’t online. So please hold tight, folks.

Julia Serano is a Bay Area slam-winning poet, author, performer, activist, & biologist. She organized the GenderEnders event from 2003 until last year; plays guitar, sings & writes lyrics for her band Bitesize, and oh - has a Ph.D. in biochemistry. We got to meet her when she was in town promoting her book Whipping [...]

ACTION ALERT from the National Center for Transgender Equality On Thursday, the Senate will be voting on Senator Kennedy’s Hate Crimes amendment to the Defense Authorization Act (S.1105). We need you to call your Senators now to urge their support of this critical bill, which would extend hate crimes protections to transgender people. Please, call the [...]

Imagine! Dubya finally said something in public I agree with! Today at the beginning of the UN’s general assembly, President Bush announced tighter sanctions on Burma: He outlined a tightening of financial sanctions on Myanmar and an extension of a ban on visas of officials “responsible for the most egregious violations of human rights” and their [...]