Identity
NCTE has been awarded a significant two-year grant to start a much needed Privacy and Documentation Project. While NCTE will raise additional funds to fully resource the program, this grant will allow us to jump start the Project.
The Kinsey Institute has recently started providing sex therapy services at the Indiana University Health Center in Bloomington. These services are available to community members and IU students.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Submissions Deadline: March 15, 2007
Femmes are still invisible. Society can’t see past our heels to hear our stories, so we must continue to build platforms for our voices. Visible: A Femmethology, a forthcoming anthology about the power and complications in presenting femme as a gender and breaking the traditional meaning of feminine, aims to showcase blunt, personal essays exploring what "femme" means to those who claim it as an identity.
FOrge conference
Gender is a spectrum ----- it is a journey, and for some a destination.
Come learn more in a supportive and safe environment at the Queerying Gender support group....
"Queerying" Gender: A Therapist-facilitated Support Group for Transgender, Gender Queer, Intersex, and Two-Spirit Individuals
Do you often wonder about the relation of gender to biological sex? Is your experience of gender and sex at odds with the concepts of women and men in American society? Do you feel that the world around you restricts your ability to express your femininity and masculinity?
Queerying Gender is an informal discussion group that will offer an opportunity to meet others, share information and explore in a confidential and secure atmosphere.
"In The Life", an LGBT newsmagazine on public television is looking for potential subjects for a segment about the FTM transitioning process. This documentary-style segment would be produced with sensitivity, and would explore how the transitioning process is affecting an individual's partner, family, friends and perhaps, their children.
Helen Boyd, author of the upcoming She's Not the Man I Married, will speak about how the struggles of trans people focus a new and useful lens on both the issues of gender equality and marriage equality.
The transgender rights movement combines aspects of the feminist and gay movements and sits at the crosshairs of the "one man, one woman" kind of logic that has been encouraging people to vote out of fear.
Boyd's marriage to her trans husband serves as a platform for her to explore the nature of identity, gender, and marriage and the way those very private aspects of a life intersect with very public policy.
Join us for the first Indy Girlz meeting! Indy Girlz is a peer-led support group for male-to-female transgender persons and their friends, family, significant others, and allies.
Join us for the next regular meeting of the Muncie Trans Network support group. For now, meetings are limited to transgender individuals (FTM, MTF, genderqueer, other-gendered, etc.) and those who are questioning their gender. The group plans to expand in the future to offer support for significant others, friends, family, and allies (SOFFAs) of transgender people.
Topic: Passing Tips (clothing, binding, packing, etc.)
The Muncie Trans Network group meets on the first Sunday of each month.
For more information, contact .
Throughout the U.S., most multigender “gay” organizations describe themselves as serving the “LGBT” (lesbian, gay male, bisexual and transgender) community. Despite that descriptor, many transgender individuals don’t feel welcome or included at “LGBT” events, and some lesbians and gay men aren’t sure they should be there, either. In many cases, organizations believe they are inclusive of trans people and issues, but trans people who have attended have spread the word that that isn’t really the case in practice.
