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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67126409352553113662014-11-25T19:55:20.738-05:00A Gender Variance Who's WhoEssays on trans, intersex, cis and other persons and topics from a trans perspective.......All human life is here.Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-83233767064051524912014-11-24T11:35:00.001-05:002014-11-24T11:35:58.630-05:00Catherine McGregor (1956–) soldier, cricketer, sports writer, political aide.Malcolm grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, in a Catholic family. He was eight when his father died, and shorty afterwards he tried on his mother's clothes. He was a successful boy, at humanities and at cricket, at a Christian Brothers high school. He always wanted to be a soldier.

He enlisted at 18, and chose to go into the infantry, where he met David Morrison. He was known for his drinking and getting into fights.

However after a promotion, he left and joined the New South Wales Labor Party, and became press secretary to Bob Carr, then leader of the opposition. At this time Malcolm encountered Tony Abbott, who was making a name for himself in the Liberal Party, on a rugby field. In 1985 McGregor sought medical help and was offered a diagnosis of being transgender. He started going out as a woman, but lost his nerve and drank instead. He managed to stop, but had a major falling out with the Labor Party.

Malcolm went to work with the Federal Liberal Party for the 1993 election where John Hewson lost, despite expectations, to Labor's Paul Keating. 18 months later McGregor was involved in the leaking of internal polling that showed how unpopular Hewson was, and this led to Hewson being replaced.

Malcolm "having burnt my bridges with both political Parties" then became a media political commentator, and also joined the Army Reserve. After 911 he rejoined the Regular Army.
At this time Malcolm found a woman that he loved, and they married. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was working as advisor and speechwriter for Lieutenant General David Morrison, who was now the Chief of the Army.

He had a second career as a cricket commentator for The Spectator.

In October 2011, McGregor read a magazine article about Westerly Windina in The Sun Herald, and this enabled him to tell his therapist that he was transgender.

In 2012 McGregor was awarded the Order of Australia, and discussed his gender issues with the chief, who refused twice to accept a resignation. McGregor's book, An Indian Summer of Cricket, came out under Malcolm's name, and in the final chapter she announces her impending transition. Tony Abbott reviewed it, and lauded her courage. She separated from her wife and transitioned as Catherine (Cate) "rhymes with mate'.

Cate & Tony in the ABC Radio commentary booth

In general both army and cricket associates were supportive, but there were a few negative remarks, which led to spats on social media until Morrison counselled her that such was not to happen again.
In 2014 Catherine was featured on ABC's Australian Story, introduced by her old mate Tony Abbott, now Prime Minister. Catherine transferred to the Air Force. She now writes about cricket for the Australian Financial Review. She is senior delegate for women's cricket in the armed services, and helps select the Australian prime minister's sides, as his representative, that play touring teams. Catherine is on good terms with her ex-wife.

*Not the academic at UVic, nor the NZ journalist, nor the actress.

 Malcolm McGregor. An Indian Summer of Cricket: Reflections on Australia's Summer Game. Griffith, A.C.T.: Barrallier Books Pty Ltd, 2012.

 Gabrielle Chan. "The Surprising Tony Abbott". The Hoopla, December 5, 2012. http://thehoopla.com.au/tony-abbott-shades-grey.

 Rick Feneley. "Cate McGregor on leaving Malcolm McGregor behind and becoming a woman". The Sydney Morning Herald, February 25, 2014. www.smh.com.au/national/cate-mcgregor-on-leaving-malcolm-mcgregor-behind-and-becoming-a-woman-20140224-33d40.html.

 "Call Me Cate". Australian Story, ABC1 30 mins 4 Mar 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIpYNWwX3ww.

 Mike Selvey. "Cricket has always been a game that takes people for who they are: Cricket writer Catherine McGregor was 'humbled' by the generous reception she received from the global cricket community after she announced that she was transgender". The Guardian, 13 August 2014. www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/aug/13/cricket-mike-selvey-column.

 Tom Decent. "ABC defends airing 'transphobic' Q&A tweets about Catherine McGregor". The Sydney Morning Herald, October 14, 2014. www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/abc-defends-airing-transphobic-qa-tweets-about-catherine-mcgregor-20141014-115rbk.html.

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Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-23252627297578024062014-11-22T12:47:00.000-05:002014-11-22T12:47:06.894-05:00Laura de Costa Teixeira (1980–) policeThiago de Castro Teixeira is a Brazilian policeman who until recently was in charge of the anti-drugs squad in the north-east city of Goiana, Pernambuco. Teixeira was previously married with two children, although some of his colleagues regarded him as gay.

In late 2013 Teixeira took three months leave and after surgery in Thailand returned as Laura. She arranged to be transferred to a police unit that specializes in countering crimes against women.

"I feel that as a woman now I can make a difference investigating and helping transgender victims in particular who suffer abuse and violence because of who they choose to be".

*Not the boxer Thiago Teixeira.

 "Delegado que mudou de sexo diz ter apoio dos colegas: 'Estou tranquila': Thiago Teixeira fez cirurgia na Tailândia e passou a se chamar Laura.
Para a direção da Polícia Civil de Goiás, decisão foi um ato de coragem.". g1.globo, 23/01/2014. http://g1.globo.com/goias/noticia/2014/01/delegado-que-mudou-de-sexo-diz-ter-apoio-dos-colegas-estou-tranquila.html.

 Janet Tappin Coelho. "'Macho' Brazilian police chief goes on leave for three months and comes back as a woman called LAURA". The Daily Mail, 25 January 2014, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545835/Macho-Brazilian-police-chief-goes-leave-three-months-comes-woman-called-LAURA.html.

 "Capo della Polizia prende una Decisione che Sconvolge i Colleghi". Leggilo, 26 gennaio 2014. www.leggilo.net/125824/capo-della-polizia-prende-una-decisione-che-sconvolge-i-colleghi-foto.html.

Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-1581437684722301412014-11-18T17:24:00.000-05:002014-11-18T17:24:00.052-05:00Barneys New York - Brothers, Sisters, Sons, & Daughters: The Film
I missed this when it came out in February, but it is certainly worth watching.

Directed by Bruce Weber

With Candy Darling, Flawless Sabrina

and

Arin Andrews
Edie Charles
Valentijn de Hingh
Ashley de la Cruz
Sawyer Devuyst
Peche Di
Dezjorn Gauthier
Trevon Haynes
Katie Hill
Eve Lindley
Niki M'nray
Ryley Pogensky
Ines Rau
May Simon
Ahya Taylor
Maxie Neu
Gisele Xtravaganza

The individual portraits start at 10.00 minutes in.

Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-23421667089515958372014-11-16T10:36:00.000-05:002014-11-16T10:36:29.990-05:00Maria Clara Spinelli (1985 - ) civil servant, actress.Spinelli was raised Assis in São Paulo province, and as an adult became a public servant.

After some theatre work Maria Spinelli was cast as a transsexual lawyer in Quanto Dura o Amor?, 2009 (known as Paulista outside Brazil), and won the Best Actress award at the local Paulinia Film Festival, and again at the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival and the Monaco Charity Film Festival.

She has since been in several episodes of the Salve Jorge telenovela, again playing a transsexual.

 Moreira (dir & scr). Quanto Dura o Amor?/Paulista. Roberto With Maria Spinelli as Suzana. Brazil 83 mins 2009

 "Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival continues today with the L.A. premiere of 'Paulista'". Examiner, February 6, 2010. www.examiner.com/article/hollywood-brazilian-film-festival-continues-today-with-the-l-a-premiere-of-paulista.

 "Por que Maria Clara Spinelli é uma atriz diferente das outras?". Virgula, 24 de marco de 2010. http://virgula.uol.com.br/legado/por-que-maria-clara-spinelli-e-uma-atriz-diferente-das-outras.

 "'Minha profissão é ser atriz e não transexual', diz a Anita de 'Salve Jorge'". O Dia, 11.04.2013. http://odia.ig.com.br/portal/diversaoetv/minha-profiss%C3%A3o-%C3%A9-ser-atriz-e-n%C3%A3o-transexual-diz-a-anita-de-salve-jorge-1.570940.

 Glória Perez (creator). Salve Jorge. With Maria Spinelli as Anita. Brazil Rede Globo 2013.

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Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-10720939537727579322014-11-13T16:26:00.000-05:002014-11-13T16:26:51.280-05:00Rafalala (1982–) artist, activistRafalala, from Siedlce, has become one of Poland's most famous transsexuals, appearing in her own theatre revue and writing a popular blog. Her name is "Rafal", her official name and 'lala'='dolly.

In 2007 she was featured in the documentary film, I bóg stworzył transwestytę. During the elections that year, she arrived at the polling station, accompanied by German and Polish camera crews, but because of the male-looking photograph on her identity documents, she was not allowed to vote. This led to a debate in the Polish media on identity and sex.

Later she was featured in the media when she met with a letting agent to complete a pre-arranged lease, and he refused to let her have the apartment.

In August 2014, she was invited on Polsat news along with Artur Zawisza, the leader of the right-wing Ruch Narodowy (National Movement). Zawisza referred to her as 'it', 'that thing' and 'male whore'. Rafalala retorted with "You, sir, are a stupid man who lies on the air", and finally, as he would not stop his insults, poured water on him, after which he left the studio.

 M. Hompes. "Gender and Sexuality in Poland". Art and Resistance. http://art-and-resistance.blogspot.ca/p/gender-and-sexuality-in-poland.html.

 "Celebrity transsexual gets into TV scrap with nationalist". Polskie Radio DLA Zagranicy, 08.08.2014. http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/178385,Celebrity-transsexual-gets-into-TV-scrap-with-nationalist#sthash.gDUYsItl.

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Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-73379931637652897582014-11-09T00:30:00.000-05:002014-11-09T00:30:01.895-05:00IOS Rainbow List 2014The 2014 Independent on Sunday Rainbow List (previously Pink List) of 101 LGBT persons who made a difference is just published.

One of the good things about this list is that most people on have not yet been featured in either GVWW or Wikipedia. I, of course, certainly disagree with who is on the list, who is not and the rankings - but lets put that aside.

2013 list.

Trans persons included:

 2 Paris Lees, journalist

 13 Kate Stone, scientist. GVWW

18 Rebecca Root, actress

24 James Morton of the Scottish Transgender Alliance

36 Natacha Kennedy, Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, co-chair of Camden LGBT Forum, sits on LGBT Labour's national committee and is a founder member of London Trans Diversity and the Trans Teachers' Association.

47 Isabella Segal, accountant.

58 Jane Fae, journalist GVWW

65 Jay Stewart, Co-founder of Gendered Intelligence

68 Jess Key, head of UK Trans Info

74 Juliet Jacques, columnist and blogger, blog longlisted for the 2011 Orwell prize. WIKIPEDIA

86 Asif Quaraishi, the UK's first Muslim drag queen.

87 Juno Roche, primary schoolteacher

89 Cat Burton, British Airways pilot

92 CN Lester, musician, writer, activist.

93 Ayla Holdom, RAF pilot

94 Antonia Belcher, building consultant

96 Sarah Brown, previously Cambridge Councillor. WIKIPEDIA

98 Stephanie Hirst, radio presenter

Supplementary lists.
National Treasures

April Ashley GVWW WIKIPEDIA

 Stephen Whittle WIKIPEDIA

Paul O'Grady/Lily Savage GVWW WIKIPEDIA

George O'Dowd GVWW WIKIPEDIA

Alice Purnell GVWW

Roz Kaveney GVWW

Ones to Watch

Kellie Maloney, boxing promoter, UKIP candidate WIKIPEDIA

Michelle Ross, CliniQ for trans sexual health.

Naith Payton, first-person piece in The Sun

Sophie Green, artist & illustrator

Nicole Gibson, model

Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-18390574026231583272014-11-08T10:47:00.000-05:002014-11-08T10:47:34.854-05:00Carol Marra (1992 - ) model, actressMarra was raised in Belo Horizonte, and was an androgynous child often taken for a girl. She moved to Rio de Janeiro where her parents paid for her to take a degree in journalism.

After working for TV Globo, Marra found work in fashion on the production side, still dressing androgynously. A photographer whom she had been working with approached her and asked to do a photo-shoot. He showed the photos to a lot of people, and Carol, by now dressing as female, was invited to participate in the Minas Trend Preview, a fashion show that happens right before Fashion Rio and São Paulo Fashion Week.

This led to more work, including in Paris. She also acted in a production of Jean Genet's play The Maids. She has been in two television mini-series and was the first transsexual featured in Revista Trip magazine.

She has recently been seen in the company of a parliamentary advisor, who has endured the ribaldry of his colleagues, and has a supporting mother. Carol has been postponing transgender surgery because because of her busy schedule, but has met with Dr. Marcio Littleton in Rio, and had counselling.

 "Carol Marra: Aos 25 anos, a jornalista e modelo mineira é a primeira Trip Girl transex da nossa história". Revista Trip, 20.09.9012. http://revistatrip.uol.com.br/revista/214/trip-girls/carol-marra.html.

 Jukiana Leandra. "Chapter 50: Brazil - Carol Marra" Frank151, Winter 2013. www.frank151.com/news/chapter-50-brazil-carol-marra.html.

 Taylor Barnes. "Transgender Models Prosper in Brazil, Where Carnival and Faith Reign". The New York Times, March 15, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/world/americas/transgender-models-prosper-in-brazil-where-carnival-and-faith-reign.html.

 "Família do namorado de Carol Marra ficou surprsa por ela ser transexual: 'Tem que ser muito homem e seguro da masculinidade para me assumir', disse a modelo sobre Tiago Tessari.". ego.globo, 06/2014. http://ego.globo.com/famosos/noticia/2014/06/familia-do-namorado-de-carol-marra-ficou-chocada-por-ela-ser-transexual.html.

 "Biquíni não atrapalha transexual Carol Marra: 'A gente esconde': A modelo posou para um grife de biquíni em uma praia no litoral norte de São Paulo.". ego.globo, 07/2014. http://ego.globo.com/famosos/noticia/2014/07/biquini-nao-atrapalha-transexual-carol-marra-gente-esconde.html.

Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-17591208318956142162014-11-03T17:01:00.000-05:002014-11-03T17:01:50.547-05:00Laxmi Narayan Tripathi लक्ष्मी नारायण त्रिपाठी (1979–) dancer, activist.Laxmi was born in Thane, Maharashtra, the eldest child of seven of Brahmins from Uttar Pradesh. Laxmi was a sickly child suffering from double pneumonia, typhoid and asthma, was taunted at school for being feminine, and was sexually abused by a relative.

By the second standard Tripathi was fascinated by the Bharatanatyam dance, its costumes, jewellery and make-up. She also became with a hijra artist, Shabina Frances. Unusually her family supported her study of dance and theatre, and Laxmi took an arts degree at Mumbai's Mithibai College and a post-graduate degree in Bharatnatyam. She drew comments on the street:

"I was comfortable with myself; so what others said never bothered me. That was the time when I was a queen, an epitome of sexuality, and I had many boyfriends. All this while I found I was very feminine".
She became a celebrated dancer, and also worked for LGBT causes:

"There were many hijras who died on my lap in the hospital because they didn't get medical attention on time".

In 2002 Laxmi became a founding member of the Dai Welfare Society, which works for hijra and other trans persons. In 2008 Tripathi was voted to represent the Asia Pacific Sex Workers Network and in this capacity spoke at the UN Civil Society Task Force at the UN General Assembly. In 2010 she launched the Indian Super Queen beauty pageant.

Laxmi has starred in several television shows including the reality show Bigg Boss, and in three documentary films. She has adopted two children.

She was one of those who had petitioned for India to recognize a third gender, which was achieved in April 2014 by the Supreme Court, which was in time to permit trans persons to vote in the 2014 national elections. The court also ordered that employment and education quotas be established for trans as for other minorities.

 Suneeta Singh & Sangita Dasgupta. A People Stronger: The Collectivization of MSM and TG groups in India. Sage Publications, 2013: xxii, 93, 124.

 Nirmale George. "India's Supreme Court recognizes 'transgender' as third gender". CTV News, April 15, 2014. www.ctvnews.ca/world/india-s-supreme-court-recognizes-transgender-as-third-gender-1.1776333.

 "We too are human beings: Transgender activist Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi". DNA India, 27 April 2014. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-we-too-are-human-beings-transgender-activist-lakshmi-narayan-tripathi-1982540.

 Nidhi Sethi interviews Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi. ""I was the only drag queen on campus...I was very bad at that time". The Times of India, Apr 30, 2014. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/people/I-was-the-only-drag-queen-on-campus-I-was-very-bad-at-that-time/articleshow/34374740.cms.

 Laxmi Narayan Tripathi. "My Life as a Transgender Woman in India" Daily Development, May 14, 2014. http://dailydevelopment.org/blog/laxmi-narayan-tripathi-my-life-transgender-woman-india.

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Laxmi is the name of the goddess of beauty and fortune who is also the wife of Vishnu. However the name was decided by the Vaishnavist family before Laxmi was born and thus is not a name taken at transition.Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-28103870849294402452014-10-31T08:33:00.000-04:002014-10-31T08:33:10.630-04:00Deborah Bershel (1954–) doctor.Roy Shelton grew up Jewish in Flushing, New York. He trained as s doctor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine on a US Army scholarship. He married Alison Berkowitz in 1981 and changed his name to Roy Berkowitz-Shelton. He served with the US Army in Germany until 1987, and he told Alison about his desire to crossdress, but he repressed it.

They had a son in 1985, and a daughter in 1988. Bershel opened a general medical practice in Newton, Boston, and Alison became his office manager.

Not until 2004 did Bershel tell Alison that he felt that he was a woman, Deborah. Bershel started visiting a gender therapist who suggested that it be Deborah who attended the sessions. Bershel read and identified with She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan. Alison went with Deborah as female for a cross-dressers' weekend on Rhode Island.

Deborah started laser hair-removal and voice training. In 2006 she had facial surgery, sent letters to the patients, and set up a website. Most of the patients stayed, and the synagogue was accepting. Her parents were accepting, but Alison, after living with Deborah for a few months asked Deborah to move out. Their daughter stopped speaking to Deborah.

Deborah met and formed a new life partnership with Berni, lesbian and a psychiatric social worker. Deborah had genital surgery with Dr Pierre Brassard in Montréal in 2007, and Berni accompanied her. At that time she had three trans patients. That number later grew to about 50. Dr Bershel attended the WPATH meeting in Oslo in 2009, had testified at the Massachusetts State House re discrimination suffered by transsexuals, and in 2010 gave a presentation at the First Event Transgender Conference.

 Neil Swidey. "A Family Doctor's Journey From Man to Woman: And what it means for his family of patients". Boston Globe. Aug 12, 2007. www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/12/family_doctors_journey_full_story. www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/freeing_up_deborah.

 Margaret Wente. "The explosive rethinking of sex reassignment". The Globe and Mail, Aug 25 2007. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-explosive-rethinking-of-sex-reassignment/article725057.

 Neil Swidley. "After a gender change, no regrets". Boston Globe, February 28, 2010. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/02/28/after_a_gender_change_dr_deb_has_no_regrets.

www.deborahbershel.com

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Margaret Wente used Deborah's story to align herself with the Blanchardian-dichotomy school.Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-32677590834680961122014-10-28T14:35:00.000-04:002014-10-28T14:35:34.112-04:00Black Parrot Tea Shoppe Hobo-Hemia, raided 1923In February 1923 the Charles Street Police Station in Manhattan was paying special attention to Greenwich Village. Deputy Inspector Joseph A. Howard and Captain Edward J. Dempsey of the Charles Street Station, and a party of ten detectives visited each tearoom and cabaret.

Detectives Joseph Massie and Dewey Hughes of the Special Service Squad were assigned to the Black Parrot Tea Shoppe Hobo-Hemia, 46 Charles Street, to witness what they had been informed would be a "circus", and arrested five women and eight men.

However on closer inspection, Ruby Bernhammer 21 from West Hoboken, New Jersey, did not meet their definition of a woman. Bernhammer was charged with disorderly conduct for giving an indecent dance, and they gave her name as 'Harry'.

Another arrested was Arthur C. Budd also 21 who worked as a female impersonator in "The Lady in Ermine" at The Century Theater under the name Rosebud.

The next day the local magistrate dismissed charges against all but the proprietors of the Black Parrot. Rosebud lost his job at The Century Theatre, but was working again the next year.

 "Village Raid Nets 4 Women and 9 Men: Detectives Thought They Had Five Females, but Misjudged One Person by Clothing". New York Times, February 5, 1923: 17.

 "Board Ship to Get Big Liquor Agent". New York Times, February 6, 1923: 23.

 "Cabaret" column. Variety, February 15, 1923: 30.

 Chad Heap Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940. University of Chicago Press,2009: 353.

 "Mae West: Rosebud". Mae West, July 26, 2008. http://maewest.blogspot.ca/2008/07/mae-west-rosebud.html.

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In contradiction to the New York Times, Variety claimed that the one "togged up in complete female attire" was Rosebud.Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-78570124209598531552014-10-26T16:56:00.000-04:002014-10-26T16:56:56.151-04:0024 trans persons from Wales/Ireland/Scotland who changed things by example and/or achievement.

Christian Davies (1667 – 1739) soldier from Dublin. EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Anne Bonny (1698 – 1782 ) Irish cross-dressing pirate. EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Lavinia Edwards (1809 – 1833) Irish actress in London. GVWW

 Edward de Lacy Evans (1830 – 1901) from Waterford, labourer and husband in Melbourne. GVWW

 John Coulter (1834 – 1884) labourer at Belfast Harbour. GVWW

 Murray Hall (1841 – 1901) from Govan, Glasgow. Businessman, Tammany Hall politician in New York. GVWW EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Albert Cashier (1844 – 1915) from Clogherhead, County Louth, fought in US Civil War, then labourer in Illinois. GVWW EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Raymond Browne-Lecky (1881 – 1961) Warrenpoint, County Down, aristocratic thespian GVWW

 Ewan Forbes (1912 – 1991) Aberdeenshire doctor, Baronet and landowner. GWVV EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Jan Morris (1926 - ) Pwllheli, Gwynedd journalist, travel writer and historian. GVWW EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Alga Campbell (192? - ) from Dublin, co-founder of the Beaumont Society and the one who suggested the name.

 Stephanie Anne Booth (1946 - ) She and her husband own Transformation shops, a chain of hotels in North Wales. Stephanie was leader of Llangollen Chamber of Trade and Tourism. Featured on BBC Wales. GVWW EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Jo Clifford (1949 - ) major Scottish playwright. GVVV.

 Nicole Dolder (195? - ) Edinburgh software engineer, actor, director GVWW.

 Rebecca De Havalland (1958 - ) Dublin celebrity hair dresser, model. AMAZON newsarticle

 Lydia Foy (1947 - ) dentist in County Kildair, appealed to Supreme Court. GVWW EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Louise Hannon (1961 - ) Dublin business development manager awarded more than €35,000 after employment discrimination. Vice-Chair of Transgender Equality Network Ireland. GVWW

 Sarah Stafford (1968 - ) farmer in Donegal. GVWW

 Martine Cuypers (1970 - ) Chair of Transgender Equality Network Ireland. Also Classics professor at Trinity College, Dublin. GVWW

 Orlaith O'Sullivan (197? - ) Dublin editor, writer, Campaigns and Advocacy Manager for Transgender Equality Network Ireland. GVWW

 Panti Bliss (197? - ) from County Mayo, major Dublin drag queen who regularly hosts Dublin Pride and whose January 2014 comments on Irish homophobia went viral. EN.WIKIPEDIA.

 Jasmine Goode (1976 - ) burglar from Rhyl, Denbighshire. GVWW

 Lauren Harries (1978 - ) from Cardiff, antiques retailer, television personality. GVWW EN.WIKIPEDIA

 Broden Giambrone (1982 - ) from Toronto, Chief Executive of Transgender Equality Network Ireland. GVWW

Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-40239272587364192112014-10-23T15:15:00.000-04:002014-10-23T15:17:37.182-04:00Pequeña P. (1982 – 2009) performer.Juan Atum from Gualeguaychú, Entre Rios, descended from a family of clowns, became famous on Argentinian television as Pequeña P. She competed with Florencia de la Vega for boyfriends, appeared in the show at El Angel, and had a small part in the film Fantasma de Buenos Aires.

From 2003 she lived with Miguel, a taxi-driver, and was also having an affair with a policeman.

At the age of 27 her body was found hanging by her boyfriend. He was initially charged but the case was dismissed for a lack of evidence, and Pequeña was ruled to be a suicide who should be interred without an autopsy. However Juan's mother did not accept this verdict, and registered a complaint.

This resulted in a forensic investigation which found that Juan had been struck in the face and stomach before death, and that neither the electrical cord nor the scarf that it was proposed that she had used to hang herself would have borne her weight. There were also calls on her phone after she had been found dead, one to a nephew of a former president.

A few weeks later the Gualeguaychú police found the decomposed remains of Ramón "Rony" Galante who also was a travestie using the name Gisela, and also cleaned house for Atum.

Three years later when her sister and mother attempted to retrieve her body from the Gualeguaychú Judicial Morgue, it was found to be missing. The sister Alejandra Atum was threatened by phone several times for persisting in her inquiries.

 "La travesti Pequeña P se suicidó". Perfil, 27/02/2009. www.perfil.com/espectaculos/La-travesti-Pequena-P-se-suicido-20090227-0023.html.

 "La muerte de Pequeña P, ¿suicidio o crimen?" Diaria26, 21 de marzo 2009. www.diario26.com/la-muerte-de-pequena-p-suicidio-o-crimen-85613.html.

 "Misterio: el cuerpo de la travesti Pequeña P desapareció de la morgue". Sitio Andino, 3 de Marzo de 2012. www.sitioandino.com/nota/28597.

 "Pequeña P: aseguran que el cuerpo de la travesti fue llevado a Paraná". Eldia, 28 Febrer0, 2013. www.eldiaonline.com/la-familia-de-pequena-p-asegura-que-el-cuerpo-de-la-travesti-fue-llevado-a-parana-sin-su-consentimiento.

 "El celular de Pequeña P tenía llamados a políticos". 24Con, no date. www.24con.com/conurbano/nota/28270-el-celular-de-pequena-p-tenia-llamados-a-politicos.

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As with International Chrysis and Sir Lady Java, we have a male name and a performance name but not a female name. This could be a defect of reporting, although I consulted more than the 5 articles listed above. It could be that Pequeña P. thought of herself mare as gay than as female, as was common until fairly recently.Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-17836848299161617182014-10-20T16:32:00.001-04:002014-10-22T06:57:04.143-04:00Karine Espineira (1967 - ) activist, author.Espineira was born in Santiago, Chile, with a Chilean father and a French mother. After the US-backed Pinochet coup in September 1973, they fled to France.

In 1987 Espineira was involved in a serious road accident and expected to die, and ended up needing over 30 operations over several years.

From 1988 to 1992 Espineira did a degree at the University of Grenoble in letters and communication, and started a doctorate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, but dropped out to deal with personal issues.

As Karine she went to Paris and became involved with the Association du Syndrome de Benjamin that had just been founded by Tom Reucher, Diane Potiron, Hugues Cariou and others. Another participant was Maud-Yeuse Thomas who became Karine's life partner. Karine started psychiatric interviews as part of the official French transition protocol, but as Tom Reucher as done earlier, she was repelled by the excessive pathologization, and by the surgical failures. She did keep seeing a psychiatrist on the official team, but negotiated hormones, and in 1998 has surgery with Dr Michel Seghers in Brussels. She was able to obtain a changed Chilean birth certificate.

Karine and Maud-Yeuse joined the anti-essentialist, anti-psychiatry, queer-theory group organized by University of Lille sociologist, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, and also LesboTrans.

In 2001 Karine and Maud-Yeuse moved to Marseille and became a social activist. In 2008 Karine published La transidentité: de l'espace médiatique à l'espace public. In 2012 Karine, Maud-Yeuse and Arnaud Alessandrin published La Transyclopedie: Tout Savoir Sur Les Transidentites, a history-cum-encyclopedia of transgender in France. In 2014 Karine obtained a PhD at the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis in Information Science and Communication.

 Karine Espineira. La transidentité: de l'espace médiatique à l'espace public. Paris: l'Harmattan, 2008.

 Karine Espineira. "Transidentité: de la théorie à la politique: Une métamorphose culturelle entre pragmatisme et transcendance". L'Information psychiatrique, 17 Sep 2011. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/62/44/40/PDF/TransidentitA_de_la_thA_orie_a_la_politique.pdf.

 Karine Espineira. "Le bouclier thérapeutique : discours et limites d'un appareil de légitimation". Revue internationale de recherche biographique, 2 (2011) 280. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/63/27/48/PDF/Karine_Espineira_Le_Bouclier.pdf.

 Lynn Conway. "Karine's Story". TSsuccesses. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/Karine.html.

 Karine Espineira, Maud-Yeuse Thomas & Arnaud Alessandrin. LA TRANSYCLOPEDIE : Tout Savoir Sur Les Transidentites. Lulu, 2012.

 "Karine Espineira est la première Trans à obtenir le grade de Docteure de l'université française". Existrans, 18 Octobre 2014. www.txy.fr/blog/2013/01/09/karine-espineira-est-la-premiere-trans-a-obtenir-le-grade-de-docteure-de-luniversite-francaise.

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Présentation de la transyclopédie : extrait by QueerDaysZagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-32503827442406554552014-10-17T15:22:00.000-04:002014-10-17T15:22:02.208-04:00Erika Ervin (1977–) paralegal, personal trainer, model, actressErvin was raised in California by a tall family of Dutch-German descent. By age 14 Ervin was 5"9'/1.75m, and finally grew to 6"8'/2.03m. Ervin's mother was a nurse who died from AIDS after an accidental needle-prick.

After working in a law office for six years, Ervin transitioned as Erika in 2004, but was rejected by her family. Erika's first boyfriend introduced her to fitness training and she studied with the National Academy of Sports Medicine to become a personal trainer. She also did session wrestling with men.
Erika appeared in the documentary Trans/Formed in 2007, and therefore technically outed herself.

A fitness client introduced her to the world of Amazons, and this led to international tours as Amazon Eve. In Australia in 2009 she was discovered by the magazine Zoo Weekly, and featured in the November edition. In Japan she became known as Babezilla. This resulted in modeling work for Harper's Bazaar and in fashion shows in Milan, and in 2011 Amazon Eve became the Guinness World Record World's Tallest Professional Model.

She started acting, but mainly was offered parts as aliens or monsters because of her size. There were rumors about her gender, and she was fired from a television show. However the Daily Mail ran an article on Amazon Eve merely about the difficulties that tall women have finding men, and how she had finally found a 6"4'/1.93m boyfriend.

Amazon Eve had a small part in the pilot of the sitcom Family Tools (the remake of White Van Man), and a regular part in the supernatural drama Hemlock Grove, where the cast found out that she was trans. Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård was very supportive and encouraged her to come out, which she did on Sweden's TV3 in 2013.

The producers of American Horror Story: Freak Show thought that it would be too difficult to find a 7 foot/2 meter woman so they posted a casting notice for a male actor. "I auditioned for the part as a guy. ... I slicked back my hair, no makeup, flannel shirt, bound my breasts, dropped my voice, and walked in — and nailed it." The producers were delighted when they found that indeed they had a woman for the role, and renamed the character to Erika's performance name: Amazon Eve.

Ericka campaigns to end child abuse, and for LGBT rights and for those who suffer from AIDS.

 Cleo Valente (dir & scr). Trans/Formed with Erika Ervin and others. US 70 mins 2007.

 "7ft Babezilla takes on Zoo man!". Zoo Weekly, 17 November 2009. http://www.zooweekly.com.au/sexy-stuff/babe-watch/7ft-babezilla-takes-on-zoo-man.htm. Recently removed.

 "Amazon Eve is Not Your Typical Model". Cleveland Leader, November 28, 2009. www.clevelandleader.com/node/12110.

 Meena Kar Jan. "World's Tallest Model Amazon Eve Set To Appear In Cover Page Of Australian Magazine". Thaindian News, January 21st, 2010, www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/worlds-tallest-model-amazon-eve-set-to-appear-in-cover-page-of-australian-magazine_100307616.html.

 "The height of fashion: Meet Amazon Eve, the world's tallest model at 6ft 8in". The Daily Mail, 30 December 2010. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1342414/Amazon-Eve-worlds-tallest-model-6ft-8ins.html.

 Katy Winter. "Amazon Eve the world's tallest model finally finds love - with 6ft 4in Mr Right who's four inches shorter than her (and a little bit older)". The Daily Mail, 26 September 2013. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2432969/Amazon-Eve-worlds-tallest-model-finally-finds-love—6ft-4in-Mr-Right-just-inches-shorter-her.html.

 Peter Dyke. "'I used to be a man' reveals 6ft 8in supermodel: TOP model Erika Ervin yesterday revealed she used to be a man.". Daily Star, 16th April 2014. www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/374590/I-used-to-be-a-man-reveals-6ft-8in-supermodel-Erika-Ervin.

 Torbjőrn Ek. "Erika: "Skarsgård always treated me as a woman": Supermodel Erika 'Amazon Eve' Ervin on coming out". Aftonbladet, 2014-04-16. http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article18733687.ab.

 Curtin M. Wong. "Transgender Actress Erika Ervin On Her 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Role". Huffington Post, 10/07/2014. www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07/erika-ervin-american-horror-story-_n_5948060.html.

 Kat Rosenfield. "Meet 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Giant, Amazon Eve". MTV, 10/7/2014. www.mtv.com/news/1955393/meet-freak-show-star-amazon-eve.

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Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-49903878293374213372014-10-15T11:33:00.000-04:002014-10-15T11:33:27.317-04:00Toni F. (190? - ?)An early German trans woman who is unrecorded except for her attempt in the late 1920's to change a birth certificate from male to female. Toni's application was denied on the grounds she was biologically male although she wore female clothing, looked completely female and thought of herself as female.

 A. Marcus & E Webers (eds). Zeitschrift fűr sexual Wissenschaft. XVI (1929-30): 45. Cited in Vern L. Bullough & Bonnie Bullough. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender. University of Philadelphia Press 1993: 275n7.

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Bullough gives Toni's name as "Toni Claus Hans F. Den Antrag" which seems to be a conflation of her female name, her male name and the German word 'Antrag' which means 'application'. DE.Wikipedia does not feature any persons at all with the surname Den Antrag. Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-19842111138328044452014-10-10T08:24:00.000-04:002014-10-10T14:03:02.992-04:00Anderson Toone (1958–) drag king, performer, musician.Annie Toone ran away at 16 and played drums and harmonica in New York, and then at 19 in San Francisco for blues legend Mike Bloomfield and beat poet Bob Kaufman.

At 21, she moved to New York, and in partnership with Jordy Mark performed the review Sex & Drag & Rock n Role at the 1st Women's One World (WOW) Festival. They sang as both men and women, switching gender onstage. This led to meetings with Adele Bertei and Kathy Rey and the founding of postpunk group The Bloods, an all-butch cross-dressed band. The Bloods, along with Jayne County and Phranc, were the only out queer acts in New York at that time. Adele and Toone, as men in tuxedos, performed as dancers at CBGBs and other New York clubs. They opened for The Clash, and played with Richard Hell and most of the 1980s New Wave musicians. After a European tour, they played at the 2nd WOW Festival. In 1982 The Bloods fell apart while in Amsterdam.

Toone formed Idiotsavant with German drummer Leroi Pink who also passed as a man, and they were much featured in the European press for their gender play. The Dutch magazine Homologie ran a comic strip for two years based on Toone in real life. In 1985 Toone moved to London and was in Chain Reaction with Della Disgrace, Sophie Moorcock and Billy Goodfellow. They mainly performed genderfuck for lesbian audiences. Toone was then in the Well-Oiled Sisters. In 1990 Toone was featured in The Observer, and described as a cross-dressing gender bender, trans and a top.

By 1992 Toone was in San Francisco, with a band called The Bucktooth Varmints, and singing dyke-a-billy songs from a passing perspective. In late 1993 Toone and Elvis Herselvis (Leigh Crow) began working together. In 1995 he was featured in a SF Weekly cover story on drag kings, and produced an all-drag Queer Ole Opry. Leigh Crow and Toone were the first drag kings to appear at Wigstock and Trannyshack, and also at the first FTM Conference of the Americas. In 1996 the all-drag musical Hillbillies on the Moon, starring Toone and Leigh Crow, opened in San Francisco, and was featured on the cover of the San Francisco Bay Times.

In 1996 Toone taught himself web coding and created the Toone in Space, and later Madkats, "where drag is king". The Drag King Book, 1998, acknowledged Toone as a founding father, but does not otherwise feature him.

In 2001 he created the trans-art website, and the first version of The Drag King Timeline. He acted as Drag Dad to Carlos & Ken Las Vegas who invited him into the Las Vegas chapter of the Imperial Court. He wrote for and was features editor of Kingdom magazine, where he notably wrote a profile of singer Gladys Bentley, and later an overview of what he dubbed the SF dragcore. In 2002 he gave the keynote address at the International Drag King Extravaganza (IDKE) conference.

In 2003 Toone, after years of contemplation, decided to medically transition. His first name Anderson contains the German 'anders' for different, and is the Swedish form of Andrew which means manly.

In New York in 2004 Anderson performed as the Very Reverend Buck Shot, store-front preacher of the Gospel of Transensual Love. In 2007 he was featured in the film Riot Acts, a documentary about trans music, and presented and performed at the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta.

 Yvonne Roberts. "A whip away from plain old vanilla". The Observer, 5 August 1990.

 Amy Linn. "Drag King: Sometimes girls will be boys". SF Weekly, 27 September 1995.

 Del Lagrace Volcano & Judith Halberstam. The Drag King Book. London: Serpent's Tail, 1999: 7, 22.

 Jacob Anderson Minahull. "Genre Fluid Performer Marches To Own Toone". San Francisco Bay Times, July 12, 2007.

 www.andersontoone.com.

 Diane Torr & Stephen J. Bottoms. Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender As Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010: 27, 66, 67, 129.

 Kate Davy. Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre. University of Michigan Press, 2011: viii, 17, 18, 27, 35, 52, 61, 66, 67, 71, 178, 185, 187, 204, 210.

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The IMDB entry for Anderson Toone is dreadfully deficient. In addition to appearing in Riot Acts, Toone:

did part of the soundtrack for Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames, 1983

did the soundtrack for Michelle Baughan's Jake's Progress, 1987

with the Well-Oiled Sisters appeared in Channel Four's Stand on your Man, 1990 (on women in country music)

The Sisters performed music for and appeared in the BBC comedy Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again, also 1990.

contributed to the soundtrack of Channel Four's Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 1994 (the 25th anniversary of Stonewall).

Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-70827759613111757052014-10-07T08:35:00.000-04:002014-10-07T08:51:22.705-04:00Kerstin Thieme (1909 – 2001) composer. music teacherKarl Thieme was born and raised in the Erzgebirge, on the border between Saxony and Czechoslovakia. He studied music and composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig with Hermann Grabner. He became a music teacher in Leipzig. His first major success was Variations on a Theme by Hindemith for large orchestra, 1934.

During the Second World War he was conscripted into the German army and became a prisoner of war in Italy.

From 1946-8 Thieme worked at Leipziger Rundfunk, but then decided to relocate himself outside the Soviet zone of occupation.

In 1950 he found work teaching music at a Nuremberg secondary school, and later taught at the Nuremberg Conservatory and then the Friedrich-Alexander Universität. He composed for the Nuremberg International Organ Week. An important work was Canticum Hope for soprano solo and mixed choir, 1973.

Thieme retired in 1974, and as Kerstin completed transitioned two years later. Kerstin kept Fanny Mendelssohn competition. Her Requiem was premiered in 1998.

composing. In 1989 she was awarded the composition prize at the

Kerstin died at age 92 in Stuttgart.

 www.kompositionen-thieme.de

 Antje Olivier & Sevgi Braun: Komponistinnen aus 800 Jahren. [800 years of women composers] Sequentia, Kamen 1996: 412.

DE.WIKIPEDIA List of worksZagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-34257237123616640262014-10-04T08:17:00.000-04:002014-10-05T13:05:24.954-04:00Grayce Baxter (1966 – 1992) sex worker, murdered.Grayce Baxter from British Columbia completed transition in 1985 at a clinic in the US. Her parents had understood her gender dyssonance, and helped with the arrangements.

Grayce moved to Toronto in 1988, nominally to find a computer job, but known to many as Candace, she soon became a successful call girl with a roster of 100 clients. She specialized as a dominatrix. She acquired an expensive lake-front condo filled with fine antiques, a BMW, and designer clothing, and told her parents that she had become an executive in computing. However she always carried a stun gun and a can of mace when working. In December 1992 she had sent plane tickets to her parents to arrive for Christmas.

On 7 December Grayce worked a stag party with another prostitute and left after midnight. At 2 am she received a call at the number in her advertisement in Now weekly. The caller was 23-year-old Patrick Johnson, from Abbotsford, BC, a weightlifter and a part-time guard at Toronto's Don Jail. They agreed $200 for a 45-minute encounter. However Johnson had difficulty performing, and when his time was up, be became enraged. Grayce attempted to spray him with mace, but he overwhelmed her and choked her to death. He then cut her body into pieces, put them into garbage bags and dumped then in the apartment garbage bins.

Two days later Baxter's BMW was found. Mr & Mrs Baxter arrived in Toronto to meet a double shock of finding out how their daughter made her living combined with the fact that she was missing. Johnson pawned her diamond ring and Rolex on Dec. 21 for $1,650. The police tracked him from his cellphone records.

After it was mentioned in the press that Baxter had been born male, Johnson wrote a six-page letter to the Toronto Sun in which he admitted having seen Baxter on the night in question. He described himself as a "big, tough weightlifter, the womanizer, the loudmouth and joker" and insisted: : "I want to let the guys at the Don know I never knew she was once a he ... so quit the jokes". Charged with first-degree murder, Johnson opted to plead guilty to second degree on the eve of his trial. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but could apply for parole after a decade.

After nine years in a BC prison, he was granted day parole on condition that he stay away from sex workers. However he did not, and was returned to prison. In 2004 he had another chance, but was seen by the police as a prostitute entered his car. A third attempt at parole lasted two and a half years, but ended in June 2013 when a girlfriend reported him for alcohol abuse and attending to sex workers. However he took full responsibility for Baxter's murder, and has found Aboriginal spirituality. In 2014 he was released on parole a fourth time.

No trace of Grayce's body was ever found.

 Michele Mandel. "Where is Grayce?: The baffling case of missing call girl". Toronto Sun, December 27, 1992. Online at: www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_92/torsun-921227.html.

 John Schmied. "Jailer held in call-girl death". Toronto Sun, January 9, 1993. Online at: www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_93/torsun-930109.html.

 Kevin Hann. "Murder accused writes to Sun". Toronto Sun, January 12, 1993. Online at: www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_93/torsun-930112.html.

 Andrew Sorfleet. Letter to Xtra, February 5, 1993. Online at: www.walnet.org/csis/people/grayce_baxter.

 Bruce Demara & Wendy Darroch. "Guard gets life term for killing prostitute". Toronto Star, April 20, 1994. Online at: www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_94/torstar-940420.html.

 Viviane K. Namaste. "Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross". Chp 7 in Viviane K. Namaste. Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism. Women's Press, 2005: 92.

 Michele Mandel. "Call girl killer gets fourth chance at parole". Toronto Sun, June 07, 2014. www.torontosun.com/2014/06/07/call-girl-killer-gets-fourth-chance-parole.

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Mirha-Soleil Ross takes issue with the fact that the Transgender Day of Remembrance includes Grayce in that she was a passing woman and murdered by a john who did not know that she was trans.

Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-28636889359430549142014-10-01T12:28:00.000-04:002014-10-01T12:35:09.745-04:00Charl Marais (1958 - 2013) teacher, bookkeeper, activist.Marais was born and raised in Cape Town, in a religious family. As both parents worked, the child lived, until the age of ten, with other family members, and was sexually abused by an uncle.

"I knew that I was a girl because I looked like all the other girls, but why did that make me sad? … The most permanent thought and feeling in me almost all of my life was this feeling of just going though the motions. Medication was the only thing that could bring me out of this feeling of wanting to die and possibly commit suicide."
When in hospital having the appendix removed, a friend suggested that to Marais that she was a lesbian. She knew that she had had crushes on girls but thought that "this was wrong as it's not Christian". At this time, 'lesbian' was the only concept that she had encountered that approximated her feelings.

Marais qualified as a teacher, but did not feel suited to the profession, and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in 1978. The uncle who had abused her came to visit and Mrs Marais applied for a court order to keep him away. The lawyer who was assisting met Marais, and straight-away asked: "Have you ever considered having a sex change?". This set her thinking.

Marais obtained a teacher's post in a small school of 50 children in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape.

"I met a girl there, and it was like an instant attraction for both of us. The sex-change thing didn't yet sit well with me because it was impossible, So we went with the lesbian thing."
In 1981 Marais moved back to Cape Town and found work at a newspaper. When the girlfriend arrived she was pregnant, which led to their breaking up.

In the mid-1980s Charl Marais discovered the Cape Town group, Phoenix, which was a Virginia Prince type group of mainly married cross-dressers. Charl was welcomed to their meetings and parties, and made a fuss of as he was their only female-to-male member, and also their only coloured member (this was still the apartheid era). One of the members was transsexual and told Charl about gender surgeries, and that operations were being done in Durban by Dr Derk Crichton.

In 1992 Charl had a hysterectomy and an ovarectomy, and was able to change the name on his ID card (but not the gender code embedded in the ID number).

One girlfriend left because he didn't have phalloplasty, even though he couldn't afford it. Another committed suicide.

From 2002 Charl worked as a bookkeeper.

After the Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act 2003, he applied again to change his ID number but each person he saw demanded different documentation. In 2009 he tried again armed with letters from a psychiatrist, psychologist and two GPs, and the Department of Home Affairs lost his application form. He tried again in June 2010, and this time was successful.

He became involved with Gender DynamiX, South Africa's major transgender organization, and for some years was their bookkeeper and newsletter editor. In 2010 he was a co-editor and contributor to Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa.

He died at age 55 after a period of illness.

 Charl Marais. "Charl's Story: Back in the 70s there was no support". In Ruth Morgan,, Charl Marais, Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved, and Robert Hamblin. Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2010: 26-33.

 Charl Marais. "To Disclose or Not to Disclose: The Million Dollar Question". Gender DynamiX, 2013. www.genderdynamix.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/To_disclose_or_not_to_disclose_MARAIS.pdf.

 Charl Marais. "ID Story: Charl". Gender DynamiX, 2010. www.genderdynamix.org.za/documents/id-story-charl/#more-1088.

LinkedInZagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com Town, South Africa-33.906895551288663 18.5504150390625-34.328817551288665 17.9049680390625 -33.484973551288661 19.1958620390625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-70775596273076680702014-09-27T21:30:00.000-04:002014-09-29T12:19:13.057-04:00Martine Cuypers (1970–) lecturer.Cuypers studied Classics at Leiden University and gained a PhD there in 1997, and then worked as a lecturer and research fellow in Hamburg, Leiden, Groningen, Chicago and Washington D.C. before joining Trinity College, Dublin in 2005 as lecturer in Greek.

She was Chair of Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) from 2010.

In February 2011 the Irish Sun featured the "world exclusive" revelation of Dr Cuypers gender history on its front page, "Trinity's Sex Swap Prof" as if it were news.

 Annette Harder & Martine Cuypers. Beginning from Apollo: studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic tradition. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2005.

 James Joseph Clauss & Martine Cuypers. A Companion to Hellenistic Literature. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

 "Trinity's Sex Swap Prof". The Irish Sun, 2 February 2011.

 "Irish Tabloid outs trans woman", Biggaycloset.com, February 3rd, 2011. http://biggaycloset.com/2011/02/03/irish-tabloid-outs-trans-woman.

 Dr Martine Cuypers. "TENI wins Parade Award at Dublin Pride". Transgender Equality Network Ireland, 02 Jul 2012. http://www.teni.ie/news-post.aspx?contentid=610.

WorldCatZagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-84278406330725687302014-09-24T22:02:00.000-04:002014-10-23T20:07:54.819-04:00Mirha-Soleil Ross (1969–) sex-worker, activist, performer, filmmaker, broadcasterRoss was raised in a poor francophone family on the south shore of Montréal with lots of cats and dogs, an illiterate but resourceful father in construction work and a Métis mother.

"In the mid '80s, when I was about 16 years old, I watched a TV documentary about fur that included footage of animals caught in snares and leg-hold traps. It changed my life forever. I was so traumatized by what I witnessed that the next day I ran to an anti-fur protest. That's when I met a whole bunch of animal rights activists. I had lots of questions; they had good answers and by 6pm that same night, I had stopped eating meat, stopped wearing leather, and was eager to learn and do a whole lot more."
She settled in Toronto, and made a living as a sex worker.

"...from the early to mid-1990s, there were a bunch of us who had visions of transsexual and transgender spaces – of a parallel trans culture – operating independently of the queer community. … I was hoping that we, as a community, could develop a sense of ourselves that wouldn't be narrowly framed through a queer lens or bogged down in lesbian cultural references. … But unfortunately, this has been a complete failure. Those trans cultural spaces we attempted to create throughout the 1990s have all either disappeared or been absorbed by the lesbian-transgender community."

"But my main request is for transgender activists to stop their sinister appropriation of the abuse and violence that transsexual and transvestite prostitutes endure on every continent. … Trans activists use their deaths as fuel in their crusade for 'transgender rights'. Their campaigns have everything to do with supporting their own political agendas … but absolutely nothing to do with improving the the working conditions or lives of transsexual and transgender prostitutes. The most shameful of this type of political appropriation is the 'Transgender Day of Remembrance'."
From 1993-5 Mirha-Soleil worked with Xanthra Mackay to publish GenderTrash, a political and arts magazine for trans people. From 1995 and for five years, she conducted educational workshops for Toronto social service and health care agencies, and served as a consultant for researchers into trans experience.

In 1996 and for four years she hosted a weekly animal rights radio show on CUIT FM, and was also involved in other radio shows on topics such as lesbian sexuality and disability, AIDS, and transsexuals and immigration.

In 1997 she took up with and became the life partner of film-maker and animal-rights activist, Mark Karbusicky.

Also that year and for three years she, Mark, Xanthra and others ran Counting Past 2, a trans arts festival. And she developed the first publicly funded social services program for low-income and street trans people, Meal-Trans, which included a weekly vegan meal drop-in. She was appalled when, after she left, Meal-Trans started serving meat.

Mirha-Soleil has worked to raise consciousness of animals' rights in the queer communities, and of prostitutes' rights in the animal rights community.

In 2000 Mirha-Soleil and Mark made a film G-SprOuT (not in IMDB) about love between vegans contrasted with factory farming which has been shown at over 25 queer and other film festivals.

Mirha-Soleil was Grand Marshall of the 2001 Toronto Pride Parade, and was able to place animal liberation activists at the front of the parade.

In 2001 Mirha-Soleil developed her performance piece, Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thought from an Unrepentant Whore, which drew parallels between animal rights and prostitutes' rights. Later it was presented at the first Transgender Theater Festival in New York.

Mark unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007, and was later memorialised in a documentary by Mike Hoolboom.

Mirha-Soleil continues to agitate on behalf of sex workers, transsexuals, non-human animals, Canada's missing and murdered aboriginal women, and much more.

 Viviane K. Namaste. Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000: 41-2, 44-6, 57, 58, 62, 66, 178-9, 239, 274n2, 280n33, 285.

 Mirha-Soleil Ross interviewed by Heze. "No White Gloves on Mirha-Soleil Ross". Trade: Queer Things. Autumn 2003. www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/video/msr/msr.html.

 Mirha-Soleil Ross interviewed by Claudette Vaughan. Satya Oct 2003. www.satyamag.com/oct03/ross.html.

 Viviane K. Namaste. "Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross". Chp 7 in Sex Change, Social Change: 86-102.

 Viviane K. Namaste. Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism. Women's Press, 2005: 44, 53, 54-7, 82-5, 86-102.

 Thomas Waugh. The Romance of Transgression: Queer Sexualities, Nations, Cinéma. Carleton University Press, 2006: 159, 330, 343, 345, 353, 394.

 Mike Hoolboom (dir). Mark. With Mark Karbusicky & Mirha-Soleil Ross. Canada 70 mins 2009.

 Chaos McKenzie. "Mark, Mike Hoolboom's difficult documentary". Xtra, Apr 21, 2010. http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/arts-and-entertainment/mark-mike-hoolbooms-difficult-documentary.

 Darryl B. Hill. Trans Toronto: An Oral History. NY: William Rodney Press, 2012: 28, 35, 151, 169.

 Mirha-Soleil Ross interviewed by Claudette Vaughan. "Queer Rights/Animal Rights. Straight talking". Animal Liberation Front, no date. http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Interviews/Queer%20Rights-Animal%20Rights_%20Straight%20talking%20with%20Mirha-Soleil%20Ross.htm.

 Mirha-Soleil Ross. Gut-Busting Ass-Erupting and Immoderately Whorish Compilation Tape. VHS.

 Dan Irving & Rupert Raj (eds). Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. Women's Press, 2014: 108.

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Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-10114951059725878602014-09-19T19:03:00.000-04:002014-09-20T10:07:48.034-04:00Trans women in the New York Correctional SystemDaniel Genis recently finished a 10-year prison sentence. He has written about his experience for The Concourse: "A Gentleman's Guide To Sex In Prison". There are two references to trans women:

"There are many transsexuals (still called "shemales" in the system), especially in the maxes, for some reason. Some truly look like women, and as a consequence they are well taken care of by their admirers. Others just look like men with breast implants. There was one called Grandma who was quite a fright, but apparently had customers anyway, because his dentures came out. The old-timers call these guys 'lizards' and have nothing to do with them, but the younger guys who grew up with Will and Grace and so forth are more easygoing about it.

It was my understanding that if you declared yourself to be out upon arrival at the clearinghouse called Downstate, they'd send you somewhere safe (unless you yourself were not actually very safe, according to your record). I spent two years in a place like that, called Groveland Correctional Facility. It was a beautiful campus of a prison with a huge gay population. They had to cut the bushes down to discourage some of the activities taking place around them. There were even competing gay gangs. The most established one was led by Becky, who had been in for 35 years and who, it was said, had cut out his lover's heart back when he, Becky, was a teenage girl in a boy's body. "

Zagriahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-16704771331703088522014-09-17T11:29:00.000-04:002014-09-17T11:29:27.874-04:00Owain mab Urien (50? - 595) prince.It seems that Urien, king of Rheged (later known as Strathclyde), a 6th century kingdom on the border of what is now England and Scotland, arranged for his son, Owain to go to Glasgow to court Teneu, daughter of Lot/Loth/Lleuddun, king of Gododdin (later known as Lothian) in order to bring about a dynastic alliance.

While Gododdin was a traditional Celtic kingdom under the spiritual guidance of druids, Teneu was tempted by the alternate reality of the Christian missionaries. Possibly Teneu became devoted to the Virgin Mary and hoped to emulate her by having a virgin birth. Teneu became pregnant, but Owain and Teneu declined to marry.

The three mediaeval accounts differ in the details, but both the Fragmentary Life and the Breviarium aberdonense claim that Owain transvested in order to gain access to Teneu. Ardrey points out that this makes no sense in that Teneu was not in a convent or in purdah. He argues that Teneu found that Owain was trans, but the retellings introduced a pragmatic reason for his cross-dressing. On his side he was not interested in marriage to a woman.

Teneu was sent away to Culross where she was sheltered by Serf, who also helped to raise the child who was named Mungo (dear one) but later became known as Kentigern (head chief).

Serf, Teneu and Kentigern all became saints in the Christian Church. Teneu and Mungo are the patron saints of Glasgow.

A legendary version of Owain appears in Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion and the Welsh Romance Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain.

 Anon. Fragmentary Life of St Kentigern. MS Cotton Titus, xix.f.76-80. Before 1164.

 Jocelin of Furness. Vita Kentigern. 1185

 Anon. Breviarium aberdonense. 1507

 Adam Ardrey,. Finding Merlin: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Great Arthurian Mage. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2008: Chp 4 – Signs and Portents.

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Mungo and Serf are in Wikipedia as Saint Mungo and Saint Serf, but St Teneu is there simply as Teneu.Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-10937788816971431172014-09-12T14:44:00.001-04:002014-09-16T21:35:04.830-04:00A re-reading of Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors.I have already written about Leslie Feinberg's life.

There are two editions of this book, both Beacon Press, 1996: Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul (hardback) and Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (paperback). It is the former that I have in front of me, which makes no mention of Rodman, now best known for his bromance with Kim Jong-un, so neither will I.

The book was published by Beacon Press, Boston, owned by the Unitarian Universalist Association, which had been out of favour with trans people after publishing both Janice Raymond and Mary Daly.

The book title uses 'transgender' and in the preface, Feinberg proclaims: "The word I prefer to use to describe myself is transgender". Transgender, not transgendered. In more recent years this distinction has become heated, and as I re-started the book I hoped that ze was anticipating the then future resolution, however as the book proceeds, transgendered is used more. Ze also uses transgender as a noun as well as an adjective – a practice that is nowadays disputed. Ze does the same with intersexual.

Feinberg frequently uses the term bigender (bi-gender) which is popular with the FPE/Tri-Ess people but does not mention the joke form also popular with them: big-ender.

Two paragraphs below we find the mission statement of the book: "I asked many self-identified transgender activists who are named or pictured in this book who they believed were included under the umbrella term. Those polled named: transsexuals, transgenders, transvestites, transgenderists, bigenders, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, masculine women, feminine men, intersexuals, androgynes, cross-genders, shape-shifters, passing women, passing men, gender-benders, gender blenders, bearded women and women bodybuilders who have crossed the line of what is considered socially acceptable for a female body." If a similar list were put together today, it would of course include gender queer and non-binary. The list sort of fits with the last chapter which is a portrait gallery, where there is a woman bodybuilder and a bearded woman performer. But I cannot but think that the vast majority of bearded women and female bodybuilders would object to being located under transgender. However the real issue here is inclusiveness: the dabblers and the part-timers along with the committed.

The tone changes dramatically in the next paragraph. "But the word transgender is increasingly being used in a more specific way as well. The term transgenderist was first introduced into the English language by trans warrior Virginia Prince. Virginia told me, 'I coined the noun transgenderist in 1987 or '88. There had to be some name for people like myself who trans the gender barrier' ". This claim is factually incorrect. I have already written extensively on this, and so I will not repeat the detail here, other than to mention that this endorsement by Feinberg strengthened the myth that Prince had coined the term, and led to very heated refusals of the term transgender, and thus undermined Feinberg's mission. This is my most negative comment about Feinberg's book.

There is no further mention of Prince except for a photograph in the end portrait gallery of her, Ariadne Kane and Maxine Miller attending church at Fantasia Fair. (For some reason the photograph has been flipped left-to-right – see the original in Mariette Pathy Allen's Transformations.)

On the next page, Feinberg comments: "the word trans is being used increasingly by the gender community as a term uniting the entire coalition". Memory of course always deceives, and in retrospect I was surprised to find this in 1996. There is no mention at all of the older forms of trans: tranny or transy.

Twice, pages 7 and 123, there are photographs of arrests being made at the National Variety Artists Ball, Halloween 1962. This was the night before the gathering at Susanna Valenti's Chevalier D'Eon Resort that became a major event in Prince's organizing. Neither the irony of this nor the Chevalier D'Eon Resort gathering are mentioned.

Feinberg has a chapter on the North American Two-Spirit tradition, but without the criticism of the gay male writers such as Walter Williams who regarded Two-spirit as gay rather than trans that we find for example in Pat Califia's Sex Changes. Ze has a whole chapter on Joan of Arc arguing for Joan as transgender. Personally I do not buy that argument, but Feinberg's chapter is one of the best arguments for Joan being so. Ze adds other female-born warriors (in the conventional sense) and monarchs to the chapter: Catalina de Erauso, Angélique Brûlon (Liberté), Nzinga Mbandi, Qiu Jin, Franklin Thompson. However ze also adds the Albanian sworn virgin of Rapsha who was a farmer.

Some of the persons featured are more thought of as gay or feminists. While Feinberg argues for Joan of Arc being transgender, ze merely presents Luisa Capetillo, Assotta Saint, Quentin Crisp, Craig Hickman as being so. Charles Stuart, the young pretender to the British throne is also included despite being a thorough reactionary with no sympathy at all for anything queer.

Page 86 is a full page photograph of a man in an expensive suit working on a 1920s car. The person is Violet Morris and Feinberg comments: "Morris sued the French Federation of Feminine Sports for 100,000 francs for withdrawing her license to wear trousers". Morris is someone that I intend to write about, but to do so properly takes time. Feinberg does not mention that Morris, an all-round athlete, used the excuse of fitting into a racing car to have her breasts removed. Licences to wear trousers were issued by the Préfecture de Police, but Morris never bothered to apply for one. Morris was rejected for the 1928 and 1936 Olympics on grounds of being too masculine, but was a special guest at the Berlin Olympics. She was accused of being a collaborator and assassinated by the French Resistance in 1944. Several books, none of them translated into English, argue whether or not she was a Gestapiste.

RuPaul, Joan of Arc's partner in the book title, appears very briefly on pages 96-7, but there is only a photograph and the best known quotes from RuPaul's book, such as "You're born naked and the rest is drag". There is nothing about RuPaul's life or career, and no anticipation to the recent brouhaha (but see below on drag queens in general).

On the next page is a call for gay-trans solidarity: "I understand that many heterosexual transsexual and transgender people have been justly angered by a lifetime of accusations that their sex-change and or gender expression is merely a result of being ashamed to admit that they are gay. No one wants the identity they are willing to live for – or to die for – to be invalidated or misunderstood. But while not all lesbian, gay, and bi people face trans oppression, all trans people experience anti-gay bigotry. To the bigots and bashers, all trans expression is 'queer'. Distancing ourselves from the lesbian, gay, and bi movement will not make us safer."

On page 115, ze writes about drag performance: "I've heard women criticize drag queens for 'mocking women's oppression' by imitating femininity to an extreme, just as I've been told that I am imitating men. Feminists are justifiably angry at women's oppression – so am I! I believe, however, that those who denounce drag queens aim their criticism at the wrong people. This misunderstanding doesn't take gender oppression into account. … There is a difference between the drag population and masculine men doing cruel female impersonations. The Bohemian Grove, for example, is an elite United States club for wealthy powerful men that features comedy cross-dressing performances. Many times the burlesque comedy of cross-dressed masculine men is as anti-drag as it is anti-woman. In fact it's really only drag performance when it's transgender people who are facing the footlights. Many times drag performance calls for skilled impersonations of a famous individual like Diana Ross or Judy Garland, but the essence of drag performance is not impersonation of the opposite sex. It is the cultural presentation of an oppressed gender expression."

Like most books, Transgender Warriors, was a product of its time, the mid-1990s. However it was a book needed at that time, and many of the issues within are still being argued over. A re-reading is certainly fruitful.Zagriahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6712640935255311366.post-47612286973001117302014-09-09T10:30:00.000-04:002014-09-10T14:01:24.671-04:00Bet Power (1950 - ) archivist, activistOf Polish descent, Power was born and raised in Chicago. Power's father, a sailor taught the child, who already thought of himself as a boy, carpentry, baseball, bowling, billiards and poker. He played sports with his elder brother's friends without being outed as a girl.

At age 6 he witnessed a women pedestrian killed in a car accident. His mother started abusing him, attacking her husband and mutilating herself. At 13 Power was obliged to wear a dress for confirmation, and after that for church and the Catholic all-girls school.

Power became a street kid who did alcohol and other drugs. By 16 he passed well enough to get into leather bars and drag-show clubs. He marched for civil rights and ran from the police riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was part of the Workers World Party.

He went to a therapist and fell in love with her, but she was homophobic, and rejected him with prescriptions of antidepressants and antipsychotics. She urged Power's mother to have him committed. He was diagnosed as having a "narcissistic personality disturbance with anxiety and recurring panic attacks". He managed to avoid taking the compulsory pills, and started talking about a boyfriend. Six weeks after this he was released. He became an activist in the anti-psychiatry movement.

In 1972 he found a butch lesbian psychologist who told him that he was a butch, that he did not need therapy and should get involved at the Lesbian Feminist Center. There he found support to get off drugs, lose the 50 pounds he had gained from the prescription drugs, and to eat vegetarian. He was grateful but did not really think that he fitted in. The Chicago Lesbian Feminist Center housed the New Alexandria Lesbian Library (NALL) and Power became a volunteer there. He also had his first lovers and completed an MA in comparative literature and sociocultural processes, and got a job as a proof reader with a magazine publisher.

In 1977 the Chicago Lesbian Feminist Center closed and Power rescued the books and magazines from the NALL. He broke with his bio-family in 1979. They denied all the abuse, and Power had not only made it up, he was also queer. He, his lover, and the NALL collection moved to Huntington, and later Northampton, Massachusetts. He got a job in an ad agency in Hartford. Connecticut.

Lovers came and went. Bet drank heavily in "dyke, gay and trannie bars". In 1982 he tried to stop drinking. In 1983 he kicked in the bedroom window of an ex-lover, and was briefly in jail. He went to an alcoholism counselor, and also did a past-life regression with a psychic counselor. He was told that he had always, in every past life been a man, and in his previous life had been a Japanese scientist who was executed for treason after helping the US develop the atom bomb. He admitted his alcoholism and started going to Alcoholics Anonymous. He also came out both as trans and as into Sado-Masochism.

In 1986 the NALL received a letter from Louis Sullivan containing his pioneering Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual. Bet finished reading it in two hours. It gave him a vocabulary to describe himself, and now he knew that he was not the only FTM transsexual. He contacted Louis, and a few weeks later flew to San Francisco to meet him. They wrote and phoned each other frequently until Lou's early death in 1991. By then Bet had met his wife and his job was going well, and he did not feel that he could move to San Francisco to continue Lou's work.

He was no longer involved in the lesbian community. They were uncomfortable with his maleness, and also with the fact that he directed a monthly support group for lesbian, bi and trans into S/M. He decided that the NALL collection was not just a lesbian collection, and renamed it as the Sexual Minorities Archives.

He visited a gender counselor to decide if he wanted to medically transition, as his wife was encouraging him to do. Despite knowing only one FTM crossdresser in all of New England, in 1992 he founded, on his forty-second birthday, the East Coast Female-to-Male Group (ECFTMG). It grew slowly but eventually was able to split into separate groups in the major New England cities.

He settled as being non-hormonal and non-operative. Despite some employment discrimination, he has managed to achieve creative director—vice president positions in advertising and marketing. His wife left him for a cis man in 1995.

In 2007 Power was diagnosed with granulomatosis polyangiitis, and now needs surgery every six months to keep breathing. He has not worked since. He is living on disability.

The house that contains the Sexual Minorities Archives is rented, and the owner wishes to sell. Power does not have the money to buy it, but has organized a fundraising campaign.

He is also contemplating a legal name change to Ben.

 Leslie Feinberg. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul. Beacon Press, 1996: 155.

 Bet Power. "My Wonderful Askewness". In J. Ari Kane-Demaios & Vern L. Bullough (eds) Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths Prometheus Books, 2006: 57-74.

 Andre Perez. "Interview with Bet Power". Transgender Oral History Project, May 12, 2008. http://transoralhistory.com/sites/default/files/Bet%E2%80%99s%20Abridged%20Interview%20Transcript.pdf.

 Fred Contrada. "Bet Power shines bright amid his Sexual Minorities Archives". MassLive, July 15, 2014. www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/07/bet_power_shines_bright_amid_h.html.

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It was half-time on Sunday afternoon in the Labour Day Classic at Mosaic Stadium and the mood inside the Winnipeg Blue Bombers locker-room was buoyant.
The Bombers were trailing the Saskatchewan Roughriders 10-4 at that point, they were being outplayed in all three aspects of the game and the Winnipeg coaching staff was looking hard-pressed on the sidelines to find any answers.
The Bombers had the Riders right where they wanted them, in other words. "We obviously didn't play the way we wanted in the first half," Bombers defensive tackle Doug Brown would reflect afterward, "but we had that expectation coming out for the second half that, 'Hey, we're a second-half team. It's within reach, it's attainable, it's within our grasp. This is what we do.'"
It is, in fact, precisely what Winnipeg does. Four times the Bombers have trailed after the first half this season -- and all four times they have gone on to win. Twice, they were still trailing after the third quarter and both of those times they still went on to win, too.
And so as bad as the first half was for Winnipeg on Sunday -- especially on offence, where they'd mustered just a field goal, a single and 139 yards -- the sense in the Bombers dressing room was optimistic as the players headed back out their locker-room door. And as they did so, they had one other reason to believe.
Above the door to the visitors locker-room for all the players to see on Sunday, the Bombers equipment crew had taped up the name plate of Winnipeg's late assistant head coach, Richard Harris. Heading into Regina, the Bombers had played four times since Harris died suddenly of a heart attack on July 26 -- and all four times they'd won.
There was every reason, in other words -- past performance, maybe even fate -- for the Bombers players to think the second half in Regina on Sunday afternoon would play out according to the same script the club has been using this entire remarkable season.
Except, it turned out, for one. Because what no one in the Winnipeg locker-room could have expected -- indeed, not even the most rabid of Riders fans could have expected -- was that a bye week and a coaching change in Regina had transformed what had been a lifeless 1-7 sad sack of an outfit into a dominating, all-purpose juggernaut that looked in a 27-7 thrashing of the Bombers on Sunday every bit like the Riders team that's been to three of the last four Grey Cup games.
It wasn't, mind you, so much that the Riders were doing anything particularly different on the field. Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice would later say that the Riders had a couple of defensive wrinkles on Sunday that he wasn't expecting, but it didn't sound like Saskatchewan reinvented the game of football simply because Ken Miller -- who led the Riders to the last two Grey Cup games in a row -- had returned to the sidelines after the Aug. 19 firing of head coach Greg Marshall.
"It wasn't like they pulled something out of their magic hat that didn't look like a rabbit," said Brown. "It was pretty standard, pretty much what we were expecting from my standpoint as a defensive lineman. They just outperformed us."
But while the changes on the field were subtle, it was by all reports a sea change in the Riders locker-room. "Everyone believed that we could win," said Riders offensive lineman Dan Goodspeed. "Maybe it was coach Miller or maybe we just got tired of losing or it was a wake-up call. When you get confidence like that, the sky is the limit.''
The question now is what all this does to the confidence of a Bombers club that has in so many ways been defined this season by the cocky attitude embodied in their self-styled moniker, Swaggerville.
Believing themselves to be the best, they have gone out and proven it for the first nine weeks of the season and emerge for the official start of the second half of the season this week with a league-leading 7-2 record and plenty to be proud of.
But they also emerge off a loss and facing the formidable prospect this week of taking on those same resurgent Riders in Sunday's annual Banjo Bowl at Canad Inns Stadium.
Are they chastened by the experience? Doesn't sound like it.
"SWAGNATION there is no panic we are fine," Bombers defensive back Jovon Johnson tweeted on Monday. "This is the CFL just a bad game for us it happens...they have to come to WINNIPEG!"
In a season where just about everything on the field since a loss in Week 3 has gone right for the Bombers, we will see soon how this club performs now that something has finally gone wrong.
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Anthony opened with an 11-shot quarter — the last time someone took more in the first 12 minutes of a playoff game was May 15, 2006, when Richard Hamilton got 12 shots off for Detroit against Cleveland. Anthony missed all seven of the jumpers he took in Game 1 when guarded by James, then got his first one to fall on the game's first possession Monday.
By halftime, Anthony was up to 21 points on 9-for-18 shooting, the Knicks needing all that and more. Wade, James and Bosh combined for 41 points in the first two quarters, helping Miami take a 53-47 lead.
Unlike Game 1, it wasn't over by halftime. And play was heated, just not overheated. Well, until postgame, anyway.
Chandler, who set a back pick that sent James tumbling late in Saturday's first half, picked up a technical for taunting early in the second quarter when he went over Miller for a putback dunk and then glared at him for a few moments. A few minutes later, James did a fist-pump toward the seats after a layup late in the half.
But whenever Miami was on the cusp of pulling away, New York had answers.
Consecutive baskets by James midway through the third quarter, the second of those good enough for him to merit it worthy of a chest-bump and long look at the Knicks bench, put Miami up 67-56 — then its biggest lead. Four minutes later, the Knicks were within four, a dunk by Chandler making it 72-68 with 1:37 left in the period.
Miami's margin was back to nine after a flurry ended the quarter. James drove right and got just about every Knick to shift with him, leaving Battier all alone for a 3-pointer, and James' three-point play as the shot clock was running down had him laughing and the Heat up 78-69 going into the fourth.
The Knicks never got any closer, and the Heat wound up holding serve at home.
"We did what we're supposed to do," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It's not anything more than that. We're already trying to leave this game behind."
By then, word was just seeping out of what happened in the Knicks locker room.
"Amare is a huge piece of this team," Chandler said. "And, you know, without him, it's going to make it more difficult."
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Our doughnuts are made daily, from scratch, using simple recipes, and only the finest ingredients possible. We use fresh, seasonal products, and never add preservatives or artificial flavors/colors. Everything is made in house, from real ingredients – infused glazes, hand crushed jams, flavored creams, and even a homemade pie-crust to use as a crumbled topping. Our doughnuts are fried throughout the day, guaranteeing each customer a fresh and warm treat. Flavor selection changes monthly, with a daily Gluten Free option and a Vegan flavor on Thursdays.
November Flavors...
Monthly Flavors
Rosemary Cornmeal ($3.50)
100% organic and as local as possible, this special flavor is inspired by our November SideCares parter, The Ecology Center. Featuring flour & cornmeal from Grist & Toll, eggs from Eben Haezer's Happy Hens, and rosemary and honey from The Ecology Center's very own harvests, this whole grain and hearty cake doughnut is one not to be missed!
*10% of all proceeds from this flavor go to our SideCares partner of the month, The Ecology Center. Learn all about how you can help us support this amazing organization dedicated to organic, sustainable, and local practices here.
Apple Spice ($2.75)
a Saigon cinnamon and nutmeg spiced cake doughnut, topped with apple cider glaze.
Samoa ($3.00)
inspired by the beloved Girl Scout cookie flavor, a pineapple coconut cake doughnut topped with chocolate, caramel, and toasted coconut.
The Southern Gentleman ($3.75)
raised and topped with a traditional pecan pie filling made with Steen's cane syrup and Basil Hayden's Old Grand-Dad Bourbon, and finished with fresh whipped cream and Sidecar's signature pie crust crumble.
Fall Fool ($3.75)
raised and topped with house made pumpkin mousse, pumpkin glaze, maple creme fraiche, and ginger snap cookie crumble.
Lemon Poppyseed ($2.75)
raised and topped with fresh glaze made from simple lemon juice and zest, and a sprinkle of poppyseeds.
Malasada with Huckleberry Jam ($3.00)
our very own traditional Malasada…raised and dusted with sugar - perfectly sweet and fluffy! this month we are filling it with house made huckleberry jam.
Choc A Lot ($3.25)
raised chocolate doughnut topped with a house made Callebaut chocolate glaze and coca nibs
Daily FlavorsButter & Salt ($2.75)
vanilla bean cake with brown butter glaze and fleur de sel
Brett's Buttermilk Old Fashioned ($2.50)
our take on the classic!
Huckleberry ($3.00)
Oregon huckleberry cake doughnut with huckleberry glaze
Saigon Cinnamon Crumb ($2.75)
slightly sweet, slightly spicy Saigon cinnamon cake doughnut, topped with sweet glaze and a house made cinnamon crumble.
Maple Bacon ($3.50)
raised doughnut topped with pure Vermont maple syrup glaze and crisp Niman Ranch bacon
Madagascar Vanilla Twist ($2.00)
raised twist with vanilla bean glaze
Green Eggs & Ham (4.75)
a savory treat… raised and filled with poached egg, Niman Ranch Ham, and a house made basil hollandaise sauce. *Only served until 11am.
Gluten Free & VeganWeekly Gluten Free* ($4.00)
a delicious take on one of our unique doughnut flavors, made with gluten free flour. a new flavor is offered starting every Monday. check out what's in the shop this week:
Week of 11/17 - Chocolate Cake w/Chocolate Glaze and Sprinkles
Week of 11/24 - Samoa
Week of 12/1 - Butter & Salt
Week of 12/8 - Toasted Coconut
Vegan Thursday* ($3.50)
a vegan-friendly flavor, made just for our vegan pals every Thursday
11/20 - Cinnamon Crumb
11/27 - Chocolate Cake w/Chocolate Glaze and Cocoa Nibs
12/1 - Huckleberry
12/11 - Apple Spice
*Our gluten-free and vegan doughnuts are NOT allergy-free. They are prepared in the same workspace and fryer/oils as our regular doughnuts. Hence, people with severe allergies to gluten or vegan ingredients should refrain from consuming these items.
*Most our doughnuts contain almond flour and/or almond extract.