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please submit something for the Transgender Day of Rememberance, which is the 21st of November! (saturday)

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HBO drama about transmen [link]

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please note the changes in the journal format, where i have said

If you are experience emotional trouble, or would like advice on your situation, please send a note. If you feel you are having an emergency, and need to talk to someone sooner, do not hesitate to send a note to the administrator.

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an amazing journalism project about a transman

[link]

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id like to bring your attention to three new affiliates.
a club for mentally ill artists and authors
a club for support for the mentally ill
an abuse survival club

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you know, if you have any personal experiences, stories, news, or ideas you'd like to share, just tell us and well post it right here, in the news section.

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What We're About: Gender is more complex than the expression of maleness or femaleness. The complex journey towards one's own personal gender expression is explored and transgenderism is explained from different perspectives and different levels by different people from all over the world. Gender and Sex are very separate things, though the terms are often considered interchangeable by the less aware. Sex is physical form and function while Gender is a component of identity. There can be considered to be some legitimate overlap; the brain is structured in many sex-differentiated ways and is the seat of identity (Search for "gender dysphoria" on Google. You will find most formal/official sites state Sex and Gender are determined by separate hormone-distribution periods during the developement of the fetus within the womb.) However, with regard to the dilemma of the transsexual, the difference between sex and gender are the very core of the issue.

A transsexual person, born to all appearance within a given physical sex, is aware of being of a gender opposite to that physical sex. This conflict between gender identity and physical sex almost always manifests itself through early awareness of "something being not quite right", and is the cause of enormous suffering. It is common for transsexuals to be aware of their condition at preschool ages.

However, in this group, we believe that even people who have not followed through with sex-changing surgery (such as the administrators) need just as much support, so we are here to invite those psychologically sexually opposite of their birthsex (surgical status matters not) and, of course, all our wonderful supporters!

Best informational literature mentioned to us so far:

Self-Made Men by Henry Rubin
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society by Holly Devor
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us and My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein
She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan


Submitting Works: The administrator will gladly submit your work of anything that represents the gender queer topic under the few conditions:

1. It is about the gender queer.
2. Anything against the gender queer or deviantART rules will not be posted.

Joining: all you have to do is state which "category" you fall under (FTM, MTF, Neutrois etc.). If you'd like to help administrate please send a note.

If you are experience emotional trouble, or would like advice on your situation, please send a note. If you feel you are having an emergency, and need to talk to someone sooner, do not hesitate to send a note to the administrator.

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links

1. The Transitional Male: [link]
2. The FTM Network (UK): [link]
3. FTM Australia: [link] and for Sydney: [link]
4. Transman.org: [link]
5. FTM International: [link]
6. Transexual Roadmap: [link]
7. "Gender Identity & Transgenderism": [link]
8. Transgression Cyberzine: [link]
9. Transsexual.org: [link]
10. Home of Transsexual Women’s Resources: [link]
11. Transsexuals throughout history: [link]
12. Dr. Michael Brownstein, MD: [link]
13. Androgyne Online: [link]
14. International Foundation of Androgynous studies: [link]
15. ISNA, THE intersex web resource: [link]
16. The antijen pages: [link]
17. Transe-Nation: [link]
18. Mango Products (FTM) [link]
19. T-Self Scholarship: [link]
20. TRANS COMICS [link]
21. MORE TRANS COMICS [link]
22. ANOTHER COMIC [link]
23. SAVE A TRANNY! transpride store [link]
24. PFLAG's trans site [link]
25. FTM chat by ~Fhinn [link]
26. Hudson's FTM guide: [link]
27. Transgender Guide: [link]
28. Transster: [link]
29. Photoshopped facial feminization: [link]
30. Calpernia Addams! [link]
31. The Asexual Visibility and Education Network: [link]
32. The Neutrois outpost: [link]
33. XDress Men's Panties and More: [link]

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