GenderTalk

• Gender: playground for the privileged, struggle for some others
• Ethan: shopping with mom and stepfather
• Ethan's accident
• Upcoming vote on federal FMA
• Cheney's wife comes out against FMA
• Bush administration seeks authority to postpone election
• Trans birthdays

"Nancy, How do you personally deal with concepts like those expounded by Lynn Conway that non-ops aren't ever going to understand what being a woman is like, since they don't have a vagina? As a passing full-time non-op which I assume you are, how do you deal with this. Post-op groups keeping out non-ops makes as much sense as the exclusionary practices at the Michigan Womyn's festival. I know non-ops whose lives as women are more successful than many who have had SRS."
(From: Ricki)

• Spironolactone
• Yoko Ono affirms same-sex marriage through song releases
• New Mexico Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage block
• Trans films win honors at SF LGBT film fest, world's oldest and largest
• Children incarcerated because of health-care shortage
• Seattle LGBT community demands justice for attacked man
• Cheney merchandise sports f-bomb
• Chicago zoo chimpanzees given air guns

Writes Holly:
"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been--a place, half-remembered, and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. "

More information:

• Visit Holly's website at www.trans-spirits.org
• Holly's previous appearances on GenderTalk:
  • January 5, 2004
  • January 13, 2003
  • September 3, 2001
  • August 6, 2001
  • August 5, 1998
  • June 11, 1997

For more information:

• www.nctequality.org