GenderTalk

• Assault weapons ban expires
• Bush's lies

"My cousin has needed this operation for years now. The only problem we have is the financial aspect of it. We are trying to resolve this for my cousin. Can you help us in anyway with who might help my cousin out financially with the operation fees?"
(From: David)

"I have question for you. I am MTF and want to marry with my boyfriend who is an American citizen. I am wondering that can we marry? And am I qualified to file for Green card? Please let me know by e-mail. Also, if you know some lawyers who can handle my case, please suggest me. I currently live in Chicago."
(From: Pat)

• Q Televison Network to finally launch
• Washington state judge strikes down same-sex marriage ban
• Log Cabin Republicans reject Bush
• California judge upholds domestic partnership rights
• Pope decries gay marriage in New Zealand
• Elephant polo takes off in Thailand
• Salt Lake City denies Santa flyover rights
• Crackpot hurricane solutions

Andrea James is an author and activist who runs tsroadmap.com. Last year, she spoke on GenderTalk about the controversy surrounding the book "The Man Who Would Be Queen" by Northwestern University psychologist J. Michael Bailey. Bailey's book caused an unprecedented mobilization within academic and activist circles. Even people who had not gotten involved before helped with an investigation started by Lynn Conway. One of the most disturbing findings to emerge from that investigation was the eugenic ideology that informs Bailey's book. Bailey restates claims previously made by Ray Blanchard and Anne Lawrence that gender variance is a type of sex-fueled disease. The Bailey-Blanchard-Lawrence disease model of gender identity will be part of the upcoming fight on the place of gender identity in the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Andrea has just written an essay that attempts to synthesize and contextualize the Bailey-Blanchard-Lawrence model and its place in the history of systems of thought. The essay is called "A defining moment in our history: examining disease models of gender identity," and it's available online here.

More information:

• Visit tsroadmap.com
• Downlad PDF version of Andrea's "A defining moment in our history"