GenderTalk

• TransFM's work to benefit Katrina survivors
• Katrian trans refugee arrested for using shower
• Change at Boston's Fenway Community Health Center
• Movie: Veronica Guerin

• John Roberts' ethical transgression
• Verdicts sealed for 2 of 3 tried in Araujo murder
• Miami Beach moves towards requiring same-sex benefits
• NY: Man admits to strangling crossdressed doctor
• CA: State legislature passes same-sex marriage, but governor to veto
• Top woman at FDA resigns over emergency contraception approval delay
• EMT experience in New Orleans

"Last week you were talking about T people being forced to have surgery. I am a pre-op M/F living in South Carolina. The SC Dept. of Health and Enviromental Control (DEHEC), which controls birth certificates, requires that I have had surgery before they will allow gender change/verification on ID. The SC DOT is the same way about driver's liscense's now. This is making my life very difficult. What do you think is my best coarse of action to remedy this situation!"
(From: Brianna)

• Buy a copy of Disorders of Desire (supports GenderTalk)
• Visit the publisher's website for Disorders of Desire
• Professional sexology associations:
  • The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
  • The Sexual Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
  • The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)

• Visit Esther's website at www.mrkh.org
• Listen to previous interviews with Esther on GenderTalk:
  • May 13, 2002
  • December 31, 2001
• Visit the San Francisco Human Rights Commission's website at www.sfgov.org/site/sfhumanrights_index.asp
• View or download the SFHRC's report: A Human Rights Investigation Into the "Normalization" of Intersex People (April 2005) (PDF)