GenderTalk

• Letters
• Allen Richards' genderexpressions.com
• Norah Vincent's writing and "Self Made Man"
• Crossdressing TV magazine segment

• UK scientists declare support for using lab-bred animals in experiments
• English Ravens, once protected, then nearly exterminated, coming back
• Tower of London employs Raven Master to care for Ravens
• Coney Island Zoo enjoys gay penguin pair

• Phelps followers hold anti-gay protest at Coretta Scott King funeral
• Colbert Report as spoof of hypermasculinity
• Elder Bush objects to W critiques at funeral
• Nepal: Human Rights Watch calls for investigation of persecution of Mehtis
• Rare STD strain spreading among gay men
• Logo channel showing "Beautiful Daughters", about all-trans vagina monologues
• Johnson County, Iowa, moves towards new non-discrimination ordinance
• Writings about the "trans panic" defense
• Nicetown, PA: Trans person murdered
• Top executive at Corporation for Public Broadcasting steps down
• Ideology vs. truth, conservative vs. progressive
• Women taking HRT recommend their daughters not
• UK's Guardian reports that national health service promots "sexercise"
• Nancy & Gordene's car towed!
• GLAD and trans woman settle lawsuit against Anselm College

"hi I have submitted questions in the past and none were ever replied to so please if you could please find it in your hearts to respond I would greatly appreciate it.
I am having such a hard time trying to understand myself it drives me crazy. First I need to know if it is true that transvestites do not think about nor do they desire a sex change??? Because I have wanted one since puberty. I wish I was born a girl yet I don't know if I am a transsexual or a transvestite. My main problem is I feel that most men are actually idiots and buffoons and I am even more of a man than any of them yet I don't want to be a man!!!!!!!!!
Does that sound like anything you have heard of ??"
(From: Joe)

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Carisa is a long-time non-profit communications professional specializing in AIDS, public health, and LGBT issues. She has been director of public relations for AIDS Action Council (Washington), Wheelock College, and AIDS Action Committee (Boston), and worked in public relations for Gay Men's Health Crisis in the 1980's. She most recently worked for the Harvard AIDS Institute in Botswana, handling communications surrounding the first HIV vaccine trial to take place in Southern Africa. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, and has taught non-profit public relations at Boston University's College of Communications.

• Visit GLAD's website at www.glad.org