1/5/14

Gender Warriors Interactive map detailing US doctors who perform Trans related surgeries

Gender Warriors have published an interactive map with surgeons across the US who perform trans related procedures. To see the map in its entirety click the arrow marker to the right of "name". Please visit Gender Warriors on Tumblr for the details and don't forget to reblog this amazing project.




Here are listed surgeons who perform various transgender surgeries in the US. It is meant to help people find surgeons operating in their area, but is not an endorsement. Before having surgery, you should do additional research into their practices.
NOTE TO USER: To search by procedure, there is a bar at the bottom of the page. Simply click on the surgeries you would like listed. For multiple surgeons operating in one city, you might have to zoom in a bit to be able to see them all.
LANGUAGE: The procedures we have listed use the language of FTM and MTF, but we by no means do we mean to exclude genderqueer peoples in this designation. Many surgeons operate on genderqueer or non-trans people, but for the purposes of this map, it was logistically easier to distinguish based on sex characteristics as opposed to identity.
Email any updates to genderwarriors@gmail.com


David O. Russell Hollywood producer gets away with sexually assaulting trans teen niece saying she asked for it



Authors note: This article's sources appeared in various media today leading me to believe it just happened but it is still worth asking after 2 years, why have no charges been filed?

David O. Russell a wealthy Hollywood producer has admitted to police he sexually assaulted his his transgender niece Nicole Peloquin pictured right. According to The Smoking Gun and the LA Times it is 'unlikely' charges will be filed because there were no police witnesses to the crime.
Russell freely admitted to doing this at the in the gym at the Embassy Suites in Deerfield Beach Fl. but excused it saying she was 'acting provocatively' indicating in his opinion she asked for it.

Police report via The Smoking Gun


1/4/14

Toronto Star ethics report "Transgender man’s behaviour in changeroom unacceptable"

Today's story by Ken Gallinger the Toronto Star's  "Ethically speaking columnist" is, well highly unethical. At best its lazy journalism. Worst case its a mainstream writer using his bully pulpit to amplify hate and fear of transgender people. The headline misgendering trans woman combined with the accompany image and an absence of sourcing or anything indicating this as an alleged occurrence gives the accusations of the alleged victim validity.

A cisgendger woman wrote to him about an alleged occurrence in a dressing room that if true would invoke the wrath of trans people as well as cisgender.

"I am a senior woman. Recently, a “man” claiming to be transgender, who had not yet begun physical treatments, was permitted by our local Y to use the women’s locker room. There are no secure change rooms. The person they allowed in was not courteous and stared at me while I struggled out of a wet bathing suit. He was naked, had an erection and playfully asked ‘do you come here often?’ I understand that gender is no longer judged solely by genitalia, but does a brief contact with the duty manager mean that men not yet committed to gender reassignment are free to disrobe anywhere they choose?"

Gallinger then goes on to state law and his opinion never once questioning the validity of the story or supplying interviews with witnesses or the Y's manager. As a sister Journalist and one with an agenda I am aware of the importance of journalistic integrity, obviously not an issue for Mr. Gallinger.

I hope Gallinger's editor's take note. Read the Toronto Star's article here.


Indian activist beaten by police after refusing advances

Rudrani Chettri, a well known trans activist from New Delhi, India has reported being attacked by a police officer after she refused to allow him to molest her.

Gay Star News is reporting that the police are refusing to investigate but this did not surprise Ms Chettri who posted about it on her face book saying only "Expected after 377 judgment......."

Just a few days before Ms Chettri was denied entrance to a shopping mall by guards concluded “Who is an Indian? Someone who is Man enough or Women enough…Being Hijra, I am not Indian enough”.





On December 13, 2013 -- Jasmine George from TARSHI interviewed Rudrani Chettri, Director of Mitr Trust, a Community Based Organization (CBO) in New Delhi, India.


Disgraced Utah AG John Swallow's staffers think a trans woman is a "Tranny Thing"

Emails between staffers exchanged during Swallows reelection campaign under the heading of "feeding" disparaged Republican delegates calling them "goat's after a tin can" because they were paying for meals during the convention..

Yes, they were talking about their own party members. They were just getting warmed up.

Other emails exchanged between staffers discussing a photo of the transgender delegate one staffer said she didn't want a 'up the skirt shot' of the delegate referring to her as "the infamous cross dresser".

According to Talking Points  "the emails were made public in court documents unsealed on Thursday, and were part of an affidavit tied to the investigation of Swallow, fellow former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, and others. The documents were first reported on by The Salt Lake Tribune."

The warrants seek evidence of numerous crimes, including obstruction of justice, witness tampering and retaliation, soliciting and accepting bribes, evidence tampering, harassment and tax evasion.

Swallow who left the  office of Utah Attorney General in disgrace was replaced by Sean Reyes who quickly initiated the Supreme Court challenge against a lower court ruling allowing same sex marriage in Utah

Coincidence or not?  The former Attorney general  is also under investigation for illegally accepting money from payday loan companies while a few states away  the Burnt Orange Report has revealed Governor Perry has appointed a vice president of a payday loan company to oversee the Finance Commission of Texas.

Coincidence of not? Texas's leading Republican for the Governors office is Attorney General Greg Abbott who is also vehemently opposed to LGBT rights and who would also benefit by his connection with predatory loaners

Follow the money....


1/2/14

Help with name and gender marker change comes to Pittsburgh PA and other cities

The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) has begun a project making it possible for trans people to change their legal name and gender marker in connection with the Pittsburgh's Garden of Peace Project .

The TLDEF has also initiated the project in the Albany NY, Milwaukee WI, New York City NY, Pittsburgh PA and Rochester NY where attorneys have stepped forward to work Pro Bono.

Having changed my name and gender in a Texas court in 2007 I can attest how daunting and expensive that task was. After I did it and learned the process I showed many friends the less expensive path only paying court costs. But its got be done right the first time. The TLDEF can help with that.

Read more at the Post Gazette.