Archive for the 'transgender' Category
In early October of 2008, substitute teacher Jan Buterman was informed that he was being dropped from the teacher list and should not report to a scheduled class that day. Jan had spoken with the Deputy Superintendent at the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division No. 29 the previous June about his transition from [...]
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Popular opinion has it that Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS, often popularly nicknamed “sex change surgery”) is a cosmetic issue and motivated by a simple “want” to be female or male, by someone who was not born as such. However, extensive medical research into transsexuality dating as far back as the 1920s and continuing through modern [...]
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On July 6th, I noted the story of Lu’s: A Pharmacy for Women, operated by the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective (VWHC) , and noted how the Vancouver pharmacy’s policy to serve only “women who were born as women and live as women” excluded anyone transsexual or of transsexual history. At that point, I’d recommended opening [...]
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(I have to apologize for mostly having to cover everything in a recap, rather than being able to cover everything as it happened. It’s possible that as a consequence some of the links may have become invalid as media phases out old news pages or moves them to members-only sections.)
10,000 people turned out for [...]
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The Prerequisites to “Woman”
A women-only pharmacy — according to reports, possibly the first of its kind in North America — is opening in Vancouver on Tuesday. This pharmacy is designed to offer a comfortable, open environment, woman-specific information and non-judgmental counseling. They are also planning to add a “resource centre behind Lu’s to get more health information from [...]
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Every so often, I receive an email through the albertatrans website feedback form that challenges me with something I hadn’t thought of before. Recently, a query came in from a cisgender male who thought that I might be a good person to ask about finding a surgeon willing to do an “enhancement phalloplasty.”
Now, FTM phalloplasties [...]
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Hey, “Advocate!”
Hey, “Advocate!”
If your “magazine” is going to stoop so low as to put quotation marks around a transsexual woman’s name and pronouns in order to characterize her as a gay male so that her attempt to wed becomes annexed by your take on same-sex unions, don’t be too surprised if we transsexuals don’t take too [...]
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(Permission is granted to distribute this as widely as people see fit)
To: Honourable Lindsay Blackett, MLA Calgary-Northwest, Minister of Culture
CC: Premier Ed Stelmach,
Ms. Rachel Notley
Dr. David Swann
The People of Alberta
The Alberta Teachers’ Association
The Pride Centre of Edmonton
Calgary Outlink
Mr. Blackett, please tell me how my very existence is such poison to society that we dare not [...]
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On the heels of delisting Health Care funding for Gender Reassignment Surgery without consultation with the medical community, the Government has taken further ridiculous steps to alienate the closeted moderates in the Province. A small concession is being made in Human Rights legislation to finally include Sexual Orientation in the list of protected classes (which [...]
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Almost A Person
(Part of GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine’s coverage of the delisting of GRS in Alberta)
It came in as registered mail. This was good news of course, so when I’d received the notice, I ran down to the postal outlet to collect the envelope that would have news about my eligibility for surgery. I knew what the [...]
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