Introducing JOURNEYS
my quarterly ezine for the LGBT
community.
Original Articles
Resources
Community News
Book Reviews
Legal Help
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public policy efforts. http://www.transgenderlegal.org/
Transgender Law Center (TLC) is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. Every day they connect transgender people and their families to technically sound and culturally competent legal services, increase acceptance and enforcement of laws and policies that support California's transgender communities, and work to change laws and systems that fail to incorporate the needs and experiences of transgender people.
Get help with: drivers license and name change; social security card and passport changes; coming out at work; transitioning at work; and health advocacy.
FTM Alliance of Los Angeles, Inc. is a community-based organization dedicated to empowering the female-to-male [FTM] transgendered community,and to increasing the visibility and acceptance of FTMs in Southern California. They provide resources, support, and leadership opportunities to people assigned female at birth or in childhood who no longer feel that label is complete or accurate, as well as our significant others, families, friends, and allies. Through education, advocacy, and activism, they are committed to creating a society where everyone is freeto choose and express their own gender.
Orange County Transgender Coalition
seeks to unite transgender and allied groups fostering greater collaboration to effectively address the physical, emotional, and social needs of the transgender community.
Links to groups for FTM and MTF, endocronologists, therapists, surgeons and vocal coaching.
The Harry Benjamin Standards (WPATH) of Care
These clinical standards are the ethical and clinical guidelines by which most surgeons, endocronologists, and therapists work with transgendered clients. They are standards - and not meant to be rigidly applied. You can discussany question you have regarding these with your provider to learn more about how they approach their work in this area and the criteria they use. Download Standards here
Information For You and Your Loved Ones
Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society. Website: http://www.gender.org/
Choices Counseling & Consulting Website of author Arlene Istar Lev-Transgender Emergence; a comprehensive text on the subject of therapy with gender variant people and their families.
Website: http://www.choicesconsulting.com
Dr. Lev also addresses how to find the right gender therapist in the following article: TherapyGuidelines
Recommended Reading: Gender and Families
Gender Identities in A Globalized World by Ana Marta Gonzalez
Two Spirit People edited by Wesley Thomas
Transforming Families : Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones by Mary Boenke
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jenny Finney Boylan
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Gender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori Girshick
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW
Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Journey by Thomas Beattie
She’s Not The Man I Married by Helen Boyd
The Transgender Child by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Presentby Neil Miller
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
