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Transgender/Intersex information
PFLAG welcomes those who identify as transgendered, intersexual, or questioning.
Meetings offer an opportunity to meet in a small group or to meet and get to
know other GLBTQI people as well as their families and friends!
Your PFLAG Eugene/Springfield Transgender Coordinator is Risa Stephanie Bear.
She will be glad to talk with anyone or any group on trans issues.
You may contact her at bears[at]epud.net or through the help line number at upper right.
Day of Remembrance
TNET
Your Northwest Regional TNET Coodinator is
Robyn Walters, who lives in Seattle.
TNET? Yes, there is a national trans chapter of PFLAG! See:
http://www.pflag.org/TNET.tnet.0.html.
Or en Espanol:
http://www.pflag.org/TNET_en_Espanol.tnet_espanol.0.html.
Here's the
Current Issue of eTransParent,
PFLAG's national trans/intersex issues newsletter). And here's the
TransParent Archive.
PFLAG's Transgender Network has been listed in 52 Things You Can Do for Transgender Equality by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
Learn more about the resource today!
Transparents/families Conference
Gender Odyssey is pleased to announce the first family conference
for parents of gender variant and transgender children! Join us
in Seattle during the 2007 Labor Day weekend as we debut the first
family-centered conference for people raising gender variant and
transgender kids and teens. Stephanie Brill, conference program
director and founder of the Children's Hospital Oakland support
group for parents of gender variant and transgender young children,
brings her expertise and ground-breaking work to our family conference.
Gender Odyssey - Family
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
Seattle, Washington
August 31st - September 2nd, 2007
What to expect...
* Amazing presentations, panel discussions and interactive
forums where parents can explore the issues related to raising
children who do not fit into society's current expectations
of gender.
* Excellent childcare for our gender variant kids and their
siblings to play together while the parents attend workshops.
* Two picnic lunches for families to meet, socialize, and share
experiences.
* Workshops for teens and older children throughout the weekend.
Programming topics...
* Gender Inside/Outside of the Home
What are the obstacles my
child might face? How can I best prepare my child?
* Terminology
What are the differences between gender presentation, gender identity,
gender fluidity, and gender behavior?
* Ask the Trans Person
Q & A panel discussion
* Developing Your Child's Self-Esteem
How do I best love and support my child?
* Should I Consider Medical Intervention?
If so, what's reasonable? Do I wait until my child is an adult?
What about puberty? What if my kid changes his/her mind?
* Managing Healthcare
Current medical information about endocrinology--hormones, physical
changes, side effects, insurance options.
* Advocacy for Your Child
How do I educate my child's school, other children's parents,
doctors or therapists?
Register early for discounted rates.
Submit a workshop proposal--deadline April 1st.
www.genderodyssey.com/family
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Web resources
For current national and international news go here.
SEARCH 150 trans-related local, national and international education, support and advocacy sites.
See also: Electronic archive
This electronic archive holds PDFs from PFLAG, HRC, NCTE, and others for downloading
to replenish tabling supplies, libraries, etc. 83 titles as of 11/28/06.
DMV updates info on Real ID Act. You need to read this.
City Code revisions
Your voice urgently needed!
The Eugene Human Rights Commission is working with the community to educate on trans issues and ultimately to add gender identity and expression to
the City of Eugene non-discrimination/human rights code.
Please call or write to the Eugene Human Rights
Commission (682-5177 or e-mail hrc@ci.eugene.or.us) expressing
appreciation of their work and support for the transgender community. If you can, Offer to help!
See: Gender Identity
A glossary of gender identity terms
Crossdresser:
a person who feels compelled to or enjoys wearing the clothing of
the opposite sex on an occasional basis.
Crossdressers are often heterosexual men. This behavior is often
carried
out in isolation, but many social clubs offer emotional support for
crossdressers and their partners and may host events that provide an
opportunity for people to socialize while experiencing the role of the
opposite
sex. The term "transvestite"
has also been used, but is sometimes considered offensive.
Drag
Queen or Drag King:
one who crossdresses, usually for performance/entertainment. This
term is used more frequently in
lesbian-gay-bisexual communities.
FFS: facial feminization
surgery.
FTM: female to male transsexual.
Gender:
a system of classification describing attributes commonly
associated with maleness or femaleness. Masculine characteristics are
typically
associated with persons who have male bodies; feminine characteristics
are
typically associated with persons who have female bodies. The exact
characteristics are culturally defined and therefore variable across
cultures
or across time.
Gender
Expression:
the external presentation or appearance of a person's gender,
such as dress, mannerisms, hair style, and speech.
A person's gender expression may differ from one's gender
identity.
Gender
Identity:
A person's view of their own gender, which includes aspects of a
person's appearance, expression, or behavior. A person's gender
identity may or
may not conform to the conventional expectations for their assigned sex
at
birth.
Genderqueer: someone who
refuses or plays with gender categorization.
Gender
Variant: someone whose
combination of
legal sex, birth sex, gender identity, gender expression, and perceived
gender
do not line up according to societal expectations. The term
"genderqueer"
is similar, though
"gender variant" is preferred by those not comfortable using the word
"queer".
Hormone
Replacement Therapy
(HRT): the process of taking hormones to achieve
the secondary sex characteristics of the desired sex.
Intersex:
an individual whose biological and/or genetic traits at birth do
not correspond with conventional concepts of male/female anatomy.
Most people choose to refer to themselves as
intersex rather than hermaphrodites, and the use of the term
hermaphrodite by
non-intersex people is often considered offensive.
While some intersex people are also transgender, intersex people
as a group have a unique set of needs and struggles.
MTF: male to female transsexual.
Perceived
Gender: what another person assumes one's gender is in
a given
interaction. Some people's gender expression is commonly misinterpreted
or
confused and is different from their identity/expression.
Post-op: transsexual who has
had sex reassignment surgery.
Pre-op: transsexual who is
considering or preparing for sex reassignment surgery.
Sexual
Orientation:
the romantic and sexual attraction a person feels to a
particular
gender or genders (gay, lesbian, heterosexual, or bisexual).
Sex
Reassignment Surgery
(SRS):
surgery for the purpose of having a body more consistent with one's
gender
identity. SRS may be quite costly, and not everyone who desires SRS has
equal
access. Also known as Gender
Reassignment Surgery (GRS).
Standards
of Care: a set of guidelines formulated by the Harry
Benjamin
International Gender Dysphoria Association to determine when and how
transpeople may obtain hormones and sex reassignment, involving a
period of
psychotherapy, "the Real Life Test," and, if desired, hormones and/or
surgery. Only recently have The Standards of Care been rewritten with
advice
and counsel from actual trans persons.
Transgender:
a generally accepted umbrella term describing anyone who
exhibits
characteristics of a gender that does not match one's apparent or
actual
physical sex. The term can include people who are transsexual,
crossdressers,
drag kings and queens, some two-spirit people, and anyone who breaks
gender
boundaries, regardless of sex, gender identity, or sexual
orientation. Sometimes the abbreviated word "trans"
is used.
Transgenderist:
a person who lives full time in the gender of his or her choice
(different
from the body type) without desiring gender reassignment surgery. Some
transgenderists consider themselves to be "non-operative"
transsexuals. Transgenderists may or may not choose to take hormones to
permanently alter their appearance.
Transition: the process of
changing
one's presentation and/or expression to align with one's gender
identity. Some
of these changes include manner of dress, name change, pronoun change,
hormonal
modifications, or surgery. Transition varies greatly across the
transgender
community, both in what people choose to change and when certain
changes feel
most comfortable.
Transsexual:
a medical term applied to those transgender people who feel such
incongruity between their body and their gender that they seek medical
assistance in transforming their body to address the incongruity,
regardless of
sexual orientation.
Two-Spirit: A term used by some
members
of Native American and First Nations communities to describe someone
with both
male and female spirit. This can involve someone's sexual orientation,
gender
identity, both, or other factors -- not everyone who is two-spirit
identifies
as being "trans." The use of two-spirit by non-First Nations people
is sometimes considered cultural appropriation, hence offensive.
PFLAG scholarship programs
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PFLAG Vision
We, the parents, families and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons, celebrate diversity and envision a society that embraces everyone, including those of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. Only with respect, dignity and equality for all will we reach our full potential as human beings, individually and collectively. PFLAG welcomes the participation and support of all who share in, and hope to realize this vision.
PFLAG Mission
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
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