If you’ve been reading any transgender blogs or journals lately, you’ve doubtless seen concern about the appointments to DSM-V working groups on gender identity disorder. (If you haven’t, here’s an example from TRANScend GENDER.) The following isn’t written by me, but I received it in email via the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance mailing list, where [...]
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Advocate won’t examine own responsibility for “pregnant man” story
My friend Peter points to a piece in the Advocate which asks: As the media world buzzed about the “pregnant man,” trans activists stayed relatively mum. Now we’re asking: Has Thomas Beatie’s public exposure hurt the transgender movement? When Oregon trans man Thomas Beatie first told the world that he was pregnant in The Advocate [...]
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