“Living out something you’ve spent countless hours daydreaming about and wondering about is an experience that isn’t easily put into words.” – Will Krisanda Finding Masculinity is a collection of stories from a small cross section of the transgender male community that shares insight into the diversity of life experiences of transgender men, beyond the…
The original Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) guidelines for transgender healthcare, from 1979.
An article by the infamous John Randell of the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, going over his clinical guidelines for accepting transgender patients as they stood in the early 1970s. Randell was immortalised in the BBC documentary A Change of Sex for being cold, calculating, cruel and uncaring in his treatment of patients, and this…
Everything you need to know about creating LGBTQ2+ inclusive workplace, from A to Z. What you aren’t doing about creating an LGBTQ2+ inclusive workplace is costing you more than might think. Every year, companies who aren’t doing the necessary work are losing millions of dollars to low productivity, staff turnover, missed opportunities, and reputational damage—and…
The book that most czech sexuologists require you to read before diagnosing you – read it here for free. Below is czech description of the content. Transsexualita v posledních letech vzbuzuje čím dál tím víc pozornost odborníků nejrůznějších oborů, laické veřejnosti i médií. Spolu se vzrůstajícím zájmem o tuto problematiku narůstá i nutnost lépe pochopit…
Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand offers methods that will help social workers, researchers, and students create HIV/AIDS intervention services for gay men, lesbians, and transgender individuals in or from Thailand. Many of these methods can also be used by practitioners or HIV/AIDS educators in North America and…
A specialist book for mental health professionals, sex therapists and educators to develop and improve their clinical work with trans clients with regards to their sexual relationships and sexuality. It provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the subject, and relates to both clinical practice and theory. Topics explored include the shifting of sexual orientation during or…
The first issue of Gendertrash From Hell, a zine produced by and for transsexual and transgender people. This issue contains a variety of submissions ranging from poetry, artwork, and articles regarding trans activism.
The third issue of Gendertrash From Hell, a zine produced by and for transsexual and transgender people. This issue contains a variety of submissions ranging from poetry, artwork, and articles regarding trans activism.
This essay focuses on hijras in India and on male women sangomas in Zulu gender-differentiated possession cults in South Africa. We approach these individuals through the travelling concept of “translects”, in the sense in which hijras and sangomas as “transgender individuals” cultivating a culture-specific, gender liminality use words to refer to themselves, their body parts,…