TG Guide: This is an award winning
transgender information site for transgendered people. No adult content.
The Gender Trust - The
Gender Trust is the only registered charity in the UK which specifically
helps adults who are transsexual, gender Dysphoric or transgenderist.
TGWorld - Online community for the
Transgenderist with free homesites and loads of information for the TG
community.
Dawntv's
Warning Page - Feminist transwoman's safety tips for those going out en
femme.
Pamela's Palace - Personal,
support, educational and entertainment for the transgendered community and
those just interested.
Romanceopedia
- A close look at the decision to change one's gender and all that it
involves. A wonderful site for information for any transsexual who is not
avoiding romance of the opposite gender.
Transwomen - A
very informative site on living as yourself, society's destructiveness,
medical errors, and assisstance.
Alyson's Attic - Information
and experiences of gender reassignment surgery, with surgery result photos
and transition diary.
Amy's Web Zone
- A guide to voice training, getting a higher voice without surgery.
Requires "an mp3 player, yourself, and lots of dedication."
Breast Form FAQ - FAQ
about all aspects of breast forms for folks in the Transgendered community
who might not otherwise have ready access to this sort of information. Also
serves as a resource for women seeking information about breast prostheses
after surviving breast cancer.
Developing a Female
Voice - by Melanie Anne Phillips. Effective techniques on how to train
your voice to be female - without surgery. Includes the entire course in
RealAudio format.
So
You Want to get a sex change? - This full-length article will guide you
through the process of getting a sex change, from the pre-operative
requirements, to living your new life.
Anita's Crossdress World - A
resource site for the significant part of the male-born population who, for
one reason or another, feel the need to dress in the clothes of the opposite
sex.
Barbara's World - Site for
transvestite, transsexual or transgendered lovers of elegant clothes. Hints
and tips for dressing and a message board to chat with like-minded
individuals.
Claudia's Diversity
- Matter-of-fact site including surveys, fashion, anecdotes, news, reviews
of products and services, definitions, interviews, and advice on "being
weird properly."
Crossdresser
Support Resources - Information to help understand the nature and causes
of crossdressing, gender psychology, and articles.
Drag King
Workshop - From a letter written for a masters thesis on lesbian and FTM
masculinities, based on the Diane Torr Drag King Workshop in Manchester in
April 1996.
Drag Planet - Night club
listings, message board, and gallery.
Gayles TG
Resources - Resources and supportive articles for transgendered
individuals and their partners.
Shirley Ann
Sometimes - Personal experience, stories, pictures, and music. Provides
a separate section with information for wives and girlfriends.
TransV - Crossdressing Culture - For
contemporary transvestites and crossdressers to keep up-to-date with whats
happening across the globe.
Tri-Ess - The educational
branch of Tri-Ess, an organization of heterosexual crossdressers.
Vintage
Photographs - Photos of FTM cross-dressers from a lesbian site with
fantastic old photos of our past.
Women Dressed
as Men - Celebrating how wonderful women look when dressed in men's
clothing. Includes drag, disguise, masking, cross dressing plus film list
and links to other sites.
The American Boyz - Information,
resources, email lists, and local contacts for female to male transgenders (FTMs)
and their loved ones.
Butch-FTM.com - Resources and
original writings reflecting the Butch-FTM gender identity.
FTM Alliance of Los Angeles -
Resources, support and current events of interest to female-to-male (FTM)
transgender men and gender queers in the Los Angeles area.
FTMs in the Leather
Community - Interview with some transguys in the Bay Area, from a back
issue of Brat Attack 'zine.
Lisa's Luv Shack - a
SOFFA site for the trans community, maintained by the partner of an FTM.
Information and support available for FTMs & MTFs and their partners.
NewMale's FTM Club
- This club is a place for those questioning or transitioning and their
SOFFAs. A place to ask questions, find answers, and get support.
Ties That Bind
- Breast binding by lesbians: the fine line between butch and transgendered.
Study and analysis of a common practice in asia's queer communities.
TransBoy
Resource Network - Information, support and resources for FTM
(female-to-male) transgendered, transsexual and gender-questioning youth.
TransFemme
- Personal website of Femme FTMSO in East Tennessee. Includes bio, photos,
links, and information on how to join the author's FemmeSOFFAs mailing list.
Transman.org- - support, resources,
and community for FtM's and their feminine partners.
TransMan's Information Project - I am
hoping that this place will serve to provide information to other guys like
me who never really knew where to look.
Transster.com - A sortable and
searchable repository for FTM surgery results - Transster is a
repository for images of FTM gender reassignment surgery results. At
Transster FTM transsexuals can upload pictures of their own surgical
results, and search and sort through images other transmen have submitted.
Trans-Warrior
FTM Homepage - A site dedicated to providing education, information, and
resources to the FTM and transgendered community.
20th Century Transgender History
and Experience - The TransHistory Project is documenting and educating
about people who do not neatly fit into binary sex/gender definitions.
Contains transgender, transsexual, and intersex history, including
biographies and essays as well as a timeline.
Trans-Academic
Discussion List - Archives and websites for all transgendered /
transsexual academics, or other academics in any field involved in the study
of transsexual and transgendered people, culture, medicine, law and social
welfare.
Transgender,
Transsexual, and Transvestite Issues. -
Transgender-Transsexual-Transvestite Knowledge: articles, papers, books, and
films. Their problems, including the highly harmful ignorance of average
people and most professionals.
Transtudies: An Online
Course Project - Contains guides to studying gender difference and
transgender expression in an academic environment. Includes syllabi with
teaching suggestions, bibliographies, student papers, links, and more.
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International Foundation for Gender
Education IFGE is a leading advocate and educational organization for
promoting the self-definition and free expression of individual gender
identity, and an excellent source of transgender news and information.
A Bill of Gender Rights -
It is time for the transgendered community to take a stand, a strong stand,
against all gender-based discrimination simply because some people are
different and simply because some people do not fit into current social
norms of gender roles. It is time the gender-based community articulate this
stand in words that clearly define exactly what our gender rights are.
Center for Gender Sanity - This
Los Angeles organization provides workshops on "what it means to be a
woman," published "Transsexual Workers: An Employer's Guide,"
and does lots of neat counseling on workplace transitions.
Christina
Rosetti - The comparison of the campaigns of Reform Party Presidential
Candidate and LGTBI Activist/Spiritual Lecturer, Christina Rosetti and that
of the other Reform Party Candidate, Patrick Buchanan.
Debra Davis and the Gender Education
Center - Transgender resources and information. Ms. Davis is a
transgender High School librarian who transitioned on her job in 1998.
Gender Education Center is a Minnesota non-profit organization of
differently gendered people dedicated to support, advocacy and education.
The Feminist
Conspiracy: Flyer Gallery - An excellent coalition of signs and flyers,
including some nifty pro-trans bathroom signs to print out and spread
everywhere.
Fighting Bigoted
Journalism - A well-articulated objection to Dea Birkett's article
slamming the rights of transsexuals to gender reassignment surgery. Includes
rules and tips for non-trans journalists.
Freaks Are Family -
The flaming tranny-, bisexual-, and radical faerie-run Millinery March
Uniting All Queers.
Gender Education & Advocacy - The
web site of Gender Education and Advocacy, providing resources and activism
for the transgender community. "The organization for gender variant
people for the new millennium." Divisions include "It's Time,
America," AEGIS, and the Remembering Our Dead project.
Gender Letters
- A list of letters to various web pages about their mandatory M/F binary
buttons, and their responses. Use this as a template to write your own!
GenderPAC - A not-for-profit
organization, composed of individuals and groups, dedicated to a
broad-based, inclusive national movement for "gender, affectional, and
racial equality."
In Your Face! - "Political
Activism Against Gender Oppression." A national online news service
edited by Clare Howell, including areas for feedback, discussion, and
organizing below each news event.
It's Time Illinois home page -
Political action group working for civil rights for the transgdendered
community in Illinois
Lambda Letters Project -
Helping members and friends affect public policy in areas of concern to the
communities of HIV/aids, l/g/b/t, women and people of color.
Remembering Our Dead -
Transgendered - A website dedicated to preserving the memory of
transgender individuals murdered by hate and killed by predjudice.
Tranny
Liberation 'Zine - A radical anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic
zine about transgender revolution.
Transexual Menace -
"Confronting with Love" - a wonderful direct-action group of
transgender activists (and friends).
The Transgender Fund - The Mission of
The Transgender Fund is to financially support qualified initiatives
designed to advance the interests of the transgender community. Particular
attention will be placed upon collaborative education, research, and public
awareness programs among community organizations that foster the well-being
of transgender individuals, their families, partners, friends, and the
population-at-large.
The Transgender International
Rights & Education Day Page (TIRED) - There are now hundreds of
support and advocacy groups for transgendered persons around the world and
more are springing up every day. T.I.R.E.D. is a single cause to unite all
these organizations in a single action, at least for one day. (Specifcally,
August 7th, in memory of Tyra Hunter.)
TransGender Silicon Valley - Group
provides leadership, focus and resources to support the transgender
community throughout the Silicon Valley region of Northern California.
Information on Day of Remembrance and mesageboard.
TSMenace
International - TS Menace is a list for TG/TS community activists and
would be activists all over the world to chat and talk about what's going on
in the community and what needs to be changed and updated through working
together.
Why
You Should Support a Trans-Inclusive Movement - A flyer passed out at
Boston Pride 1999. "We as a political community are learning what many
have known for years. Not all of us define our identity based on who we
sleep with. Moreover, those who discriminate against us, don’t always do
so because of the sex of our partners. Many times we are discriminated
against or treated differently because of how we look and act. As a result,
the legal protections we have secured may sometimes fall short."
Coming
Out as Transgendered A great guide on telling your family,
friends, and coworkers, with links to other helpful sites.
Coming
Out as Transsexual - A look at heterosexism and why some people have an
easier time understanding transsexuality than homosexuality.
Coming out to
Mom - A touching essay on coming out to Mom as a transvestite.
Post Your Story
- A space where trans and GLB youth can post coming-out and self-realization
experiences.
Telling
Parents - How and when to come out to your parents as transgendered.
TransFamily Of Cleveland
- Letters - A resource of letters, written by real people, to either
come out or explain the coming out of a transgendered loved one.
Transition
Letter Archive - These aren't exactly "coming out" letters.
The goal is to transition; coming out is a side-effect that is often not
welcome, is always stressful, and for many people is as temporary as
possible.
Transitions That
Work - Folks who help companies deal with transitioning employees.
Offering diversity training focused on transgender issues, alone or as an
adjunct to broader diversity training. Making presentations to EAP
personnel, management teams, and coworkers to help them understand
transsexualism, to offer guidance about management strategies, and to advise
them about what to expect.
Why
Bother Coming Out? - This article gives some clear and valuable advice
about whether one should come out in certain situations, and if so how and
when to do so most effectively.
The Couples' Network
- Relationships between men and women are difficult enough with the
pressures of jobs, money, children, bills and family matters. When the issue
of transgenderism is added to this already boiling cauldron, it's good to
know that there are others who have successfully navigated through this
stretch of water. You are not alone, nor are you in unexplored territory.
Dana Bourne, webDOTgal - Resources
for transgendered people and their significant others.
Gender
Mirror - Nice site by a transman-transwoman couple. Includes "the
first ever public photo of a transman and transwoman kissing" and a
sample from their upcoming book.
If You're Going to
Be a Female, Please Don't Be an Airhead - "I'm 39 years old, and
about two decades ago I made a decision to reject some of the feminine
frippery that I found--to dust off a phrase from the Sixties--demeaning to
women. I'm talking about makeup, unnaturally curly hair, nails long enough
to impair dexterity, shoes two sizes too small, starving oneself thin, and
so on. (What twisted piece of karma gave me a husband who wears high heels
is beyond me, but I can't help but see the humor in it.)"
Kathy
and Amanda - A hetrosexual crossdresser and his wife share their
biographies, pictures and real life adventures.
Melissa and
Kath's Tea Time - A couple involved with a cross dressing relationship
sharing with others what they have gone through.
Minnie Bruce Pratt - An amazing
incredible poet-activist who writes prose poems like "Beatrice waits
for the woman with eyes that say, Come with me. Into the rain-streaked
street of night, the yellow leaves fallen like golden scars on black
asphalt, they walk out their answer to the riddle, the woman who is not a
man, the woman who is not a woman, following the yellow drift like fire
around the corner."
An Open Letter to the
Parents, Family and Friends of a Transsexual - "Since you are
reading this, I assume that someone close to you, a friend or family member,
has made what must appear to you to be a very shocking and perhaps
disturbing disclosure. Your thoughts must be racing at this moment and your
emotions are probably in a turmoil. You probably have many question. If you
are concerned about the person, you probably have some fears. In this
letter, I will try to answer some of those questions and deal with a few of
those fears. I can speak with authority on this subject, because I am a
transsexual."
Patty and
Mikal - Mikal is 23 yrs. old and is a pre-everything FTM. Patty is 33
yrs. old and a bi femme boy-chick. They are looking to make new friends in
this ever expanding FTM-S/O community.
Personal
Stories - "If you have AIS or are the parents of an AIS child, we
would like to hear from you. We will use this part of the web site to
display people's stories. Some AIS patients have found it very helpful to
tell what happened to them. For many of us, it is a change to
"say" those things that we sometimes have never told anyone."
Polare, the magazine of
The Gender Centre - "A great many of the articles and stories
appearing in transgendered publications center around the crossdresser´s
needs, and rights, to express their feminine side. It is also a common theme
to belittle or shame those who would deny or put limitations on this
expression of self. Unfortunately while endorsing the rights of the
transgendered, there is a tendency to ignore the very real feelings, needs
and rights of the partners of these gender-gifted persons...."
Significance -
Female to Male significant other support page. Seeking significant others to
share experiences with and to encourage one and other. Please stop by.
Silence = Death
- A great essay from the partner of an intersexed lesbian, about coming to
identify as part of the transgender and intersex communities and unite in
battle.
SOFFA
resource list - A list of groups that explicitly welcome partners,
significant others, family members, and/or other interested persons of FTMs.
A SOFFA's
Resource Guide - This is a site dedicated to the significant others,
friends, families, and allies of the transgendered community. It contains
resources for anyone involved in the transitional process.
SOFFAs? Yes! -
A little talk from the American Boyz page on our significant others and the
transitions and challenges they face with us.
S.T.A.R.R North
Carolina - STARR is a support group for heterosexual cross dressers and
wives/SO's that meet on the second weekend of the month in a non sexual
environment. Located in North Carolina. STARR has programs for both couples
as well as the single members.
Trans Forming
Families Book - Excerpts - Little tastes of what's in the whole book,
with captions like "Tell Grandma I'm a Boy" and "More Than
'Standing By My Trans'."
TransFamily Cleveland -
TransFamily Cleveland is a support group for transgendered and transsexual
people, their parents, partners, children, other family members, friends,
and supportive others and provides referrals, literature, and over-the-phone
information on all transgender issues.
TransParent
Winter, 1997 - Including stories like "How did I start out with a
melancholy Catholic daughter and end up with a contented Jewish son? (The
tale of Philadelphia T*FAM)," "Life is more fun married to a
transsexual," and "Mary Boenke - A PFLAG leader's lesbian daughter
becomes her son."
Trans-Partners - Partnering
issues in the transgendered community.
TRANS-POSITIONED
- About being the lesbian-identified partner of an FTM, by the wondrous
Loree Cook-Daniels. "I expected rejection. I expected incredulity. I
expected anger. I expected curiosity. What I did not expect was what I
found. Out of the first 30 or so coupled lesbian friends we talked to,
threeadmitted that one of the partners felt she was also a female-to-male
transsexual (FTM). A fourth lesbian friend said she had struggled with the
question for many years before deciding to keep her female body and role.
During the whole nine years Marcelle and I had grappled in isolation with
that invisible elephant in the living room, other lesbians we knew and
socialized with were cohabitating with the same beast!"
Transsexualism and
Gender Transition FAQ - Information for friends, family, and co-workers
of the transgendered person. Question and answer format. Supportive, simple,
clear content.
TS and Marriage
- "A couple enters a marriage because they care about the welfare of
their partner. The couple agree to work together in times of health or
sickness, during times of financial plenty or when disaster hits. Should one
spouse be severely injured in an accident, would the other spouse
immediately file for divorce because of such a change in the marriage
situation? Very, very few would."
What If? - A
lovely essay by a Quaker P-FLAG member. "Look, we take chances. We are
in the business of saving lives. Lives of confused youth, lives of desperate
adults. Does it make a difference? What is each of those lives worth? Who
else is really fighting for those we seek to save?...There is a
responsibility here. A responsibility that few are willing to accept. Most
simply turn their faces away... what you can not see simply does not
exist."
When you love the one you're
with.... - "'Impossible! Ha Ha very funny! No Way! How? How could
you?' and then stunned silence. These were some of the many reactions I had
when my SO told me that he was transgendered. The man I loved with all my
heart and soul, the man I promised to stand by through all of life's
hardships and joys, the man I married wasn't a man at all. He was a woman
born into a man's body."
Workshops
Suggestions for FTM and SOFFAs - A list of about 26 workshops that
Amboyz folks wrote up a few years ago to demonstrate how F2M issues can be
inclusive of the whole spectrum of F2Ms as well as to soffas (significant
others, friends, family, and allies).
GIDreform.org
- Information resource for all who advocate reform of the psychiatric
classification of gender diversity as a mental disorder. Documents, cited
references, and advocates.
The Samui (Gender Reassignment) Clinic
- The Samui Clinic Thailand. provides first class sex change surgery at
affordable prices without fuss or hindrance in a calm and condusive
atmosphere.
TransgenderSoul - The
creation of Denver psychologist Rachael St.Claire PhD, providing resources
for understanding, healing, and exploring the psychology of transgender
issues.
Trans-Health - Quarterly health
and fitness e-zine for transgendered and transsexual people. Features,
columns, and message boards
Discrimination
Against Transgendered People - Summary of existing case law in the U.S.,
including employment discrimination, parental issues, marriage, immigration,
and prison issues; authored by Shannon Minter, senior staff attorney,
National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Gender
Expression and Employment Discrimination Under Title VII - Legal
memorandum about how discrimination based on gender expression differs from
discrimination based on sexual orientation. Includes summary of relevant
case law on grooming and dress codes. From GenderPAC.
The International Bill
of Gender Rights - Adopted 1993, revised 1994 and 1995 at the
International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy, it
expresses human and civil rights from a gender perspective.
Policy and
Legislative Recommendations re Transgendered Citizens of Seattle -
Overview of discrimination against transgendered people, analysis of
effective of 1986 trans-inclusive law, recommendations for revisions to the
law. Official Report of the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities to the
Seattle City Council, May 1999.
Q&A Guide to
Transgender Rights - Model talking points for educating legislators, the
media, and the public about gender identity, gender expression, gender
variance and transgendered. From It's Time, Illinois.
Transgender Equality: A Handbook
for Activists and Policymakers - Guide to passing transgender-inclusive
non-discrimination legislation with introduction to transgender issues,
language for legislation, talking points, comprehensive resource listing.
96-page book, June 2000.
Transgender
Issues and Sexual Orientation - A 1997 issue of the National Journal of
Sexual Orientation Law, including three articles, and a brief to the
European Court of Human Rights in the case of X,Y, and Z v. UK.
Transgender
Law and Policy - Up-to-date listing of all U.S. laws that are
transgender-inclusive; quality articles and resources on legal issues
affecting transgendered and gender variant people. Intended for activists,
policymakers, and academics.
Transgender Law Online - An
MTF lawyer's articles on using transgender marriages to legalize same-sex
marriages in the U.S., transgendered people in the U.S. military, and Title
VII's applications for transgendered people.
