International Transgender Links - Resource Guide

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Transgender Guide - Learning Center *selected link

The Transgender Guide - A free resource site for those serious about transgender learning and interaction. Features a huge database of information and articles as well as numerous message boards, chat rooms and information sources.

Nightclub Directory *selected link

Transgender Friendly Nightclub Directory - A listing of TG friendly nightclubs in the United States and Canada that is always updated. Addresses and phone numbers are listed for each club.

International Transgender Information *selected link

The International Foundation for Gender Education - A leading international organization that is dedicated to transgender education. It also promotes the self-definition and free expression of an individuals' gender identity. Visit this site for useful transgender news and information.

Transitioning Resources *selected link

Classy Transgender Resources - A well-designed site that provides resources and links to other sites of interest pertaining to legal issues, and other resources including transgender clothing, makeup, voice techniques, hair styling and health.

Academic Links

The Disparate Classification of Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Psychiatry - The issues of gender identity and sexual orientation are compared in light of current definitions of mental disorder in this paper.
Sexuality and the Arts - A course description on androgyny at the University of Indiana.
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 is featured.
Transtudies: An Online Course Project - This course contains guides to studying gender difference and transgender expression in an academic environment. Includes syllabi with teaching suggestions, student papers, bibliographies, links, and more.
Trans Academics - Newer transgender academic studies and topics.

Activist Links

Debra Davis and the Gender Education Center - Transgender resources and information about Ms. Davis, 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, education, and advocacy.
The Feminist Conspiracy: Flyer Gallery - An excellent collection of signs and flyers, that includes some nifty pro-trans bathroom signs to print out and spread everywhere.
Fighting Bigoted Journalism - A well-articulated objection to Dea Birkett's article that slammed the rights of transsexuals to gender reassignment surgery. Includes rules and tips for non-trans journalists.
Gender Education & Advocacy - The web site of Gender Education and Advocacy, that provides 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.
GenderPAC - A not-for-profit organization, composed of individuals and groups, that are 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 discussion, feedback, and organizing below each news event.
Lambda Letters Project - Helping members and friends affect public policy in areas of concern to the communities of HIV/Aids, GLBT, 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.
The Transgender Fund - The Mission of The Transgender Fund is to financially support qualified movements 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 the Transgendered, 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 joining together every day. T.I.R.E.D. is a single cause to unite all of these organizations in a single action, at least for one day, every year. (Specifcally, August 7th, in memory of Tyra Hunter.)
Transsexual Menace - Toronto - A website focusing on transsexual and transgender information in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area.
TSMenace International - TS Menace is a list for TG/TS community activists and would be activists located all over the world to chat and talk about what's happening in the community and what needs to be changed and also updated through working together.

Coming Out

Post Your Story - A space where trans and GLBT youth can post and share coming-out and self-realization experiences.
Telling Parents - An explanation about 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 main 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 - People who help companies deal with transitioning employees. They offer diversity training focused on transgender issues, alone or as an adjunct to broader diversity training. They make 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 very clear and incredibly valuable advice about whether one should come out in certain situations, and if so how and when to do so the most effectively.

Ethnic Groups

Asian Transgendered Club - A "yahoo! club" home for asian transgendered people.
BAAITS - Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits.
Brian Lantelme Photography - This New York-based photographer presents visual insight into New York City's transgendered community.
Cafe Trans Arabi - Focus on the Middle Eastern Transgendered Community who truly have no voice. Includes information, photos, and ezine.
LGBT Muslim Webring - A Webring connecting sites by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender muslims.
Marsha P. Johnson - A memorial to one of NYC's oldest and best-known drag, transgendered, and African American activists.
Queer Muslims Home Page - Resources and FAQ's for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Muslims and allies.
Queer Potion #9 - Featuring a variety of queer/trans films from the 15th Annual Asian American Film Festival (1997).
TransBay - Organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area transgendeer community, that includes the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center's Club Metamorphosis and Dragon Club, Instituto Familiar de la Raza, and Proyecto ContraSIDA Por Vida.
Trikone - Events and a magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender South Asians.

Family and Society

Dana Bourne, webDOTgal - Resources for transgendered people and their partners.
Even Genetic Girls Get the Blues - Personal essay about one woman's first meeting for partners of cross-dressers.
For the Wives and Girlfriends - Reflections and advice for and by partners and mates of crossdressers and transvestites.
GAIN for January 16, 1999 - Announcement of a soffa activists' chat on AOL.
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."
Kathy and Amanda - A hetrosexual crossdresser and his wife share their bios, pictures and real life adventures.
Patty and Mikal - Mikal is 23 yrs. old and is a pre-everything FTM. Patty is 33 yrs. old and a bi femme boychick. These two 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."
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.."
Silence = Death - A great essay from the partner of an intersexed lesbian, that focuses on coming to identify as part of the transgender and intersex communities and unite in battle.
SOFFAs? Yes! - A little talk from us at the American Boyz page on our significant others, 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.
Trans Forming Families Book - Excerpts - Here are 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 - This is a support group for transgendered and transsexual people, their parents, partners, children, family members, friends, and supportive others and provides referrals, literature, and over-the-phone information on transgender issues.
TransParent Winter, 1997 - A site that includes 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.
Transsexualism and Gender Transition FAQ - Information for friends, family, and co-workers of the transgendered person. A question and answer format that is supportive and simple with 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."
What If? - A lovely essay by a Quaker P-FLAG member.
Workshops Suggestions for FTM and SOFFAs - This is 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.

Health

Chromosomes and Genetic Mapping - Understanding how mapping can affect the gender of a transsexual.
GIDreform.org - Information resource for all who advocate reform of the psychiatric classification of gender diversity as a mental disorder. It includes documents, cited references, and advocates.
The Samui (Gender Reassignment) Clinic - The Samui Clinic in Thailand provides first class sex change surgery at affordable prices without fuss or hindrance in a calm and conducive atmosphere.
TransgenderSoul - This is a creation of Denver psychologist Rachael St.Claire PsyD, it provides resources for understanding, healing, and exploring the psychology of transgender issues.
Trans-Health - A quarterly health and fitness e-zine for transgendered and transsexual people. It features columns, and message boards.

Legal Issues

Press for Change - A political lobbying and educational organization campaigning for equal civil rights and liberties for all transgendered people in the United Kingdom.
Discrimination Against Transgendered People - Summary of existing case law in the U.S., including employment discrimination, parental issues, marriage, immigration, and prison issues.
Gender Expression and Employment Discrimination Under Title VII - Legal memorandum about how discrimination based on gender expression differs from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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.
The Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999 - This is the full text of the regulations to amend the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act to prevent discrimination against trans people in certain circumstances.
The Sexual Reassignment Act 1998 (South Australia) - This is the full text of South Australia's legislation to recognize transgendered people in their reassigned gender.
Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policymakers - This is a guide to passing transgender-inclusive non-discrimination legislation with introduction to transgender issues, language for legislation, talking points, comprehensive resource listing. 96-page book.
Transgender Issues and Sexual Orientation - This is a 1997 issue of the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law.
Transgender Law and Policy - Up-to-date listing of all U.S. laws that are transgender-inclusive, intended for activists, policymakers, and academics.
Transgender Law Online - This site features an MTF lawyer's articles on using transgender marriages to legalize same-sex marriages in the U.S., as well as transgendered people in the U.S. military, and Title VII's applications for transgendered people.

Support Groups

Renaissance Transgender Association - Based in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Includes monthly magazine, resource papers and publications, and information on membership, chapters and affiliates, and more
AIS (Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome) Support Group - Worldwide. Includes medical information about Androgen Insensitivity, support group contacts, newsletters and also personal accounts of people with AIS
AIS Support Group Australia - This website includes meeting, contact and legal information, a newsletter, and information on genetics, hormone therapy, fertility and presentation.
American Boyz, The - United States organization. This website includes regional contact information, the transgendered aging network, newsletters, resources and publications.
Beaumont Society - United Kingdom based. This site includes meeting, membership and contact information; advice column, message boards, free email, magazine, chat room and guest book. Significant other help line, world transgendered news, and resources.
Bluegrass Belles - Based in Lexington, Kentucky. Event calendar, contact and meeting information, and more..
Chi Delta Mu of Tri Ess - Based in New York City. Serving heterosexual crossdressers, their spouses and SO's, this site includes contact information, an events calendar, a library catalog and information on an online forum for the children of crossdressers.
Connecticut Outreach Society - Based in West Hartford, Connecticut. This site includes meeting, membership, and contact information, a FAQ page, calendar of events, reading room, and information on their speakers bureau.
Crossroads - Based in Detroit, Michigan. This site is a membership, and features meeting and contact information.
Edmonton Transgender Society - Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This site features meeting and contact information.
Gender Metaphor Transgender Support Group - Based in Ottawa, Ontario. Includes membership information, meeting information, couples discussion list, members only hotline and on-line support chat.
Gender Mosaic Transgender Support Group - Based in Ottawa, Ontario, serving Eastern Ontario/Western Quebec. Includes membership, meeting and event information, member photos, a library, newsletter, as well as other meeting resources.
Gulf Gender Alliance - Based in New Orleans, Louisiana. This website includes contact and membership information, an event calendar and links to members sites.
Indy Boyz - for FTMs/SOFFAs in Indianapolis - Based in Indianapolis, Indiana. This site includes meeting, membership contact information and a calendar of events.
Ingersoll Gender Center - Based in Seattle, Washington. Includes meeting schedules, tips on passing for the FTM and MTF, articles, and a calendar of events.
Innvestments - Based in the Cape Cod/Southeast Massachusetts area. This website includes meeting, membership and contact information, a members page and newsletter, as well as a calendar of events.
Masquerade - Based in Winnipeg, Mantitoba, Canada. This website includes event pictures, membership and contact information.
Metropolitan North Transgender Alliance (MeNTA) - Based in White Plains, New York. This site includes meeting schedule, event information, newsletter, membership and contact information.
Montgomery Institute - Based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montgomery, Alabama. This website includes membership and contact information, an event calendar and spiritual information.
Northern Concord, The - Based in Manchester, UK. This website includes membership and meeting information, a calendar of events, help line information, a magazine, profiles and articles.
NorthWest Gender Alliance - Based in Portland, Oregon. This site includes meeting and contact information, activities and local resources.
Ottawa Ontario Transsexual Support - Based in Eastern Ontario/Western Quebec. This website includes meeting, membership and contact information, a reading list and Ottawa area resources.
Phoenix Transgender Association Monterey Bay (PTAMB) - Based in Seaside, California. Includes membership, meeting and contact information. Also a calendar of events.
Rhode Island Gender Community - Based in Providence, Rhode Island. This site includes meeting, contact, and legal information, an event calendar and more.
Rochester Transgender Group - Based in Rochester, New York. This website includes meeting and contact information, resources, and an event calendar.
Southern Colorado IntraRegional Transgendered Society(SCIRTS) - Based in Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado. This site includes meeting, events and contact information.
St. Louis Gender Foundation - Based in St. Louis, Missouri. This website includes membership, meeting, contact information an event calendar, and more.
STARR International - Headquartered in North Carolina. Focus on the crossdresser, and includes email list support for cds and significant others, contact information and information on forming your own chapter.
Straight Spouse Network - This is an international support network of heterosexual women and men, formerly or currently partnered with gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered mates.
TG / TS Woman - Web based. Unmoderated gender-related issues discussion group. Open to anyone who is transgendered or transsexual, living full time or not.
TransBay - Based in San Francisco, California. Includes an events calendar, resource lists for the bay area, features, and an interactive message board.
TransFamily Cleveland - Based in Cleveland, Ohio. This site includes meeting and contact information, email support groups, and more.
Transgender Health Action Coalition - Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Includes advocacy, meeting and contact information, support, and more.
Transgendered Network International - Web based. Includes membership information, library, resources listed by state, and chat.
Trans-pitt - Serves the Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and Northern West Virginia areas. This site includes meeting, membership, and contact information.
Trans-Yorks - Based in the Yorkshire region of the UK. This website includes membership information, support chat, email list, events and more.
Triad Gender Association - Based in Greensboro, North Carolina. This site includes meeting and contact information, an event calendar and a newsletter.
TS/TG Society.com -A large list of trans-friendly businesses by state, news releases and links. It is home of the "Send a Trans to Camp" fund.
Twenty Club, Inc., The - Based in Hartford, Connecticut. Associated with the Gender Identity Clinic of New England. This site includes meeting, contact, and newsletter information.
Washington Gender Alliance - Based in Bellingham, Washington. This site includes information on meetings, contacts, and their speakers bureau.
West Texas Gender Benders - Based in Lubbock, Texas. This website includes meeting and contact information, resources and an email list.
Western Transsexual Support Network (WTSN) - Based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Includes meeting and online support group information. Links to articles and other websites.
WTSN - Western Transsexual Support Network event calendar.
Xpressions - Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Includes contact, meeting and membership information. Publications, events calendar, and more.

Transition Resources

Classy Transgender - Tons of links and resources for help, legal issues, clothing, make up, and much, much more.
Gender and Life's Paths - A California therapist provides information and resources for persons with transgender concerns and issues.
Gender Dysphoria and Gender Identity Disorder - A psychotherapist addresses gender dysphoria, transsexualism, transgenderism and cross-dressing. Professional resources included.
Gender Identity - Information and inspiration on transitioning, family issues, and suicide. Includes list of FAQ's and answers regarding hormone therapy.
Gender Identity Clinic of New England - This clinic provides services prior to surgery, and surgery for FTM or MTF Gender Reassignment.
Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, The - This site covers the standards followed by many therapists for transsexuals seeking SRS or hormone therapy.
Ingersoll Gender Center - Ingersoll Gender Center. Serving the Transgender Community for 21 years. Includes support and resources.
Intersexed and Transgendered People - Describes common forms of transgenderism and also offers medical information as well as related links.

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