transgender people
Roundup: Reusing Condoms in Rural Kenya
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
March 29, 2011 - 9:55am (Print)
Reusing condoms due to lack of availability in Kenya, Governor McDonnell signs TRAP law in Virginia, North Dakota pushes abstinence-until-marriage, and looking at discrimination of transgendered persons.
VIDEO: Are You a Man Or a Woman?
by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check
August 6, 2009 - 2:24pm (Print)
Whenever someone
inadvertently finds out that my brother is transgendered, the slew of questions
inevitably begins. “Why did he transition? What was he like as a girl? Did you
think there was something wrong with him?”
Vancouver Pharmacy Says No to Trans People
by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check
July 8, 2009 - 11:09am (Print)
An all-women pharmacy in Vancouver sounds like a great resource if you’re a bio-woman, but what about the population of transgender sex workers that are in need of safer sex education and, potentially, rape counseling?
From Chastity to Chaz
by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check
June 17, 2009 - 2:24pm (Print)
Having someone who is already in the public’s eye openly transition
from female to male will help new generations be able to grow up
knowing about this choice, thinking about this choice, and hopefully
accepting this choice.
Pregnant Trans People Need Care, Not Media Circus
by Erin Wilkins, Family Tree Clinic
May 15, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
Self-Identification Comes First
by Julie Truesdell, Advocates for Youth
February 11, 2008 - 8:55am (Print)
Many people, queer-identified or not, assume that the term "transgender" refers only to specific individuals who have sexual reassignment surgery, but that is not the case.
LGBTs in Asia Face Criminalization
by Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia
November 27, 2007 - 8:58am (Print)
Sexuality confronts and challenges cherished notions of culture. And hence sexuality outside marriage is not recognized, sexuality of women is not seen as existing, sexual choices other than of the heterosexual variety are criminalized and transgender people marginalized.
