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I have created this page as the place of Join the Impact members to address the many issues facing the transgender community. There are many groups and organizations who are working independently on some of these issues, but I'd like to bring them all together here, with Join The Impact being the "melting pot" for all of these issues, a place where we all can come together as one community working together. Many of these issues will be familiar to you, because trans people face many of the same issues as gays, lesbians and bisexuals, such as employment discrimination and legal recognition of our relationships regardless of who we love. Being transgender, however, adds a different “twist” to all of those issues that you may not have thought of before. In addition, there are some issues unique to the trans community, such as access to appropriate medical care to aid in medical transition for those who take that route (see the Standards of Care for gender identity disorder (GID)), medical insurance coverage for those expenses and the simple freedom to pee in the restroom that fits our gender expression.


THESE ARE SOME OF TRANS RELATED ISSUES AND NEEDS THAT COULD BE DISCUSSED HERE:
  • Protecting transgender and gender nonconforming people from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.
  • More enlightened and better coordinated state and federal policies on changing our names and sex/gender markers on driver’s licenses, passports, Social Security records, birth certificates and other records in ways that do not “out” us every time those records are accessed. (You can share your stories about the challenges you have faced in changing your records on The Identity Document Nightmare page.)
  • Passing hate crimes laws that include violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people.
  • Enlightened policies for housing and providing medical treatment for transgender and gender nonconforming inmates in jails and prisons.
  • Passage and enforcement of anti-bullying laws to make schools safer for transgender and gender nonconforming children.
  • Immigration policy reform (such as political asylum and partner recognition)
  • Changing military policies that make GID automatic grounds for discharge as mentally unfit.
  • Access to transgender-sensitive health care.
  • Protecting the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people to parent, including adoption, and to custody and visitation when relationships end.
  • The right to equal recognition of marriages involving transgender partners.
  • Educating advocacy organizations to increase recognition of transgender related issues and their inclusion of transgender and gender nonconforming people in leadership and staff positions.
  • Educating government agencies, schools, businesses, the public and the GLB community on who we are and what we need.
  • Providing safe, welcoming and inclusive access to public services such as homeless shelters and support groups.
  • HIV prevention, education and treatment
If you have ideas for these pages, or would like to volunteer some time to work on this section of the website, please contact me.
Please feel free to add pages linked to the above issues, so these topics can be discussed properly and given the attention they deserve.

For a page of Transgender-related Resources, please go HERE.

For a Glossary on Transgender terms, please go HERE.



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themyscira Twist 0 Sep 17 2009, 6:02 AM EDT by themyscira
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Hi,
I am glad we are having a place for us in here.
Thanks!.


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azblue1 HI just need to talk 9 Jun 21 2009, 1:30 PM EDT by meliloz07
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Well since 2001 I have been very close with trans people of all kinds. This includes pre-op, post-op, non-op intersexed and cross-dressers.
I have also dated only trans people since 2001.

I feel very comfortable around trans people because I feel I AM one. Being genderqueer and living 'stealth', I am revealed by my close friends and lovers. And these are a couple people right now who don't understand and one who does not approve. This person has been very negative and critical since she thinks it's somehow 'un-natural' for me with be with a TS woman. She has asked me don't you want a 'real' (cisgendered) woman?
As if being TS is not real ? In fact I find I am far more attracted to a trans-sexual woman that I have EVER been to a cisgendered female. I feel that a TS will understand my male spirit and my male side. A lesbian never could. Also disturbing in this persons line of reasoning is her idea that trans people are somehow incapable of having a healthy romantic relationship. I say she is WRONG- and this is an example of trans--phobia.
I love my trans friends and I finally feel like I have a home .
I finally feel like I belong.
I have never that way around anyone else.
I mean I found my tribe. And from now on, I pledge to be close with people who will be supportive of me and my trans-ness and my trans friends.
Thanks for listening - Aragorn (Susanna)


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samanthisqueer October: Trans Activism & the DSM-V - What does everyone think? 7 May 2 2009, 11:47 PM EDT by atmasilver
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Local Coordination of an international claim
Demonstration against Gender Identity Dysphoria (GID)- October 2009

This message aims to be the first step leading to a complex coordination. We, the trans activists from Barcelona who in the last two years have worked to organize a trans demonstration, have the goal of repeating this demonstration for a third time on October 2009, and for that cause we keep on finding new allies.

We are speaking to all the trans activists of every city in the world, proposing to start spreading this action.

Our objective stands clear: to mobilize in a united way at an international demonstration against the Gender Identity Dysphoria, and to demand its removal from the next DSM-V and CIE-11 (manuals that are going appear in 2012 and 2014, respectively).
The objective of the next 10th of October 2009 is still the de-pathologization of transgenderism and transsexuality, and the purpose of this calling is to really achieve a coordination that allows us to have an international fighting day as big as possible, so we can make enough pressure to force the American Psychiatric Association Assembly so that they raise of removing the GID form its next manual.

It is a tough task to coordinate so many cities at the same time, therefore , as we have done in past years, we that we decide a same slogan and 4 basic points to be included in a internationally, and with that done that each city helds the demonstration as they want.

Finally, we have to recall that the next DSM-V is out on 2012 and that therefore, it is now when we have to pressure to reach our goal of removing this “disorder” form that manual.

You can contact us in Barcelona on manitransbcn@gmail.com

The fight goes on!

Miguel Misse (member of the organization for the Demonstration of Transgender, Transsexual and Intersexual fight in Barcelona)
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