ILGA TRANS WORLD SECRETARIAT NEWSLETTER -YEAR II / AUGUST 2009 / ISSUE 20 |
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CAMPAIGN |
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IDENTITY |
Nelly Fonseca Recavarren
Nelly was a brave artist who faced social standards of her time on the basis of a conviction on the real thing. Each of her poems challenges us to unravel the mystery of her true identity; even her enormous talent made sure that the time to become faithful guardian of the secret which involved her real nature.
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MANIFEST: STOP PATHOLOGIZATION
International Network for Non-Trans Pathologization
The activists and groups that sign this document and belong to the International Network for Non-pathologizing Trans Identities make a public complaint once against the “psychiatricization" of our identities and the serious consequences of the gender identity disorder (GID).
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BOOKS |
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INTERVIEWS |
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Cumbia, copeteo and tears
Berkins, Lohana.
National report on the status of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people.
Buenos Aires: ALITT 2007.
This book is the continuation of the research begun in the Odyssey for our own name(2005), in which, first, we can see the impossibility of conducting a census of the population trans due to the limited available information.
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Carla's testimony
I am 42 and from 27 I inject hormones. I did until 1999, when, tired of getting things wrong, I went to my personal physician for help. I told him what had happened to me and he, with a face of not understanding anything, I referred to the clinic telling me that the endocrinologist would know what to do to solve my problems.
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HISTORY |
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Religion and sexual identity
Recently the American Psychological Association (APA) demonstrated against the so-called reparative therapy, which supposedly would return to "normal" people with different sexual orientation, as often also included gender identity, as it continues to confuse these concepts.
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NOTES |
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Olympic Bodies: Where are the limits of sex?
What happened with Semenya should suggests us a reflexion about the division between men and women, and if it is not time that the powers are open and free instead of inviting the suspicion of humiliation or doubt.
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