In 2013, Pritzker’s philanthropic organization, the Tawani Foundation, which supports service members and military education, issued a $1.35 million grant to the Palm Center, a University of California, Santa Barbara-based LGBT think tank. Using the influx of funding, the Center launched the Transgender Military Service Initiative, a project aimed at sponsoring research and encouraging public[…]
This guide to supporting transgender students builds on the experiences of educators and advocates who have provided long-time support to the transgender/gender non-conforming communities in the United States. Moreover, it ensures that the knowledge gained to support these students can serve as a model for other educators, parents, counselors and students. In doing so, it[…]
Jessie Knouse, a college student currently transitioning from female to male, wants to educate people around him about what it means to be transgender and what the experience of transitioning has been like for him so far: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-davis-smith/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-being-a-trans-man-but-were-afraid-to-ask_b_6708606.html
Nate Gualtieri, a trans man, shares his view of the power of language – short, sweet and to the point! http://elitedaily.com/life/mistakes-transgender-allies/1283823/
This 32-minute documentary by Larry Tung (2008) is about the life and work of activist Pauline Park. A transracial adoptee born in Korea, Park is a co-founder of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), the first statewide transgender advocacy organization in New York, and continuously works in local government to fight for[…]
They were born identical twin boys, but one felt she was always a girl – Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt’s exploration of an ordinary family undergoing transition. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/19/becoming-nicole/
Here is a interesting article that REFUTES the transgender/suicidal paradigm: http://www.transadvocate.com/fact-check-study-shows-transition-makes-trans-people-suicidal_n_15483.htm