Mayo Clinic to Create Transgender Clinic for Holistic Assistance
This article is sort of a mixed bag of news (including a reference to Paula Overby, who is a transwomen running for Congress in Minnesota who I’ve posted about before, but which contains a note on a...
View ArticleTrans[ition] in Iran
The World Policy Institute has published a very informative and interesting article on the lives of transgender people in Iran. Why should you care about this? For one reason Iran is one of the very...
View ArticleTRANSforming Normal – Book Hopes to Show Different Side of Transgender Community
For 58 years, author Faith Eileen Bryan lived what any reasonable person would call a “normal” life – married, with a family and a career. Faith also was not Faith; she was “John,” the name given to...
View ArticleIntroducing the Transgender Newsbank
The Transgender Newsbank is a collection of more than 400 newspaper and magazine articles from 1911-1994, organized by year and date. I have spent 3 months finding and formatting these articles for...
View ArticleSuicide Attempts Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults
A new study was released today from the Williams Institute at UCLA and the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention. To say that the study was more bad news for an already oppressed minority would be...
View ArticleVITAL UPDATE: Quality of Life in Treated Transsexuals
The research never stops here at Transas City, and I’ve recently completed another batch of lengthy literature reviews to update one of our landmark pages, Quality of Life in Treated Transsexuals. The...
View ArticleThe New Girl in School: Transgender Surgery at 18
It was not an easy transition for Katherine Boone, but the question is no longer whether gender reassignment is an option, but instead how soon it should start. The New York Times is featuring the...
View ArticleTrans*forming the Dialogue – Questioning the Transgender Experience
Hello everyone, Una Nowling here. I am participating in Trans*forming the Dialogue, Simmons College’s Online MSW Program’s campaign to promote an educational conversation about the transgender...
View ArticleDo You Really Want to Hurt Me? – A Personal Essay on Transgender Violence and...
Screen capture from “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.” Growing up in a small town or the suburbs can be a challenge for transgender persons, simply due to the small size of the community and the lack of...
View ArticleFamily Ties : Trans Spouses
The Vital Voice reached out to the KC SOFFA group that Fiona Nowling leads to ask if people would share their stories with the magazine. SOFFA is a support group for Significant Others, Family, Friends...
View ArticleHistory: A new Christine Jorgensen 3-Fer on Transas City
I recently purchased a large number of original wire photos, books, magazines, and other memorabilia from transgender history, and I will be posting them as I process them. As always, I include a link...
View ArticleDecember 2nd SOFFA Meeting
The Kansas City SOFFA group is having a joint meeting with the UMKC Trans+Allies group. This month, UMKC is having a round-table discussion with parents of trans children and young adults, and SOFFA...
View ArticleA Kansas City Transgender Event – Free Screening of “The Danish Girl”
As Caroline Gibbs, founder of the Transgender Institute announced on my Trans Talk program on KKFI last Saturday, Kansas City is honored to be presenting a screening of the Universal Pictures film The...
View ArticleSOFFA Meeting, February 17th
The next meeting of SOFFA is February 17th, at Leawood Pioneer Library, in Study Room 116, from 6:30pm – 8.00pm. Meetings are open to all friends, family, significant others and allies of trans people....
View ArticleJuly 2016 Trans Talk on 90.1 KKFI
Hello everyone! We have two special guests this month on Trans Talk. Earlier this year, we started a series called Transgender Kaleidoscope, where we highlight interesting transgender individuals from...
View ArticleAugust 2016 Trans Talk on 90.1 KKFI
Hello everyone! We begin this month’s Trans Talk edition of the Tenth Voice speaking with Dr. Courtney Marsh, a Reproductive Specialist at The University Of Kansas Hospital who provides hormone therapy...
View ArticleDanish Prime-Time Advertisement Celebrates Transgender Acceptance
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about things not concerning KKFI and Trans Talk. It’s not been a good year for us here at Transas City, not at all. But the election…debacle has convinced me that I...
View ArticleJuly 2017 Trans Talk on KKFI
Hello everyone! We have two guests with us today. Rhyan is a new guest to Trans Talk, and he is here to discuss his own transgender journey with us and to talk about his life. Also with us is Julie,...
View ArticleAugust 2017 Trans Talk on KKFI
Hello everyone! On Trans Talk this month we’re going to be talking with a return guest in our studio – Dr. Hiten Soni, a psychiatrist who strongly supports the transgender community, about the rise in...
View ArticleOctober 2017 Trans Talk on KKFI
On the October Trans Talk edition of The Tenth Voice, we will open the show by listening to an interview that Fiona and I conducted with the directors and one of the cast of the local production of...
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