Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Homeless Transgender

The only transgender homeless shelter in NYC is in Queens. Read about it in the NY Times. I'm learning more and more about this population. I'm not sure if I even like to categorize and generalize, but I suppose I'm more sensitive to potential issues within the transgender population.

Here are some transgender sites:

Standards of Care:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~colem001/hbigda/hstndrd.htm

A Glossary:
http://www.tsroadmap.com/start/tgterms.html

Wikipedia Articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transgender-related_topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender

Transgender Transitioning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_transition

DSM-IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_disorder

I found the idea of cisgender interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

Transgender Symbol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:A_TransGender-Symbol_Plain3.svg

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