Transgender activist Jessica Lam helps plan conference at Florida International

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Transgender activist Jessica Lam helps plan conference at Florida International University

BY STEVE ROTHAUS

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/09/transgender-activist-jessica-lam-helps-plan-conference-at-florida-international-university-1.html

Years before Chastity Bono shocked Cher with the news that she was becoming Chaz, Jesus Lam Sr. had a similar talk with his mother, Yolanda. "I don't want to see you wearing a dress in front of me," Yolanda told her first-born son, now Miami transgender activist Jessica Lam. "I said, 'Mom, I don't need to wear a dress in order to be a woman,'" Jessica said in an interview. "I'm more than just the sum of my body parts and what I wear."

Lam, 41, is an organizer of this weekend's second TransCon: Justice Summit to be held at Florida International University Biscayne Bay Campus.