Mona Mason on Transgender Equality and Jerkaphillia
Posted by charlievazquez
http://charlievazquez.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/mona-mason-on-transgender-equality-and-jerkaphillia/Greetings all!
John and I will be in beautiful Puerto Rico this week, until next Friday, so I'm switching to interview mode for the next two posts, as I had to do two in one week. The first, this one, was conducted with Mona Rae Mason, New York City's mother hen to the male-to-female transgender community and an advocate for homeless queer youth. We got into the nuts and bolts of the medical and political challenges many transgender folks experience.
Charlie Vázquez: My first post on this blog covered the Christmas dinner I volunteered for, which you organized, for homeless LGBT youth at Sylvia's Place in NYC. You also directed the Transgender Project, a study of male-to-female transgendered folks in the New York City area. Can you tell us a little more about what I've already mentioned and include things I haven't? What other kinds of advocacy work have you done or plan on doing?
