Beginning A Global Dialogue on Transgender Rights
by NSRC on March 12, 2009
http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/Beginning%20A%20Global%20Dialogue%20on%20Transgender%20RightsIn April of 2008, the National Sexuality Resource Center brought together Transgender advocates from around the world to join together, discuss commonalities and differences, and strategize what human rights for transgender people might look like. The conference has resulted in the development of global policy papers, including the US version, The State of Transgender Rights in the United States, authored by Jamison Green, Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker. Below please find links to our Director's Letter detailing the conference, links to the full executive summary and PDF, and information about our liveblog, hosted on March 30, 2009.
Conference background and context
"The rise of the Transgender movement since the early 1990s has brought into focus the needs and rights of a whole new category of people and the difficulties they face in being accepted by society. While no one knows for sure the number of people who are Transgender and precisely how the increasing visibility of this population is related to broader issues of sexual and reproductive rights and health in our time, there can be no doubt that the need for understand, research, and public sexual literacy is very great. It was in this context that the National Sexuality Resource Center convened a meeting of Transgender rights advocates in April 2008..." See how the conference came about.
