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Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza

Started by Shana A, January 12, 2010, 08:43:54 AM

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January 12, 2010, 08:43:54 AM
Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza
By: GRITtv Monday January 11, 2010 8:00 pm

http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2010/01/11/transgender-el-salvador-gaza-reno-barney-frank/

Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently–Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor–but even David Letterman couldn't resist making a crack at Simpson's expense.

The "T" at the end of LGBT often seems like an afterthought, with transgender rights being excluded even when LGBT rights are approved. Today on GRITtv we talk to Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Naomi Clark of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and blogger at Feministe, and filmmaker Jules Rosskam of Against a Trans Narrative, featured on GRITtv last summer, about being transgender in the U.S. and how far we still have to go.
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