Some Events of the year 2010: Part 1 - Organizations, legislati

[Shana A]

24 December 2010
Some Events of the year 2010: Part 1 - Organizations, legislation, litigation, political parties.
This is just some of what happened in 2010.

http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-events-of-year-2010-part-1.html

Organizations
Europe:

    ILGA-Europe published Transgender People and the Gender Recast Directive (direct link to PDF download) which is intended to provide "an introduction to the content of the Gender Recast Directive and an overview of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), and their relevance for trans people living in the European Union".

    International Congress on Gender Identity and Human Rights. Barcelona 4-6 June.

    Trans Community Conference, London 16 July.

    Two Turkish delegates to the 3rd European Transgender Council in Malmo were attacked in a local restaurant.

    UK: National Trans Police Association (NTPA) trans and intersex police officers officially launched and recognised by the police service in March.

[Shana A]

25 December 2010
Some Events of the year 2010: Part 2– Persons

http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-events-of-year-2010-part-2-persons.html

Africa:
19 young men in Sudan were sentenced to 30 lashes and fined after a police raid found them in female clothing and makeup. They were flogged in public.

The mummy of a 4th century CE Egyptian child who died of a brain haemorrhage, currently located at Saffron Walden Museum in Essex, has been determined to be a male-bodied girl.

Christine Ehlers, Johannesburg, Labour Court rules that she must be reinstated in her job.

Denise Abbah, a cis woman, a mother of five, was charged with robbery in 2003 and thrown in a men's jail because of a clerical error. When she objected that she was a woman, they said that she was a transsexual. She was frequently raped, front and back, for seven months before being acquitted. In 2010 she sued for compensation and was obliged to take a sex test.

[Shana A]

26 December 2010
Some Events of the year 2010: Part 3 – Internet, Sports, Medicine, Celebrities, Deaths

http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-events-of-year-2010-part-3.html

Internet
Confissões agridoces, previously a biography site, has become an advice site.

Dominic Scaia banned from Facebook in January after posting post-op chest photos. Facebook quickly backed down.

Yahoo group for mtf-ftm couples.

HBS International put a page on psychology.wikia.com in January. It lasted less than a day.

[Shana A]

27 December 2010
Some Events of the year 2010: Part 4–Visual media

http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-events-of-year-2010-part-4visual.html

Art
Anita Ayres appears pre and post in Caitlin Cronenberg's book of nude photographs.

Carry Fonder, from Ann Arbor and in Mumbai, has modified a motor rickshaw in line with her ideas of hijras, but emphasized their male origins. Orientalism.

Malcolm Hutcheson's exhibition, Angelcopiers, recent photographs of Pakistani hijras, was held in Islamabad in May.

Jonathan Katz co-curated Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. House Republican Leader John Boehner and the Catholic League objected and achieved a partial censorship.

Rick Nahmias' book of photographs, Golden States of Grace, Prayers of the Disinherited, contains a few trans persons.

[Shana A]

29 December 2010
Some Events of the year 2010: Part 5 –News Media, Journals

http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-events-of-year-2010-part-5-news.html

News Media & Bookshops
Gays the Word Bookshop, which hosts meetings of Trans London, faced with 25% increase in rent from Camden Council.

The Sunday Life, Belfast, was censured by the Press Complaints Commission for using the word '->-bleeped-<-'.

Mithly (=same as me), a new GLBT magazine in Morocco.

Original Plumbing for trans men.

[Shana A]

31 December 2010
Some Events of the year 2010: Part 6 – Books

http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-events-of-year-2010-part-6-books.html

35 pages of the lost third volume of memoirs by Earl Lind/Ralph Werther/Jennie June were found by Randall Sell and have been published on Outhistory.org.

    * Akhter Hussain Balouch. A study of sociology of trans-sexuals of Sindh. 2010.
    * Christine Bard. Une histoire politique du pantalon. Paris: Seuil, 2010.
    * Jameela Boardman. Jameela's Journey: From Jonathan to Jameela: The True Story of a Muslim Convert, Transsexual, Revolutionary Guards Design Engineer, Inventor and Spiritualist Physical Medium! Jameela Designs. 2010.
    * Kate Bornstein & S Bear Bergman. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. Seal Press, 2010. The sequel.