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RESOURCES Lynn Conway's Homepage - includes information about transsexuality and features successful transsexual men and women. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html My Husband Betty Message Boards - Message boards created and moderated by Helen Boyd, author of My Husband Betty, with a focus on partners of transgender people. Users must log-in to view message board contents. www.myhusbandbetty.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=34 Transgender Basics - 20 minute educational film by the Gender Identity Project at New York's LGBT Center. http://www.gaycenter.org/community/multimedia/transgenderbasics Transparentcy - A great website, dedicated to the protection of transgender people's right to be a parent, and their love for their children. www.transparentcy.org ORGANIZATIONS COLAGE is a national movement of people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer parents. We build community and work toward social justice through youth empowerment, leadership development, education, and advocacy. The COLAGE Kids of Trans program offers presentations and resources, including the Kids of Trans Resource Guide, available online. www.colage.org/programs/trans FORGE - For Ourselves: Reworking Gender Expression. FORGE is a national education, advocacy and support umbrella organization supporting FTMs, partners, family member, and allies. Materials addressing racism, positive sexuality, violence, and transition. Many resources for building healthy families, resolving problems in relationships, and parenting skills. Telephone: 414-278-6031. www.forge-forward.org. FTM International - An international organization serving the FTM community. FTMI_AFLOAT is a listserve for significant others, family, and friends of FTMs. http://www.ftmi.org GenderPAC - works to ensure that classrooms, communities, and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow, and succeed - whether or not they meet expectations for masculinity and femininity. www.gpac.org Gender Spectrum Education and Training - provides education, resources and training to help you create a more gender sensitive and supportive environment for all people, including gender variant and transgender youth. They host an annual Gender Spectrum Family Conference in Seattle, WA. www.genderspectrum.org IFGE - The International Foundation for Gender Education advocates for freedom of gender expression. They host an annual conference and publish Transgender Tapestry magazine. www.ifge.org PFLAG - Parents, Family, Friends of Lesbians and Gays - Maintains more than 450 affiliate chapters across the country. Some include members of the Transgender Support Special Outreach Network. PFLAG's transgender network (T-NET) focuses on support for transgender people and their parents, families, and friends http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=380 NCTE - National Center for Transgender Equality. NCTE works for the advancement of transgender people using collaboration, education, and empowerment. 202-903-0112. www.nctequality.org NGLTF - Transgender Civil Rights Project - The Task Force is a national progressive organization working for LGBT civil rights. Their Transgender Civil Rights Project works to increase the number of state, local and federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender expression and identity. http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/transgender NCLR - National Center for Lesbian Rights advocates for the legal rights of transgender people in the area of parenting, custody/visitation, second-parent adoption, and other important issues. They also provide legal information and referrals. Call 800-528-6257 or visit www.nclrights.org. Transfamily - Homepage of Transfamily of Cleveland, a support network created by the parents of a transgender person. This website includes links, email lists, books, and other resources for family members of transgender persons. www.transfamily.org TYFA - TransYouth Family Allies empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected. www.imatyfa.org |
MOVIES The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. A road movie about three transgender women driving through Australia. Toward the end of the film, one character meets her young son. 1994. Written and directed by Stephan Elliot. The Adventures of Sebastien Cole. A coming of age indie film about a teenager who lives with his transgender step-parent and engages in risky behavior. The parent's coming out scene is fairly realistic, but there is an unrealistic death that may be difficult for some viewers. 1998. Rated R. Written and directed by Tod Williams. All About My Father. - This documentary is a touching portrait of a well-respected doctor and cross-dresser in a small Christian community in Norway, told with warmth and nostalgia by the only person who could make such a film - his son. 2002, Norway. Directed by Even Benestad. In My Shoes. A documentary film directed by Jen Gilomen and produced by the COLAGE Youth Leadership in Action Program. This film follows the lives of five youth from LGBT families and includes one youth being raised by her transgender (FTM) guardian. This is a great tool for raising public awareness of issues impacting COLAGErs. Just Call Me Kade. A documentary film about a sixteen year old FTM transitioning and growing up in Tucson, Arizona. Myth of Father. This documentary by Paul Hill provides an intimate look into the lives of Paul's family as they relate to his MTF father. 2003. Normal - An HBO film directed by Jane Andersen and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson. This movie follows husband and father Roy through his coming out and transition, addressing the reactions of his wife, co-workers, and two children. Southern Comfort. This tender documentary follows Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual, through the final year of his life as he battles ovarian cancer. One of Robert's adult sons is interviewed about his mom. 2001. Directed by Kate Davis. Transamerica. The critically acclaimed film starring Felicity Huffman as a transgender woman who discovers she is the father of a grown son and embarks on a cross-country road trip. This movie explores issues of family, passing, and secrecy, and is intended for an adult audience. 2005. Directed by Duncan Tucker. Transparent. A documentary film by Jules Rosskam about 19 female-to-male transsexuals living in the United States who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children. 2005. You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men. A documentary film featuring six transmen reflecting on their experience of transition from female to male. One of the men has three grown children who are interviewed, one of whom is still struggling with her parent's transition. 1997. Produced and directed by Candace Schermerhorn and Bestor Cram. BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods - My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey, Picador USA, NY. 2002. The adult daughter of a straight mother and transgender father provides a memoir of moving observations, that captures the experience of growing up with a transgender father in suburban Ohio. Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell it Like it Is. by Abigail Garner. Harper Collins. 2004. This book interweaves the author's personal experiences of growing up with a gay father and straight mother, with those of other adult children of LGBT parents, based on 8 years of activism and over 50 interviews. Features several adults with one or more transgender parent/s. Abigail's website also featured archived advice columns to LGBT parents. Fluff the Bunny - A children's story about a bunny's journey of gender discovery. Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and their Families by Peggy Gillespie. University of Massachussetts Press. 1999. A book filled with loving portraits and stories of LGBT families. Luna by Julie Anne Peters. Little, Brown, and Co. 2004. A young adult novel written from the perspective of the sister of a transgender youth. Appropriate for ages 12 and up. Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents edited by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels. St. Martin's Press. New York, NY. 2000. A unique anthology of stories written by teens and adults with lesbian, gay, and transgender parents. This is the largest collection of essays by people with transgender parents and is highly recommended for teens and adults. The Ties That (Don't) Bind: Transgender Family Law and the Unmaking of Families, by Taylor Flynn, in Transgender Rights, edited by P. Currah, R. Juang, and S. Minter. U of Minnesota Press. 2006. This essay provides an overview of family law as it has been applied to transgender parents. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families. by Arlene Istar Lev. Haworth Press. 2004. A guide for therapists working with transgender clients and their families from a clinical and theoretical perspective. Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity. by Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT. Q Press. 2007. A book for therapists, family, and transgender people that explains the many issues of gender transition, written by a trans therapist. Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones edited by M. Boenke. Waterford Press. 1999. Thirty one stories by spouses, parents, children, and friends exploring the journey, struggle, and delight of having a transgendered loved one. Trumpet. by Jackie Kay, Pantheon Books, 1998. Fictional work that describes how a widow and adult son cope when the FTM father dies and his transsexuality becomes public. With Change, Acceptance is Key, Two Brothers Share How They Coped When Their Father Decided to Become a Woman by Lane DeGregory. St. Petersburg Times. April 15, 2007. |
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