By Munaif Naif and Mezyed Al-Saeedi
Special to the Arab Times
1/5/09
KUWAIT CITY :
Transvestite weds girl: In a strange and unprecedented incident in Kuwait a marriage judge is said to have recently approved the marriage of a Kuwaiti transvestite to an Iraqi girl, reports Al-Rai daily. The judge saw two girls standing in front of him wishing to tie the knot and when he asked them who was the groom, he was shocked when one of the girls said ‘I am’.
According to the law, the judge requested for the witnesses and again he was shocked when he discovered one of the witnesses was the father of the transvestite.
The judge had to approve the marriage because according to the marriage documents which have been submitted to him the groom is a male.
BACKGROUND: Soundarajan won a silver medal in the women’s 800m race at the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar in December 2006 clocking 2 minutes, 3.16 seconds. However, she underwent a sex test shortly after claiming victory, and the results indicated that she “does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman”. Soon after the results of the sex test came out, she was stripped of her silver medal.
Media articles later reported that Santhi might have been born with an intersexed condition known as Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). This condition includes the existence of a ‘Y’ chromosome in women (typically only associated with a male genotype) and results in an inability to respond to Androgens. This unresponsiveness leads to a female body without female internal sex organs. Although the body produces testosterone, it does not react to the hormone. Despite such intersexed conditions being accepted in the Olympics over recent years, the Asia Games seem to have failed to follow confidentiality protocol, resulting in Santhi’s disqualification.
In September 2007, Santhi Soundarajan was reported to have attempted suicide, reportedly by consuming pesticide at her residence. The attempt was blamed on gender, economic, and sports pressure in India.
STORY:
The Times of India, India
2 Jan 2009, 0133 hrs IST, Prajwal Hegde, TNN
BANGALORE: A failed gender test cost Shanthi Soundarajan more than the 800m silver medal at the Doha Asian Games.
Publicly humiliated and socially scorned, suicide seemed like a good option for the elder daughter of brick kiln labourers - Soundarajan and Manimekalai. Some nine months after one of the saddest stories in Indian sport unraveled itself on an international stage, the village belle from Kathakurichi consumed veterinary medicines in a bid to end her life.
It’s a story best forgotten, given that there are greater areas of darkness than light, except that Shanthi wasn’t born to fade into the night. When she got off her hospital bed in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai last September, head tonsured and heart filled with dread, she returned to the very track she dominated as a child, searching for the shards of her shattered dreams. In her new avatar as Tamil Nadu state-appointed athletics coach, she’ll be looking to conquer the same frontiers albeit with a different approach.
Two years after the Doha debacle and two years to go for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, the 27-year-old’s life has come a full circle.
Shanthi has no desire to revisit the events of the last couple of years. She blocks questions on what were easily the darkest days of her life with evasive answers. “I had a lot of support from my family and friends. There’s no problem, everything is ok”, are her constant refrains.
However, she has no plans to return to the track. “I’ve stopped training. I’m not returning to the track. I’m happy coaching,” she said. When pushed for a reason, she replied, “They asked me not to run. After that episode I was asked not to run.”
Only Shanthi knows who “they” are. She will not tell and she won’t return to the track again.
Shanthi had few pillars in her life, and virtually nowhere to go in a crisis situation. Her success on the track was an escape from poverty for her seven-member family, parents and four siblings. Even though she has constantly brushed aside comments that her family was more interested in her purse than the direction her career was going in, especially after she was handed over a huge cheque by the TN government following her rags to riches triumph in Doha, the talk didn’t die.
She lives alone in Pudukottai now. The hour-long journey from Kathakurichi is difficult to do every day, more so because she begins putting her trainees through the pace as early as 6.30 am.
About a year ago, Shanthi approached the Tamil Nadu government for a job. She was immediately offered a two-year contract. Soon after, she started coaching at the Machevadi area government school. She now has 42 children (boys and girls), training under her in track and field events. Shanthi breaks up training into two halves - morning and evening sessions, lasting two hours each. Recently, she started her own academy - the Olympian Sports Academy.
Shanthi credits TPM Mohideen Khan, the TN Sports Minister, for her return to the track. “I can go to him with any problem. He listens and he has always helped me,” she said.
The pick of Shanthi’s trainees is 14-year-old P Rani, a middle-distance runner like herself. When asked if Rani, who is already topping age-group events in the state, reminded her of her own talent, Shanthi laughed out loud.
“No,” she said, and then added after a long pause, “She’s better than me.”
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Contact: Alessandra Soler Meetze at 602-418-5499 (cell)/602-650-1854 (office)
PHOENIX – After receiving a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Central Arizona Shelter Services, Inc. (CASS) has agreed to change its long standing policy of refusing to allow transgender persons to be housed according to their gender identity.
The ACLU was concerned about the unique problems and safety concerns faced by this segment of the homeless population,” said Dan Pochoda, Legal Director of the ACLU of Arizona. “We are very pleased that CASS has taken proactive steps to protect transgender individuals from discrimination or threat when seeking emergency shelter services.”
IIn March, the ACLU of Arizona sent a letter seeking a change in policy. CASS is Arizona’s largest provider of housing services for the homeless.
The new policy, which is effective immediately, states that transgender individuals will be provided shelter in the dormitory of their self-reported gender identity and not on the basis of biological gender unless requested by the individual. In addition, transgender clients will be provided separate private restroom facilities while residing in the shelter
For the past six months, Pochoda has been working closely with CASS officials to develop best practices and screening materials that are sensitive to the unique needs of transgender persons. The ACLU of Arizona provided materials and examples from other cities that have adopted the approach recommended by transgender, lesbian and gay support groups. These cities, including Boston, Toronto and San Francisco, have taken steps to sensitize and train staff members to the concerns of transgender clients.
The ACLU commends the CASS leadership for the constructive resolution of this matter, and has agreed to continue to work with CASS to successfully implement the change. CASS has agreed to codify the new policy in writing and to train employees in its implementation, including at the intake stage for a new client.
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by Sonia on January 3, 2009.
January 3, 2009
The Transgender Illness
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently putting out their new Diagnostic Statistical Manual on psychiatric disorders where “Gender Identity Disorder” remains in the books as a mental disorder. The APA task force is chaired by Dr. Kenneth Zucker with a practice that supports “reparative therapy” for transgender people. You can find the the APA Task Force Report on Gender Identity and Gender
Variance here.
Lynn Conway, a professor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan recently released a report that strongly criticizes the APA task force report (Via Paradox) (Via Queers United.) You can find Conway’s study here.
Summary and Findings: The APA Task Force Report on Gender Identity and Gender Variance
The underreporting of GID prevalence derives from a deliberate misuse of clinical definitions and a failure to mention known calculation errors in sources. The unreasonably low prevalence numbers are given to three
significant figures in the Report, as if they were precisely accurate – while failing to mention well-known sources of estimation error.
The Task Force then dismisses recent work by Olyslager and Conway that had exposed large errors in earlier studies by calling that work a “minority position” – as if a scientific analysis must be certified by a majority vote, rather than judged on its merits.
The Task Force further dismisses the work of Olyslager and Conway by insinuating that citation by “transgender activists” somehow reduces its validity – while failing to cite it themselves. Finally, the Task Force fails to mention recent scientific studies that report far higher-levels of GID prevalence than does their Report.
Is it too much to ask that the APA assure an un-biased and balanced committee in their taskforce for such a critical issue? Is it too much to demand for a fair and accurate assessment of the available literature and research? It is neither fair or balanced when the committee chair has built his entire career on understanding transgender behavior as a disease.
It has been over 35 years since the APA discredited homosexuality as a mental disorder. But GID still has not been objectively and critically evaluated as a mental illness. The damage that this does is twofold. It validates misinformation and provides no useful guidelines on treating trans-related mental health problems for health care providers. And it further stigmatizes an already marginalized and poorly-understood community.
In 1991, Silence of the Lambs showcased one of our first trans characters –a psychopathic killer who got off on killing women and dressing like a woman. Our understanding of the transgender community has not evolved too much beyond this.
Trans-gender people have often been the most visible members of the queer community, and have taken the brunt of the hate, violence, intolerance and ignorance. Despite the passage of Prop 8, the gay movement has made enormous strides over the past decade in integrating and normalizing LGB issues into our everyday. Disappointingly, the same cannot be said about the transgender community.
It’s a community where people continue to struggle to live their lives as they choose free of violence and hate. The near total silence from gay activists on this issue and an absence of a truly fair and balanced APA committee ensure that the transgender community will continue in their struggle.
Update: My own bias on why I think GID should be removed from the books is simple. I don’t believe that a strong desire to be the opposite gender is a mental illness. And understanding transgender people through this medical prism too often narrows our understanding of the same. And too often it has been used to stigmatize and violate human rights of the trans. community.
Having said that… here’s a useful comment reply from Helen G. that sounds better informed of what is actually happening with this issue.
The concerns of many trans and other gender variant people is that Drs Zucker, Blanchard and their colleagues in the APA’s Sexual & Gender Identity Disorders Work Group may well remove GID as a possible diagnosis, at which point it is likely that more people will be incorrectly diagnosed. The treatment of GID would become ‘cosmetic’ and, at its most extreme, it could also mean that things like HRT could be considered ‘harmful behaviours’.
But the argument for removing GID from medical classification is complex: when (in 1974) homosexuality was removed from the DSM, gay and lesbian rights began to gain prominence. It has been a suggested that if GID was removed, then trans people’s rights could also benefit. My concern about this is that it ignores the fact that many trans people have medical needs which did not, and do not, necessarily apply to GLB people, and provision needs to be made for this.
On the other hand, it is a concern that transsexual people are classified under the DSM as having a ‘mental disorder’ - an umbrella phrase which covers a wide range of conditions and which needlessly stigmatises many. From this there can follow the concept of being ‘mentally unfit’ which can, and does, lead to things like workplace discrimination or the loss of custody/visitation rights of children.
In the UK, at least, the removal of GID from medical classification may pave the way for a corresponding removal of the already limited and restrictive state (NHS) funding of medical treatment for the condition of gender dysphoria. In my opinion, the condition needs to be destigmatised without removing the funding.
This article is about the Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe, who ranked second only to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Those interested in his general biography can read the Wikipedia entry here.
There is a rumour that Goring was a transvestite, and the question is raised in many sites on the web. However there is very little substance to the rumour.
About the only biography that approaches the topic is Goring: A Biography by David Irving, whose objectivity has been questioned given his association with right-wing causes and his suing for liable of historian Deborah Lipstadt. The judge in the case ruled that Irving “for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence”.
Irving has one and only one paragraph on the topic in his 846 page biography:
Nobody was celebrated with greater enthusiasm than Goring. “Goring,” Herbert Backe, the level-headed deputy to the minister of agriculture, told his wife after touring eastern Germany with the general in mid-May, “arrived at Breslau wearing a white air-force uniform. The citizenry went wild.” The cheers gave Goring the feeling of immortality: He was Germany — he was the law. The increasingly odd, sometimes even effeminate garments (many of them designed for him by Carin) were a part of his public image. He was at heart almost a transvestite, certainly an exhibitionist. “Herbert,” Frau Backe wrote in her diary, “says that out in the Schorf Heath [around Carinhall] he always has a spear with him.” p193.
This is totally inadequate.
Bernd-Ulrich Hergemoller. Mann fur Mann : biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte von Freundesliebe und mannmannlicher Sexualitat im deutschen Sprachraum. Hamburg: MannerschwarmSkript, 1998 is a biographical encyclopedia of German gays. It has no entry on Hermann Goring but mentions him several times. The only contribution that it offers is that Goring had a violet nightshirt!
Actor Jeff Chandler is taken to be a transvestite on the word of Esther Williams; and J. Edgar Hoover on the word of Susan Rosentiel. There is no such witness in the case of Goring.
The movies of course contribute to the rumour. The actor Volker Spengler who played Erwin/Elvira Weiskopf, the transsexual in Fassbinder’s In Einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year of 13 Moons) 1978, then, eighteen years later, played Goring in Volker Schlondorff’s The Ogre, 1996. The 1988 television film, The Man Who Lived at the Ritz, based on A.E. Hotchner’s novel featured Joss Ackland as a transvestite Goring.
So, certainly case not proven.
A more plausible assumption, noting that Goring did like to dress up but mainly in military uniforms and other male but ostentatious costumes, is that he was a homovestite. Homovestity, dressing up as one’s own gender, was a concept not yet developed in the 1930s, and even today is generally not discussed. It is part of gender variance, but I am not spending much time on it in this blog because a) the research has not been done for me to use b) if the research were done, it would likely swamp the transgendered activities which are after all our central focus.
Fort Wayne man, 20, arrested in Christmas deaths of 2 in Broad Ripple
By Francesca Jarosz
Posted: January 1, 2009
Taysia Elzy and Michael Hunt had offered their Northside house as a refuge for an acquaintance from Fort Wayne who was having problems at home.
Police arrested that acquaintance, Christopher L. Conwell, 20, on Wednesday in the deaths of Elzy, 34, and Hunt, 22.
The two were found dead Dec. 26 at the house they shared in the 5800 block of Rosslyn Avenue in Broad Ripple. They were killed Christmas Day, said Sgt. Matthew Mount, a spokesman for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Police confirmed Wednesday that the victims died of gunshot wounds.
Officers had been asked to check on Hunt and Elzy by a concerned friend. A dog also was found dead in the home.
U.S. marshals and Fort Wayne police arrested Conwell in Fort Wayne after IMPD homicide detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest, Mount said.
Elzy’s 2001 Mercury Sable, missing since the discovery of their bodies, was found in Fort Wayne.
According to a statement released Wednesday by IMPD Sgt. Paul Thompson, Conwell told investigators he had contact with Elzy in an Internet chat room several days before the incident and was invited to Elzy’s home. Conwell was dropped off in Indianapolis.
Circumstances leading up to the killing, as well as a motive, are under investigation, Thompson said.
Elzy’s sister, Theresa Elzy, said Elzy had known Conwell for a few months.
Conwell had visited Elzy and Hunt a few times, Theresa Elzy said, and his most recent visit was for about a week in the days leading up to the deaths. That’s when relatives of both victims met him for the first time, the relatives said.
Hunt’s sister, April, said that when she met the suspect Dec. 22, Conwell said he admired Elzy’s Mercury Sable.
Elzy, whose given first name was Avery, was transgender and identified as female but had not undergone gender reassignment surgery, Theresa Elzy said.
She added that Elzy “was an outgoing, happy person who helped anybody that she could.”
Hunt’s relatives described him as a constant joker who was passionate about music, especially rap. He was studying at Kaplan College to be a medical technician and hoped to become a registered nurse, said his mother, Arrrolla Taylor.
Mount said there was no evidence to suggest it was a hate crime.
Theresa Elzy said she didn’t suspect Taysia was targeted because of gender identity, but the family was sometimes concerned about Taysia’s well-being.
“Tay lets everybody know upfront from the beginning that she was a transgender,” Theresa Elzy said. “We were more worried (about her safety) than she was.”
Call Star reporter Francesca Jarosz at (317) 444-6310.
A second transgender woman who worked as a prostitute has been shot in Memphis, reports 24 News, a local ABC affiliate.
Leeneshia Edwards remains in critical condition after being shot at close range around 5AM in south Memphis on December 23.
Investigators say Edwards was shot in the jaw, side and back as she was turning to get out of her car and is currently undergoing multiple surgeries at “The Med.”
“I just hope when she wakes up she can remember who it was,” says Nicole Holliwell, Edward’s cousin.
It was just last month that the shooting death of Duanna Johnson, 43, another transgender female prostitute, made headlines nationwide. A video of Johnson being degraded in jail at the hands of Memphis cops and ultimately beaten down when she ignores their “he-she” taunts was widely circulated on the Internet in early 2008. Two officers lost their jobs over the incident, and Johnson returned to the streets, where she was shot on November 10. Memphis cops say they have no solid leads in the murder.
Edwards was last seen about 4AM at CK’s Coffee Shop on Union Avenue in midtown Memphis.
CBS station WISH-TV is reporting that a suspect has been arrested in the double homicide of Taysia Elzy and Michael Hunt . The news station continues to refer to the victims as “two men” and, although new photographs are easily available showing Taysia Elzy as she presented, they continue to use the mugshot photos of the victims.
Police arrested a man Wednesday in connection with the deaths of two men in a Broad Ripple home on the day after Christmas.
U.S. Marshals and Fort Wayne police took Christopher Conwell, 20, of Fort Wayne, into custody in the northeastern Indiana city Wednesday morning, 6News’ Rafael Sanchez reported.
Strangely, local NBC affiliate WTHR is also referring to the victims as “two men,” but have not used the mugshot photos. Instead the TV station used this picture of Hunt and Elzy together with Elzy clearly presenting as a woman.
After the jump, IMPD establishes an LGBT liaison, apologizes to LGBT community and an exclusive statement from Vivian Benge, the President of the Indiana Transgender Advocacy Alliance.
A few local organizations (not just LGBT) met yesterday with officials from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Public Safety Director Scott Newman in a previously scheduled meeting to discuss hate crimes legislation. Indiana Equality, the statewide LGBT equality org, organized the meeting to facilitate a wide coalition of advocates for the legislation.
We discussed the Taysia Elzy/Michael Hunt murders at some length, as well as other concerns of the transgender community.
INTRAA is satisfied that the IMPD is doing everything it can to solve this heinous crime and to bring the perpetrator to justice.
INTRAA understands that the business of solving crimes and bringing criminals to justice is a dangerous and often thankless one for the police.
At the same time we, and the IMPD, recognize that there is a gulf of misinformation and history that separates the transgender community from a healthy trust of the police. This lack of understanding has a long history, but one that must be overcome in order that our community, and the larger LGBT community, can be made safer from such outrages.
INTRAA and IE participants in the meeting also addressed language and communication issues, such as the comment:
“… the] two individuals did live an alternative lifestyle” 12/27/08 Channel 13 video of Lt. Kevin Kelly regarding 12/26/08 murders of Avery Elzy and Michael Hunt.
INTRAA is persuaded that there was no malicious intent and no offence meant. In actuality, Lt. Kelly has been sensitive to language regarding people who are transgender, in the past, and we recognize communicating about cases involving people who are transgender can also be elicited and used by the press in ways not intended by the police department. Press attitudes must also be changed so that the flow of information to the public is appropriate and ethical.
Sources familiar with the details of the meeting also told me the police department confirmed to attendees that they will be establishing an LGBT liaison as I advocated. The sources also echoed Benge’s statement that police officials apologized for the phrase ”alternative lifestyle.”
Officials also let LGBT organizations know that the crime didn’t appear to be a hate crime. A motive was not mentioned, just that it probably wasn’t a hate crime. Police also told attendees that they had a suspect but didn’t release a motive. Since that meeting, police have arrested Christopher Conwell in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Indiana Equality has not released any details of the meeting. None of the other organizations have either, except for Benge’s details of the conversation about the Hunt/Elzy murders.
Police have not released a motive for the slayings.
PALM SPRINGS - The gun was loaded. The note was written. The table was set for the Riverside man to end his 50-year life.
All that stopped him from going through with it was his desire for Lana to live.
Lana, by the way, was not a family member. She wasn’t a friend or colleague, either. In fact, Lana didn’t even have so much as a birth certificate.
But after a legal name change, a year of therapy and a sex-change operation, Lana Lawless is now as healthy, vivacious and … alive as a woman can be.
“Once I started the process, I felt free,” said Lawless, a 55-year-old post-op transgender who won’t reveal her former identity because “that person no longer exists.”
“I love life now. It’s different, but it’s good.”
One thing that’s not different, however, is the hostility she has toward golf balls when wielding a driver.
In her previous life, Lawless sought refuge on the links when overwhelmed by her gender-identity struggles, cultivating a plus-1 handicap while earning scholarship offers. In her new life, she’s two months removed from winning the women’s World Long Drive Championship in Mesquite, Nev.
Yes, Lawless can blast a Titleist upward of 335 yards. On a given par 4, she may just be putting for eagle.
But getting the general public to see her title as legitimate? Now that’s a long shot.
When her story gained national attention on Fox Sports last week, 80 percent of the readers felt that her competing in the women’s division was unfair despite it being within the rules. And while there were people praising her courage and sympathizing with her plight, Fox’s Web site was also littered with comments like “Thank God he did not have any children,” “What a messed up world it is,” and “I wonder if it carries a purse or hand bag.”
The words cut like an open-faced tee shot.
“Maybe I was naïve and stupid,” Lawless said. “I didn’t think it was going to be this vicious.”
Perhaps the sneers reminded Lawless of her youth, when her persona prompted both verbal and physical abuse from peers. Tired of the bruises to her flesh and ego, Lawless created a character that seemed to be the ultimate ode to testosterone.
She enlisted in the military. She worked on the SWAT team and was a cop on the gang unit in Rialto.
Her in-the-line-of-fire duties were self-described as “the police stuff you see in the movies.” But as long as she was living as a man, Lawless just couldn’t picture that Hollywood ending.
“I was hiding in plain sight,” she said.
Hardly able to take it anymore, Lawless visited a Los Angeles transsexual night club in 2003 and felt accepted as her true self for the first time.
Not long after, she called her mother in hysterics and confessed her lifelong desire to be a woman. Mom was a bit taken aback at first, but now she can’t stop talking about “my daughter.”
As for Lawless’ friends from the police force? You can count the number of supporters on zero hands.
Her bountiful country club cohorts? Now few and far between.
Not that golf was the predominant thing on Lawless’ mind, seeing as how she was going through a complete gender transformation.
“I look like Vanna White,” said Lawless, who moved to Palm Springs in the spring after residing in Riverside for 24 years. “But I sound like Barry White.”
After spending a couple of years away from her favorite sport, Lawless clicked on ESPN’s broadcast of the Long Drive competition in 2006 and rekindled her fire for the fairways.
She began working with instructor Les Taylor in hopes of retooling a swing to accommodate her newfound … undulations.
In 2007, she finished third in the world.
This year, Lawless was flawless, pounding a drive 254 yards into a heavy headwind to win the trophy and $12,500.
“She just outworked everybody,” Taylor said.
Still, people ask: Is that fair? Does her former self give her an inherent advantage? How many 55-year-old women can hit a ball that far?
Competitors had her back. Phillis Meti, the 2006 world champ, said she had no problem with her friend’s sex at birth because “she’s still beatable.”
Added the 5-foot-11, 187-pound Lawless, whose muscle mass atrophied due to the lowered testosterone: “If it’s all about size, how does the 5-foot-10, 165-pound Jamie Sadlowski win the men’s title?”
That said, do those questioning Lawless’ legitimacy have reasonable arguments? Sure. But here’s the thing:
Only one in 100 people who walk into therapy with the eventual goal of changing their sex actually see it to the end. Lawless did it, and made history by becoming the first post-op transgender to compete in a professional women’s golf event in the U.S.
So if we’re just talking about this one event, considering what Lawless has been through and how she stepped into her new life with a boldness that few of us know, here’s one more question for all those wondering if what she did was fair:
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BACKGROUND: Soundarajan won a silver medal in the women’s 800m race at the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar in December 2006 clocking 2 minutes, 3.16 seconds. However, she underwent a sex test shortly after claiming victory, and the results indicated that she “does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman”. Soon after the results of the sex test came out, she was stripped of her silver medal. 
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