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- "Tranny" & Cis Women: Re-Reclaiming Tranny (or not) part 2 (Cedar)
- "Tranny" and Subversivism: Re-reclaiming "Tranny" (or not) part 1 (Cedar)
- A Radfem On Transgendered Issues: Message Received (Woman) — *PDF ONLY*
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- Andrea Dworkin on Transgender (Daisy's Dead Air)
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- Hate 101: The Womyn Born Womyn Movement
- How to Fuck Up (Teh Portly Dyke)
- In which a cis feminist has a serious and long overdue rethink (Laura Woodhouse)
- Is 'Tranny' Offensive? (No Designation)
- Is Cis A Dis? And other air castles to storm… (Woman) — *PDF ONLY*
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- The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of "Political Correctness" (Wayback Machine)
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- the seam of skin and scales (little light)
- the sky is falling (little light)
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- TS prevalence in the UK (Donna Patricia Kelly)
- Where did we go wrong? Feminism and trans theory – two teams on the same side (Stephen Whittle)
- Whose Ally? (Michelle O’Brien)
- You think your phantom limb is bad, check out my phantom erection! (Neurotopia v2.0)
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omnomnomnom
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Reference
Resources (government)
- Applying for a new birth certificate
- Gender Recognition Act 2004
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- NHS – Gender dysphoria
- NHS Choices – overview of transgender health issues
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- NHS: A guide to hormone therapy for trans people
- NHS: Bereavement: A guide for transsexual, transgender people and their loved ones
- NHS: Guidance for GPs, other clinicians and health professionals on the care of gender variant people
- NHS: Transgender experiences – Information and support for trans people, their families and healthcare staff
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- Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad (Chile)
- Pacific Center for Sex and Society
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- Press For Change – News Archives
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- Press For Change – Transsexual People in the Workplace: PFC code of practice
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- Remembering Our Dead
- Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments (Alas! A blog)
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- stuff white people do
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- The Unapologetic Mexican – The Glosario
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- Transgender Egypt
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- Transgender Law Center
- Transgender Netwerk Nederland
- Transgender News – Yahoo! group
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- TransgenderASIA
- TransYouth Family Allies
- TS FAQ
- TS roadmap
- United ENDA
- WPATH Standards of Care (download page)
- Wquality Network (UK)
Software
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Tech/geeky
Technical women
- Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
- BCS Women's Forum
- BCSWomen
- Computer Weekly – WITsend blog
- Finding Ada
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- GetSET Women
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- Kate's Comment
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- Skirts and Ladders
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- The IT Job Board Blog
- The Next Women
- UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering & Technology
- Women In Technology blog
Trans 101 (Hey Lord, don't ask me questions)
- A glossary, of sorts (Julia Serano)
- Coming out story time! (Drea)
- Definitions and Explanations (Monster’s Creed)
- Definitions: Cis, Trans, Etc. (Dear Diaspora)
- Down to Basics (Michelle O’Brien – DeadLetters)
- Getting pronouns right: a guide for spoken conversation (Nix)
- Glossary of transgender Terms (TS Roadmap)
- Guide to Intersex & Trans Terminologies (Emi Koyama)
- How Do Transgender People Suffer from Discrimination? (HRC)
- How Not to be Defensive When Accused of Transphobia (A Guide For Cis People)
- Hudson’s FTM Resource Guide
- List of transgender-related topics (Wikipedia)
- phone booths (little light)
- Say yes to Michigan (Daisy’s Dead Air)
- System Shutdown [cis usage] (Below The Belt)
- The ideas and language of gender and identity (Thang Blog)
- Trans 101 (T-Vox)
- Trans 101 (The F-Word)
- Trans and Sexuality Terminologies (Trans-Academics)
- Trans Respect/Etiquette/Support 101 (LJ TG community)
- Transgender & Gender Queer 101 (Gender Crash)
- Transition Issues (TransGriot)
- Transphobic Words and Deeds (Questioning Transphobia)
- TS 101 (Zoe Brain)
- What trans means to me (Feministe)
- What Transmisogyny Looks Like
Transphobic Tropes
- Transphobic Tropes #1 – “Really” A Man/Woman
- Transphobic tropes #2 – “Patriarchal Privilege”
- Transphobic Tropes #3 – “Reifying Gender”
- Transphobic Tropes #4 – “My Theories Are More Important Than Your Experience”
- Transphobic Tropes #5 – The “man in a dress”/stealthy deceiver double bind
- Transphobic Tropes #6 – Transition is Mutilation
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