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Center for Excellence in Transgender
Health. this highly well-respected centre, which has a very extensive website, has a
particularly useful page on primary health care for transpeople. |
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Academic Transgender
Studies website - Walter Williams' website, examining gender variance in
non-Western societies. A collection of lecture video-recordings and short
essays, book reviews and short essays (apparently including those of students). |
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Transgender Health and HIV - A
report published on website of The Body, 'the
complete HIV/AIDS resource', and dealing with trans health issues in a generally
clear and non-technical fashion. Usefulness extends beyond HIV/AIDS related
issues. |
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TransGender Europe report on
murders of transgender persons worldwide in the period January 2008 to June 2009. Extremely disturbing report, detailing over 200 murders, including some in
Asia. |
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WPATH - World Professional Association for Transgender Health. (formerly
the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association). Publishes the
highly influential 'Standards of
Care' which guide transgender health care providers worldwide, including
across Asia. |
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WAS - (World Association of
Sexual Health). Promotes sexology and sexological knowledge worldwide (formerly
the World Association of Sexology). |
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Human Rights Watch - Important
news about rights issues, including as regards sexual and gender minorities. |
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CentreLGS - CentreLGS is a
critical, interdisciplinary, international research centre, advancing research
and scholarship that is theoretically informed and policy relevant. It involves
a grouping of three UK Universities (Kent, Keele and Westminster), though
its Centre is at the University of Kent. The intellectual heart of the
Centre is the relationship between gender and sexuality, on the one hand, and
law, governance and normativity, on the other. Contact Sarah Slowe at S.E.Slowe@kent.ac.uk |
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Best places to work - From
the Human Rights Campaign website, a list of companies which have proactive
sexual and gender minority policies. HRC recognizes these Best Places to
Work for GLBT Equality as companies that have made a commitment to end
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the
workplace. Many of these companies are international,
and have a presence in Asia. |
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GID
Journal - GID Journal is a new international journal for
research into 'gender identity disorder', published in pdf format out of
Brazil. While the name will be contentious to all those who feel that
transgender is a difference rather than a disorder, we are happy to place this
link, feeling that a new journal in this area has the potential to be an
important step forward. |
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The
Gender Trust - UK Charity Helping with Gender Issues. |
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Growing
up sexually. Volume I (World Reference Atlas) - Web publication produced
by D.F. Janssen (2002-2003) |
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Growing
up sexually. Volume II (The Sexual Curriculum: the manufacture and
performance of pre-adult sexualities). Web publication produced by
D.F. Janssen (2002-2003) |
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Lynn
Conway's website - a highly developed and informative website on
trans issues worldwide. An important source of up-to-date information about
news and current affairs involving transpeople worldwide, including in Asia.
Content in English. Chinese. Turkish. Russian. Filipino. Arabic. Hebrew. Of more general material, the following page stands out: How
Frequently Does Transsexualism Occur? A
piece of investigative work which demonstrates
convincingly that the prevalence of SRS in the USA (and probably
elsewhere) is much higher than the figures quoted by DSM-IV, drawn from
Europe, for those 'seeking SRS'. Lynn's figures bring American post-op
prevalence more closely into line with figures for transgender (with or
without SRS) in Asia. |
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Society for
the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) - International organisation dedicated
to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality. |
| Link |
Electronic Journal of Human
Sexuality - Published by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human
Sexuality. |
| Link |
IFGE - International Foundation for Gender Education. US based. Extensive and
informative. |
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GIRES - The
Gender Identity Research and Education Society. UK based. Extensive and
informative. |
| Link |
IASSCS - International
Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society. |
| Link |
Intersections:
Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. Journal with occasional articles on transgender. |
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German Society for Social
Scientific Sex Research - Large archive section leading to, among other
things, an International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, a glossary of sexology, a
'Critical Dictionary of Sexology', WHO reports on sexual health etc. Separate
access to these materials through this
link. |
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ICTLEP
'Standards of Care' - Standards adopted at the 2nd International Conference
on Transgender Law and Employment Policy, August 1993, Houston, USA |
| Link |
Press for Change - A
political lobbying and educational organisation which campaigns to achieve equal
civil rights and liberties for all transgender people in the United Kingdom through legislation and social change. A very useful library section. |
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Integrating
Transsexual and Transgendered People. An important section of the 'Press
for Change' website, containing a summary of a survey of rights for TG persons
across a large number of countries, including some in Asia. The
questionnaire employed is also displayed. |
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Universal
Declaration of Human Rights - Adopted and proclaimed by the U.N. General
Assembly in Resolution 217A (III) on December 10th 1948. |
| Link |
International
Bill of Gender Rights |
| Link |
International
Lesbian and Gay Association - International organisation fighting for
equal rights for, among others, transgendered persons. Extensive and highly
informative website. Their world legal survey is particularly valuable. |