I try to contribute to the discussion started by blueathena's "Gender and Sexuality" video. Basically, the terms that peg people's sexualities (among other things) are effing restrictive. I   more...think say penis and vagina about 14 times each. :\  less

Title says it all

Representaive Baldwin will be submitting an amendment that would put gender identity/perceived gender/transgender protections into the version of ENDA being considered by the full House.

Intersex activist Cheryl Chase and members of Hermaphrodites with Attitude (a.k.a. Intersex Society of North America) and Transexual Menace protest genital reassignment and "confirmation" surgery   more...on infants and children.  less

Mark Angelo Cummings is a Transsexual man who has dedicated his life to educate the world on transsexual and transgender issues. This song he wrote and dedicates to his transsexual brothers and sister   more...who look in the mirror and it does not make sense.  less

Started off as a complaint about commenters on the YouTube site, but ended up being a commentary on society/culture's need to use labels and/or stereotypes to define people, thus creating identity issues   more...for those wishing to define themselves so they feel more comfortable being themselves.... And yet there's a catch, it seems. To define oneself by the stereotypes created by society/culture, one loses their own personal definition or it gets muddled and confused in the portrayal. Agh... more rambling from me. Give me your thoughts, or opinions, on this if you want.  less

They said her clitoris was too big
<a href="http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/su98coventry.html">http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/su98coventry.html</a>

A mainstream news article   more...calls for an end non-consensual surgical intervention
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6994580/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6994580/</a>

"I would much rather keep my clitoris and have orgasms than have a box to check off."
<a href="http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/article_sex_police.htm">http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/article_sex_police.htm</a>

"All over this country[USA] there are people whose clitorises have been removed, either totally or partially."
<a href="http://www.msmagazine.com/oct00/makingthecut.html">http://www.msmagazine.com/oct00/makingthecut.html</a>

Learn about the academic fraud at the heart of Doctor's rationalizations
<a href="http://www.reason.com/links/links052404.shtml">http://www.reason.com/links/links052404.shtml</a>

An academic analysis of the current situation to date
<a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/intersex00_00.html">http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/intersex00_00.html</a>

Human Rights for Intersexuals
<a href="http://www.luckymojo.com/tkintersex.html">http://www.luckymojo.com/tkintersex.html</a>

Intersex Society of North America
<a href="http://www.isna.org/">http://www.isna.org/</a>  less

I I have a question

On Nov 9, 2007 the House of Representatives passed ENDA (Employment Non Discrimination Act) only after HRC (Human Rights Campaign) and Barney Frank dropped "gender" protections in order to obtain   more..."gay" protections. I have one word for them: COWARDS  less

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, visited UCSF on National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11.

Kendell spoke about how far society has come in advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual,   more...transgender (LGBT) rights and the critical role each person, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, plays in the struggle for social justice.

<a href="http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200710194.html">http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200710194.html</a>  less

A mother discusses the gender confusion in the birthing room when her adopted intersexed son was born, and how she attempted to save him from harmful genital reduction surgery and sex reassignment.

David Reimer (birth name Bruce) was born an identical twin in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At 6 months of age both boys were mistakenly diagnosed with phimosis, a natural condition of the infant penis. The so-called   more...doctor Jean-Marie Huot botched the first circumcision completely destroying Bruce's penis. Twin Brian's circumcision was canceled; he made a full recovery from his "condition" of phimosis, without further treatment.

Shortly after the botched circumcision Bruce's mother Janet saw a television interview with John Money, a physician from John Hopkins Hospital who worked with cases of gender identity, transsexuality and intersex conditions. Janet wondered if perhaps she had found an answer to the horrific situation her baby was in, could Bruce be raised as a girl?

John Money thought he saw an opportunity to prove gender is learned behavior, and Bruce was an ideal subject with his twin brother Brian as a scientific control. Bruce was reassigned as Brenda. Money reported several times that the experiment was a success, and Brenda had adjusted well and liked to help her mother with traditionally female tasks around the house. Money built much of his career and theories of gender on the "successful" outcome of this case. Reality was far from the rosy domestic picture Money was reporting, Brenda never adjusted.

As a young teenager, refusing to take the prescribed female hormones and facing vaginoplasty surgery, Brenda rebelled to the point that her father broke down and confessed to her the botched circumcision which had led to the forced feminization. Brenda immediately assumed a male identity and took the name David.

When David's story came to national attention in 1997 John Money's reputation was over. Jean Marie Hout however, the doctor who destroyed David's infant penis was rarely mentioned. In fact many of the mainstream articles reporting David's story even failed to report that David's penis had been destroyed in a botched circumcision. Some only said "the baby lost his penis in an accident" thereby shifting blame from the circumcision "doctor" to the baby! Almost every report of David's story focused on miss-assigned gender and intersex conditions, even though David was neither. Our culture cannot face the truth, that David's natural condition had been misdiagnosed, his penis needlessly destroyed, and that circumcision was to blame.

In 2004 David took his own life. This report show how even after his death the blame remains firmly on John Money and mistreatment of intersex conditions, while the real criminal, the circumciser Jean-Marie Huot gets away without notice.  less

Taboo is powerful and eye-opening show on the National Geographic Channel that challenges the way we look at other cultures and ourselves, by exploring practices that are completely normal to their participants   more...but seem brutal, disgusting or even immoral to many of us today.



This season of Taboo premieres Sunday, August 5th at 9pm et/pt on the National Geographic Channel and focuses on life-threatening initiation rituals and painful ceremonies that must be performed to fulfill community acceptance. Following episodes air Wednesdays at 10pm, and cover topics like sexual identity and body modification.



www.ngctaboo.com  less

dubious advice

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LiveVideo wouldn't let the original video be uploaded (even though I made it clear that it might be inappropriate for viewers under 18). In a vain attempt to get people to watch, I've recut this and omitted   more...pictures of breasts, penises, vaginas, nude hermaphrodites, and nude transssexuals (which everyone believes was the problem). Despite the fact that all the objectionable pictures were aquired from publicly available sources that do not require age verification (e.g., MySpace and Wikipedia). So, this is the PG-13 version. The quality has been diminished by this. But, I hope it is still informative and entertaining for you.
Click here to watch the original banned video
'Sugar, Spice, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails' @ Putfile:

http://media.putfile.com/Sugar-Spice-Snails-and-Puppy-Dog-Tails

or @ DailyMotion:

Part 1:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c45_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par

Part 2:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c68_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par

Part 3:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c8s_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par

Part 4:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c9w_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par

Mike Nobody @ YouTube:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=MikeDamnNobody  less

Click here to watch 'Sugar, Spice, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails' @ Putfile

http://media.putfile.com/Sugar-Spice-Snails-and-Puppy-Dog-Tails

or @ DailyMotion;

Part 1:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c45_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par
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Part 2:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c68_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par

Part 3:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c8s_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par

Part 4:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14c9w_sugar-spice-and-puppy-dog-tails-par  less