| This is a collection of items of interest to TYFA friends and allies. These items originally appeared on the website's home page under the "What's New?" heading, and are listed by date, the most recent first. |
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July 25, 2010 — Arizona Daily Star - "Meet Josie, 9: No secret she's transgender ": Josie Romero and her mom, Venessia, are featured in this sensitively told story. "How could such a young child possibly know something so important? How did the family know it wasn't just a phase?" .... "Josie is very proud of who she is," Venessia says. "Why go through life with a secret? Where's the health in that? There should be no shame."  |
| June 23, 2010 — KALW, San Francisco - "Your Call": What does it mean to be transgender or transsexual today? How should our healthcare system and society support transgender people? Guests: Matt Wood--staff attorney for the Transgender Law Center, and Kim Pearson--co-founder and executive director of Trans Youth Family Allies. (Audio: length= 1 Hour) |
| May 18, 2010 — http://pamshouseblend.com - Autumn Sandeen of Pam's House Blend interviews TransYouth Family Allies Executive Director Kim Pearson at the 5th Annual California Transgender Leadership Summit.
Kim talks in the interview about the importance of California's Transgender Advocacy Day to transgender youth, reminding us that laws that affect transgender adults also have an impact on transgender youth. (video: length=8:14) |
| May 10, 2010 (revised) - The workshop schedule for the 9th annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference is now posted! A nice feature of the schedule is that you can click on various topics and the related workshops are highlighted. Also, if you click on the workshop title, it will take you to the workshop description and presenter bio. (See also a list of the TYFA-recommended workshops) |
| May 8, 2010 - Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition: Are you a transgender youth (24 and under), or a parent of a youth? Join
youth from across Massachusetts and greater New England at our third annual
free Transgender Youth Summit! It’s on June 19th at Northeastern University’s
Curry Student Center in Boston. |
| May 4, 2010 - Huffington Post - New-Age Parenting for Transgender Youth : A weeklong, overnight summer camp called Camp Aranu'tiq, and WPATH's Standards of Care are only two of the many helpful links for parents of transgender children to be found in this very "now" summary of available resources, written by Joanne Herman, author of "Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not"
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April 26, 2010 - If $10 could save the life of a child, would you contribute? May, June, August and September are our most demanding months of the year. This is the time of the year when bulk of our school trainings take place. Our first year we trained about a dozen schools the entire year. We are now in our third year and the demand for our services is increasing in a way we could never have anticipated. WE NEED YOUR HELP. Continue Reading...
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April 20, 2010 - Kim Pearson announces the lineup of TYFA - sponsored workshops for Philly 2010: The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, on June 6 - 8, will include eight workshops in which TYFA will participate. For details, see
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April 20, 2010 - Kim Pearson Comments on the Proposed Revision to 302.6 Gender Identity Disorder in Children:
"TransYouth Family Allies is the only National organization that advocates and educates on behalf of gender variant and transgender children and youth exclusively. We feel a particular responsibility to ensure that parental voices are heard and that DSM diagnostic criteria meet the needs of their children without needless pathologization and stigmatization."
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| February 25, 2010 - TYFA CEO Kim Pearson was awarded the Melissa Chapman Award For individual effort affecting social Change by the Gender Identity Center of Colorado at their annual awards banquet, which kicked off the center's Colorado Gold Rush conference. (Read about the award) |
February 18, 2010 - GLAADBlog: “The Dr. Oz Show” Raises the Bar for Transgender Talk Show Coverage - "In the introductory segment of his hour-long health show, Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted two transgender children and their families to discuss their process of realizing and embracing their respective identities"
Watch the video: Part 1 Part 2
Con subtítulos en español: Parte 1 Parte 2
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Groundbreaking Dr. Oz Show on Transgender Children
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who rose to fame as a regular medical correspondent on Oprah, talked with two transgender youngsters and their families about their experiences growing up and their parents’ decision to support them.
Watch the video: Part 1 Part 2
Con subtítulos en español: Parte 1 Parte 2
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| It's time to think about the Colorado Gold Rush Conference, February 25 - 28, in Denver. TYFA CEO Kim Pearson will present several workshops and will deliver the Keynote Address at the Saturday evening dinner. For more information, visit their website.
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| Media Archive Alert: On Wednesday, January 27at
4PM (EST) on the Tyra Banks Show (CW Network), several of our TYFA families were featured. Here's a video of the the show. |
| Two Great LGBT Scholarships are available for LGBT students in Alaska and other northwestern states. Application deadlines are 1/31/10 and 2/12/10. Two Great LGBT Scholarships are available for LGBT students in Alaska and other northwestern states. Application deadlines are 1/31/10 and 2/12/10.
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January 7, 2007 - BoingBoing: "Toronto: global epicenter for oppression of sex and gender minorities"
TYFA Board member Andrea James takes on the promoters and practitioners of "Aversion Therapy" in the treatment of transgender children. She also criticizes the continued inclusion of "Gender Identity Disorder" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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