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[DMW]

Bump this to put it back up front.

Originally Posted by *Anya*

Tell The American Family Association, ‘Kids Are Off-Limits’

by DAVID BADASH on SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
in BIGOTRY WATCH,DISCRIMINATION,NEWS,POLITICS

Folks, consider this a personal plea. Today, as we reported, Bryan Fischer, who is 62 (that’s him in the photo, above, center) verbally attacked a child. Using the power of America’s airwaves, backed up by the American Family Association‘s nationwide radio station network and online resources, Bryan Fischer told a 16-year old transgender girl that “he has a mental illness” — because she is transgender and had the audacity to be crowned Homecoming Queen.

That’s not OK.

I just published a petition over at Change.org, and I’m asking you to join me in signing it.

Here’s what I wrote:

The American Family Association is a certified anti-gay hate group. They get their money — about $18 million a year — from people who believe in hating LGBT people. And they’re a 501(c)(3) organization, so your tax dollars subsidize their hate.

While the American Family Association has every right to their business model, do you believe they have every right to publicly single out children and attack them on the nation’s airwaves?

American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer recently verbally attacked Cassidy Lynn Campbell, a 16-year old transgender teenager, who was crowned Homecoming Queen at her (very conservative) Orange County, California high shool.

“He has a mental illness, he thinks he’s a girl and they elected him homecoming queen and the school officials allowed this charade to go on,” Fischer proclaimed to his listeners who tune in daily to the hundreds of American Family radio stations that litter 38 American states. “That violates everything we know about gender, about sex, about genetics, about biology, about human health, about what mental health is, it violates every known standard of decency and normality in America.”

Tell the American Family Association, ”kids are off-limits!” It’s not OK to attack children, and it’s not OK to use America’s airwaves to do it.

It’s time to send the professional, multi-million-dollar anti-LGBT hate groups a strong message: ”Kids Are Off-Limits!”

Do you agree it’s not OK for a multi-million dollar anti-LGBT hate group — and here’s the extreme irony — that claims to be a “pro-family” “Christian ministry” — to publicly attack a child?

I don’t, and I’m asking you to take a moment now to sign my petition to tell the American Family Association that they can attack the LGBT community all they want — they have the First Amendment behind them — but ”Kids Are Off-Limits!”

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com...0#.UkWIuee9KK1

[Nadeest]

Signed.

[Jesse]

Signed!

[*Anya*]

Trans Six-Year-Old Is Argentina's Youngest to Amend Gender on Birth Certificate

A six-year-old girl who was assigned male at birth won her legal battle to change her national ID card and birth certificate to reflect her accurate gender.

BY SUNNIVIE BRYDUM SEPTEMBER 28 2013 2:40 PM ET

A six-year-old girl named Luana, or "Lulu" for short, may be the youngest person ever in Argentina to legally change her gender from that which she was assigned at birth, reports the U.K. Telegraph.

Argentina enacted its new gender identity law in May 2012, which permits individuals to determine their own sex and gender, and be identified appropriately on their national identity card, the DNI, as well as their birth certificate, according to the Telegraph.

Lulu's mother, Gabriela, petitioned Buenos Aires Mayor Daniel Scioli and Argentine president Cristina Kirchner to allow her daughter to be legally recognized as female, though she was assigned male at birth. Gabriela told the public officials that her daughter has identified as female since she first began to speak.

"By accepting that my son was not the son I gave birth to, but a girl, I accepted her identity and put myself at her side," Gabriela told the Telegraph from Buenos Aires.

Gabriela first filed the request for her daughter's legal gender change last December, but was denied because of her daughter's young age. But Argentina's secretary of children, youth, and family subsequently overturned that decision, citing international human rights doctrine that determined a person under 14 can legally consent to such a change.

Following that decision, Mayor Scioli approved Lulu's application to change her name on her DNI and birth certificate, reports the Telegraph.

"The government of the province of Buenos Aires has decided to provide a solution to this particular case raised by the family," Scioli's chief of staff, Alberto Perez, reportedly told Spanish-language news outlet La Nación.

Argentinian reports claim Lulu's case is the first in the world where a transgender child has been able to change their legal gender through an administrative process, without turning to the judicial system.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/tra...d-gender-birth

[Nadeest]

This article was brought to my attention via one of my friends on Facebook. I thought that people might be interested in viewing it. http://openmindedhealth.com/2013/09/...one-treatment/

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Nadeest

This article was brought to my attention via one of my friends on Facebook. I thought that people might be interested in viewing it. http://openmindedhealth.com/2013/09/...one-treatment/

I don't know...what do you think, Nadeest?

I see that the article says that for both transwomen and transmen (on cross sex hormones) that the incidence of breast cancer is equal to cis men.

The theory is that it is due to tesotosterone that the transmen have a lower incidence. Although their "female" hormones don't drop, testosterone neutralizes it so to speak (is what I am reading anyway).

This same theory doesn't fit for transwomen because as they are not just adding female hormones (estrogen/progesterone), they are also blocking male hormones (testosterone). So, if it is the testosterone that is keeping the transmen safer than a cis women, what is keeping transwomen safe?

I admit that I don't know much at all about how sex hormones and breast cancer works, but I would take pause if I were a transwoman taking cross sex hormones. I would want to be treated like any other person who had estrogen/progesterone flowing through their bodies (mammorgrams if have breast growth).

What are your thoughts on this Nadeest? I admit to being ignorant when it comes to this issue with transwomen, but would like to know more. I know that you cannot speak for all, but what does the transwomen community say about this issue?

[Nadeest]

I can't speak for the community, especially as I haven't really talked to many transwomen since I moved to Florida. However, as for my thoughts: First off, it was a very small study. As far as I know, it has not been replicated, so the results can't really be confirmed. Secondly, Europeans use a different anti-androgen then we do, here in the US, so that factor must also be considered. I think that we need a lot more information before we can really draw any solid conclusions from this. Mind you, it IS interesting, but not positive proof, at least to my mind.

Oh, I definitely have been getting mamograms, since I am over 50, or at least I was through the Houston VA hospital system. Hopefully, my new doctors down here in Florida will also insist that I get them. I do suspect that I am going to have to educate them, as well as the pharmacist, though, as to how to approach medical treatment of transwomen.