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		<title>Developmental Issues of Gender Nonconforming Children – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/08/23/developmental-issues-of-gender-nonconforming-children-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Del Rapier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DSM-IV Classification of Gender Nonconforming Children The DSM-IV lists the following diagnostic criteria for the currently listed diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder or GID (PsychNet-UK, n.d.): I.     A strong persistent cross-gender identification (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex). In children, the disturbance is manifested by four (or more) of the following: Repeatedly stated desire to be, or insistence that he or she is, the other sex. In boys, preference for cross-dressing or simulating female attire; In girls, insistence on wearing only stereotypical masculine clothing. Strong and persistent preferences for cross-sex roles in make believe play or persistent fantasies of being the other sex. Intense desire to participate in the stereotypical games and pastimes of the other sex. Strong preference for playmates of the other sex. In adolescents and adults, the disturbance is manifested by symptoms such as a stated desire to be the other sex, frequent passing as the other sex, desire to live or be treated as the other sex, or the conviction that he or she has the typical feelings and reactions of the other sex. II.     Persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriateness in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developmental Issues of  Gender Nonconforming Children – Part 1</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/07/26/developmental-issues-of-gender-nonconforming-children-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Del Rapier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The first question any expectant parent is asked is, is it a boy or a girl. This question speaks to the socially accepted binary gender system deeply ingrained into American culture, which goes unquestioned by a majority of those living within its borders. And yet, recent studies have found that the prevalence of affirmed female (MTF) trans/gender variant identified individuals alone is between 1:500 and 1:250 (TransActive, n.d.). When you include FTM identified individuals and all those who identity as genderqueer and non-gendered that would indicate that while still in the minority, gender nonconforming individuals are not uncommon. This paper looks at the developmental issues of gender nonconforming children. For the purposes of this study, I will focus primarily on pre-adolescent children. I will discuss the assumed norms of gender development, including age of gender identity formation, emerging patterns of development for gender nonconforming children, and challenges faced in active gender nonconformity. Next, I will look at the DSM-IV classification of gender nonconforming children, including the benefits and the issues of diagnosis. Then I will discuss current therapeutic models being used to work with gender nonconforming children and their families. Lastly, I will briefly discuss the societal, psychological, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender (Free) For All Becomes TransEnough</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/07/15/gender-free-for-all-becomes-transenough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Del Rapier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gender (Free) For All grew out of a grass-roots movement in Portland, OR in response to a community need to promote transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and gender non-conforming visibility through public events. In 2009, Gender (Free) For All Portland celebrated Portland’s first stand-alone trans march and rally, as well as establishing Transgender Americans Week in the City of Portland and Multnomah County. Gender Free For All! Portland (GFFA PDX) continues to promote local visibility through awareness-building exercises and events in the Portland, OR area. Gender (Free) For All (GFFA), under the direction of Del Mulhern and Nik Wilhelm, moved forward to address the need of raising visibility and awareness about transgender, genderqueer, intersex, and gender non-conforming people (TGQIGNC) to a broader audience – our global community. While GFFA supports Gender Free For All! Portland’s goals, the necessity for addressing visibility on a larger scale prompted Del and Nik to launch a variety of online programs, including a compendium of TGQIGNC services, the TransEnough blog, and the Trans Faces photo project. Ongoing community feedback has brought to our attention that the name Gender (Free) For All is confusing – is it some big gender party? What does that look like? Am I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learned to be a Girl</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/07/12/learned-to-be-a-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leela Sinha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned to be a girl from Laura Ingalls from Anne of Green Gables from Clara Barton who taught one-room school tamed wild horses learned to throw like a boy. I learned to be a girl from Robin Hood not Maid Marian, from someone with the grace and kindness to take from the rich give to the poor and win by wit and skill. I learned to be a girl from the fairy tales, the ones where the handsome prince is the prize to be won at the end but first there are witches to outwit, puzzles to solve, plots and plans to execute flawlessly and alone. Where the girls save the day because no one else is there to do it for them. I learned to be a girl from my father’s brushing, hair braided so tight I felt like Pippi Longstocking, who braided her own hair, kept her horse in her living room, and didn’t listen to anyone except herself. I learned to be a girl from books, from stories about girls who survived rape, war stories of Manzanar and the Color Purple, from the daily disconnect between dust ruffles and teacups and my favorite overalls, from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Fluidity – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/06/28/gender-fluidity-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Del Rapier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For part one of this column, please click here. The Possibilities of a Fluid Gender System By redefining gender as fluid, it undermines the legitimization of bias and breaks down the ability to attribute traits or roles to a specific gender grouping. In doing so, a new method of thinking begins to take shape. A sensitive man is no more or less than a sensitive woman and his sexuality is irrelevant. Likewise, a powerful female manager is no less powerful than her male counterpart, nor is her ability for kindness taken into question. Burke offers the term gender independence. Gender independence, defines Burke, “simply means that the individual is not precluded from feeling or doing anything because of their body” (234). It is clear that a movement toward gender independence has the potential to significantly impact our social structure. Burke also points out that sex-typed gender behaviors have serious neurological implications: Since sex-typed gender behavior would tend to stimulate one area of the brain more than another, denying the parts of ourselves that don’t fit in with the gender myths is literally taking a toll on our neural structure. Through gender independence, there is the amazing possibility that, if our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl, Boy, Other: Modern Philosophy and the Rise of Alternate Gender Expressions</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/06/21/girl-boy-other-modern-philosophy-and-the-rise-of-alternate-gender-expressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik Wilhelm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This last century has seen an explosion of possibilities in the ranges of acceptable gender expressions in western society, and the list of what is acceptable becomes ever longer as people are exposed to an ever-increasing selection of ideas and experiences. The movement from agrarian to industrial economies, the shift towards urban living, and a cultural drift from a god-centered, fear-motivated and consequence-driven philosophy of living have all contributed to an environment where variety is encouraged, and in which an individual’s unique truth is recognized as the highest morality. This column will focus on the influence of existentialism and twentieth-century attitudes in creating an atmosphere where gender variance is allowed to flourish. I am my Highest Truth Existentialism gained in popularity after World War II in part as a reactionary response to the oppressive, dictatorial influence of the Nazi regime. Based on the idea that each individual person’s experience is unique and that they are their own highest moral arbiter, existentialism was a complete departure from the totalitarian zeitgeist of purity-driven Nazi Germany. Instead of unreasoning adherence to rules put in place by an external power and curbing one’s behaviors for fear of consequence, one should seek to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride in Our Consumption</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/06/14/pride-in-our-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago on June 2nd, President Bill Clinton declared June as “Gay &#38; Lesbian Pride Month.” President Obama just recently did the same, only renaming it “LGBT Pride Month.” Every year, throughout the month, members from across the LGBTIQQA community come together to celebrate life, art, and culture. There are parades and parties and memorials and all manner of events centered around the theme of being out and proud. In some of the country&#8217;s larger and more liberal trending cities, the parades can stretch on for blocks and blocks, effectively shutting down whole parts of the city. It seems that rainbows appear out of nowhere. I started participating in Pride celebrations ten years ago. Initially, I would spend the weekend going from one party to the next, marching in the parade, and eventually finding my way home before work on Monday morning to peel off the layers of glitter and rainbows I had collected over those few days of bacchanalia. The community was small, insular, and almost tribal. But, most importantly, for the purposes of this article, there was almost no corporate advertising or slogans or vendor booths at any of the events, which were mostly free. The corporate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shoulders On Which We Stand</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/06/08/the-shoulders-on-which-we-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leela Sinha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like cheesecake. Sure, we all know that cheesecake is unhealthy.  Didn&#8217;t stop me from taking a bite a few nights ago.  Why? Because it feels good. When you want to change something in your life, knowing intellectually that it will be good for you is next to useless.  What we need instead is a value&#8211;something so fundamentally important to us that we&#8217;ll make a choice to support it. Like, for example, pleasure. That&#8217;s a solid human value.  So is justice.  Here in the US, equality is a value we understand, and so is &#8220;earning it&#8221;.  Values get all mixed up in life experience and generational transitions.  Delta&#8217;s Sky Magazine this month (yes, I was on a plane) has a fabulous article about who the Millennial Generation is and how they are different from those who came before.  Over here is another one.  And there are books being written now about how to become more millennial, either individually or in business (like this one).  This trend toward learning from and adapting to the generations rising shows a new strategy&#8211;aligning ourselves with the people we&#8217;d like to work with.  It&#8217;s about marketing, but even more gently, it&#8217;s about communication.  It&#8217;s about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Fluidity – Part 1</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/05/24/gender-fluidity-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Del Rapier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stereotyping is the mental categorization of individuals in order to affect greater social control. In Gender Stereotypes: Reproduction and Challenge, Mary Talbot suggests, “Like caricatures, they focus on certain characteristics, real or imagined, and exaggerate them” (468).  Although simplicity is the goal of stereotyping, the nature of stereotyping is anything but simple—a complex relationship between language and social construction. The stereotype of binary gender assumption is an inherently flawed system. This research addresses the questions: What are the problems with the binary gender assumption and subsequent sex-typed gender roles? What possibilities and benefits are gained through gender fluidity? This paper will address the nature of stereotyping as it is used to reduce and simplify otherwise complex groupings of people—introducing linguistic judgment, the development of an Us/Them climate, and the legitimization of discrimination and bias. Next, it will consider the social, psychological, and physical effects of the binary gender system. This research will focus on the idea that gender is neither fixed nor unchanging. From this perspective, it will address pre-existing notions of gender appropriateness. It will then look at how gender is being redefined through gender independence and will consider the benefits associated with gender fluidity. Lastly, it will discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRANSform Me: Success or Failure?</title>
		<link>http://genderfreeforall.org/blog/2010/05/14/transform-me-success-or-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Sowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard of this new show on VH1, it is like many other makeover programs. Desperate women send in their videos talking about how they want to make a change and then the network sends out a group of “fashion experts” to make them over. This usually involves changing their wardrobe, updating their fashion sense, and the like. What makes TRANSform Me slightly different is that these “fashion experts” are three trans women. Laverne Cox, Jamie Clayton and Nina Poon go door to door in an ambulance to help these fashion emergencies. Like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the show is a mixture of fashion and make up tips, camp, and moments that are intended to show off all the good that can be had through more consumption. It reinforces hetero-normative assumptions about gender. The ladies play up stereotypical feminine mannerisms in order to maintain their conditional cisgender privilege. And it perpetuates a classist and restrictive view of female beauty. While all of these are important things worthy of discussion, they only serve to highlight the all important question of assimilation. To say that this issue is a thorny one would be an understatement. There are [...]]]></description>
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