Comments on: A good sign, perhaps? http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/ perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC2 By: Rebecca http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-35 Rebecca Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:14:28 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-35 Further to that, though, Zoe - I wish we had some sort of action group here in the ACT. Amongst other things, there's a hole in the trans coverage in the Discrimination Act that even an incompetent lawyer could drive a truck through, and there isn't any intersex coverage in there either. Further to that, though, Zoe - I wish we had some sort of action group here in the ACT. Amongst other things, there’s a hole in the trans coverage in the Discrimination Act that even an incompetent lawyer could drive a truck through, and there isn’t any intersex coverage in there either.

]]> By: Rebecca http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-32 Rebecca Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:42:47 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-32 Yeah, I've wondered a group like that whether that might be a useful thing myself. I've joined the one group there is, but since they're generally older TG folk, I don't necessarily have a whole lot in common with them, and it'd be nice to know if there's any other TS people around. So far, all I know of is you and one other - surely there has to be more than this. Yeah, I’ve wondered a group like that whether that might be a useful thing myself. I’ve joined the one group there is, but since they’re generally older TG folk, I don’t necessarily have a whole lot in common with them, and it’d be nice to know if there’s any other TS people around. So far, all I know of is you and one other - surely there has to be more than this.

]]> By: Zoe Brain http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-30 Zoe Brain Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:25:39 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-30 Make it a cuppa tea, and you're on. There's a number of us here in Canberra, I think about a hundred (!) but we have little contact with one another. Many are stealth, of course. I'm off to Canada in a week, to give moral support to a friend who's seeing Brassard. Like me, she's one of the few whose transition was unplanned, and the result of natural causes. We face specific difficulties peculiar to our situation, medical, social and legal, so not being alone is important. There goes my FFS/BA fund... When I consider just how difficult it was for me to get information, I wonder how much harder it must be for a 15 yr old transman, for example. In addition to a national political advocacy group, one of the things I think we need is a TS/IS rather than TG support group for the ACT, concentrating solely on the medical aspects rather than broader social support for the Transgendered. Make it a cuppa tea, and you’re on.

There’s a number of us here in Canberra, I think about a hundred (!) but we have little contact with one another. Many are stealth, of course.

I’m off to Canada in a week, to give moral support to a friend who’s seeing Brassard. Like me, she’s one of the few whose transition was unplanned, and the result of natural causes. We face specific difficulties peculiar to our situation, medical, social and legal, so not being alone is important. There goes my FFS/BA fund…

When I consider just how difficult it was for me to get information, I wonder how much harder it must be for a 15 yr old transman, for example. In addition to a national political advocacy group, one of the things I think we need is a TS/IS rather than TG support group for the ACT, concentrating solely on the medical aspects rather than broader social support for the Transgendered.

]]> By: Rebecca http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-28 Rebecca Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:53:56 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-28 I certainly hope so... Are you back in Canberra yet? I'm bored - come have a beer, damnit. I certainly hope so…

Are you back in Canberra yet? I’m bored - come have a beer, damnit.

]]> By: Kieran http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-27 Kieran Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:45:45 +0000 http://burningwords.net/2008/01/21/a-good-sign-perhaps/#comment-27 Could be a sign of the impending election, the ACT is heading to the polls come November, and the ACT government might place it's own survival above not embarrassing it's bruthas up on the hill. Could be a sign of the impending election, the ACT is heading to the polls come November, and the ACT government might place it’s own survival above not embarrassing it’s bruthas up on the hill.

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