Transgenderism and Transsexualism

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Supervisor Wiener Wants Healthy SF to Cover Gender Reassignment Surgery

Healthy San Francisco, the city's attempt at universal healthcare, has helped many local residents who don't have health insurance receive affordable medical treatment. But who is hasn't helped entirely are San Francisco's transgender residents seeking certain medical procedures, such as gender reas ... More >>

Families of Gender Nonconforming and Transgender Kids to Convene in Berkeley

Berkeley will be hosting the 2012 Gender Spectrum Family Conference, a "gathering dedicated solely to the needs of gender nonconforming children and teens, their loved ones, and the community of professionals who surround them."The aim of this conference is to build community among children and thei ... More >>

Frameline Tackles Transphobia in Iran

Last night, the Frameline Film Festival packed the Castro Theatre. An Iranian film, Facing Mirrors, was debuting that evening -- the first Iranian film to portray a transgender protagonist. Facing Mirrors follows the story of two characters, Rana and Eddie, who meet by chance as the latter is f ... More >>

Filling in The Gap of Eliminated Transgender Services

Budget cuts have produced a noticeable reduction in social services for the transgender community in San Francisco. Some organizations, like the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, are trying to expand their programming to fill in the gaps and meet the needs of transgender clients. Unfortu ... More >>

The Revolution Will Be Choreographed

Against Me!'s Tom Gabel Comes Out as Transgender; Internet Explodes with Support and Shock

It should have been obvious to us all for years. In 2007's "The Ocean", Against Me! vocalist, Tom Gabel sang "If I could've chosen, I would've been born a woman..." Most listeners at that time took it as a statement of solidarity with women from a vocalist who made a career out of being vocally poli ... More >>

Real Women

Transgender Woman Attacked on Halloween

coolers should only be used for parties​A 43-year-old transgender woman was attacked Halloween night as she walked though the Mission District, according to police.The woman was on the 500 block of Valencia Street when the suspect approached her and started yelling gay slurs at her and threatened ... More >>

Amber Yust, Transgender Woman, Wins Settlement Over Bible-Thumping Letter

The DMV is hell​SF Weekly readers might recall that oh-so charming story of Amber Yust, the transgender woman who received an unwelcoming letter from a DMV employee who told her she was going straight to hell. Yust, who had gone into the DMV to change her sex on her driver's license, sued the DMV ... More >>

Tips from Kristina Wertz, S.F. Lawyer Who Fought Transgender Discrimination at the TSA

Kristina Wertz​Thanks to Kristina Wertz, legal director of San Francisco's Transgender Law Center, Transportation Security Administration managers at Los Angeles International Airport will undergo mandatory sensitivity training as part of a legal settlement.Wertz' client, Ashley Yang, was fired l ... More >>

Reading S.F. the Riot Act

Superstar Sightings

Transgression Run Amok

Love Underground

Chrissy Lee Polis, Transgender Woman Beaten, Speaks Out (Video)

Chrissy Lee Polis speaks​Update: Police have charged Teonna Monae Brown, 18, with assault. A 14-year-old girl is also facing charges. Original story, 8:45 a.m.: By now, most people have heard about the truly jaw-dropping case of a transgender woman who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald's in Ma ... More >>

Sex Survey: 'What Is Your Sex?' No Simple Question For Kaiser

We're thinking, we're thinking...​For years, the biggest development in querying people's sex was changing the forms to read "What is your sex?" instead of "sex" -- to keep respondents from filling out "Yes." It seems, however, there is once again latitude in this often straightforward question. A ... More >>

Amber Yust, Transgender Woman Sues DMV Over Bible-Beating Letter

The DMV gave her hell, she gave it right back ​Readers might recall the story of Amber Yust, the 23-year-old transgender woman who received a harassing letter from a DMV clerk after she got her drivers license with her female name on it.Well, now Yust has officially field a lawsuit against the DMV ... More >>

Free and Five Party, Writers With Drinks, Gestapo Khazi, The Babies, and No Pants BART Ride

The Babies plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There is heavy metal and ethereal ambient noise, transsexual fashion shows and fancy vintage paper, Go-Gos and Babies. It's all here this weekend, in San Francisco, for less than the cost of taking a heterosexual date to Chick-fil-A. Here's our list o ... More >>

The Self-Made Man

Transgender Woman Amber Yust Files Claim Agaisnt DMV Over Bible-Thumping Letter

Amber Yust says she caught hell from the DMV...​SF Weekly readers may recall a charming story about a transgender woman getting a drivers license with her new female name at the San Francisco DMV -- and also getting a most unwelcome letter, purportedly from a DMV employee, telling her she was goin ... More >>

Human Rights Campaign To Move Into Harvey Milk's Camera Store

Harvey Milk has been enlisted by the HRC​In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is about to move into the location of Harvey Milk's old camera store at 575 Castro Street. It will be the new San Francisco "action center" providing information on the ... More >>

First Transgender Judge Victoria Kolakowski's Long Road

Here comes the judge...​Winners of Alameda County Superior Court Judgeships usually don't get calls from national media. But Victoria Kolakowski -- "spelled just like it sounds" -- isn't just any judge. She's almost certainly the first transgender judge in American history, and even more almost ce ... More >>

Transgender Judges More Common than You'd Think

Well, we'll be damned...​Earlier today, we wrote about Oakland's Victoria Kolakowski, the nation's first elected transgender judge. You'd think the "elected" would be superfluous -- there aren't a plethora of transgender judges. Well, you'd be wrong. Today Houston Mayor Annise Parker appointed tra ... More >>

Wounded Pride

Despite its reputation, gay-friendly San Francisco is still a tough place for teens to come out.

Lana Lawless, Transgender Woman Golfer, Sues LPGA

www.longdrivers.comLana Lawless takes home the 2009 Long Drivers of America title​Transgender golfer Lana Lawless is suing two of the country's top golf associations to do away with their ban on trans-women athletes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association -- better known as the LPGA -- is only o ... More >>

Go-Gos' Jane Wiedlin Pays Tribute to Big Gay Ice Cream!

Jason O'Malley​We recently told you about a Tranny Smackdown sundae that will be created for one fleeting day when locals Humphry Slocombe will be visited by Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff of New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, and that former Go-Gos guitarist and Mission resident Jane Wiedlin w ... More >>

Details on S.F.'s Big Gay Ice Cream Jamboree: Brace for the Tranny Smackdown Sundae

Carlos Avila Gonzalez /The ChronicleBeach Blanket Babylon's Glinda the Good Witch will hand out Tranny Smackdowns at Humphry Slocombe.​We've now got some additional details to add to yesterday's post about Humphry Slocombe's event with New York's Big Gay Ice Cream Truck on August 22. The two a ... More >>

Headbangers' Ball

The Man Show

Transgender Attack Cases Backlogged in Crime Lab Finally Getting Their Due

Ruby Ordenana​Long before Deborah Madden got caught skimming coke from evidence containers, Donzell Francis, 41, was reaping the benefits of an overburdened crime lab. Although today he'll be charged with crimes stemming from attacks on two transgender prostitutes (including one murder count), Fra ... More >>

Lou Reads

Suspected Killer of Transgender Prostitute Given Hefty Sentence for Other Crimes

Ruby Ordenana was raped and murdered in 2007. DNA evidence collected from her body matches suspect Donzell Francis.​Sitting in Department 10 on Monday afternoon, Donzell Francis, 41, didn't react as the judge sentenced him to the maximum sentence of 17 years and 8 months in state prison ... More >>

God, I Hope I Get It

SF Weekly Letters

Trans-Mission

Transblazer

She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

Transgender Activists Staying Home From Obama Protests, But Waiting for President to Back Up Trans-Friendly Words

Code Pink on the left! Teabaggers on the right! Apparently, however, the transgender community still has President Obama's back.​While Michelle Obama marked an earlier San Francisco visit by getting her hands dirty volunteering at a Bayview playground, the O will be skipping a ... More >>

Cheap Queens Behaving Badly

Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

Bend Your Gender

Juicy and Delicious

Heather Has Lots of People Who Love Her

Boy or Girl? Maybe Not.

Thank You For Being a Freak

Do the Manly Dance

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