In the coming weeks we will be offering a selection of books, reference materials and original essays pertaining to the issue of Sex, Gender and Identity Politics.

We welcome your suggestions and will be happy to review your submissions for publication on this website.

We currently have a list of resources for the gay, intersex and trans communities posted for your convenience. This will be updated in the future to include links to news, conferences and calls for papers. There are also links to academic papers on issues of sex, gender or identity politics. Read and learn, but please don't republish any of these articles without first receiving permission from the author(s).

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Links to educational and activist websites that focus on
Intersex, Transgender and Transexual Issues.

INTERSEX

Intersex conditions have many causes-including genetic abnormalities or prenatal exposure to hormones-and manifest in a variety of ways. In some cases, intersexed individuals are clearly male or female in appearance, and their condition is not identified until puberty or adulthood. Some men with Klinefelter's syndrome, a genetic variation in which men are born with an extra X chromosome in addition to the standard XY, may not become aware of the syndrome until they discover their infertility in adulthood. Individuals with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) are genetically male (they have XY chromosomes and testes), but their androgen receptors are not responsive to male hormones, and they develop female bodies. Sometimes AIS isn't identified until a young woman reaches the age of puberty without menstruating. Women with MRKH syndrome are genetically female (they have XX chromosomes), but are born without a vagina, uterus, and fallopian tubes, a fact they may not discover until becoming sexually active. Reprinted from an article in "Sexuality Digest"

Links to Resources on Intersexuality

Intersex Society of North America

Bodies Like Ours: Support & information for people born with atypical genitalia

Transfeminism.org: Introduction to intersexuality & intersex activism

The U.K. Intersex Association

Intersexed Support Group International

Intersexed Information Page

Queer Bodies

IT People

Nova: My Life as an Intersexual

Ovotestis

Inside Intersexuality

Human Rights for the Intersex

What is an androgyne

Hermaphrodite Education and Listening Post

Dealing with individuals with ambiguous genitalia

Survivor Project

Engendering Differences: Ethical Issues about Intersex

Intersex Initiative Portland (ipdx)

International Foundation for Androgynous Studies

Ambiguous Genitalia and Intersexuality

Intersexed Information Directory

Debate Over Surgery on Genitals

Jim Sinclair's Articles About Intersexuality

Is the Baby a Boy or Girl?

American Academy of Pediatrics: Evaluation of Newborn With Developmental Anomalies of the External Genitalia

John Hopkins Syndromes of Abnormal Sex Differentiation

Gender Education Identity Research & Education Society

The Unkindest Cut

How Common is Intersexuality?

French-speacking Intersex Network of Europe (FINE)

International Gender-Dysphoria E-Network

Sick Kids: How the Body Works

Links to Specific Intersex Groups

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG)

AIS Support Group Australia, Inc.

UK, US & Canada AIS Support Group

CAIS Booklet

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia dot Org

UK CAH Support Group

AU CAH The Centre for Hormone

Diethylstilbestrol (DES)

DES Sons International Research Network

DES Action USA

DES History

DES Action Canada

The DES Cancer Network

DES Booklet for Exposed Women

Psychosexual Characteristics of Men and Women Exposed to DES

Hypospadias

Hypospadias Association of America

Hypospadias

Klinefelter Syndrome

Klinefelter Syndrome Support Group

American Association for Klinefelter Syndrome

Klinefelter Syndrome

Understanding Klinefelter Syndrome

KS&A, Inc. (Klinefelter Syndrome & Associates)

MRKH Syndrome

Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser Syndrome

Turner's Syndrome

Turner's Syndrome Society of the United States

XY Turners Genetic Mosaic Support Group

UK Turner Syndrome Support Society

Turner Info & Contact Groups in Denmark

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Transgender

Links to Resources on
Transgender & Transexual Issues

ButchDykeBoy.com
Transgender Education Network (617) 988-2605 x211

GenderPAC: national organization working to guarantee every American's civil right to express their gender orientation free of stereotypes, discrimination and violence.

Gender Education & Advocacy

It's Time America: nationally-organized grassroots civil rights group seeking to secure and safeguard the rights of all transgendered and Gender Variant persons.

International Foundation for Gender Education

Gendertalk

Transsexual Women's Resources

Transgender.org

National Transgender Advocacy Organization

American Boyz, Inc.: support and social group for people who were born female but who feel that is not a complete or accurate assessment of who they are (FTMs) and our significant others, friends, families and allies (SOFFAs).

FTM International

Tri-Ess: for Heterosexual Crossdressers, their Spouses/Significant Others, and their Families.

Androgyne Online

T-Gina: trans-themed comics, and more.

In Boston: BAGLY has weekly meetings for transgendered youth (under 23) on Wednesday nights at 6:00. They can be contacted at 1-800-42-BAGLY or check out their website.

Anne Lawrence

Dr. Becky Alyson

Older Tees

International Journal of Transgenderism

Lynn Conway

The Sisterhood

Giana E. Israel Gender Library

HBIGDA Standards of Care

GID Reform

New Indigo Pages

tranSmonde

International Foundation for Androgynous Studies

TransAlliance Society

Transgender Fund

LGBT Resources in Higher Education

Trans Family of Cleveland

The LA Gender Center

Rhode Island Gender Community

Jamison Green

TG Forum

Mermaids: TG Children, Families and Caregivers

Transgression Magazine

Transgender Support Site

TRI-ESS

Trans Gender Education Association

Transsexual Menace Toronto

Gender Trust

Gender Talk Radio

The Renaissance

It's Time, Illinois!!

Canadian Transexuals Fight for Rights

TGNet Arizona Online

International TG Online Magazine

Transgendered Network International

Northwest Gender Alliance

Calpernia Adams': A Soldier's Girl

TG Scholarship and Education Legacy

The Transgender Board

T Star

TG Independence Club of Albany, NY

FORGE - The Florida Gender Equality Project

Out Smart Magazine

New Zealand TS Resources

PRIDENET

Western Transsexual Support Network

Chicago Gender Society

Center for Gender Sanity

Out Proud

Tranny Web

Community Awareness for Transgender Support

The Advocate

Transgender American Veterans

Notes on Gender Transition

Northern Concord UK TV TS Support

Trans-Sister Radio

Gender Dysphoria Program of Central Ohio

Trans Advocate . Org

Welcome to Androgyne Online

Quad Citizens Affirming Diversity

Unity Committee

So You Want to be a Girl?

Transgendered Harmony

Gordon's Page on Transsexual Healing

LariAnn's pages

TG Workplace Resources

Good F-M, Sos, Family, Friend or Ally

FTM Resources

FTM International

Trans Man

T Male

TransParent the movie

Hair Facts

Hair Zappers

Help me change my sex back

International Healing Foundation

Gender Identity Awareness

The ManKind Project

Reality Resources

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Links to educational and activist websites that focus on
Gay & Lesbian Issues.

Political

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
Human Rights Campaign
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

Legal

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders

Children & Families

Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Alternative Family Matters

Youth/Schools

Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network
OutProud, The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth
Queer Resources Directory
BAGLY (Boston Area Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth)

GLBT People of Color

Queers of Color Resource List (University Illinois, Chicago)
Blackstripe (Website for GLBT people of African descent.)

LLEGO (National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization)
Queer Asian Pacific Resources
See also my Bi/Multi-Racial Links.

Allies

Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians & Gays

Media

Advocate
Planet Out Online Community
Bay Windows
Girlfriends Magazine
Washington Blade

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Links to educational and activist websites that focus on
Bisexual Issues.

Some organizations:

Bisexual Resource Center
BiNet USA
Bisexual Resources on the Internet
Boston Bisexual Women's Network - the oldest bi women's group in the world, and home of the Bi Women newsletter.
Bi Cafe - on-line magazine, social space, and more
Bizone - New Jersey's Bisexual Organization
Indy Bi-Versity - Support, discussion, friendship, social interaction and activism for bisexuals & their allies.

For many more organizational listings, go to the Bisexual Resource Guide listings now available for free on-line!

On-line publications

Bi Tribune. quarterly on-line magazine for bisexuals, published from Indiana, USA.
Bi Community News. National newsletter for UK bisexuals, USA.
BiMagazine.org. USA
Bi Lines On Line - on-line magazine, published from Virginia, USA.
Bi-Nieuws Magazine - magazine of the Dutch Bisexual Network / Landelijk Netwerk Biseksualiteit (in Dutch), published from the Netherlands
The Fence - on-line magazine for bisexual women, published from Toronto, Canada.

New book! How fabulous!

Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World (order online)

"Many non-bisexual people think of bisexuality as a split experience of the self. They think of a bisexual as sometimes gay or lesbian (with a side serve of heterosexism) and sometimes straight (with a side serve of heterosexual privilege) by turns. They imagine her sense of herself is split into two pieces. Sometimes she plays for one team, and sometimes on the other. Sometimes she's on the right side, sometimes she's a traitor. But either way, she is not to be trusted. In popular culture, lesbians claim women who engage in sex with people of both sexes as lesbian if they are well behaved. If they are badly behaved, they are identified as evil bisexual women. Definitely not lesbians.

But the life writings of bisexual people do not reflect this picture of an unavoidably fractured identity. Bisexual people often experience the decision to adopt identity as naming the entirety of their experience as a unified whole. Many of us experience choosing bisexual identity as a homecoming. It allows us to name feelings, experiences, and self-understandings as part of a whole, rather than demanding that we attempt to understand ourselves or explain ourselves to others as sometimes one thing and sometimes another. In a sense, it is a choice in the direction of unification, exactly the opposite of being split." --Mary Heath, Adelaide, Australia in Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World

Academic Papers on Sex, Gender and Identity Politics

Onward Christian Soldiers: A Network Analysis of the Religious Right. 1997. Jennifer L. Fortado, Master's Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland at College Park.

Social Movements, Social Discourse, and Personal Identity Formation: The Case of Christian Doctrine and Homosexual Christians. Jennifer L. Fortado. 1999. Department of Sociology, University of Maryland at College Park.

Doctor's Orders: Parents and Intersex Children. 2002. Ellen K. Feder.

Boundaries of Gender: Framing Transgender, Transsexual and Intersex Identities. 2002. Jennifer L. Fortado. Presented at the Annual American Sociological Association Conference, August 2002. Atlanta, Georgia.

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