TNT: Transsexual News Telegraph, Issue #4, Spring 1995

A 1995 Spring issue of Transsexual News Telegraph (TNT), a magazine that styles itself 'The Magazine of Transsexual Life'. This edition contains an editorial about the importance of gender reassignment surgery, letters to the editor concerning Riki Anne Wilchins' philosophy around medical transition, news regarding multiple conventions, events, activism, magazines and overall pro-trans developments, coverage on a gender anti-discrimination law passed in San Francisco, an article on transgender people in academia, the struggles of trans women before and after transitioning, anecdotes on self harm and the hurt many queer/trans people carry, a briefing on trans history, an interview between Max Wolf Valerio and Stephan Thorne about transgender sex workers, criticism of John Irving's " A Son of the Circus," praise for Diana Green's comic "Ink Tantrums," and a reminder to the reader of the right to stay silent if confronted by police.

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Identifier: 7m01bm291
Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Sondegaard, Gail
Contributor(s): stafford
Cameron, Loren
Stryker, Susan
Wilchins, Riki Anne
Beatty, Christine
Davis, Bob
Thorne, Stephan
Ogborn, Anne
Irving, John
Collins, Katherine
Date Issued: Spring 1995
Genre: Periodicals
Subject(s): American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS)
Brandon Teena
Chrysalis Quarterly
FTM Convention
FTM Newsletter
gendertrash
IFGE Convention
Intersex Society of North America
Jamison Green
JoAnn Roberts
Kiki Whitlock
Larry Brinkin
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC)
Riki Anne Wilchins
Terence Hallinan
Transgender Law and Policy Conference
TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism
Veronica Klaus
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): AIDS activists
Anti-discrimination law
Discrimination--Law and legislation
Gender-affirming surgery
Harassment
Intersex community
LGBTQ+ communities
LGBTQ+ history
LGBTQ+ suicide
Police
Queer activism
Self-mutilation
Transgender academics
Transgender comics
Transgender history
Transgender sex workers
Table of Contents: p.3 Editorial
p.4 Letters
p.8 Community New & Notes
p.10 Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Law
p.14 Over and Out in Academe
p.16 The Castrated Woman
p.18 You Always Hurt The One You Love: Transgender Self-Mutilation
p.22 We've Been Around Forever Stephan Thorne Interview
p.26 Part 2
p.30 Picking on Those Who Can't Fight Back: Review
p.32 Ink Tantrums: Review
p.35 The Last Page
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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