TNT: Transsexual News Telegraph, Issue #6, Spring 1996

A 1996 Spring issue of Transsexual News Telegraph (TNT), a magazine that styles itself 'The Magazine of Transsexual Life'. This edition contains letters from readers regarding the deadnaming of Alan Hart in a previous issue, an article on activism concerning the arrest of Sean O'Neil, poems by B. Bogomil and Rachel Pollack, creative nonfiction by Susan Stryker, news on violence to transgender people, an in-depth article on Alan Hart's life, a breakdown of choosing a surgeon for gender-affirming surgery, David Harrison's personal anecdote on getting top surgery, a cover on the 1st Annual FTM Conference, a bottom surgery memoir, an account of the Brandon Teena Vigil, surgery advice from internet users, a discussion of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, an interview with a trans woman who previously worked with the unqualified underground gender surgeon Dr. John Brown, a review on Minnie Bruce Pratt's book "S/HE," and a comic on the last page.

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Identifier: z890rt77t
Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Sondegaard, Gail
Contributor(s): Green, Diana
Stryker, Susan
Xavier, Jessica
Green, James
Jones, Jordy
Morris, Ken
Collins, Katherine
Pollack, Rachel
O'Hartigan, Margaret Deirdre
Harrison, David
stafford
Valerio, Max Wolf
Gabriel, Davina Anne
Cameron, Loren
Allen, Mariette Pathy
Contreras, Lofofora
Date Issued: Spring 1996
Genre: Periodicals
Subject(s): AEGIS
Alan Hart
Brandon Teena
Brandon Teena Vigil
Carmen Montoya
Chanel Pickett
Chrysalis Quarterly
FTM Conference of the Americas
IFGE Convention
John Brown
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Right to Privacy Foundation
Sean O'Neill
Sherri Webb
TransFagRag
TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism
Tyra Hunter
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): Deadnaming
Detention of LGBTQ+ people
Gender-affirming surgery
Murders of LGBTQ+ people
Parents of transgender people
Poetry
Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people
Police violence toward LGBTQ+ people
Pre-operative
Suicide
Top surgery
Transgender activism
Transgender community
Transitioning (Gender)
Table of Contents: pg.3 Your Letters
pg.6 The Sentencing of Sean O'Neil
pg.10 Poem: Dreamwarrior
pg.11 Community News
pg.13 The Alan Hart Story
pg.15 A Surgery Sampler
pg.18 Getting A Weight Off My Chest
pg.20 Pre-Operative
pg.23 Poem: The Body Is Her Laboratory
pg.24 1st FTM Conference
pg.26 Silent & Transfixed in the Transsexual Factory
pg.30 KC Journal - Part 2
pg.34 After Your (MTF) Surgery
pg.36 Davina Gabriel on the Michigan Womyns Music Festival
pg.38 Sex Surgery Underground
pg.40 S/He Review
pg.45 Community Notices
pg.46 Personals
pg.47 The Last Page
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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