Trans Awareness Workshop www.GenderShift.com http://gendershift.ning.com www.Tranzgender.com

Gender Equality Duty Equality Act 2006 Sex Discrimination Act 1975 Amendment Public Sector Duty – Due Regard Eliminate unlawful discrimination and harassment Promote equality of opportunity between men and women Includes Gender Reassignment Planning to undergo, is undergoing, or has undergone gender reassignment. Employment, training, and provision of goods and services

Practical Reality Feel supported Able to transition on the job and remain valued – continue training No barriers to recruitment Workable harassment policy Support for health and welfare Promote inclusiveness/respect Confidentiality Practical issues resolved quickly (toilets) Appropriate training for staff

Sex and Gender www.GenderShift.com

Sex and Gender www.GenderShift.com Her/She Him/He

Gender Gender Role Gender Identity Gender Expression Sexual Orientation

Theatrical Transvestism Greek Theatre Elizabethan Theatre Vaudeville and Music Hall Molly Houses and Drag Kings Pantomime Drag Shows www.GenderShift.com

The 3rd Earl of Southampton 1573 - 1627 Henry Wriothesley Patron to William Shakespeare. www.GenderShift.com Sonnet XX – William Shakespeare A woman's face with natures own hand painted Hast though the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not aquainted With shifting change, as is false woman's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth A man in hue all hues in his controlling Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. And for a woman wert though first created; Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, And by addition me of thee defeated, While adding one thing to my purpose nothing. But since she pick'd thee out for women's pleasure, Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure

Moll Cutpurse 1584 – 1659 Mary Frith Britain’s first ‘highwayman’ The Roaring Girl Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. www.GenderShift.com

17th Century Cross-Dressing www.GenderShift.com

Labels, Labels, Labels Transgender Transsexual Transvestite Crossdresser Tranny/Trannie Intersex BiGendered Drag Queen Drag King Female Impersonator She Male Katoey LadyBoy Travestie Hijra Berdache Gay www.GenderShift.com

Magnus Hirschfeld 1868- 1935 German Sexologist Gay Rights Activist Transvestitism 1910 and Transsexualism 1923 Lili Elbe www.GenderShift.com

Lili Elbe 1886 - 1931 Einar Wegener First GRS Died after 5th operation Man Into Woman, edited by Niels Hoyer, 1933 1920’s fashion influence www.GenderShift.com

Harry Benjamin 1885-1986 German - emigrated to USA 1913 Met and influenced by Hirschfeld Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association Standards of Care Friend of Christine Jorgensen www.GenderShift.com

Christine Jorgensen 1927-1989 Most Famous Transsexual 1952 Public Transition Tireless role model and activist for trans issues www.GenderShift.com

Virginia Prince 1912 – 1960 – Transvestia 1961 - Phi Pi Epsilon – Sorority Heterosexual Cross-dressers Transgender UK Beaumont Society. www.GenderShift.com

Chevalier d’Eon De Beaumont 1728 - 1810 1777 Court decreed he was a woman Discovered on death to be male 1966 Beaumont Society Freemason www.GenderShift.com

Trans Trans Woman Trans Man Trans Community

We’Wha 1849 – 1896 Zuni Lhamana North American Indian Nations Berdache Two Spirits Assimilation www.GenderShift.com

Julian Eltinge 1881 – 1941 William Julian Dalton Female Impersonator Vaudeville Toured USA and Europe www.GenderShift.com

Mae West 1892 – 1980 Vaudeville at age 5 Controversial Playwright Gay rights activist Pleasure Man Closed down October 3rd 1928 www.GenderShift.com

www.GenderShift.com June 27 1969 – Greenwich Judy Garland Memorial Marsha P Johnson - June 1992 Sylvia Rivera 1952- 2002 Gay Liberation Trans Exclusion Stonewall Riots

www.GenderShift.com Billy Tipton 1914 – 1989 Jazz musician Married 5 times Gender only discovered after death. Trans Man or Lesbian Woman? Radical Feminism

Brandon Teena 1972 – 1993 Changed Name from Teena Brandon Raped and then murdered Film - Boys Don't Cry www.GenderShift.com

Gwen Araujo 1985 – 2002 Beaten to Death by Classmates. 3 years of trial. Two convicted of 2nd degree murder Homosexual Panic Atypical Gender and Bullying www.GenderShift.com

We may be different …but… We are ordinary people Let’s take a short break

Some Statistics 60% of Trans People face hate crime Survey of UK Trans People 35% of trans people attempt suicide Equalities Review 2007 42% of Trans people too afraid to transition 64% of trans men, 44% trans women bullied Engendered Penalties 2007 One trans person in US murdered every month Washington Trans needs assessment 2001 www.GenderShift.com

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April Ashley 1935 – Model/Showgirl Surgery Casablanca 1961 Married Lord Arthur Corbett 1961 Annulled 1970 Corbett v Corbett Judgement www.GenderShift.com

Stephen Whittle 1955 – Press For Change Legal struggle to be Father Gender Recognition Act 2004 First legal marriage for transsexual in UK OBE www.GenderShift.com

Lynn Conway 1938 – Computer Engineer and Inventor Fired by IBM 1968 Restarted - in stealth Professor of EECS University of Michigan Outed herself again in 1999 www.GenderShift.com

Joan Roughgarden 1946 – Professor of Evolutionary Biology Stamford University Transitioned at age 52 in 1998 Evolutions Rainbow www.GenderShift.com

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www.GenderShift.com Trans Law Sexual Offences Act 1967 Local Government Act 1988 (Section 28) Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999 The Employment Equality (sexual orientation) Regulations 2003 Local Government Act 2003 (Section 28 repeal) Gender Recognition Act 2004 Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information) Order 2005 Civil Partnership Act 2004

www.GenderShift.com Trans Law Equality Act 2006 Gender Equality Duty – April 2007 The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 European Directive 2004/113/EC December 2007 – (December 21st 2007) Sex Discrimination (Amendment of Legislation) Regulations 2008 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 – Hate Crime(LGB only)

Equalities and Human Rights Commission Single Equalities Act General Equality Duty Six (Seven) Diversity Strands Gender Race Disability Faith Sexual Orientation Age Gender Reassignment Human Rights

Trans Law and Working Practice Group Exercise

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