Obama Back Again - Shelby Bottom String Band

Intersex, Transsexual, Transgender Veterans

Transgender advocates, seemed to have made some inroads with the local Veterans Administration (VA) lately. The VA knows now that they have to provide many services to transgender veterans, but I guess have no idea how many of us are out there. 

In order to find out how may of us are out there they are doing a bit of a survey. They are asking us to call, write or email them with the following information.

Name … (Not required, but if you are a current patient it is really helpful to identify)

Branch of Service … (You know the drill)

Time of service …  (Years in, and dates)

Your needs …  (Hormones, Evaluation, Therapy, other medical)

Proximity to the  Nashville  Region 9 center …

( Distance, i.e. covers Eastern Arkansas, Northern Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Western Virginia, Chattanooga area, Memphis, Knoxville, Nashville, see http://www2.va.gov/directory/guide/region_flsh.asp?map=0&ID=9  )

Please contact:

Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Nashville Campus

Attn: Patient Advocates Office

1310 24th Avenue  South
Nashville ,  TN   37212

615-327-4751 | 800-228-4973

or

Email < safepath@yahoo.com >

I have contacted them by email today!!

Alert:   THIS IS IMPORTANT to all Veterans who are Intersex, Transsexual, or Transgender

The VA Tennessee Regional Medical System is in need to know the density and number of Veterans who are afflicted with these conditions. THIS IS IMPORTANT to you and your fellow service Veterans. Simply, to get the appropriate care for the Veteran service community VA needs to know how many they may have in this region.  It is a matter of establishing the need, so training and professionals in Therapy, Endocrinology, Psychology, and Social Services can be provided.  Many of us are struggling to maintain, or to find a “SAFE PATH” to move forward.  YOU ARE NEEDED!  Please, respond to the following, asking for a Patient Advocate.  It would be helpful to offer the following information, but if you are leery or feel concerned, then at least respond anonymously.  However, to provide the following information will help greatly… And all will be held in privacy.  This is for your battle buddies, and those who are now struggling as veterans, and on active duty who are right behind you.  Stand up and be counted!

Name … (Not required, but if you are a current patient it is really helpful to identify)

Branch of Service … (You know the drill)

Time of service …  (Years in, and dates)

Your needs …  (Hormones, Evaluation, Therapy, other medical)

Proximity to the  Nashville  Region 9 center …

(Distance, i.e. covers Eastern Arkansas, Northern Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Western Virginia, Chattanooga area, Memphis, Knoxville, Nashville, see http://www2.va.gov/directory/guide/region_flsh.asp?map=0&ID=9  )

Please contact:

Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Nashville Campus

Attn: Patient Advocates Office

1310 24th Avenue  South
Nashville ,  TN   37212
615-327-4751 | 800-228-4973

or

< safepath@yahoo.com >

You have served, but your oath never ends… We leave no one behind!

 ER LeClaire – US Army (Veteran)

Dan Savage discusses bible at High School Journalism convention

This is the speech that caused all the fuss!!!

Dan Savage vs. Brian Brown: The Dinner Table Debate

You can read more at the Huffington Post: Dan Savage And Brian Brown: LGBT Rights Advocate Meets NOM President For Dinner Debate.

Happy Gay Pride Day! - 2007

I was cleaning up a few posts here and watched this video again. I was moved to tears again.  She did a wonderful job integrating her video with the music. It is almost like the folks shown are preforming the music. Genius!!! 

[You can see more of her Lesbian community blog at avalonfarmblog.wordpress.com 
and podcast at www.avalonfarmcast.com]

The pictures were captured from the above video.

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (TISM)

I found a few of the links were bad on my old post on this song and video. I fixed them to working ones. I still love this song. I kinda wholesale borrowed the code to play this video here too. To bad there is no pause on the controls (what controls) so it will just keep playing, sorry.
This was the winning video to this TISM song (yes that is a name of a group.) Wikipedia says this about TISM:

TISM (an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) is a seven piece anonymousalternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The group formed in 1982 and enjoyed a large underground / independent following until 1995 when its third album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons reached the Australian national top 10.

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me (TISM)

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Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?

Teenagers naked,
Couple in threes
Grandparents swing from the ceiling.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.

Corporate chambers and office amore.
Shenanigans outdoor and in.
Resist and then later your find out there's more
Regret in not doing the sin.

Our lives have to die
Of that there's no help
My favourite way to end them
Is the orb-weaver spider's whose pedipalp
Enters the female pudendum.

Then dies on the spot
His corpse there still stuck,
Left for his rivals to curse at.
He would rather die than not get to f^ck
Personally I reckon it's worth it.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does everybody else get that feeling?

...

Does everyone think...

Trans-Friendly Police Woman of Memphis

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010

Trans-Friendly Police Woman of Memphis

POSTED BY BIANCA PHILLIPS ON FRI, JUL 9, 2010 AT 2:24 PM

This may be old news to some, but I caught last week's episode of TLC's Police Women of Memphis in the encore showing last night. In one scene, Officer Joy Jefferson schools a couple of teens who had been harassing a couple of transgender ladies in a neighborhood near Latham and East Trigg.

• Officer Joy Jefferson

"You deserve to be comfortable and happy and on sit on your porch and rock your fuschia hair," Jefferson tells the transgender women after warning their harassers to stay away.

• Jefferson calms transgender harassment victims

Earlier in the scene, she tells the camera person riding along in her squad car, "If you are a good person, you should always be treated with respect."

After the way former Memphis Police officer Bridges McRae handled relations with transgender police brutality victim Duanna Johnson in 2008, I guess I'd formed a negative opinion of the department's ability to deal with diversity. But Jefferson proved that some MPD officers are respectful to transgender people. Way to go, Jefferson!

Watch the scene for yourself on TLC by clicking here. The police call in question is about seven minutes into the video, but you can fast forward if you're in a hurry.

Wednesday April 13, 2011

Toemageddon 2011 - This Little Piggy Went to Hell

The media reports on a five-year-old boy with pink toenails like it's a story about incest or cannibalism.

www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-13-2011/toemageddon-2011---this-little-piggy-went-to-hell

"Living with a secret"

Living with a secret - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times

(updated with a picture from the video.)

My transgender heroines

I found this while looking for something else. I took the liberty of translating it from it's original Polish. I also found it interesting to read about all these transwomen around the world. So many accomplished women, that I had never heard of. It shows that we are everywhere and that I live in a bubble.

Way to go Carla!! Your becoming world renown.

This is is a blog by Monika Transs. I love it!!

Moje Transseksualne Bohaterki

Thomas Beatie – “The Pregnant Man” – gets his surgery.

Cooking in Heels: A Memoir Cookbook

Quite a story!! I can hardly wait for the book!!

Honoring the memory of Birmingham (and Nashvile's) transsexual Jody Suzanne Ford

She was also originally from Nashville, Tennessee. 

County Commission Candidate Gina Duncan talks with Fox 35

It Gets Better - Buck Angel

Wow so moving. Yes, there is help out there. Contact me if you like. I can help or help you find help near you.

How I Seize It #43: "Gender Identity"

This is so bad, I should be offended. But it is funny. LOL