The Boston Business Journal has a short article about a study of the economic impact of transgendered discrimination in Massachusetts.

Story: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2011/05/11/transgende...

The study can be found at the Williams Institute website: http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute

Press Release: http://www3.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/pdf/MATransEmpDis...

Hi everyone

As i've had lots of requests and its now much easier to do, I've embarked on the process of making all the Scaramouch library available in a format which can be downloaded directly onto your Kindle or Ibook platform.

Well, just over four weeks since my quadruple bypass surgery and I'm slowly getting better. I plan/hope to drive back home Tuesday. Then I will start a rehab therapy program at the local hospital. Joy-joy.

According to the CNN web site, the newest edition of the DSM (the "bible" of psychiatry) has been posted for comment. The comment period runs through June 15.

The story can be found at http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/04/psychiatry-bible-st...

The revised edition can be found at: www.dsm5.org

Hi everyone.

I'm pleased to announce an Ebook version of the latest Gaby release available here - http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/gaby---changes-part-1/1564... .

In the course of the coming weeks i will endeavour to get all of the previous Gaby books as well as all the other Scaramouch releases converted to ebooks so there will be no excuse in not reading my wares anywhere!

Mads

Hi everyone

If you go to http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/gaby---changes-pa... you can now obtain the first 10 chapter part of the new Gaby book, Changes.

Rather than keep you waiting until all 40 chapters are finished which might not be until late summer i thought i'd release it in smaller lumps, i think you'll like this new stuff!

Prices are  £5.99 for the dead tree version and  £3.99 for the download.

TTFN
Maddy

yes she is cute but please eat some food in the next 60 days please
I guess he is handsome not my type but maybe with one of mummies dresses hehe I'm burnt out over wedding 2011 way too much money ... here we go how about a quickie in a VEGAS chappel !!!! OK OK some of the hats are cool . I got a bunch of dvd's and a few books just in case but 4 am now way Betty not me hope they make it.... true love rules

This is a petition to help Dr Rachel Tudor who is being discriminated against by her colleagues because of her transition. The universities manual was rewitten after their action was initiated to make it easier to fire her. Southeastern is in the Bible belt of Oklahoma.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-rachel-tudor/

Below is a link to Rachael's blog with more information and a recent award for distinguished scholarship.

http://rachel-s-friends.blogspot.com/

Hi all, I just wanted to take this moment to say I pray that you all are safe during these major storms rocking across the Midwest, Southwest, the South, Southeast and Eastern seaboard of the US. My heart goes out to Arkansas, where that State has had approx 20 persons killed, and millions and millions of dollars in damage done. Altho we see large storms this time of year; these have been majorily bad in all aspects. Take care and stay safe. Jan

I have recently been hearing radio ads for a charity event to benefit a residential group home specifically for GLBT youths that is run by a local charity. In the ad they mention that this is one of three such facilities in the US.

I went grocery shopping last Friday mostly en femme. That is to say, I was wearing women's clothes but made no attempt to pass. I had no makeup on. My hair was pulled back with a barrette and my shoes were obviously women's with nude knee-hi's and my jacket was a bit bright for a man's. The top I was wearing was definitely feminine, but my jacket was closed to near the top.

Can you believe it? I just cut my nose shaving this morning. Far more psychological pain than physical pain of course.
Stupid facial hair, and stupid testosterone that makes it so. :P
Not that there's anything new about my thinking this way, but this served as a ...reminder. :|

The Actress who played Sarah Jane has Died. I found her to be a wonderful actress and I will deeply miss her character and her show

James

One of the blogs I read has posted

http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2011/04/a-game-of-g...

where the author has come up with a "3D gender" definition that yields 27 variants.

Good? Bad? Indifferent? Fun? Useful? Insulting? Any comments?

This man is an expert on video game design but hardly an expert on gender issues.

- Moni

Been a busy six months - sold one home and moved about 100 miles to a new home. Still surrounded by boxes but this contraption seems to be working. When I turned it on though I had lost all my contact names and addresses so starting from scratch.

Hello everyone I hope everone is doing Ok no more snow in my yard the last melted away today I am so happy I started to drain the snowblowers and get things ready so I can put the snowblade away also lots of raking fallen limbs and leaves but I will leave the strawberrys covered till I am sure no frost I have been reading a lot of manga as of late you can find lots with transgendered or crossdressing more then I thought I would find I liked Pretty Face alot ( mai otome ) also
have fun and look also enjoy the flowers life is short give someone a hug

christi

I just saw someone on here who might be an author of a certain "Great Shift" story. This one references Heinlein. If this is the same author where's the sequel?! I beg you, please finish it you "English Rose" sir. ;-)

Sarang

Well, Oklahoma is in the middle of a severe drought, we've had less rain for the year than we normally get just in March. Grass fires are a daily occurrence across the state. If we don't get a lot of rain soon, there will be no wheat or hay to harvest. People had better get ready to pay much more for food as well as gasoline. On the bright side, we here in Oklahoma do have the lowest gas prices in the country. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-12906196

So far as I know, this is not some April Fool joke. The date on the story is 3/31/11.
Basically, a hen became a sort-of rooster, crowing, strutting and changing comb and wattle and quit laying eggs, after a molt. Veternary suggests reason as though it is not unusual.

First, thank you to all who responded to my earlier blog. Not only were there far more well-wishers than I expected, there were some from people I never would have expected. (There were also a couple of people who were notable by their absence, but that's all I'll say about that.)

I usually don't post much on my blog here. But like the title says I'm feeling disheartened and honestly once again like way too many people do It's about the comments. I've looked for the flavors of whatever seems to be the choice of the week/month and all I see is a reduction of comments from a lot of the stories that are up right now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369991/Transgender-...

Nice story about high school transgendered junior allowed to attend prom as her girlself. Sounds like she had a great time.

I saw a nice car today. It had lovely curves, and a very slight hint of chunkiness. I got the impression that the chunkiness was the result of a severe manufacturing defect, that had been mostly corrected.

...And the last three letters on the registration plate? = )

Before shutting down here, I decided to upgrade to the Firefox 4. That was an hour and a half ago. Mozilla really screwed the pooch this time! Lots of cosmetic crap that wasn't necessary and really screws up the layout. Several of my most used apps won't work with FF4 It took me less than 5 minutes to decide to go back to the previous version. That's when the fun begin. Uninstalling FF4 did not roll back to the previous version, and no matter what version I tried to download I always ended up with FF4 again.