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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Get on the SONG bus to the US Social Forum!

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Get on the SONG bus to the US Social Forum!

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Hey Comrade! Are you going to the US Social Forum this year? You're getting this email because we think you are definitely someone who should be there! It's happening in Detroit from Tuesday, June 22 through Saturday, June 26. If you haven't heard about it yet, here's their website (http://www.ussf2010.org/). The registration fee is a sliding scale, and you should definitely think about going if you're not already planning to- For those sexy lefties who are making the trip, I only have one question for you: How could a gathering of thousands of progressive organizers working on the revolutionary love and justice possibly get any better? Answer: 1. Not having to shell out $275 for a plane ticket. 2. Not having to stay awake or drive the 1500 miles there and back. 3. Not having to battle the traffic of the 15,000 other people trying to get to the USSF events. and 4. Spending the 22-hour round trip up to Detroit & back hanging out with your favorite Southern queers! A group of Bull City SONG members are getting a carpool together and we want YOU to join us! The most cost effective, environmentally friendly, and funnest way to travel is in a comfy motor coach with 44 of your closest Southern comrades. We'll have a driver & a bathroom & lots of room for luggage (yes, I'm talking to my fellow femmes & others with outrageous fashion sensibilities;) & plenty of shenanigans. So here are the details: Cost: $150 round trip per seat *transportation only* (fyi- gas for an average car to Detroit & back is approximately $195, not to mention the wear & tear on your car) Leaving from: Durham @ 12:01 am on Tuesday, June 22 (we'll drive through the night) Arriving in: Detroit some time around noon on Tuesday (USSF activities get started Tuesday afternoon) Daily transportation: to Cobo Hall in Detroit each morning from one central hotel & back each night (HOTEL fyi-If you want to take the bus in each day, you should stay in or close to the designated hotel. We'll go with the closest inexpensive hotel. The best rooms we've found so far cost about $215 for the 4 nights. Divided between 4 people (2 double beds), that's only $54 TOTAL for lodging per person!) Leaving from: Detroit in the evening, after the festivities on Saturday, June 26 (we'll drive through the night) Arrive home: Sunday morning How to get on board: ***DEADLINE is JUNE 4, 2010*** 1. call, text, or email Alba Onofrio telling us that you want to come so we can get some sense of how many folks are interested: 919.308.9919 oralba.de.onofrio@gmail.com 2. click on the secure paypal link below and pay your $150 with your bank or credit card to reserve your spot on the bus or you can connect with Alba in person if you want to pay in cash (we'll send you info on the hotel once you've reserved your spot) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr? cmd=_xclick&business=alba%2ede%2eonofrio%40g mail%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=1%20Seat%20on% 20the%20Motor%20Coach%20to%20USSF&amount =150%2e00&currency_code=USD&button_subtype=s ervices&bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF%3abtn_buynowCC_L G%2egif%3aNonHosted 3. show up by 12:01 am on June 22nd and get ready for an amazing week of fun and organizing! Come on y'all, the South needs to be present in this national dialogue & strategy creation for the revolution! Going together on a bus is not only more fun, it helps the environment too! For those of you who can't make it, don't worry. We'll bring back all the knowledge & skills that we gather in Detroit to make our local work in the South even better! **IMPORTANT NOTE** The USSF is only 4 weeks away! Because this is a totally grassroots effort, we have to have the payment for the bus in advance. So, YOU ONLY HAVE A SHORT TIME TO SIGN UP! ***DEADLINE is JUNE 4, 2010*** If, by some strange reason, we don't have 45 people signed up and paid by June 4th, we will refund your payment so that you have enough time to organize other transportation. (A 15-passenger van, for example, is also another possibility for a back-up plan.) in fierce love & solidarity, Bull City SONG

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Ammo Girl commented on "Being Transgender Is Not A Mental Illness": I actually do have a Psych Degree...It is is in fact a mental illness/disorder... They need therapy and in some instances medications... I am sorry....Transgender (not gay, bi or lesbian)...TRANSGENDER IS a mental disorder.

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JoanieH121506 replied to Ammo Girl's comment on "Being Transgender Is Not A Mental Illness": It would seem that you are more of a Christian Fundamentalist than a psychologist as you are ignoring the 97% to 98% success rate that transitional medicine is accomplishing with defined standards of care, using known therapeutic agents and achieving expected results with one of the highest success rates known to modern medicine.

You are also ignoring several researches ...
...I am also wondering why you are ignoring the fact that the American Psychological Association considers repairative therapies to be far more harmful than beneficial?...
...I see in you more of the religious than I do of the educated, scientific-minded. JMHO

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Monica Roberts replied to Ammo Girl's comment on "Being Transgender Is Not A Mental Illness": being gay was once in the DSM as a 'mental illness' as well until it was taken out in the 1970's. It's just a matter of time before it happens for trans people as well

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Carolyn replied to Ammo Girl's comment on "Being Transgender Is Not A Mental Illness": It wasn't so very many years ago that being female was considered a mental disorder. Take a look at the root meaning of hysteria or read Freud trying to figure out women. While there are clearly real mental illnesses, there is also the terrible tendency to think that anyone who is different from "me" is nuts. Professionals who look for pathologies usually find them.

Dana LaRocca commented on "Maryland Transgender Folks: Here Comes The Annapol...": I don’t think that Delegate Pena-Melnyk or other sponsors of the bill intended leave us behind. They capitulated under Equality Maryland’s big lie that they represent the Mayland trans community.
The national organizations are running the show and the stage play is about marriage. . We don’t get straight answers because direction comes from HRC, Freedom to Marry, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, not from the people at Equality Maryland. Internally they have agreed, or have been told by the board, not to discuss the level of national involvement. Without discussing that they can’t give an answer as to why this bill was downgraded.
Does Equality Maryland have a plan or a timetable for pursuing public accommodations protections? No.

JoanieH121506 has left a new comment on your post "Transgender Community Has No Room For Any Internal...":

Good article with some very succinct points. The hardest hit segment of the BT are those of color when it comes to the vast majority of discrimination. I have known those of African descent and many of Asian/Latino descent - and even some whites of older years - who seem to have hit brick walls at every turn when it comes to meeting their needs - and I am not talking about things like TV's, cars or iPODS. I'm speaking to the level of "where is my next meal coming from/" or "where am I going to sleep tonight?". It also does not make one feel too warm and fuzzy having to live in environments where there are constant threats of violence.

JoanieH121506 commented on "Transgender positive news from the US Department o...": This is mind boggling! Someone in the U.S. government showing some good sense? Good job!
...Now we need to work a bit more on access to those medical procedures that both the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association, under Standards Of Care, currently maintained by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, consider to be medically necessary...

Stacie,
It is our pleasure and passion to do anything to help support anyone and any organization that provides services and support to the Hampton Roads, VA Transgender community as well as our siblings in the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Hetero community.
Keep up the fine work you do. We support you!
De

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Stacie commented on "TLC - Hampton Roads, VA Transgender Clinic Reopens...": Thanks so much for supporting TLC Clinic. We are anxious for services to start again and we look forward to working with our new counselor, Mary Aab. Thanks for everyone's patience during these last couple months!
Stacie

Joanne, Thank you for sharing your opinions and your feelings. They are always valued.
The only way things will ever change is through positive dialog.
Again, Thanks for speaking your voice, my friend!

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JoanieH121506 commented on "Transgender Activist E.m. Equality Speaks The Trut...": Now if people in positions of power were to adopt this perspective, it might actually begin to have some positive effects. However, when leaders like Barney Frank start pandering to the conservative right by bringing up groundless matters, preying upon the fears of the "moral majority" and Christian rightists, this seems to make the entire matter seem moot - especially for the lesser demographics within the TG umbrella. If this is to work at all, it needs to be implemented at all levels - and most importantly from the top of the power pyramid down. Right now, I am in the position of believing the gist of what the article professes, yet at the same time, I have decades of experience that prevent me from feeling anything other than a feeling of discouragement in this area. After all actions and experience mean a lot more than words - especially when action ignores history and truth...

...To quote Joni Mitchell; "They won't give peace a chance. This was just a dream that some of us had."

Jamiegottagun commented on "Thailand's Distorted View Of Transgender People": Thai's probably aren't as accepting as they've been made out to be: check.
Few things in this world are as they have been made out to be.
However, you endanger your own credibility when you make such sweeping statements as you did in your introduction of this story, but provide only the opinion of one movie director, quoted in one story.
And to trash an entire philosophy, Buddhism, based on the actions of a few, is hardly fair, or can be taken as serious news reporting.
If you want to run, what tries to appear to be a transgender news service, then to be taken seriously, you might want to start learning about acceptable practices and ethics in journalism.

Estraven commented on "Is The Repeal Of "DADT" Important To Transgender A...": Thank you so much for being inclusive, and using the word bisexual, as DADT itself does. Just as trans people have been marginalized, so have bisexuals, and it is a little known fact that the language of DADT included bisexuals, and bisexuals were dismissed under DADT. As Cliff Arnesen, President of New England GLBT Vets, who was discharged in 1967 for being bisexual and has been fighting for inclusion of queers in the military ever since, says "You don't get half a discharge for being bisexual."
As there is a natural alliance between the bi and trans communities, we feel that the fight for queer rights will not be finished until EVERYONE has a place at the table.

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