New Inclusive Rules For HISD Schools

The 2011-2012 school year starts for HISD students today.  For the first time students in the largest school district in Texas and seventh largest in the nation will do so with a Student Code of Conduct policy that includes anti bullying provisions with gender identity and expression language

The gender identity and expression language is also included in the anti discrimination portions of HISD's employment policy as well. 

It passed on a unanimous 8-0 vote and we do need to take a moment to thank all the HISD Board of trustee members who voted for the policies. 

The members who are up for reelection, HISD  board president Paula Harris (District IV), Carol Mims Galloway (District II), Manuel Rodriguez (District III), and Juliet Stipeche (District VIII) we can thank not only with e-mails, but with our ballots November 8.

My rep Paula Harris has drawn an opponent while the other three members whose terms are up in this cycle haven't as of yet.   The  deadline to file challenges against them is September 7.      


We also need to take a moment to thank Chris Busby and Jenifer Rene Pool whose multiyear work and patient engagement with the Board of Trustees made it happen.  

To our TBLG kids matriculating in HISD we have this to say to you.  We love y'all, study hard, have a wonderful school year, know we have your backs if something needs addressing, and we hope and pray the new policies that are in place make a huge difference in making your school year much better than it was previously.

We hope the same applies to TBLG people who work for the district as well.

Trans Documentary-Is She Or Isn't He?

Another trans documentary, this one's spread out over a five year period 

Cristan's Transgender Research

Cristan Williams of the Houston based Transgender Foundation of America continues to put out the nuggets of history from the archive that it has painstakingly built up that blows up the lies of those who claim that the transgender term is only a 90's invention.

It also blows up the lies of people who claim that transsexuality is just a late 20th century-21st century phenomenon.

from Clinical Sexuality, a 1974 book by  John F. Oliven, MD 

The milder case of transvestitism does not come easily to medical or any other professional attention, and it has rarely been included in the reports from clinic now specializing in transgender research.

From the 1979 Newsday article on Christine Jorgenson reprinted in the Winnipeg Free Press 

As a young man, Jorgensen experienced strong emotional attachments to two male friends, but she says those feelings were never expressed. She admits now that she wasn’t entirely candid in the book. She did have “a couple” of homosexual experiences before she went to Europe to seek a medical solution to her problem, but they only reinforced the feeling that she wanted to relate to men as a woman, not as another man. “If you understand trans-genders,” she says, (the word she prefers to transsexuals), “then you understand that gender doesn’t have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity.”

There's some fascinating stuff here that Cristan continues to add to at this transgender research link.