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  1. April Ashley's own story

     
    Collection: April Ashley Collection
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ashley, April
    Date: Feb. 8, 1970
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Femininities, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Identification, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Mental health, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Self-acceptance, Sexuality, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: April Ashley, Arthur Corbett
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  2. Cecilia Gentili Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Gentili, Cecilia
    Date: Jul. 14, 2017
    Topics: Addictions, Childhood, Clothing, Dictatorships, Families, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Immigration, Immigration policy, Imprisonment, Labour, LGBTQ+ relationships, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transphobia, Violence
    Subject: Cecilia Gentili, Gay Men's Health Crisis
    Description: Cecilia Gentili is the Director of Policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). In this wide-ranging interview, she reflects on the relationships and experiences that inform her story of struggle, res...
  3. Ceyenne Doroshow Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Nova, Cyd, Doroshow, Ceyenne
    Date: Feb. 19, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Age, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Communities, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Families, Femininities, Gay community, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Homelessness, Hormones, Housing, Language, LGBTI community, Loneliness, MtFs, Racism, Representation, Riots, Roman catholicism, Sexual assault, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Ceyenne Doroshow, Miss Major
    Description: Ceyenne Doroshow shares her experience developing a supportive relationship with her family, enduring ignorance and discrimination, first meeting another transwoman, learning about hormones, and di...
  4. Cross-Talk: The Gender Community's News & Information Monthly, No. 64 (February, 1995)

     
    Collection: Cross-Talk: The Gender Community’s News & Information Monthly
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator: Richards, Kymberleigh
    Date: Feb. 1995
    Topics: Activists, Biology, Capitalism, Civil rights, Clothing, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Drag, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Femininities, FtMs, Gender, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Intolerance, Lesbians, Letters to the editor, Masculinities, MtFs, Online chat groups, Politics, Secrecy, Sexuality, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
  5. Cross-Talk: The Transgender Community News & Information Monthly, No. 72 (Oct 1995)

     
    Collection: Cross-Talk: The Gender Community’s News & Information Monthly
    Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany
    Creator: Richards, Kymberleigh
    Date: Oct. 1995
    Topics: Bisexuality, Black queer people, Clothing, Clubs, Comic strips, Cosmetics, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Femininities, Film, FtMs, Heterosexuals, HIV/AIDS, Homosexuality, Lesbians, Letters to the editor, Masculinities, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Queer people of color, Social norms, Transgender community, Transgender people, Violence
    Subject: Tri-Ess Society for the Second Self
  6. Octavia Leona Kohner Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Kohner, Octavia Leona
    Date: Mar. 27, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Anarchism, Childhood, Clothing, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Families, Feminists, Gender identity, Isolation, Labour movement, LGBTI community, MtFs, Political movements, Solidarity, Trade unions, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Working class
    Subject: Babeland, Octavia Leona Kohner
    Description: Octavia Leona Kohner was active in the successful unionization campaign at Babeland, a NYC sex toy shop. Here, she recounts her upbringing in a working-class family in Staten Island, and describes ...
  7. Paris Milane Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, Milane, Paris
    Date: Jun. 22, 2017
    Topics: Activists, Change of name, Childhood, Clothing, Colleges, Crimes, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Harassment, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Housing, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Organisations, Stealth (Transgender), Substance abuse, Support groups, Transgender community, Unemployment, Violence
    Subject: Housing Works, Paris Milane
    Description: Paris shares her experience of growing up in Atlanta and starting to “live her truth” at a young age. She recalls finding reassurance in a community of other Black trans women for the first time an...
  8. Pressmats Clippings c. 1980

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1980
    Topics: Appearance, Arrests, Clothing, Crossdressers, Drag, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Law, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Police, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: Transsexual Action Organization (TAO)
    Description: Clipping originally collected by Richard Ekins (from The University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archives/Richard Ekins collection at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria)
  9. Rafaela Anshel Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Arban, Courtney
    Date: Jul. 13, 2017
    Topics: Age, Child abuse, Childhood, Choirs, Clothing, Coming out, Families, Friendships, Gay identity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Judaism, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ relationships, MtFs, Music, Popular culture, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Privacy, Self-acceptance, Sexual assault, Sexual practices, Social workers, Stereotypes, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Violence
    Subject: Gender Identity Project, Rafaela Anshel
    Description: Rafaela Anshel is a Jewish trans woman, affiliated with the Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. This interview is a reflection of Anshel’s transition. She details accounts from youth up until present ...
  10. The Tartan Skirt: Magazine of the Scottish TV/TS Group No. 2 (April 1992)

     
    Collection: The Tartan Skirt
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Forrester, Anne
    Date: Apr. 1992
    Topics: Abuse, Age, Appearance, Books, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Hormones, Language, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ press, Misogyny, MtFs, Organisations, Partners of transgender people, Persecution of transgender people, Plastic surgery, Politics, Privacy, Public facilities, Self-acceptance, Self-defence, Support groups, Thrift shops, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), Beaumont Society, Caroline Cossey, Chevalier D'Eon, Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc., International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR), Jed Bland, JoAnn Roberts, Sandra MacRae, Scottish TV/TS Group, Stephanie Anne Lloyd, Stephanie: a Girl in a Million (The Autobiography of a Transsexual), The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-1765, The Gender Paradox, The Grampian Gender Group (3G)
  11. The Tartan Skirt: Magazine of the Scottish TV/TS Group No. 3 (July 1992)

     
    Collection: The Tartan Skirt
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Forrester, Anne
    Date: Jul. 1992
    Topics: Appearance, Beauty standards, Books, Classical music, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Events, Femininities, Feminism, Gender dysphoria, Gender minorities, Gender role, Labelling, Language, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ poetry, Marriage, Misogyny, MtFs, Music, Organisations, Passing (Gender), Plastic surgery, Public facilities, Self-defence, Sexuality, Shame, Social norms, Solidarity, Support groups, Transgender community, Transsexual people, Violence
    Subject: Brain Sex: the Real Difference Between Men and Women, Caroline Cossey, Coming Together, Working Together Convention, Cross Talk, Crosslynx, David Bowie, Gender Dysphoria Trust International, Handel, IFGE Houston 1992, Iggy Pop, International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), Mozart, Sandra MacRae, Scottish TV/TS Group, Ten Commandments for Crossdressers, Virginia Prince, You Just Don't Understand
  12. The Tartan Skirt: Magazine of the Scottish TV/TS Group No. 6 (April 1993)

     
    Collection: The Tartan Skirt
    Institution: Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan
    Creator: Forrester, Anne
    Date: Apr. 1993
    Topics: Appearance, Beauty standards, Books, Clothing, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Femininities, Gender diversity, Hormones, LGBTQ+ poetry, Machismo, Masculinities, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Passports, Prejudices, Support groups, Transgender community, Violence
    Subject: Bodyshock: The Truth about Changing Sex, The Grampian Gender Group (3G)