Want to tell some of The Powers That Be a thing or two about trans health and wellbeing?

The TranZnation survey aims to examine the health and wellbeing of individuals in the trans communities. It is being carried out by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University and Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria which is part of ARCSHS.

Visit the survey at http://www.tranznation.org/

This English translation quotes from Guerilla Travolaka:

We of the ‘Trans’ Guerrilla believe in the power of SHOWING ourselves, talking about our bodies, our sexuality, our differences and the thousand identities that are hidden beneath that label of “trans”. We want to be visible and we speak in the first person.
We want to possess gender, redefine our BODIES and create free, open networks where we can develop, where anyone can build up their security mechanisms against gender pressure.

We aren’t victims; our war wounds are our shields.

In opposition to the Trans-normativity that imposes strict medical morals and a binomic gender system, we propose new alternatives to understand and construct our bodies. We are NOT talking about a third sex, as we don’t even believe in a first or second sex. This is a question of being able to express our gender freely, of understanding the utopia that means and the pressures that exist.

We present ourselves, not as terrorists, but as pirates, trapeze artists, guerrillas, members of the gender RESISTANCE.

We defend Doubt, we believe in the ‘going back’ medically and in going forward, we think that no construction process should be labelled as IRREVERSIBLE. We want to make the beauty of androgyny visible. We believe in the right of removing our bandages to breathe, and that of not removing them ever; in the right of undergoing operations at the hands of good surgeons and not BUTCHERS, in free access to hormone treatments without the need for psychiatrists’ certificates, in the right of self hormone administration. We demand the right to live without asking for permission.

We believe in direct action against trans-phobia. And to achieve this, we feel it is necessary to redefine the limits of this phobia, understanding it to be the rejection of any non-regulatory expression of gender identity, not just transexualism.

(Via Jay Sennett)

Reminder:

TMGP admin meeting
6pm, Monday 23rd of October
Group Study Room (in the Frank Crean Independent Learning Centre)
City Library, 253 Flinders Lane
Melbourne

Admin meetings are open to everyone, including people who haven’t come along before. Our admin meetings are quite informal and we don’t require you to say anything if you dno’t want to. If you have an idea for a project, something to contribute or if you’d just like to know kore about TMGP, please come along.

WANTED: cowfreaks, showgirls, six shooters, high rollers, queer outlaws and the wild tranz
get your glad rags on, saddle up and ride out west for a whip crackin’ good time at

TEX ROYALE

For red dust glam rock, punk n’ western queer party action……..

get a sneak preview at www.myspace.com/gender_schmender
be sure to check out the video show reel featuring all of your favourite genderschmenderers!!

Featuring performances by Wiley Peyote, Chic Magnet, Udderly Bovine, Lady ge Darian, Stanley Nice and the Cutters, Lady Heartbreak

From the dirty south, a live western band: Shane French and Ryan Sterling
DJ’s silverspurs & tokyolovekitten

Show down 9pm Saturday 21st October
Show up The Commercial Hotel 238 Whitehall Street Yarraville
Quick Draw $8 unwaged $10 waged

genderschmender will meet YOU at Yarraville Train Station at 8.30pm and 9.00pm, walk/ride the western streets with us all the way to the ranch

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this is a genderschmender event so as always there is no door policy. what we ask is that you leave your sexist, classist, racist, transphobic and homophobic attitudes at home.
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hit us on the web: www.myspace.com/gender_schmender for details, photo’s and video’s.
watch the TEX ROYALE SHOW REELon youtube
or shoot us by email

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