Trans Melbourne Gender Project

Congratulations and well done to the winners of the 2006 Tranny Awards….

Most Outstandingly Unhelpful and Transphobic Gay and Lesbian Organisation:
United We Dance

Most Supportive and Trans-Friendly Health Professional:
Dr Nick Medland, Centre Clinic, St Kilda

Most Trans-Friendly Organisation:
Gender Schmender

Best Genderfucking Event of 2006:
Gender Schmender – Damnation

Most Misinformation About Transpeople in a Newspaper or Magazine Article:
Jason Foster, MCV (the only nominee)

The Harry Benjamin Award for the Most Inappropriate Comment by a Psychiatrist:
Dr Trudy Kennedy, Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic

The Milli Vanilli Award for the Most Lazy and Uninspired Drag Performance of 2006:
Jim Karma (drag king)

Best Example of Simultaneous Racism Sexism and Transphobia from A ‘GLBTIQ’ Perspective:
Los Ridiculos (drag king)

The TransAmerica Award for the Most Conservative Trans Movie:
Transamerica (with a nod to ‘Normal’)

Golden Shower Award for the Best Gender Neutral Bathroom in Melbourne:
Robot Bar

The Ratbag Award for the Most Incorrigible Gender-Variant Upstart:
Ashlan ‘Radio’ Pike

The Red Tape Award for the Most Time Consuming Gender Related Administrative Nightmare
VicRoads Carlton

The Sharp Learning Curve Award for Most Improvement in Gender Awareness:
Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria

The Token Award for the Best Performance of Trans-Friendliness Without the Action to Back it Up
Victorian Aids Council Gay Mens Peer Suport Program
(Australian Bureau of Statistics a close runner up)

International Achievement Award for the Best Example of Trans Advocacy Overseas:
Spanish Parliament

Best Tranny:
Sally Goldner

The Binary Award for the Most Gender Restrictive Trans Publication:
Craig Andrews, TORQUE magazine, Men’s Transsexual Resources Australia

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)

Homofactus Press is a small press in the US run by Jay Sennett. It publishes ftm writing. Wow, how’s that, a whole press devoted to ftm stuff.

The press just released its first book, Self-Organizing Men.

Jay says, “I created this book out a need I had to address the complexities in my own life,â€? says editor Jay Sennett. “I also wanted an anthology that included as many types of masculine voices as possible, not only transsexual ones. This book is very much a both/and kind of read.â€?

Welcome to the website for Trans Melbourne Gender Project (TMGP). The design for this site is still under construction but the text is done – so look around and find out more about who we are, what we do, and how you can get in on the action.

TMGP in brief

TMGP is a coalition of people of all genders. We engage in activism and support around issues of gender. We meet in person and online.

One of the best ways to keep up-to-date with TMGP activities is to join our e-mail list. You can also contact us by email, phone or post.