Class Schedule

Date

Class Topic

Readings (and Assignments?)

• The Gender Frontier, Introduction, Decisive and Diverse, Gender Rights are Human Rights, Opening Eyes, Opening Eyes
• Transgender Warriors, Part 5 (Portrait Gallery)
• Gender Outlaw, chapter 2, 4, 11 & 12

Speaker

• Transgender Warriors, chapter 3, 4, & 5
• Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography, Introduction and Preface (CP)
• "The Celebration of Difference: The Institution of the Berdache among Native Americans" from Becoming Visible (CP)

• Transliberation, chapter 2
• "Tragic Misreadings: Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity" by V. K. Namaste
• "Blending Genders: Contributions to the Emerging Field of Transgender Studies" by Richard Ekins, Ph.D and Dave King, Ph.D from IJT (CP)
• "Transgenderism and the Concept of Gender" by Vern L. Bullough from IJT (CP)

• "Who put the "Trans" in Transgender?
  Gender Theory and Everyday Life " by Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna from IJT (CP)
  

Film: Paris is Burning

• Transgender Warriors, chapter 8
• Gender Outlaw, chapter 6 & 8

Film: The Brandon Teena Story

• Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, chapter 3 & 4

• Stone Butch Blues
• Sex Changes, chapter 6
• "Transsexuals´Children" by Green R. from IJT (CP)

Speaker

• Gender Identity Disorder from the DSM-IV-TR (CP)
• Homosexuality from the DSM (CP)
• "Trans (Homo) Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion, and Hetero-Hegemony" by Vernon A. Rosario II (CP)
• The Last Time I Wore a Dress

• The Gender Frontier p. 132-139
• Gender Outlaw, chapter 3
• "Transgender Individuals' Experiences of Psychotherapy" by Katherine Rachlin from IJT (CP)
• "Hormonal Sex Reassignment" by Louis J. G. Gooren from IJT (CP)
  

• "Beginnings of Sex Reassignment Surgery in Japan" by Takamatsu Ako (et. al) from IJT (CP) Note: There are several images of surgery in this article. If you are squeamish, you do not have to view the pictures, however please do read the article.

• Transgender Warriors, Appendix A
• The Sylvia Rivera Law Project Homepage (www.srlp.org)
• "Hernandez-Montiel v. I.N.S" (CP)
• "Sex, Gender, and Transgender: The Present and Future of Employment Discrimination Law" by Marvin Dunson III (CP)
• SONDA (CP)
• GENDA (CP)
• "Updated Look at Legal Responses to Transsexualism: Especially Three Marriage Cases in U.K., U.S. and New Zealand" by Louis H. Swartz, Ph.D. from IJT (CP)
  

• Transgender Warriors, chapter 12, 14, & 15
• Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, chapter 7 & 8
• Transliberation, chapter 1 & 6

• The Gender Frontier, Gender Rights are Human Rights (view pictures up through page 60), p. 128-129