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Send a (Trans) Kid to Camp |
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SAGA's TransParents support group has received a grant to enable them to put on a camp for trans and gender-nonconforming kids ages 5-12. Camp Born This Way gives campers the chance to meet each other, find strength in numbers, and learn some of the joys of being gender-marvelous. But the grant, generous as it is, will cover just the cost of running the camp, and will not be enough to provide funding for children whose parents cannot afford room and board.
This is your chance to contribute to a truly worthy cause in our local community. If you can give, any amount will help send a kid to camp. Press the button below to donate to the TransParents summer camp for kids.
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Planning for Incapacity and Disability |
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SAGA would like to thank Ronald Zack for
taking time to attend the transgender support meeting in April. He talked about how
important it is to plan for unexpected circumstances that may happen in life. |
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OUTSTANDING - Trans Content in Abundance in the Out in the Desert Film Festival |
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If you missed
it, you missed more than you thought you were missing. Not only were there
three out of a total of 47 programs* (see footnote below) that were Trans
specific sets of short films, there were also transgender characters and/or
issues that cropped up in other programs. For example, in the charming "Au
Pair, Kansas" there was a transgender "Momma" who intervened in
more than one squabble between the Kansas townsfolk and who was welcomed on the
newly forming soccer team. In Program #40 entitled "Life as a Gay
Man" there was film called "You Can't Curry Love" in which there
was a very matter-of-fact discussion/description between an Indian man and a
foreign visitor about the hijra. And in Program #26 entitled "Films By or
About LGBT Youth" there was an apparent girl whose father called her
"son" and helped him/her learn to defend her/himself from bullies in
"The Green Family Elbow." Of course Tucson's own Han Nguyen's film
"Faith of the Abomination" involved a lesbian couple in which one
member presented as male in order to gain acceptance into a church for the
purpose of exposing the hypocrisy of some of the church's teachings. And
finally the silent movie "A Belch Can Ruin a Wedding" included a gay
couple in which one man expressed his femininity in very traditional ways. |
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Transgender Victory in Maricopa County |
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On Sept. 27, three years after a similar proposal was rejected,
Equality Maricopa, led by former Tucsonan Lori Gershik, joyfully watched as the
governing board of the nation's largest community-college system, the Maricopa
County Community College District, voted to add "gender identity" to
its anti-discrimination policy.
This victory, and the lessons learned from the
battle to achieve it, will have a lasting and far-reaching impact as other
transgender-advocacy groups and their allies petition for similar policy
changes in other jurisdictions.
Three SAGA members, including SAGA Program
Coordinator Erin Russ, attended this historic meeting as a show of solidarity
and to speak about Tucson's experience with transgender-inclusive policies in
support of the policy change.
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