Launch of 'Online Creating Change Conference' (for transsexual & intersex issues)

Transsexual & Intersex Department of Education (TIDE) launches their first annual Online Creating Change Conference (OCCC) dedicated to educating about transsexual and intersex (TS/IS) issues. This project will use YouTube videos and the blogosphere as a way to combat miseducation and misrepresntation of transsexual and intersex issues.

To upload a video to OCCC's YouTube Channel or to have your testimony or article posted on OCCC's blog, email OCCConference@gmail.com

OCCC's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/OnlineCreatingChange
OCCC's Blog: http://onlinecreatingchangeconference.blogspot.com/

The OCCC Project is not the the same as the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) Annual Creating Change Conference, yet TIDE's Online Creating Change Conference will address some of the miseducation and topics being propogated about TS & IS individuals at the NGLTF conference, which is currently being held in Baltimore, Maryland. Many LGBT non-profits misrepresent people with transsexualism and/or who are intersex. The misgendering and colonization of transsexual and intersex issues by homosexual groups is very problematic to the unique goals and medical rights of transsexual and intersex people

Videos and blog should comment on the subjects of the workshops and sessions at NLGTF's conference, or about your thoughts concerning transsexual and intersex issues. The NLGTF conference lasts until Sunday. To view the subjects of sessions and institutes: http://creatingchange.org/sessions.php

The OCCC will be ongoing even after the NGLTF conference.

For information about the Online Creating Change Conference Project: http://onlinecreatingchangeconference.blogspot.com/2012/01/tides-1st-annual-o...

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• creating change
• conference
• 2012

[transSisterR8TO]

I agree transsexual voices, like ours, have been drowned out of the LGBT and world media because society tends to not want to believe transsexual people can "be\look like" them and be binary identified. A fav quote on that: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know; its what we know for sure that just ain't so" *Mark Twain. I believe the course of action you are taking is noteworthy and very worthwhile but I am Canadian. Would my submission help your cause if I am not from the US?

[Lincolnj2]

Wow, this is deep and a lot to think about. I've been having trouble for awhile with using the word transgender, but I didn't have the words for why. I don't think a lot of transguys talk about this stuff for a lot of reasons. The longer I watch and read your stuff though, the more I wonder if transsexual isn't the term I've been looking for.

[kat21sd]

you are so write ,we have been told that we are all the same and your right we are not ,I love that you are not taking a back seat on these issues ,we have to do it FUBU style for us by us we need to stand up and tell people wo and what we are & stop letting the L-G and staright communties tell the us the Transsexual community who we are - thanks you