Re: [issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-25 Thread srl
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Robert Wade wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, srl wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > In this course, we also watched a video of a "Dateline" episode (for you > > > non-USers, Dateline is a primetime-ish show with "investigative" > > > reporting,

Re: [issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-25 Thread Robert Wade
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, srl wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > > In this course, we also watched a video of a "Dateline" episode (for you > > non-USers, Dateline is a primetime-ish show with "investigative" > > reporting, shown on a major TV network) which shows a "study" b

Re: [issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-25 Thread srl
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > In this course, we also watched a video of a "Dateline" episode (for you > non-USers, Dateline is a primetime-ish show with "investigative" > reporting, shown on a major TV network) which shows a "study" being done > on several girls who are super-to

Re: [issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-23 Thread Sunnanvind Briling
Several times when reading this book, I thought of my sister and I. We are both jeans-and-tshirt kind of girls, uncomfortable in dresses and makeup. She has worn her hair short (especially when she was younger, she's 16 now) and taken a lot of crap for it. When at my wedding this last

Re: [issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-22 Thread Julie Thornton
> Several times when reading this book, I thought of my sister and I. We are > both jeans-and-tshirt kind of girls, uncomfortable in dresses and makeup. Well, as a heterosexual female who does not choose to wear dresses every day and only wears makeup on special occasions, I must say that this is

Re: [issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-22 Thread Vinnie
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > It's an autobiography chronicling her time spent in mental institutions > diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (as well as family issues). Anyone > else read it? Yup. Actually, someone gave it to me after I wrote an article for a 'zine about les

[issues] interesting book, gender identity disorder

2000-11-22 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Just got done with my Thanksgiving week reading for my Gay and Lesbian Studies class. It was a wonderful book by Daphne Scholinski, "The Last Time I Wore a Dress." It's an autobiography chronicling her time spent in mental institutions diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (as well as family i