Becoming a Visible Man

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225 Index A&E, 176 A Boy Named Sue, 176 Adventures in the Gender Trade, 174 Allen, Mariette Pathy, 180 All-FTM Conference of the Americas, 85–86, 88. See also, Boston conference Always My Child, 129 ambiguous genitalia, 3, 122, 203 American Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS), 84 American Psychiatric Association (APA), 71, 79–80 androgyny, 46, 56, 89, 100, 121, 136, 155, 156, 182, 187 Annals of Plastic Surgery, 106 Barbie, 89 Basquin, Bill, 176 BBC, 176 Benjamin, Dr. Harry, 194 bi-potential see karyotypes bisexual, 8, 54, 78–79, 80–81, 83, 133, 144, 154, 156, 159, 161, 162, 164, 176, 194. See also, sexual Blank, Joani, 154 Bliss, Shepherd, 32 Bloom, Amy, 154 Blumenstein, Rosalyne, 194 Bly, Robert, 32 Bockting, Walter, 54, 60, 195 Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, 177 Body Chemistry: Hormone Heaven, 176 body modification, 89–90, 95 Boenke, John & Mary, 129 Bornstein, Kate, 50, 65, 174 Boston conference, 210 bottom surgery, see surgery, genital reconstruction Bouman, Dr. F.G., 110 Boys Don’t Cry, 84 Briggs Initiative, 124 Bright, Susie, 154 Brinkin, Larry, 48, 49 Bryant, Anita, 124 Butler, Judith, 178 Califia, Patrick, 143, 154 Cameron, Loren, 49–50, 56–57, 85, 107, 174, 177–80 Centurion, 111. See metoidioplasty, techniques in surgery; see also surgery, genital reconstruction Chang, Dr. T.S., 108 Changing Sex, 185 Green,BecomingFinal.indd 225 3/24/04 2:36:39 PM Becoming a Visible Man 226 Changing Sexes—Female-to-Male, 176 Channel 4, 176 Charles Perez, 175 Chase, Cheryl, 82 chromosomes, 2–3 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 213 Colapinto, John, 202–6, 208 confidentiality, 55 Cook-Riley, Dan, 76 Cook-Riley, Yvonne, 76 Court TV, 177 Cram, Bestor, 174 Cromwell, Jason, 63, 76, 86, 91, 131 178, 195, 196 crossdressers, 48, 50, 57–58, 59, 61, 73, 74, 75, 77, 81, 83, 175, 193 cross-gender, 18, 70–71, 138, 155, 159 Crossing: A Memoir, 205 Dain, Steve, 18–19, 21–23, 56, 66, 76, 98, 100, 174 Dain, Vera, 22–23 Dateline NBC, 202 Davis, (Governor) Gray, 209 Denny, Dallas, 84, 85, 194, 196 Devor, Aaron H., x, 178 Devor, Holly, 76, 177–78, 195 Diamond, Milton, 203 Dillon, Michael, 108 Discovery Channel, 176 embryogenesis, 2 Erickson Educational Foundation, 56 ETVC, 59, 65, 79 European Court of Human Rights, 92 Feinberg, Leslie, 50 female-to-male transsexual, see FTM Film Garden Entertainment, 176 free tissue flap transfer (FTFT), 108–9, 110. See also surgery, genital reconstruction FTM: community, 28, 32, 38, 45, 47, 53, 73, 76–77, 87–88, 156, 167, 216 defined, 18 FTM International (FTMI), 85, 88, 163 FTM Newsletter, 28, 38, 46, 55, 59, 60–62, 64, 65, 66, 67–68, 76, 85, 172, 194 stereotypes about, 46–47, 74–75, 89, 142 Fraser, Dr. Lin, 195 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), 175 Gay & Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California (GLBTHS), 54, 64 Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 129 gender: as a social construction, 29, 190– 92, 202 as different from sexual orientation, 78–79 assumptions about, 5–8, 31, 35, 166, 191–93 categorical changes in, 6 conformance, 37–38 deception in expression, 5–6, 9, 44, 162, 171, 185 defined, 5, 7, 193 “dysphoric,” 14 faulty logic about, 27–28, 89, 91–93, 161, 186, 190–91, 192 incongruity with the body, 7, 12, 36–38, 68–69, 71, 196–97, 204–5 oppression, 78, 81, 87–88, 171, 178, 183–84, 197, 205–6 Green,BecomingFinal.indd 226 3/24/04 2:36:39 PM Index 227 gender identity: and African-American identity, 58 and FTM crossdressing, 71 and healthcare, 15 and physical body, 22, 36, 107, 187 and politics, 209 and secondary sex characteristics, 121 as communication, 193 balance with social interactions, 9 building community in relation to, 87 definition, 7–8 different from sexual orientation, 54, 78, 81 in children, 130, 131, 132, 144 in the grand scheme, 215 need to express, 136, 166, 203, 206 support from mental health community, 207 validation without surgery, 42 gender identity disorder, 93 gender variance: definition, 6 effect of judgments about, 42, 211 effect of surgery on, 90 fear of, 127, 185 how expressed, 12, 81, 86, 87 in children, 132–33 in the lesbian community, 69 institutional validation, 196–97 lessons from, 37 reasons for and against surgery in, 89, 93, 206 validation in lesbian...