There are other places that do the variety of surgeries and provide therapy to individuals seeking the surgeries that are sought by some gender variant individuals including transexuals but you are correct in stating that the Program in Human Sexuality at the U of M campus is one of the larger such programs in the U.S. particularly that strictly follow and provide transitional therapy under the HBDIGA guidlines which Paul Zerby referenced during the hearing.
I would also point out that Minneapolis has protected gender variant individuals from disrimination for nearly thirty years in our nondiscrimination ordinance and was the first city to do so in North America. I believe that no other cities passed such protections for nearly 20 years. In the last year, a large number of cities have done so ranging from places such as New York, NY & Philadelphia, PA to Dallas, TX & Covington, KY. Minnesota also was the first state to provide such protections in 1993. (California just became the fourth state to sign such legislation into law last Monday). I think this long history of legal protection and relative tolerance has also played a role in there being a disproportionate number of gender variant individuals in our community. Of course, some parts of Minnesota, such as the Red Valley area, are known for a much much higher than normal rate of infants whose gender is ambigious. There a wide number of theories as to why this might be true including higher than usual use of particular ag chemicals combined with other factors such as the composition of the soil. David Strand Loring Park --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Given that the highest prevalence estimate for > transsexualism is 1/10,000, Minneapolis has at most > about 20 persons with the appendage you describe > using the women's room.< > > You'd think that, unless you knew that the U Medical > center is one of two places in the US that do > transsexual surgery (the other is Johns Hopkins in > Baltimore, I think). This means that a lot of pre-op > folks are living here going through the > qualification process. > > --M. G. Stinnett > Jordan Neighborhood > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, > don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, > of course.) > > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
