I found this article about raising medical professionals' awareness and sensitivity towards gay and trans patients. On the one hand, it's encouraging that there are efforts and energies afoot to do this. On the other hand, it's sad how ignorance and discrimination can exist in the medical community, just as elsewhere. The third paragraph of the article is of particular relevance to our little community here.

I have access to this through a subscription from a free Medscape blog site for Med students entitled "The Differential" (no, I'm not a med student -- I lied when I signed up for the site.) I found copies of it adapted for other websites, so I'm going to assume its copyright is either absent or permits that. Rather than post a link that probably won't work for anyone not subscribed, I'm posting the full text here.

According to the main page "Fictionmania will be back June 1st, 2009"

http://www.fictionmania.tv/enter.html

Tonight's is being written as you read this. I've been marshalling on the Tour Series race at Exeter. Actually, I was selling programmes, but it helped the event, which was raising money for prostate cancer charities. The riders all 50 of them were hurtling around Exeter at far from safe speeds, there was at least one crash -but it was good spectator sport.

I've only just got home, so tonight's bike will be racing along as soon as I can write it.

Angharad.

Remember the Austrailian program,"Gender Puzzle"? Someone posted a link to part of it?

I emailed ABC Austrailia, asking to purchase it, and got the following response:

Honestly, what would society be without art?
You ask and try to grasp this in a feduciary context
and we all know things are more complex than this.

If anybody would like to follow the US Triathlon Olympic Team at

Here is a list of nine common expressions used by women and a translation of what they REALLY mean for men with an understanding impairment and to give the girls a giggle:-

I happened to do my evening check on the new URL they have and guess what? It worked. Looks like FM is back, at least for awhile. http://www.fictionmania.tv/searchdisplay/new1.html

Thanks to ALL involved.

3rd Installment of Metamorposis 2 is now up at Lulu

Please note that The May Day Dress has been unpublished for the moment.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Hugs
Sue Brown

For those who know about SCC this blog will be, perhaps, a bit redundant. For those who don't know, SCC is the biggest TG convention/conference in the world! It's been being held annually for the past 18 or 19 years and attracts TGs of all stripes, from all over the world, to Atlanta Georgia.

Hello all! Over at my blog at TGLibrary.com I am trying to work out a different way for a male to "work through" being changed into a female. I could go through all the cliched "OMG I'm A GIRL!!!" things that have been done to death.

A few days ago, I thought that someone Blogged about a new Gender Test, and I took it. I was so tired that night, that I kept falling asleep while doing it and I think it could have taken me an hour and a half.

The dastardly, damming,dissatisfying and discouraging test rated me as a "0". :( I felt somewhat disappointed, because in my own mind, I am as much or more Woman than any other Woman. I thought that was it and it was over.