Kings performance drags

Phoenix.Swarthmore.edu – By Jean Strout

This year?s gender-bending Sager Symposium kicked off with a workshop on how to look and act like a dude. The four members of the Philadelphia-based drag king troupe The Diablos spent Friday afternoon employin…

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She, he and … ze?

ASUWebDevil.com – by Marc Young

Class promotes gender identity awareness

Which restroom do you use when you don’t consider yourself neither female nor male?

As one of the few higher learning institutions around the country to have non-discrimi…

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PRISM fundraiser isnt a drag

Media.www.Signal-Online.net – Kristin Sowden

Some of the College’s most beautiful men and women volunteered to show a little skin for charity on March 22 at PRISM’s third annual Drag Show, held in the Travers/Wolfe Main Lounge.

Talented Performer…

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Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus

JCEM.EndoJournals.org – Frank P. M. Kruijver, Jiang-Ning Zhou, Chris W. Pool, Michel A. Hofman, Louis J. G. Gooren and Dick F. Swaab

Transsexuals experience themselves as being of the opposite sex, despite having the biological characteristics of one sex. A crucial question resulting from a previous brain study in male-to-female transsexuals was whether the reported difference according to gender identity in the central part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) was based on a neuronal difference in the BSTc itself or just a reflection of a difference in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide innervation from the amygdala, which was used as a marker. Therefore, we determined in 42 subjects the number of somatostatin-expressing neurons in the BSTc in relation to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and past or present hormonal status. Regardless of sexual orientation, men had almost twice as many somatostatin neurons as women (P

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Review of Some Men

AfterElton.com – by Kenyon Farrow

The most powerful scene in the play takes place on the night of Stonewall, but not with the poor drag queens, people of color and transgender folks who launched the days-long riot in the summer of ’69. The be…

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