Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:46:38 GMT
Subject: First Trans-Violence WebPage Launched
From: riki@nyc.pipeline.com (Riki Anne Wilchins)

First Trans-Violence WebPage Launched 
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       [August 18 - New York City] Today  
Emilia Lombardi, National Research  
Coordinator for GenderPAC, announced the  
launch of a new World-Wide Web page  
devoted to studying trans-related  
violence.  The page is located at  
http://www.cdspub.com/srvy.html, and  
contains the full text of the national  
Study on  TransViolence currently  
distributed by GenderPAC through  
snailmail. 
 
      Said JoAnn Roberts, a GenderPAC  
board member, "We are confident that by  
using the Web, we can make this study  
available to many people who would otherwise 
never have had access to it.  The  
Web and the Net, already important  
places for transpeople to meet and  
organize, are now becoming a place for  
us to do research critical to our  
community." 
 
      Echoing these sentiments,  
Lombardi added, "Not only have most  
studies totally ignored violence  
against the gender-variant, but the  
few studies of any kind on  
transpeople are generally have only  
a couple dozen respondents.  By  
leveraging the global reach of the  
Web, we think we can collect an  
unprecedented sample size of over  
1,000 people.  This community  
*needs* a definitive benchmark of  
transviolence, and we're committed  
to using every available tool to  
make that a reality." 
 
       Among other uses, final  
results of the survery are planned  
for use at the upcoming 2nd National  
Gender Lobbing Day in May 1997,  
when gender activists will lobby their 
congressional representatives for  
inclusion in future versions of the  
Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA). 
 
       GenderPAC's survery was  
developed in coordination with the  
Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence  
Project, or AVP, a national group  
which pioneered research and  
advocacy services for gender  
and queer people.  The survery is  
directed to anyone who is trans- 
identified, gender-variant, or  
genderqueer.   
 
 
      People unable to access the Web  
can get a survery via e-mail by  
contacting Ms. Lombardi at 
CherRed@En.Com, or via snail-mail  
by sending a SASE addressed to:  
Ms. Emilia Lombardi, GenderPAC  
Research, 291 Grove St. #1, Akron, OH  
44302. 
 
     All surveys are anonymous and  
completely confidential.  
[END]