From: HRTF FL Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 20:32:35 EST Subject: Transgener Aging Research Project (Please send email responses to wittenm@umich.edu) Greetings: My name is Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D. (check me out at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wittenm) and I am the initiator and co-director of the International Longitudinal Transsexual and Transgender Aging Research Project (ILTARP). This longitudinal project is an attempt to address the lifecourse needs of the transgender community. It is the first an ongoing project to formally address these issues and has many component projects which will be detailed on an upcoming web page - which will be announced very soon now. One critical component of this project is an attempt to formally document the healthcare needs and experiences, experiences with violence and abuse, and general demography of the "T" community. For many years the "T" community has been silent and uncounted. What we call "invisible." While we are now coming out to claim our voice, we are still an unknown quantity and it takes numbers to make changes. We are trying to contact as many "T" people as possible around the world. Currently, the survey is being distributed in 10 countries worldwide. We are hoping to have 14 countries collaborating by the end of 1998. We have a comprehensive survey which we are trying to get filled out so that we can make an accurate international demographic description of the "T" community. "T" people includes pre/post-op transsexuals, transgenders (individuals who live full time in their non-natal gender) whether they are on hormones or not, cross-dressers, transvestites, agendered, individuals with other gender perceptions, dual spirits, and any non-Western gendered viewpoints. We need to reach all races, all cultures, and all classes of the "T" community. Remember, many of us do not have access to the internet so please spread the word on the streets as well. We are also interested in collaborating with those of you are members of the "intersex" community as well. I would appreciate your help in connecting with individuals in these categories. All work is medically confidental and is anonymous. Surveys come in stamped, pre-addressed envelopes so that the sender cannot be identified. The ILTTARP has been approved by the University of Michigan School of Public Health Institutional Review Board. It is sponsored under the aegis of the Comprehensive Gender Services Program of the University of Michgan Medical Center. If you feel you that can assist in any phase of this project, I would greatly appreciate it. Please circulate this message to anyone who might have access to the aforementioned populations, to anyone who might be interested in filling out the initial demographic survey, to anyone who resides in another country who might help us make contact with "T" people in that country, and to anyone who knows anyone who might be interested in furthering the cause. Please send your email address or phone number if you wish to be contacted by us. If you wish to receive the survey, please send a complete postal mailing address so that we can send you the survey. All addresses are treated medically confidentially. For further details, you may contact me at via any of the following: Contact: Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., 313-936-2102 (also has confidential message machine) wittenm@umich.edu tarynn_nightwing@hotmail.com web: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wittenm postal: Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D ILTTAR Project Comprehensive Gender Services Program University of Michigan Medical Center, University Hospital 1500 Medical Center Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0050 ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by air-zb03.mail.aol.com (v40.16) with SMTP; Wed, 01 Apr 1998 23:28:43 -0500 Received: from FTP.rsp.med.umich.edu (ftp.rsp.med.umich.edu [141.214.50.73]) by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id XAA28385 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:28:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from [129.111.207.40] by FTP.rsp.med.umich.edu (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-10313) with SMTP id AAA87; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:15:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3522C17C.594@umich.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 22:37:44 +0000 From: wittenm@umich.edu (Tarynn Witten) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: HRTFFL@aol.com CC: wittenm@umich.edu Subject: Human Rights and the Transgendered Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit