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Aaron Devor

Gender: Transgender man

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1951

Ethnicity: White - Canadian

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In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are their lovers? What does it mean for everyone else? To answer these and other questions, Devor spent years compiling in-depth interviews and researching the lives of transsexual and transgender people. Here, he traces the everyday and significant events that coalesce into trans identities, culminating in gender and sex transformations. Using trans men's own words as illustrations, Devor looks at how childhood, adolescence, and adult experiences with family members, peers, and lovers work to shape and clarify their images of themselves as men. With a new introduction, Devor positions the volume in twenty-first century debates of identity politics and community-building and provides a window into his own self-exploration as a result of his research.

(This is a little old, but especially relevant, with yesterday's news that transgender people will now be permitted to serve in the U.S. Military.)

The actual implementation of yesterday’s announcement is still being hashed out.

The Forward wrote:   

In 2013, Pritzker’s philanthropic organization, the Tawani Foundation, which supports service members and military education, issued a $1.35 million grant to the Palm Center, a University of California, Santa Barbara-based LGBT think tank. Using the influx of funding, the Center launched the Transgender Military Service Initiative, a project aimed at sponsoring research and encouraging public discussion on the topic. 

... [In 2014], the Palm Center... released two reports about transgender military service: The first found that there was no medical rationale for the ban; the second outlined policy changes that could be effected to integrate transgender service members.

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And this nexus of political influence and interest is where things get interesting for trans rights activists, who see Pritzer’s involvement in a military inclusivity campaign as a turning point for the movement. Though not everyone agrees with the sudden focus on eligibility for service as a priority — as trans author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore said to Truth Out, “You put a rainbow flag on a bomb, it’s still a bomb” — it’s certain that having the weight of Pritzker’s money and connections behind the cause has the potential to effect change quickly and dramatically. 

Read more here: http://forward.com/culture/208832/how-colonel-jennifer-pritzker-pushes-for-transgend/ 

Second transgender studies program surfaces — thanks to transgender billionaire Jennifer Pritzker

LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — On the heels of the announcement of a transgender studies degree program at the University of Arizona last month, word comes of the establishment a chair of transgender studies at a Canadian university. This research position at the University of Victoria in British Columbia is being funded by trans woman Jennifer Pritzker, a Chicago billionaire. Pritzker’s…

Bir İlk: Üniversitede Trans Cinsiyet Çalışmaları Kürsüsü!

İlk defa bir üniversitede trans cinsiyet çalışmaları kürsüsü açılıyor. Toplumsal cinsiyet konusundaki çalışmalarıyla tanınan Prof. Aaron Devor, bu kürsüde araştırmacılar, aktivistler ve öğrencilerle birlikte yapılacak araştırmaların trans bireylerin yaşamlarını etkileyen konular üzerine yoğunlaşacağını belirtti.

Kanada’daki Victoria Üniversitesi’nin Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi’nde kurulan trans…

Narrow Bridge: Jewish Gender Transition Ceremony (2002) by Aaron Devor   

Read more about the ceremony and Dr. Devor's experience...

Cathie Dickens saw a change the first time she took her granddaughter Harriette shopping for a dress.

“It just broke my heart to see her put it on and look at herself in the mirror,” Dickens said. “She’s so much happier, being allowed to be who she is.”

H…