TS-Si Kicks Off Pride Activities With Successful Fundraiser

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TS-Si Kicks Off Pride Activities With Successful Fundraiser

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Saturday, 27 May 2006 16:55

Alexandria, VA, USA. The Transsexual Symposium hosted a very successful fundraiser on Friday night. Several hundred people came out to demonstrate their support for TS-Si's goals, while enjoying good food, fun, a charity raffle, and karaoke.

Lisa Jain Thompson and Sharon Sinead Gaughan briefed supporters on the problems of transsexuals in transition and what TS-Si plans to help remedy the situation.

Thompson outlined the organizational mission, stating that TS-Si is "here to help transsexuals as they transition into society". We provide a "long-needed correction to preconceptions that unfairly bias social development, public policy, and service delivery."

Ms. Thompson, TS-Si CoFounder and President, called for a clear focus on transsexuals that eliminates political partisanship and unrelated social wants from the discussion.

She noted that public policy should have a firm scientific basis and clearly separate innate gender, anatomical sex, and social presentation.

Sharon Gaughan discussed the routine media distortions that permit social and religious preconceptions to bias reporting and discourage public acceptance. "What does any of this have to do with the actual situation?" she asked. "TS babies are born into every culture, without regard to ethnic origin, race, religion, income or social class, or any other arbitrary social classification."

Ms. Gaughan is a TS-Si Co-Founder and serves as the Vice President and Executive Director.

The two women also questioned the current reliance of transsexuals on "transgender" initiatives to guarantee their care and rights under the law. Transgenderism, a socio-political designation, is an umbrella term used by activists to generalize about people who exhibit alternative modes of gender expression in dress and manners.

The women then briefed supporters on TS-Si's progress to date and forthcoming intiatives.

The event was emceed by the inestimable Kenny Kruz, who also helped with the charity raffle.

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