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  1. Trans/Gender Variant in Prison Committee Pamphlet

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1988 to circa 2005
    Topics: Harassment, Human rights, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, Trans women
    Subject: California Prison Focus
    Description: An informational pamphlet by a California Prison Focus committee detailing types of abuse trans women face in prisons. Includes meeting times and contact info for the support group.
  2. Transsexuals in Prison (Unnumbered, c. 1992)

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Meriwether, Vanessa, Soubrette, Roni Lynne
    Date: circa 1992
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ support groups, Trans women
    Subject: American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS), National Gender Dysphoria Organization and Support Group (NGDO)
    Description: An unnumbered issue of Transsexuals in Prison. Contains list of resources, discusses concerns for transgender prisoners, and explains experiences of gender dysphoria.
  3. Transsexuals in Prison Vol. 2, Issue 14

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Meriwether, Vanessa
    Date: May 1992 to Aug. 1992
    Topics: Hormones, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Parents of transgender people, Passing (Gender), Trans women
    Subject: Dee Farmer, Transsexuals in Prison
    Description: Volume 2, Issue 14 of Transsexuals in Prison. This newsletter contains articles about potential genetic causes for transsexualism, inclusion of transgender people in pageants, and news from differe...
  4. Transsexuals in Prison Vol. 2, Issue 14

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Meriwether, Vanessa
    Date: Sep. 1992 to Dec. 1992
    Topics: Gender-affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ activists, LGBTQ+ imprisonment, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Native American lesbians, Native American LGBTQ+ people, Native American transgender people, Patriarchy, Slurs, Trans women
    Subject: Dee Farmer, John Prowett, Patricia Fisher, Transsexuals in Prison
    Description: Volume 2 Issue 14 of Transsexuals in Prison Newsletter, containing discussions of labels, specifically grappling with the term "queer" as a slur, and the frustrations of women against patriarchy.
  5. Who Is There for Me?

     
    Collection: Trans People and Prisons
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Farmer, Dee
    Date: Aug. 8, 1992
    Topics: BIPOC, Black transgender people, Lesbian authors, Lesbian fiction, Lesbian survivors of rape, Lesbianism, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ domestic violence, LGBTQ+ fiction, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ prisoners, LGBTQ+ victims of rape
    Subject: Dee Farmer, Judy Greenspan
    Description: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and domestic violence. Dee Farmer's fictional story about a lonely lesbian seeking refuge in religion. Attached at the end...