Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:27:09 -0400
From: Maggie Heineman <maggie@critpath.org>
Subject: Barbara Walters and the PFLAG T-SON

Please repost widely:

What do Barbara Walters and members of PFLAG's Transgender
Family Support Special Outreach Network (T-SON) have in
common?  :-)  

We want to tell the world about medical abuse of GLBT Youth. 
Barbara will do it on 20/20 on Friday, September 27.

Members of the T-SON are preparing a handout for distribution
at PFLAG's 15th Annual International Conference next month.
A draft of the handout is now on the web at
http://www.critpath.org/pflag-talk/library/gid.htm

This is only a draft. I am announcing the url today,
Thursday, September 26, because it is on the same topic as 
the the segment on 20/20 tomorrow evening. 

The "GID & Youth" handout is one of several which will be available
on the web in time for the October 11 PFLAG conference. These
handouts demonstrrate how the pflag-talk/tgs-pflag virtual 
library may be used as a tool for distributing handouts to PFLAG 
chapters.  Masters may be printed direcly from the web and then 
photocopied locally for distribution on the ground. 

Forwarded message -- from Phyllis Frye, Exec. Dir. ICTLEP
International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy 

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At 08:26 AM 9/26/96 -0400, PRFrye@aol.com wrote:
>Phyllabuster here:
>
>Pass the word.
>
>Let us hope that 20/20's Barbara WauWau doesn't do her little "faint" at the
>end that made us look so stupid the last time.
>

>Phyllabuster here:
>
>Pass the word.
>
>Let us hope that 20/20's Barbara WauWau doesn't 
>do her little "faint" at the end that made us look so 
>stupid the last time.
>
>I just heard the T.V. show 20/20 is slated to 
>do a piece this Friday, 9/27, on Gender Identity Disorder 
>and other such topics (unless it gets bumped, of course). 
>
>The work of Phyllis Burke, author of "Gender Shock: Exploding the
>Myths  of Male and Female", is cited.  20/20  knows about the 
>recently signed San Francisco Human Rights Commission 
>condemnation of GID letter to the APA to 20/20. I think S.F. 
>is the first city  to take a stand on this issue. I'm on 
>the commission's L/G/B/T Advisory  Committee and we recommended 
>the letter to the APA.  If you want to know more 
>about this controversial subject, and get a good jolt at 
>what is happening to  kids who are victimized by a GID diagnosis, 
>tune in. It's scary.  I wrote a  press release on the subject 
>for release by the commission.
> 

the Phyllabuster is an inspiration to me in many ways.

Maggitator :-)