Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 07:06:40 +0000 From: Clare Howell Subject: IYF5 MEDIA ADVISORY -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Editor: Clare Howell, clare@gpac.org . GLAAD SEEKS CONSULTATION ON BRANDON TEENA MOVIE . FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS TRANSEXUAL INMATES' RIGHT TO TREATMENT GLAAD SEEKS CONSULTATION ON BRANDON TEENA MOVIE =============================================== [New York, NY: 5 Mar 98] THE GAY & LESBIAN Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has written a letter to the producers of "All She Wanted," an upcoming movie about Brandon Teena, expressing concern that the film will misrepresent Brandon's experience as a transexual. Chastity Bono, GLAAD's Entertainment Media Director, wrote the letter in which she offers GLAAD's service as technical advisor to the film's producers Nancy Jovonen, Drew Barrymore, Diane Keaton, and Bill Robinson. The movie will be based on Aphrodite Jones' book "All She Wanted." Transgender groups have called the book transphobic and sensationalistic. They say it negatively reflects on FTM (Female-to Male) transexuals and transgender people. Ms. Bono's letter expressed GLAAD's desire to work with the film's producers. She wrote, "I would like to meet with you to discuss ways in which appropriate terminology and dialogue consistent with current understandings of the transgender experience might be incorporated into the screenplay..." ### FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS TRANSEXUAL INMATES' RIGHT TO TREATMENT =============================================== [Washington, D.C.: 20 Mar 98} U.S. DISTRICT Court (D.C.) has ruled that transexuals are entitled to treatment for their "disorder" while incarcerated in federal prison. This treatment can include hormone therapy and psychological counseling. The case arose when pre-op transexual woman Dee Farmer, imprisoned in Butner, NC, alleged medical mistreatment by the Board of Prisons' (BOP) Medical Director, Dr. Morigitsu, saying Morigitsu had failed to approve treatment for her. The Court's ruling requires that Farmer receive treatment. However, it left undecided what level of treatment Farmer is entitled to and whether requiring transexuals to make a showing of a history of prior treatment before receiving hormone therapy violates their rights of Equal Protection as others do not have to make such a showing to receive medical treatment in federal prison. ### Subscriptions. Please send: subscribe iyf-online or: unsubscribe iyf-online to: MajorDomo@apocalypse.org For prior releases, check the GenderPAC website http://www.gpac.org (c) 1996 InYourFace Our on-line news-only service for gender activism. When reposting please credit InYourFace.