The Transgender Sexual Violence Project, sponsored by FORGE
(For Ourselves: Reworking Gender Expression), is examining sexual
violence within the transgender and SOFFA community in order
to create useful resources for both survivors and professionals
As a means of acquiring more information and honing in on details
related to services for transgender/SOFFA survivors (and secondary
victims), we are gathering information through two primary methods:
- We are conducting a survey to gain a broader scope of information
about sexual violence perpetrated against transgender individuals
and their loved ones. The survey is available online at http://www.forge-forward.org/transviolence/survey.php or by requesting a paper copy to be sent to you through the
US mail. [To request a survey, email sv@forge-forward.org or write FORGE/SV Project, PO Box 1272, Milwaukee, WI 53201]
- We also held a local Community Dialogue in Milwaukee Wisconsin
on November 12, 2004. We examined service gaps and needs, as
well as engaged in a general -- but very detailed -- discussion
about how sexual violence has affected the participants' lives.
Results of this lively, interactive Dialogue will be posted
on the web before the end of 2004.
In both the survey and community dialogue, we are BROADLY defining
transgender to include (but not be limited to):
- butch women
- male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals and transgenders
- partners
- genderblenders
- female-to-male (FTM) transsexuals and transgenders
- femmes (of any gender)
- androgynes
- bois
- “nelly” men
- two-spirited people
- boyfriends
- transmen
- drag queens
- wives
- men of transsexual experience
- husbands
- boychicks
- intersex
- questioning
- studs
- girlfriends
- shapeshifters
- passing women
- transensual femmes
- tomboys
- gender morphers
- transwomen
- neutrois
- women of transsexual experience
- genderqueers
- bearded females
- transgenderists
- gender outlaws
- radical faeries
- anyone questioning their gender and/or crossing societally
constructed gender lines
See the Results
Your stories and experiences make a difference.
Results of the survey and community dialogue will be compiled
and analyzed to create a report reviewing the data, as well
as creating resources for survivors and guidelines for professionals
to serve the transgender community more sensitively and effectively.
Results will be available at www.forge-forward.org/transviolence/
in early 2005.
The Transgender Sexual Violence Project would be grateful if
you would participate by completing the survey. If this information
doesn’t apply to you and/or you know someone who would
be interested in this project, or has a history that includes
sexual violence, please pass this information along to them.
Anyone can anonymously access the survey and events calendar
online at www.forge-forward.org/transviolence/
Thank you for your support of this project and for passing along
the word.
michael munson
Loree Cook-Daniels
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