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Transgender panel conies out
■The “Gender Evolution”
panel hopes to break down
some misconceptions
of transgender people
By Anna Seeley
Oregon Daily Emerald
In support and celebration of the
transgender community, the
Women’s Center and LGBT Educa
tional and Support Services are
holding a speaker’s panel tonight
and a musical performance Friday.
“The Gender Evolution” is one of
the events leading up to National
Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. Speak
ers on the panel tonight will discuss
personal experiences and view
points from different generations on
coming out transgender.
Activist and artist Lori Buckwal
ter, one of tonight’s speakers, will
later perform “Vignettes and Music”
on Friday. The performance will in
corporate songs she wrote dealing
with her personal experiences with
coming out transgender.
Kristina Armenakis, the
Women’s Center LGBT coordina
tor, said the goal of the event is to
educate, support and celebrate the
transgender community.
“Ido think they get relatively ig
nored by the general public,” she
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portant.”
Jamison Green, a San Francisco
activist speaking tonight, said there
are a lot of misconceptions about
people in the transgender communi
ty. For example, people wrongly as
sume that all transgender people are
homosexual, he said.
“Anyone can be transgender, but
not all are homosexual,” he said.
Green, an international advocate
on LGBT safety and civil rights,
said very little is known about
what transgender people go
through.
“People feel trans issues aren’t
important since it doesn’t touch
their lives,” he said. “I have been
astounded by what they found out
about themselves when they learn
more about it.”
Green graduated from the Univer
sity in 1970, which is one reason
why he chose to speak, he said. He
said he never came out at the Uni
versity because there wasn’t any
language to describe his situation.
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male body, but had very masculine
qualities.
“A lot of time people couldn’t tell
what sex I was,” Green said. “I am
now legally male and am definitely
much more comfortable with my
self and the world.”
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Three years after he had the opera
tion, he noticed that a lot of transgen
der people live in fear and shame, he
said. He started doing activist work
to help make the world a safer place
for transgender people, although he
hasn’t personally experienced big
otry.
“I’ve been very fortunate,” Green
said, “and that’s why I feel capable
as an effective spokesperson with
the ego strengths and communica
tion skills to make a difference.”
Buckwalter, executive director of
a Portland LGBT activist group, “It’s
Time Oregon,” has not been so for
tunate. She said she has experi
enced different types of prejudice as
a result of her being transgender.
“I lost my job and had to fight for
medical care,” she said. “I lost
friends, and people say nasty things
and do threatening things.”
Despite negative reactions to
coming out, Buckwalter said the al
ternative of people hiding and lying
about themselves is ultimately more
destructive and painful.
“The whole coming out is thera
peutic,” she said “We look for love
and dignity in this world just like
everyone else.”
Anna Seeley is a student activities reporter tor
the Oregon Daily Emerald. She can be reached
at annaseeley@dailyemerald.com.
News brief
“Cans Film Festival”
takes place Thursday
FOOD for Lane County continues
its “Cans Film Festival” this Thurs
day by teaming up with Hollywood
Video stores throughout Lane Coun
ty. This will be the second phase of
the food drive.
A person can recieve a video and
microwavable bag of popcorn in ex
change for donating three cans of
food. The organization holds the
event each October.
The first phase of the festival
brought in about 5,200 pounds of
food last Thursday. Movie-goers
gained free entrance to Regal Cine
mas for donating food.
Holding a food drive is one way for
FOOD for Lane County to gather sup
plies to give to more than 50 social
service agencies and provide for low
income families, as well as others.
— Sue Ryan
Towers
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unincorporated areas of Lane County.
Taylor suggested the ordinance’s ju
risdiction be extended to include in
corporated cities.
“I would prefer to have the county
deal with it,” Taylor said.
Activists are currently pressing for
a moratorium on the issue, which
would stop the construction of pro
posed towers until an ordinance
could be passed. County commis
sioners were split 2-2 on a vote earlier
this year on whether to declare a
moratorium, according to Sorenson.
Brook Reinhard is a community reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
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