Transgender History at UM

Items

• An Updated History of Gender Identity Conversations and Related Efforts at the University of Michigan
  A timeline, as of October 2002, of conversations, events, and initiatives at the University of Michigan concerning gender identity. Many of the updates since the 2001 file are focused around the Gender Identity Working Group.
• What is transgender? Basic definitions and concepts
  An informational pamphlet introducing transgender concepts and terminology. This pamphlet was made after the Spectrum Center expanded its purview to include transgender.
• "Living Outside the World of Sexual Categories" (2 pages), 2004
  A digital scan of two pages of the Michigan Daily from November 18th, 2004, featuring two halves of an article about the experiences of transgender students at UM. This covers the 2004 University's Report of the Task Force on the Campus Climate for Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff and Students. This includes personal accounts from transgender students (Denise Brogan, André Wilson, Stephen Rassi) and information spreading awareness about the personal and legal struggles of transgender and transsexual individuals in general.
• Transgender/Transsexual photo exhibit, Michigan Union Art Lounge, 1997
  A digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from December 5th, 1997, featuring an article about the photo exhibit "Crossing Over: Images of Transgender Performance Across Cultures" and a photo of a student viewing the exhibit. This exhibit showcased photos of Indian kinnar, drag queens in Greenwich Village, and other individuals taking part in "cross-dressing" traditions. These photos were the result of fieldwork by anthropology professor Sarah Caldwell and graduate student Brian Mooney.
• City of Ann Arbor, City of Ypsilanti, and University of Michigan Accomplishments Concerning Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
  A timeline, as of June 1999, of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan's accomplishments concerning gender identity and sexual orientation. The resource is not transgender-specific, but does include transgender-specific accomplishments.
• The Need for Gender Identitv Inclusion in Regental By-Law 14.06
  A ten page typed document. This document contains the University of Michigan's motion to add gender identity as a protected identity under the University's non-discrimination policy.