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  1. An Interview with Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: We Who Feel Differently
    Creator: Benestad, Esben Esther Pirelli, Motta, Carlos
    Date: Nov. 5, 2009
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Coming out, Family therapy, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Identification cards, Law, LGBTI rights, Marriage, Mastectomy, Partners of transgender people, Psychiatrists, Psychology, Queer theory, Sexology, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Harry Benjamin Resource Center (HBRC), Norwegian LGBT Association
    Description: Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, a transgender person, discusses their experiences being trans as well as their work with the transgender community through clinical work, sexology, and family therapy...
  2. Donna M. Cartwright Oral History

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Cartwright, Donna M., O'Brien, Michelle Esther
    Date: Dec. 23, 2017
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Arrests, Beauty standards, Colleges, Coming out, Crossdressing, Dating, Drag queens, Ethnic relations, Events, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Labour movement, LGBTQ+ movement, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Normalization, Organisations, Secrecy, Sexuality, Social movements, Socialism, Stereotypes, Therapists, Trade unions, Transgender community, Transgender movement, Transgender people, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender rights, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Brandon Teena, Christine Jorgensen, Donna M. Cartwright, Gender Right Advocacy Association of New Jersey (GRAANJ), GenderPAC, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), Pride at Work, Terence Stamp, The New York Times
    Description: Donna Cartwright discusses her long history in the labor movement, as a socialist militant, in leading roles in trans rights organizing and LGBTQ organizations. She recounts her 30 years spent as a...
  3. Interview with Andrea Jenkins

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 20, 2017
    Topics: Assigned gender, Black people, Coming out, Crossdressing, Divorce, Families, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Marriage, Prisons, Separation, Socioeconomic characteristics, Transgender people, Transphobia
    Subject: CeCe McDonald, Center for Gender Spectrum Health, Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, My Momma's Gonna Call Me Anna, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Rainbow Health Initiative
    Description: Andrea Jenkins identifies as a transgender female and was assigned male at birth. Her mother and father were separated by the time she was about five. Their separation wasn’t necessarily by choice ...
  4. Interview with Andrew Ahl

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ahl, Andrew, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 1, 2016
    Topics: Air force, Army, Atheism, Bartending, Bathrooms, Christianity, Coming out, Depression, Divorce, Drag, Employment, Families, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Health care, Hormones, Internet, Marriage, Military, Parents of transgender people, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Andrew Ahl, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, National Security Administration, Target Corporation
    Description: Andrew (Drew) Ahl is a transgender man in his mid-thirties living in St. Louis Park, MN. In this oral history, Ahl recounts growing up in a religious, military household with his dad, his time serv...
  5. Interview with Ashley Finch

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Finch, Ashley
    Date: Apr. 5, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Alcoholism, Antidepressants, Anxiety disorders, Assigned gender, Bipolar disorder, Bullying, Change of name, Cisgender people, Coming out, Depression, Families, Gender identity, Gender studies, Gender-nonconforming people, Homosexuality, Hormones, Language, LGBTQ+ parents, Marriage, MtFs, Politics, Race, Racism, Religions, Schools, Self-mutilation, Siblings, Substance abuse, Suicidal behavior, Therapies, Transgender people
    Subject: Augsburg College, El Sontule, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Global Center of Education, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Sandinista Campaign
    Description: Ashley Finch was born and raised in St. Paul, MN and identifies as a trans woman. In this oral history, she shares her experiences negotiating her gender identity from an early age and exploring he...
  6. Interview with Cressida Silver

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Silver, Cressida
    Date: Jan. 31, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Artificial insemination, Assigned gender, Augmentation mammaplasty, Children of lesbians, Children of transgender people, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Demonstrations, Divorce, Families, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Isolation, Lesbians, Marriage, Pornography, Pregnancy, Sex industry, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chelsea Manning, Mara Keisling, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), National Geographic, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
    Description: Cressida Silver identifies as a lesbian transgender woman and was assigned male at birth. She grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and she has sisters. She realized from the young age of 4 or 5 that she...
  7. Interview with Denise Sudbeck

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Sudbeck, Denise
    Date: Jan. 15, 2016
    Topics: Addictions, Alcoholism, Baptist church, Bisexuality, Coming out, Dissertations, Doctor of philosophy degree, Estrogen, Evangelicalism, Gender identity, Hormones, Law enforcement, Lesbian identity, Liberation theology, Marriage, MtFs, Pronoun, Psychology, Religions, Sexuality, Stereotypes, Substance abuse, Theological seminaries, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: State University of New York, Transgender Day of Remembrance, United Theological New Brighton
    Description: Denise Sudbeck is from Downeast, Maine in a small fishing village on the coast. She identifies as a bisexual trans woman and was assigned male at birth. Sudbeck’s family moved to Skowhegan, Maine w...
  8. Interview with Erica Fields

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Fields, Erica
    Date: Sep. 8, 2015
    Topics: Adoption, African Americans, Assigned gender, Augmentation mammaplasty, Bullying, Children, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Divorce, Educational institutions, Family members, Feminists, Gender bending, Gender dysphoria, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Lesbians, Marriage, Privilege (Social psychology), Race identity, Race relations, Roman catholicism, Sexuality, Socio-economic status, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Support groups, Theatre, Therapies, Transgender identity, Transgender people, Transsexual people
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine McGinn, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Ellen Krug, Gender Justice, Gender Outlaws, Getting to Ellen: A Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change, GLBT Chamber of Commerce, Gonzaga University, Hedda Gabler, Hidden Agenda, Hidden Agender, Hogan's Heroes, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Janet Mock, Jenny Boylan, Kate Bornstein, Laverne Cox, Leigh Smythe, Mara Keisling, Marcus Waterbury, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, NASA, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Northwest Bible College, Of Mice and Men, Old Bedlam Theatre, Star Trek, The Miser, The Taming of the Shrew, Trans, Women's Employment and Security Act (WESA)
    Description: Erica Fields is a business woman from Edina, MN who began her gender transition in 2007 at the age of 53. Her oral history is rich with bits of local history and culture. Fields lives a life in com...
  9. Interview with Isabelle Wedin

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Wedin, Isabelle
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Androgyny, Anxiety, Assigned gender, Biotechnology, Bisexuals, Bullying, Children, Coming out, Crossdressing, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Education, Employment discrimination, Estrogen, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Homophobia, Hormone therapy, Indigenous peoples, Intersex, Law, Lesbian identity, LGBTI community, Marriage, Masculinities, Medical interventions, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Plays, Police, Racially mixed people, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Social justice, Spironolactone, Support groups, Swimwear, Transgender people, Transphobia, Two-spirit people, Volunteering
    Subject: Alliance Defending Freedom, Allina Health Systems, Avery Edison, Catherine Graffam, Free CeCe, Google Hangouts, Informational Technology, Julia Serano, June Taylor, MetaFilter, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), RJ Reynolds Tobacco
    Description: Isabelle Wedin is from Long Island, New York, was assigned male at birth, and identifies as a lesbian woman. Wedin doesn’t have any kids, and she’s been married for 9 years now. She cross-dressed i...
  10. Interview with June Taylor

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Taylor, June
    Date: Oct. 31, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Change of name, Children, Coming out, Communication, Conservatives, Cosmetics, Counseling, Couples therapy, Discrimination, Drugs, Electrolysis, Estradiol, Estrogen, Femininities, Gender diversity, Harassment, Heteronormativity, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Intolerance, Legislation, Lesbian identity, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, MtFs, Sexism, Therapeutics, Transgender people
    Subject: Trans Commission
    Description: June Taylor grew up in a southern, conservative town in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has three kids who are 1, 3, and 5 years old. She identifies as a trans woman and as a queer lesbian, and she ...
  11. Interview with Marlene Somers

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Somers, Marlene
    Date: Sep. 23, 2015
    Topics: Children, Clothing, Coming out, Family members, Gender identity, Gender identity--Law and legislation, Gender realignment surgery, Grandchildren, LGBTQ+ relationships, Marriage, Military, Psychotherapy, Retirees, Sexuality, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Christine Jorgensen, Clark institute, Tretter Collection Autogynephilia
    Description: Marlene Somers has lived nearly her entire life in Minneapolis, a life she describes as, “two lives at once,” fluctuating between presenting as female and male. Marlene is not out to anyone in her ...
  12. Interview with Melissa Harl

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Harl, Melissa
    Date: Jan. 30, 2017
    Topics: Boy Scouts, Change of name, Clothing, Coming out, Conformity, Discrimination, Educators, Femininities, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Marriage, Music, Sexuality, Socialisation, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Gender Odyssey, Kate Bornstein, Macalester College, Smiley's Family Clinic, Stonewall 25, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
    Description: In this oral history Melissa Harl shares her story as a female with transgender experience and history. Growing up in Mequon, WI, a suburb of Milwaukee, she discusses her childhood, her realization...
  13. Interview with Nicole Vanderheiden

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Vanderheiden, Nicole
    Date: May 17, 2017
    Topics: Air force, Assigned gender, Bisexual women, Bisexuality, Bullying, Children of transgender people, Coming out, Conservatism, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Employment discrimination, Evangelisation, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Isolation, Law, LGBTQ+ partners, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Marriage, Military, Passing (Gender), Religions, Self-repression, Sexual assault, Sexuality, Shame, Surgery, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia
    Subject: Alic Bitney, CeCe McDonald, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, HB2, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Martin Luther King Jr., Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Queer Veterans Support Group, Reese Rathgen, SPARTA, Sylvia Rivera, Vote No Campaign
    Description: Nicole Vanderheiden identifies as a bisexual woman and was assigned male at birth. She was born in Marquette, Michigan and has 3 brothers who she got along with as a kid. Her parents relocated to D...
  14. Interview with Venus DeMars part 2

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: DeMars, Venus
    Date: Sep. 12, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Discrimination, Drag, Film industry, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Marriage, Masculinities, Mental health, MtFs, Music groups, Outing (LGBTQ+ culture), Pronoun, Rock music, Sexuality, Support groups, Therapies, Transgender community, Transgender people
    Subject: Human Rights Act
    Description: Venus de Mars identifies as a male to female trans female and assigned male at birth. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1960 and had surgery as a baby to appear more male. She came out as trans ...
  15. Lee Livingston Perine

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Perine, Lee Livingston
    Date: Dec. 22, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Black people, Butch-femme relationships, Children, Coming out, Divorce, Families, Femininities, Gay identity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Marriage, Masculinities, Misogyny, Racism, Sexuality, Sports, Suicide, Tomboys, Transgender people, Transphobia, Twins
    Subject: Donald Trump
    Description: Lee Levingston Perine identifies as a black genderqueer and trans person and was assigned female at birth. They were 38 at the time of the interview. They have an older brother and a fraternal twin...