Topic: People

The IFGE awards Committee is seeking your help in searching for candidates for the 2006 Virginia Prince Award, the Trinity Award, and the Partners in Diversity Award.
These awards will be presented during the 20th Annual IFGE Convention to be held in Philadelphia, PA at the Philadelphia Airport Hilton, April 2006.

Vanessa Murray, 56, passed away on Friday March 26, 2005 at her home in Rhode Island. Vanessa was the well known manager of IFGE's Synchronicity Bookstore from 1995 through 2000. Vanessa had previously been a firefighter in Fall River, MA for many years, but had retired due to illness. After her retirement from firefighting she came to work with IFGE, travelling around the country from conference to conference with the bookstore, and answering our support line. Hers was the first voice that people heard when they called IFGE. She spent countless hours offering support and a sympathetic ear to our callers. She will be sorely missed

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.

A Modern Day Christine Jorgensen
by Christine Beatty

Calpernia Addams is a woman you can?t help but notice. Even among the remarkable landscape of transsexual women, she stands out. In some ways she is a new millennium version of Christine Jorgensen. She has adapted marvelously to her unexpected role on The Big Stage, and she has used that position to educate others and advance the cause of transgendered people everywhere.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.

Sex and Marriage... and Mr. Bailey
A word from the Chair of the IFGE Board of Directors

The challenge in writing a quarterly column is that one is forever locked in a time warp? needing to say something relevant to the current events of, in this case, July ?03, when the world will have danced for four or five more months and set itself in a completely new arrangement by the time this is read. Not only will those July events seem distant, but my words, perhaps, archaic.

Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #104, Winter 2004.

by Monica F. Helms

?Sheriff! Sheriff! The new doc just got off the train!?

?Calm down, Cleatis. Iffin? ya seens one doctor, ya seens ?em all.?

?Not like this, Sheriff. This doctor?s a ?she?!?

?Well, I?ll be hornswaggled. We got ourselves another Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman!?

In Trinidad, just 126 miles south of Colorado Springs, where the fictitious Dr. Quinn hung out her shingle, a new pioneer woman has come onto the scene?only this one is doing sex reassignment surgery. Dr. Marci Bowers, 45, a successful and award-winning OB/GYN doctor from Seattle, has decided to use the knowledge and skills she has learned to give back to our community. After all, she is one of us.