Gender Dysphoria

News of the day from across the nation, Sept. 15

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 15 Sep 2016

2 Hunger strike ends. A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday. Fake teen doctor ... > ....

Learning from the gender definition gap

Edit Medium 15 Sep 2016

Let’s look at the process of defining gender today.“Western culture has come to view gender as a binary concept, with two rigidly fixed options ... When a child is born, a quick glance between the legs determines the gender label that the child will carry for life. But even if gender is to be restricted to basic biology, a binary concept still fails to capture the rich variation that exists.” (Source)....

CFA Institute Study Points to Way Forward for Women in Finance (CFA Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has completed the largest survey of investment management professionals on the subject of gender diversity to date ... 'As the industry's only global standard setter in ethics and best practices, we are asking all of our members and our industry partners to join us in addressing the chronic issue of gender disparity in the investment management industry.'....

Investors Unaware That Mixed-Gender Teams Outpace Male Managers

Edit Bloomberg 15 Sep 2016

Many investors say they don’t consider gender when picking a team to manage their money ... A new report by the CFA Institute, which represents 135,000 asset managers globally, found that only about 30 percent of retail and institutional investors think that mixed-gender teams produce better performance than those staffed only by men ... “Mixed gender ......

Swedish military distributes gender manual to officers

Edit The Miami Herald 15 Sep 2016

Sweden's Armed Forces have published a "gender manual" to make officers pay more attention to equality between the sexes at home and on foreign missions....

Hollywood trans roles under fire - again

Edit BBC News 15 Sep 2016

Two films recently attracted criticism for casting cisgender actors - non-trans but whose gender matches their "assigned" sex at birth - in transgender roles ... Both actors count themselves as members of the LGBT+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender; the plus sign represents other sexual and gender groups) ... The plus sign represents other sexual and gender groups ... Applies to a person whose gender identity changes over time....

New study aims to give transgender people their rightful voices (University of Alberta)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

As humans, we often rely on characteristics of communication, such as the sound of the voice, when making decisions about a person's gender. How we speak and act can often affect the way our gender is perceived by others and even ourselves. This is a major challenge faced by many transgender individuals today, especially those who are transitioning from male to female gender roles....

Emma Westecott Publishes book chapter addressing Gender in Games (OCAD - Ontario College of Art & Design)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

Emma Westecott Publishes book chapter addressing Gender in Games ... Faculty Member Emma Westecott has published a chapter entitled 'Playing with Gender....

Gender and the NGV: 'More white male artists than you can shake a stick at'

Edit The Guardian 15 Sep 2016

But gender inequality at state galleries isn’t limited to the National Gallery of Victoria ... But in the eyes of some, NGV International has a gender representation issue ... “The NGV is committed to a balanced exhibition program and collection, with a diversity of subject matter, artists, art movements, media, cultures and gender represented,” says Isobel Crombie, assistant director of curatorial and collection management....

Green equalities spokesperson calls for Science Museum to remove 'sexist' brain exhibit (Green Party of England and Wales)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

The Green Party's equalities spokesperson Sarah Cope has called on the Science Museum to remove an interactive exhibit called 'what sex is your brain' which represents 'male' and 'female' brains in blue and pink respectively, saying it 'reinforces outdated gender stereotypes.'....

Women’s and Gender Studies Colloquium Talk on Friday (Minnesota State University – Moorhead)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

Women's and Gender Studies will host the first colloquium talk of the year Friday, Sept ... Original documenthttps.//news.mnstate.edu/2016/09/womens-and-gender-studies-colloquium-talk-on-friday/....

Tánaiste announces National Awareness Campaign as part of Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021 (Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

Tánaiste announces National Awareness Campaign as part of Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021 Tánaiste announces the awarding of contracts for a national awareness campaign as part of the Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender based Violence 2016-2021 ... and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021....

2014 Shi-Shi Award ceremony (24 June 2014) (Kyoto University)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Sep 2016

(Source. Kyoto University) ... The first awards were given in 2013 to six recipients ... Awardee Citation ... Additionally, in her capacities as Director of the KU Gender Equality Promotion Center, Assistant to Vice-President for Gender Equality, and Vice-President for Gender Equality, she made significant contributions to advancing the interests of women researchers and the cause of gender equality ... Note. 'Shi-shi' is Japanese for 'diligence'....

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