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- Field Coordinator/Director-The Transgender Project/NDRI
Bd. Dir., Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
NYPD community advisor/contributer re-vamping Police Acadamy Training Manual
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“The Coming Out Party Is Over. Where Do We Go from Here?”
Mona Rae Mason
Keynote Address
Fantasia Fair
October 24, 2009
Provincetown, MA
For Loubriella
Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mona Rae Mason. Just so you have an idea of my background, I’m from New York City, where I recently completed work on an NIH funded study of the male to female population in the NY Metro area. It was a 5 year, longitudinal study, with almost 600 volunteer transgender participants. That’s a huge number for… Continue
Posted on November 24, 2009 at 4:30am —
Keynote Address, Syracuse, NY 8/21/09
“LGBT Stories: Reflections and Voices from Within”
Mona Rae Mason
Central New York Health Services Agency
Syracuse, NY
August 21, 2009
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. My name is Mona Rae Mason, and just for the record, I am not gender dysphoric, I am gender euphoric.
From 2004 through 2009, I had the great pleasure and privilege of working on The Transgender Project in NYC. Conducted by National Development and Research Institutes, the study known as The New York Tra… Continue
Posted on August 21, 2009 at 10:53pm —
Generativity Within The Transgender Community
Mona Rae Mason
Keynote Address
May 1, 2009
Transgender 2009-Liberty
Philadelphia, PA
Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to Transgender 2009-Liberty.
My name is Mona Rae Mason. Some of you here know me through my work with The Transgender Project. Others may have heard of my sometimes scandalous NYC party girl reputation. The Transgender Project may be over, but I think I have a few parties left in me.
There are some of you here today who I kn… Continue
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 1:07pm —
UPDATE: Christmas, Homeless Trans and LGB Youth
Posted on December 7, 2008 at 9:20am —
Christmas, Homeless Trans and LGB Youth
Some of these kids come from out of state to NYC, chasing the dream of just being themselves. Many are discarded by their parents for being Trans or gay. Some have suffered physical and sexual abuse, often from members of their own families. So yes, they leave home or are tossed out. Constant verbal and physical abuse at school drives them from there, as well.
No fa… Continue
Posted on November 27, 2008 at 1:25pm —
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