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[REEET SPRING 2009

WELCOME TO ANOTHER ISSUE OF GENDER ANARKY
ZEEN! I AM EDITRIX OF THE ZEEN, LA CHI CHI
ICE, ALSO KNOWN AS AMAZON ICE QUEEN AND
AMAZONKABUKI, "ETC." IN THIS ISSUE WE DISCUSS
THE STRUGGLE IN THE PRISONS FOR TRANSSEXUAL
MEDICAL TREATMENT AND THE LATE DEE FARMER, A
VERY DEDICATED QUEEN TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF US
GIRLS IN MEN'S PRISONS, AND HER TRAGIC DEATH
THAT RESULTED FROM IT. WE HAVE SOME POETRY;
WE WANT MORE, SO GET AT US. AND SOME SPIRITUAL
INSIGHT INTO OUR CONDITION AS TRANSSEXUAL
WOMEN, OTHER COMMENTS AND KICK UP. SEND IN
YOUR WRITINGS, DRAWINGS, THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS
AND WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND, GIRLS. THIS IS YOUR
ZEEN TCO! WE ALSO WELCOME PEEDBACK FROM OTHERS.

#HANSK DEE FARMER: TRANSSEXUAL MARTYR *eawss

BY AMAZON

IN THE ANNALS OF THE DECADES-LONG LEGAL FIGHT FOR TRANS—
SEXUAL WOMANHOOD IN THE PRISON, DEE FARMER IS A PARAGON
AND MARTYR. THE FIGHT FOR TRANSSEXUAL MEDICINE IN PRISON .
WAS TAKEN BY DEE TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, WHICH
WOEFULLY MISUNDERSTOOD OUR CONDITION AND OUR PLIGHT. DEE
NEVER STOPPED FIGHTING FOR HER WOMANHOOD, EVEN UP TO THE
VERY LAST DAY OF HER LIFE IN PRISON.

1 MET DEE IN THE EARLY 1990s BY WAY OF CORRESPONDENCE. SHE
WAS A BEAUTTFUL AFRICAN TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN IN FEDERAL PRISON
FOR COMPUTER FRAUD. I HAD HEARD OF DEE SOMEHOW, FROM
READING FER CASES IN LAW BOOKS, I BELIEVE, AND I WROTE TO
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS HEADQUARTERS IN SEARCH OF HER
ADDRESS. 1 WAS DETERMINED TO GET A OLD OF HER. AT THE
TIME, T WAS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CALIFORNIA CHAP—
TER OF “TRANSSEXUALS IN PRISON," A NATION-WIDE ORGANIZATION
OF TRANSWOMEN IN MEN'S PRISONS WHO WERE FIGHTING IN COURT
FOR HORMONES. DEE AAD BEEN DOING JUST THE THING ON HER OWN
IN THE PEDERAL PRISONS, FOR YEARS, AND IT SEEMED APPROPRIATE
THAT I SHOULD SEEK HER OUT. THE B.O.P. ACTUALLY SENT ME
HER NUMBER AND ADDRESS. I WAS IN PELICAN BAY SHU AT THE
TIME, ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS LOCKDOWN PRISONS IN THE
LAND, WHICH PRISONCRATS FROM OTHER STATES AND COUNTRIES WERE
COMING TO SEE_AS A MODEL OF HIGH-TECH MAXIMNUM SECURTTY
IMPRISONMENT IN THAT ERA. SO I WAS REAL SURPRISED TO GET A
LETTER IN THE SHU FROM B.O.P. HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON,
D.C. WITH DEE'S HOOKUP. T WROTE TO THE GIRL. I HALF
EXPECTED THE LEITER TO BE KICKED BACK BY THE PRISON REGARD-
ING NO PRISON-TO-PRISON CORRESPONDENCE ALLOWED. WAS I EVER
SO HAPPY TO GET HER FIRST LETTER!

DEE WAS YOUNG AND VERY INTELLIGENT, FAST. SHE KNEW HER WAY
AROUND THE COURTS AND WAS A FORMALLY TRAINED PARALEGAL,
WHICH IS A LAWYER'S LEGAL ASSISTANT. SHE HAD SOME ACTIVE
CASES AT THE TIME, NOW ON THE LAW BOOKS, THAT SHE TOLD ME
THAT SHE TOLD ME ABOUT - THE PROGRESS OR LACK OF
1T, NO ACTION FROM THE JUDGE IN MONTHS. *I HAVE
TO PUT SOME FIRE UNDER THIS CASE," SHE WOULD SAY.
"KNUCKLEHEADS | SHE COMPLAINED OF HER LEGAL
GPPONENTS, WHO WERE PUTTING FORTH EVERY RIDICULOUS
ARGUMENT TO STOP HER. SHE NEVER SLACKED OFF,
LEAPED TO EVERY OCCASION WITH A YOUTHFUL ENTHU-
SIASM, WAS ALWAYS THINKING OF A NEW ANGLE.

1 MYSELF HAD A CASE FOR TREATMENT GOING AT THE
TIME, IN PEDERAL COURT, WHICH WAS DEE3TURF. I
TOLD DEE ABOUT T.I.P. I INVITED HER TO JOIN US.
OUR NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VENESSA MERI-—
WETHER - WHO FOUNDED T.I.P. AND WAS IN PRISON IN
INDIANA - HAD ALSO FILED A COURT CASE FOR HOR-
HONES THAT WAS ON THE LAW BOOKS. I EXPLAINED TO
VENESSA MY CONTACT WITH DEE AND MY DESIRE TO
SPREAD T.I.P. INTO THE FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM.

WE WERE JUST A SMALL GROUP OF QUEENS - VENESSA,
LYNN SCRIBNER IN TEXAS, PATRICIA FISHER IN
CANADA (A POST-OP WHO WAS NOT IN PRISON) THE
REVEREND JOHN PROWITT IN TENNESSEE (A FREE
PERSON WHO WORKED WITH INCARCERATED TRANSSEX-
UALS AND GAYS AND WAS VERY CLOSE WITH US), AND
ANOTHER YOUNG GIRL NEW TO THE GROUP AND EAGER
TO TAKE CARE OF THE BUSINESS AT HAND. WE ALL
FILED REGULAR REPORTS WITH VENESSA OF OUR ACTI-
VITIES FOR OUR RIGHTS IN PRISON. PAT PHOTO-
COPIED AND DISTRIBUTED OUR PAPERWORK ALL AROUND
- WE FUNCTIONED THIS WAY WITH HER GREAT HELP,
THE GIRLS HAD TO BE ACTIVE IN THE PRISON ADMINI-
STRATION FOR HORMONES, AND IF THAT FAILED, IN
THE COURTS, AND IN ANY OTHER WAY THAT PROMOTED
OUR CAUSE AND GATHERED SUPPORT. I DID A LOT OF
OUTREACH T0 TRANS PECPLE, PRISONERS RIGHTS
GROUPS, TRANS AND PRISON PUBLICATIONS, CIVIL
RIGHTS PROJECTS, OTHERS, INFORMING OF T.I.P.
AND ASKING FOR HELP IN SOME WAY - PUBLICITY,
MEDICAL OR LEGAL INFORMATION OR TO WRITE TO
THE WARDEN ABOUT TRANSSEXUAL MEDICAL TREATMENT.
I GOT SOME GOOD RESPONSES.
IT WAS INHERENT PART OF OUR MISSION THAT WE KEEP
BUSY IN PURSUING OUR IDEALS. VENESSA DROVE THIS
ON US. “I WANT YOUR REPORTS ON MY DESK" SHE SAID
WHEN IT NEARED THAT TIME. SHE WAS A GOOD LEADER
AND ORGANIZER AND GAVE US GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT.

THE REVEREND JOHN PROWETT MADE REGULAR VISITS TO
A JAIL IN TENNESSEE, WORKING WITH TRANS AND

GAYS THERE. WE HAD A WONDERFUL CORRESPONDENCE.
HE WAS VERY NICE AND UNDERSTANDING AND HAD A
GALACTIC HEART THAT MADE HIM WANT TO HELP US IN
OUR STRUGGLE. HE FOUNDED AND HEADED THE "AGAPE
PRISON MINISTRIES.® HE HAD TAKEN INTO HIS CARE
A TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN WHO WAS MENTALLY INCAPABLE OF
CARING POR HERSELF AND NEEDED CONSTANT CAREGIVER
ASSISTANCE. HE TOLD ME OF THE DAILY DIFFICULTIES
HE HAD WITH HER, TENDING HER AS HE WOULD A CHILD.
IT WAS A VERY TRYING EXPERIENCE FOR HIM, BUT HE
DID IT, OUT OF LOVE. HE WAS SURPRISED AT THE HIGH
NUMBER OF TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN THE PRISON I WAS
THEN AT, THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY (CMF)

IN VACAVILLE, WHICH NUMBERED WELL OVER 100 QUEENS.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH THOSE GIRLS?"' HE QUERIED. I
GATHERED THERE WERE MORE TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN
CALIFORNIA PRISONS THAN IN TENNESSEE PRISONS.

HE ALWAYS WADE INQUIRIES OF HOW I AND ALL THE
GIRLS WERE DOINTG. TRAGICALLY, REVEREND PROWETT
WAS KILLED IN A ROBBERY, BY YOUNGSTERS WHO JUST
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DEE AND ME WENT ON
POR NOT A VERY LONG TIME BEFORE OUR RESPECTIVE
PRISONS REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND STOPPED
OUR WRITING TO EACH OTHER. BEFORE THAT HAPPENED
SHE HAD SENT ME A FRIENDSHIP CARD, A REAL NICE
LITTLE AFFAIR, PRETTY, WITH A SKETCH OF A WATER
WELL ON THE COVER. THERE WERE SOME WORDS OVER
IT, I DO NOT RECALL THEM EXACT, EXCEPT FOR THE
ENDING, WHICH ARE ENGRAVED INTO MY HEART

....AND MAY WE BOTH RELY,
THAT NEVER SHALL OUR FRIENDSHIP'S WELL,
BE EVER FOUND RUNNING DRY.

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SOME YEARS HAD GONE BY BEFORE I GOT ANY MORE
NEWS OF DEE. THINGS KIND OF CHANGED WITHIN
T.I.P. AND SOME OF US LOST CONTACT WITH EACH
OTHER. I WAS READING A TRANS MAGAZINE, AND
THERE WAS AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY DEE AS THE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF T.I.P. IN THE FEDERAL
PRISONS. SHE DESCRIBED THE SITUATION WITH
HERSELF THERE AS A TRANSWOMAN IN A MEN'S

PRISON. "THIS IS A MEN'S PRISON; NO WOMEN ARE
ALLOWED" A TOWER GUARD HAD CALLED DOWN TO
ANOTHER GUARD WHO WAS BRINGING DEE FROM A BUS
INTO THE PRISON. IT WAS THEIR AMUSEMENT, TYPI-
CAL OF HOW THEY BANTER ABOUT US. I WAS GLAD TO
SEE THAT GIRL WAS STILL ON THE FRONTLINE, EXPOS-
ING OUR ABUSE AND MISTREATMENT, GETTING THE WORD
CUT OF OUR PLIGHT, OUR NEED FOR COMPASSION AND
SOME KIND OF RELIEF FROM WHAT SEEMED TO BE A
RATHER CRUEL ARRANGEMENT OF THINGS FOR US IN
THESE PLACES. I WAS SO PROUD OF DEE. SHE NEVER
ONCE WAIVERED OR STUMBLED OR TOOK A BREAK FROM
WHAT TO HER - AND SO MANY MORE OF US - WAS A
LIFE, THE LIFE, OUR LIFE, THE RAW REALITY OF
EEING A WOMAN IN WHAT WAS DECLARED AS A MAN'S
WORLD. HER SPIRIT BLEW ON THE COALS OF MY
HEART UNTIL THEY GREW RED AND GLOWED, AND I WANTED
TO DO EVER MORE THAN I WAS CAPABLE FOR OUR CAUSE.

THE NEXT TIME I BEARD OF DEE WAS THE ANNOUNCEMENT
CF HER DEATH IN A TRANSSEXUAL MAGAZINE. I WAS
SHOCKED. I NEVER KNEW SHE WAS HIV. PERHAPS
SHE WAS DIAGNOSED APTER WE LOST TOUCH OR I AM
SURE SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD ME. HER T-CELL COUNT
HAD GOTTEN TOO LOW, THE ARTICLE SAID, AND SHE
DECEASED. THE MAGAZINE PAID DUE HOMAGE TO HER,
A HUMBLE LITTLE OBLTUARY, THE ONLY ONE ANYWHERE,
MOST LIKELY. I SAT THERE RINGING WITH THE SHOCK
OF THE NEWS, MY HEAD ABUZZ, MY HEART THUMPING
LOUD IN MY EARS, HURTING, ANGUISHED. SHE HAD
COME TO PRISON SO YOUNG, AT AGE 18, NEVER TO GET
GUT ALIVE. AS MUCH AS SHE FOUGHT FOR HER WOMAN-
HOOD IN EVERY COURT SHE COULD GET INTO - FOR
HORMONES AND SURGERY - NO ONE UNDERSTOOD HER
NEEDS ANYWHERE ALONG THE WAY, ALL THE WAY TO THE
HIGHEST COURT OF THE LAND. MORE THAN EVER, I

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NO LONGER BELIEVED IN "JUSTICE," NOT FOR US
GIRLS IN THESE PLACES, NOT IN ANY COURT OF LAW.
I WAS BITTER, TO SAY THE VERY LEAST.

IT WAS NOT UNTIL MUCH LATER THAT I LEARNED HOW
DEE CAME TO ACQUIRE HIV. SHE WAS RAPED IN ONE
OF THE FEDERAL PRISONS SEE HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED
TO AGAINST HER WILL, A RATHER ROUGH PLACE,
NOTORIOUS FOR IT CAPACITY FOR VIOLENCE AND BLOOD-
SHED. SHE HAD PILED LAWSUUITS AGAINST SUCH TRAN-
FERS, WHICH WAS REVEALED WERE RETALIATORY SET-UPS
FOR HER MANY LAW SUITS FOR TREATMENT OF TRANSSEX-
UALISM IN PRISON. THIS WAS A TYPICAL TACTIC USED
BY PRISONCRATS, TO RETALIATE FOR COMPLAINING OF
OUR TREATMENT AT THEIR HANDS. MANY TIMES THEY
HAD TRIED TO SILENCE DEE, FILED FALSE DISCIPLIN-
ARY REPORTS AGAINST HER TO MAKE HER STAY IN
PRISON LONGER, BEYOND HER COMMITMENT SENTENCE.

IT IS WEAT THEY DO. IT IS WELL UNDERSTOOD BY ALL
PRISONERS. THIS IS "THE GAME." PRISONCRATS KNOW
THAT WE ARE VULNERABLE IN VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS,
NORMALLY. THEY KNOW WE WILL GET RAPED IF PUT IN
THE MIDST OF SUCH PRISON POPULATIONS, ARE AT THE
MERCY OF BRUTAL ELEMENTS WHO CONTROL SUCH PRISON
YARDS. WE WILL BE RAPED. WE WILL BE HARMED,
BEATENED IF WE RESIST. WE WILL VERY LITERALLY BE
MADE SLAVES OF, SEX SLAVES, WITH NO CHOICE BUT

TO GO ALONG OR BE VERY SERIOUSLY HARMED, EVEN
KILLED. OUR PLEAS TO THE ADMINISTRATION GO IGNORED.
THEY GET A KICK OUT OF IT, A LAUGH, A SMIRK.

THEY KNOW WE ARE BEING "TAUGHT A LESSON," THAT
MAKING A STAND, HOWEVER LEGAL, HOWEVER CONSTITU-
TONAL, WILL COME WITH A HEAVY PRICE, COULD BE A
LETHAL UNDERTAKING, AND SETS AN EXAMPLE FOR
OTHERS. THE PRISONCRATS FULLY INTENDED FOR DEE
TO BE PUT IN SUCH A SITUATION, TO BE PUNISHED IN
THIS WAY FOR HER ACTIVISM, TO BE RAPED, BEATENED,
TO ACQUIRE A LETHAL VIRUS, MOST PROBABLY, FROM
BEING RAPED BY AN ELEMENT LARGELY COMPRISED OF
DRUG ADDICTS, INTRAVENOUS DRUG USERS, A HIGH

RISK TARGET GROUP FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE

HIV VIRUS LEADING TO FULLBLOWN AIDS. MORE
EXPLICITLY, DEE WAS KILLED, MURDERED.

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2CR ME - FOR ANYONE - IT IS SO UNFAIR THAT DEE COULD NOT,
BY THE STUBBORNESS OF OUR MOST VEHEMENT OPPONENTS, BE
ACCOMMODATED IN HER MANY REQUESTS FOR TREATMENT. SHE
CAME TO FEDERAL PRISON AT AGE 18, WITH A 20-YEAR
SENTENCE. SHE WAS YOUNG, VIBRANT, SO FULL OF VIGOR AND
ENTHUSTASM. SHE STUDIED SO MUCH, SPENT SO MUCH TIME
DOING LEGAL WORK TN PRISON LAW LIBRARIES, IN HER CELL,
LONG HOURS IN THE DAY, LATE AT NIGHT, DETERMINED. HER
MOTIVATION WAS SO PURE, SO INNOCENT: TO BE THAT WOMAN,
AS SHE WAS DESTINED TO BE, AND FINALLY WAS, IN HER ORN
LIGHT, AND IN THE RADIANCE OF THE GODDESSES WHO PUT
WOMANEOOD ON US. DESTINY IS SOMETHING IMMOVABLE. IT IS
ORDAINED, BEYOND HUMAN INTERFERENCE, BY POWERS IN WHOSE
HANDS WE ARE MERE DREGS. DEE'S DESTINY WAS TO OPEN THE
WAY FOR THOSE WHO WOULD COME AFTER. SO MANY TIMES SHE
WAS UNJUSTLY DENIED HER HORMONES IN HER TIME, AND NOW
HER PARAGON EFFORTS, ALL THE HARD WORK AND COMMITMENT
AND DEVOTION AND LOVE THAT SHE PUT IN HER ENDEAVORS FOR
WOMANEOOD ARE BEARING FRUIT FOR US OF TODAY. HER CASES
HAVE BECOME PRECEDENT, ESTABLISHED LAW IN THE ARENA OF
TRANSSEXUAL JURTSPRUDENCE, EVEN IN NON-TRANSSEXUAL
CASES. SHE WAS A FIREBRAND ON A MISSION, PANATICAL TN
HER DEVOTION TO BEINGTHE WOMAN THAT SHE WAS.. SHE DID
NOT KNOW THEN THAT SHE WAS THE POINT GIRL FOR THE REST
OF US. SHE NEVER GAVE UP, NEVER DROPPED IT ALL AND
SAID FORGET IT, IT CAN'T BE DONE. EVEN AS THE U.S.
SUPREME COURT MORE THAN ONCE REJECTED HER CLATMS. SHE
DIDNT CARE. SHE JUST SAW HER GOAL, HER IDEAL, AND THAT
TO HER WAS THE MOST MEANINGFUL THING IN HER LIFE: IT
WAS HER HEART. SHE LOVED HER WOMANHOOD WITH A FEVERISH
PASSION THAT SHE EXPRESSED IN HER MANY LAWSUITS FOR
‘TREATMENT OF TRANSSEXUAL MEDICINE.

EVEN AFTER MORE THAN TWO DECADES OF KNOWING DEE, BEFORE
AND AFTER HER DEATH I AM STILL FINDING CASES SHE FILED
IN COURTS ACROSS THE LAND IN COMPUTER SEARCH ENGINES.
SHE DID MORE WORK THAN I THOUGHT. MORE CASES FOR
HORMONES, OR AGAINST PRISONCRATS FOR NOT PROTECTING HER
AGAINST PREDATORS IN PRISON, OR CHALLENGING DISCIPLINE
PENALTIES. IT MADE ME THINK OF THE MANY TIMES I HAD LET
INCIDENTS SLIDE, DIDNT PURSUE A WRONG DONE ME, OR DIDNT
CARRY IT THROUGH. I PELT LAZY, NOT UP TO PAR WITH DEE.
Imnwc(m-mssr.s,snmnwam, RESOLVED 10 BE AS
DEE WAS TN CHALLENGING WRONGS IN COURT. IT PUT A NEW
VIGOR IN ME. I FOUND MYSELF THINKING AND FEELING: I
WANT TO BE LIKE DEE. SHE IS AN EXAMPLE WORTH EMULATING.
SHE HAS BECOME ONE OF MY PERSONAL IDOLS, ONE OF MY
IDEALS. SHE BAS BECOME MY ALTER EGO.

DEE'S ILLNESS - INFECTION WITH HIV VIRUS AND LATER
FULLBLORN AIDS - WAS A DIRECT PRODUCT OF HER FIGHT FOR
HER WOMANHOOD IN PRISON. THE PRISONCRATS KNEW HER AS A
LITIGATOR. THEY DELIBERATELY PUT HER IN A SETTING THAT
WOULD GET HER HURT, RAPED, AND THIS DID HAPPEN AND
RESULTED IN HER INFECTION FROM A PRISONER WHO RAPED HER.
THIS WAS HER PUNISBMENT AT THE HANDS OF OUR KEEPERS,
ANOTHER FORM OF KILLING US OFF. SHE HAD BEEN BEATEN AS
WELL. A SLOW DEATH, CREEPING, GNAWING, TAKING ITS TIME,
EATING UP T-CELLS ONE BY ONE. DEE'S T-CELL COUNT
BEGAN TO FALL STEADILY. SHE BECAME WEAKER AND WEAKER.
AND FINALLY SHF WAS TAKEN UP IN A SINGLE BREATH, A
SPIRIT ON FIRE, A WOMAN ON FIRE, AT HER ZENITH AT LONG
LAST, UP AND AWAY FROM THE FOLLY AND SUFFERING OF
MORTALITY TO AN ETERNAL ABODE, AND ETERNAL EXISTENCE OF
THE LIKES WE CAN ONLY YEARN FOR, AWAIT OUR OWN
TRANSFORMATTON.. 1S BETTER OFF THAN WE ARE NOW.
SHE 1S LIVE, WHOLE, KICKING, FULLY AWARE. SHE IS
BRILLIANT, RADIANT, RESPLENDENT IN HER BEAUTY AND
PURITY, IN HER PURE SPIRITUAL FEMALE FORM , A GODDESS
NOW.

LET EVERY TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN WHO IS A DEMIGODDESS ON
EARTH ASPTRE TO BE LIKE DEE, EVER VIGILANT OF OUR
WOMANHOOD AND PROTECTIVE OF IT TO THE TIME THAT WE
CURSELVES TRANSCEND OUR EARTHLY CALLING AND ULTIMATELY
ATTAIN OUR ORN GLORY THAT IS THE ETERNAL LIFE AND THE
ETERNAL PEACE.

(FROM CORCORAN PRISON, CALIFORNIA. COMMEMORATING
DEE FARMER, WITH GREAT LOVE. APRIL 2009.)
LOFOFORA EVA CONTRERAZ
BX 5242/C45857/D2-234
CORCORAN, CALIFORNIA 93212
A BRIEF BIO ABOUT THE EDITRIX:

I At A NATIVE PERSON, A TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN, IN
MY LANGUAGE CALLED A "SUYAK." I AM DOING LIFE
AND MAY OR MAY NOT EVER GET OUT. I TRAN-
SITIONED IN PRISON AND AM TRYING TO GET SRS
(SEX-REASSIGNMENT SURGERY) AND TRANSFER TO A
WOMEN'S PRISON. I AM GETTING HORMONES HERE IN
THE CORCORAN PRISON, MAXIMUM SECURITY. MY
GIRLFRIEND AND WIFE IS BELLADONNA, A WHITE
QUEEN ALSO DOING LIFE. WE ARE MARRIED. I HAVE
A COUPLE OF GIRLFRIENDS AND SO DOES THE B -
WE ARE NOT SHY. I HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN OUR
CAUSE SINCE THE 1980s AND CONTINUE TO DO WHAT
WE CAN FOR OUR DREAMS IN THE WOMANHOOD. I AM
ALSO ACTIVE IN DISABILITY RIGHTS ISSUES HERE
AS T AM HEARING TMPAIRED SINCE AGE 15. I WILL
TALK MORE OF OUR SITUATION IN THE NEXT ISSUE,
BUT THINGS ARE GOING REAL GOOD FOR US HERE NOW.
I AM CONSTANTLY WORKING ON PROJECTS HAVING TO
DO WITH TRANSSEXUAL RIGHTS IN THESE PLACES AND
DISABILITY RIGHTS, AND HAVE SOME ACTIVE COURT
CASES ON OTHER ISSUES IN STATE AND FEDERAL
COURTS . I RECENTLY HAD SURGERY TO REMOVE MY
TESTES, WHICH I WILL DISCUSS NEXT TIME. I
FEEL GREAT! THIS IS AN OLD PICTURE OF ME,
1988 AT VACAVILLE MEDICAL FACILITY. WE MIGHT
HAVE A CAMERA PROGRAN IN NOT TOO LONG AND

I WILL UPDATE THIS PICTURE. TELL US ABOUT
YOURSELF !
AaamkASEn GENDER ANARKY ZEEN Assassans

GENDER ANARKY ZEEN CONTINUES TO BE PUBLISHED AT
RANDOM FROM PRISON. GENDER ANARKY IS A PRISON-
BASED INTTIATIVE OF TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN MEN'S
PRISONS. WE ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ANY GROUPS
ON THE STREET, BE THEY TRANSSEXUAL, POLITICAL,
LEGAL OR OTHERWISE. WE DO NOT ENGAGE IN POLI-
TICS. WE ARE TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN PRISON. WE
ARE_ABOUT FEMALE HORWONES AND SEX-CHANGE SURGERY
IN PRISON FOR TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN. GENDER ANARKY
ZEEN IS FREE TO ANYONE, ANYWABRE.

WE ARE AWARE OF MANY SOCIAL GROUPS CLAIMING TO BE
"SUPPORT GROUPS" FOR TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN THE
PRISONS, EXPRESSING SOLIDARITY WITH US OR REPRE-
SENTATION, WHICH MAY BE COMPOSED OF TRANSSEXUALS
WHO ARE PORMER PRISONERS. SUCH GROUPS WERE
SPAWNED ON THE STREET. THERE IS A CRITICAL DIF-
FERENCE BETWEEN PRISON-BASED GROUPS AND SOCIAL=-
BASED GROUPS IN THE MATTER OF REPRESENTATION.

THE FIGHT OF TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN PRISON FOR
TRANSSEXUAL MEDICAL TREATMENT, OUR HUMAN DIGNITY
AND OTHER THINGS, IS AN EXTREMELY PERSONAL FIGHT,
VERY DIRECT, VERY CLOSE, TOUCHING. THIS INTI~
MATE EXPERIENCE - TO THE DAY,HOUR, MINUTE,
SECOND, AND THOUGHT - IS ONGOING. THERE IS NO
BROKEN SPACE. ONLY THE PERSON IN THAT IMMEDIATE
SPACE CAN REPRESENT THE MOMENT.

INASMUCH AS SOME TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN ON THE STREET
WHO HAVE BEEN IN PRISON SPEAK ON THE EXPERIENCE
OF TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN THE PRISONS IN CALLING
ATTENTION TO OUR FIGHT, NO ONE CAN REPRESENT US
BUT WE OURSELVES, FROM PRISON. REPRESENTATION
TAKES PLACE AT THE LEVEL OF THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRON-
MENT. THIS IS RADICAL, WHICH MEANS "GOING TO
THE ROOT."

WHEN INDIVIDUALS ON THE STREET ATTEMPT TO RE-
PRESENT US WHO ARE IN THE PRISONS, THEY TEND TO
PUT THEMSELVES AT THE CENTER AND ABOVE US, AND
OF OUR CAUSE, AND ARE BEYOND OUR CONTROL. THIS
ESCALATES® AND CREATES A CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
WE HAVE SEEN IT MANY TIMES. IT CONTINUES TO
THIS DAY.

SOCIAL GROUPS AND SOCIAL PEOPLE TEND TO PUT
THESE TYPE OF INDIVIDUALS ON A STAGE TO PROJECT
AN IMAGE OF BEING A SPOKESPERSON FOR US BACK
HERE WHO ARE BLEEDING AND CRYING IN THE GUTTER,
FIGHTING WITH ALL OF OUR MIGHT - AND IN SOME
CASES WITH OUR VERY LIVES [DEE FARMER] - FOR
OUR WOMANHOOD. OUR VERY LIVES ARE ON THE LINE.
THEY BECOME CELEBRITIES. WE DON'T KNOW THEM.

: ABOUT GENDER ANARKY

THE WORD "ANARKY" IN THE NAME GENDER ANARKY
DECLARES THE DECONSTRUCTION OF PINITE GENDER/
SEX CONCEPTS, CATEGORIES, AND CLASSIFICATIONS.
WE USE THE TERM "TRANSSEXUAL" SOLELY FOR
REASONS OF CONVENIENCE, FOR WE HAVE OUR DOUBTS
ABOUT IT AS WELL. WE ARE TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN
MEN'S PRISONS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR - WITH BLOOD
AND A LOT OF PERSONAL TRAGEDY - AND ARE GETTING
HORMONES, AND WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR THEM, AND
FOR SEX-CHANGE SURGERY WHILE IN PRISON, EVEN IF
THIS MEANS TRANSFER TO A WOMEN'S PRISON: WE
WILL BE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.

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////1771//1// THE TRANSSPIRITUAL /////////11//

- By Su'yak -

Because human eyes must necessarily see gender
(in its content, role, quality, earthly and uni-
versal context) , Goddess is preeminent in male-
to-female transspiritual phenomenon. Transsex-
ualism is a spiritual process.

It is the Goddess Who initiates the spiritual
process or sets the spiritual mechanics into
play when male spirit is overwhelmed with the
spirit of female in an individual. Only the
spiritual can bend Nature, reverse it. It is
the spiritual that veaves Nature. The compo-
nents of Nature are mere dregs in the hands of
the spiritual Goddess and must comply with Her
desire.

In every divine pantheon of the earthly conti-
nents and islands and waters that be the God
desses have been active in this way, bestowing
Their peculiar Blessings on Their chosen, the
Blessings of Womanhood on man.

Male-to-female transspiritualism is a global
phenomenon, found in all cultures, since time
immemorial. Encompassing genitial alteration,
not mere transvestism or gender-role inversion,
the full extent of this spirituality has not
been explored. Properly speaking, it is a
transspiritual phenomenon.

Doctors of disciplines and researchers have
scratched at the phenomenon among Native (First
People) cultures in particular. The literature
is rich in examination of Native transspiritu-
ality, employing terminology from transsexual to
transgender, lesbian, gay, hermaphrodite/inter-
sex other, third gender, fourth gender, the

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five sexes, berdache, two-spirit, queers, multi-
ple genders, two-souls, homosexuals, biological
male/gender female, feminine ma alternative
gender, androgyne, gender variance - to brief the
sample.

The confusion and uncertainty prevails, with one
study reaching not a conclusion but *inconclu-
sions." The uncertainty reaches into segments of
the 2lst century spiritual community itself.

The curiosity over transspirituality will be
solved not by profesional researchers but by
experts in the spirit.

Polarity is univeral law. Polarity is the law of
opposites. Thus a set or "pair" of opposite
“"genders” is proper. Polarity has a character,
distinguished form its activity. The character
of polarity can trend any way. An eclipse, for
example, which "darkerns® the "day” at an unor-
thodox time - during the day. The reversal of
the magnetic fields. The demigod in relation to
the God and Goddess. Polarity is one half of the
universe. What enables polarity to spin-off in
this way is the other half of the universe:
realms. Realms are also universal law.

Transspirituality is a characteristic of po-
larity: it is a quirk of polarity on a level of
the spiritual realm. Realms concern levels of
existence (space/worlds) and levels of awareness
(consciousness) . Realms of awaremess criss—
cross the universe. Their influence impacts the
Barth - human activity, human events, mental and
physical processes.

A transspiritual woman éxists in another realm
(of awareness), though physically grounde

this one. In a sense she is unworldly. Indeed
the average person does not consider her to be

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“in this world," which is to say she is consi-
dered mentally unstable, "crazy.® “"Gender iden-
tity disorder” is a clinical term of the profes-
sicanl medical field that describes the trans-.
spiritual woman's condition. "A serious psychi-
atric disorder.” "Gender dysphoric.® In fact,
she bears a hallow quality, sacred.

“Complex cosmic beings in female form" having to
do with cause and effect are behind evolutionary
phenomena, changes that take place across the
realms and on Earth that have to do with an indi-
vidual's fate and destiny, a fate that is not
immovable but is constantly being transformed.
They are weavers of riddles in the universe,

this Pantheon of Goddesses, These Divinities of
Fate. Transspirituality is a complex process in
which The Divinities of Fate act to institute
and implement Divine Law by which the trans
spiritual woman assumes the status of a des
goadess.

/77

[Editor's note: In Native dialect "su'yak® means
"you-changed-into-something-different."]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT :

GENDER ANARKY PEOPLE AND THE GENDER ANARKY ZEEN
EXPRESSES OUR HEARTFELT LOVE AND APPRECIATTION TO
THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE IN SAN FRAN-
CISCO FOR THEIR GENEROSITY IN ENABLING US TO PUT
THIS ZEEN TOGETHER AND TO GET IT OUT TO THE GIRLS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, GIRLS! WE LOVE YOU AND WILL
SHOW OUR APPRECTATION MORE CONCRETELY SOMEHOW,
SOMETIME. YOU HAVE BEEN A REALLY GREAT HELP TO
US. WE WILL NEVER FORGET! PEACE, PEACE, PEACE!!!
COCCCCOCU spirit Talk )))))))))))

“Ice Lady." A poem, by Amazon-Kabuki. Undated.

You spun your web around me, Ice Lady,
in the night light of Infinity.

A web of icicles bounded me,
somewhere out there,

where clouds of color are made,

and moons clash with stars in the sky.

A state of coldness,
soothes memories,
of shattered webs,

and the crinkle of icicles in flight.

Somewhere out there,

the sound of small bells are ringing,
as you spin your web around me,

Ice Lady,

and bound me,

in a state of coldness.

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KICKING IT UP, BY AMAZON-KABUKI......

OKAY, I AM AMAZON-KABUKI. I HAVE A ZILLION OTHER
NAMES; PLEASE DONT ASK THEM ALL. I USUALLY WRITE
OR TYPE WITHOUT THE OBSERVATION OF GRAMMAR, LIKE
SOME OF US SPELL CERTAIN WORDS OUR OWN WAY. I
OMIT CAPITALS, APOSTROPHES, AND OTHER STUFF. I
ALSO CUSS QUITE HEALTHILY - NO APOLOGIES.

1 MENTIONED ONCE ALREADY, IN A PAST ISSUE (OR IT
MAY HAVE BEEN IN TRANZLEZBOZ) THAT I GOT IN TOUCH
WITH SOME GIRLS ON CLICK CLICK, TRANSWOMEN, WEO
SAY THEY ARE WORKING POR US IN THE PRISONS. THEY
ARE CALLED "TIP" AND OTHER NAMES. I SHOT THEM A
CRITIQUE, THAT WE AINT FEELING NADA BACK HERE AND
WHAT IS UP WITH THAT. 1 GOT TWO LETTERS FROM
THEM, SAYING BASICALLY NOTHING REALLY. I AM WON-
DERING WHO THEY ARE. ONE KITE WAS A PENPAL LET-
TER; I DID NOT ASK FOR A PENPAL. THAT WAS MONTHS
AGO; THEY HAVE NOT REPLIED TO MY RESPONSE. AND
SO FORTH....

WE WOULD STRONGLY ADVISE GIRLS ON CLICK CLICK
THAT IF THEY REALLY WANT TO MOVE MOUNTAINS THEY
MUST FIRST OF ALL BAVE REALISTIC GOALS. IT SEEMS
TO ME THAT WHILE SOME INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS MAY
REALLY FEEL MOTIVATED TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP US
OUT BACK HERE, IN THE MANY WAYS WE NEED IT OR IN
JUST A SINGLE WAY, THEY INEVITABLY TEND TO PUT
THE CART IN PRONT OF THE HORSE. THEY TAKE TOO
BIG OF A BITE THAN THEY CAN CHEW, AND AFTER THE
INITIAL ELATION IS OVER AND THEY HAVE SEEN THAT
THEY ARE DEALING WITH MORE THAN THEY THOUGHT,
SOMETHING FAR BIGGER THAN THEY IMAGINED, SHIT
PETERS OUT AND THEY SLACK OFF. ITS NOT FUN ANY
MORE. THEY DONT HAVE NO MORE TIME, PERHAPS NO
MORE DESIRE. WE ARE TOO MUCH REALITY BITCHES
BACK HERE THAN TO FUCK WITH SHIT LIKE THAT. IT
GETS US DROVE. WHO ARE THESE BITCHES? WE WONDER.
DONT THEY KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE DOING? DO
THEY REALIZE HOW SERIOUS THIS SHIT CAN GET WITH
SOME OF US BACK HERE WHO DONT LIKE BEING USED?

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1 JUST CHANGED THE DISTANCE OF LETTERS ON THIS MACHINE SO I
CAN SAY MORE.

HERE ON THE YARD AT CORCORAN MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON THE
GIRLS HAVE BEEN SEEING THE GENDER DOCTOR AND GETTING THEIR
HORMONES, AND THAT IS GREAT NEWS AND DEVELOPMENT! YES,
SHIT IS FINALLY WORKING OUT FOR US HERE WITH THE TELEMED
PROCESS. THERE WAS NO TELEMEDS BACK IN THE DAY, SO A LOT
OF THESE GIRLS OF TODAY DID NOT SEE WHAT WE DID IN THE
TIME OF NO-SUCH-THING-AS-TELEMEDS. I HAD BEEN PIGHTING FOR
BONES MORE THAN 20 YRS BACK, WHEN THEY WOULD NOT GIVE US
SHIT OR SHINOLA IP WE DID NOT HAVE LETTERS FROM DOCTORS ON
CLICK CLICK THAT WE WERE TAKING THEM OUT THERE. FAST FOR-
WARD.......LAST FRIDAY I GOT CALLED FOR My SECOND TELEMED,
WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER 2008 BUT THE
PRISON DIDNT GET IT DONE BACK THEN. THE OTHER GIRLS ON
THIS YARD WHO WENT THE SAME DAY HAD THEIR FIRST TELEMED AND
THEY ALL GOT THEIR MONES. ANOTHER GIRL FROM THIS YARD WHO
WAS IN THE HOLE ALSO WENT FROM THERE, AND SHE GOT HER MONES
AS WELL. WE SAW GIRLS FROM OTHER YARDS ALSO HAVING THEIR
TELEMEDS. IT WAS A GREAT DAY TO SEE IT ALL! THIS WAS ONE
OF MY BIGGEST DREAMS COME TRUE! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD
SEE THE DAY. I WISH SO MUCH MY GOOD GIRLFRIEND DEE FARMER
COULD HAVE BEEN HERE, HAVING HER TELEMEDS, GETTING HER
HORMONES AT LONG LAST, JUST LIKE ME. IT IS VERY MUCH
THANKS TO DEE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO
HAVE OUR WOMANHOOD IN THESE PRISONS. SHE FOUGHT SO HARD,
SET A LOT OF PRECEDENCE CASE LAW THAT CONTRIBUTED TO US
GETTING CUR MONES AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY, FOR US GIRLS IN
THE CALIFORNIA STATE~JURISDICTION PRISONS. SHE FOUGHT FOR
YRS AND YRS AND YRS. LITTLE DID SHE KNOW SHE WAS SETTING
THE GROUNDWORK FOR US OF TODAY. I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR HER!
SHE IS IN MY DAILY PRAYERS I SAY WHEN I TAKE MY MONES,
GIVING HER DUE THANKS. WELL, I SAW THE DOC AND TOLD BER
HOW I NEED A BRA NOW, STOCD AND TURNED SO SHE COULD GET A
GOOD LOOK AT MY PROFILE, HOW MY BREASTS ARE DEVELOPING AND
NEED A BRA NOW. SHE ARRANGED FOR ME TO HAVE ONE, AND I
WILL SEE HER AGAIN IN 3 MONTHS. THAT IS WONDERFUL! SEE,
I HAD ASKED HER FOR AN EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATION FOR
SURGERY. SHE MUST GET WITH A GIRL REGULARLY FOR THAT, AND
I REALLY IMPRESSED IT ON EER THAT I WANTED AN EVALUATION.
IT DOES TAKE TIME FOR HER TO MAKE A CONCLUSION IN THAT AREA
OF TREATMENT, IN ACCORD WITH THE STANDARDS OF CARE. SO
THAT WILL COME IN ITS TIME, I REALLY, REALLY DO HOPE!

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OKAY. SO I HEARD FROM A PRISON PROJECT IN CANADA ~ THE PRI-
SONER CORRESPONDENCE PROJECT THAT PROVIDES SERVICES TO US NOT
JuST IN CANADA BUT IN THIS LAND T00. THEY ARE BONIFIED PEO-
PLE WHO DELIVER. THEY PROVIDE GOOD INFO/LITERATURE ABOUT

DISTRIBUTED AMONG US. SO THEY GOT AT ME FOR INPUT/FEEDBACK.
AS FOR ME PERSONALLY, I SAID THAT I HAVE NOT ENCOUNTERED ANY
SUCH THING AS "SAFE-SEX" IN THESE CALIFORNIA PRISONS, AND
THAT IT IS KINDA A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AROUND HERE. IT IS JUST
NOT DONE IN THESE CALIFORNIA PRISONS. I HAVE BEEN DOWN 28
YRS TO DATE AND HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN IT IN PRACTICE IN
ALL THAT TIME. A RARE GIRL MIGHT TALK ABOUT IT FOR A FEW,
BUT IT IS VERY, VERY HARD TO IMAGINE IT ACTUALLY BEING A FACT
FE FOR US. AND THEREFORE I EAD NO REAL SUGGESTIONS TO
OFFER, JUST MY LITTLE PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY THAT IT AINT ABOUT
T0 HAPPEN ON THIS SIDE OF THE ELECTRIC FENCE. NOT JUST FROM

MOTTVATION AND ENTHUSIASM 70 DO IT. IT SEEMS THAT A GIRL WHO
WAS PROPOSING SUCH A THING, SHE WOULD PRETTY MUCH BE CONSI-
DERED A FAKE HO BY OTHER GIRLS. WE TOOK OUR CHANCES. AND
THAT IS JUST A PART AND REALITY OF THE LIFE, AS WE HAVE AL-
WAYS LIVED IT. NOT ABOUT TO STOP NOW. IT JUST DONT SEEM
REAL TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I SAID TEAT I DID NOT WANT
TO SOUND LIKE A PESSIMIST, JUST THAT I WAS A REALIST. SAFE-
SEX.......IT SEEMS LIKE SUCH A STRANGE IDEA. I DO THINK THAT
IF THE MEANS WERE PROVIDED THAT, YES, SOME OR MAYBE EVEN MANY
GIRLS WOULD GO FOR IT. I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT. WELL, IN
THIS ERA CR TIME I AM WAY MORE CAREFUL ABOUT SEX THAN I WAS
BACK IN THE DAY. I HAVE TESTED FOR HIV VIRUS, WHICH CAME OUT -
NEGATIVE, AND MAKE IT A HABIT 70 TEST ANNUALLY, NOT THAT
AM DOING "RISK BEHAVIOR," BUT CAUSE I READ UP A LOT
VIRUS AND HOW IT CAN "HIDE" IN THE BODY AND NOT SHOW UP ON A -
TEST FOR YEARS, THEN SUDDENLY YOU CAN SEE YOU GOT IT WHEN YOU
WERE NOT EVEN DOING NADA TO GET IT. SURE, I SEX, BUT VERY,
VERY INFREQUENTLY. I AM ON SINGLE-CELL STATUS AND THAT HAS
CONIRIBUTED TO LESS SEX IN MY LIFE I WOULD SAY. ALSO, I AM

A LESBIAN, JUST GO WITH OTHER GIRLS, NOT WITH MEN, AND THAT
COCONTRIBURTES 1O LESS SEX. I REALLY CANT SPEAK FOR OTHER
GIRLS AND THEIR SEXUAL HABITS. I DONT ASK.

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THERE 1S A LIBERAL PUBLICATION OUT OF FRESNO CALLED THE
"COMMUNITY ALLIANCE." LATE LAST YEAR THEY RAN AN
ARTICLE BY A PRISONER AT SOLANO STATE PRISON, WHO SPUN
OFF A WHOLE BUNCH OF PHOBIA AT GAYBOYS AND QUEENS WITH
REGASRD TO A NEW PRISON POLICY OF DISTRIBUTING CONDOMS
TO PRISONERS, A KIND OF EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. I DID
TMMEDIATELY PUT THAT IN CHECK, WITH HIM AND THE EDITOR.
HE RESPONDED WITH A LETTER TRYING T0 CLEAN UP THE MESS HE
MADE ON HIMSELF, A CHEAP TRY, SHALLOW. THE EDITOR HAD
NOTHING TO SAY, A GUILT SILENCE. , THERE WAS ALSO A
COMMENT FROM A GAYBOY ON THE PAPER'S STAFF WEO DOES A
COLUMN ON GAY ISSUES, SAYING BASICALLY THAT WE QUEENS
HAVE A RIGHT TO BE REARD, THIS BECAUSE I HAD CRITIQUED
THE EDITOR FCR NOT PRINTING ARTICLES I HAD SENT IN,
PRINTING ALL THIS TRANSPHOBIA AND HOMOPHOBIA BY A
PRISONER. HE SAID THAT GAY ISSUES AND TRANZ
NOT THE SAME AND SO HE CANT REALLY GO TO BAT FOR US
THE PUBLICATION. THEREAFTER I SENT IN AN ARTICLE ABOUT
OUR PLIGHT IN THE PRISONS FOR DECADES FOR HORMONES AND
SURGERY. NADA. THEY DID NOT RUN IT, DID NOT ACK-
KNOWLEDGE IT, DID NOT SAY "NOI" THEY JUST LEFT US
HANGING. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER REASON AND EXAMPLE OF WHY
WE NEED OUR OWN PRESS PUBLICATION, EVEN IF IT IS JUST A
ONE-PAGE FLYER. WE NEED VOICE. OUR NEXT ISSUE WILL
‘SPEAK MORE BROADLY TO THIS DEVELOPMENT. BUT WE WANT TO
USE THLS OPPORTUNITY TO ENCOURAGE ALL QUEENS IN AND OUT
OF PRISON T0 INSTIGATE YOUR OWN PUBLICATIONS, AND CREATE
A KIND OF "TRANSSEXUAL PRESS ASSOCTATION® OR SOMETHING
SIMILAR. LET US TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SEND OUT A
CALL FOR THIS VERY THING RIGHT HERE AND NOW! ANY GIRLS
OR TRANZ GROUPS WHO WANT TO TAKE ACTION IN THIS DIRECTION
GET AT US ANY TIME. YOU CAN REACH US THROUGH ME AT THIS
TIME TN OUR DEVELOPMENT, AND THAT WILL WORK. IT HAS
LONG BEEN TINE FOR THIS. THE HARDSHIPS AND PERSECUTTONS
WE FACE DAILY AND ON OUR PATH TO WOMANHOOD AND SIMPLE
HUMAN RIGHTS CREATES THE CONDITIONS FOR UNITY AND
UNIONS AMONG US, DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES. WE WILL WORK
WITH ANY GROUP OF QUEENS ON ISSUES AFFECTING OUR
LIVES. WE NEED THIS, AND TO STICK WITH IT THROUGH
THICK AND THIN, NOT WALKING AWAY OVER DIFFERENCES
BUT TALKING THEM OUT OR AGREEING TO DISAGREE OR THAT
WE ARE JUST PLAIN DIFFERENT IN SOME RESPECTS. W

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SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN IN PRISON, GENDER ANARKY
ZEEN AND COLLECTIVE, WANT TO EXTEND OUR MOST
HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO DR. LORI KHOLER, WHO
STARTED THE HORMONE PROGRAM FOR US IN THE
PRISONS (CORRECTIONAL MEDICINE CONSULTATION
NETWORK - CMCN) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SAN PRANCISCO, AND DR. CECILY COSBY, PH.D.,
FNP, THE TRANSGENDER SPECIALIST AT UCSF WHO
EVALUATES AND PRESCRIBES HORMONES FOR US VIA
TELEMEDICINE CONSULTATION. THEY ARE VERY
SPECIAL TO US AND THERE ARE NO WORDS IN ANY
LANGUAGE THAT CAN CONVEY OUR APPRICIATION.
"THANK YOU SO KINDLY! WE LOVE YOU!®

THE HORMONE PROGRAM IS A BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN
TRYING TO GET TREATMENT IN THESE PRISON FOR
DECADES. IT IS LIKE A MIRACLE! EVERYONE
TURNED US DOWN IN THE PAST - THE PRISONS,
COURTS, POLITICIANS. MANY GIRLS ARE NOW ABLE
TO GET THE PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THEIR
TRANSITION IN THE PRISONS. WE ARE ALSO GETTING
BRAS, AGAIN THANKS TO THE GENDER DOCTORS AT
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY. A LOT OF THIS STUFF
IS NOT GOING PERFECTLY AT THIS TIME (WHAT DOES
IN PRISON?), BUT WE ARE WORKING OUT THE KINKS
AND THINGS ARE GETTING SMOOTHER AS WE STRUGGLE
WITH THIS, AND TRULY ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF IT!
EVEN GIRLS IN THE HOLE ARE GETTING THEIR TELE-
MEDS AND HORMONES. WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT
THIS IN THE FUTURE.

THIS IS THE ADDRESS FOR THE CANADIAN PRISONER
SUPPORT PROJECT: PRISONER CORRESPONDENCE
PROJECT/c/0 QPIRG CONCORDIA/1455 DE MAISON-
NEOVE W./MONTREAL (QUEBEC) H3G 1M8 CANADA
GET AT THEM FOR INFO. THEY WILL GET BACK AT
YOU IN DUE TIME. REMEMBER, THEY ARE JAMMED
WITH A LOT OF REQUESTS, SO GIVE IT A LITTLE
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