In case you missed it. The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Inc. (HBIGDA) has changed it’s name to The World Professional Association for Transgender Health or WPATH.

Their new address on the web is : http://www.wpath.org/

And, if you don’t know, WPATH is, in their own words:

is a professional organization devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender identity disorders.

We have approximately 500 members from around the world, in fields such as medicine, psychology, law, social work, counselling, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, voice therapy, sexology and other related fields

And, their bi-ennial symposium is in the USA this year! It’ll be held in Chicago, September 5th through September 8th at the Embassy Suites Hotel. The hotel is in downtown and a short walk to Navy Pier and Michigan Avenue. The theme for the conference is: “Looking to the Future: Environment, Transplantation, Telepsychiatry”

Here are some of what will be talked about:

• Dr. Walter Bockting on Spectrum vs Dichotomy
• Dr. Stan Monstrey – Surgery Overview and State of the Art
• Dr. Randi Ettner – Children of Transsexuals
• Dr. Richard Green – Nature versus Nurture

Surprisingly you do not have to be a physician to join. You can be on the latest cutting edge developments in the field of Gender Identity Disorder by joining as a supporting member!

Supporting membership is available to individuals who do not work in the professional disciplines listed above, but still have an interest in being an active member of the organization. Supporting membership costs $110 (US) per year, and carries no voting privileges.

Get it on the fun by visiting the WPATH site at this link HERE.

Every day we risk something.

You walk out the door you risk stepping in a pile of dog poop

You drink a cup of coffee you risk burning a few layers of flesh of your tongue

You kiss your honey and your risk your nose ring getting caught in her braces

and so it goes…

But what about those every day run of the mill disasters like a tornado? Or maybe an earthquake? Have you ever thought “gee, I wonder if I’m at risk for those today”?

Well wonder no more fair reader! I present to you the patented, “Glenn Beck Interactive
Disaster Map”. You’ll find it quite illuminating we think. Just click on over to the map by visiting this link HERE. It will take you to Glenn Beck.com where you’ll learn what YOUR risk is!

( Source data for this post courtesy of our correspondant, “The Southern Man”.  Thanks!!)

When I heard about the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund on my local talk show radio station I thought, “now this is brilliant”. You should too.

Whether you think the war in Iraq is a movement to save the free world or you think it’s about the dumbest foreign policy choice we’ve made in the past 30 years is immaterial. Our soldiers, both men and women, went to Iraq and Afghanistan because they were told to go. They did not have any choice. So they are there fulfilling a mission that I have to believe in some way makes us safer here in the United States.

And, as a result of this, some of them have died. And they died in service to our country. So here’s a way to help out some of their kids. It’s a good thing. Here’s who they are in their own words:

The Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund is the first statewide public charity for fallen military heroes. There are hundreds of servicemen and women from Massachusetts currently deployed in combat operations in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Of these brave young men and women, many have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

The Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund hopes to honor the sacrifice of Massachusetts servicemen and women who have died in combat by supporting their surviving children in all future educational endeavors. The MSL Fund supports the children of Massachusetts fallen heroes from all service branches: Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

You can visit the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fun by clicking to their site at this link here: http://mslfund.org/ The fund just sent their first kid to college. You can be a part of that too by visiting their site and supporting this good work.