TG Center Survey Results
At the end of 2009, TFA moved the TG Center from it’s location at 713 Fargo to a temporary location at the Havens Center. The TFA Board is about to make a decision about the future of a Transgender Center in Houston. The TFA Board is looking at several options. Some of the options the TFA Board is reviewing with regard the TG Center are: A.) Houston should do away with the whole idea...
Read MoreAdd your voice: A Houston TG Center?
The TFA Board will be meeting this month and one of the things the Board will discuss is the short-term and long-term future for a transgender center in Houston. Before going further with this post, I want to address a criticism of the very idea of a TG Center in Houston. The criticism goes something like this, ”Why spend all that money on a center when it could go to help pay for...
Read MoreTFA Board Member Radio Interview: Myra Ical
This is an interview of TFA Board member, Lou Weaver from the IndyMedia Radio program on 90.1 KPFT Houston from Friday, January 29, 2010. The interview is about the murder of Myra Ical, a Houston transgender woman who was initially slandered by local media. Lou talks about Myra’s life and death, the media response and the unprecedented reaction by the...
Read MoreTFA Director Meets With National Representatives
On Monday, February 1, 2010, a group of community leaders met with Congresswoman and Subcommittee Chair Sheila Jackson Lee, Congressman and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr., Congressman Steve Cohen and Mayor Lee Brown at College of Nursing at Prairie View A&M. The meeting was organized by Sheila Jackson Lee to ensure that the community could voice their concerns...
Read MoreMyra Ical: An Update
Photos Videos Developments Below are developments and will be updated as new information becomes available. Houston Murder Victims It was reported that over the past decade that the Houston area has suffered 7 unsolved transgender murders. With the assistance of a reporter from the Houston Chronicle, it was discovered that 2 of the murders had been resolved...
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