Anne Ogborn (born 1959) is a transgender rights activist from Salina, Kansas. According to Patrick Califia she "should be credited as a forerunner of transgender direct action groups."[1] She is a software engineer[2] known for her contributions to SWI-Prolog.[3]
Anne Ogborn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Salina, Kansas |
| Occupation(s) | Transrights Activist and Software Engineer |
| Known for | Founder of Kansas City Gender Society and Transgender Nation. |
| Notable work | Coordinated Camp Trans and early participant and organizer of the New Womens Conference |
Transgender activism
editOgborn was an early practitioner of direct action in support of transgender rights.[1] For instance, in 1991, transsexual woman Nancy Burkholder was expelled from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a preeminent lesbian event. Ogborn coordinated a direct action, Camp Trans, to protest the transphobia of the festival leaders.[1]
The first transsexual organization that Ogborn founded was KCGS, the Kansas City Gender Society. Ogborn started Transgender Nation,[4] the transgender focus group of Queer Nation in San Francisco which included a new transgender caucus to fight transphobia in local debates.[5] In 1993, Ogborn and Transgender Nation members protested the American Psychiatric Association's listing of transsexualism as a psychiatric disorder, and medical colonization of transsexual people's lives.[6]
Ogborn was an early participant and organizer of the New Womens Conference, a retreat for post-operative transsexual women. She edited its newsletter, "Rights of Passage", which would later become the Transsexual News Telegraph.[7] Her involvement with the New Womens Conference informed much of her later work.
Ogborn joined the Hijra community[8] in 1994, claiming to be the first westerner to join the religious out-group.[9]
She continues her activism for transgender and human rights.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Patrick Califia (18 September 2013). Sex Changes: Transgender Politics. Cleis Press. pp. 274–. ISBN 978-1-57344-892-5.
- ^ Dan Levy; David Tuller (May 28, 1993). "Transgender People Coming Out - Opening Up the World of Drag". San Francisco Chronicle. p. A1.
- ^ SWI-Prolog. "SWI-Prolog Profile for user Anne Ogborn". SWI-Prolog. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Sharon E. Preves (Fall 2005). "Out of the O.R. and Into The Streets: Exploring the Impact of Intersex Media Activism". Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender.
- ^ a b Stryker, Susan (2008). Transgender history. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-224-5. OCLC 183914566.
- ^ Green, Jamison (August–September 1993). "An FTM with IFGE at the APA". GenderFlex. III (18): 5–6. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-04-02 – via Digital Transgender Archive.
- ^ "Editorial Expanding Our Focus". Transsexual News Telegraph. 3: 1–2. January 1992.
- ^ Brown, Candice (1998), "Indian Hijras to Visit United States", Transgender Tapestry, archived from the original on March 5, 2016, retrieved August 4, 2016
- ^ Anne, Ogborn (1995), "Hermaphrodites with Attitudes" (PDF), Intersex Society of North America, archived (PDF) from the original on August 22, 2022, retrieved August 22, 2022
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