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Fundación para la Identidad de Género - FIG (Foundation for Gender Identity) Andrea Planelles (President) Olga C. Baselga (Vice-President). Marina, 166-168. Bajos. 08013 Barcelona, Spain. (34) 93-245-4515. www.figinternet.org Spanish-to-English Translation The Fundación para la Identidad de Género - FIG, was created to promote a positive image of transgender / transsexual / intersex persons and thus provide Public Authorities with the knowledge and human resources they require to confront and attend their problems and needs. GID Reform is central in our thinking. We support the idea that transsexualism should not appear as a disease in DSM-V or ICD-11, since nothing but socio-cultural values and preconceptions could justify it. Considering intersex has never been regarded as a mental disease, and that transsexualism does not differ from intersex as far as Gender Identity is concerned, there are no reasons to treat both conditions differently. In Spain, given the total inexistence of specific Laws or regulations regarding Gender Identity, we have a unique and historical opportunity to promote and develop a state-of-the-art approach on this issue. We are confident that we will succeed in the making and implementation of an unprecedented clinical protocol and Gender Identity Law, both adapted to Spanish reality and in agreement with the most recent scientific findings about transsexualism as a form of intersex.

Gender Dysphoria Organization M. Lynn Bledsoe West Palm Beach, FL www.genderdysphoria.org I have struggled with the concept of being diagnosed with gender identity disorder and of the many hours of therapy that I have endured to “treat’ my “disorder” under the auspices of the DSM. I do not consider myself or others like me, as gender confused but rather having taken the steps necessary to live in my chosen gender role. I support the many individuals who are sane, intelligent and articulate professionals that consider their gender identity to also be a life choice rather than a medical disorder. I, therefore, am in total support of GID reform. Together we can illicit change to help those without a voice.

Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc. 1455 Ammons St # 100 Lakewood, Co 80215 (303) 202-6466 gicofcolo.org The GIC of Colorado advocates the reform of the GID and TF categories to serve a clear therapeutic purpose, be appropriately inclusive, and define disorder on the basis of distress or impairment and not upon social nonconformity.

GenderPAC Riki Wilchins, Executive Director 1638 R Street, NW, Suite 100 Washington, DC 20009-6446 202-462-6610 www.gpac.org GenderPAC supports the reform of Gender Identity Disorder. By "reform," we mean the removal entirely of GID as a diagnosis of gender diversity in children, and it's reform in adults seeking gender-related medical care to a non-stigmatizing physical medical condition, -- perhaps similar to pregnancy -- that is treatable and potentially reimbursable but is not a mental disease.

Lifelines Rhode Island Y. Gavriel Ansara, Executive Director 11 South Angell St. #314 Providence, RI 02906 401.369.9680 lifelinesri.org Lifelines Rhode Island exists to identify and meet the needs of transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, gender variant, and intersex (TGI) people in Rhode Island. We do this through a combination of advocacy, agency & provider training, community building, workshops, social events, outreach, and support services. We promote full equality and civil rights for people with diverse bodies and genders. This includes both people with binary man/woman gender identities and/or male/female body concepts, as well as people whose gender identities and/or body concepts do not fit within a binary model.

New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) Pauline Park, Ph.D., Chair 24 W. 25th St., 9th floor New York, NY 10010 (212) 675-3288, ext. 338 http://www.nyagra.com/ While recognizing the need to provide means by which transgendered individuals can continue to access hormones and sex reassignment surgery, the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) supports removal of the diagnosis of gender identity disorder (GID) from the DSM as part of a larger effort to de-pathologize transgender and gender variance and to advance a progressive agenda for social justice and social change.

TransgenderASIA Dr. Sam Winter. Director c/o Division of Learning, Development and Diversity, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam road, Hong Kong, S.A.R.., China web.hku.hk/~sjwinter/TransgenderASIA TransgenderASIA shares the view that transgenderism is simply one aspect of human diversity. It is a difference not a disorder. Transpeople are no more mad than they are bad or sad. While transpeople, like everyone else, may suffer problems of adjustment, those suffered by transpeople most commonly arise out of the intolerance of those around them to their transgenderism. If we can speak of any gender identity disorder at all, it is in the inability of many societies to accept the particular gender identity difference we call transgenderism.

TransYouth Family Allies Kim Pearson, Executive Director www.imatyfa.org TransYouth Family Allies is a coalition of parents, friends and caring adults dedicated to educating and raising public awareness about the medical and cultural challenges faced by children with gender variant and gender questioning identities and the families who love them. TYFA supports reform and rethinking of the ‘gender identity disorder’ diagnosis as it appears in the DSM-IV.