#ryan sallans

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Ryan Sallans

Gender: Transgender man

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1979

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, public speaker, activist

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2017 marks 12 years into my transition from female to male. The photos from 2005 were taken a month after having had top surgery and just one week after starting on testosterone. I was 25 years old when I began my transition in Nebraska. The pictures from 2017 were just taken this past week, so 12 years since top surgery and starting hormones, 11 years since a hysterectomy and oophorectomy and 9 years since completing a metoidioplasty in Belgrade, Serbia. To learn more about my own transition, see a clip from the documentary Gender Rebel, and to read my lower surgery recovery journal, visit ryansallans.com. 

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Limited Time Offer. Half-Off Book Sale.

Every year I travel the nation with books in tow. Whenever I return home, if a book has suffered bent corners or spines while packed away, I set them aside. It is time for the end-of-year half-off book sale for these little travelers. Brand new, just not perfect condition.

Purchase the comic book What's Normal Anyway? A comic about being trans male (4 available) and/or Second Son (7 available) for $9.95.

For WNA, use coupon code HALFOFFWNA For Second Son, use coupon code HALFOFFSS

at http://www.scoutpublishingllc.com/store

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Fertility Options for Transgender People

This is the last video of a 3-part series on transgender healthcare. In this video, Ryan interviews Dr. Jean Amoura on the topic of fertility options for transgender individuals. Dr. Amoura discusses both options around fertility before starting hormone therapy, and options after one begins hormone therapy when seeking genetic children.

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(via Morehead Pride Festival Expands in Second Year – Morehead Pride)

Hey Kentucky! If anyone lives near Morehead, I will be the keynote speaker at their 2nd annual Pride Festival this Saturday! I’ll be speaking in the morning and holding a book signing, and then enjoying the other entertainers throughout the day. Hope you can make it!! 

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(via 50 States, 50 Heroes | Advocate.com)

The Advocate Magazine 50 States, 50 Heroes

http://www.advocate.com/advocate50/2017/5/10/50-states-50-heroes

The Advocate magazine posted a piece yesterday on #LGBTQ 50 States, 50 Heroes. Without LGBTQ voices, advocacy, and visibility we wouldn't be where we are today. We have a lot more work to do, but folks vulnerability and tireless efforts to break down barriers has blazed many paths. Thank you Abby Swatsworth and OUTLinc - Lincoln's LGBT Community for your support and for all the work you do for the #LGBTQ community. 

It is a great honor to be listed as Nebraska's hero, while also recognizing I wouldn't be where I am or able to do the work I do without the work and paths others have laid or are maintaining. 

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For trans folk seeking hair loss prevention options - - here is a new video  that I did covering topical, supplemental, medicinal and medical options for hair loss prevention. 

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Twenty years have passed since two Falls City men murdered Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine in a shabby farmhouse on the outskirts of Humboldt.

IT'S WAYBACK WEDNESDAY:

Twenty years have passed since two Falls City men murdered Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine in a shabby farmhouse on the outskirts of Humboldt. Brandon Teena — who dated women and whose Nebraska-issued ID was marked male — was born a daughter and a sister on Dec. 12, 1972, in Lincoln and named Teena Renae Brandon. Teena's death at the hands of two men furious after they learned the guy they'd been hanging out with was born a woman gripped Nebraska and the nation, inspiring an Academy Award-winning film, a documentary, a true crime novel and countless news articles and broadcasts. But Teena's story is far from unique. “For many Americans, Brandon Teena's death was their first introduction to transgender issues, and 20 years later, we still see alarmingly high rates of violence directed toward transgender people,” said Michael Silverman, executive director of the New York-based Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. In terms of public understanding, transgender rights lag about 20 years behind the mainstream gay and lesbian movement, he said during a recent interview. Most Americans know someone who is gay or at least have an understanding of what it means to be gay, but few know a person who is openly transgender. “That makes a huge difference in the public’s understanding of what it means to be transgender. We end up seeing that reflected in much higher rates of discrimination for transgender people,” Silverman said. The dictionary definition of transgender is this: of, relating to, or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth. A recent survey of 6,450 transgender and gender non-conforming people found that 63 percent had experienced serious acts such as the loss of a job, eviction, school bullying so severe the respondent had to drop out, sexual assault or denial of medical treatment, according to a report by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality. The Trans Murder Monitoring Project recorded 1,123 homicides of trans people worldwide from 2008-12, including 69 in the United States. The actual numbers likely are higher, because many hate crimes related to sexual identity are not labeled as such and it's impossible to estimate the number of unreported cases. While the details of Brandon Teena's story have begun to fade from the public consciousness, his struggles and death continue to resonate as individuals, communities and governments struggle to understand and address issues of sexuality and gender, said Pat Tetreault, director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's LGBTQA+ Resource Center. Once, women wearing pants and working outside the home were an affront to gender roles. Now same-sex couples soon will be able to marry in 16 states, and opinion polls have shown a majority of Americans support it, something that would be almost inconceivable two decades ago. Still, many people find the issue of gender identity to be foreign. “We're a very gendered society," said Tetreault. "People like for people to conform to what they see as the two primary genders. But that is actually a very limited view of gender.” And many transgendered people are happy and healthy, she said...

Article from 29 Dec. 2013 from a small-town paper in central Nebraska. The writer also interviewed trans musician Ryan Sallans (@ryansallans), who is from nearby Aurora. Teena would have turned 45 years old last month. More about Lotter later this week; it also turns out that victim Philip DeVine was African-American but he was excluded from the Kimberley Peirce movie Boys Don't Cry. ==== @gaylor-moon