Jamison Green: Where Are All The Trans Men? | LGBTQ+ Elders Project

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jamison Green has spent his career fighting to make the healthcare world a safer, more accessible place for transgender people.

He talks about the seeming invisibility of trans men, gives the best explanation I've ever heard for why people feel threatened by gender nonconformity, and talks about coming into his bisexuality in his 50s. Jamison is the former president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association) and the author of the very excellent memoir, Becoming A Visible Man. He was born in 1948.

This interview is part of our new LGBTQ+ Elders Project. You can also listen to our recent interview with Harvey Fierstein.

LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. A condensed transcript of each week's interview is posted on The Advocate's website in the afternoon (or earlier, if I get enough coffee). Follow us on Twitter: @lgbtqpod

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0:00.0	From The Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and today I'm
0:08.5	talking to Jameson Green.
0:10.7	He is an author and the past president of the World Professional Association for Transgender
0:16.2	Health.
0:17.3	He has spent the large part of his career writing about transgender health policy, and that
0:22.7	work has been used to lay the groundwork for anti-discrimination practices at insurance
0:27.5	companies and in other health care settings.
0:30.6	His scope and scale of his work is really hard to overstate.
0:35.3	And also worth noting, he's trans. That's important to say because on the whole, we hear relatively little from trans men.
0:42.3	And maybe that's the wrong way to phrase it, right?
0:45.3	It's not that we don't hear from trans men, it's that we don't let them speak.
0:49.3	We don't platform them in the way we do trans women.
0:52.3	So today we talk about that, about why trans men are seemingly so invisible in our community.
0:59.7	We talk about why gender nonconformity makes people feel like they're being threatened.
1:03.9	And we also talk about his book, which blew me away, that is called Becoming a Visible Man.
1:10.4	So without further ado, this is LGBTQ&A with Jamison Green.
1:19.6	So I'm really interested in and want to talk about the community of trans men that you were part of in the 80s.
1:29.5	This was in San Francisco.
1:31.5	But before we talk about that, what was your first exposure to transness and specifically to trans men?
1:38.8	I saw Steve Dane on television.
1:42.2	Steve Dane was the most famous trans man in the world until René Richards
1:47.3	transitioned, which happened the day after his story made it to the front page of the New York
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