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  1. Interview Olivia Hnlicka

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hnlicka, Olivia
    Date: Jan. 14, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Appearance, Assigned gender, Beauty standards, Butches, Capitalism, Cisgender people, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Death and dying, Depression, Drag, Family members, Femininities, Femmes, Gay community, Gender identity, Hair, Hair--Removal, Heterosexuality, HIV/AIDS, Homeless people, Homelessness, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Masculinities, Medicalisation, MtFs, Passing (Gender), Religions, Sexual orientation, Sexual practices, Sexuality, Soft butches, Suburbs, Suicide, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Travel, White people
    Subject: About Face Youth Theatre, Annoyance Theatre, Bear Culture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Coed Prison Sluts, Crusty Girl, Vogue Magazine
    Description: Olivia Hnilicka identifies as a white queer transgender woman and was assigned male at birth. Her mother was an elementary school teacher before she had her and her five brothers. She was born in R...
  2. Interview with Aidan Key

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Jenkins, Andrea, Key, Aidan
    Date: Jan. 23, 2016
    Topics: Coming out, FtMs, Gender-affirming care, Genderfluid identity, Genderqueer people, Hormones, Leather community, Lesbian culture, LGBTQ+ bars, Racism, Transgender activism
    Subject: Aidan Key, Creating Change, Gender Odyssey, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Aidan Key is a white gender fluid trans man raised in the United States. At the time of this interview, Key was living and working in Washington as an educator and an organizer. In this oral histor...
  3. Interview with Amanda Beech

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Beech, Amanda
    Date: Mar. 3, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Assigned gender, Bullying, Change of name, Cheerleading, Clothing, Coming out, Electrolysis, Family members, Femininities, Friendship, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hairdressers, Health insurance, Hormones, Jews, LGBTQ+ partners, Medical care, Middle West, MtFs, Nineteen fifties, Nineteen sixties, Nineteen thirties, Older people--Education, Orgasm, People with disabilities, Religions, Self-acceptance, Sexual practices, Whites--Race identity, World war II
    Subject: Cullan Markland, Donna Ewing, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Amanda is a white trans woman. At the time of this interview, Amanda was living in Ellendale, Minnesota. In this oral history, Amanda discusses her experiences of gender non-conformity in the years...
  4. Interview with Andrew Ahl

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ahl, Andrew, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Jul. 1, 2016
    Topics: Air force, Army, Atheism, Bartending, Bathrooms, Christianity, Coming out, Depression, Discrimination, Divorce, Drag, Drag performance, Employment, Families, Family relationships, FtMs, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health care, Hormones, Internet, Love, Marriage, Middle West, Military, Parents of transgender people, Religion, Sex, Spiritual life, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Whites--Race identity, Work
    Subject: Andrew Ahl, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, National Security Administration, Target Corporation, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Andrew (Drew) Ahl is a white trans man. At the time of this interview, Ahl was living and working in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In this oral history, Ahl recounts growing up in a religious military...
  5. Interview with Ani Koch

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Koch, Ani
    Date: Jan. 6, 2017
    Topics: Bullying, Butches, Celebrities, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Drag, Drag performance, Education, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health care, Health insurance, Lesbians, Marriage, Masculinities, Middle West, Monogamy, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Social exclusion, Soft butches, Sports, Tomboys, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Rainbow Health Initiative, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ani Koch is a white genderqueer person from Dubuque, Iowa. They talk about their experiences at school growing up, coming to better understand their gender, and their experience with and thoughts o...
  6. Interview with Anne Hodson

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Hodson, Anne, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: May 19, 2016
    Topics: Coming out, Drag, Education, Employment discrimination, Friendships, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Hormones, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Love, Marines, Marriage, MtFs, Partners of transgender people, Politics, Sex, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, White LGBTQ+ people, Work
    Subject: Anne Hodson, Program in Human Sexuality, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Anne Hodson is a white transsexual woman who was born and raised in Minneapolis. In this oral history, she shares her experiences negotiating her gender identity from an early age, eventually diggi...
  7. Interview with Ashley Finch

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Finch, Ashley
    Date: Apr. 5, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, Alcoholism, Antidepressants, Anxiety disorders, Art, Assigned gender, Bipolar disorder, Bullying, Change of name, Cisgender people, Coming out, Depression, Education, Families, Family relationships, Gender identity, Gender studies, Gender-affirming care, Gender-nonconforming people, Homosexuality, Hormones, Language, LGBTQ+ parents, LGBTQ+ visibility, Marriage, Mental health, Middle West, MtFs, Politics, Race, Racism, Religion, Religions, Schools, Self-mutilation, Sexism, Siblings, Social movements, Spiritual life, Spirituality, Substance abuse, Suicidal behavior, Therapies, Transgender people, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Augsburg College, El Sontule, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), Global Center of Education, Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Sandinista Campaign, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ashley Finch is a white trans femme person from Saint Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this oral history, Finch was working as an artist based in the Twin Cities. In this oral history, Finch speaks ...
  8. Interview with Ashley Meyers

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Meyers, Ashley
    Date: Jan. 13, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Adolescence, Assigned gender, Chromosomes, Contraception, Disability awareness, Discrimination against people with disabilities, Dyslexia, Education, Educators, Endocrinology, Estrogen--Therapeutic use, Family members, Family relationships, Gender identity, Genitals, Health, Hormone therapy, Hormones, Human growth, Intersex community, Intersex people, Learning difficulties, Medical care, Medicalisation, Menstruation, Middle West, Normalization, Puberty, Turner's syndrome, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Intersex Organization of North America, Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis, Orson Wells, The Grapes of Wrath, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ashley Meyers is a white intersex woman. She talks about growing up and being diagnosed with a non-verbal learning disorder. She shares her experience being diagnosed and receiving treatment/medica...
  9. Interview with Ben Singer

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Singer, Ben
    Date: Nov. 24, 2017
    Topics: Abuse, Activism, Activists, Bullying, Butches, Change of name, Coming out, Drag performance, DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), Education, Family members, Feminism, FtMs, Gender diversity, Gender dysphoria, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender-affirming care, Health, Health care, Health insurance, Hormones, Intersectionality (Sociology), LGBTQ+ relationships, Masculinities, Medical care, Middle West, Nineteen eighties, Oppression, Privilege (Social psychology), Public health, Race, Racism, Rural development, Sexual abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Social movements, Soft butches, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Violence, Whites--Race identity
    Subject: Bridges to Coalition: A Community Forum on Trans Issues, Transgender Health Action Coalition, Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
    Description: Ben Singer is a white trans guy from Illinois. He talks about how rural identity and class shaped his idea of gender, and his research on transgender identity. He talks about his experience in the ...
  10. Interview with Billie Sage Ashton

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Ashton, Billie Sage, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Apr. 2, 2016
    Topics: Activists, Children, Divorce, Legal name, Marriage, MtFs, Roman catholicism, Sexuality
    Subject: Be All, Billie Sage Ashton, City of Lakes Crossgender Community (CLCC), Delta Airlines, Southern Comfort Conference, Wild Side
    Description: Billie Sage Ashton describes her early life as a skinny child who liked to play sports. Billie grew up in the 1960 and 70s in Austin, MN. She came out in the 1980s and became involved with the City...
  11. Interview with Brawen Zakariasen

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Zakariasen, Brawen
    Date: Mar. 21, 2017
    Topics: Bisexuality, Bullying, Child abuse, Divorce, Drag, Emotional incest, Family members, Gender diversity, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Homophobia, Marriage, Monogamy, MtFs, Psychological abuse, Self-destructive behavior, Sexual abuse, Transgender people, Video games industry, Violence
    Subject: Center for Sexual Health at the University of Minnesota, William S. Burroughs
    Description: Branwen Zakariasen identifies as a monogamous queer trans woman and was assigned male at birth. She has one older sister. She took her wife’s last name to fully express how meaningful her wife and ...
  12. Interview with Calum Evoniuk

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Evoniuk, Calum, Jenkins, Andrea
    Date: Oct. 15, 2016
    Topics: Coming out, FtMs, Gender identity, Language, Rural areas, Transgender people
    Subject: Calum Evoniuk, Dismantling Walls Conference, Ryan Sallans
    Description: Cal Evoniuk shares his story at the Dismantling Walls Conference at North Dakota State University. Evoniuk identifies himself as male. In this oral history, Evoniuk shares his experience of growing...
  13. Interview with Chad Pitts

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Pitts, Chad
    Date: Oct. 15, 2016
    Topics: Acceptance, Coming out, Gender identity, LGBTQ+ partners, Sexual orientation, Social norms, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Dismantling Walls Conference, GPACC Dismantling Walls Conference
    Description: Chad Pitts identifies as a straight transgender man assigned female at birth. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona and now lives in Fargo, North Dakota as a student at NDSU, North Dakota State Universit...
  14. Interview with CJ Vondal

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Vondal, CJ
    Date: Oct. 15, 2016
    Topics: Gender diversity, Gender identity, Genderfluid identity, Lesbians, Polycystic ovary syndrome, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Description: CJ Vondal identifies as a trans man who was assigned female at birth. They were born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota where they still live. At the time of their interview, they were a fresh...
  15. Interview with Cressida Silver

     
    Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Silver, Cressida
    Date: Jan. 31, 2017
    Topics: Appearance, Artificial insemination, Assigned gender, Augmentation mammaplasty, Children of lesbians, Children of transgender people, Clothing, Coming out, Crossdressing, Demonstrations, Divorce, Families, Gender identity, Hormone therapy, Isolation, Lesbians, Marriage, Pornography, Pregnancy, Sex industry, Sports, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Transsexual people, Verbal abuse
    Subject: Caitlyn Jenner, Chelsea Manning, Mara Keisling, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), National Geographic, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
    Description: Cressida Silver identifies as a lesbian transgender woman and was assigned male at birth. She grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and she has sisters. She realized from the young age of 4 or 5 that she...