Dallas DennyDallas Denny (born August 18, 1949 in Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville, North Carolina

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 is a writer, editor, behavior analyst, and leader in the transgender

Transgender

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 rights movement.

Education and Professional

Denny holds the M.A. degree in psychology from The University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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 and the B.S. degree in psychology and sociology from Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University, commonly abbreviated as MTSU, is a public university located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States....

. She was licensed to practice psychology in Tennessee from 1980 through the mid 1990s.

Activism

In 1990 Denny founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service (now Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc.). In the same year she started the Atlanta Gender Explorations Support Group and launched the print journal Chrysalis Quarterly. In 1993 she founded the National Transgender Library & Archive, which now resides in the Labadie Collection at The University of Michigan Library

University of Michigan Library

The University of Michigan University Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of the largest university library systems in the United States. The system, consisting of 19 separate libraries in 11 buildings, altogether holds over 9.55 million volumes, with the collection growing at the rate of...

 System. She was a founder of Atlanta's transgender Southern Comfort Conference

Southern Comfort Conference

The Southern Comfort Conference is a major transgender conference that takes place annually in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1991. It features seminars, events, speeches by prominent people in the LGBT community, numerous vendors catering to transgender and transsexual people, and more, and is known as...

 and provided start up funding, through AEGIS, for the first FTM Conference of the Americas. She was Director of the transgender conference Fantasia Fair

Fantasia fair

Fantasia Fair or FanFair is a major week-long conference for transgender people and cross-dressers, held every October in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a small Portuguese fishing village and largely gay and lesbian tourist village on the very tip of Cape Cod.At its inception in 1975, Fantasia Fair...

 for five years and from 1999-2008 editor of Transgender Tapestry Journal, published by the International Foundation for Gender Education

International Foundation for Gender Education

International Foundation for Gender Education is an American non-profit transgender advocacy organization founded in 1987 and devoted to "overcoming the intolerance of transvestitism and transsexualism brought about by widespread ignorance."...

.

Writing

Since 1989 Denny has produced dozens of flyers, booklets, and medical advisories, contributed considerable content to Chrysalis, AEGIS' several newsletters, and Transgender Tapestry, and written a column for TG Forum. She wrote dozens of articles for transgender community magazines and newsletters, many of which were widely reprinted and eventually placed on the internet. In 1994 her book Gender Dysphoria: A Guide to Research was the first book-length contribution to the scientific literature of transsexualism produced by a transsexual. Her 1998 Current Concepts in Transgender Identity reprised John Money

John Money

John William Money was a psychologist, sexologist and author, specializing in research into sexual identity and biology of gender...

 & Richard Green's

Richard Green (sexologist)

Richard Green is an American sexologist, psychiatrist, lawyer, and author specializing in homosexuality and transsexualism, specifically gender identity disorder in children. Green is the founding editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior , and served as Editor until 2001...

text Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment. Today Denny publishes an online version of Chrysalis Quarterly.

Awards

Denny has received IFGE's Trinity and Virginia Prince Lifetime Achievement Award and Real Life Experience's Transgender Pioneer Award.

External links

• Chrysalis Quarterly
• http://www.gender.org Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc.]
• National Transgender Library & Archive