Just spreading the word....

Voting for the 2008 Trans Revolution Achievement And Non-Achievement
Awards (TRAANA) or otherwise known as "The Trannys" is now underway.

Go to
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/85900/2008-traanaa-tranny-awards-voting-page to vote for your favourite (or least favourite!) event, organisation,
health care professional etc for the year!

Voting closes on the 12th December.

The awards celebrations will be held:

On the 13th of December, 2008

at Dantes, 150-156 Gertrude St., Fitzroy

Doors open at 7.30pm, and event runs until 10.30-11pm

Cover charge is $7 waged, $5 concession.

The Trannys are about celebrating the joys and difficulties of trans/queer
existence with a dash of glamour, an ounce of piss-taking, and the serious
need to out the crappy transphobic institutions that make our lives hell.

By awarding prizes for transphobia, tokenism, unprofessional psychiatry,
lazy drag performances and bureaucratic nightmares, we draw attention to
the everyday discrimination many people in the GLBTQI community experience because of their gender presentation. By awarding prizes for supportive healthcare, gender-neutral bathrooms, gender-messing events and improvements in the community's treatment of transpeople, we honour the random kindnesses of strangers and the moving tide of knowledge about
trans and gender-variant people, and the growing acceptance that for most
of us humans, gender is never stable.