JAMISON GREEN is a writer, educator, and advocate on behalf of gender-variant people. He is an internationally known champion for civil rights, social safety, and healthcare access for trans-sexual and transgendered people, whose ground-breaking work on San Francisco civic ordinances and personnel policies has served as a model for countless similar efforts around the world. He contributes a monthly opinion column to the planetout.com web site, and has published essays in several anthologies from academic presses.

JUDITH HALBERSTAM is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at UC San Diego. She is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995) and Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1999), and co-author, with Del LaGrace Volcano, of The Drag King Book (Serpent’s Tail, 1999). Halberstam is currently working on a book about queer subcultures called What’s that Smell?

THOMAS MICHAEL KENNARD was born and raised female in Indianapolis, Indiana, and came of age in the "N.O.W./E.R.A./burn-your-bra" years. He lived as a queer, feminist, butch dyke for 20+ years before making the decision five years ago to take hormones and transition to male. He now identifies as a transman or FTM and struggles to integrate his queer, lesbian feminist iden-tity with his new straight, white male identity — something his feminist politics never prepared him for. He is currently a Co-Chair of the organization Transmen’s Alliance Against Racism.

JOAN ROUGHGARDEN is Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and author of five books and over 120 papers in academic journals. She founded and directed the Earth Systems Program at Stanford. Her current research links ecology with economic theory. Her most recent book is Evolution’s Rainbow, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People (Princeton UP, 2002).

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MAX COHEN is a 17-year-old radical white gender-queer activist and spoken word poet.

JULIE COX is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UCSC and co-coordinator of the Queer Theory Research Cluster.

KALE FAJARDO is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UCSC and works at Global Exchange, a human rights organization in San Francisco.

SHAWN HAYWARD is a gender-queer scholar and activist and a Ph.D. candidate in History of Consciousness at UCSC. He is the founder of Transgendered New Mexico.

SCOTT MORGENSEN recently received his PhD in Anthropology and Women’s Studies