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Visible Man

Jamison "James" Green is an author and educator specializing in transgender and transsexual issues. His latest book is "Becoming a Visible Man" (2004). As an activist, he led FTM International from 1991 to 1999. He is currently chairman of Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc. (GEA, based in Atlanta), a director of the Transgender Law & Policy Institute (TLPI, based in New York City) and a director of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA, headquartered in Minneapolis). He currently serves on HBIGDA's Legal Issues Committee, chairing its Advocacy & Liaison committee, and he has been a consultant to the Standards of Care (SOC) committee. He is also a member of the Human Rights Campaign Business Council.

Mr. Green regularly conducts transgender-awareness training for corporations, law-enforcement agencies, government agencies, religious institutions, universities and colleges and professional groups. He is a frequent speaker at Pride events and various conferences around the world. He is at the forefront of the movement to redefine gender to be less constraining for everyone, and he has earned the respect and admiration of gender-conscious people everywhere because of his refusal to accept shame and discrimination as conditions of life for gender-variant people.

Mr. Green has appeared in eight documentary films, including the award-winning "You Don't Know Dick," and he has received five of the transgender community's highest awards: FTM International's Pride (1999); IFGE's Trinity (1995) and Virginia Prince (1998); the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy (ICTLEP)'s Transgender Pioneer (1995); and the Transgender San Francisco (TGSF, formerly known as ETVC) Community Leader (1996) awards. His work on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission's "Report on Discrimination Against Transgendered People" (1994) was instrumental in the 1995 implementation of legislation to protect transgendered people in the city and county of San Francisco, and it has also served as a model for countless other cities, states and countries. Mr. Green has also helped drive the effort to remove discriminatory exclusions from health-insurance policies and establish inclusive nondiscrimination policies for numerous governments, universities and corporations, earning him the title "legislative provocateur."

In addition to his work in and on behalf of the LGBT community, Mr. Green is employed in the private sector for an international financial corporation in San Francisco, where he is responsible for new product development project management and business/technical writing. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in English/Creative Writing, and has published numerous articles on transgender and sexuality issues in academic anthologies and transgender-community publications. He has also published several short stories, one of which was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is presently working on a Ph.D. dissertation in the field of law.

From 1988 through 1991, Mr. Green morphed into his male body, where he now happily resides. He turned 55 in 2003. He enjoys High Sierra backpacking, international travel and going to movies with his wife, Heidi, and daughter, Morgan.