What does it mean to be transgender or transsexual today?

What does it mean to be transgender or transsexual today? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with activists for gender-queer rights about the cultural and legal issues facing the transgender community. The American Psychiatric Association is deciding whether or not to eliminate "gender identity disorder" as a diagnosis. How should our healthcare system and society support transgender people? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What is the place of trans people in the broader movement for LGBT liberation? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Matt Wood--staff attorney for the Transgender Law Center
Kim Pearson--co-founder and executive director of Trans Youth Family Allies

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Should America be Therapist to the World?

Has American Pyschology been exported? We'll talk with Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Does our approach to mental health make sense outside the context of the U.S.? Are we dominating the understanding of the mind? And what do the stories of psychotherapy gone wrong abroad tell us?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Has the American Psyche been exported? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Ethan Watters, author Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

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Your Call 052109 Where do you go to find wonder?

Where do you go to find wonder? On the next Your Call we discuss how to step back, get space and re-connect without becoming self-indulgent or oblivious. We'll speak with Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How can taking time to be quiet and calm actually help us engage positively in the world? What is your recipe for falling in love with life? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Winifred Gallagher in Upstate New York
Author and Journalist who has written books exploring psychology and human behavior including House Thinking, Just the Way You Are (a New York Times Notable Book), Working on God, and The Power of Place. She has written for numerous publications, such as Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. Her most recent book is RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life.

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