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Show WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 dixiesunnew$.com:T CHANGE continued from page 2 researchers must extrapolate from other, smaller surveys. In 20 1 , Gary Gates, research director at UCLA's Williams Institute, which is devoted to public policy questions related to gender identity and sexual orientation, estimated that three of every 1,000 U.S. adults are at least 100 transgender times the presumed rate in the 1980s. Figuring out how many transgender people serve in the military is even harder, because they can be kicked out if they reveal themselves. Were working largely in a vacuum, Gates said. His estimates are based on demographic tweaks to the results of a 2008 nationwide survey of more than 6,500 transgender people that was conducted by activist groups. Among those assigned male at birth, Gates found that 32 percent had seived in the military, compared with 20 percent of men in the general population who had served. For those assigned female 1 r if r Cm - SSuS :V ! j , .. , 51 - f !"i - V - - " , " V Jfe. w A ..Jii 1 i tr. P 4 . y n 1 V N t- ii La n' ' y i' 1 v ,' '''' - Students and community members watch a film during DOCUTAH 201 3 This year, DOCUTAH feature 77 films and several seminars on filmmaking from Sept 8 to Sept 1 2 FILMS continued from page ' 1 and its focused on what teachers and students did in the Civil Rights Movement, Hunt said. For sports lovers, Hunt said In Football We Trust directed by Erika Cohn is an inspiring and mov-- 1 ing documentary about the story of the Polynesian pipeline to the NFL. Films West 4th Street: Portrait of a Park directed by Simeon Soffer, Ethan Sprague and Gerry Mckean, and Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco directed by Maria Walton are also about sports. People who love sports and wonderful personal stories of triumph and striving will really enjoy meeting with these film makers, Hunt said. Hunt said those interested in crime and justice will be interested in attending the seminar on Thursday. One of the films is called Once Upon a Crime. Its the story involving crooked cops, the mafia godfather, murder, public poisoning, Elvis Presley, prison gang leaders, and a cocaine addicted newspaper editor, Hunt said. Its just a crazy, wonderful film. Hunt said a lot of these films will go to HBO and PBS but we in the community get to see them first. On Friday, Hunt said the seminar will open at noon with a presentation of colors and a moment of silence. The film "Tour of Honor" will then be shown that was produced by brothers, Kyle and Carlos Plummer. Its a really emotional documentary about a group of 21 World War II, Korean and Vietnam vets who have flown back to Washington D.C. to see their memorials, Hunt said. Kyle Plummer, a fresh - r will man communication major from Cambria, California, said he wanted to study filmmaking when he was 3 years old because he saw Star Wars and he knew he wanted to do something like that. Documentaries are a great way to do something with a little to no budget and still tell a great story, Plummer said. Students and the community will have these documentaries to enjoy and many more this week at DOCUTAH. When students attend DOCUTAH, theyre getting more than just the standard education, Tuckett said. Theyre getting the enhanced enlightening of the whole world of knowledge that can be found in documentary films. For a complete list and schedule of all the films and seminars at DOCUTAH, visit docutah.com. at birth, that figure was 5.5 percent, compared with 1.7 percent of all women. Other measures suggest even bigger differences between transgender people and the rest of the population in terms of military service. In 2011, nearly 23 out of every 1 00,000 patients in the VA system had a diagnosis of gender identity disorder, which is used to describe gender identity issues that lead to significant levels of psychological distress and has been associated with high suicide risk. Thats five times the rate in the general population. Browns theory has been a topic of debate among activists and researchers. Although most say it has validity, some worry that its simplicity undermines the full humanity of transgender people. It dehumanizes the community and reduces it to this narrative, said Jake Eleazer, a transgender veteran and doctoral student in psychology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He and others point out that there are many reasons transgender people join the military: adventure, money for college, family tradition and other factors that attract all recruits. They also say it is possible that transgender people are more likely to have certain traits or skills that draw them to seivice, or that on the whole they are socioeconomically disadvantaged, discriminated against or rejected by their families in a way that leaves them few other options. But there is not enough data to test those ideas. The presence of transgender people in the military has become one of the governments most powerful arguments for lifting the ban. Transgender men and women in uniform have been there with us, even as they often had to serve in silence alongside their fellow comrades in arms, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in a July statement announcing that the Pentagon would review the ban starting with the premise that it should be rescinded. (c)2015 Tribune Content Agency. |