Dallas Denny (born August 18, 1949 in

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) is a writer, editor, behavior analyst, and

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rights activist.

Education

Denny holds the M.A. degree in psychology from The

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and the B.S. degree in psychology and sociology from

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. She was licensed to practice psychology in Tennessee from 1980 through the mid-1990s.

Activism

In 1990 Denny founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofit American Educational Gender Information Service (now Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc.). In the same year she started the Atlanta Gender Explorations Support Group and launched the print journal ''Chrysalis Quarterly.'' In 1993 she founded the National Transgender Library & Archive, which now resides in the Labadie Collection at The

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System. Also in the 1990s she continued the work of the Erickson Educational Foundation. She was a founder of Atlanta's transgender

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and provided start up funding, through AEGIS, for the first FTM Conference of the Americas. She was Director of the transgender conference

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for five years and from 1999-2008 editor of ''Transgender Tapestry Journal,'' published by the

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Writing

Since 1989 Denny has produced dozens of flyers, booklets, and medical advisories, contributed considerable content to ''Chrysalis,'' AEGIS' several newsletters, and ''Transgender Tapestry,'' and written a column for TG Forum. She wrote hundreds of articles for transgender community magazines and newsletters, many of which were widely reprinted and eventually placed on the internet. In 1994 her book ''Gender Dysphoria: A Guide to Research'' was the first book-length contribution to the scientific literature of transsexualism produced ''by'' a

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. Her 1998 ''Current Concepts in Transgender Identity'' reprised

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& Richard Green's text ''Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment.'' Today Denny publishes an online version of ''Chrysalis Quarterly.'' Her novel ''Chance down the Mountain'' was published in 2018 by Foundations, LLC.

Awards

Denny has received IFGE's Trinity and

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Lifetime Achievement Award and Real Life Experience's Transgender Pioneer Award.

Personal

Denny was born in Asheville, North Carolina to Ruby Lee Bradley and an unidentified father. When Dallas was about three, Richard Denny married Ruby Lee and Denny was adopted. Denny has resided in North Carolina, France, Arizona, Georgia, and Tennessee, and since 2015 has lived in the highlands of New Jersey. Marriages: Lynneda Jane Roberts Denny (1971-1976) and Heather Kay Verdui (2015-). She has three siblings, all living. She has no children.

References

*Denny, Dallas (Ed.). (1994). ''Gender dysphoria: A guide to research.'' New York: Garland Publishers. *Denny, Dallas (Ed.). (1998). ''Current concepts in transgender identity.'' New York: Garland Publishers. *Denny, Dallas. (2018).
Chance down the mountain
'' Foundations, LLC. *Green, Richard, & Money, John (Eds.). (1969). ''Transsexualism and sex reassignment.'' Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

External links

''Chrysalis Quarterly''

"Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc."

"Dallas Denny's website"
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