Background

Jamison Green was born on the 8th of November, 1948 in Oakland, California, United States. He was adopted when just a month, by a couple who desired a baby girl, and he was given a female first and middle name.

Education

Jamison Green received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in English and Creative Writing in 1972 from the University of Oregon where he studied from 1966 to 1972. In 2011 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Manchester Metropolitan University School of Law where he studied from 2003.

Career

At the beginning of his career, Jameson Green changed a number of jobs - a commercial voice actor, photographer, and percussionist, publications manager, and manager of publications and engineering services at two high-tech manufacturing companies, and vice president of operations at a publicly held software publishing firm.

Jameson was a Construction Cable Splicer at Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company from 1973 to 1976. Two years later he served as an Affirmative Action Representative at The Bank of California for a year. He also worked as a Publications Manager at Cooper Lasersonics in 1979-82 and as a Manager of Publications & Engineering Services at North Star Computers in 1983-86. He was Vice President of Operations for Paperback Software from 1986 to 1988, where he managed technical publications/editorial department, art department, product manufacturing, shipping and receiving, and warehouse functions. Since 1989, Jamison has been giving presentations in a variety of work environments about the fair treatment of transgender employees. For three years Jameson was an Engineering Group Manager at Sun Microsystems until 1991. He was also president of FTM International, Inc. in 1991-99.

From 1992 Green served at Visa U.S.A. / Inovant, L.L.C. as a Consulting Technical Writer for Banking/Financial, Medical Device Development and Manufacturing companies, Computer Hardware and Software Design and Manufacturing on contract with IBM, NEC at first, where he developed technical documentation for clients and wrote documents about software programs, imaging equipment, business requirements for card processing products until 1999. From 1999 he was a Technical Writing Specialist until 2005 when he was appointed Director of Technical Publications. For some time Jameson was a Consultant at Transgender Law Center in 2008 where he developed documents for Community Health programs and advised on proposed legislation and regulation language.

Dr. Green has worked as a Primary Care Protocols Manager for the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco from 2009 to 2010 and after as a Trans Health Policy Analyst and International Guidelines Manager from 2011 to 2013 and he is also president of his own small consulting firm, Jamison Green & Associates from 2007, which specializes in training and policy consulting on transsexual and transgender issues with businesses, governmental bodies, diverse professional associations, and educational institutions. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Human Sexuality Ph.D. Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco from 2014 to 2016. Currently, Green is an Owner & President of Transgender Strategies Consulting from 2018.

Green writes of surgical procedures and hormone use, problems facing parents with the decision, the loss of children and family, and the ability or inability of a partner to see the transgendered person through the long and arduous process. In 2004 he wrote Becoming a Visible Man where he draws on his own experiences during sex-changing. He also wrote Eyes in 1976.

Achievements

• Jamison Green is widely considered one of the best educators and policy advisors on transgender and transsexual issues. To date, Green's advocacy for health care reform, starting with establishing trans-inclusive health plans for employees of the City and County of San Francisco (an effort spanning the years 1994-2001), has led to millions of American workers having access to transgender-inclusive care. Jamison developed the curriculum on transgender sensitivity training that has been used since 1995 at the San Francisco Police Academy, and which has been adapted for use in other cities.
  
  The Advocate magazine named Jamison one of "our best and brightest activists" in 1999. He was the only trans man invited to speak at the Millennium March on Washington in 2000.
  
  Since 1995 Green has received awards of distinction from all of the largest established transgender organizations in the U.S. and was the first trans man to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists for his contributions to LGBT mental health (May 2009), and the first trans man to receive the Transgender Advocate award from the National LGBT Bar Association for his contributions to legislative advocacy and litigation strategy on behalf of trans people worldwide (August 2009). Jamison Green was nominated to Pushcart Prize in 1984 for one of his short stories.

Works

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  • Becoming a Visible Man

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    2004

Membership

Jamison Green served as President-Elect of the board of directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health from 2011 to 2014, and its President from 2014 to 2016 and he volunteers with several other nonprofit educational organizations, including Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and the Transgender Law & Policy Institute. Green was a member of the Human Rights Campaign Business Council until late 2007 and a board member of the Equality Project, an advisory board member of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

• Human Rights Campaign Business Council , United States

  2007

• World Profesional Association for Transgender Health , United States

  2003 - 2018

• President-Elect of the board of directors

  World Professional Association for Transgender Health , United States

  2011 - 2014

• President

  World Professional Association for Transgender Health , United States

  2014 - 2016

Personality

Jamison Green was athletic and excelled in sports as a girl, but he was often ridiculed for his masculine appearance. At age fifteen, he began to use the androgynous name "Jamie," and by the time he reached his early twenties, he suspected that he was transsexual but was afraid to undergo a sex change, believing that it would be an indication of mental imbalance.

By the time he was in his early 20's, James knew he was probably transsexual, but he was afraid to obtain treatment because he believed the social mythology that one must be seriously psychologically imbalanced to perform such a radical act as changing sex, and he did not want to risk losing all his social support. By the time he was in his mid-30's, he knew he was "not going to grow up to be a woman," and he realized that he was going to have to choose between seeking treatment for transsexualism or becoming debilitated by his incapacity to take on the social role of an adult woman.

James has been legally male since April 1991, and his birth certificate was corrected and reissued at that time.

Connections

Green was living openly as a lesbian in a long-term relationship, with one child by donor insemination and another on the way (James' partner gave birth to both children, and he was named as father on their birth certificates, even though both children were born before James was legally male).

Jamison's partner ended their relationship in 1989, but he maintained contact with her (she passed away in 2008 due to complications of breast cancer), and he has excellent relationships with his children.

In October 2003, Jamison married Ms. Heidi A. Bruins (now Ms. Heidi B. Green), a corporate finance training consultant and a long-time political activist committed to ending racism and homophobia. Together they have dedicated themselves to working for social justice and making the world a better place for everyone.

Wife:

Heidi (Bruins) Green