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title: "Afterword to “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves” by OBOS Founders"
date: 2024-04-02T15:17:00-04:00
author: Eva Parker Passalacqua
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Afterword to “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves” by OBOS Founders

By Wendy Sanford, on behalf of the founders of Our Bodies Ourselves • May 1, 2014

Forty-three years after the publication of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", a group of people, inspired by the book, came together to create a health advocacy resource by and for trans people.

In the afterword of the book, OBOS founders say, “In the very first, newsprint edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in 1971, we wrote about our initial efforts together: ‘We were excited and our excitement was powerful. We wanted to share both our excitement and what we were learning. We saw ourselves differently, and our lives began to change.’

Now, 42 years later, we honor the authors of "Trans Bodies, Trans Selves" for expanding this excitement, this learning, and this crucial work for social change.”

[Read the full article ](https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/how-obos-inspired-trans-bodies-trans-selves)

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