About the Author

Rosalyne Blumenstein, MSW, now resides in Southern California and is working with and for:

HIV+ substance users and misusers, cancer patients, the TG communities, and she also coaches folks in need of support surrounding incremental/substantial life transformation.

In New York City Rosalyne spearheaded and implemented programs catering to the needs of people along the transgender continuum at the LGBT Center. She assisted in the development of an evening program at Housing Works, Inc. (NYC), a program dedicated to the needs of the HIV/AIDS populations that deals with homelessness and substance use and misuse issues.

Rosalyne’s work centers around, but is not limited to:

HIV Prevention and Education, Harm Reduction, Addiction and Recovery, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation, Marketing Strategies Focusing on New Programming, Outreach to the Sex and the Body Worker Populations, LGBT Communities, Communities of Color, Indigent and Disenfranchised Populations, Youth at High Risk for HIV/AIDS, other STDs, Addiction, Exploitation, and ways in which to celebrate Self-Empowerment

Rosalyne is a member of:

• The National Association of Social Workers NASW

• The National Association of Alcohol and Drug Professionals NAADAC

• Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association HBIGDA

• International Federation for Gender Education IFGE

She is a Certified Trainer with:

• The Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services

• National Development Research Institute

• Harm Reduction Training Institute/Harm Reduction Coalition on the East and West Coasts

Rosalyne co-directed ‘Safe-T-Lessons’ with Dr. Barbara Warren (1996), a film focused on HIV Prevention and Education.

Rosalyne produced and directed ‘Gender Variance Perception …YOURS/MINE/OURS,’ a film shown at the NGLTF Creating Change Conference as well as the NY Film Festival (1998).

Rosalyne produced and directed “Gender Identity Mergers and the Power of Language” for HBIGDA’s biannual conference in Galveston Texas (2001).

Rosalyne has been seen on 20/20, the A&E special ‘The Transgender Revolution,’ and Rosa Von Preunheim’s ‘The Transexual Menace.’ She assisted with the development of the films ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and ‘Southern Comfort.’

Rosalyne has been written up in the NY Times, Pride Magazine, NY Magazine, Time Out, The Advocate, The NY and Washington Blade, New Yorker Magazine, LGNY, San Francisco Frontier’s Magazine, and the Village Voice.

Rosalyne is available for lectures and speaking engagements and can be contacted at WWW.RMBLUMENSTEIN@AOL.COM