We received this from Gender Advocacy Internet News (GAIN), the Internet news service of American Educational Gender Information Service and It's Time, America! To contact GAIN, send email to penn45@ma.ultranet.com.

[Washington, D.C. -- 18 April, 1998] After six months of deliberation, the Boards of Directors of the American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS) and It's Time, America! (ITA) have agreed to merge and form a new organization, to be named Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA). GEA will be a national organization dedicated to education and advocacy for all gender variant people. GEA will continue the educational, political and non-political advocacy functions of its two parent organizations.

GEA will consist of a 501(c)(3) policy-making Institute which will act as a 'think tank' and a 501(c)(4) Network of state chapters, which will do much of GEA's political advocacy and educational work. The Institute and Network will be linked by Bylaws and a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA), which are currently under development.

GEA's Mission and Values statements and a list of Core Functions have been completed and approved by the boards of both AEGIS and ITA.

GEA hopes to begin operations by the end of 1998.

GEA Contacts:
Dallas Denny
Executive Director
American Educational Gender Information Service, Inc. (AEGIS)
aegis@gender.org
770-939-2128

Jessica Xavier
National Director
It's Time, America!
TheXGrrrl@aol.com
(301) 949-3822, vmbox #8

Penni Ashe
Acting Media Director
It's Time, America!
penn45@ma.ultranet.com
(508) 626-8522

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