I'm JoAnn Roberts

...the owner of Creative Design Services and a partner in 3-D Communications, Inc.

CDS went online on the WWW in September of 1994, thanks to the kindness of Tina in Norway. I started designing this site in December of 1994, and it went online in mid-April 1995. The purpose was to provide a complete Online Resource Guide for the transgender community. That's what my business, CDS, is all about, information and resources.

In January of 1996, I entered into a partnership with Cindy Martin of Transgender Forum and Jamie Faye Fenton (transgender.org). Together we're called 3-D Communications, Inc., and our aim is to develop the single largest transgender resource on the World Wide Web.

My piece of the "action" is the Transgender Forum Resource Center where you'll find information that's just not available anywhere else, like the Bill of Gender Rights, In Your Face, the most current and up to date list of support groups nationally and worldwide plus an Event Calendar second to none.

There are also vendors over in the Shopping Mall (including my CDS Bookstand). You'll be able to view their products and order all sorts of goodies from them. CDS stands for integrity doing business with the community and so will the vendors you find there. You will not be ripped off! My reputation is at stake, too.
Got a suggestion for information you'd like to see here? Email your comments to me.
Now, at little about me and CDS.
CDS is the only commercial publisher of non-erotic, self-help information for the transgender community in the U.S. I've been in business for ten years now and it is what I do to make my living. It all started with Art & Illusion: A Guide To Crossdressing and my business just kinda "growed".
I am a co-founder of the Renaissance Education Assoc., Inc., the largest open-membership organization for transgendered people in the U.S.
I am a member of the board of the American Educational Gender Information Service (AEGIS) and I've served on the board of directors of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) twice. I am a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (Quad-S), and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS).
I also do commercial graphic design and layout for large and small clients. I've done work for Fortune 100 clients. I've created two mini posters just for this page. If you have commercial design and printing needs, let me know and I'll give you a quote.

I am a crossdresser, 45+ years old, married to the same woman for over twenty-five years, and have two children. My family is extremely supportive of my activities on behalf of the TG community. I am not a transsexual or a transgenderist. I do not crossdress full-time.
Among my other accomplishments are: Co-founder of the Congress of Transgender Organizations; co-founder of the Transgender Alliance for Community; co-founder of the GenderPAC; author of A Bill of Gender Rights; associate editor of Cross-Talk magazine; associate editor of Renaissance News & Views; and editor/publisher of LadyLike magazine. And, just in case you get the feeling I might be too stuffy, please understand that I am also part Drag Queen and proud of it.
I lecture at many local colleges and universities about transgender issues. I have been honored to be a Special Editor for the college textbook Becoming A Sexual Person, 2nd Edition edited by Dr. Robert Francoeur (MacMillan, 1991). I have been quoted in Prof. Marjorie Garber's Vested Interests (Routledge, 1993) and acknowledged in the Drs. Bullough's Cross Dressing, Sex and Gender (Univ. of Penna. Press, 1994). I've appeared on Donahue (twice), Sonia (CNN) and local television shows in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.

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