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Transcending Boundaries grew out of a project of BiNet USA, one of two national bisexual organizations. Throughout the 1990's, BiNet helped bisexual activists around the country organize on a local level. They sponsored regional conferences, including one in the Connecticut/New Jersey/New York tri-state region.

In 2000, BiNet abandoned its regional focus and became more centralized. Those in attendance at the 2000 tri-state conference voted to continue the conference independently from BiNet USA and to hold the next year's conference in New Haven, Connecticut.

The organizing committee for the 2001 conference decided to expand the scope of the conference in two ways: to expand the geographical reach of the conference to include the entire Northeast, and to include transgender and intersex issues as well as bisexual issues in the conference theme. The name Transcending Boundaries reflects this expanded scope, as well as the fact that bisexuals, transgendered persons, and intersexed persons do not fit into the simple categories of gay/straight, man/woman, and male/female.

Transcending Boundaries, the organization, was founded to organize a yearly conference based on this expanded vision: a Northeast regional conference for bisexual, transgendered, and intersexed people and our allies.

The first conference was a great success, with over 200 people in attendance - as many as at the largest of the BiNet tri-state conferences. More impressive still was the rapid transformation from a bisexual conference targeting a small region to a bisexual, transgender, intersex conference including a much larger region. In fact, there were attendees from all over the Northeast, including a good mix of bisexual and transgendered people.

Many of those who attended that conference reported feeling that it was the first place they had ever felt fully accepted for who they were. This shows immediate progress toward the organization's goal of breaking down the stigma that exists against bisexual, transgendered, and intersexed people.

Transcending Boundaries held its second annual conference in New Britain, Connecticut, in October 2002. The conference included two nationally known speakers (Robyn Ochs, editor of the international Bisexual Resource Guide and Raven Kaldera, an intersexed female-to-male transsexual activist), seventeen different workshops, a community meeting, and a cabaret featuring the well-known all-female band, Sister Funk.

Transcending Boundaries third annual conference was held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

In November 2005, Transcending Boundaries combined its forces with the America's Conference on Bisexuality to hold its fourth conference in East Hartford, Connecticut. The conference included twenty-two different workshops, a community meeting, and a performance featuring the young bisexual Chinese-American woman and folk-punk singer / guitarist, Magdalen Hsu-Li.

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