Stephanie Castle

Stephanie Castle is an author and an activist based in British Columbia, Canada. Previous to her career of writing and activism, she was a naval officer, a marine insurance underwriter and a real-estate developer . She became and author and activist of transsexualism after her retirement and has since published many books on the topic. In addition she is the founder and president of the trans advocacy group in British Columbia, The Zenith Foundation and the periodicals The Zenith Digest. Castle has also written an autobiography discussing her lived experiences in becoming a trans woman.
Books
Stephanie Castle has written books such as " Feelings: A Transsexual's Explanation of a Baffling Condition", "Prisoner of Gender", "The Dual Alliance", "The Zenith Experience: Encounters & Memoirs in a Transgender Setting" and " guidelines: a manual for Transsexual and their caregivers".
Feelings: A Transsexual's Explanation of a Baffling Condition. Stephanie Castle 1992, Perceptions Press (B.C.). This is a memoire that Castle wrote about her transformation into a trans woman and how she perceives this ‘enigma’ of transsexualism. She also highlights her own personal experiences with friends and family during the process of her transition .
Prisoner of gender: a transsexual and the system a book written by Stephanie Castle and Katherine Johnson in 1997, speaks about the life of transsexuals in prisons and the imprisonment they feel internally caused by the harassment and injustice they live through caused by a system that makes uninformed and heartless decisions on behalf of transgendered people. It re-iterates the point that trans people want the basic and fundamental rights as everyone does. To live a safe and harassment free life, where their rights are not denied .
The Zenith Foundation
The Zenith Foundation is an advocacy group that aims to improve the lives of transsexual and transgendered peoples. This group founded in 1992 in British Columbia is the first anti-violence advocacy group for Transsexuals to come out of Vancouver . The objective is “to work toward improving the security and circumstances of people with gender dysphoria and to educate and advocate on behalf of Canadian transsexual communities or individuals . Along with creating literature to educate, with the help of Vancouver Hospital Gender Dysphoria Clinic, the organization worked to improve the physical and psychological health of trans people.. Therefore leaving many trans people unaccounted for. The Zenith Foundation has participated in the recommendation of adding gender in the legislation in the belief that this kind of recognition will improve the lives of trans people and in saying that “ the adoption of gender identity as a prohibited ground will not silence the attacks, but will blunt them in much the same way that has happened with sexual orientation”.. Kavanagh won the right to have the surgery and make the move and Stephanie Castle commented that “she will be a woman in a women's prison, to that extent, she will no longer be a misfit.”. Since 1994, they offer gender sensitivity training sessions to various service locales, and provide a safe space for trans people to get support and resources to either cope with or to prevent HIV and AIDs, among many other services.<ref name=highrisk/>

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