Martine Rothblatt
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Martine Aliana Rothblatt Ph.D, MBA, J.D. (born 1954) is a transgendered American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. Rothblatt graduated from UCLA with a combined law and MBA degree in 1981, then began work in Washington DC, first in the field of communication satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project.
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[edit] Communications satellites
Rothblatt is responsible for launching several communications satellite companies, including the first nationwide vehicle location system (Geostar, 1983), the first private international spacecom project (PanAmSat, 1984), the first global satellite radio network (WorldSpace, 1990), and the first non-geostationary satellite-to-car broadcasting system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Satellite_Radio, 1990). As an attorney-entrepreneur she was also responsible for leading the efforts to obtain worldwide approval, via new international treaties, of satellite orbit/spectrum allocations for space-based navigation services (1987) and for direct-to-person satellite radio transmissions (1992).
[edit] Biotechnology
In the 1990s Rothblatt entered the life sciences field by leading the International Bar Association's project to develop a draft Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights for the United Nations (submitted in 1999), and by founding a biotechnology company, United Therapeutics (1996).
[edit] Howard Stern mention on his Sirius Satellite Radio Show
On December 14th, 2006, on The Howard Stern Show, Howard mentioned meeting Martine Rothblatt, and started a discussion on the confusion of her gender, in which he referred to him/her as the Martine Luther Queen of radio. In keeping with his general "humorous" refusal to acknowledge transgendered persons' realities, Stern kept referring to Ms. Rothblatt as "he" and "him," a subtle abuse he has also extended to Siobhan Meow.
[edit] Books
- Radiodetermination Satellite Services and Standards, Artech House, 1987, ISBN 0-89006-239-0 (communications satellite technology)
- Apartheid of Sex, Crown, 1995 ISBN 0-517-59997-X (transgenderism)
- Unzipped Genes, Temple University Press, 1997 ISBN 1-56639-522-4 (genomics)
- Your Life or Mine, Ashgate, 2003 ISBN 0-7546-2391-2 (xenotransplantation)
- Two Stars for Peace, iUniverse, 2003 ISBN 0-595-65982-9 (Middle East peace process)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Martine Rothblatt, a profile for the William Henry Medical Research Foundation
- World Against Racism Museum, one of the first cybermuseums
- Legal Rights of Conscious Computers, a video presentation by Rothblatt at a Immortality Institute Life Extension conference
