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Feature Article #1

Trinidad surgeon helps women escape past of mutilation

Karen Auge
The Denver Post
Dr. Marci Bowers slipped into a chair in Exam Room 3, folded one long leg over another, looked at her patient — a young woman with wide eyes and a nervous smile — and got to the point.
“We want to help make your life better,” Bowers said.
Mariama is as tiny as the [...]

Sara | March 8th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory

By Gaëlle Faure / Paris – Time
Several decades have passed since the West stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness. But for transsexuals, that kind of milestone has been elusive — until now. Last month, France became the first country in the world to remove transsexualism from its official list of mental disorders — [...]

Sara | March 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Transsexual singer wins top music school place after switching his voice from baritone to a soprano

By Carol Driver – Daily Mail
When transsexual opera singer Emily De Salvo first applied to one of Italy’s most prestigious music schools, he was rejected as the board was unsure whether to place him among the male or female singers.
This week, after three years’ studying with baritone Maurizio Picconi and soprano Amelia Felle, the 29-year-old [...]

Sara | February 21st, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

The serious business of becoming a woman

By Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – How do you avoid charges of sensationalism if you set out to make a movie about the world’s first sex-change operation?
The simple answer is that you aim high. You set out to deliver a serious story and a quality product free of lurid tabloid exploitation.
It also [...]

Sara | February 17th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

‘Pregnant man’ Thomas Beatie expecting baby number three

BY Neil Nagraj
DAILY NEWS
”Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie is expecting baby No. 3.
Thomas Beatie, the so-called “pregnant man,” is expecting baby No. 3, the Web site MomLogic.com reports.
The transgender Oregonian grabbed headlines around the world two years ago when he came forward announcing he was pregnant — and male.
Beatie underwent 10 years of sex reassignment therapy [...]

Sara | February 11th, 2010 | Continued

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About Trangender Today
 Trangender Today is an all in one news, information, support, and social site for anyone who is TG, TS, Intersexed, and anyone wanting more knowledge of gender issues, problems, and have questions.
 This site is run by Sara, a MTF transexual who is currently in transition. Sara uses all money made from this site [...]

Other Recent Articles

Women’s pharmacy ends ban on transgendered clients

Cheryl Rossi, Vancouver Courier
A policy that added controversy to the opening of North America’s first women-only pharmacy has been changed. Lu’s: A Pharmacy for Women and the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective now welcome transgendered clients and others who self-identify themselves as women. Members of the relatively new local feminist collective the Femininjas are pleased.
“I feel [...]

11Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

San Francisco LGBT Center asking city for $1M

The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is asking the city for some big financial help to stay afloat.
Since opening in 2002, the $12.3 million, city-subsidized center has struggled to pay its mortgage and is now on the verge of foreclosure.
Officials are now asking the city for a $1 million [...]

11Mar2010 | Sara | 1 comment | Continued

Washington weddings begin for same-sex couples

By JESSICA GRESKO (AP)
WASHINGTON — It’s a day of wedding bells for some gay couples in Washington.
Couples who applied for marriage licenses on the first day they were available last week can pick them up Tuesday and tie the knot.
Three weddings are planned at the city’s Human Rights Campaign office. The advocacy group helps with [...]

9Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

A family made, not born

Pakistani outcasts live together after their families abandoned them because they are congenital eunuchs and hermaphrodites

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Wearing a red knit bonnet, matching lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular forearms, Ms. Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the [...]

8Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Cross-dressers banned from bar

Fiona McWhirter – news.com.au
A GROUP of Adelaide cross-dressers says it is no longer welcome at its favourite hotel, after having been refused entry.
Despite drinking and dining regularly at the carnival-themed Boho Bar, on Unley Rd, for at least six months, members of Adelaide’s transgender community say management’s attitude has changed.
Two male cross-dressers in female clothing [...]

6Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Australian Senate rejects same-sex marriage bill

By Rex Wockner – The Bay Area Reporter
Australia’s Senate rejected a measure to legalize same-sex marriage February 26. The vote was 5-45. Twenty-six senators failed to vote.
The bill, introduced by the Greens, was opposed by the Labor, Family First and Liberal/National/Country Liberal Coalition parties.
“The coalition believes the [opposite-sex] definition of marriage, as contained in [...]

4Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transitions: Transgender people can struggle to find their identities

By DIANA FISHLOCK, The Patriot-News
From the time he could crawl, Jack Bowser was totally into being a boy. “I always wanted the boys’ toys, was always outside doing sports or outside with my dad. I always wanted to wear the boys’ clothes, suits, everything,” said the 45-year-old Ephrata man.
Bowser was all boy, except for the [...]

28Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

T&T activists say of Guyana crossdressing lawsuit: Just first step to bring changes

Trinidad Express
The motion was filed February 19, with the support of Guyana NGO Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination and lawyers in Guyana, St Lucia and at the University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP) on the Cave Hill, Barbados campus.
The litigants were four MtF transgender Guyanese who were rounded up in a crackdown, [...]

28Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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