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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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 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 [...]

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Transgender woman sues under law she helped write

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) – A transgender aide to a Montgomery County councilwoman is suing the county for $5 million under an anti-discrimination law she helped write.
Dana Beyer, an adviser to Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg, helped draft a 2007 law that outlawed discrimination based on gender identity.
Now Beyer contends the county’s ethics commission broke that law during [...]

19Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

GLBT community pressing for census question to declare sexual orientation

By Tom McGhee
The Denver Post
They’re here. By their own description, they’re queer. And a gay advocacy group wants the U.S. Census Bureau to ask them about it.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has launched “Queer the Census,” attempting to petition the census to start counting members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
The [...]

17Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Spurned by Nev., transgender woman to wed in Calif

By MARTIN GRIFFITH Associated Press Writer
RENO, Nev.—Danielle Pauline Severson takes female hormones, dresses and acts like a woman and plans to have sex reassignment surgery so she physically looks like a woman.
Yet the pre-operative transgender female, who was born Dana Paul Severson, will have to tie the knot to a woman in California.
After being jilted [...]

16Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Scotsman who underwent sex change wins legal battle to be officially declared neither male nor female

From dailyrecord.co.uk
A SCOT has become the world’s first person without an official sex.
Norrie May-Welby won a battle with Australian authorities to have a birth certificate which says “sex not specified”.
Norrie, 48 – born a male – had a sex change 20 years ago.
But Norrie, originally from Paisley, was not happy being a woman either – [...]

16Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

‘I am a boy’ insists child born a girl

By EILEEN ZAFFIRO – Dayton Beach News Journal.
DAYTONA BEACH — There’s a wiry little 7-year-old in Deltona who can name an impressive number of Major League baseball players, NFL bruisers and NBA stars.
The second-grader also loves reading astronomy books and watching “Jeopardy,” and is a political junkie particularly smitten with President Obama.
Maybe it was the [...]

16Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Survey targeting gay Coloradans stresses need for safe schools

By Heather McWilliams
The Denver Post
Schools need to be safe for gay students. That’s the top priority for most gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Coloradans, according to a recent statewide survey.
The survey — conducted by a new gay-rights nonprofit called the One Colorado Education Fund — showed “expanding recognition of GLBT families” as No. 2 on [...]

13Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

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
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