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Memorial service planned for transgender icon Carmen

AAP FLAMBOYANT transgender icon Carmen Rupe will be remembered at a service in Auckland next month. Carmen, 75, died from kidney failure in Sydney in December last year. A public memorial service will be held at St Matthew-in-the-City church on February 11, followed by a celebration of her life at DNA and Family bars on [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Transsexual lawmaker speaks out

(AP) WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s first transsexual lawmaker vowed Monday to campaign for the rights of gender minorities and make predominantly Catholic Poland more receptive to transsexuals and homosexuals. In an interview with The Associated Press, Anna Grodzka said the time has come for sexual minority groups in Poland to enjoy the right to legal [...]

17Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Chaz Bono ignores controversy, focuses on dance

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chaz Bono isn’t thinking about the controversy surrounding his casting on “Dancing With the Stars.” He says he’s been flooded with fan support and is focused on the cha-cha. Bono is the show’s first transgender contestant, and some viewers and conservative media groups have responded to his casting with hateful blog [...]

9Sep2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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‘DWTS’ producer: Give Chaz Bono a chance to dance

By SANDY COHEN, AP LOS ANGELES (AP) — “”Dancing With the Stars” executive producer Conrad Green says despite controversy over the casting of its first transgender contestant, “Dancing” remains a family show and viewers should check out the new season before passing judgment. Chaz Bono, who was born female but underwent surgery to become a [...]

5Sep2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Landmark gay history bill goes to Calif. governor

By JUDY LIN, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum. The bill, passed on a party-line vote, adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as [...]

6Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Inmate Tries To Give Himself Sex Change In Jail With Razor

by Associated Press DILLWYN, Va. – Crouched in her cell, Ophelia De’lonta hoped three green disposable razors from the prison commissary would give her what the Virginia Department of Corrections will not — a sex change. It had been several years since she had felt the urges, but she had been fighting them for weeks. [...]

10Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Cher ‘traumatised’ by daughter’s sex change

Source: nzherald.co.nz Cher was “traumatised” when she realised she would never hear her daughter’s voice again. The 64-year-old singer begged her son Chaz Bono – who was born a female named Chastity and began gender reassignment surgery around three years ago – for a copy of his old female answering machine message after becoming “hysterical” [...]

13May2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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Nepal’s transgenders offer blessings to William and Kate

(AFP) KATHMANDU — Nepal’s transgender community has sent blessings to Prince William and Kate Middleton ahead of their wedding and offered to send someone to the ceremony. Transgender people in Nepal, mostly men living as women who are known as “hijras” or eunuchs, are considered auspicious at weddings in South Asia, where they are often [...]

21Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

More US companies covering transgender surgery

Associated Press More and more large corporations, including Coca-Cola, Campbell Soup and Walt Disney, are covering surgery for transgender employees as part of their health plans. The trend follows a concerted push by transgender rights advocates to get employers and insurers to see sex reassignment the way the American Medical Association does – as a [...]

22Feb2011 | | 2 comments | Continued

Ricky Martin to receive gay honour

Source: BBC News Pop singer Ricky Martin is to receive an award from a leading US gay and lesbian organisation after coming out as gay last year. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Glaad) gives the Vito Russo Award to openly gay entertainers who promote equal rights. “Ricky coming out was a game changer [...]

10Feb2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals should be allowed in Poland’s army, says NGO

Source: thenews.pl The Trans-Fusion Foundation wants to repeal a regulation preventing transsexuals from joining the armed forces in Poland. The Defence Ministry is reportedly considering the demand. At present, a transsexual who wants to join the army, navy or air force is rejected as ‘category E’, which is a status marking them unfit to serve. [...]

5Jan2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Barcelona to erect monument to gays and lesbians

(AFP) MADRID — The Spanish city of Barcelona will erect a monument to gays, lesbians and transgendered people who have been persecuted and repressed “throughout history”, it announced Thursday. The exact site of the pink, triangular stone monument has not yet been decided, but a spokesman for the city hall said the square outside the [...]

3Jan2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Thailand bans transgender film

The Associated Press Thailand’s film board has banned a movie about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, a move the director says highlights the conservative side of Thai society despite its freewheeling reputation. The National Film Board ruled earlier this week that Insects in the Backyard cannot be shown in Thailand because it [...]

27Dec2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

KIM PETRAS HAS MAGNETIC APPEAL

Source: dailystar.co.uk SEX change pop singer Kim Petras is to go on tour around Europe. Kim Petras, now aged 18, became the youngest person to have a sex change aged 12 and has since launched a career as a model and musician. The pop starlet features prominently electronic music star KeeMo’s new album. It follows [...]

27Dec2010 | | 2 comments | Continued

Fashion blurs gender boundaries

Transsexuals, transvestites and models with no clear gender affiliation are all the rage in current advertising campaigns and editorials. Source: fashion.telegraph.co.uk The male model of the moment is Andrej Pejic, a 19-year old blond from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who – and there’s no other way to put it – looks like a woman. He’s just [...]

21Dec2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Cher’s son to tell all about sex change

Source: Toronto Sun Cher’s son Chaz Bono is set to tell the world about his sex-change in a new documentary film. Bono, whose father is the late Sonny Bono, was born Chastity, but began gender reassignment in 2008 and this year applied to be legally recognized as a man after successfully completing the transformation. The [...]

7Dec2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Sex-change trigger gene found

Source: Herald Sun MELBOURNE scientists have discovered that the alteration of a single gene causes some male embryos to develop as females. Sex development disorders, which can cause gender confusion, occur in one in 4500 births – or 16 babies born in Victoria every year. Lead Melbourne researcher Prof Andrew Sinclair, of Murdoch Childrens Research [...]

2Dec2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex-change trigger gene found

MELBOURNE scientists have discovered that the alteration of a single gene causes some male embryos to develop as females. Sex development disorders, which can cause gender confusion, occur in one in 4500 births – or 16 babies born in Victoria every year. Lead Melbourne researcher Prof Andrew Sinclair, of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, said the [...]

2Dec2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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