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All Posts Tagged With: "cross dressing"

India’s first transgender celebrates birthday

Rose Venkatesan, India’s first transgender to become a television host celebrated her first birthday as a woman. Thirty-year-old Rose underwent a sex-change surgery in March this year in Thailand to officially become a woman. An engineering graduate with two post graduate degrees from a US university, Rose was forced out of her home because her [...]

8May2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transgendered in Hay River

Elizabeth McMillan – Northern News Services HAY RIVER – Dean Landrie isn’t your typical truck driver. For one thing, he likes to wear nail polish and nylons. He also goes by Gabrielle Sky and wants to become a woman. Landrie isn’t concerned with labels, and neither is his wife of almost 20 years. “I’ve spent [...]

4Nov2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender woman reveals difficulties

By Abigail Curtis BDN Staff LEWISTON, Maine — Brianna Freeman, a transgender woman who lived the first four decades of her life as a man, said she knows firsthand about the pain caused by discrimination. And when management at an Auburn Denny’s restaurant wouldn’t allow her to use the women’s restroom until she had sex [...]

30May2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Nepal Jumps Ahead on Gay and Transgender Rights

by Bhumika Ghimire After California voters passed the proposition to ban gay marriage in the state, gay and transgender rights is back on the headlines in America. While the debate rages on there, Nepal – a faraway country, much smaller and often ignored on the world stage is now being looked upon as an example [...]

25Nov2008 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Tears of Joy for Nepali Gays, Transgender Persons over Supreme Court Decision

KATHMANDU, November 17, 2008  –  There were tears of joy in the Nepali LGBT community today when the Supreme Court published its full written decision on a petition demanding both protection and rights for sexual and gender minorities. “Reading this decision my eyes were filled with tears and I felt we are the most proud [...]

17Nov2008 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued