All Posts Tagged With: "female hormones"

Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

Source: Newsweek This spring, an Australian named Norrie May-Welby made headlines around the world as the world’s first legally genderless person when the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages sent the Sydney resident a certificate containing neither M for male or F for female. For a few days, it appeared that the [...]

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Boy, 8, has ‘sex change’

An eight-year-old boy, Joey Romero, has become a girl called Josie in a remarkable US gender-swap case that features in a new Channel 4 documentary. By Alastair Jamieson – Telegraph.co.uk Josie was diagnosed as transgender at the age of six. Her sex has been legally changed and she will undergo surgery and drug treatment to [...]

16Oct2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Transsexual sues NYC Parks Department over firing

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – A former mail room clerk for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation says she was fired from her job because she is a transsexual. Chanel Birden says co-workers made fun of her and called her vulgar names because of her gender change. The 27-year-old Harlem resident [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Discovering, and protecting, their true selves

Antibias law sought for transgender people By Bella English – Boston Globe In high school, music was Bill Zircher’s thing, mostly drums. He studied electrical engineering in college. In 1994 he married a woman he met in a band. The couple had a daughter, and Zircher was thrilled to be a father. Five years ago, [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued