All Posts Tagged With: "female transsexual"

Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer

(AFP) HONG KONG — Government lawyers told a Hong Kong court Tuesday that the legislature, not the courts, should decide if a transsexual can marry her boyfriend in the first such legal case in the Chinese city. The male-to-female transsexual, who is in her 20s and known only as “W” under anonymity rules, took the [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual’s memoirs breaks new ground in Arab world

By Natacha Yazbeck (AFP) BEIRUT — In a daring, unprecedented move, a pioneer of the Arab world’s underground transgender movement has released her memoirs, recounting her struggle to become a woman against all odds. “Mouzakarat Randa al-Trans”, or “The Memoirs of Randa the Trans”, is a brutally honest narrative that traces Randa’s battles with family, [...]

28Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Texas may be forced to allow a gay marriage

From dallasvoice.com There’s a fascinating little case out of El Paso in which a male-to-female transgender person is seeking to marry another woman. The Texas Tribune reports that the El Paso county attorney is requesting an opinion from AG Greg Abbott about whether the trans woman can marry another woman, given that the trans woman [...]

5May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Paper guilty of transsexual slur

BBC News A Belfast newspaper has been found guilty of breaching the press code of practice for describing a transsexual as ‘a tranny.’ The Sunday Life was reported to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) by a male-to-female transsexual who had worked as a rape counsellor in Belfast. The paper had raised concerns about her suitability [...]

4Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

April Ashley: 50 happy years for sex-swap pioneer

Britain’s first transsexual is, in a new exhibition, again challenging ideas about gender, identity and DNA. By Peter Stanford – telegraph.co.uk It always makes me laugh when people say I was born a man,” says April Ashley, who in 1960 became the first Briton to undergo sex-change surgery. “I was born a baby, not a [...]

24Nov2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Hong Kong plays transgender catch-up

By Kent Ewing – Asian Times HONG KONG – In the biggest challenge yet to traditional Chinese values about sex in this city of 7 million people, a male-to-female transsexual is suing the government for the right to marry her male partner. Moreover, because the plaintiff makes such a compelling case, traditionalists find themselves on [...]

17Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual — Qualified for Beauty Contest or Not?

By Kim Rahn – Korean Times Is sex by birth a qualification for a beauty pageant? It appears not, as a male-turned-female transsexual has passed the preliminary stage of the 2009 Super Model Contest. Choi Han-bit, 23, was among 50 participants selected from a list of 1,200 candidates at the preliminary stage of the contest [...]

16Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sydney Dupree came to Los Angeles because, as a young male-to-female transsexual, she found Memphis hostile. She came to the transgender job fair because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles. Dupree has been frustrated by discrimination and employers who turn skittish when confronted [...]

6Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

“NHS is exploiting my life” – claims transsexual

By Joanna Lean A TRANSSEXUAL, angry at an NHS advertising campaign that depicts a man wearing makeup, says her lifestyle has been exploited for the sake of a poster. Lucy Smith thinks the NHS should have been more sensitive to the transsexual community in Warrington when it developed a poster warning women drinkers they could [...]

1Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Punishing difference

Vaibhav Saria Tamil athlete Santhi Soundararajan attempted suicide in September 2007 in Pudukottai by consuming dangerous amounts of a veterinary drug. She was driven to take her own life because, in 2006, after winning the silver in the women’s 800m race at the Asian Games, she was stripped of her medal, her accolades, and her [...]

24Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

India’s hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight

Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.As one of the hijra community – the cross-dressers, pre- and post-operative transsexuals known here as eunuchs – she is [...]

27Nov2008 | | 1 comment | Continued