All Posts Tagged With: "gender change"

US unveils new passport rules for transgender people

(AFP) WASHINGTON — The United States has new, more flexible passport regulations for transgender people, and ended an earlier requirement that reassignment surgery precede a passport gender change, the State Department said. “Sexual reassignment surgery is no longer a prerequisite for passport issuance,” it said in a statement. From June 10, “when a passport applicant [...]

9Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

17Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

16Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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, [...]

21Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

17 years on the job in Dallas, Officer Joe became Officer Debbie

By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News After 17 years with the Dallas Police Department, Officer Joseph Grabowski showed up at work one day sporting makeup, a feminine hairstyle and a new first name: Deborah. The 44-year-old officer was scared and relieved that the secret was finally out. “I have always felt like a [...]

15Nov2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Transgendered soldiers fall into grey zone for otherwise open Canadian military

By Tobi Cohen (CP) MONTREAL — Chris already has manly muscles, facial hair, a baritone voice and was accepted years ago by family and friends as a man. But he’s been told he cannot work for the Canadian military until he also gets a penis. The story of this transgendered applicant to the Canadian Forces [...]

22Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Alberta substitute teacher let go because of sex change

By Jodie Sinnema – Calgary Herald EDMONTON — An Edmonton teacher has filed a human-rights complaint against a local Catholic school district after the district stopped hiring him to substitute-teach because he was changing his gender. “In discussions with the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese, the teaching of the Catholic Church is that persons cannot [...]

2Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

No surgical sex change? No problem at BMV to alter gender on licenses

Those wishing a change need only a doctor’s statement to verify gender identity. By Marc Kovac – Vindy.com COLUMBUS — Ohioans wanting to change their gender on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards no longer have to have their body parts medically altered, under a new policy introduced by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles this [...]

20Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Changing Genders: An Interview With the World’s Leading Sex Change Surgeon

By Karlie Pouliot – Fox News Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves. In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs [...]

16Sep2009 | | 1 comment | 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

Chastity Bono Undergoing Sex Change

KTLA News LOS ANGELES — Chastity Bono, the daughter of Sonny and Cher, is in the early stages of a gender change. Chastity is undergoing treatment to become a man. Bono, who is a civil rights advocate, journalist, author and musician, began the process earlier this year, publicist Howard Bragman told KTLA. She is 40 [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Equal ID Act would allow transgender to change birth certificate

Nicole C. Brambila • The Desert Sun The Equal ID Act, which would increase legal rights for the transgender community, passed the State Assembly Judiciary Committee by a 7-3 vote. “All Californians deserve legal documentation that accurately reflects who they are,” Geoff Kors, Equality California executive director and part time Palm Springs resident said in [...]

13May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tenn. unknowingly marries transgender couple; subject jailed as man, identifies as woman

By Associated Press CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo T. Rittenberry and Jeffery Scott Phillips recently learned their 18-month marriage is invalid because the state considers both to be men. Rittenberry, who is 46, was born a man but identifies as a woman and claims to have had sex reassignment surgery in Canada. Rittenberry had officials [...]

13May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued