All Posts Tagged With: "gender identity disorder"

Reading transsexual to wait for NHS breast op ruling

BBC News A transsexual who started a High Court battle for the legal right to NHS funding for breast augmentation surgery will have to wait for a judgement. The woman, of Reading, and referred to as C, is fighting a test case against a continuing refusal by West Berkshire PCT to fund the £2,300 procedure. [...]

13May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Judge: Transgender Inmates Have Right To Therapy

RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) ― A federal judge has struck down a unique Wisconsin law that prohibits transgender inmates from receiving taxpayer-funded hormone therapy, which alters their appearance to be more like that of the opposite sex. A group of male inmates who identify as female had challenged the 2006 [...]

2Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Court turns down man’s request for sex change

Daily Times LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad on Monday dismissed a petition by one Sami Saleem, 30, seeking permission to have a sex-change. The CJ observed that the petitioner lived in Rawalpindi and his case fell under the jurisdiction of the Rawalpindi bench of the LHC. The petitioner submitted that [...]

23Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tax court allows deduction for woman‘s sex change

By DENISE LAVOIE, AP Rhiannon O‘Donnabhain (oh-DON‘-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for approximately $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery. In its decision Tuesday, the tax court said the IRS position was “at best a superficial characterization of the circumstances” [...]

3Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Justice Ministry says children born to ‘sex-change’ father should be treated as illegitimate

Mainichi Japan The Justice Ministry is instructing local governments to treat any child born to a father who has changed his gender from female and his wife as a child born out of wedlock, it has emerged. While the ministry claims that it has based its position on the fact that it is biologically impossible [...]

11Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

City’s birth challenge linked to sex change

The Japan Times KOBE (Kyodo) A Hyogo Prefecture man who has legally changed his sexual status said Sunday that the city where he lives told him to register his son, who was born through artificial insemination, as an illegitimate child. Children born through artificial insemination by donors are ordinarily accepted as legitimate, experts say, because [...]

10Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity

By BRIAN KNOWLTON – The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity. The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates [...]

6Jan2010 | | 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

Woman Fired for Being Transgender

A Georgia transgender woman filed a lawsuit late in September because she was fired from her job as a legislative editor for the Georgia General Assembly because she announced her intent to transition from male to female. Vandy Beth Glen, formerly Glenn Morrison, filed her suit against the Georgia General Assembly in conjunction with Lambda [...]

15Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Face to face with new ideals of feminine beauty

Facial feminisation surgery can help rid clients of unwanted masculine features, writes Carol Hunt – Independent.ie There are not many of us, male or female, who are blessed with the facial beauty of a Jaye Davidson (Dil in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game). As a woman Jaye was good-looking, but as a man he was [...]

12Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

China preps 1st guidelines for sex change surgery

By GILLIAN WONG BEIJING (AP) — China’s first medical guidelines on sex change surgery could require patients to gain police approval before the procedure, according to a posting on the Health Ministry’s Web site. The proposed guidelines, posted Tuesday, say candidates for surgery must show an agreement from police to change their sex on their [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funding cut angers transgendered

Human rights complaint considered By Jodie Sinnema, with files from Michelle Lang, Edmonton Journal; Calgary Herald Dismayed and angry members of Alberta’s transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the provincial government said it will stop paying for gender reassignment surgery. “It’s a matter of life and death,” said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, [...]

14Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Delaying Puberty Could Help Gender Confused Kids

A Handful of US Clinics Offer Puberty Blockers to Young Teenagers by LINDA GEDDES Dec. 8, 2008 Young teenagers with extreme gender identity disorder should be given drugs to block puberty so that they don’t have to experience distressing changes to their bodies which they perceive to be out of line with their true gender. [...]

9Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued