All Posts Tagged With: "gender reassignment surgery"

Cuba’s first transsexual in the spotlight

(AFP) HAVANA — The story of Cuba’s first transsexual to undergo gender reassignment surgery is coming to the big screen in a documentary getting its premiere Wednesday on the Communist-ruled island, its director said. “Mavi Sussel underwent (male-to-female) gender reassignment surgery in 1988 and the documentary is a journey inside this woman, and about the [...]

18Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Brazilian supermodel undergoing sex change

BRASILIA, Brazil, July 30 (UPI) — Brazilian supermodel Lea T, star of Givenchy’s new ad campaign, is preparing for a sex change, from male to female, ABC News said. Born Leandro Cerezo, the 28-year-old son of former soccer star Toninho Cerezo is undergoing hormone replacement therapy ahead of the gender-reassignment surgery. “She’s a true goddess!” [...]

31Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Penn offering sex-change coverage to students

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Transgender students at the University of Pennsylvania will now be eligible for sex change treatments under the school’s new student health plan. University spokesman Ron Ozio says Penn president Amy Gutmann approved the changes last week to the Penn Student Insurance Plan, which is typically used by students who aren’t otherwise covered [...]

16Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

The world’s SECOND pregnant man is ‘blissfully happy’ as he prepares to give birth to baby boy next month

By Carol Driver – dailymail.co.uk A transgender couple have revealed they are expecting their first baby in a month’s time. Scott Moore – thought to be only the second ‘pregnant man’ to go public – is due to give birth to a boy in February, with husband Thomas by his side. The couple were both [...]

26Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Indonesian Mullahs Says Sex Change is Haram

Dessy Sagita – Jakarta Globe Nadia, who went by the name Agus before having gender reassignment surgery, filed a court petition and won her fight for legal recognition as a woman. But now Nadia, and other women like her, has another battle on her hands with the religious establishment. The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) [...]

25Dec2009 | | 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

Sex-change clinic ‘got it wrong’

Jill Stark – The Age AUSTRALIA’S only sex-change clinic has been temporarily shut down and its controversial director forced to quit amid growing claims that patients with psychiatric problems have been wrongly diagnosed as transsexuals and encouraged to have radical gender reassignment surgery. The Sunday Age has been told at least eight former patients of [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender rally pushes for restored funding

Advocates tell MLAs debating health-care budget to reconsider cut The Edmonton Journal People from Alberta’s transgender community were holding a rally outside a provincial government health budget debate meeting Monday night to pressure the government to reinstate funding for gender reassignment surgery. The government’s move to cut the funding in April’s budget will save the [...]

7May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Blurring gender for sense of self

By: Jessica Fryman – The Nevada Sagebrush The term transsexual woman fits 33-year-old student Corinna Cohn, but her identity goes deeper than what her body shows. “I want to be considered as somebody who is an economist, somebody who is libertarian and conservative in principle. Somebody who is smart. Somebody who’s friendly,” Cohn, who plans [...]

5May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Trans activists fight cuts to gender reassignment funding

TRANS RIGHTS / Dozens file human rights complaints in Alberta Ted Kerr / National Across Alberta last week trans activists and allies continued to pressure the Alberta government to relist gender reassignment surgery (GRS), after the province announced it was cutting the program to save money. The actions started at the Alberta legislature during question [...]

21Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

In Changsha: Demonstration for the right to be a woman

Yesterday morning, two young male to female transsexuals took to the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province. They carried banners saying: “I want to have a sex change and live my life as a woman” and “Even if I die from it, I want a sex change, one day as a woman would be worth [...]

15Apr2009 | | 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

America’s Next Top Model: Former Transgendered Contestant Isis Makes Transition

If you are a fan of America’s Next Top Model then you will remember Isis King. She is the young lady that made headlines as the first transgendered contestant to compete on America’s Next Top Model. Although she didn’t win America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks saw what an inspiration she was to so many [...]

31Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

1,000 sign up to support four Oxfordshire men who want to become women

By Amanda Williams » A GROUP of men, each of whom wants surgery to become women, is leading a campaign to get the Oxfordshire NHS Primary Care Trust to pay for sex change operations. Last night, almost 1,000 people had signed their petition calling on the trust to change its policy and allow gender reassignment [...]

23Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Activist urges end to sex change rules

SURASAK GLAHAN Bangkok Post A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights. “This draft regulation deprives transgender people of their basic rights,” Yollada Suanyot, chairperson of the Transgender Women of Thailand group, said yesterday. [...]

1Feb2009 | | 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

Activist urges end to sex change rules

By: SURASAK GLAHAN A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights. “This draft regulation deprives transgender people of their basic rights,” Yollada Suanyot, chairperson of the Transgender Women of Thailand group, said yesterday. “We [...]

30Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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