All Posts Tagged With: "gender reassignment"

Assigning a gender to be appealed

Source: ABC News Two transgender people who lost the right to be considered male will appeal against the decision in the High Court. Last year, the two, who were born female, won the right to be legally considered male even though they had not undergone surgery to remove their reproductive organs. The state’s Attorney General [...]

8Sep2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals not ‘men,’ Aussie court rules

PERTH, Australia,  (UPI) — A Western Australia court, in a landmark decision, has ruled that transsexual “men” are, in fact, women. The ruling came on an appeal of gender legislation by Attorney General Christian Porter. The legislation, passed by the Western Australia State Parliament in 1999, permitted the state Gender Reassignment Board to issue a [...]

3Sep2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Female circumcision victims seek out Colo. doctor

By CATHERINE TSAI (AP) TRINIDAD, Colo. — This picturesque southern Colorado town known for decades as the sex-change capital of the world — thousands of gender-reassignment operations have been performed here — is becoming a beacon for victims of female genital mutilation. Dr. Marci Bowers has performed about two dozen reconstructive surgeries on mostly African [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex change trucker: At last I am happy

Alex Bell – Manchester Evening News A VALLEY dad-of-two has turned his back on a 25-year marriage – to become a woman. Nikki Jane Weston, formerly known as Nigel, hopes to soon complete a sex change that will forever alter her and her family’s life. The Newchurch-born 45-year-old has grown long hair and now has [...]

4Dec2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Chaz Bono Writing Sex Change Memoir

Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono is writing her memoir to document her sex change from a woman to a man. The pop superstar’s child, now known as Chaz, began the lengthy gender reassignment process last year and now prefers to be referred to as a ‘he’. News of actress/writer Bono’s sex change surgery was revealed in [...]

23Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

It’s easy to get a sex change in Iran

Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed Hanna Rosin – The Star The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-rock band. One gay-looking Adonis sits on the arm of a red leather [...]

27Jun2009 | | 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

Transsexual Michelle helps fight crime

Laura Kemp, WalesOnline MOST police forces use handcuffs to enforce the law but Welsh cops have recruited a transsexual in heels and lipstick to fight crime. Brunette Michelle – who was born male and called Mark – is training Dyfed Powys police officers to combat and raise awareness of transgender-phobic violence. She contacted the force [...]

3May2009 | | 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

Denise to take final step in bid to become a woman

by Sarah Judd, Evening Gazette DENISE MOSSE can hardly bring herself to look at the black and white snaps from her childhood. In fact, the 46-year-old, who was born Michael Mossom, has destroyed many photos as they depict a past that is “too painful.” As she glances at what seems like an idyllic image of [...]

15Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual sues over discrimination

By ANDREW WOLFE Staff Writer CONCORD – A Milford woman charges that PC Connection refused to hire her for a sales job after learning that she’d applied to the company as a man seven years earlier. Brianna Cook filed the suit against PC Connection, of Merrimack, on Dec. 1 in U.S. District Court in Concord. [...]

12Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

WA gender decision to become test case

Debbie Guest Article from: The Australian IN a major test case, two “former women” are taking on the West Australian Government in a bid to officially be recognised as men. The pair will take their appeal to court in February after the Gender Reassignment Board of WA refused to acknowledge their sex change because they [...]

25Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued