All Posts Tagged With: "gender"

WANTED: GAY, LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDER GUNGUARDS FOR THE QUEEN

By John Twomey – Daily Express SCOTLAND Yard is advertising for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender police to guard the Queen. The Metropolitan Police wants ­officers from “special groups” to ­volunteer for armed duty at the ­London palaces, Windsor Castle and Balmoral. Yard chiefs ordered the recruitment drive amid concerns that the Queen’s bodyguard does [...]

22Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Bar’s New ID Policy Is a Drag

Club requires ID that matches “gender presentation” By MATT BARTOSIK – NBC Chicago Gay men and lesbian women often joke about the “membership credentials” they must have in order to be gay, a.k.a. their “gay card.” But a popular gay bar in Elk Grove Village wasn’t kidding when it imposed a new policy, requiring an [...]

21Sep2009 | | 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

A transgender twist on Secrets

All-male cast lived the theme of a new play about black guys who keep it all inside Ashante Infantry – The Star Darren Anthony has always taken his big sister’s lead, following her into social work, sketch comedy, acting and now playwriting. As it’s said in their family: “Darren does what trey does.” He could [...]

20Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Boy, 12, turns into girl

By BRIAN FLYNN and VIRGINIA WHEELER – The Sun A BOY aged 12 turned up at school as a GIRL – after changing sex during the summer holidays. Teachers called an emergency assembly to order fellow pupils to treat him as female. The lad, whose parents have changed his name to a girl’s by deed [...]

18Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Nicole Kidman’s latest life-changing role: She’ll play first man to undergo sex change operation

BY Robert Dominguez – NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER She’s worn a fake nose to play a suicidal writer, battled spirits, Yankees, terrorists and space invaders – and spent a year on a movie set playing a sexually-frustrated wife opposite her real-life husband. Now, Nicole Kidman is taking on what could be her most challenging [...]

17Sep2009 | | 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

Texas companies improve on policies affecting gays, index finds

By SHERYL JEAN / The Dallas Morning News Top employers in Texas and across the nation are making progress in treating gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees fairly, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This year, 305 businesses achieved the Corporate Equality Index’s top rating of 100 percent for [...]

15Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

I became a woman at 70, says Sheffield ex miner

By Richard Blackledge – Sheffield Telegraph RACHEL Fleetwood is 75 years old, lives in a Sheffield nursing home – and is most likely Britain’s oldest transsexual. Rachel was in fact born Roy Colton in Brightside, Sheffield, in 1934 – but made the life-changing decision to change from being a man to a woman aged 70, [...]

14Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New film festival to shine spotlight on gay community

By Donecia Pea – Shreveport Times He’s the man with the diminutive stature and syrupy sweet Southern drawl that has endeared him to fans and kept them laughing for decades in his string of guest roles and recurring characters on some of TV’s biggest shows. But Leslie Jordan is most recognizable to fans for his [...]

12Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New sex change regulation in Thailand

The Nation/Asia News Network By Pongphon Sarnsamak From November 29, the Medical Council of Thailand will strictly enforce new regulations allowing only those transgendered people aged over 18 to undergo a sex-change operation, secretary general Dr Samphan Komrit said yesterday Transgendered people aged 18 to 20 must have parental consent, while those over 20 can [...]

11Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Muslim women get pig-free cosmetics

By Ola Galal (AFP) DUBAI — For Muslim women who feel they are violating Islam’s teachings by using skin creams with alcohol and pig residues, Layla Mandi has the answer: religiously-correct “halal” cosmetics. The Canadian makeup artist who converted to Islam is marketing cosmetics called OnePure, which she says have the luxury feel of international [...]

10Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

How the AP Stylebook Fails Transgender Subjects

by Amanda Hess – Washington City Paper The Associated Press Stylebook sets a fairly helpful standard for media coverage of transgender subjects. According to the AP “sex changes” entry, reporters are to: Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics (by hormone therapy, body modification, or surgery) of the opposite [...]

9Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Quebec transgender discrimination case dismissed by rights tribunal

By Marianne White, Canwest News Service QUEBEC — The federal human rights tribunal ruled Tuesday that the Canadian Forces did not discriminate against Micheline Montreuil, one of Canada’s best-known transgendered people, when they refused to enrol her. Montreuil, who was born as a man named Pierre, underwent hormone therapy to grow breasts and changed her [...]

9Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Twilight life of Malaysia’s Muslim transsexuals

By Sarah Stewart (AFP) KUALA LUMPUR — With her tight jeans, elaborate make-up and flowing hair, Tasha looks for all the world like a striking young woman. But her all-important Malaysian ID card declares she is a Muslim man. “In Islam, there are only men and women, there are no transsexuals, and this is an [...]

7Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender activist runs for mayor of Idaho town

By JESSIE L. BONNER (AP) NAMPA, Idaho — About a block from a street concert in downtown Nampa, Melissa Sue Robinson strolls with purpose into a trendy coffee shop — the unofficial liberal embassy of this sprawling Republican stronghold in southwest Idaho. Dressed in a cream-colored pantsuit, a political flier clutched in one hand, a [...]

5Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New film tells story of Olympic gender trick in Nazi Germany

The Local – Germany’s News in English A new film soon to hit screens in Germany tells the true story of a female Jewish high-jumper whom the Nazis excluded from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, picking instead a man in drag – who came fourth. By a quirk of the calendar, the film – “Berlin 36″ [...]

3Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Is Nashville finally ready to ban workplace discrimination against gay and lesbian city workers? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.

By Jeff Woods – Nashville Scene Two weeks from now, something that was unthinkable just a few years ago in Nashville may actually come to pass: The Metro Council may vote to ban workplace discrimination against gay and lesbian city employees. To a small faction, this will seem a sign of the End Times. Next, [...]

3Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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