All Posts Tagged With: "gender"
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 decide for themselves.
Transgendered [...]
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 brands minus [...]
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 sex and [...]
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 name to [...]
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 Islamic country [...]
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 soft brown [...]
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″ – premiered [...]
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, we’ll [...]
Now, a Miss India beauty pageant for transgenders in city
The Times of India
CHENNAI: About 150 beauties with a difference will congregate in the city when it hosts the first Miss India contest for transgenders on December 19, 2009.
Chennai-based Indian Community Welfare Organisation (ICWO) is in talks with NGOs and AIDS control societies across the country to organise the pageant which it hopes would help [...]
Congregation embraces transgender minister as his secret is revealed
Rev. David Weekley hopes his story will help change United Methodist Church doctrine
By Christine Mcfadden -The Portland Tribune
The Rev. David Weekley grows uncomfortable in his chair.
As soon as he raises the topic of gay rights to his conservative clergyman friend one day at lunch, he knows it’s a mistake.
He knows that the United Methodist Church [...]
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