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How To Keep Your Hair’s Beauty

Do you want to make your hair presentable? Caring for your hair is a pesky thing to do. This is due to the fact that our hair have different needs. Our hair adds a lot of beauty in our over all apearance. This is very important for ladies because it can either improve or spoil how they look.

9Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Acne During Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a time of great excitement and many changes as well. As well as the big changes to a woman’s body, there are changes to the family life, the way a home is laid out and even to diet needs during the pregnancy and preparation for the needs for the baby when it arrives. So when acne is added to the list of new things to cope with, it’s always best to be prepared so it doesn’t cause undue concern and perhaps more stress than is called for.

8Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

American Labor Movement Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Workers

AFL-CIO Convention Passes Historic Resolution on Diversity From Windy City Times PITTSBURGH, PA — If there were any doubts that the American labor movement stands strongly in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights, they were set to rest the minute former United Mine Workers president Richard L. Trumka took the [...]

23Sep2009 | | 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

Teenager ‘attacked mother after discovering she had a sex change’, court told

A teenager was charged with assault after he lost his temper and hit his mother whom he discovered was undergoing a sex change, a court has heard. By Andrew Hough – telegraph.co.uk The 15 year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked his mother last month after discovering she wanted to become a man, [...]

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

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

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

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 [...]

31Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

School won’t apologize for turning transgender student away at prom

By Michele Catahay – KUAM.com The controversial topic of equal rights among gays, lesbians and transgenders has been brought to light recently, as “Jeremy” met with George Washington High School officials in hopes to get closure on the issue. Jeremy was turned away from his senior prom back in may after he wore a dress. [...]

29Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

U.K. officer educates police on transsexualism

By Valerie Berenyi, Calgary Herald CALGARY – Members of the Calgary Police Service attended a workshop on transsexualism Wednesday conducted by a transgendered officer from the U. K. to learn more about diversity issues. Const. Louise Worsfold, who transitioned from male to female in 2004 while working as an officer for the Metropolitan Police Service [...]

24Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Teacher In NJ Retiring In Frustration

WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) ― When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher at two southern New Jersey school districts, was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it caused an uproar. The former William McBeth had undergone sex reassignment surgery and was [...]

23Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Maine rules in favor of transgendered student on restroom use

Matt Kailey – Transgender Issues Examiner The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled in favor of a transgendered male-to-female student who was not allowed to use to girls’ restroom. The Bangor Daily News reports that the child, who was born male but who has a female gender identity and lives as a girl, had been using [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Boxer Rob Newbiggen to get sex change and become ‘Mercedes’

by Gemma Jaleel, Southport Visiter SOUTHPORT boxer Rob Newbiggin is to undergo a sex change operation to become a woman named ‘Mercedes’. The father-of-three has forged a 20-year career as a boxer and has even sparred with Ricky Hatton, but has only now decided to make this life-changing decision. Rob, 44, is the resident artist [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Women, children’s groups decry opponents of transgender bill

By State House News Service Advocates for women and children intend to argue Monday that opponents of a bill to include transgender people in the state’s non-discrimination statute are spreading “dangerous myths about violence against women” by warning that the proposal would make bathrooms unsafe. “Opposing this bill does nothing to protect people from sexual [...]

14Jul2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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