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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

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

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

Couple speak out on transgender issues

By Shaun Hittle – LJ World A lot has changed for Jay Pryor between the time he moved from Lawrence in 1999 until moving back in 2007. For starters, in 1999 Jay Pryor was a woman named Janet Pryor finishing up her bachelor’s degree in communications studies at Kansas University. In his eight years away [...]

6Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Laos tackles transgender taboos

A new drive to contain the spread of HIV/Aids in Laos is forcing officials to recognise a marginalised group – transgender men known as “katheoy”. The BBC’s Jill McGivering went to meet some of them in the capital, Vientiane. BBC NEWS Khom was born male. But she has thought of herself as female since she [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

By ABBY GOODNOUGH – New York Times BOSTON — The New Hampshire legislature approved revisions to a same-sex marriage bill on Wednesday, and Gov. John Lynch promptly signed the legislation, making the state the sixth to let gay couples wed. The bill had been through several permutations to satisfy Mr. Lynch and certain legislators that [...]

4Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tiaras at Thai transsexual beauty contest

PATTAYA, Thailand (AFP) — Resplendent in a figure-hugging grey and black dress, Sorrawee Nattee wept tears of joy after being crowned Thailand’s most beautiful transsexual at a unique pageant. Sorrawee took the top prize at Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2009 in the beach resort of Pattaya, beating off 29 other transsexuals and receiving a small Honda [...]

17May2009 | | 3 comments | Continued

Trolley Driver May Get Hit With Charges

Boston Trolley Driver Injured 46 People While Texting Girlfriend By MICHELE McPHEE – ABC News Boston prosecutors are considering criminal charges against the transgender trolley driver who crashed into another trolley while texting his girlfriend, officials told ABC News today. The office of Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley made the statement a day after [...]

13May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender murder, hate crime conviction a first

By Jim Spellman CNN DENVER, Colorado (CNN) — A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime and sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site. It was the first time in the nation that a state hate crime statute resulted in [...]

22Apr2009 | | 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

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

Barrie judge rules against transsexual

By TRACY MCLAUGHLIN An inmate who wants the government to pay for a sex change is left in limbo after a judge ruled yesterday in Barrie that the tab should not be paid by the province. “It’s pretty upsetting,” said Shauna Taylor, an inmate at the maximum security Oak Ridge Division of the Penetanguishene Mental [...]

14Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Halt abuse of transgenders — Human Rights group

Guyana should halt arrests and police abuse of transgender people and repeal a repressive law that criminalises wearing clothes considered appropriate only for the opposite sex, six human rights organisations said today in a letter to President Bharrat Jagdeo. The letter was signed by the Caribbean Forum for Liberation of Genders and Sexualities (CARIFLAGS), Global [...]

7Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender kids: How young is too young for a sex change?

Erin Carlyle delves into the often blustery worlds of transgender youth By Erin Carlyle ON HER THIRD birthday, Sarah Barnett tore open a package from her grandmother that would delight most girls her age. Gently folded on a pillow of tissue paper lay a frilly, ruffled dress. Sarah looked up at her mother, Kathy, perplexed. [...]

4Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender vets a hidden population

Men with gender struggles drawn to macho military By Carol Ann Alaimo In a city that prides itself on respect for military veterans, scorn is a fact of life for former Army captain Erin Russ. Neighbors gawk when she takes out the trash. At local malls, teenagers titter and hiss as the strapping ex-infantry officer [...]

22Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Free to be he

Local man matches outside to inside Rachel Rosenfeld Puberty is hard. Body changes and raging hormones can make it a confusing time for everybody. But as a pre-teen girl struggling with gender identity disorder, puberty for Julien Davis was more than just confusing. “Puberty was devastating,” says Davis. “I had a lot of anger… I [...]

14Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Trashy, sassy and successful

Two Philadelphia women stage popular parties for the gay and lesbian community. By A.D. Amorosi For The Inquirer On a bitter cold Saturday at Vesuvio, more than 400 people – gay guys and girls, transgender kids, hipster straights willing to experiment – heat up the South Philly nightspot. There’s dancing on the tables, kissing by [...]

11Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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