All Posts Tagged With: "sex change operation"
In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory
By Gaëlle Faure / Paris – Time
Several decades have passed since the West stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness. But for transsexuals, that kind of milestone has been elusive — until now. Last month, France became the first country in the world to remove transsexualism from its official list of mental disorders — [...]
Transsexual singer wins top music school place after switching his voice from baritone to a soprano
By Carol Driver – Daily Mail
When transsexual opera singer Emily De Salvo first applied to one of Italy’s most prestigious music schools, he was rejected as the board was unsure whether to place him among the male or female singers.
This week, after three years’ studying with baritone Maurizio Picconi and soprano Amelia Felle, the 29-year-old [...]
The serious business of becoming a woman
By Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – How do you avoid charges of sensationalism if you set out to make a movie about the world’s first sex-change operation?
The simple answer is that you aim high. You set out to deliver a serious story and a quality product free of lurid tabloid exploitation.
It also [...]
Top model admits being transsexual
-The Daily Chilli/Asia News Network
Taiwanese model Alicia Liu (Xun Ai) has admitted that she is a transsexual.
The 24-year-old model-cum-actress, nicknamed Xiao Ai, said she underwent sex-change surgery at the age of 18.
“My ex-boyfriend paid for it,” she said in an interview with a Taiwan magazine on Friday.
Liu, whose original name was Zi Hua, became popular [...]
16 year old has sex change in Barcelona clinic
Spain’s first ever sex change operation on a minor in was performed last week at Barcelona’s Hospital Clinic.
In November, the judiciary gave the go ahead for the operation, after the adolescent had been receiving the mandatory hormonal and psychiatric treatment for over a year.
The judge in the case gave the go-ahead for the operation after [...]
Electing gays is as Texas as oil
By RICK CASEY -Houston Chronicle
This is not another story about Houston electing a gay mayor, something that seems to have astonished much of the rest of the world.
What I’d like the rest of the world to know is how very Texan it is for Houston to elect a gay mayor — as Texan as Dallas, [...]
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 breasts and is [...]
Transsexual queen calls for tolerance
AFP
JAPANESE TV personality Ai Haruna said she wants her country to be more tolerant toward people of diverse sexual orientations, a month after she was crowned the world’s most beautiful transsexual.
Haruna, 37, already a household name in Japan, was chosen Miss International Queen 2009 at a pageant in Thailand last month after judges picked her [...]
Transsexual in court appeal for breast enlargement
A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital’s budget.
From Telegraph.co.uk
The legally aided gender dysphoria sufferer, who has been living as a woman for over 10 years, says breast augmentation is essential to her [...]
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 role yet: [...]



