All Posts Tagged With: "sex change operation"

Transsexual allowed to teach

Source: Austrian Independent Austria’s first transsexual teacher has been given the all clear to work by the education ministry after a sex change operation. The man turned woman named only as Walter S. caused outcry among some parents by informing her students via e-mail at a polytechnic in Vienna-Margareten that she will be a woman [...]

30Aug2010 | | 4 comments | Continued

Brazilian supermodel undergoing sex change

BRASILIA, Brazil, July 30 (UPI) — Brazilian supermodel Lea T, star of Givenchy’s new ad campaign, is preparing for a sex change, from male to female, ABC News said. Born Leandro Cerezo, the 28-year-old son of former soccer star Toninho Cerezo is undergoing hormone replacement therapy ahead of the gender-reassignment surgery. “She’s a true goddess!” [...]

31Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Police: Transgender woman arrested in ID bomb plot

(AP) PAYETTE, Idaho — A transgender woman who was at odds with police over how they acknowledged her gender identity in a 2007 traffic citation was arrested for investigation of rigging what appeared to be four pipe bombs to a propane tank at her home, torching her car then running naked along a rural highway. [...]

13Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Warren Beatty’s daughter ‘to have sex change operation’

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk A daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening is living as a man and planning to have gender re-assignment surgery, according to reports in the US media. Kathlyn Beatty, 18, has called herself Stephen and is attending college dressed as a man, the National Enquirer reported. She was said to have started a [...]

17Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender refuses to serve in military

Source: The China Post TAIPEI, Taiwan — A woman who underwent a sex-change operation in February told reporters that she was asked to take a physical examination required for men fulfilling compulsory military services in Taiwan, local media reported yesterday. The National Conscription Agency (NCA), operating under the Ministry of the Interior, said there had [...]

7Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

17Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

16Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender inmate has taxpayer-funded mammogram

(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – A cross-dressing Massachusetts inmate who murdered his wife and has spent the last decade suing the Department of Correction for access to a sex change operation had a taxpayer funded mammogram this week, Fox 25 has learned. Robert Kosilek – who sued for the right to change his name to [...]

16Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Olivier Theyskens Wanted a Sex-Change Operation As a Child

From nymag.com Ex–Nina Ricci designer Olivier Theyskens reveals that as a child he entertained fantasies of a sex change and told his classmates he would move to America to have this done. “I was always imagining what it is to be a beautiful girl. And I was drawing pictures of women all the time — [...]

13Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 — a [...]

2Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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, [...]

21Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

17Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

23Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

12Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

17Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

4Dec2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

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 [...]

3Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

8Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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