All Posts Tagged With: "sex change operation"

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

New film festival to shine spotlight on gay community

By Donecia Pea – Shreveport Times He’s the man with the diminutive stature and syrupy sweet Southern drawl that has endeared him to fans and kept them laughing for decades in his string of guest roles and recurring characters on some of TV’s biggest shows. But Leslie Jordan is most recognizable to fans for his [...]

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

Sex change cabbie quits new job

By Chris Visser – www.lep.co.uk A transgender driver’s return behind the wheel of a taxi has lasted just a month. Andre Edwards, 51, walked out of her job at Leyland-based Eco Cabs following a series of rows with her new bosses – and they don’t want her back. The move comes less than a month [...]

29Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Egyptian man-turned-woman sues al-Azhar

CAIRO (Ahmed al-Sayed) An Egyptian man-turned-woman has filed a lawsuit with the prosecutor general against the president of al-Azhar University for refusing to re-admit her after the sex-change operation. Sally Mohamed Abdullah, formerly Sayyed, accused Dr. Mohamed al-Tayeb, president of the oldest Islamic university of stealing the case documents that contained a verdict allowing her [...]

28Jul2009 | | 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

Transsexual — Qualified for Beauty Contest or Not?

By Kim Rahn – Korean Times Is sex by birth a qualification for a beauty pageant? It appears not, as a male-turned-female transsexual has passed the preliminary stage of the 2009 Super Model Contest. Choi Han-bit, 23, was among 50 participants selected from a list of 1,200 candidates at the preliminary stage of the contest [...]

16Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

World’s youngest sex change patient speaks out

The youngest ever transsexual has spoken out about her physical transformation. German Kim Petras was born Tim, but says she knew she was a girl since she was toddler. She had been undergoing hormone therapy since the age of 12, and had sex change operation last month. Speaking to the UK’s Sun, Miss Petras, said [...]

24Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Chinese man shocked to learn his girlfriend of 4yrs is a man

Sindh Today New Delhi, Jun 4 (ANI): A Chinese man was shocked to learn that the woman he had been dating for four years was actually a man. The young migrant worker, however, remained open minded to the fact upon being informed by his girlfriend, surnamed Xia, when they met recently in Changchun, Jilin province, [...]

6Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex-change clinic ‘got it wrong’

Jill Stark – The Age AUSTRALIA’S only sex-change clinic has been temporarily shut down and its controversial director forced to quit amid growing claims that patients with psychiatric problems have been wrongly diagnosed as transsexuals and encouraged to have radical gender reassignment surgery. The Sunday Age has been told at least eight former patients of [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Castro’s daughter: Cuba to reinstate sex changes

Associated Press Cuba will reinstate sex-change operations previously banned on the island, President Raul Castro’s daughter Mariela said Wednesday. The Health Ministry authorized the operations last year, but none has been performed since. It was unclear when the surgeries would begin. Mariela Castro, a sexologist and gay-rights advocate, announced the return of sex-change procedures in [...]

27May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex swap air traffic controller warned over miniskirts

Billy Paterson A SEX change air traffic controller has been reprimanded by bosses because her miniskirts were distracting fellow workers. Striking 6ft 4ins Jasmine Doherty was asked to tone down her dress by bosses at Atlantic House in Prestwick, Ayrshire. Jasmine started her working life as James Doherty but had a sex change operation in [...]

27Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Paredes humbled on debut

A Chilean transsexual became the first to play in a professional women’s tournament for more than 30 years after being given permission by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Thirty-two years after American Renee Richards became the first transsexual in the professional game, Andrea Paredes von Roth made her debut in Buenos Aires in a Futures [...]

23Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funding cut angers transgendered

Human rights complaint considered By Jodie Sinnema, with files from Michelle Lang, Edmonton Journal; Calgary Herald Dismayed and angry members of Alberta’s transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the provincial government said it will stop paying for gender reassignment surgery. “It’s a matter of life and death,” said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, [...]

14Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender city manager lands in Lake Worth

Susan Stanton now has a city to lead. Stanton, who was fired as Largo city manager after her plans to have a sex change operation became public, was hired this week as city manager of Lake Worth. In 2007, Stanton was a finalist for the city manager job in Sarasota. City commissioners instead chose Robert [...]

9Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex-change for free

Vinay Sitapati Ippadiku Rose (Yours, Rose) is by any yardstick, an unusual TV programme. The Tamil talk show deals with sexuality and sexual taboos. And its host, the lovely Rose — formerly Ramesh Venkatesan, graduate of Lousiana Technical University — underwent a sex-change operation and is now a transgender icon. It’s no coincidence that the [...]

14Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transexual woman ran out of town

A transexual has fled the Sunshine Coast after an alleged vicious attack on a Caloundra street left her afraid to venture outside. Alice (not her real name), was born male but has identified as a female since she was five. On Tuesday evening, Alice, 40, said she and her daughter, 13, set out along Landsborough [...]

10Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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