All Posts Tagged With: "sex change operations"

Cuba’s first transsexual in the spotlight

(AFP) HAVANA — The story of Cuba’s first transsexual to undergo gender reassignment surgery is coming to the big screen in a documentary getting its premiere Wednesday on the Communist-ruled island, its director said. “Mavi Sussel underwent (male-to-female) gender reassignment surgery in 1988 and the documentary is a journey inside this woman, and about the [...]

18Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Manchester stylists helping guys to be girls

Source: BBC News In many ways, Transfixed is a salon like any other, catering for those who want to look glamorous for a night out. Unlike other salons though, it is aimed at transgenders and cross-dressers. Set up by Zara Prior and Lisa Breakey, the salon provides hair and beauty treatments, as well as advice [...]

14Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex-change doc likely leaving Trinidad

The Denver Post TRINIDAD — A town nicknamed the “sex-change capital of the world” will probably be losing a surgeon who has performed hundreds of the operations. Dr. Marci Bowers said Monday that she is “98 percent sure” she will be moving to the San Francisco area Oct. 1. “There are advantages to being in [...]

3Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Cubans march against homophobia

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ (AP) HAVANA — Hundreds of gay and lesbian activists, some dressed in drag and others sporting multicolored flags representing sexual diversity, marched and danced through the streets of Havana on Saturday along with the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro as part of a celebration aimed at eliminating homophobia around the world. [...]

15May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Turkey’s gays, transsexuals decry increasing homophobia

By Nicolas Cheviron (AFP) ISTANBUL — When Turkey’s family affairs minister recently described homosexuality as a curable disease, she was roundly criticized for discrimination and flouting human rights. But for activists her remarks only underscore what they say is increasing prejudice, discrimination and violence — even from police — against homosexuals and transgender people in [...]

5Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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20-year-old man eager for sex change: ‘Even if I die from it’

With brown-dyed hair, miniskirt, black silk stockings and tender voice, a 20-year-old Jiangxi man Liu Jun is always considered as a girl. He said he is eager for sex change surgery but still can’t pay for it. “I’ve known for years I’m a woman – I think and act like a woman, not a man. [...]

24Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Cuba performing state-sponsored sex change surgery

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ The Associated Press HAVANA — Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro’s daughter said Tuesday. A sexologist and gay-rights advocate, Mariela Castro runs the Center for Sex Education, which prepares transsexuals for sex-change operations and identifies Cubans [...]

19Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

No surgical sex change? No problem at BMV to alter gender on licenses

Those wishing a change need only a doctor’s statement to verify gender identity. By Marc Kovac – Vindy.com COLUMBUS — Ohioans wanting to change their gender on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards no longer have to have their body parts medically altered, under a new policy introduced by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles this [...]

20Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

£10M NHS BILL AS SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS SOAR

By Martyn Brown – Daily Express RECORD numbers of people are having sex-change operations on the NHS, costing the taxpayer up to £10million. More than 1,000 have had the surgery in the last decade, according to new figures obtained by the Daily Express. The number has trebled since the procedure became a “right” 10 years [...]

6Jul2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Venezuela ‘silent’ on hate crimes rise

By Will Grant BBC News, Caracas In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months. But when you find out that all four were transsexuals or transgender, it [...]

3Jun2009 | | 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

Transgender rally pushes for restored funding

Advocates tell MLAs debating health-care budget to reconsider cut The Edmonton Journal People from Alberta’s transgender community were holding a rally outside a provincial government health budget debate meeting Monday night to pressure the government to reinstate funding for gender reassignment surgery. The government’s move to cut the funding in April’s budget will save the [...]

7May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

In Changsha: Demonstration for the right to be a woman

Yesterday morning, two young male to female transsexuals took to the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province. They carried banners saying: “I want to have a sex change and live my life as a woman” and “Even if I die from it, I want a sex change, one day as a woman would be worth [...]

15Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals find new body doesn’t ensure happiness

There are no official statistics on the number of transgender people in Vietnam and how many undergo gender reassignment surgery. But post-operative transsexuals say the painful and expensive medical procedures they endured didn’t give them the normal lives they were expecting. Several local transgender men have sought sex change operations overseas because the surgery is [...]

10Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued