All Posts Tagged With: "sex change surgery"
India’s first transgender celebrates birthday
Rose Venkatesan, India’s first transgender to become a television host celebrated her first birthday as a woman.
Thirty-year-old Rose underwent a sex-change surgery in March this year in Thailand to officially become a woman.
An engineering graduate with two post graduate degrees from a US university, Rose was forced out of her home because her parents disapproved [...]
One partner’s male birth status allows two women to get married
By Daniel Borunda \ El Paso Times
EL PASO — Can a person born a man but who is now a woman marry another woman?
Sabrina J. Hill and her longtime girlfriend, Therese “Tee” Bur, were legally married Monday in San Antonio after being unable to get a marriage license in El Paso.
“It’s a weight lifted,” Hill [...]
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 jail [...]
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 jail [...]
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. I [...]
Tax court allows deduction for woman‘s sex change
By DENISE LAVOIE, AP
Rhiannon O‘Donnabhain (oh-DON‘-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for approximately $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery.
In its decision Tuesday, the tax court said the IRS position was “at best a superficial characterization of the circumstances” that is [...]
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 [...]
Transsexuals: The paperwork is just too much
By RACHAEL KAM – The Star Online
PETALING JAYA: For some transsexuals, it is easier to have their sex reassigned but it is almost impossible to change their gender and photograph from male to female in their identification papers.
Expressing support and empathy for transsexual Mohammed Fazdil Min Bahari, popularly known as Fatine who is embroiled in [...]
New law for sex changes
Jane Fugal
BANGKOK – Thailand has issued rules making sex change surgery more difficult.
This includes that potential candidates must cross-dress for a year because some patients rush into the operation, a medical association said .
Transsexuals and transgender men are a common sight in Thailand, appearing in soap operas and working at all levels of Bangkok society, [...]
Hong Kong plays transgender catch-up
By Kent Ewing – Asian Times
HONG KONG – In the biggest challenge yet to traditional Chinese values about sex in this city of 7 million people, a male-to-female transsexual is suing the government for the right to marry her male partner. Moreover, because the plaintiff makes such a compelling case, traditionalists find themselves on the [...]
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