All Posts Tagged With: "sex change surgery"

Another coming out of transsexual teacher

Source: austrianindependent.com Austria has seen a second case of a once male teacher set to return after the summer holidays to school as a woman. Viennese polytechnic college professor Walter S. infuriated some parents and colleagues by revealing last week he has undergone a sex change surgery recently. The federal education ministry however gave the [...]

5Sep2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

Source: Newsweek This spring, an Australian named Norrie May-Welby made headlines around the world as the world’s first legally genderless person when the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages sent the Sydney resident a certificate containing neither M for male or F for female. For a few days, it appeared that the [...]

16Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer

(AFP) HONG KONG — Government lawyers told a Hong Kong court Tuesday that the legislature, not the courts, should decide if a transsexual can marry her boyfriend in the first such legal case in the Chinese city. The male-to-female transsexual, who is in her 20s and known only as “W” under anonymity rules, took the [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in Hong Kong fights to marry her boyfriend

Source: BBC News, Hong Kong In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend. The transsexual, who remains anonymous, has been blocked from doing so by the Hong Kong authorities. A Chinese woman in her twenties, identified only as [...]

9Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

8May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

5May2010 | | 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
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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

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” [...]

3Feb2010 | | 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

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 [...]

3Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

27Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 [...]

17Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Fort Worth panel urges expansion of gay rights

By MIKE LEE -Star-Telegram FORT WORTH — A task force formed in the wake of the arrests at the Rainbow Lounge recommended a series of reforms Tuesday designed to give gay and lesbian residents equal treatment at City Hall. The City Council could vote on one recommendation next week, but it may take time to research [...]

4Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Chaz Bono Writing Sex Change Memoir

Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono is writing her memoir to document her sex change from a woman to a man. The pop superstar’s child, now known as Chaz, began the lengthy gender reassignment process last year and now prefers to be referred to as a ‘he’. News of actress/writer Bono’s sex change surgery was revealed in [...]

23Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual sues NYC Parks Department over firing

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – A former mail room clerk for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation says she was fired from her job because she is a transsexual. Chanel Birden says co-workers made fun of her and called her vulgar names because of her gender change. The 27-year-old Harlem resident [...]

17Jul2009 | | 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
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