All Posts Tagged With: "sex change surgery"

China preps 1st guidelines for sex change surgery

By GILLIAN WONG BEIJING (AP) — China’s first medical guidelines on sex change surgery could require patients to gain police approval before the procedure, according to a posting on the Health Ministry’s Web site. The proposed guidelines, posted Tuesday, say candidates for surgery must show an agreement from police to change their sex on their [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Defunding sex-changes is not discrimination

By Naomi Lakritz, Calgary Herald Yes, the government’s decision to axe funding for sex-change surgery is discriminatory, but not the way transgender people think it is. “Discrimination” in this instance refers simply to the act of having to discriminate by choosing among a number of budget options because there isn’t enough health-care money to go [...]

15Apr2009 | | 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
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