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All Posts Tagged With: "sex change"

A family made, not born

Pakistani outcasts live together after their families abandoned them because they are congenital eunuchs and hermaphrodites

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Wearing a red knit bonnet, matching lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular forearms, Ms. Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the [...]

8Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Court turns down man’s request for sex change

Daily Times
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad on Monday dismissed a petition by one Sami Saleem, 30, seeking permission to have a sex-change. The CJ observed that the petitioner lived in Rawalpindi and his case fell under the jurisdiction of the Rawalpindi bench of the LHC. The petitioner submitted that he [...]

23Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual told she can’t use ladies’ toilets

by Sophie Doughty, Sunday Sun
A PRE-OP transsexual was left hurt and humiliated when staff at her local pub told her she could no longer use the ladies’ loos.
Katrina Harte, who is awaiting surgery that will transform her from a man to a woman, has been a regular customer at the Briar Dene, in Whitley Bay, [...]

31Jan2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

City’s birth challenge linked to sex change

The Japan Times
KOBE (Kyodo) A Hyogo Prefecture man who has legally changed his sexual status said Sunday that the city where he lives told him to register his son, who was born through artificial insemination, as an illegitimate child.
Children born through artificial insemination by donors are ordinarily accepted as legitimate, experts say, because municipal offices [...]

10Jan2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Legislative Editor Fired over Sex Change, Seeks Reinstatement

By Alice Gordon, The Atlanta Progressive News
(APN) ATLANTA — A former legislative editor for the Georgia House of Representatives is suing her former employers after she was fired for announcing her intent to transition from a man to a woman.
Glenn Morrison, a former naval lieutenant, was born with Gender Identification Disorder, a medical condition in [...]

28Dec2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Embrace diversity of transgenders

From New Strait Times
Since the media went to town with Fatine Young’s immigration dilemma, questions have arisen on whether our society lacks compassion and kindness when it comes to transgenders. AUDREY VIJAINDREN speaks to experts and religious leaders who believe it’s time Malaysians vacate the judgement seat and adopt a more sympathetic approach.
RUDE whistling from [...]

22Dec2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Sex change trucker: At last I am happy

Alex Bell – Manchester Evening News
A VALLEY dad-of-two has turned his back on a 25-year marriage – to become a woman.
Nikki Jane Weston, formerly known as Nigel, hopes to soon complete a sex change that will forever alter her and her family’s life.
The Newchurch-born 45-year-old has grown long hair and now has breasts and is [...]

4Dec2009 | Sara | 1 comment | Continued

April Ashley: 50 happy years for sex-swap pioneer

Britain’s first transsexual is, in a new exhibition, again challenging ideas about gender, identity and DNA.
By Peter Stanford – telegraph.co.uk
It always makes me laugh when people say I was born a man,” says April Ashley, who in 1960 became the first Briton to undergo sex-change surgery. “I was born a baby, not a man. From [...]

24Nov2009 | Sara | 2 comments | Continued

17 years on the job in Dallas, Officer Joe became Officer Debbie

By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News
After 17 years with the Dallas Police Department, Officer Joseph Grabowski showed up at work one day sporting makeup, a feminine hairstyle and a new first name: Deborah.
The 44-year-old officer was scared and relieved that the secret was finally out.
“I have always felt like a woman and, suddenly, [...]

15Nov2009 | Sara | 1 comment | Continued

Transsexual marriage blessed by priest

Rome – A priest in Italy on Sunday blessed the marriage of a 64-year-old transsexual to her 58-year-old male partner, in defiance of Vatican guidelines, the ANSA news agency reported.
Sandra Alvino – who underwent a sex change more than 30 years ago – and Fortunato Talotta had been in a civil partnership for 25 years [...]

26Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued