All Posts Tagged With: "sex change"
Singapore native acts out the lives of Asian transsexuals
By Luis Torres de la Llosa (AFP) NEW YORK — The life of a transexual in Asia is limited to sexual work — such is the searing viewpoint of Singapore native Leona Lo, who traveled to New York to present a first-person, three-act play on the subject. The “Ah Kua Show” is a collage of [...]
27Aug2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedFemale circumcision victims seek out Colo. doctor
By CATHERINE TSAI (AP) TRINIDAD, Colo. — This picturesque southern Colorado town known for decades as the sex-change capital of the world — thousands of gender-reassignment operations have been performed here — is becoming a beacon for victims of female genital mutilation. Dr. Marci Bowers has performed about two dozen reconstructive surgeries on mostly African [...]
11Aug2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedPetros becomes Patricia
Source: Times of Swaziland MANZINI – A Swazi male teacher has become a woman after undergoing a sex change procedure. Her name used to be Petros but she is now known as Patricia. She is even dating a man. She decided that she no longer wanted to be a man after discovering that she was [...]
27Jul2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedFired for sex change
Source: timeslive.co.za Chris Ehlers, a 43-year-old part way through a sex change, has taken her employer to court for discriminating against her since she became “Christine”. The case will be heard by the Labour Court over three days next week. Ehlers was fired after her employers, the multinational steel retailer Bohler Uddeholm Africa, found that [...]
15Jul2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedTexas may be forced to allow a gay marriage
From dallasvoice.com There’s a fascinating little case out of El Paso in which a male-to-female transgender person is seeking to marry another woman. The Texas Tribune reports that the El Paso county attorney is requesting an opinion from AG Greg Abbott about whether the trans woman can marry another woman, given that the trans woman [...]
5May2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedPhase-out of sex-change funding a ‘reactionary move’: researcher
Alberta Health and Wellness plans end of program by 2014-15 By Jodie Sinnema, edmontonjournal.com EDMONTON — People who have already had voluntary mastectomies or have started hormone therapy that has irreversibly led them to change sexes will be eligible to have their transgender surgery paid for by the province if they apply by July 31. [...]
28Apr2010 | Sara | 1 comment | ContinuedLesbians in relationships with trans people
The Scavenger Trans people are increasingly part of the lesbian/queer community as our relationships and families expand. Katrina Fox talks to couples in which one partner is trans about their love and the special bonds they’ve forged, often as a result of facing adversity together. When I met my partner, Tracie O’Keefe, 18 years ago [...]
19Apr2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedPenn offering sex-change coverage to students
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Transgender students at the University of Pennsylvania will now be eligible for sex change treatments under the school’s new student health plan. University spokesman Ron Ozio says Penn president Amy Gutmann approved the changes last week to the Penn Student Insurance Plan, which is typically used by students who aren’t otherwise covered [...]
16Apr2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedScotsman who underwent sex change wins legal battle to be officially declared neither male nor female
From dailyrecord.co.uk A SCOT has become the world’s first person without an official sex. Norrie May-Welby won a battle with Australian authorities to have a birth certificate which says “sex not specified”. Norrie, 48 – born a male – had a sex change 20 years ago. But Norrie, originally from Paisley, was not happy being [...]
16Mar2010 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedA 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 call to [...]
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