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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Female 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Petros 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Fired 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Texas 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Phase-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 | | 1 comment | Continued

Lesbians 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Penn 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

Scotsman 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 | | 0 comments | Continued

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 call to [...]

8Mar2010 | | 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 [...]

23Feb2010 | | 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 [...]

31Jan2010 | | 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 [...]

10Jan2010 | | 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 [...]

28Dec2009 | | 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 [...]

22Dec2009 | | 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 [...]

4Dec2009 | | 2 comments | 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 [...]

24Nov2009 | | 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 [...]

15Nov2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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