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All Posts Tagged With: "sex change"

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

Transgendered soldiers fall into grey zone for otherwise open Canadian military

By Tobi Cohen (CP)
MONTREAL — Chris already has manly muscles, facial hair, a baritone voice and was accepted years ago by family and friends as a man.
But he’s been told he cannot work for the Canadian military until he also gets a penis.
The story of this transgendered applicant to the Canadian Forces suggests that even [...]

22Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Boy, 8, has ’sex change’

An eight-year-old boy, Joey Romero, has become a girl called Josie in a remarkable US gender-swap case that features in a new Channel 4 documentary.
By Alastair Jamieson – Telegraph.co.uk
Josie was diagnosed as transgender at the age of six.
Her sex has been legally changed and she will undergo surgery and drug treatment to help her [...]

16Oct2009 | Sara | 2 comments | Continued

Uruguay congress legalizes sex changes

(AFP)
MONTEVIDEO — Uruguay’s congress Monday approved a sex change law, the latest liberal move by the tiny South American nation which has also given the nod to civil unions for gays and adoptions by gay couples.
The sex change bill, approved by the Senate on Monday and last month by the Chamber of Deputies, sets the [...]

12Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued