All Posts Tagged With: "sex change"

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 [...]

26Oct2009 | | 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 [...]

22Oct2009 | | 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 [...]

16Oct2009 | | 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, [...]

12Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

No surgical sex change? No problem at BMV to alter gender on licenses

Those wishing a change need only a doctor’s statement to verify gender identity. By Marc Kovac – Vindy.com COLUMBUS — Ohioans wanting to change their gender on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards no longer have to have their body parts medically altered, under a new policy introduced by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles this [...]

20Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Boy, 12, turns into girl

By BRIAN FLYNN and VIRGINIA WHEELER – The Sun A BOY aged 12 turned up at school as a GIRL – after changing sex during the summer holidays. Teachers called an emergency assembly to order fellow pupils to treat him as female. The lad, whose parents have changed his name to a girl’s by deed [...]

18Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Nicole Kidman’s latest life-changing role: She’ll play first man to undergo sex change operation

BY Robert Dominguez – NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER She’s worn a fake nose to play a suicidal writer, battled spirits, Yankees, terrorists and space invaders – and spent a year on a movie set playing a sexually-frustrated wife opposite her real-life husband. Now, Nicole Kidman is taking on what could be her most challenging [...]

17Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Changing Genders: An Interview With the World’s Leading Sex Change Surgeon

By Karlie Pouliot – Fox News Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves. In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs [...]

16Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Teenager ‘attacked mother after discovering she had a sex change’, court told

A teenager was charged with assault after he lost his temper and hit his mother whom he discovered was undergoing a sex change, a court has heard. By Andrew Hough – telegraph.co.uk The 15 year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked his mother last month after discovering she wanted to become a man, [...]

12Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New sex change regulation in Thailand

The Nation/Asia News Network By Pongphon Sarnsamak From November 29, the Medical Council of Thailand will strictly enforce new regulations allowing only those transgendered people aged over 18 to undergo a sex-change operation, secretary general Dr Samphan Komrit said yesterday Transgendered people aged 18 to 20 must have parental consent, while those over 20 can [...]

11Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

How the AP Stylebook Fails Transgender Subjects

by Amanda Hess – Washington City Paper The Associated Press Stylebook sets a fairly helpful standard for media coverage of transgender subjects. According to the AP “sex changes” entry, reporters are to: Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics (by hormone therapy, body modification, or surgery) of the opposite [...]

9Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Quebec transgender discrimination case dismissed by rights tribunal

By Marianne White, Canwest News Service QUEBEC — The federal human rights tribunal ruled Tuesday that the Canadian Forces did not discriminate against Micheline Montreuil, one of Canada’s best-known transgendered people, when they refused to enrol her. Montreuil, who was born as a man named Pierre, underwent hormone therapy to grow breasts and changed her [...]

9Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Twilight life of Malaysia’s Muslim transsexuals

By Sarah Stewart (AFP) KUALA LUMPUR — With her tight jeans, elaborate make-up and flowing hair, Tasha looks for all the world like a striking young woman. But her all-important Malaysian ID card declares she is a Muslim man. “In Islam, there are only men and women, there are no transsexuals, and this is an [...]

7Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex change cabbie quits new job

By Chris Visser – www.lep.co.uk A transgender driver’s return behind the wheel of a taxi has lasted just a month. Andre Edwards, 51, walked out of her job at Leyland-based Eco Cabs following a series of rows with her new bosses – and they don’t want her back. The move comes less than a month [...]

29Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

NORTHERN LADS GOING MAD FOR TRANSSEXUAL KIM

By Andy Lea – Daily Star NORTHERN blokes are going nuts for transsexual pop babe Kim Petras. They’ve fallen head over high heels for the shapely 16-year-old, despite the fact Kim used to be a Tim. And to thank them for their backing she’s now planning a 12-date tour of northern towns and cities. Kim [...]

28Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

U.K. officer educates police on transsexualism

By Valerie Berenyi, Calgary Herald CALGARY – Members of the Calgary Police Service attended a workshop on transsexualism Wednesday conducted by a transgendered officer from the U. K. to learn more about diversity issues. Const. Louise Worsfold, who transitioned from male to female in 2004 while working as an officer for the Metropolitan Police Service [...]

24Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Boxer Rob Newbiggen to get sex change and become ‘Mercedes’

by Gemma Jaleel, Southport Visiter SOUTHPORT boxer Rob Newbiggin is to undergo a sex change operation to become a woman named ‘Mercedes’. The father-of-three has forged a 20-year career as a boxer and has even sparred with Ricky Hatton, but has only now decided to make this life-changing decision. Rob, 44, is the resident artist [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual — Qualified for Beauty Contest or Not?

By Kim Rahn – Korean Times Is sex by birth a qualification for a beauty pageant? It appears not, as a male-turned-female transsexual has passed the preliminary stage of the 2009 Super Model Contest. Choi Han-bit, 23, was among 50 participants selected from a list of 1,200 candidates at the preliminary stage of the contest [...]

16Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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