All Posts Tagged With: "sex change"

Endocrine Society released guidelines for treatment of transsexuals

Guidelines include recommendations for hormone therapy, surgery and long-term care for all ages. Hembree WC. J Clin Endocrinol Metab New guidelines from the Endocrine Society call for close and continued collaboration between endocrinologists and mental health professionals for the treatment of transsexual people. “The twentieth century marked the beginning of a social awakening for men [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

£10M NHS BILL AS SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS SOAR

By Martyn Brown – Daily Express RECORD numbers of people are having sex-change operations on the NHS, costing the taxpayer up to £10million. More than 1,000 have had the surgery in the last decade, according to new figures obtained by the Daily Express. The number has trebled since the procedure became a “right” 10 years [...]

6Jul2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

It’s easy to get a sex change in Iran

Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed Hanna Rosin – The Star The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-rock band. One gay-looking Adonis sits on the arm of a red leather [...]

27Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and [...]

26Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and [...]

24Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

World’s youngest sex change patient speaks out

The youngest ever transsexual has spoken out about her physical transformation. German Kim Petras was born Tim, but says she knew she was a girl since she was toddler. She had been undergoing hormone therapy since the age of 12, and had sex change operation last month. Speaking to the UK’s Sun, Miss Petras, said [...]

24Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

China preps 1st guidelines for sex change surgery

By GILLIAN WONG BEIJING (AP) — China’s first medical guidelines on sex change surgery could require patients to gain police approval before the procedure, according to a posting on the Health Ministry’s Web site. The proposed guidelines, posted Tuesday, say candidates for surgery must show an agreement from police to change their sex on their [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

TSA To Require Date of Birth and Gender From Air Passengers

TS-Si Fairfax, VA, USA. The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has launched a national public awareness campaign that educates passengers about TSA’s upcoming “Secure Flight” program, a collaborative effort with the airlines that enhances watch list matching through a phased-in approach. The government says that additional data elements may be requested, such as date of [...]

16Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Chastity Bono Undergoing Sex Change

KTLA News LOS ANGELES — Chastity Bono, the daughter of Sonny and Cher, is in the early stages of a gender change. Chastity is undergoing treatment to become a man. Bono, who is a civil rights advocate, journalist, author and musician, began the process earlier this year, publicist Howard Bragman told KTLA. She is 40 [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Australian Aims to Become First Transsexual Pro Footballer

By David Salter | Gaywired.com An Aussie Rules football fan is looking to become the first transsexual to play the competitive sport, according to an article in Sunday’s edition of The Age. Will, who asked not to use his last name, told The Age writer Jill Stark, “I’m just an ordinary guy who wants to [...]

10Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Chinese man shocked to learn his girlfriend of 4yrs is a man

Sindh Today New Delhi, Jun 4 (ANI): A Chinese man was shocked to learn that the woman he had been dating for four years was actually a man. The young migrant worker, however, remained open minded to the fact upon being informed by his girlfriend, surnamed Xia, when they met recently in Changchun, Jilin province, [...]

6Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Venezuela ‘silent’ on hate crimes rise

By Will Grant BBC News, Caracas In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months. But when you find out that all four were transsexuals or transgender, it [...]

3Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex-change clinic ‘got it wrong’

Jill Stark – The Age AUSTRALIA’S only sex-change clinic has been temporarily shut down and its controversial director forced to quit amid growing claims that patients with psychiatric problems have been wrongly diagnosed as transsexuals and encouraged to have radical gender reassignment surgery. The Sunday Age has been told at least eight former patients of [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Castro’s daughter: Cuba to reinstate sex changes

Associated Press Cuba will reinstate sex-change operations previously banned on the island, President Raul Castro’s daughter Mariela said Wednesday. The Health Ministry authorized the operations last year, but none has been performed since. It was unclear when the surgeries would begin. Mariela Castro, a sexologist and gay-rights advocate, announced the return of sex-change procedures in [...]

27May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Scots police most modern in Europe for employing transsexuals

Norman Silvester -Sunday Mail Scots police have been praised as the most modern in Europe for employing transsexuals. The first transgender or sex change police officer in Scotland’s largest force, Strathclyde, will start work as a trainee WPC tomorrow. Abigail Austin, formerly paratrooper Ian Hamilton, will take the total of Scots sex change cops to [...]

17May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Blurring gender for sense of self

By: Jessica Fryman – The Nevada Sagebrush The term transsexual woman fits 33-year-old student Corinna Cohn, but her identity goes deeper than what her body shows. “I want to be considered as somebody who is an economist, somebody who is libertarian and conservative in principle. Somebody who is smart. Somebody who’s friendly,” Cohn, who plans [...]

5May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex swap air traffic controller warned over miniskirts

Billy Paterson A SEX change air traffic controller has been reprimanded by bosses because her miniskirts were distracting fellow workers. Striking 6ft 4ins Jasmine Doherty was asked to tone down her dress by bosses at Atlantic House in Prestwick, Ayrshire. Jasmine started her working life as James Doherty but had a sex change operation in [...]

27Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funding for sex change therapy

Transgender patients in Wales will now be able to access funding for gender reassignment therapy under a new policy by the Health Commission Wales (HCW). Previously “exceptional circumstances” had to be applied to funding applications for treatment of gender dysphoria. The condition means those affected feel trapped in the body of the wrong sex. The [...]

23Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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