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All Posts Tagged With: "transgender men"

Police Reportedly Ask Transgender Topless Sunbathers To Put Tops Back On

MYFOXDC.COM
REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware – Rehoboth Beach lifeguards requested police assistance late Saturday afternoon for a situation involving a group of transgender men who had their breasts exposed according to a report by the Rehoboth Weekend Update.
The on-line publication reported that the incident happened near the surf off near Queen Street around 4:45 p.m.
The report says [...]

1Jun2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender men seek end to Guyana dress code laws

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country’s Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers.
Police in the tiny South American country, where both homosexuality and transgender dress have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held six [...]

23Feb2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Somerville Rep. Sciortino continues fight for transgender right

State House News Service
Somerville —
Legislation adding gender identity to the state’s non-discrimination laws has long had majority support in the House and Senate, but with most of the 2009-2010 session over, the bills (H 1728 and S 1687) have yet to move out of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, which held a packed hearing on the [...]

23Jan2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

New law for sex changes

Jane Fugal
BANGKOK – Thailand has issued rules making sex change surgery more difficult.
This includes that potential candidates must cross-dress for a year because some patients rush into the operation, a medical association said .
Transsexuals and transgender men are a common sight in Thailand, appearing in soap operas and working at all levels of Bangkok society, [...]

27Nov2009 | Sara | 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 more than [...]

16Sep2009 | Sara | 1 comment | 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 they could [...]

26Jun2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals find new body doesn’t ensure happiness

There are no official statistics on the number of transgender people in Vietnam and how many undergo gender reassignment surgery.

But post-operative transsexuals say the painful and expensive medical procedures they endured didn’t give them the normal lives they were expecting.
Several local transgender men have sought sex change operations overseas because the surgery is not performed [...]

10Dec2008 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals May Alter Their Identity In Mexico City

By On Top Magazine Staff

Starting Monday, transsexuals will be allowed to alter their name and sex on identity documents in Mexico City, reports the Spanish news agency EFE.
Transgender men and women wishing to alter their identity will need to provide a birth certificate and proof of their altered sex. [...]

28Nov2008 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Couples: Changing the Face of Family

A Spectrum of Paths to Parenthood, Long Before Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie
By ALAN B. GOLDBERG and JONEIL ADRIANO
Is Thomas Beatie the first legal pregnant man? That’s a question that can’t be answered with absolute certainty.
Stephanie Brill, director of Maia Midwifery & Preconception Services and founder of Gender Spectrum, told ABC’s Barbara Walters that Beatie was [...]

15Nov2008 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued