All Posts Tagged With: "transgendered"

Transgenders to be separate category in Census

Press Trust Of India The Technical Advisory Committee constituted by Registrar General has recommended inclusion of transgender community in the census as a separate gender and not as males as is the present practice. In an RTI reply to Dr SE Huda of Bareilly based-NGO SSFA-ESFI, the Registrar General has said that the TAC has [...]

24Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

First known transgender man to give birth delivers third child

Source: news.com.au A TRANSGENDERED American, widely known for becoming the world’s first “pregnant man”, is celebrating the arrival of his third child. Thomas Beatie was born a female but underwent a sexual reassignment procedure in order to become a man, RadarOnline said. He became pregnant by artificial insemination and gained worldwide attention in 2007 after [...]

3Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgendered in Hay River

Elizabeth McMillan – Northern News Services HAY RIVER – Dean Landrie isn’t your typical truck driver. For one thing, he likes to wear nail polish and nylons. He also goes by Gabrielle Sky and wants to become a woman. Landrie isn’t concerned with labels, and neither is his wife of almost 20 years. “I’ve spent [...]

4Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Violence Against the Transgendered Only Getting Worse

by Joseph Erbentraut – EDGE Nearly a month has passed since the Aug. 26 murder of Ty’lia “NaNa Boo” Mack, a 21-year-old transgender woman, in Washington, D.C. But the violent crime remains on the top of the minds of transgender advocates nationwide. In its wake, many are left wondering whether crimes like the one against [...]

30Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Gay Bar’s New ID Policy Is a Drag

Club requires ID that matches “gender presentation” By MATT BARTOSIK – NBC Chicago Gay men and lesbian women often joke about the “membership credentials” they must have in order to be gay, a.k.a. their “gay card.” But a popular gay bar in Elk Grove Village wasn’t kidding when it imposed a new policy, requiring an [...]

21Sep2009 | | 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

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

Transgender youth wants genderless bathrooms

Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – A transgendered South Burlington High School senior is asking the Vermont Human Rights Commission to back an effort to require the state’s middle and high schools to offer genderless bathrooms. Sixteen-year-old Kyle Giard-Chase told the commission Thursday that until a year ago he was a three-sport athlete and the [...]

27Aug2009 | | 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

Transgender Issues 101: What is the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation?

Matt Kailey – Transgender Issues Examiner Many people confuse gender identity and sexual orientation, assuming that transgendered male-to-female (MTF) individuals are really gay men and that transgendered female-to-male (FTM) individuals are really lesbians. This is why trans women (who were born male but have a female gender identity) in particular are often subjected to anti-gay [...]

20Jul2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Maine rules in favor of transgendered student on restroom use

Matt Kailey – Transgender Issues Examiner The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled in favor of a transgendered male-to-female student who was not allowed to use to girls’ restroom. The Bangor Daily News reports that the child, who was born male but who has a female gender identity and lives as a girl, had been using [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

FedEx delivers the goods for transgendered

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow Without a vote from shareholders, one of America’s largest corporations has decided to grant its transgender employees special protected status. Memphis-based FedEx has agreed to implement a shareholder resolution proposed by Huffington Post blogger Sara Whitman that would add “gender identity” to the company’s non-discrimination policy. Whitman is a self-proclaimed “married [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Today is big day for women, trans folk

By TAMARA CHERRY – Toronto Sun First they will march. Then they will celebrate. It will be a Dyke Day Afternoon around the gay village today as the lesbian, transsexual and transgendered communities make their voices heard. Unlike tomorrow’s infamous Pride parade, which is expected to attract more than a million participants and spectators, this [...]

27Jun2009 | | 0 comments | 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

Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sydney Dupree came to Los Angeles because, as a young male-to-female transsexual, she found Memphis hostile. She came to the transgender job fair because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles. Dupree has been frustrated by discrimination and employers who turn skittish when confronted [...]

6Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Dunedin ordinance widen to include sexual orientation, gender identification

By Theresa Blackwell, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer DUNEDIN — When a team of African-American police officers came down from Chicago 20 or 25 years ago to compete in the Highland Games tug-of-war, a local restaurant refused to serve them, City Attorney John Hubbard said. So Dunedin adopted an ordinance that requires businesses open to [...]

31May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Boy Barred From Catholic School

Parents Of 8-Year-Old Allow ‘Him’ To Live As ‘Her’ WLWT Channel 5 OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha couple is allowing their 8-year-old son to openly live life as a girl. It’s a decision that means the child is no longer able to attend Catholic school. Therapists and the child’s parents say the second grade student [...]

19May2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Tiaras at Thai transsexual beauty contest

PATTAYA, Thailand (AFP) — Resplendent in a figure-hugging grey and black dress, Sorrawee Nattee wept tears of joy after being crowned Thailand’s most beautiful transsexual at a unique pageant. Sorrawee took the top prize at Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2009 in the beach resort of Pattaya, beating off 29 other transsexuals and receiving a small Honda [...]

17May2009 | | 3 comments | Continued
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