All Posts Tagged With: "transsexual"

Cuba’s first transsexual in the spotlight

(AFP) HAVANA — The story of Cuba’s first transsexual to undergo gender reassignment surgery is coming to the big screen in a documentary getting its premiere Wednesday on the Communist-ruled island, its director said. “Mavi Sussel underwent (male-to-female) gender reassignment surgery in 1988 and the documentary is a journey inside this woman, and about the [...]

18Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in Hong Kong fights to marry her boyfriend

Source: BBC News, Hong Kong In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend. The transsexual, who remains anonymous, has been blocked from doing so by the Hong Kong authorities. A Chinese woman in her twenties, identified only as [...]

9Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid

(AFP) HONG KONG — A Hong Kong transsexual has launched a landmark court challenge to win the right to marry her boyfriend after city officials blocked the move, a report said Sunday. The Chinese woman in her 20s — who was born a man — was denied the right to marry her male partner by [...]

8Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Reading transsexual to wait for NHS breast op ruling

BBC News A transsexual who started a High Court battle for the legal right to NHS funding for breast augmentation surgery will have to wait for a judgement. The woman, of Reading, and referred to as C, is fighting a test case against a continuing refusal by West Berkshire PCT to fund the £2,300 procedure. [...]

13May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals call for improved rights

IŞIL ARSLAN-HÜSEYİN TÜCCAR BURSA – Doğan News Agency A lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, association in the western province of Bursa has called on the government to start an initiative to institutionally secure the rights of members of this marginalized group. Öykü Evren, the head of the Bursa-based association known as Rainbow, which [...]

30Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay, Lesbian Workers Increasingly At Home In the City

By JAVIER ESPINOZA – Wall Street Journal LONDON—Two years ago, Ashley Steel would have told you the City needs to do more to make gay people feel more able to be themselves. But the openly lesbian board member from accountancy company KPMG Europe LLP thinks a lot has improved in recent years. “If there is [...]

16Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual told she can’t use ladies’ toilets

by Sophie Doughty, Sunday Sun A PRE-OP transsexual was left hurt and humiliated when staff at her local pub told her she could no longer use the ladies’ loos. Katrina Harte, who is awaiting surgery that will transform her from a man to a woman, has been a regular customer at the Briar Dene, in [...]

31Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

A remarkably unremarkable role

Maggie Downs • The Desert Sun One actress attending the Palm Springs International Film Festival hopes her movie will do more than entertain — she wants it to be a positive step for transgender people everywhere. Maria Clara Spinelli is one of the stars of the Brazilian film “Paulista,” which follows three people plunging into [...]

13Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Amanda Simpson: transgender woman appointed to Department of Commerce

Transgender & Transsexual Issues Examiner – Matt Kailey The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) has issued the following press release: Amanda Simpson, who has served on NCTE’s Board of Directors for the past three years, has been appointed by the Obama Administration as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce. She’ll be [...]

31Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

North Wales Police vow crackdown as figures show one hate crime a day

By Martin Williams, Daily Post POLICE vowed to crack down on racist and homophobic offenders after new figures revealed an average of more than one hate crime a day in North Wales. There have been 1,130 hate crimes reported across the region in the last three years. They included 851 racial attacks and 166 homophobic [...]

28Dec2009 | | 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 [...]

22Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual queen calls for tolerance

AFP JAPANESE TV personality Ai Haruna said she wants her country to be more tolerant toward people of diverse sexual orientations, a month after she was crowned the world’s most beautiful transsexual. Haruna, 37, already a household name in Japan, was chosen Miss International Queen 2009 at a pageant in Thailand last month after judges [...]

3Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals: The paperwork is just too much

By RACHAEL KAM – The Star Online PETALING JAYA: For some transsexuals, it is easier to have their sex reassigned but it is almost impossible to change their gender and photograph from male to female in their identification papers. Expressing support and empathy for transsexual Mohammed Fazdil Min Bahari, popularly known as Fatine who is [...]

3Dec2009 | | 0 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 [...]

15Nov2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

India Adds Third Gender Option to Voting Rolls: ’Other’

by Kilian Melloy – Edge Boston Transsexual and intersex people going to the polls in India will no longer have to choose between identifying themselves as male or female, now that a third category for gender has been added. The new option–”O” for “Other”–has been added alongside the “M” and “F” choices for use by [...]

14Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Aussie gov’t apologizes to transsexual

SYDNEY, Oct. 31 (UPI) — A transsexual has won an apology from the Australian government for having to travel on a passport identifying her as a man, officials confirm. Stefanie Imbruglia, 42, a first cousin of pop singer Natalie Imbruglia, applied for a passport in 2007 to travel to Bangkok for sex reassignment surgery. Having [...]

1Nov2009 | | 0 comments | 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 [...]

26Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities

By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, (IPS) – A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights. “The Pride March [...]

27Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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