All Posts Tagged With: "transsexual"

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

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

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

I became a woman at 70, says Sheffield ex miner

By Richard Blackledge – Sheffield Telegraph RACHEL Fleetwood is 75 years old, lives in a Sheffield nursing home – and is most likely Britain’s oldest transsexual. Rachel was in fact born Roy Colton in Brightside, Sheffield, in 1934 – but made the life-changing decision to change from being a man to a woman aged 70, [...]

14Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New film festival to shine spotlight on gay community

By Donecia Pea – Shreveport Times He’s the man with the diminutive stature and syrupy sweet Southern drawl that has endeared him to fans and kept them laughing for decades in his string of guest roles and recurring characters on some of TV’s biggest shows. But Leslie Jordan is most recognizable to fans for his [...]

12Sep2009 | | 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

Uruguay lawmakers approve gay adoptions

(AFP) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Lawmakers in Uruguay on Thursday voted to allow adoptions by gay and lesbian couples, as the tiny nation prepared to set a new precedent in Latin America. The measure still needs to pass through the senate, a move considered a formality since it was already approved there on a first reading. [...]

29Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

World’s first matrimonial site for transsexuals

Insiya Amir – The Times of India Kalki Subramanian is young, liberated and looking for an Indian man who is loving, compassionate, educated. Oh, and one more thing — he should be OK with marrying a transsexual. But Kalki isn’t leaving her hopes for a suitable boy to destiny. The founder-director of the Sahodari foundation, [...]

27Aug2009 | | 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

Transsexual sues NYC Parks Department over firing

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – A former mail room clerk for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation says she was fired from her job because she is a transsexual. Chanel Birden says co-workers made fun of her and called her vulgar names because of her gender change. The 27-year-old Harlem resident [...]

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

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

Face to face with new ideals of feminine beauty

Facial feminisation surgery can help rid clients of unwanted masculine features, writes Carol Hunt – Independent.ie There are not many of us, male or female, who are blessed with the facial beauty of a Jaye Davidson (Dil in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game). As a woman Jaye was good-looking, but as a man he was [...]

12Jul2009 | | 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

Saddam’s rule ‘better’ for gay Iraqis

BBC News Investigating reports of the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq, Ashley Byrne found that some gays found Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship preferable to the threat of violence they face today. Some readers will find parts of his report disturbing. There has been so much news of death and destruction from Iraq that [...]

6Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Couple speak out on transgender issues

By Shaun Hittle – LJ World A lot has changed for Jay Pryor between the time he moved from Lawrence in 1999 until moving back in 2007. For starters, in 1999 Jay Pryor was a woman named Janet Pryor finishing up her bachelor’s degree in communications studies at Kansas University. In his eight years away [...]

6Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay welcome to a bold new beginning

Jen Carswell – Indian Express Drums kept up the tempo as painted bodies danced in the streets around Vakola market, rainbow streamers waving ecstatically through the air. Men were gyrating with other men, and women, and men dressed as women. Gay and transsexual men celebrated the Delhi High Court ruling: their lifestyle and partner choice [...]

2Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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