All Posts Tagged With: "transsexuals"

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

17Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

16Apr2010 | | 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

Transitions: Transgender people can struggle to find their identities

By DIANA FISHLOCK, The Patriot-News From the time he could crawl, Jack Bowser was totally into being a boy. “I always wanted the boys’ toys, was always outside doing sports or outside with my dad. I always wanted to wear the boys’ clothes, suits, everything,” said the 45-year-old Ephrata man. Bowser was all boy, except [...]

28Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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20-year-old man eager for sex change: ‘Even if I die from it’

With brown-dyed hair, miniskirt, black silk stockings and tender voice, a 20-year-old Jiangxi man Liu Jun is always considered as a girl. He said he is eager for sex change surgery but still can’t pay for it. “I’ve known for years I’m a woman – I think and act like a woman, not a man. [...]

24Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Miss Transsexual crowned

From starobserver.com.au Chelsey Mikimoto, a transgender showgirl from Melbourne, was crowned Miss Transsexual Australia 2010 in the country’s first-ever beauty pageant for transsexuals and transgenders, held at Melbourne’s Bar 362 last week. Contestants were judged on their creativity, talent, wit, beauty and confidence. Singapore-born Mikimoto, who performs at cabaret shows, nightclubs and entertainment venues around [...]

9Feb2010 | | 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

Paper guilty of transsexual slur

BBC News A Belfast newspaper has been found guilty of breaching the press code of practice for describing a transsexual as ‘a tranny.’ The Sunday Life was reported to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) by a male-to-female transsexual who had worked as a rape counsellor in Belfast. The paper had raised concerns about her suitability [...]

4Jan2010 | | 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

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

Transsexual Is Argentina’s “Woman of the Year”

From Latin American Herald Tribune BUENOS AIRES – A transsexual who recently prevailed in a 10-year-long court battle to receive a new identity document recognizing her as a woman has been honored by lawmakers as Argentina’s “Woman of the Year.” “I am what I am. The right of one person is the right of all,” [...]

27Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

April Ashley: 50 happy years for sex-swap pioneer

Britain’s first transsexual is, in a new exhibition, again challenging ideas about gender, identity and DNA. By Peter Stanford – telegraph.co.uk It always makes me laugh when people say I was born a man,” says April Ashley, who in 1960 became the first Briton to undergo sex-change surgery. “I was born a baby, not a [...]

24Nov2009 | | 2 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

Kinky bible calendar bust up

Austrian Times Furious priests have called for a ban on a kinky bible calendar showing the Virgin Mary as a suspender-belt clad temptress baring her boobs. Another month shows Jesus being held by his transsexual mother while others depict bible scenes exposing bare boobs and men without even Adam’s fig leaf to cover their modesty. [...]

28Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgenders in Chennai launch their own marriage website

By Channel NewsAsia’s India Correspondent Damanjeet Kohli NEW DELHI : Transgenders in India’s Chennai city have launched their own marriage website through which they hope to find like-minded suitors. One can often see them dancing at weddings or at the blessing ceremonies of newborn babies. They appear uninvited to seek money. And it is not [...]

19Oct2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Transsexuals Take Position against Chief of Police Hüseyin Çapkın

About 100 people protested in Istanbul’s district of Beyoğlu, claiming that the pressure on tansvestites and transsexuals has increased ever since Hüseyin Çapkın became Chief of Police. Bawer ÇAKIR – Bianet The Istanbul LGTB Initiative and the Labor Movement Party organized a demonstration in Istanbul’s busy district of Beyoğlu to draw attention to the oppression [...]

30Sep2009 | | 0 comments | 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

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
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