All Posts Tagged With: "transsexuals"

China preps 1st guidelines for sex change surgery

By GILLIAN WONG BEIJING (AP) — China’s first medical guidelines on sex change surgery could require patients to gain police approval before the procedure, according to a posting on the Health Ministry’s Web site. The proposed guidelines, posted Tuesday, say candidates for surgery must show an agreement from police to change their sex on their [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Venezuela ‘silent’ on hate crimes rise

By Will Grant BBC News, Caracas In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months. But when you find out that all four were transsexuals or transgender, it [...]

3Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex-change clinic ‘got it wrong’

Jill Stark – The Age AUSTRALIA’S only sex-change clinic has been temporarily shut down and its controversial director forced to quit amid growing claims that patients with psychiatric problems have been wrongly diagnosed as transsexuals and encouraged to have radical gender reassignment surgery. The Sunday Age has been told at least eight former patients of [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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