All Posts Tagged With: "transvestites"

Manchester stylists helping guys to be girls

Source: BBC News In many ways, Transfixed is a salon like any other, catering for those who want to look glamorous for a night out. Unlike other salons though, it is aimed at transgenders and cross-dressers. Set up by Zara Prior and Lisa Breakey, the salon provides hair and beauty treatments, as well as advice [...]

14Aug2010 | | 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

A family made, not born

Pakistani outcasts live together after their families abandoned them because they are congenital eunuchs and hermaphrodites By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Wearing a red knit bonnet, matching lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular forearms, Ms. Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the call to [...]

8Mar2010 | | 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

SC advice to hire hijras for recovery of loans: Transvestites say it’s payback time

From Daily Times KARACHI: The transgender community in Sindh is thrilled by the recent advice given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to the government to use the services of transvestites for the recovery of outstanding bank loans from defaulters. During a survey, some of the transvestites showed enthusiasm over the advice and said they [...]

27Dec2009 | | 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

Tampa weighs protections for transgender individuals

By CHRISTIAN M. WADE | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA – Should transgender individuals be protected under the city’s code? Tampa’s Human Rights Board believes so and on Thursday asked the city council to consider extending the protections offered to other minorities to transgender groups. The board wants to extend laws already prohibiting discrimination in housing, [...]

1Oct2009 | | 0 comments | 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

Tasmanian take on transgender issues

by Şafak Timur – Hurriyet Daily News ISTANBUL -They are often in the media when they are arrested for prostitution, beaten by a client or police, or worst of all when they are victims of a hate crime. But this time transgender people living in Istanbul are on camera to talk about themselves and their [...]

11May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Melek Murdered in Ankara

Friends protest rising violence against LGBT individuals. BİA News Center – Ankara Friends of murdered transgender and Pink Life LGBT support Association Melek K. (25) protest mounting violence and attacks in recent months. Melek was murdered on 10 April, at her home in Ankara, Kavaklıdere. As the group light candles in front of her house, [...]

14Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued