All Posts Tagged With: "world health organization"

Female circumcision victims seek out Colo. doctor

By CATHERINE TSAI (AP) TRINIDAD, Colo. — This picturesque southern Colorado town known for decades as the sex-change capital of the world — thousands of gender-reassignment operations have been performed here — is becoming a beacon for victims of female genital mutilation. Dr. Marci Bowers has performed about two dozen reconstructive surgeries on mostly African [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transexuals Take Leading Role in Madrid’s Gay Pride Parade

Source: Latin American Herald Tribune MADRID – Thousands of people paraded Saturday through downtown Madrid in a festive, colorful march giving visibility of transexuals, a group that took the leading role in this year’s Gay Pride demonstration in Spain. The parade attracted, according to the organizers – the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transexuals and [...]

4Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued