Student-Direct.co.uk – by Sam O’Connor
Being transgender is not about choice, it’s about identity.
As I stood in a queue at the local corner-shop, I heard a high-pitched voice beside me at knee height, “Boys, boys, girls, boys, girls, boys”. Look…
TheAustralian.news.com.au – Julie-Anne Davies – Article from: The Australian
A Victorian woman who had sex-change treatment including having her breasts surgically removed is fighting to have the psychiatrist who, she claims, wrongly diagnosed her a…
ColumbiaMissourian.com – By Ben Kleine
Columbia – A group of 30 people met in 2003 with the goal of creating a singular meeting place for all of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups in Columbia. Finally on Saturday, that goal was accomp…
Amarillo.com – By Enrique Rangel
Austin – Equality Texas may not be as well known as other civic groups in the Panhandle, but for the past 15 years or so the Austin-based organization has established a strong presence in Amarillo.
“We (have) buil…
FloridaBlade.com – By Dmitry Rashnitsov
The owner of one of South Florida’s only transgender bars was found dead in his Hallandale Beach home of an accidental drug overdose in late March, according to police reports filed this week.
60-year-old S…
TheDailyAztec.com – Amy Ebersole, Stafff Writer
Two orange bottles: one full of estrogen and the other a testosterone blocker, sit next to a miniature dragon figurine. Both exist in real and virtual reality.
What do dragons, hormone therapy pills…
Xtra.ca – Patty Comeau
Helen Hok-Sze Leung set out to examine Hong Kong’s gay and lesbian cinema, only to find that what she was looking for didn’t exist.
“I discovered that I couldn’t find the kind of expected images that I was used to,” she adm…
Xtra.ca – Kaj Hasselriis
Manitoba’s NDP government refused a proposal to fully fund sex reassignment surgeries for trans people, Xtra.ca has learned. The policy would have brought the province in line with British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec by cov…
GayLesbianTimes.com – Associated Press
Philadelphia (AP) – Hundreds of gay-rights demonstrators marched through the streets of the city’s historic center on Sunday carrying rainbow-colored flags and signs calling for equal rights in marriage, in the…
SoVo.com – By: Dyana Bagby
It was a long car ride for Asha Leong one afternoon when her mother picked her up from high school in Charleston, W.Va., some 14 years ago. A senior at the time, Leong said the typically 30-minute ride seemed interminable …