Q&A with Norman Spack

Boston.com – By Pagan Kennedy

A doctor helps children change their gender

Children have cut themselves. In some cases, 9- or 10-year-old kids have staged suicide attempts. The little boys sob unless they’re allowed to wear dresses. The girls want…

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UMD drag show educates and entertains

DuluthNewsTribune.com – Jana Hollingsworth – Duluth News Tribune

In 2001, when Angela Nichols sent an e-mail to University of Minnesota Duluth faculty and staff about a drag show on campus, she got some interesting responses.

“People actually e-m…

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Dad is six months pregnant

TheTimes.co.za – Rowan Philp – London

A woman who became a man is now expecting – and finds himself in an ethical morass

The first fertility doctor Thomas Beatie visited told him to shave his beard off. Others refused to call him “him” – because …

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It wasnt my choice to be a transgender

Canada.com – Ethan Baron, The Province

William, born female, has always known he was really male.

At age two, his mother was dressing the family’s children — three daughters — for a Christmas Eve party. William, who then had a girl’s name, was …

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Catwalk Girls Work It

AsianWeek.com – By Bradford Low

San Francisco – As the lights dimmed and the bass from the speakers filled the SomArts Gallery, the sold-out crowd rose to their feet in applause as Tita Aida, the self-proclaimed transgender “hostess with the moistes…

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Officer LGBT-friendly

EdgeBoston.com – by Laura Kiritsy – Bay Windows

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis assumed leadership of the Boston Police Department in December 2006 with a promise to strengthen ties between the department and Boston’s diverse communities. And a …

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