News.com.au
A Transsexual woman has lost a Federal Court appeal to have her birth certificate changed to alter her sex from male to female.
The Victorian woman, referred to as AB, completed surgery to alter her sexual organs to become a female in…
WashingtonPost.com
Mayor Sheila Dixon, the first black woman to hold Baltimore’s top office, scored a decisive victory yesterday in the Democratic mayoral primary. Dixon, 53, has held the office since taking over from Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) in Jan…
Metro.co.uk – by Andrew Williams
Drag queen Jodie Harsh hosts London club nights Circus and Foreign and is becoming a cult celebrity in her own right, popping up in fashion magazines and on TV shows. The alter ego of former London College of Fashion…
URNotAlone is constantly changing and growing with our members needs and requests. At the beginning of August, we asked our Silver Members what they thought about us relaxing our photo requirements to make Silver Membership more accessible to more peop…
PinkNews.co.uk – Tony Grew
A Lithuanian transsexual has won a case at the European Court of Human Rights over claims that he has been blocked from completing his gender transition.
The seven judges also ruled that Lithuania must implement new leg…
WWeek.com – By Stephen Marc Beaudoin
Why was it that the clown makeup bedecked drag queen moved me beyond description, but the well-pedigreed contemporary dance company from NYC left me cold?
This is what’s been knocking around in my too-stuffed …
TurkishDailyNews.com
Istanbul – Starting from illegal arrests to media portrayal of the events, a series of human rights violations have taken place, argue gay, lesbian, transvestite and transsexual nongovernmental organizations Kaos GL and Pembe Ha…
AFP.Google.com
Singapore (AFP) – She loves children and her lifelong dream is to be a wife and a mother, but the raspy voice and masculine frame betray the fact that Leona Lo was born a man.
Unlike many other transsexuals in Asia who prefer to li…
BrooklynRail.org – by Eleanor Bader
She?s Not The Man I Married
When writer Helen Boyd (born Gail Kramer) was growing up, she wanted to be C.S. Lewis. ?What that meant was unclear,? she laughs, sitting in her small Park Slope living room, a pack…
TheStar.com – By Elizabeth Tai
WHEN Sarika was forced to bow out of She?s My Son because of her second sister?s protests, she was furious.
?I?m really mad (at my sister?s reaction),? said Sarika when I met her in July.
?She?s scared that m…