URNA Staff JoongAngDaily.Joins.com.com – By Jang Joo-young JoongAng Ilbo / Kim Mi-ju
Police yesterday arrested a group of traffickers who allegedly recruited Korean men and transgenders and illegally transported them to Japan to work in the sex industry there….
ColorsNW.com – by Meg Krugel
There wasn’t an exact moment when they knew.
For the five people of color featured in this article, outward changes started at different ages ranging from 5 to 33. Inward changes happened much before that. The realiza…
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Sea pollution makes gender- bending snails
Rome – The murex, one of Sicily’s best-loved shell-fish, is facing extinction because of widespread sex changes caused by compounds in paints protecting the hulls of boats, environmentalists warn…
Xtra.ca – Nisa Malli
Being dead is a full-time gig for Dead Dolls dancer and choreographer Velma Candyass. “We have a show almost every week,” she says. “We’re always in costume-creation mode.” The Dolls are a grimey gorlesque troupe, grown out of …
WashingtonCityPaper.com – Posted by Jason Cherkis
Today, the D.C. Department of Corrections issued a “program statement” establishing new procedures in how it classifies and houses transgendered inmates at the D.C. Jail. This is a huge step, and a s…
NewsBiscuit.com – Neal Doran
Friends of Paul Wooton, a transgender man who unexpectedly returned to the UK after completing sex realignment surgery in Hungary, were disappointed to report that despite the life-changing transformation, ‘deep down she…
NYDailyNews.com – Elizabeth Weitzman
Madea’s back, and not a moment too soon. For one thing, we really need her brand of tough love now. As we’ll see in “Madea Goes to Jail,” which opens today, this multiplex matriarch could shape our nation up in n…
SouthernVoice.com – By Dyana Bagby
Benefit to send drag king to state pageant at MSR
My Sisters’ Room is the place to be for the ladies as the lesbian bar hosts a benefit show for drag king Owen McCord to send him to the Mr. Georgia USofA pageant…
AllAfrica.com – Audrey Mbugua
Outlining the essential differences between sex and gender, Audrey Mbugua discusses the damaging general incomprehension of transsexualism within Kenyan society. Drawing upon personal experience of prejudice in the fiel…
InForum.com – By: Amy Dalrymple
The North Dakota Senate voted 27-19 on Wednesday in support of a bill that adds gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals to the protected classes in the state Human Rights Act.
Senate Bill 2278 prohibi…