URNA Staff CityPaper.net – by Ashlea Halpern
The strange allure of cross-dressers
My first exposure to cross-dressers was the granny-wigged Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, followed by Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady.” My inaugural in-person CD encount…
MySanAntonio.com – Marvin Hurst – KENS 5 Eyewitness News
A man told police he was beaten and raped early Wednesday morning by a transvestite he met at a bar.
Police say the man left the bar with the suspect, going to an apartment on the 400 block…
PopMatters.com – Bill Gibron
Van Smith never won an Oscar. He was never idolized or celebrated by a vehement genre audience like Dick Smith or Tom Savini. If his chief collaborator, cinematic genius John Waters, was the ?Pope of Puke?, Smith was his…
PlanetOut.com
The New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would make the Garden State the ninth in the nation to outlaw discrimination based on gender identity or expression. The bill, passed by the state Senate on Monday, now goes …
News.com.au
A Victorian man who stabbed a woman after learning during foreplay that she was a transsexual was jailed today for at least 4-? years.
Clinton Dwayne McRae, 28, of Pakenham, discovered the woman he met at a city nightspot was a transs…
English.People.com.cn
A would-be woman surnamed Chen arrives at a plastic hospital in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province where she will take a second-stage transsexual surgery December 12, 2006.
A would-be woman surnamed Chen reads bea…
OrlandoSentinel.com – Nin-Hai Tseng – Sentinel Staff Writer
Sexual allegations were made against Mount Dora lieutenant
Mount Dora – Dogged by accusations that he sexually abused and threatened a transvestite last month as well as the subsequent d…
Slate.com – By Kenji Yoshino
Sex and the CityNew York City bungles transgender equality.
Posted Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, at 2:43 PM ET
Last week, New York City’s Board of Health scuttled a proposal that would have given people more freedom to chan…
IHT.com – The Associated Press
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Transsexuals are gaining more acceptance in mostly Muslim Malaysia, a well-known transsexual said Tuesday, a little more than a year after she held a high-profile but controversial wedding with …
The Two Types of Trans People
Yes, you heard it right, ladies. I and many other people in the know believe there are two types of MTF trans people, not the traditional triumvirate of crossdressers, transsexuals, and drag queens, but a dynamic duo…