URNA Staff Our April Member of the Month for 2006 is in. April’s award goes to Miss Karine!
Congratulations Karine, and thanks to everyone who participated! When we reset the ratings, over 60,989 votes had been cast for those competing. Now its time to start f…
StlToday.com – Judith Newmark
Jim J. Bullock knows he ought to play Tracy’s mother Edna in “Hairspray.”
After all, a man always plays the mother. Divine, an enormous transvestite performer, played Edna in John Waters’ original, non-musical movie …
nbc30.com
Luxuria Promises To Fight For Gay Rights
Italy’s first transvestite member of parliament showed up for her first day of work on Friday.
Vladimir Luxuria is the first transgender or transvestite to serve as a member of the Italian par…
La Cross Tribune – Kate Schott
Miguel began wearing lipstick at age 9.
He was born male, but said he always felt like he was female, Anne Rubenstein told a group of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students.
By age 12, Miguel had run away fro…
MiamiHerald.com – Ashley Fantz
A man who was convicted in 2003 in the death of a Carol City secretary by injecting her buttocks with industrial-grade silicone during a so-called ”pumping party” is expected to walk out of prison.
Mark Hawkins, o…
Mainichi Daily News
The European Union’s Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a British law granting pension rights to transsexuals based on their original sex was illegal.
The EU’s highest court said that “the right not to be discriminated again…
Middle East Times
A new reality TV show where eight men dress up and portray themselves as women will be aired in Turkey, but risks stirring controversy in this mainly Muslim country, the Turkish press reported on Thursday.
The program will be br…
Synapse – The UCSF Student Newspaper – Zahra Kassamali – Staff Writer
The transgender population is a group grossly overlooked in healthcare. Considering even the most basic questions on a medical history, the transgender patient runs into a dilemm…
Tikkun – Ari Kristan
As a child, Tucker Lieberman could barely stand to take showers. When he passed the bathroom mirror, he would ?go into what almost seemed like a mild state of shock, with chills and painful, uncontrollable shaking? because the g…
Montreal Mirror – Andrea Zanin
What?s in a name? A whole lot, according to Julie-Maude Beauchesne, president of the Coalition des Transsexuel(le)s et Transsexu?s(e)s du Qu?bec (CTTQ) and chief organizer of this Saturday?s Trans Day of Pride.
?Our…