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FreeP.com – By Korie Wilkins – Free Press Staff Writer
Lance Hicks will be one of about 50 teenagers in Ferndale this weekend to talk about equality, activism and health issues as a part of one of the largest gatherings of transgender youth in the M…
NYDailyNews.com – By Dan Gesslein
Valiere, a transgender dominatrix, couldn’t control her crystal meth addiction, which fueled day-long binges of club hopping and sex.
She was finally forced to detox when it led to a health scare.
Valiere is a…
NYTimes.com – By Benedict Carey
In academic feuds, as in war, there is no telling how far people will go once the shooting starts.
Earlier this month, members of the International Academy of Sex Research, gathering for their annual meeting in Van…
PlusNews.org
Colombo, (PlusNews) – In Asia, as in many parts of the world, men who have sex with men often hide their sexual preferences for fear of being harassed by police, ostracised by their families or discriminated against by their communities…
News.BBC.co.uk – By Innes Bowen – Producer, Hecklers, BBC Radio 4
Many people who have been through sex change operations say it was the only solution to a distressing condition.
But a leading feminist campaigner claims that sex reassignment su…
CityPaper.net – by Ashlea Halpern
The plight of modern-day eunuchs, and why they come to Philadelphia
He could’ve filled three Pepsi cans. Maybe three and a half.
That’s how much blood Talula estimates he lost the first time he tried to castra…
AJP.PsychiatryOnline.org – Faycal Mouaffak, M.D., Thierry Gallarda, M.D., Nicolas Baup, M.D., Jean-Pierre Olie, M.D. and Marie-Odile Krebs, M.D., P.h.D.
To The Editor: Gender identity disorder is a rare condition of atypical gender development in wh…
blog.Wired.com – By Brandon Keim
The search for a biological basis of homosexuality has come a long way from the “gay gene” searches of the early 1990’s. And though research hasn’t found simple causes, it has found enough physiological correlations …
IndiaENews.com – From correspondents in India
A huge majority of the transgender community in India is highly aware of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS and their prevention, says a survey by a Chennai-based NGO.
‘Most of our sample popu…
JCEM.EndoJournals.org – Frank P. M. Kruijver, Jiang-Ning Zhou, Chris W. Pool, Michel A. Hofman, Louis J. G. Gooren and Dick F. Swaab
Transsexuals experience themselves as being of the opposite sex, despite having the biological characteristics of one sex. A crucial question resulting from a previous brain study in male-to-female transsexuals was whether the reported difference according to gender identity in the central part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) was based on a neuronal difference in the BSTc itself or just a reflection of a difference in vasoactive intestinal polypeptide innervation from the amygdala, which was used as a marker. Therefore, we determined in 42 subjects the number of somatostatin-expressing neurons in the BSTc in relation to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and past or present hormonal status. Regardless of sexual orientation, men had almost twice as many somatostatin neurons as women (P