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IOL.co.za
Sydney – An Australian transsexual is taking on the government over the gender on her passport before she travels for sex-change surgery in Thailand, a report said on Sunday.
Stefanie Imbruglia, a first cousin of pop star Natalie Imbrug…
TheStandard.com.hk – Scarlett Chiang
A 19-year-old girl who stole her brother’s identity card and misled the court and police was on Friday sentenced to an indefinite period in a rehabilitation center.
In passing sentence on Ng Chun- mei, Eastern…
Gay.com
Brazil’s public health system will begin providing free gender-reassignment operations in compliance with a court order, the Health Ministry said Friday.
Ministry spokesman Edmilson Oliveira da Silva said the government would not appeal W…
Money.CNN.com –
Program Expansion to Include LGBT and International Markets
Bethesda, Md., Aug. 16 – PRNewswire – Marriott International, Inc. announced today plans to increase spending among diverse suppliers to 15 percent by 2009. Additionally…
GayNZ.com
Today is Transgender Awareness Day, and the Wellington branch of trans social and support organisation ‘Agender’ seek to remind Kiwis that “Sex is between the legs, Gender is between the ears.”
In a San Francisco all-night caf? called C…
Monitor.co.ug – Katherine Roubos
Kampala, Uganda – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Ugandans held their first-ever press conference at Speke Hotel yesterday to launch a media campaign to advocate for their rights.
A rainbow banner declarin…
NationMultimedia.com – Thailand
The Nation’s Internet poll on whether transsexuals should have the legal right to use a gender title of their choice drew mixed reactions from those visiting our website.
Here are some of the comments posted:
“T…
Content.HamptonRoads.com – By Dave Forster, The Virginian-Pilot
Suffolk ? Police have arrested a man they say injected silicone into transgender patients at his home without a license to practice medicine.
A former client of Francis Rene White re…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Los Angeles, California) A transsexual being held in detention awaiting a deportation hearing has died in what her family claim was a lack of medical treatment for HIV.
Victoria Arrelano was being held…
Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: Agender New Zealand
Transgender Awareness Day 15 August 2007
In August 1966, at an all night caf? called Comptons, in the city of San Francisco, transgendered people for the first time fought back against the harassme…