National and International transgender news articles at URNotAlone.com transgender site. The most recent news articles appear at the top of the listings. See National and International transgender news article excerpts below and click “Read More” for the stories that interest you most.
EyewitnessNewsTV.com – Associated Press
Boston – A Boston woman is suing the IRS for rejecting her attempt to deduct the cost of her sex-change operation.
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain (O’-DONOVAN) is hoping to force the tax agency to treat sex-change op…
Story.MalaysiaSun.com
Lahore, July 17 Shumail Raj, a transsexual jailed for going through with a same-sex marriage and perjury, was released on bail from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail on Monday.
According to the Daily Times, Shumail left the prison p…
AZStarNet.com – By Kim Smith – Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona – The first person to be charged with felony prostitution in Pima County was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison on a reduced charge Monday.
As part of a plea agreement, Sable Rose …
Bloomberg.com – By Adriana Brasileiro
Rosa Silva went into training before the Pan American Games, running 40 minutes each day and doing 200 sit-ups. She also got a full-body waxing and had her hair straightened and highlighted.
Silva, 26, isn’t …
PinkNews.co.uk – Divya Guha
Four transgender youths in Nepal have become the latest victims of institutionalised hate directed against sexual minorities in the country.
Five Nepalese transgender youths, known as meti, were brutally beaten, sexual…
DNAIndia.com – By Arun Ram
Chennai: Almost seven months after the Tamil Nadu government’s revolutionary order offering free penile amputations for aravanis (as they are referred to here), members of the community are fuming as doctors refuse to wiel…
DailyMail.co.uk – By Elizabeth Day
The first transsexual officer in the Armed Forces is set to sue the Ministry of Defence for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination.
Jan Hamilton, a former male captain in the Parachute Regiment who is now li…
RadioJamaica.com
The Matilda’s Corner Police are probing an alleged hate crime in which a suspected homosexual was killed and his body dumped in the St. Andrew Central Police division on Wednesday.
The dead man is unidentified.
It is reported …
NewarkAdvocate.com – By Brian Miller – Advocate Reporter
Granville – Sylvia Brown said the stories that accompanied the photos of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people at an exhibition in Granville were fascinating.
But outside the room i…
BellinghamHerald.com – By Rebecca Boone
An Idaho inmate who considers herself a woman trapped in a man’s body – and who castrated herself while in prison – is suing the state in federal court to get female hormone therapy for what she describes as g…