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HindustanTimes.com – Sanchita Sharma
New Delhi – Last week, 25-year-old marketing executive Shruti Srivastava told her family she was going out of town for a week. She lied, with reason. She went to a hospital across town to become a man. Usually d…
Telegram.com – By Bill Fortier
Stings lead police to put a halt to transvestite party
Auburn – A recent prostitution sting at the town?s hotels has resulted in the arrest of women from Paxton and Providence and the arrest of an Uxbridge man for a…
KFMB.com
An assault suspect risked his life fleeing the scene as he ran into traffic along highway 163 Friday.
Judah McBreairty, 26, was arrested after allegedly attacking a man in a canyon near Balboa Park before being taken into custody along t…
DallasVoice.com – By Beth Freed
Judges, litigators hear information on challenges facing trans people
Changing your gender requires cutting through a lot of red tape, and in Texas, that means defending your decision to a judge.
Lambda Legal De…
NBC11.com
The death of a transgender woman in a San Francisco hotel is raising big questions for her family, according to NBC11.
Daxi Arredondo’s family, from Santa Cruz, told NBC11 she was born male, but lived life as a female.
In November 20…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
Helen Boyd, author of the 2004 book My Husband Betty, a memoir about her experience as the wife of a cross-dresser, had one overriding message for the 350 people who turned out for the Tiffany Club?s First Event banque…
SFBayTimes.com – By Rex Wockner
The Mexican state of Coahuila, which borders Texas, passed a civil-union law for same-sex couples Jan. 11. The state Congress approved the measure 20-13. It was introduced by the centrist Institutional Revolutionary P…
eBar.com – by Zak Szymanski
When Bay Area attorney Victoria Kolakowski applied to take the bar exam in Louisiana in the late 1980s, her initial application was rejected on the basis that she was “not of sound mind.” Kolakowski is a transgender woman…
RedditchAdvertiser.co.uk – By Helen Clarke
A Transsexual has been told she cannot attend women-only sessions at council leisure venues or use female changing facilities, despite her now being defined as a woman on doctors’ records.
Yvonne Rhodes,…
Search.JapanTimes.co.jp – By Thomasina Larkin – Staff Writer
Japan looks to respect rights of those with gender disorders, but even progress carries its own set of risks
‘When I was a child, I had a feeling I wasn’t satisfied with being a human b…