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KoreaTimes.co.uk – By Kim Rahn – Staff Reporter
A top court’s verdict allowing a female-turned-male transgender to legally change sex opened a new world for these people, an epoch-making ruling acknowledging that mental and social factors should als…
PinkNews.co.uk – By Staff Writer – PinkNews.co.uk
A Sunni Muslim cleric in Kuwait has denied media reports that he had become the first religious authority in the country to approve gender reassignment surgery.
Iran-based English language channe…
NCTEquality.org
Comprehensive National Survey on Transgender Discrimination launched by National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task
Respond to the survey online at https://online.survey.psu.edu/endtransdiscrim.
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ChicagoTribune.com – By Jeff Coen – Chicago Tribune reporter
A surveillance camera shows “The Cross-Dressing Bandit” holding up the MB Financial Bank in Park Ridge on Aug. 13, 2008. (FBI photo)
The FBI recently has dealt with bank robbers who wor…
InNewsWeekly.com
In GenderVision’s fifth program, “Transgender-Friendly Public Policy,” Gunner Scott, co-founder and director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, talks about what changes are needed to public policies in order to cr…
11Alive.com – CNN
Gainesville, Fla. (CNN) – It might have looked like a fraternity prank — but it was serious business for sheriff’s deputies.
Seven men dressed as women entered a Florida grocery store and tried to steal several items, and that…
StarObserver.com.au – Author: Sunny Burns
Sydney’s only drag queen puppet Queen Miss Left Titter (QMLT) needs your vote. No, she is not seeking to replace Clover Moore as Lord Mayor of Sydney – she is one of just 10 MySpace identities being pitc…
WickedLocal.com/Somerville – By Erin Smith
Somerville – Police said they busted a transsexual prostitute running a prostitution business out of her School Street home.
The hooker sting started when Somerville detectives responded to an advertisem…
UKGayNews.org.uk – EachAction.org.uk
Bristol – A new online reporting facility for victims of homophobic and transphobic bullying has been launched by Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH).
The scheme is available to young people throu…
BayWindows.com – by Rachel Kossman – Bay Windows Contributor
This month, the newly created Transgender Emergency Fund (TEF) will begin helping transgender and transsexual individuals pay their bills. After holding two fundraisers, TEF reached its or…