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guardian.co.uk – Viv Groskop – The Guardian
“From the age of about eight I knew something wasn’t right with me,” says Benson, a 17-year-old from Cumbria. “But it was never an issue because I was just a kid having fun. When I hit puberty and started …
sdgln.com – Nicholas Snow
It’s no wonder that Singapore-based, 24-year-old transgender performance artist, painter and activist Mara Bendini developed a show entitled “Conversations Between Father and Son.”
As she explained, “I grew up with an el…
guardian.co.uk – Guardian Weekly
In the city of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, attitudes towards gender roles and sexual orientation are comparatively relaxed. But despite the thriving gay and transvestite scene, members of the cross-dressing comm…
guardian.co.uk – Juliet Jacques
After my gender issues complicated my relationships with ‘straight-acting’ gay men, I had to reconsider my identity – and the centrality of maleness within it. Gradually, I came to define as ‘transgender’. I understoo…
cityweekly.net – By Stephen Dark
When Juan Lopez found his brother, Javier, hanging from a rope in the backyard shed of the West Valley City house they shared, his brother, he says, “had a huge smile, as if he’d finally found happiness.”
The brot…
irishtimes.com – Sara-Jane Cromwell
For the first time in my life, I feel completely at home with myself physically. I’m 49 but I was only diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) in 2003. It’s a clinical condition but even trying to get a diag…
thestar.com – Jim Rankin – Staff Reporter
This won’t be a narrative about a girl trapped inside the body of an awkward boy from Beamsville, who went through 60 plastic surgeries and cosmetic procedures to transform her body into Jessica Rabbit with…
jewishjournal.com – Posted by Janelle Eagle
Last night I had 26 people join me for shabbat dinner. Not just any Shabbat… but a Transgender Shabbat. Not that Shabbat itself was trans (perhaps we welcomed a Sabbath Husband?), but we specifically invit…
getreading.co.uk – By Juliette Harris
Tilehurst’s Andrea Waddell suffered a terrible death – after her murderer was sent to jail for 22 years, the policeman leading the case said without support from the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and…
jweekly.com – by Dan Pine, Staff Writer
As the new assistant rabbi and music director at Berkeley’s Congregation Beth El, Reuben Zellman counts among his official duties tutoring b’nai mitzvah students and directing the choir.
Unofficially, his j…