Where it all began for Semenya

SMH.com.au – Telegraph, London

Questions about world champion’s gender rub salt into all-too-fresh South African wounds, writes Oliver Brown, in Ga-Masehlong, Semenya’s home town.

To understand where Caster Semenya’s interminable struggle for sel…

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Thank You David Bowie

OpEdNews.com – By Ilene Flannery Wells – For OpEdNews

I was a teenager during the ’70s. During that time, we saw the rise of the glam rockers, including David Bowie. Wearing make up went to the extreme with Kiss. So when I noticed my teenage son was…

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“It was a modern coming-out”

TheGlobeAndMail.com – Andre Picard –

One night, in May of 2007, Michel Leblanc was lying in bed with his wife watching CNN. Larry King was interviewing a transsexual – someone who had undergone a sex change.

Mr. Leblanc turned to his wife and sai…

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Anything He Can Do, She Can Do

NYTimes.com – By Michael Winerip

In September 1998, David Buechner, then 39, a prominent classical pianist, came out as a transgender woman, explaining that from then on, she would live and perform as Sara Davis Buechner. The pianist had been accust…

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Finally, A Lady

Philly.com – By Gloria Hochman – For The Inquirer

On June 15, Richard Ramsey checked into Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol Township for major surgery. When he left three days later, Ramsey was no longer Richard, but Renee. Her first words to her doct…

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Roxanne walks on the wild side

TheStar.com.my – By Philip Golingai

Life as an occasional drag queen can be a drag, says Penangite.

No. 10, Roxanne Fonseka, Malaysia, the announcer said, and the 20-year-old Malaysian strutted his stuff during a rehearsal of the Miss Internation…

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Hired as a man, fired as a woman

AJC.com – By Christian Boone – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

On Halloween 2006, Vandy Beth Glenn, unlike some of her costumed colleagues, came to work dressed in typical business attire.

For that, the former editor with the Georgia General Ass…

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