Life as a woman after being a man

News.BBC.co.uk – By Preeti Jha – BBC News

The Health Commission Wales recently changed its policy on funding treatment for gender dysphoria – a condition where those affected feel trapped in the body and gender role of the wrong sex. Two people with…

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Post Mortem: On Beyond Galloping Zebras

Feministe.us – Posted by: piny

Thursday I met with the psychiatrist who oversaw my transition and a few months of my re-transition. It was interesting–very brief, and anticlimactic; at this point, I’m not really in transition in either direction. Sh…

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Putting a face on transgender issue

EdgeBoston.com – by Laura Kiritsy – Bay Windows

Seated in an anteroom in the State House office suite of state Rep. Brian Wallace, Joanne Herman told legislative aide Carol Houghtaling, that she was nothing more than “a boring accountant.”

“You k…

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Must We Fight Over Labels?

CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler

RuPaul’s Drag Race on Logo is great reality television. In the reunion show, one contestant, Ongina, identified as a gender fuck (the last word being bleeped out). Ongina caught some flak from some of the judges for loo…

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‘This is not who I am’

SouthernVoice.com – By Dyana Bagby

Trans homeless forced to choose between shelter, identity

Akasha Harding’s face is drawn and her eyes are sad.

In a dark storage room at the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless filled with stacks of un…

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‘My true self has finally been released’

Guardian.co.uk – The Guardian

I was born Maurice David Pepper on 16 January 1944 and grew up in London’s West End. My parents were what you might call ordinary working class; my father was an alterations tailor and we lived in a flat off Tottenham C…

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