Sex change claims

WalesOnline.co.uk – by Matt Nicholls, Neath Guardian

A Pre-Op transsexual claims her career has been “destroyed” since she announced she wanted to become a woman.

Sophie Morris, 40, alleges she was sacked from her £23,000 job at the JTEKT factory…

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Parents to get letter on gender change

Telegram.com – By Ellie Oleson – Correspondent

Oxford – The tall custodian with a shy smile, striking blue eyes and softly waved salt-and-pepper hair wears a gray T-shirt, as do all school custodians in town. In previous years, students at Clara Bar…

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Few options for UKs transgender children

TaipeiTimes.com – By Viv Grskop – The Guardian, London

Should teenagers who believe they are transgender be helped to change sex? And if so, what about the four-year-olds who feel the same way?

“She was our first child,” said “Sarah,” a mother of…

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Behind the scenes with a media spin-doctor

Stuff.co.nz

A drag queen once broke into Glenda Hughes’ apartment in the red-light district. The former weightlifter was in bed at the time. “I sat up and said, `Whoever’s in my lounge, you weren’t invited and I suggest you get out in a hurry.”‘ The…

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My body is wrong

Guardian.co.uk – Viv Groskop – The Guardian

Should teenagers who believe they are transgender be helped to change sex? And if so, what about the four-year-olds who feel the same way? Viv Groskop meets the parents and doctors in favour of interventio…

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Ptown drag queen celebrates 10 years on stage

CapeCodOnline.com – By Mary Ann Bragg

Provincetown – On a crowded and hot Friday evening, a tall and very shapely redhead with excellent posture coolly wheels her vintage bicycle down Commercial Street to the Art House, just in time to greet a few f…

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Long Live The Queens

WashingtonPost.com – By Lonnae O’Neal Parker

One of the Washington drag scene’s most pivotal figures illuminates a long-secret world

For more than a dozen years, Mame had presided over the weekly performances at Club 55, as president of the gay t…

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New book explores trans kids

EBAR.com – by Zak Szymanski

More children these days are insisting upon their right to claim a variety of gender identities and expressions. But for most of these kids and their families, the issue isn’t about queer politics – it’s about struggling …

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Nina Poon and her boyfriend, Robert Jason

KennethCole.com

Born in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam, the oldest son of traditional Chinese parents, Nina Poon, immigrated with her family in 1978 to Orlando, Florida at age four.

At age five she began showing prodigious talent with her childishly ani…

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Life out of drag

SXNews.e-p.net.au

What happens to drag queens once they hang up their wigs and heels? Three men tell Iain Clacher how drag has influenced their lives, post-performance.

After more than 25 years treading the boards in wigs and high heels, Cindy Pa…

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