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HinduOnNet.com
Imagine a scalpel digging deep into your innards as if to remove them. That is how Vidya, a transgender in Chennai, felt when she underwent castration at a clinic in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, for “just Rs.6,000”. It was performed in “ba…
AlterNet.org – By Daisy Hernandez, ColorLines RaceWire
As more people of color transition between genders, the ways that racism is different for men and women come to the surface.
Louis Mitchell expected a lot of change when he began taking injec…
NashuaTelegraph.com – By Ashley Smith – Telegraph Staff
In transition
Telegraph Staff Seated on a chair in the corner of the room, Erika played with her silver bracelet as she described for the women around her what it used to feel like to look a…
ConcordMonitor.com – By Melanie Asmar – Monitor staff
On July 2, 2002, Arwen Mitton woke up in someone else’s bed. The room wasn’t familiar. The house, at the end of a country road in Littleton, wasn’t familiar. Her body wasn’t familiar. She screame…
AgoraCosmopolitan.com – by Brianna Austin
There are many crossdressers that are sure that by hiding their dressing desires that they are “protecting” their wives and or girlfriends. But are they protecting the women they supposedly love, or themselv…
BaltimoreSun.com – By Mark Casey
“One man, one woman” may be a popular slogan among politicians opposed to gay marriage. But for thousands of Americans for whom sexual identity is anything but straightforward, the phrase is a cruel joke.
On Aug…
Bloomberg.com – By Ladane Nasseri
Nasser didn’t think much of Iran’s Islamic regime – until it paid for him to become a woman.
Growing up in the city of Mashhad, Nasser knew he was different from the other boys, sneaking around in his aunt’s skir…
BLog.OregonLive.com – Posted by Damian Kilby
Jennifer Finney Boylan writes memoirs to help readers understand the transsexual experience. It’s a difficult topic for most of us to wrap our thoughts around — especially since we’re rarely even aware o…
AgoraCosmopolitan.com – by Amy Sohn
It’s Her Thing: How a beautiful woman with a little something extra got that way — and why “straight” men are lining up to meet her
Allanah Starr is a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual, which means she l…
CommentIsFree.Guardian.co.uk – Natacha Kennedy
Which is better: to be ignored because of inertia or deliberately excluded? This is what most transgendered people in the UK face
Labour has a good record of passing laws supporting minority and disa…