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CosmoMagazine.com – by David Salt
The Western world defines gender in two distinct categories. But in reality, gender is a spectrum. Why does society, and even science, struggle to understand and accept those who are somewhere between male and femal…
CosmoMagazine.com – by David Salt and Zoe Brain
The writer
HERCULINE BARBARIN was a 19th century French hermaphrodite who was treated as a female at birth but later redesignated a man after a scandalous affair and a medical examination.
A herm…
BLog.SeattlePI.NWSource.com
A Big Fan of Trans Week
I recently had the pleasure of going out to coffee with a former high school student of mine. Over the past four years at college, he’s done what most young adults do…become mature, confident,…
VillageVoice.com – by Dan Savage
Q. I’m a high-school girl with big problems. All my life I’ve worn boy clothes and had male friends, mainly because I’m into “male” things like video games and geek stuff. As high school approached, Mother Nature fli…
News.NCMOnline.com – Xiaoqing Rong
Sing Tao Daily, News Feature, translated by Eugenia Chien
Editor?s Note: Advocate Pauline Park, an Asian transgender woman who was adopted by a Caucasian couple, says she has finally found a sense of belonging.
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Living.Scotsman.com – as told by Sally Raikes
At primary school, I didn’t mind too much being a girl. Pre-puberty, the only difference between a male and female body is whether you stand up or sit down to pee, so it was tolerable. There were other …
News.com.au – Carly Crawford and Ellen Whinnett
Greens candidate for Williamstown Janet Rice has told of her husband’s decision to become a woman.
Cr Rice last night confirmed her partner’s male-to-female gender transition after 17 years of marri…
Hour.ca – Richard Burnett
Brotherly love
Over the last decade or so you’ve read many stories in this column about my 13-year-old adopted brother Skye, whom I’ve raised like he was my own son.
There was the column about the day Skye described …
NPR.org
Day to Day, August 15, 2007 ? Three months ago, Mike Penner was a longtime sports columnist for The Los Angeles Times. Then he wrote a dramatic goodbye column and disappeared for several weeks.
“I am a transsexual sportswriter,” Penner w…
MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
There weren’t too many people to look up to in mainstream media while growing up as female-to-male transgender, recalls Katastrophe.
The 27-year-old native of the San Francisco Bay Area says that even today media…