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Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission
When the petition for looking into the plight of Khawja Saras1 (transsexual / transvestite) was filed at the supreme court of Pakistan, and reported in some of the more sensational Urdu prin…
AllAfrica.com – Audrey Mbugua
The term ‘transgender people’ refers to those who identify with a gender identity and role different from the one assigned by birth. Among transgender people is a group referred to as ‘transsexual people’ which consists…
Guardian.co.uk – Ghaith Abdul-Ahad – The Guardian
It was an ancient tradition banned by the Taliban but now it’s back: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from northern Afghanistan on the hiring out of young male dancers by older men
The night’s rituals un…
TheWIP.net – by Suad Hamada
Bahrain – Hell is what most Arabs think of when the word “transsexual” comes into any conversation since many mistake it with homosexuality, which is a sin in Islam. Most transsexuals prefer to remain anonymous since in s…
Independent.co.uk – Michael Day reports
No one in Lido di Classe can remember why transsexuals first chose to migrate to their town 20 years ago, but their nocturnal activities are starting to worry the village’s increasingly elderly residents.
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TheStar.com – Hanna Rosin – Special to The Star
Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed
The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-…
Tehelka.com – From Tehelka Magazine
Queer Pride Week comes once a year but millions of Indian women fight all year round – as women, ‘single’ women and lesbians, finds Amrita Nandy-Joshi
Even if they are not fed healthy food, little girls in Indi…
TodaysZaman.com – by Orhan Kemal Cingiz
İzmir is the third biggest city in Turkey. Its natives often believe that it is the most modern, Westernized part of the country. Yet, I have been thinking on this “modernity” aspect of the city for a long ti…
Hurriyet.com.tr – by Safak Timur
Istanbul -They are often in the media when they are arrested for prostitution, beaten by a client or police, or worst of all when they are victims of a hate crime. But this time transgender people living in Istanbul …
Xtra.ca – Patty Comeau
Helen Hok-Sze Leung set out to examine Hong Kong’s gay and lesbian cinema, only to find that what she was looking for didn’t exist.
“I discovered that I couldn’t find the kind of expected images that I was used to,” she adm…