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The third gender’s right to dignity
May 31, 2012 By recognising the rights of the transgender community, the state is not doling out largesse; it is only performing its duty under the Constitution They came beautifully dressed, some a tad brightly, but all beautifully and proudly, there was much chatter, and a lot of sisterhood. It was the public hearing of […]
Tales of the Waria: Inside Indonesia’s Third-Gender Community
May 27, 2012
Posted: 05/26/2012Kathy HuangDocumentary filmmaker and freelance cinematographer and producer This past March the Associated Press broke an unexpected story concerning Barack Obama’s childhood in Indonesia. Apparently, as a young boy growing up in Jakarta, Obama’s care had been entrusted to a transgender woman named Evie. American readers were shocked. What were the chances of the […]
Beyond Male and Female: Creativity, Risks, and Resilience Among Genderqueer People in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey
May 15, 2012
Posted: 05/14/2012Jack Harrison, Jaime Grant, Ph.D. and Jody L. Herman, Ph.D. Are you male or female? For many people, answering this question doesn’t cause a moment’s hesitation. But for genderqueer people, this question isn’t so easy to answer, and survey research that offers only two gender options may overlook genderqueer people’s experiences altogether. Genderqueer people […]
Trans Community Celebrates Groundbreaking Gender Identity Law
May 11, 2012
By Marcela Valente Students at a new secondary school in Buenos Aires that caters to members of sexual minorities. Credit:Courtesy Bachillerato Popular “Mocha Celis” BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – Under a new law that recognises a broad range of rights for transvestites, transsexuals and transgender persons in Argentina, they will have the right […]
Argentina Makes Sex-Change Surgery a Legal Right
May 10, 2012
By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina May 10, 2012 (AP) Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday. The measure also gives people the right to specify how […]
The rise of performance-enhancing genes
May 6, 2012
A single ‘super’ gene can make a dramatic difference to an athlete’s performance. But is that fair? Chris Cooper The Observer, Sunday 6 May 2012 Caught in a gender trap. South African athlete Caster Semenya was suspended from international athletics. Photograph: Roni Rekomaa/AFP Evolution has not acted equally on men and women. This is most […]
‘Alternating Gender Incongruity’ Causes Rapid Shifts Of Gender, Scientist Claims
April 21, 2012
By Gary Stix Posted: 04/20/2012 A graduate student of famed neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has found a group of men and women who report that their sexual identity can switch involuntarily to that of the opposite sex and back again. The transgender metamorphosis, these people assert, can occur several times a day and at inopportune […]
The Gay and Transgender Wage Gap
April 18, 2012
Many Workers Receive Less Pay Due to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Reva Iman, 42, a homeless transgender woman, at her provided home in Atlanta. Gay and transgender workers need comprehensive federal protections against discrimination in hiring, firing, and wages.SOURCE: AP/ Erik S. Lesser By Crosby Burns | April 16, 2012 Not all employees […]
What I think about the new sex work laws
April 2, 2012
The prostitution laws don’t help the ones who need it most By Fleur de Lit I’m sitting in a king sized bed in a four-star hotel in Toronto reading the decision made by the Ontario Court of Appeals regarding Canadian sex work laws. I’m waiting for room service to bring up my coffee. I decided […]
Hermaphrodites push for human rights in Germany
April 1, 2012
By Andy Eckardt , NBC News Producer MAINZ, Germany – Pink? Or blue? For most parents this is the paramount question when it comes to organizing a baby shower or choosing a color for a newborn’s room. But, what happens if the exact gender of the child cannot be determined? It is estimated that in […]
St Petersburg bans ‘homosexual propaganda’
March 13, 2012
Russian city is fourth to adopt anti-gay legislation as politicians and Orthodox Church push for laws to apply nationwide Miriam Elder in Moscowguardian.co.uk, Monday 12 March 2012 A Russian police officer detains a man dressed in a bridal gown during a gay rights protest in Moscow. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters Twenty years after homosexuality was decriminalised […]
Gender stereotypes, miscommunication can hinder relationships among people of all gender identifications and sexual orientations
February 29, 2012
Posted: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Sophomore Ray George’s relationship with his girlfriend started in a bit of an unconventional way. “I actually didn’t ask my girlfriend [out] on our first date,” George said. “She asked me out first.” Marissa Oehlhof, an instructor in the Psychology department, said one of the traditional gender stereotypes is for […]
Explainer: Gender Identity issues
February 25, 2012
Image: Vincent Yu/AP/Press Association Images THIS WEEK, a television advert by bookmaker Paddy Power that was labelled as “deeply transphobic” by an Irish transgender support group was suspended from UK television and most Irish TV stations. The Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) had said that the advert made transgender people feel “mocked and ridiculed” and […]
TRANSGENDER CHILDREN: Sex-changing treatment for kids: It’s on the rise
February 21, 2012
Associated Press, Feb. 19, 2012CHICAGO — A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts […]
‘I’m the girl with the ladydad’
February 18, 2012
What happens when your dad becomes a woman? Mainly, Natasha Ozimek tells Maureen Paton, you end up disapproving of his makeup and clothes Maureen Paton The Guardian, Saturday 18 February 2012 Jane Fae (formerly John) and Tash: ‘He’s still Dad, just with a different outer layer.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian Natasha Ozimek was […]
Gender change: Losing him, loving her
February 14, 2012
Published Sun, Feb 12, 2012 Takaaki Iwabu – tiwabu@newsobserver.comLina Kok, left, and Diane Daniel look through photos to post on their travel blog. Lina underwent gender change. Diane says they stayed married because of “love, happiness, comfort,” but the transition has been complicated and sometimes painful. BY DIANE DANIEL – Correspondent Tags: life Every January, […]
Transgender German Girl Faces Being Institutionalized By Father Who Rejects Her Gender Expression
February 1, 2012
Posted: 01/31/2012 International lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists are expressing concern over reports that an 11-year-old German transgender girl is in danger of being institutionalized. Though exact details on the case are slim (at least in the English language media), International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) declared their support for the […]
Transgender German Girl Faces Being Institutionalized By Father Who Rejects Her Gender Expression
February 1, 2012
Posted: 01/31/2012 International lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists are expressing concern over reports that an 11-year-old German transgender girl is in danger of being institutionalized. Though exact details on the case are slim (at least in the English language media), International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) declared their support for the […]
Gender: M/F/It’s Complicated
January 26, 2012
January 25, 2012 – 4:00am By Scott McLemee The adventurous reader browsing a newsstand in the 1940s could sometimes find a periodical called Sexology. This was not, in spite of its title, a specialized medical journal, but rather a mass-market title in the empire of Hugo Gernsback. The publisher had invented science fiction — or […]
Kuwait: End Police Abuses Against Transgender Women
January 26, 2012
Law Against ‘Imitating the Opposite Sex’ Leads to Torture, Arbitrary ArrestsJanuary 15, 2012 (Kuwait City) – Kuwaiti police have tortured and sexually abused transgender women using a discriminatory law, passed in 2007, which arbitrarily criminalizes “imitating the opposite sex,” Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government of Kuwait should repeal the […]
‘Gender Identity Committee’ to decide where transgendered inmate to be jailed after incidents in Skokie and Deerfield
January 19, 2012
By Brian L. Cox Special to the Tribune 18/01/2012 Maribel Torres, identified in court records as Jose Torres. A “Gender Identity Committee” will decide where a transgender woman with an extensive criminal record will be housed after she was sentenced this week to four years in prison on felony retail theft, battery and violation of […]
Transgender in Maine: One family’s effort to educate the public and help their daughter
September 3, 2011
By Judy Harrison, BDN StaffPosted Sept. 02, 2011, at 11:25 a.m. Editor’s Note: A transgender child and her parents, who have sued the Orono School District, sat down recently for an interview with the Bangor Daily News. The family asked that only first names be used and the town where the girl lives and the […]
Transgender in Maine: One family’s effort to educate the public and help their daughter
September 3, 2011
By Judy Harrison, BDN StaffPosted Sept. 02, 2011, at 11:25 a.m. Editor’s Note: A transgender child and her parents, who have sued the Orono School District, sat down recently for an interview with the Bangor Daily News. The family asked that only first names be used and the town where the girl lives and the […]
Kids challenge gender identity earlier — and get support
July 31, 2011
Parents and schools are seeing increasing numbers of children, some as young as kindergartners, who are challenging the gender into which they were born. By Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporter Every few weeks, Aidan Key might get a call: a little boy in school is dressing as a girl — in frilly tops or […]
Kids challenge gender identity earlier — and get support
July 31, 2011
Parents and schools are seeing increasing numbers of children, some as young as kindergartners, who are challenging the gender into which they were born. By Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporter Every few weeks, Aidan Key might get a call: a little boy in school is dressing as a girl — in frilly tops or […]
Transgender legislation pledged
July 15, 2011
>irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Dr Lydia Foy took a High Court case seeking legal recognition of her female gender. Photograph: Frank Miller/Irish Times CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton will publish legislation in the next year to provide for recognition of the acquired gender of transgender […]
government-of-the-people-but-not-for-transgendered-people
July 15, 2011
irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Dr Lydia Foy took a High Court case seeking legal recognition of her female gender. Photograph: Frank Miller/Irish Times CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton will publish legislation in the next year to provide for recognition of the acquired gender of transgender […]
Gender issues - Human rights 
June 1, 2012
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