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Tel Aviv man confesses to murdering transsexual, another woman
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| A Tel Aviv man on Thursday confessed to murdering Israel's first surgically transformed transsexual Yardena Marsh, and of killing another woman. The body of Marsh, 46, was found by her sister on February 15th in her Tel Aviv apartment. Forensic evidence indicated she was dead less than 24 hours before being found. |
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Japanese court rejects transsexual's request to change registered gender
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| A Japanese court rejected a male-to-female transsexual's request to change her officially registered sex because she already has two children who were born before the operation, a news report said Monday. |
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For Second Act, a New Identity
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| America is built on the idea that its citizens can become whatever, and whomever, they want to be. That proposition can lead to staggering transformations -- especially when gender identity is involved. |
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Transgender Day of Empowerment at The Center
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| Project S.T.A.R. is a community-based outreach, education and health services program of Family Health Centers of San Diego. It is funded by the California Endowment and targets both transgender-identifying persons in San Diego and health and social service providers who may provide services to transgender persons. |
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Transgender is more than a physical image, it's identity 
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| Just as I think it's more comfortable for people to assume that something 'made' you gay, I think there are also things people get very confused about with transgender people. |
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Life in hell
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| In California prisons, an unconventional gender identity can be like an added sentence. Rosa casts her dark eyes downward and then looks up from under wispy bangs to say matter-of-factly, "I've been raped six times. |
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CINCINNATI?S PASSAGE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION MEASURE A TRIUMPH FOR FAIRNESS
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| Following the November 2004 repeal of a one-of-a-kind anti-gay law, the Cincinnati City Council voted today to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in employment, housing and public accommodations. Led by Equality Cincinnati and local leaders and supported by the Human Rights Campaign, the move ensures fairness for Cincinnatians. |
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Trans Don't Cry
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| "I lost my family," says Liesegang, who underwent a sex- change operation. "My mother disowned me. My sister said, "I can take you as my gay brother, not as my sister.'" She also lost her clients, and in the late '90s she found herself jobless. The economy was peaking, but there was no work for a transsexual like Liesegang. |
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Paper Dolls
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| The film shows the different sides of 5 Filipinos, who are caregivers for old age people, and in their spare time are transvestites |
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Rally planned for transgender woman arrested at Grand Central Station
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| Outraged after a 70-year-old transgender woman was arrested by Metropolitan Transportation Authority police for using a Grand Central Station women's bathroom, New York transgender activists and allies are staging a rally on her behalf. |
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Transgender Happiness
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| In English the words “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing. Both distinguish male and female, but in actuality the definitions are quite different. Sex indicates the anatomical structure of genes, while gender leans towards the mental and societal. There are a few people whose sex and gender do not match, however. |
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Transgender athletes welcome at Montreal's Outgames
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| Sports officials expect at least 50 transgender athletes at this summer's Outgames in Montreal. Organizers have worked out a policy to include them in all sports, for the first time at an international competition. |
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Blogging for Justice: The Gwen Araujo Murder
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| Three years later, two of the three accused men, Michael Magidson, 25, and Jose Merel, 26, received sentences of 15 years to life for first-degree murder without hate crime enhancements. |
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Battling for One’s True Sexual Identity
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| RAY CARANNANTE, a licensed social worker whose masculine sartorial flair translates into a tidily sculpted goatee and unashamedly argyle socks, does not look or behave as if he is identity-challenged. His pants and white pinstripe shirt — he says he complied this morning when his girlfriend gave his purple shirt a constructive thumbs-down — flatter his compact physique. His dark hair is clipped short. In a crowd, he would not stand out. |
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Court: Transsexual woman can't see child
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| Woman who underwent sex-change operation appeals to High Court of Justice after Rabbinic Court cancels prior alimony agreement; appeal rejected |
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Change Sex Or Die
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| The situation of the transgendered in Iran has been the subject of frequent media reports that paint a rosy picture of life for them in the Islamic Republic, and which characterize Tehran - in a recent description in the U.K. daily The Guardian - as "the unlikely sex-change capital of the world." |
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What Flows From Transsexuals Changing Legal Sex?
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| If transsexuals change their official gender, they can marry someone of their former sex, and they can have children by adoption. If their changed sex is female, they enjoy all women’s rights guaranteed by law. |
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ITALIAN ELECTIONS: 4 GAY, LESBIAN BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENDERED IN PARLIAMENT.
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| According to the Italian national gay association Arcigay, there will be four gay, lesbian, or transgendered people in the new parliament. |
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Catherine Zeta-Jones to take on transgender movie role
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| Catherine Zeta-Jones HOLLYWOOD, California ? Hot on the heels of Felicity Huffman?s award-winning turn in TransAmerica, Academy Award Winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is rumored to be eying a starring role in an upcoming film about a transgender cabaret performer. |
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Transjobless
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| Imagine trying to find a job without a shred of work history. Welcome to the transgender job hunt. In the transgender community, to have full-time work is to be in the minority. In fact, a new survey of 194 trans people conducted by the Transgender Law Center (TLC), with support from the Guardian, found that only one out of every four respondents has a full-time job. Another 16 percent work part-time. |
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