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International Lesbian and Gay Association
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| The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide network of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people everywhere. Founded in 1978, it now has more than 400 member organisations. Every continent and around 90 countries are represented. ILGA member groups range from small collectives to national groups and entire cities. ILGA is to this day the only international non-profit and non-governmental community-based federation focused on presenting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation as a global issue. |
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Italian Transgender Candidate to Run for Parliament
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| Italy's first transgender parliamentary candidate is about to enter the political scene as the campaign season officially gets underway. |
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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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Lifetime Movie To Tell Transgender Tale
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| Just a Girl will star Mercedes Ruehl as a single mother whose teenage son decides to live as a girl and is then murdered. Gloria Allred, the well known civil-rights attorney, will co-executive produce. |
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Transsexuals, Gendernauts and Hermaphrodites Hit the Silver Screen
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| Welcome to the world of feature-length looks at gender confusion. What is male? What's female? And can one be both? Such are the conundrums presented to Berlin film goers this week -- in the form of up-close-and-personal looks at hermaphrodites, sex-change patients, transsexuals and all the gendernauts in between. |
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Pastor uses faith in gender change
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| Malcolm Himschoot is a United Church of Christ pastor. He also grew up as a girl even though he felt he should have been the "third brother" in his family. |
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Before and After T
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| I?ve just asked writer/performer/activist Imani Henry?the trans man behind the critically-acclaimed theatre piece B4T (Before Testosterone)?how he thinks race impacts our experience of gender. |
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Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules 
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| Who / What: Genderqueer One girl was called Jane Marie Another little girl was called Felicity Another little girl was Sally Joy The other was me, and I'm a boy |
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Hair transplant
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| Transgender patients have specific cosmetic needs. Typically, this tends to be male to female because of pre-existing male pattern hair loss as well as facial and body hair that needs removing. However, female to male transsexuals can also have cosmetic concerns that we can help with. |
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Male nurse wants to be a she legally
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| A male nurse who underwent a sex-change procedure abroad is asking the local court for a legal change in gender to female, but the government prosecutor is against the idea. |
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Radclyffe Hall
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| In her forties, she began to dress in a style appropriate to her self-identification with "the third sex." She was instantly recognizable by her close-cropped hair, tailored jackets, flamboyant shirts and blouses, wide-brimmed hats, and often stocks |
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Self Made Man
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| Moky Makura (Carte Blanche presenter): 'I have always wondered what men are really like when there are no women present. In fact I would like to be that proverbial fly on the wall. But one woman took this fascination one step further. She spent 18 months infiltrating the world of men, disguised as a man.' For Norah Vincent, the New York freelance journalist who turned herself into a man, it was like stepping into an alien world. |
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Sheriff?s Department needs protocol for transgender inmates
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| On Nov. 17, San Diego sheriff?s officers were called to the residence of Vanessa Facen, a 35-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman. Pre-op transsexuals are individuals who have made a personal decision to live as the gender opposite their natal bodies. |
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Womensnet
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| Women'sNet is a vibrant and innovative networking support program designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social activism. |
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Endo journals
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| Transsexuals experience themselves as being of the opposite sex, despite having the biological characteristics of one sex. Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus |
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Gender change challenges traditional culture - Vietnam
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| Gender reassignment surgery is easy for modern medicine, but the new life it brings remains a problem for Vietnamese living in a society with traditional views on sexual identity. Sex changes are still forbidden in many countries, including Vietnam. |
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Loren Cameron
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| Loren Cameron is the author of multiple photography books about transgender identity and is available for presentations at universities and educational events |
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Ruby Corado on being gender queer in the nation's capital
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| A self-described "very, very feminine" youngster, the then-teenage Corado slowly entered the D.C. gay scene, discovering a new world in the glitter and glamour of drag. And over the years, what may have started as drag revealed itself to be a part of everyday life. |
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Sex Change Doctor Dead At 82
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| Dr. Stanley Biber, a small-town physician who said he performed more than 4,500 sex change operations in his career, has died, a friend and funeral home owner said. He was 82. |
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Transvestite ?advocate? Polly guilty of fraud (SA)
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| A GAUTENG man who posed as a ?female advocate? in Port Elizabeth was yesterday found guilty of fraud. |
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