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By Michael MustoTuesday, July 5, 2011 ​In a play!In the book Robert Altman, An Oral Biography, Cher remembers that Altman wanted her to play the transsexual Joanne in the 1981 play (and later movie) Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. . .Read More

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By Michael WeinrebThe doctor practices on Madison Avenue, five blocks from Grand Central Station, in a narrow little office set amid a frenetic corner of Manhattan. Every day, hordes of commuters bustle past this particular ophthalmology clinic without really seeing it, let alone registering the mellifluous name on the sign, let alone, after so many years, recognizing that this name ever meant

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BAY WINDOWS: New England's Largest GLBT Newspaper 6.29.2011This week’s "So They Say" section is devoted to the transgender people and allies who took part in the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition’s (MTPC) "I AM: Transgender People Speak" project, an ongoing public education effort that allows transgender people to speak from the heart.The "I AM" project involves transgender volunteers

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KALWNews.orgBy Kevin RobinsonListen: 7:39 min(Download Audio)It's National Gay Pride Month, and in San Francisco that means it's time for Frameline! Now in its 35th year, it's the longest-running LGBT film festival in the world - and one of the biggest film fests in America - period. The festivities kick off Thursday, so KALW News invited executive director K.C. Price to come into the studio to

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What Are Little Boys Made Of?An original BTB Investigation.Jim BurrowayJune 7th, 2011In 1970, a well-known expert on homosexuality and transgender issues appeared on a local television talk show in Los Angeles to talk about feminine boys. He described how very young boys who behaved in a feminine manner would almost invariably grow up to become a homosexual. Alongside that expert was a gay man

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Important Development!Department of Veterans Affairs VHA DIRECTIVE 2011-024Veterans Health Administration - Washington, DC 20420 June 9, 2011PROVIDING HEALTH CARE FOR TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX VETERANShttp://www.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=2416

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Eight year old Josie appears on the Dr. Oz show. She was born a boy, but realized at an early age that she was really female.JosiePussycat2009

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Stephanie Innes Arizona Daily Star | Sunday, July 25, 2010Wearing a khaki skirt and black tank top with a splash of heart-shaped rhinestones, 9-year-old Josie Romero skips across her family's living room, eager to show off her Great Dane, her little sister, and the birds in her backyard.When asked about her necklace - a silver triangle on a black cord - she beams."This is a transgender symbol,"

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by MELISSA JELTSEN on AUGUST 2, 2010What’s it like to raise a transgender child? In this Thriveexclusive, a father reflects on his experience. Click here to read more about his daughter and a new medical treatment at Children’s that offers hope to transgender teens.My 12 year old transgender daughter is my mentor. Read More. . .

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Trinidad, Colo. (AP) - A town nicknamed the "sex change capital of the world" could be losing a doctor who has performed hundreds of the operations.Dr. Marci Bowers said Monday she is "98 percent sure" she will be moving to the San Francisco area Oct. 1. Read More. . .

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k.d. lang's Juno Awards in Winnipeg in 2005 singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Thank you! oneandonlyck(k.d. lang's performance at the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics was outstanding . . . here she is doing "Hallelujah" in a better audio venue. Love her . . . a big fan. RA)

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This week I'm focusing on being confident as transgender as well as when I have to be a guy.FancyEllie

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by Peter Hackney10 February 2010World famous transsexual icon Amanda Lepore will be the Chief of Parade at this year’s Mardi Gras, it has been announced.The role will see Lepore, arguably the world’s most famous transsexual, lead the floats up Oxford and Flinders Streets on Saturday, February 27 for the 32nd annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.“I’m thrilled and honored to be invited

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By Ray Stern in Diverse CityFebruary 2, 2010In the late 1960s, Millie C. Bloodworth was a city boy from Detroit who didn't like guns, the Army, snakes on field trips, or the looming prospect of getting shipped off to Vietnam.What he really wanted was a sex-change operation and a wardrobe of pretty dresses. Bloodworth, who describes her offbeat, coming-of-age tale in her 2008 book, The Exceptional

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StartObserver.comFebruary 9, 2010Chelsey Mikimoto, a transgender showgirl from Melbourne, was crowned Miss Transsexual Australia 2010 in the country’s first-ever beauty pageant for transsexuals and transgenders, held at Melbourne’s Bar 362 last week.Contestants were judged on their creativity, talent, wit, beauty and confidence. Singapore-born Mikimoto, who performs at cabaret shows, nightclubs

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by Milicent Carter-Bloodworth (2008)There is a ghost that has traveled with me all of my life. He has haunted the deepest recesses of my mind and is a part of the core of my soul. His name is Melton Bernie; as a young child he was my outer self that the world saw. Melton carried me through a childhood that was fraught with the frustrations of living in a discriminatory and prejudice filled nation

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FI Film Fest 2008Presented by Audi USADIR Kim ReedPROD Kim Reed, John KeitelThis is a family reunion film like no other. it involves two rivals who were once like brothers, and are now like brother and sister; and the dna of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. this film is an unforgettable, moving first-person excursion into family dynamics, identity, gender and the past.AFIFEST

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The tale of two small-town brothers and their battles with identity, both sexual and biological, has defied all expectationsby Paul HarrisFebruary 7, 2010Paul McKerrow was an all-American boy. Raised in Helena, Montana, he was the quarterback for his high-school football team, which is as close to being idolised as many small-town Americans come.He was also his class president, the valedictorian

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T-Notesby Robbi CohnFebruary 5, 2010I think one thing many will agree upon is the critical need for change — personally, publicly, politically and socially. If these times seem to portend great decisions, a fork in the road perhaps, I think many of us have felt it coming. I don’t mean this in any kind of apocalyptic sense, merely that we are at a crossroads and that making a conscious effort to

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By ELENA BECATOROSFebruary 7, 2010RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- Taunted at home, Sanhya ran away at age 12, searching for acceptance as she sees herself - neither male nor female, but a member of a third gender.Pakistan's transgender community has long lived on society's margins, harassed by police, ridiculed as freaks, pitied as the outcast people of Allah and often rejected by their own families. Now

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February 3, 2010by Joanne HermanThe United States Tax Court, in a decision reviewed by the full bench, has affirmed that medical treatments for Gender Identity Disorder (GID), including surgery and hormone therapy, are deductible medical expenses. The Court found that the Internal Revenue Service's existing position that such treatment is cosmetic in nature "is at best a superficial

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Forthcoming: Wednesday, January 27th 2010Two brave kids share their stories. At only 7 and 8 years old, these children are living as the opposite gender. Well hear from the kids and their families about what its like growing up transgender. Later, the two families will get a chance to meet. Then, we get an update on a former guest who has transitioned from girl to boy through the use of hormones.

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A very wise lady once said, your natural sex is determined by what's between your legs at birth; your gender is determined by what's between your ears. In this update, I thought I'd talk a little about being transgender and sexual (partner) preference.conway7734

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By WILLIAM GLABERSONJanuary 24, 2010Katherine used to be Miguel. Olin had a girl’s name. And in October, Robert Ira Schnur, 70, became Roberta Iris Schnur, a Manhattan retiree with magenta lipstick and, she noted the other day, chipped silver nail polish.“I wasn’t like other men,” she said.Theirs are among hundreds of names a Manhattan court has changed over the last few years for transgender

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By Dalia AcostaHAVANA, Jan 25, 2010 (IPS) - It was as if she had only closed her eyes for a moment. When Wendy Iriepa came round after surgery over a year ago, she tried to get up as if nothing had happened, but a nurse gently pushed her back into bed. "All done?" she asked, and the nurse replied, "Yes.""I wanted to look at myself, and I managed to feel how I was now. That thing I had had to live

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asiaoneNEWS23 January 2010Taiwanese model Alicia Liu (Xun Ai) has admitted that she is a transsexual.The 24-year-old model-cum-actress, nicknamed Xiao Ai, said she underwent sex-change surgery at the age of 18."My ex-boyfriend paid for it," she said in an interview with a Taiwan magazine on Friday. . . .Read More

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20 January 2010LGBT community remembers the transgender sportswriterBy Cyd Zeigler jr.A rose by any other name is still a rose. Christine, by any other name, is still the most caring, kindest, sweetest, most giving, most talented person I’ve ever known.”Those words began the eulogy for Christine Daniels last Saturday at the Metropolitan Community Church in Hollywood. They’ve echoed in my head

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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer – January 25, 2010WASHINGTON – Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has provoked controversy. Now, a study of first- and second-graders suggests what may be part of the answer: Female elementary

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This American LifeChicago Public Radio 1.15.2010Lilly and Thomasina have a lot in common. They’re both 8 years old. And they were both born boys, although it became clear pretty early on that they'd prefer to be girls. There aren’t all that many kids in the world like them, but recently, at a conference in Seattle on transgender parenting, they met. And they immediately hit it off. . . . Read

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Former Army dispatcher wins $55,000 after firing at authorityBy BRENDAN J. LYONSJanuary 9, 2010ALBANY -- A transgender woman who was secretly subjected to harassment, openly called "drag queen" and "freak," and later fired by the New York State Thruway Authority has been awarded more than $55,000 for her ordeal. yld_mgr.place_ad_here('x10_slot'); She is still seeking

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BigThink.com | January 17, 2010"Being first sucks." That's what Amanda Simpson, one of the country's first two openly transgender presidential appointees, told ABC News. "I'd rather not be the first, but someone has to be first." Amanda Simpson started two weeks ago at the Department of Commerce, where her job will be to keep track of the export of American military technology. Dylan Orr, who is

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• Teenager required court ruling for operation in Barcelona• Judge granted permission after request by parentsby Giles Tremlett12 January 2010A Spanish clinic today revealed it had performed a male-to-female sex-change operation on a 16-year-old, making her the youngest patient to undergo the operation in the country's history.The unnamed teenager had been taking hormones to change her body since

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Suzannah Hills and Will Payne 17/01/2010The transsexual who rose to fame on the hit reality TV show There’s Something About Miriam is working as a £300-an-hour “escort”. Miriam Rivera, 28, caused ­controversy on the dating show when she duped six male contestants – competing for her affections and £10,000 prize money – into ­believing she was a woman. It was only in the final episode

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by Lesley KennedyJanuary 12, 2010Am I a pear? Or an apple? Maybe a banana? Most days I feel like a donut.The body shape food analogies just make me hungry, so let's try measuring devices: spoon, ruler, cone or hourglass?I, like most women (and men), according to a recent survey, prefer the hourglass description. We're talking Marilyn Monroe curves here -- tiny waist, big chest, full, round rear,

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ABC News: President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equalitys board of directors, said that as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future

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By Megan A. GexJanuary 2010Editor’s Note: Silverton native Megan A.Gex is a fourth-year magazine journalism and digital art major at the University of Oregon. Her mother, Susie, was Oliver’s Kindergarten teacher and was intimately involved in his transition into grade school, as well as his gender identification process. Over the past two years, Gex and her mother have continued to be in contact

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Joanne Herman7 December 2009With the post-Thanksgiving apparent suicide death of Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner (also known for a year and a half as Christine Daniels), gender transition regret is again a topic on the blogosphere. I explainedwhy regret happens in my book "Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not". Bloggers have brought up some additional points that I thought were

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Fisher & Phillips LLPDanielle UrbanJanuary 1, 2010Teenagers who push the limits of school dress codes are nothing new. Experimenting with clothing, hairstyles, and even make-up is a way for teens to explore their identities and test the limits of socially-acceptable behavior. Although school officials might find dress code enforcement challenging, dress code violations in the past tended to be

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. . . in the actor, the filmmaker, the audience?Where is it?Who owns it?Also, see: "Autogynephilia" and the Clinical Gaze

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Interview of Joanne Herman and Diego Sanchez about what it means to be transgender - 6/21/06 transaware

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By Steven Avalos - Jan 6th 2010Anyone watch 'Conveyor Belt of Love' on Monday night during ABC's 'Marry Me' Monday night line up after 'The Bachelor'? No? Just us?ABC describes their new reality show as "five women [who] take a shot at finding love when 30 men are given the chance to impress them as they pass by on a moving conveyor belt." Why? Why not? Because why should you have to get out

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January 10, 2010By David LandesYoung Swedes who suspect they are transsexuals ought to be issued special ID cards allowing them to hide their undesired gender during their trial phase as the opposite sex, according to one of the country’s most respected child psychiatrists.Swedes change last names in droves (31 Dec 09)'Vaginal corona' makes 2009 word list (31 Dec 09)Gender-reassigned face health

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BBCJanuary 4. 2010A Belfast newspaper has been found guilty of breaching the press code of practice for describing a transsexual as 'a tranny.'The Sunday Life was reported to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) by a male-to-female transsexual who had worked as a rape counsellor in Belfast.The paper had raised concerns about her suitability for the role and described her as a 'tranny.'The PCC

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By BRIAN KNOWLTONJanuary 5, 2010WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity.The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — and it merely formalizes what had

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thanks for the future India Thanks for the global future too!! Please rate this funny animation, thank you. Wish you happy new year -kidsone kidsone

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24 CANDLES, FIRE, WORDS / how to wish you an happy new year 2010 with 24 candles video by http://www.NOTsoNOISY.com - NOTsoNOISY Guillaume Reymondfor BHAKTI PRODUCTION Dominique Mermoud Smith - http://www.BHAKTI.chmusic "Whitehair Child" by ALOAN - http://www.ALOAN.ch© 2009 NOTsoNOISY Guillaume Reymond notsonoisy

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http://www.doriadar.com my remix 2 the legendery theme by the muppets, and happy new year 2 u all! shambelz

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By Matt KaileyDecember 17, 2009Trans men, their admirers, and anyone else interested in transmasculine people and lives have a new source for entertainment, information, and super-hot photos of super-hot trans guys. Original Plumbing (note: some mature themes), the brainchild of photographer and writer Amos Mac and rapper and producer Rocco Kayiatos (Katastrophe), is a new quarterly magazine that

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By Matt KaileyDecember 30, 2009Going through transition from female to male or male to female is a huge and life-changing step. While transition is not a choice — for most trans people, it is medically necessary and often life-saving — non-trans people can take guidance from trans experience in making changes of their own.If you are contemplating a major change — and at this time of year, it is

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By Matt KaileyDecember 31, 2009The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) has issued the following press release:Amanda Simpson, who has served on NCTE's Board of Directors for the past three years, has been appointed by the Obama Administration as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce. She'll be working in the Bureau of Industry and Security.“I'm truly honored to have

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Dec 29, 2009 | By SapaThere were "absolutely" no plans for Caster Semenya to sue the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Athletics South Africa (ASA), says her lawyer. Greg Nott, of the international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf who represented Semenya on a pro bono basis, said internet reports that she was planning to sue the two athletics organisations for an amount of

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - by BWW News DeskThe Village Voice is reporting that plans are in the works to bring a new Holly Woodlawn musical to an off-Broadway theatre. The blog reports that the writing team will include Penny Rockwell and Lance Cruz, who will also star as Holly. Additional expected casting will include drag stars Brandon Olson and Jackie Curtis. Holly Woodlawn is a

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By Adam Plowright (AFP) –Decermber 29, 2009NEW DELHI — It's worked for thousands of singletons the world over and now India's transsexuals are hoping Internet dating can help their marginalised community find love.A new site offers to help people born as men but living as women find husbands in a country where marriage remains the bedrock of society and gender and sexuality are still

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By Jennifer 8. LeeDecember 28, 2009Vidari DeGuzman was a New York City teenager searching for acceptance when he first came to the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a service organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths. Now 24 and with reassignment surgery behind him, he is a youth worker at the institute, located in the East Village. . . .Read More

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In this video, I give makeup advice aimed at transsexual women (and crossdressers) who want to use makeup to make themselves more passable. I also teach you how to do a simple makeup look suitable for going out with friends. TrannyGirl15

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A scene out of two and a half men season 1 episode 18: an old flame with a new wick... BadNilus

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It's the end of the episode in which Charlie meets an old girlfriend, who became a man...This man started a relationship with his mother, and this resulted in awkward situations... BadNilus

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December 18, 2009. . .Read More

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Kevin RoderickDecember 18, 2009The Daily Beast's Jacob Bernstein is the first writer who wasn't a friend to put together a somewhat lengthy examination of the months leading up to Mike Penner's suicide. In Requiem for a Transexual Sportswriter, he describes Penner becoming more and more reclusive, even after he dropped his identity as Christine Daniels. Christine Kahrl, the transexual writer for

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By Rafael Pineda and Maria Jose MunozDecember 17, 2009We second Kerry Cook's gratitude to the Alameda Unified School District for creating the Community Advisory Committee, albeit for entirely different reasons. We are thankful that the district is working to create a more inclusive and tolerant environment in our schools.She says, "Our hearts are broken for all the elementary school children

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2009/12/20NST OnLine Since the media went to town with Fatine Young's immigration dilemma, questions have arisen on whether our society lacks compassion and kindness when it comes to transgenders. AUDREY VIJAINDREN speaks to experts and religious leaders who believe it's time Malaysians vacate the judgement seat and adopt a more sympathetic approach. RUDE whistling from passing cars, derogatory

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Jason talks about exploring gender, growing up as a genderfluid person with a penis, the fun that can be had playing with gender, and being a trans activist. boccaleone

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The 10th installment of the cutting-edge video program, GenderVision, dives into employment issues faced by transgender persons. As transgender people work towards fair and equal protection of their right to work, at both state and federal levels, many grapple with the realities of being singled out for mistreatment in the workplace. Ethan St. Pierre, former police officer & security supervisor,

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December 13, 2009by Matt KaileyTransFM Internet Broadcasting Network, a “network of voices who share experiences, thoughts and ideas on the topics of gender, sexuality, politics and much more,” will broadcast live during the holiday season with “The 13 Days of Christmas,” beginning Sunday, December 13 and running through December 25. Broadcast hours will be 5 p.m. to midnight EST from December 13

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December 9, 2009by Matt KaileyTalk show host Jenny Jones surprised Cristan Williams, director of Houston’s Transgender Foundation of America (TFA), on December 7 with a phone call informing Williams that she had been chosen as a “Hometown Hero.”Williams applied to receive a “Jenny’s Heroes” grant of $5,000 to purchase trans-related books for the Foundation’s TG Center library and was chosen from

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December 12, 2009by Stuart RobertsThis year 60 people have applied to change their sex in Sweden. Most gender-reassigned people achieve a better life through their surgery, but a new study shows that the risk of attempted suicide and psychological problems remains high, Dagens Nyheter reports. “For most transsexual people, their life improves, but it’s not easy immediately after the operation,”

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December 11, 2009by Matt KaileyBritish and German scientists believe they have discovered a gene that maintains the function of the ovaries, according to the UK's Daily Mail.When the gene was switched off in adult female mice, another gene became active, literally changing ovarian cells to those found in testes, which also led to the production of testosterone in the mice.Scientists say that this

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"I will never leave Ian….for only death can tear us apart"by Joe LeeDecember 14, 2009KUALA LUMPUR: Fatine Young has not said much to the Malaysian media after the story of his immigration woes were picked up by local news agencies two weeks ago. Many parties have chastised Fatine, a pre-op transsexual whose real name is Mohammed Fazdil Min Bahari. The 36-year-old has been living in Spondon, Derby

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Star Jones show presents an interesting interview with a couple of transgender people, in wich they talked about their experiences in the college when they decided to go there, with their real personality. laucristina

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Created in 2003 by Christine Howey and Katherine Harvey, The Sissy Show is a musical revue that provides a humorous and bittersweet exploration of the personal and social joys and sorrows of people whose bodies and lives do not quite match their internal sense of their gender. The show features 25 songs done in a variety of musical styles ranging from pop, rock, R&B, and hip hop to Gilbert &

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December 4, 2009PADDY AGNEW in RomeIN A most unusual move, senior Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi this week distanced the Holy See from highly controversial, anti-gay and anti-transsexual comments made by retired Vatican curia figure Cardinal Javier Barragán from Mexico.In comments carried by the Italian news website Pontifex News, Cardinal Barragán, former president of the Pontifical

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December 6, 2009Sharing The Nation by ZAINAH ANWARIran allows Muslim transsexuals to undergo sex reassignment surgery and the government even pays for it. Malaysia, Egypt and other Muslim countries allow such surgery for Muslims only if they are born with sexual organs of both male and female. The story of Fatine, the 36-year-old transsexual married to a British man and about to be deported to

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(AFP) December 4, 2009TOKYO — Japanese TV personality Ai Haruna said she wants her country to be more tolerant toward people of diverse sexual orientations, a month after she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual.Haruna, 37, already a household name in Japan, was chosen Miss International Queen 2009 at a pageant in Thailand last month after judges picked her over runners-up from the

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December 4, 2009by Eric ResnickCleveland--By a unanimous vote, City Council passed an ordinance protecting transgender citizens from employment and housing discrimination by gender identity or expression on November 30. The measure updated the city’s

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2/26/2009By Steve Friess, special for USA TODAYThe day Mike Penner left the Los Angeles Times made the news. The longtime sportswriter wrote the article himself, a personal essay explaining that he was taking some time off and, upon his return, he would be known from then on as Christine Daniels. Penner's public acknowledgment in April 2007 that he was transgender and would soon live as a woman

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by Autumn SandeenOct 24, 2008[Note: LenaD has a related diary entitled The road not taken on the same subject as this diary, but with a somewhat different take. ~~Autumn~~] Some days I hate my job at Pam's House Blend, and this is definitely one of those days. I really need to explain what the Real Life Experience [(RLE) -- also referred to as the Real Life Test (RLT)] is and why some

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Sportswriter Embarks On New Life As A WomanAugust 15, 2007Three 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 wrote. "It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage

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A process of self-discovery and self-acceptance sillyyetsuccinct

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Penner had been a columnist and covered the Olympics, the Angels, World Cup soccer, tennis and sports media for The Times. In 2007, he announced that he was a transsexual.by Keith Thursby29 November 2009Mike Penner, a longtime Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines in 2007 when he announced that he was transsexual, has died. He was 52.Penner was pronounced dead Friday evening at

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Transgender Massachusetts Convict Presses Cash-Strapped Government for Electrolysis by ANNE-MARIE DORNINGNovember 27, 2009A Massachusetts inmate recently lost a bid for state-funded electrolysis treatments. But the prisoner, who has changed names from Robert to Michelle Kosilek, is still pursuing his case to have the state of Massachusetts pay for a sex-change operation in order to complete

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November 9, 2009US Magazine.comGwyneth Paltrow has a gender-bending new role to add to her resume. The actress, 37, has signed on to star in The Danish Girl opposite Nicole Kidman, in a role that brings the story of the first post-operative transsexual to the big screen. . . .Read More

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By Park Si-sooNovember 27, 2009When it comes to sex, whether it refers to gender or sexual intercourse, Korea, built upon Confucianist ideals, has stayed very conservative.But the strictness on sexual relations has become radically relaxed in recent years to the level that people believe women who keep their virginity until marriage are virtually "an endangered species."Hostility against sexual

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Chaz Bono On ABC's Good Morning America: Gender Is Between Your Ears, Not Between Your Legs - 11/19/09 NewsPoliticsAmerica

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By CLAUDIA LA ROCCONovember 18, 2009True artists tend to follow their own internal systems. But there is something to be said about being of the same generation, which often prompts a certain kinship of values and ideas.On Tuesday night, as part of Performa 09, Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer split a bill at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. It was the first time these two choreographers had shared a

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November 6, 2009By Jan HoffmanBy now, most high school dress codes have just about done away with the guesswork.Girls: no midriff-baring blouses, stiletto heels, miniskirts.Boys: no sagging pants, muscle shirts.But do the math. “Rules” + “teenager” = “challenges.”If the skirt is an acceptable length, can a boy wear it?Can a girl attend her prom in a tuxedo? In recent years, a growing number of

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By Teddy PartridgeNovember 21, 2009Chaz Bono, whose mother and father Cher and Sonny Bono made sixties television fun for so many of us, explains to Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America the transition from being Chastity Bono. This is as good an explanation I have ever seen in the mass media of the process, thinking, and feelings of this extraordinary journey — from the viewpoint of the person. .

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November 21, 2009by David TaffetThe names of this year’s 120 transgender murder victims were read at a ceremony at Southern Methodist University on Friday to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance. Sheriff Lupe Valdez was the keynote speaker. Because of rain, the ceremony was moved indoors. About 100 people filled the main hall of Hughes Trigg Student Center. The names of each of the murder

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November 21, 2009by Matt KaileyThe BBC and Telegraph report that a Brazilian trans woman known as Brenda, who was linked to a scandal involving former Lazio Governor Piero Marrazzo of Italy, is believed to have died in a fire in her apartment.A body believed to be that of Brenda was found in her apartment yesterday, November 20. Telegraph reports that magistrates are treating the death as a

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This is a news story on the Transgender Center in Houston, Texas. ehipassiko

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By MICHAEL WINERIP13 November 2009IN September 1998, David Buechner, then 39, a prominent classical pianist, came out as a transgender woman, explaining that from then on, she would live and perform as Sara Davis Buechner. The pianist had been accustomed to rave reviews (at 24, David, in his New York City concert debut, was called “an extraordinary young artist” by a New York Times critic). But

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By SHERRY JACOBSON14 November 2009 After 17 years with the Dallas Police Department, Officer Joseph Grabowski showed up at work one day sporting makeup, a feminine hairstyle and a new first name: Deborah. The 44-year-old officer was scared and relieved that the secret was finally out. "I have always felt like a woman and, suddenly, everybody knew I was going to

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by Leonora EpsteinNovember 13, 2009The fashion industry may have a long-standing tendency to exclude certain groups and cultures, but more and more we’re seeing this change as people begin challenging the status quo. Now the transsexual community is getting a voice with a new style publication. Billed as “the first transversal fashion magazine,” Candy has just debuted its premiere issue in a

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by Charles Q. Choi9 November 2009 One day artificial penis tissue could be grown to help men, new findings in rabbits now suggest. After implantation with replacement tissue, lab rabbits that once had damaged penises had working organs and could produce offspring. "Further studies are required, of course, but our results are encouraging and suggest that the

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The number of Transgender Deaths has doubled within one year. As of Oct 22 2009 there has been 95 deaths calculated the year year before there were 47.We are people,We have faces,We have families,We have friends,We have lives,We have value,We have voices,None of this should be taken away from any of us because of who we are.Please http://www.transgenderdor.org/ to find a TDoR event near you and

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The parents of a transgender child discuss why they have allowed their boy to make a decision to become a girl. channel4

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by ADELE HORINOctober 31, 2009A TRANSSEXUAL has won a written apology from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the distress she experienced as a result of having to travel on a passport that identified her as a man. Stefanie Imbruglia, 42 - a first cousin of the pop star Natalie Imbruglia - has also secured the department's agreement to other measures that amount to fairer

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November 3, 2009By Caroline McNaughtBeauty pageants get a bad rap for many stereotypes and promotion of shallow values, but the recent winner of Miss International Queen 2009 argues otherwise. Known as the world’s largest transsexual cabaret, the Miss International Queen pageant is seen as a platform not only to model swimsuits, but also to raise awareness for transgender issues. The winner,

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November 5, 2009by Charlene SweeneyA controversial play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual woman was defended yesterday by its writer who has herself crossed the gender barrier to live as a woman. Jesus, Queen of Heaven, has caused a storm of protest from Christian evangelical groups, who picketed the Tron Theatre in Glasgow when it opened this week. However, their attacks have caused deep

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