Thursday, May 30, 2013

Middleborough teen becomes high school's first transgender prom queen

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my Fox boston.com 29 May 2013 MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- A Middleborough High  School  girl became the town's fi...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Miss Tiffany becomes a monk

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Bangkok Post   Learning 14 May 2013 In Thailand, only  males  can become Buddhist monks. Thus, it was more than a little surprising ...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

OPINION: What Makes a Mother? Suffering

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by Jennifer Finney Boylan May 11, 2013 BELGRADE LAKES, Me. ONE day, toward the end of my transition from father to mother, I came home...

Taxi to Mars? Hull cabbie Melissa wants one-way ticket to red planet

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by James Campbell 9 May 2013 An East Hull taxi driver is a step closer to embarking on a one-way mission to Mars after beating 40,000 oth...

A Pioneer, Reluctantly

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by Greg Bishop 10 May 2013 SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Fallon Fox climbed inside the steel cage, past the sign that read “The Beating Will Continu...
Friday, May 10, 2013

For Your Cortex: Judith Butler - Gender Performance (profmcgowan, 10 Dec 2011)

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ABC News Producer Comes Out As Transgender

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by Claire Gordon 9 May 2013 For six days, many of Don Ennis'  1,236 Facebook friends  were a little confused. The  ABC News  producer...

Pakistan's once-ridiculed transgender community fight elections for first time

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Hijras can vote and run for seats in polls following supreme court decision recognising them as 'third gender' Jason Burke in Sarg...

Why it is hard to monitor bullying at schools — report

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by  Valerie Strauss  on May 8, 2013 A  new report  that reviewed years of research says that it is hard to accurately monitor levels of bu...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Visions of Justice: Whipping Girl Author Julia Serano Considers How We Regard Gender Non-Conformity

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By   Jackie Leahy April 27, 2012 Tonight, at 7:30 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium, scholar Julia  Serano , author of Whipping Girl: A Trans...

“We’re always performing gender, but we don’t think about it all the time”

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by Alli Langley April 30, 2013 Nic Bravo darted from the kitchen, to a table, to the bar, back to another table. She smiled as she ...

Purchase College volleyball player finds support in gender transition

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Written by DAN DEFRANCESCO PURCHASE  — Who is Taylor Edelmann? He’s a 21-year-old Purchase College senior, a native of Bethel, ...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

'Unlike Some People I Could Mention': On Transgender Identity and Storytelling

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Jennifer Finney Boylan Author, 'She's Not There,' 'I'm Looking Through You' and 'Stuck in      the Mid...
Monday, May 06, 2013

Changing Sex, and Changing Teams

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By  IAN LOVETT May 6, 2013 LOS ANGELES — Not so long ago, Toni Bias dreamed of playing in the W.N.B.A. But after starring on the girl...

Cross-Court Winner

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Renée Richards (1934– ), from  Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame . By  Emily Bazelon    Oct. 25, 2012 This piece comes from...

When Talking About Children's Gender, Words Matter

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Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. Developmental and clinical psychologist; mental health director, Child and Adolescent Gender Center ...

Born This Way?

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BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL MARCH 14, 2013 Transgender activists believe that when children insist their birth sex is the wrong sex, ...

LIFE TIMES Boys No More

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Discrimination against girls in Pakistan is so strong that families cross-dress their daughters as boys so they can move more freely about...

Gender-identity clinic opens for children

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'What's hard for some people to wrap their head around is that this condition actually exists,' pediatrician says March 24, 2...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

CA Bans Insurance Discrimination Against Transgender Patients

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SAN FRANCISCO [April 9, 2013]:  California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) has ordered California’s health plans to remove exclu...