CHASTITY BONO TRANSITIONING FROM FEMALE TO MALE
Chastity Bono, gay-rights activist and child of performer Cher and the late entertainer and politician Sonny Bono, is in the early stages of transitioning from a female to a male and will be known as Chaz, his spokesman said Thursday. “Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true [...]
MAN GAVE BIRTH TO SECOND CHILD WHILE ANOTHER PREGNANT ‘MAN’ MISCARRIES
LOS ANGELES: He gave birth to a daughter barely a year ago, his pregnancy hitting headlines around the world. Mr Thomas Beatie has just given birth for a second time – this time to a boy. He is the first legally transgender male to conceive after he decided to keep his female sex organs during [...]
Confusion over issues relating to transgenderism
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an old article I wrote concerning some issues relating to transgenderism. It was first posted on my personal blog last year. Written by Ng E-Jay 20 July 2008 In a society like Thailand where attitudes towards transgendered people are supposedly amongst the most liberal in the world, confusion over basic issues [...]
Sally Mursi (1966 – ) medical student, dancer.
Sayed ‘Abd Allah Mursi was apparently intersex, and was surgically adjusted and then raised as a boy. He was a student at Al-Azhar ’s Medical School for Boys in Cairo, one year from graduation, when she transitioned to Sally with surgery in 1988. Her doctor was Dr Ezzat Ashamallah, a Copt. They were both summoned [...]
Iraq snapshot
Monday, June 1, 2009. Chaos and violence continue, Iraq’s Health Ministry issues an undercount and various outlets run with it, May proves to be the deadliest month for US service members in Iraq, Barack continues torture, Iraqi gays under assault finally get some attention from Pacifica, and more. We’re going to start with an exchange [...]
“Pregnant Man” Gives Birth to Second Child
And the world gives a collective yawn. You would have thought that there would have been a bigger hoopla, but I think the first time the headline of “pregnant man” came out, people were caught off guard. Because of the way the story was framed, it sounded like some sort of major scientific breakthrough had [...]
Cuba to resume transgender surgery… ( 365 Gay News / QueensSpeech )
(Havana) Cuba will reinstate sex-change operations previously banned on the island, President Raul Castro’s daughter Mariela said Wednesday. The Health Ministry authorized the operations last year, but none has been performed since…
Is Extremism in the Defense of Sodomy No Vice?
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” -Barry Goldwater “With respect to libertarian eccentricity, the dream of an absolute private freedom is one of those visions that issue from between the gates of ivory; and the disorder that they would thrust upon society already is displayed in the moral disorder of their private [...]
Catherine Carlson petitions to remove Daniel Carlson name
Catherine Carlson was born Daniel Carlson. Carlson had transgender surgery 28 years ago. Carlson wants to have her birth name, Daniel Carlson, removed from her legal records. Carlson had a driving ticket issued to her and it listed both her male and female names. Carlson was angry and refused to pay the ticket. Carlson went [...]
MAN GAVE BIRTH TO SECOND CHILD WHILE ANOTHER PREGNANT ‘MAN’ MISCARRIES
LOS ANGELES: He gave birth to a daughter barely a year ago, his pregnancy hitting headlines around the world. Mr Thomas Beatie has just given birth for a second time – this time to a boy. He is the first legally transgender male to conceive after he decided to keep his female sex organs during [...]