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transgender stories: 23 news summaries

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Chaz Bono
Very Happy After Sex Change

Sonny and Cher's firstborn finishes months of surgeries

Oct 30, 09 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chaz—formerly Chastity—Bono is enjoying the payoff of years of effort: He’s finally a man. Born the daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono, Chaz says his female-to-male sex change was the “end of a long process going back almost a decade. I got clean and sober in... More »

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entertainment • drug addiction • Cher • transgender • Chastity Bono • Sonny Bono • Chaz Bono

 Gay Toughs Bash Back 


Aug 25, 09 1:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many gays are damn mad and they're not going to take it anymore. Now Bash Back!—formed just over a year ago—is boosting gay, transgender and sex worker protest to a freshly provocative level, reports Details. The group, with some 15 chapters nationwide, has forged its reputation with... More »

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gay rights • protests • transgender • protesters • gay • sex worker • Bash Back!

(Newser) - After her big win yesterday in a world track meet, South Africa's Caster Semenya has to undergo a gender test to prove that she is, in fact, a woman. This is way more complicated than it sounds, writes Melonyce McAfee in a Slate Explainer column updated from a similar case... More »

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transgender • World Championships • Y chromosomes • Jay-ZTV • Caster Semenya • gender test

SLIDESHOW

 Transsexuals Dazzle 
 in Thai Pageant 

Annual contest celebrates the 'third gender'

May 16, 09 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - While Americans took a breather from Miss California beauty pageant drama, Thailand held its 12th annual Miss Tiffany Universe contest today, featuring only transsexuals or transvestites, Huffington Post reports. The contest seeks to advance human rights causes for the country’s transgender population, whose “third gender” status is classified... More »

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Thailand • beauty pageant • transgender • transvestite • beauty contest • transsexual

Banks Will Pay for Top Model Contestant's
Sex Change

'This is not happening,' cries Isis King

Nov 17, 08 7:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Tyra Banks shocked a former America's Next Top Model contestant by offering to pay for her sex change, the New York Daily News reports. Transgendered Isis King, booted off the show for flunking a poolside photo shoot, was stunned when Banks said a doctor will operate pro bono. "This... More »

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entertainment • Tyra Banks • transgender • sex change • America's Next Top Model

 Oregon Man Pregnant Again 

Transgender male, with 4-month-old girl, expecting second child in June

Nov 13, 08 12:37 PM CST
(Newser) - “Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie has another bun in the oven, just four months after the transgender male gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Though he’s legally a male, Beatie kept his natural female sex organs and has stayed off testosterone pills since the birth so that he... More »

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pregnancy • Barbara Walters • baby • sexuality • transgender • Thomas Beatie • pregnant man

Ore.Town
Elects First Transgender Mayor in US

He wins easy victory in 'coolest town on Earth'

Nov 8, 08 1:36 PM CST
(Newser) - A small town in Oregon has elected the nation’s first transgender mayor, reports News Channel 8 (Portland). “I identify mostly as a heterosexual male,” said Stu Rasmussen, who has breast implants and is partial to skirts and high heels. “I just like to look like a... More »

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transgender • mayor • Oregon • small towns • election • Stu Rasmussen

GLOSSIES

Allowing Children to Choose Gender Is Slippery Slope

Parents' inclination to let children decide what's best raises all sorts of questions

Oct 17, 08 7:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - For parents raising boys who profess to be girls and vice versa, puberty blockers may seem a godsend, writes Hanna Rosin in a look at gender—and transgender children—in the Atlantic. Boys will emerge from their teens with no Adam's apple, girls will bypass menstruation, allowing them to live... More »

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hormones • transgender • gender identity disorder • hormone therapy • Atlantic Monthly

 Transgender
 Woman
 Competes on
 Top Model

Isis was born a male

Aug 14, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The new season of America's Next Top Model will include a transgender contestant, US Weekly reports. "My cards were dealt differently," says Isis, 22. The former receptionist from Maryland identifies herself as "a woman born physically male." The president of a gay advocacy group says the... More »

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reality TV • Tyra Banks • transgender • model • America's Next Top Model

New Youth Castration Law Divides Thailand

Boys seeking sex changes will now have to wait untl they're 18

Aug 5, 08 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Until recently in Thailand, boys who wanted to change gender could have their testicles removed for just $150, no questions asked. But as Bloomberg reports, a new law pushed by gay rights activists will force Thais to wait until they turn 18 before undergoing a sex-change operation. Many doctors, though,... More »

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gender • Thailand • transgender • sex reassignment surgery • teenager • castration

Transsexual Thai Students Get Own Toilets

Up to 20% of rural high school's boys would rather be girls

Jul 30, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A high school in rural Thailand has given its many transgender students their own restroom, the BBC reports. Situated between the boys' and girls' rooms, the room has a half male/half female figure painted on the door. Inside, effeminate teenage boys preen. As many as  20% of the school's male... More »

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high school • Thailand • transexualism • restrooms • transgender • Transvestite

 Man-Mom Gushes Over Baby 

People pays $300K for pics; wife breastfeeds via induced lactation

Jul 24, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Pregnant Man” Thomas Beatie this week shows off his gender-bending miracle, Susan Juliette, in People magazine, which Gawker reports forked over $300,000 for the first pix. Since Beatie had his breasts removed, wife Nancy drew breast-feeding duty via hormonally induced lactation, they tell People. More »

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transgender • Oregon • People Magazine • Thomas Beatie • pregnant man

 Pregnant Man Gives Birth 

Girl born naturally, not via C-section, for transgendered Oregon resident

Jul 3, 08 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Pregnant man" Thomas Beatie has given birth to a baby girl, ABC News reports. The 34-year-old transgender male gave birth at a hospital in Bend, Ore., sources said. The birth was natural, not by caesarean section as some reports have claimed. "She's really cute, really pretty,'' one... More »

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gender • pregnancy • transgender • birth • hospital • male • Thomas Beatie

First Preggers Guy:
It's My Right to Have Baby

Pregnant transgendered man kept his uterus to be a 'mom,' he tells Oprah

Apr 4, 08 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pregnant transgendered man always wanted to have a baby and kept his uterus so he could do so, he told Oprah Winfrey yesterday. The 34-year-old man, who's expecting in July, had his breasts removed years ago and underwent hormone treatment to change his sex. He decided to step up... More »

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pregnancy • Oprah Winfrey • baby • transgender • sex change

Pregnant Guy Raises Baffling Gender Issues

Transgendered
'mother-to-be' will be
father to the baby

Mar 27, 08 4:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A couple in a quiet Oregon town is expecting their first child. So far, so normal—but the fact that it's the man who is pregnant is raising some baffling gender issues, the Oregonian reports. The 'mother-to-be' was born a woman but is legally a man who underwent transgender sex... More »

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pregnancy • families • transgender • sex change • gender discrimination

Transgender Con Upset
Over Fading Femininity

Killer suing for surgery wants more treatment

Feb 27, 08 3:21 AM CST
(Newser) - A prisoner who has sued for a sex-change operation has complained that treatments to feminize her body have stopped, the AP reports. “My breasts have shrunk, genitals have regained previous size, facial hair is thicker,” Michelle Kosilek, formerly Robert, wrote in a letter to the court considering the... More »

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hormones • transgender • lawsuit • sex change • cruel and unusual punishment • sex reassignment surgery • Robert Kosilek • Michelle Kosilek • Department of Correction • psychotherapy • gender identity disorder

Nepal Court Rules for Gay Rights

Landmark decision to scrap laws discriminating against gay, lesbian, transgender Nepalese

Dec 22, 07 10:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Conservative Nepal must stop its discrimination against homosexuals and make laws to protect their rights, the nation's highest court ruled yesterday. The decision is a major victory for gay rights advocates in the Himalayan country, where gay men and women have long complained of discrimination and attacks, BBC reports. "... More »

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gay rights • human rights • homosexuality • transgender • Nepal • court cases

Stanford Considers Co-Ed Rooms

Students clamor for change, say it's about comfort, not sex

Nov 29, 07 8:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Stanford students want co-ed dorm rooms, and the administration may take them up on the idea. "It's not about sex," one student told the San Jose Mercury News, but about feeling "comfortable in your living space." Transgender students started the initiative to build on the school's... More »

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Stanford University • college • transgender • college dorms

Loser Sues Winner for Falsifying Sex

Defeated Georgia challenger says 'transgender' incumbent defrauded voters

Nov 23, 07 6:21 PM CST
(Newser) - A defeated city council candidate is accusing the victorious incumbent, Michelle Bruce, of deceiving voters by identifying herself as female. Plaintiff Georgia Fuller’s lawyers say voters in Riverdale, Georgia, tend to favor female candidates. “It gives her an unfair advantage, it’s not just sour grapes,” said... More »

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politics • Georgia • transgender • gender politics • female politicians • city council

Label Doesn't Fit to a T

Salon pundit ponders paradox of gay-rights bill threatened by inclusion of trans

Oct 10, 07 3:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the fate of legislation that would protect gay people from employment discrimination hangs in the balance, gay leaders have withdrawn support—because protection for the transgendered has been dropped from the bill. The liberal instinct to “want it all now” has run amok, John Aravosis argues, and boosters... More »

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Congress • gay rights • homosexuality • transgender • civil rights • ENDA

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