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Kyrgyzstan’s Transgender Advocates Call for Right to Change Gender in Passports
Posted: July 6th, 2010EurasiaNet, USA July 5, 2010 – 9:49am, by Dalton Bennett In a region widely criticized for its human rights record, a handful of activists in Kyrgyzstan are attempting to enact significant reforms in how the state defends transgender individuals from harassment. Seizing on what they say is a liberal intermission in Kyrgyzstan’s transition from autocracy [...]
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Trans Travel Tips
Posted: March 18th, 2010Trans Travel Tips
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333 Murders of Trans in 2 years
Posted: March 18th, 2010Europe (TGEU): Press Release: March 17th 2010* TGEU presents “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” research project and new Trans Murder Monitoring results: In the last 2 years the murders of 333 trans people have been reported “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” research project online! Today, March 17th, Transgender Europe (TGEU) launched the “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” (TvT) [...]
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2010 Olympics: Egale distributes ILGA World Marriage Map & Trans/Intersex Athletes Comments at Pride House
Posted: February 12th, 2010Egale Canada’s FAQ sheet available at Pride House at the 2010 Olympics
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Opposition to Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill has imperialist ring
Posted: February 11th, 2010GUEST COLUMN / Life in the West is not necessarily easier than life in the East Akim Adé Larcher / Vancouver / Thursday, February 11, 2010 From torturing and murder-ing men suspected of homosexual conduct in Iraq to the proposed Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, to the arrest and abuse of crossdressers in Guyana, to the recent [...]
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The DRAFT (emphasis added) DSM-V
Posted: February 11th, 2010A.E.Brain Intermittent postings from Canberra, Australia on Software Development, Space, Politics, and Interesting URLs. And of course, Brains… Wednesday, 10 February 2010 The DRAFT (emphasis added) DSM-V Is available at http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx : DSM-5: The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 [...]
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Proposed Draft Revisions to DSM Disorders and Criteria
Posted: February 10th, 2010A Message from the DSM-5 Task Force Chairs Dear Reader, Welcome to the DSM-5 Development Web site. This site provides information culminated from over 10 years of revision activities, made possible thanks to the generous dedication of more than 600 global experts in the field of mental health. The DSM-5 Task Force and Work Group [...]
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Quebec now funding trans surgeries at private clinic
Posted: February 9th, 2010Up until recently, those approved for SRS were sent abroad Luna Allison / Montreal / Tuesday, February 09, 2010 Quebec’s medical system is in the midst of some major changes when it comes to accessing sex reassignment surgeries (SRS) in the province. Up until recently, transsexual and transgendered folks seeking publicly-funded SRS procedures had to [...]
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Transsexual film-maker Kimberly Reed wows America with Prodigal Sons
Posted: February 8th, 2010Paul Harris, New York The Observer, Sunday 7 February 2010 The tale of two small-town brothers and their battles with identity, both sexual and biological, has defied all expectations Paul 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 [...]
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Pakistan’s eunuchs face life of begging, prostitution
Posted: February 3rd, 2010Wednesday, 03 Feb, 2010 | 11:47 AM PST | RAWALPINDI: Mohammed Zafar Iqbal used to cash in on his beautiful face and graceful moves, dancing bedecked in midnight blue veils and dresses for clients who sought his perceived closeness to God. But like most of Pakistan’s eunuch and transsexual community – mocked, pitied and shunned [...]