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HONG KONG — Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that a transsexual will ask Hong Kong’s top court to affirm her right to marry her boyfriend, a news report said Saturday.

The lawyer of the 36-year-old, who was born a man, said the case would go to the Court of Final Appeal after a lower court on Friday refused her the right to legally marry a man.

The plaintiff, identified only as W, had a male-to-female sex change operation in 2008 and has successfully applied to change her name and gender on her identity card and school records.

But city marriage registration officials have since 2008 denied her the right to marry, a stance backed first by the High Court in 2010 and on Friday by the Appeal Court.

Lawyer Michael Vidler told the South China Morning Post that Hong Kong ‘stands as an island’ among places such as mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore where transsexuals can legally marry. ‘W looks like a woman and acts like a woman,’ he said. ‘In all respects, other than the right to marry, she is treated as a woman.’

Europe’s first transsexual MP takes her seat in Polish parliament

Taking a big, deep breath, ­Jessica Danes looked her mum Victoria in the eye and blurted out the words she had been longing to say for years.

She was terrified the bombshell she was about to unleash would shatter the close bond they shared.

But Jessica, now 21, simply couldn’t keep quiet any more. The secret she’d kept almost all her life was eating away at her.

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SHE was born a male but has regarded herself as female for much of her life.

Now Lucinda Ferguson, of Langlee, Galashiels, is awaiting a sex change operation on the National Health Service.

Despite being an open cross-dresser throughout her first marriage, the 45-year-old former industrial roofer, originally from Fort William, revealed she only began living as a woman when she moved to the Borders to start a new life around a decade ago.

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The new version of the Standards of Care is being released at the Symposium in Atlanta.

TIH has consistently been employing leading edge tools and offering proven materials that enabled providers to stay abreast of the changes in the science and understanding of trans people.

From informed Consent to cultural competency to the declaring reparative therapy on trans children and adults as unethical, the advocated much of what is now included in these new standards, and will continue to remain ahead of the curve.

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