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A bloggers exposed a regulation passed in July that could effectively bar transgender, transsexual, and gender non-conforming people from boarding airplanes in Canada. While it is still unclear whether the regulations have affected any trans people at the (Canada) airport, the policy as it is written is disquieting – and asks Transgender to think again [...]

It takes courage to speak at a conference of more than 120 people, even if you are allowed to sit behind a desk. But, when you have been asked by one of the most well known international humanitarian organisations to speak at their annual conference, the pressure is most definitely on. Jen Janice, Programme Manager [...]

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 [...]

Europe’s first transsexual MP takes her seat in Polish parliament Poland has welcomed Europe’s first transsexual woman into its parliament – reflecting a ‘profound social change’ in the traditionally Roman Catholic country. Anna Grodzka, who was born a man but underwent a sex change, was joined by Robert Biedron – the country’s first openly gay [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]