'Christine Jorgensen' is profile in courage
Christine Jorgensen is one of those names that people growing up in the 1950s associated with a kind of outside-the-mainstream perversity. There were dope smokers. Communists. Homosexuals. And Christine Jorgensen.

Britain - Transvestite Nahdi "Dana" Mudwai dies in River Thames...
A transvestite jumped to his death in the Thames after his family couldn't accept his lifestyle, according to a coroner's report.

D.C. bars discrimination based on gender identity
Employers and housing providers in the city are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of gender identity or gender _expression following an amendment to the D.C. Human Rights Act. The new provisions took effect March 8.

A third-gender passage to India
When Ash Kotak wrote a play called Hijra, he had no illusions that most audiences in the West would have simply no frame of reference. Hijras, often called India's third gender or eunuchs, have been part of Indian tradition through Hindu lore and Muslim courts. When Kotak, who was born in North London to Indian parents, went back to India on visits, he would see hijras dancing at weddings. "It was quite remarkable to see that in a country where homosexuality itself was illegal," he says.