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domingo, agosto 20, 2006

[WA,USA]
Gender Bender
Here's what Medicaid is willing to pay for, for those confronting issues of gender identity: hormone therapy (HT) and psychotherapy,the latter of which can lead to a clinical recommendation that a patient, for overall health and well-being, should undergo gender-reassignment surgery.
Here's what Medicaid used to pay for, but doesn't want to anymore: gender-reassignment surgery.

[CA,USA]
Man Who Sexually Assaulted Transsexuals Faces Long Sentence
Man gets 206 years for transgender, transvestite assaults
A gunman who sexually assaulted two transsexuals and a transvestite last summer could be sentenced to 227 years in prison on Friday afternoon.

[NY,USA]
Judge says state Human Rights Law protects transgendered people
A cook who claims he was fired by a fancy Westchester restaurant when co-workers discovered he was a woman living as a man is protected by the state's human rights law, a judge has ruled.

[USA]
Genderqueers: Lesbians Living Between Genders
The Advocate magazine (April 11, 2006) described a growing phenomenon among lesbians: they take testosterone injections to blur the distinctions between male and female.

[AZ,USA]
Police investigate shooting of male transvestite
Police are investigating a North Side shooting that left a male transvestite critically injured early Friday.

[CA,USA]
Gender stereotyping a fatal issue for 3-year-old
Trying to turn a 3-year-old boy from a "sissy" into a "real man" may have killed him, a Riverside, Calif., judge declared on Tuesday.

[USA]
The Trouble When Jane Becomes Jack
Shane Caya, right, found fulfillment in making the transition from a woman to a man. But it meant the end of a relationship with his former lesbian partner, left. They share custody of a child.

[USA]
Transgendered inmates push for state-funded sex-change surgery
Wearing lipstick, a scooped-neck sweater and nearly waist-length hair, the witness cried while describing what it feels like to be a woman trapped inside a man's body.