[Thailand]
Cellulite and sex changes
Sitting cross-legged on his hospital bed at Yanhee Hospital in Bangkok, South African Neil Van Der Merwe unwraps a layer of bandages to reveal a six-inch tube inserted into the inner part of his forearm.

[Canada]
Mr(s). Smith can't find a doctor
When Michelle B. booked an appointment with Toronto’s renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Stubbs, she wasn’t expecting to be shown the door so quickly.
Foto by Jordan Morningstar

[UT,USA]
Transgender Month focuses on equality
Imagine having the wrong gender on your driver license or passport. That's an issue that transgender individuals face daily, said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

[USA]
National Center for Transgender Equality Launches "Responding to Hate Crimes" Manual
Transgender People Among Most Targeted Populations for Hate Violence Useful Resource for Local "Transgender Day of Remembrance" Vigils

[TN,USA]
Memphians to celebrate city's first Transgender Day of Remembrance
Memphians will join together on Monday, November 20 to observe the city's first Transgender Day of Remembrance. The event serves to acknowledge and mourn victims of hate crimes against transgender individuals. An interfaith memorial service and candlelight vigil will be held at the First Unitarian Church of Memphis from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

[South Korea]
Transgender Star to Marry New Boyfriend
Transgender superstar Harisu will be marrying a man who is four years her junior, in a ceremony early next year, reported Nocut News Wednesday. The two houses will be introduced officially next month and if things go according to plan the two will be wed in early 2007.

[HI,USA]
Transgendered Kim Coco Iwamoto The Nation's Highest Elected Office Holder

Story and Video Provided B: KHNL Raycom Media

Kim Coco Iwamoto is being called the nation's highest elected office holder, who also happens to be transgendered. In her first televised interview since the election.

[NY,USA]
Transgender Folly

Excerpt: By any measure, this is breathtaking. Of course, as a practical matter, there are countless disgusting scenarios that could be envisaged that would become routine. But there is a more profound dimension. In effect, a person's gender becomes something he or she says it is. We have no doubt that there are those who feel trapped in their bodies in terms of their sexuality and we take no joy in any pain or embarrassment they may suffer. But that is not the end of the inquiry. Tradition, mores, deeply rooted senses of decency and morality should also count.

[DE,USA]
Transgender inmate headed back to prison

Court officials fretted today about how to deal with a transgender inmate who is HIV positive.

Sentencing of transsexual poses problem

The fact that Tanya Bowie wrote more than 300 bad checks, was let out, then wrote 54 more was perhaps the simplest problem Bowie posed to the federal court Tuesday.

Officials Unsure Where To Jail Transgender Inmate

Philadelphia Federal court officials are trying to figure outwhere to place an HIV positive transgender inmate sentenced to twoyears in prison for passing counterfeit checks.