[UK]
NHS to cut transgender operations

An NHS Trust is to cut funding to gender transition as part of a move to limit non-essential operations in the area. Hounslow Primary Care Trust has announced that from April 2007, anyone seeking NHS support for medical services such as gender reassignment, tattoo removal, or breast enhancements will have to pay for it.

[USA,PA]
Police Have Longer 911 Tape of Courtesy Ride in Nizah Morris Case

Police say they have a 911 tape longer than the version they released three years ago regarding a courtesy ride that an officer gave a transgender woman who later died.

Photo: Nizah Morris

[OH,USA]
2006: The year it came together

Excerpt: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 that the 1964 Civil Rights Act can be applied to protect transsexuals from sex-stereotyping in the workplace ...

[OH,USA]
Males who work as prostitutes a little-known part of sex industry

Excerpt: "I found that I could dress like a female and make more money than the girls," said "Kia," who at 18 has been charged seven times for prostitution during his five years working the streets.