[India]
Sex change ops no longer uncommon

"I feel trapped... my mind is crisscrossing. .. I am neither embarrassed nor traumatised. But I have a feeling of being incomplete" - this is what Subhash (name changed) wrote in his declaration to doctors at Lok Nayak Hospital. He underwent a sex-change surgery and is now called Kajri (changed). He was lucky.

[Malaysia]
For transsexuals, the brand comes first

For transsexuals, cost is never an issue as what matters most is looking good.

[Thailand]
Singaporean Transsexual accused of drugging and theft, arrested

A press conference now which took place last week at the Tourist Police Station located half way up the Pratamnuk Mountain.

[Japan]
Japan Court Refuses To Amend Transsexual's Birth Record

A Japanese court has refused to amend the birth records of a transsexual because prior to sex reassignment surgery she had fathered a child.

[USA]
Gender & Sexuality: Fluid Or Solid

Excerpt: Which do you think is more likely: that God accidentally puts the souls of men in female bodies (and vice versa), or that our understanding of our gender is just one of the many paths human beings can get lost on?

[NY,USA]
Lawsuit settled for trans youth denied rights by NYC juvenile authorities

Lambda Legal, Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Deveboise & Plimpton LLP announced on Dec. 20 the settlement of a lawsuit on behalf of a transgender youth who was denied appropriate medical treatment and punished for her gender expression in New York juvenile facilities.

Alyssa Rodriguez, now 20 years old, is a transgender woman who was deprived of her prescription hormone medication and punished for her feminine hairstyle and other aspects of her gender expression by the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) while at the Red Hook Residential Center and other New York facilities in 2002 -- 2003. Rodriguez had been on hormone therapy from a young age and experienced both severe health consequences and emotional distress due to withdrawal symptoms after being forced to go without hormone treatment.