[Italia]

Luxuria: il mio rapporto con il pisello

"Io non ho mai odiato il mio corpo. Non ho mai fatto terapie ormonali per diventare più femminile. Non ho mai nemmeno pensato di operarmi, né tantomeno ho intenzione di pensarci adesso". E dunque si rassegni Elisabetta Gardini, portavoce di Forza Italia alla Camera: l'onorevole Wladimiro Guadagno, in arte Vladimir Luxuria, non ha nessuna intenzione di diventare donna per frequentare in santa pace il bagno delle donne a Montecitorio.

Foto: Vladimir Luxuria

[UK]

Tribunal rules against biggest discrimination claim so far by transsexual forced to quit Hitachi Data Systems

Jessica Bussert, a transsexual who claimed that she was forced to quit a high-powered job at Hitachi Data Systems after having surgery to become a woman, has lost her £500,000 claim.

Transsexual Loses $1M Discrimination Case

An American transsexual woman who says she was forced out of a job at Hitachi Data Systems in London has lost the biggest discrimination case brought by a transgendered person under Britain's anti-bias law.

[Netherlands] [Science]

Razor light

A device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks at a time, without shaving or waxing, is being patented by Philips.

[Japan]

Japanese Transsexual Parent Denied Right to Change Sex in Registry

Masami Osako, a Japanese transsexual, has been denied the right to change her birth records by the Kobe Family Court's Amagasaki branch because she once had a child before having a sex-change operation.