[Jamaica]
Male cross dresser held at women's prison

The Department of Correctional Services has ordered a probe into the circumstances which led to a teenaged male cross dresser being incarcerated at the island's largest penal facility for women.

[China]
Sex-change singer wants new job

A woman who had undergone a sex-change operation two years ago in Jining, Jilin Province, is trying to return to work as a white-collar professional.

[CA,USA]
Coming out transgender in same-sex relationships

Chances are one is familiar with stories like that of Roy who, in the 2003 groundbreaking film Normal, finds after 25 years of marriage that the stress of being a woman in a man's body is too much to bear. For Roy, played by Tom Wilkinson, it's not an easy transition but a necessary one. And in the end, his wife, played brilliantly by a quiet Jessica Lange, comes to accept his decision.

[CA, USA]
New Asylum Bid for Trans Mexican

A Mexican transsexual has won a new hearing on claims both for asylum and, alternately, for protection in the U.S. under the international Convention Against Torture, or CAT.

[PA, USA]
Transgender complaint filed against police

Jaci Adams, an outreach worker for Philadelphia FIGHT, a local AIDS agency, says continuous verbal abuse from some Philadelphia police officers causes her to fear for her safety.