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sábado, fevereiro 17, 2007

[UK]
Sex-swap surgery saved
Funding for sex change operations will not be scrapped from next year, Hounslow Primary Care Trust (PCT) has announced.

[Malta]
Transsexual gets Court's blessing to marry
A 25 year-old transsexual was granted the right to marry by the Civil Court of Malta, enabling other transsexuals the right to civil marriage.
Transsexual can get married, court rules
A court has ordered the director of Public Registry to issue the marriage banns for a transsexual, who was born a man but was legally declared a woman following gender reassignment surgery.
Transsexual wins right to marry
A Maltese transsexual has won her battle in the Maltese law courts to be recognised as a woman and be allowed to marry.

[Italia]
PARITà PREVIDENZIALE PER I TRANSESSUALI
Negare il beneficio di una pensione di vecchiaia a 60 anni ad una persona che sia passata dal sesso maschile al sesso femminile con la motivazione che essa non ha raggiunto l'età pensionabile di 65 anni prevista per gli uomini è contraria al diritto comunitario.

[Australia]
Priscilla the $6m musical upstages film version
PRISCILLA the musical has upstaged Priscilla the film. This week, box-office takings for Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical passed those of the film on which it is based.

[Thailand]
Thai ladyboy band hopes to hit the high notes
Five beauties, questionable singing abilities, great dance moves and the skimpiest of outfits: Venus Flytrap fits the girl band cliche in every respect but one.

THAI TIME: Venus Flytrap fits the girl band cliche in every respect but one. These Thai girls used to be boys. From left: Amy, Taya, Bobo, Nok and Gina.

[USA]
11th Annual National Day of Silence sure to be loud
Get ready for campuses all over the country to be a little quieter. On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 students nationwide will be commemorating the national Day of Silence. They will be quiet all day to protest the discrimination, harassment and abuse—in effect, the silencing—faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and their allies in schools.

[NV, USA]
Transgender escort will stand trial for murder
A transgender escort accused of killing a Las Vegas woman will stand trial for her murder, even though police have not found her body or a murder weapon.

[DC,USA]
D.C. man pleads guilty in transgender murder case
A 43-year-old Washington man pleaded guilty on Feb. 8 tosecond-degree murder while armed in connection with the beating andsuffocation slaying of Diamond Person, a transgender woman whosebody was found in her Northwest D.C. apartment last month.