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terça-feira, março 18, 2008

[España]
"Nunca he visto multar a un cliente, a nosotras sí"
"Prefiero trabajar en el Camp Nou porque a partir de las dos de la madrugada puedo hacer la calle libremente". Patricia, de 34 años, es transexual. Trabaja en la zona del estadio del Barça porque la Policía no le dice nada. "En cambio, cuando me quedaba en las Ramblas, venían y me ponían una multa", explica.

[España]
Un millar de transexuales han cambiado su sexo en el DNI sin necesidad de operarse
La Ley de Identidad de Género, que permite este trámite, cumple un año este lunes Las asociaciones consideran que "ha hecho justicia" con un colectivo muy discriminado.

[UK]
Sex-Change Ex-Paratrooper Wants To Become A Mum
SEX swap soldier Jan Hamilton has revealed she would like to adopt a child now she is finally a woman.

[UK]
New 'trans guidance' for universities
The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has put out guidance for universities to follow when dealing with "trans people" who are changing their gender.

[CUBA]
Transvestites and Crossdressers Key Workers Against AIDS
Activism against AIDS is uniting a group of transvestites and crossdressers in western Cuba in a project that is going beyond peer education and making inroads into the world of culture.

[Argentina]
“Hubo un niño varón que murió en el parto”
A partir de experiencias terapéuticas con personas transexuales, la autora vincula esa construcción de género con duelos "procesados de modo psicótico", no por ellas mismas sino por quienes las criaron en su primera infancia. Estudiar estas "creaciones neosexuales" sería una alternativa a "la opción de reafirmar nuestra 'normalidad' estadística por la discriminación".

[USA]
Hollywood star pays tribute to murdered teen
Actress Portia De Rossi has paid tribute to a murdered teenager in a new public service television advert broadcast in America.
Lawrence King, who was reportedly openly gay and sometimes wore 'feminine' clothing to school, was shot twice in the head while in class at the E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California last month.

[HI, USA]
State's a loser in old prison sex case
Thirteen years of legal wrangling that began after a state corrections officer allegedly sexually molested a transgendered inmate at the O'ahu Community Correctional Center may finally be over, with the result that the state will have to pay more than $90,000 to the former inmate and her lawyers.