[Portugal]
MANEQUIM VAI LANÇAR OBRA EM NOVEMBRO - “Vai ser um livro SURPREENDENTE”

A filha de Nené não quer adiantar muito sobre a primeira aventura no mundo literário para manter o suspense.

Filipa Gonçalves vai lançar um livro em Novembro (Global Notícias, sexta-feira, 9 de Maio de 2008)

As atenções de Filipa Gonçalves estão concentradas na edição de um livro escrito pela própria manequim. Sobre a primeira aventura no mundo literário, a filha de Nené ainda não quis revelar muitos pormenores, para manter o suspense até à data de lançamento, que deverá ser em Novembro.

"Vai ser um livro surpreendente. Vão poder conhecer uma Filipa Gonçalves diferente, porque há mais que uma imagem. Quando lerem o livro vão ficar a conhecer-me melhor", assegurou ao 24 Horas. Filipa, apesar de ter guardado o projecto no segredo dos deuses, não resistiu a contar que o livro vai ser um romance: "vai ser um romance verdadeiro, onde falo do amor da minha vida".

[MA,USA]
State prison head opposes sex-change surgery for killer

The commissioner of the state's prison system says allowing a convicted killer to get a sex-change operation would pose "insurmountable" safety and security problems.

Mass. prison head opposes sex-change surgery for inmate

Allowing a convicted killer to get a sex-change operation would pose insurmountable safety and security problems for the state prison system, the Massachusetts corrections chief said.

Prison chief opposes sex change

The commissioner of the state's prison system says he strongly opposes allowing a convicted killer to have a state-funded sex-change operation, saying it would create "insurmountable" safety and security problems.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
HRC needs a definition of 'progress'

I was alerted yesterday by Autumn Sandeen at Pam's House Blend of Verizon's vote to not amend the company's equal employment policy to include gender identity and expression.

[DC, USA] [Commentary]
A Shaky Performance on Corrections

Excerpt: Several readers said Araujo wasn't gay, that he was transgender, and though he was biologically male, he identified as a female who was attracted to men. Vargas said he felt that Araujo fell "under the gay umbrella," and his editor, Lynne Duke, agreed.

A half dozen experts from the American Psychological Association disagreed. Ritch Savin-Williams, chairman of the Human Development Department at Cornell University, said, "The Post would be inaccurate to necessarily call [Araujo] gay. The crucial issue is that, as a woman, she could be either gay or heterosexual. If she's attracted to men, she's heterosexual."

Michael Hendricks, a District psychologist and researcher, said: "This is a distinct difference between gender and sexual orientation. They are independent of each other. Just because someone is transgender doesn't mean someone is gay."

At least a clarification should have run on this issue.