[South Africa]
What is gender identity?

When a child is born, the midwife or doctor looks at the baby's genitals and declares it a boy or a girl accordingly. In most cases, this method of assigning gender at birth fits the person without any problems. However, a person's gender is actually quite complicated and as a result this simple method of assigning gender doesn't always work.

[Taiwan]
Taiwan to accept sex-change woman as man

Taiwan, under pressure from gender-equality groups, plans to accept a woman who has undergone sex-change surgery as a man even if he doesn't have a constructed penis, a newspaper said Tuesday. The Health Department made the compromise Monday after protests from gender-equality groups triggered by a recent Interior Ministry decree that said a woman must have a reconstructed penis if she wants the gender on her identification card changed, the China Times reported.

[USA]
A surgeon who operates across the gender gap in 'Sex Change Hospital'

"Sex Change Hospital," a six-part visit to the place where boys become girls and vice versa, won't fall into everyone's viewing comfort zone

[USA]
New procedures

There are plenty more options on the plastic surgery menu these days

[CA, USA]
Kids Pulled From Transgender Teacher's Class

A teacher's gender reassignment surgery has caught the attention of some parents who want to know why the school district didn't notify them ahead of time about the change.