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segunda-feira, novembro 10, 2008

[UK]
Guilty on 6 Counts!
The General Teaching Council for England has ruled that a former Education, Training and Employment Manager at Brighton & Hove City Council was guilty of discriminating against a teacher because she was transgender.
[Blog/News/Commentary] Natasha Thoday claims tribunal victory

[Australia]
Step forward in treatment of genital abnormalities
HOW do you tell a teenager her body has already passed through menopause, her ovaries no longer work and she may never have children? Or counsel a parent whose baby girl was born with male and female sexual organs?

[USA]
Web site finds jobs for trans individuals
After experiencing job discrimination first-hand, a Milwaukee woman decided to launch her own Web site to assist transgender individuals in finding employment with truly inclusive companies and organizations.

[CO, USA]
Transforming Gender Symposium
The 3rd annual Transforming Gender Symposium kicked off Friday night with keynote speaker Monica Roberts and a local transgender activist panel.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Refuting Medical Claims on Transgender Identity
Pop science sources have been slowly buzzing with the news that scientists may have found a link between transgender women who seek sex reassignment surgeries and their genes. This follows on the heels of a highly popular theory that the brains of transgender people are washed in either extra testosterone or extra estrogen while en utero.

[DC,USA]
Seeking Alternatives to Streets
Excerpt: "Sex work is about survival," Outlaw said. "It's not about choosing a neighborhood to go into and to prostitute. We are struggling as transgender women to make ends meet and to survive in today's world where we are misunderstood." (Vídeo)

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Barbin the hermaphrodite
It is Intersex Solidarity Day, thanks to Herculine Barbin born and designated a female 170 years ago today. She died tragically before reaching 30, having changed her gender to male and her name to Abel some years earlier. She left a diary, though, describing her short life which has been widely used by academics studying gender issues. In the 1970s and 1980s, Michel Foucault, a French intellectual, brought Barbin’s story to a wider audience, and it then became the inspiration for a Pullitzer Prize winning novel.