Today I feel very sad indeed. But why should I when I have the girlfriend of my dreams, a wonderfully supportive family, a job where my employers and colleagues have been so amazingly understanding, and great friends who did not desert me in my transition? The why is because Andrea Waddell was killed sometime over [...]
The furore around the Stonewall Journalist of the Year award going to Julie Bindel has highlighted in Europe the same complete lack of concern that the LGB_QI world shows transpeople that was seen by the Human Right’s Campaign’s lack of support for a trans-inclusive ENDA in the US. What we’re seeing here is an institutialisation [...]
IF YOU CARE ABOUT TRANS ISSUES, READ THIS. IT’S IMPORTANT Unfortunately, the medical establishment owns the transitions and the lives of most transsexuals up to at least the point where they are able to set themselves free after their operations have been done. Even more unfortunately, the medical establishment is highly conservative and very unwilling [...]
From DNAIndia today (from the Agence France Presse): UAE jails three men for dressing as women Wednesday, August 15, 2007 14:39 IST DUBAI: Three men in the conservative Muslim Gulf state of the United Arab Emirates have been sentenced to a year each in jail for dressing as women, local media reported on Wednesday. The [...]
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