Mass. transgender inmate denied electrolysis

A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday denied additional hair-removal treatments for a murderer who is seeking a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation, saying the inmate has failed to prove she will suffer "serious harm" without further electrolysis.

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China preps 1st guidelines for sex change surgery

China's first medical guidelines on sex change surgery could require patients to gain police approval before the procedure, according to a posting on the Health Ministry's Web site.

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Castro's daughter: Cuba to reinstate sex changes

Cuba will reinstate sex-change operations previously banned on the island, President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela said Wednesday.

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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.

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Inmate Sex-Change Request Gets New Look

The new commissioner of the state's prison system said Tuesday he plans to re-examine the case of a convicted killer suing the Department of Correction to try to get a sex-change operation.

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Sex-Change Inmate Says Treatment Stopped

A killer who sued to have a sex change claims her body is becoming more masculine again because she's being denied treatment in prison as she awaits a ruling in her bid for the surgery. Michelle Kosilek, formerly known as Robert, said that for months she has not been allowed to have court-approved hair-removal treatment or access to a specialist to discuss her testosterone levels.

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Mass. Inmates Asks for Sex Change

A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an expert to help him make sense of it all.

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Fired Fla. Transsexual Says He Won't Sue

A city manager fired after revealing his plans to have a sex change said he will not sue the city that fired him and he will begin living as a woman full-time by the end of May.

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Man Says Sex Change Should End Alimony

Lawrence Roach agreed to pay alimony to the woman he divorced, not the man she became after a sex change, his lawyers argued in an effort to end the payments.

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Thai Doc: Karr Had Facial Hair Removed

The suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey visited a clinic to have facial hair removed permanently because he wanted a sex-change operation, a doctor said Monday.

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Ramsey Suspect Visited Sex Change Clinic

With its large, open transgender population, Bangkok is a haven for foreigners in search of acceptance and gender reassignment surgery at a cheap price.

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Convicted Killer Seeks Sex-Change

A convicted murderer who claims he is a woman trapped inside a man's body testified Thursday that he feels distressed "every waking moment" because prison officials refuse to pay for a sex-change operation.

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Convicted Mass. Killer Seeks Sex Change

A man serving a life sentence for murdering his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation, arguing that denying him the surgery amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

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A BOY aged 12 turned up at school as a GIRL - after changing sex during the summer holidays. Teachers called an emergency assembly to order fellow pupils to treat him as female.

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Rob Newbiggin who at one time had admitted to wearing women clothes is going to have a sex change operation now.

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US citizen George Jørgensen came to Copenhagen an ordinary man and left an international celebrity

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Barack Obama's proposed national health care plan will offer free sex change operations and require commercial plans to cover the surgical procedure if they do not already do so.

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A female theatre director in Japan has claimed she is the long-lost son of an American man after she was told he had left 200,000 US dollars behind for her in his will.

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The police of Russia's Volgograd finished the investigation into the death of a woman who had been murdered by her common-law husband. The man committed the crime because of the shocking mystery about the victim's past.

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Now that Chaz Bono (formerly known as Chastity) has gone public with his sex change, his mother, Cher, is opening up about how she feels about the news.

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China is set to formalise the rules covering sex change operations to ensure that all those who want surgery meet certain requirements.

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The first photos of Chaz Bono have surfaced since the daughter of legendary singing duo Sonny and Cher began hormonal treatment in preparation for a sex change. According to a report from RadarOnline, Bono began taking hormones some time within the last two weeks.

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Henry Joseph Madden was a good student and track team member in high school, but he had a secret: He sometimes wore his mother's pantyhose and underwear under his clothes.

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"A transsexual from Nottinghamshire has warned she will end her life if she is refused hormone treatment on the NHS. Debbie Davies, from Rainworth, is seven days into a hunger strike, and said she cannot afford to fund her treatment.

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Scientists from Tel Aviv University in Israel have discovered that certain types of Japanese sea coral can change their sex from female to male in the hard times to better deal with resource scarcity.

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BARRIE -- An inmate of an institution for the criminally insane who insists she is a "female trapped inside a male's body" is begging for a $15,000 assessment that would qualify her for a government-funded sex change.

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simply wow!

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German teenager Kim Petras has become the world's youngest transsexual after undergoing an operation at the age of just 16.

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Australian researchers have discovered a new way to determine when a fish has changed sex, by looking at its ears.

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A man who was born a woman but gave birth after having a sex-change operation is expecting a second child. American Thomas Beatie had his breasts removed, lived outwardly as a man and legally changed his gender to male.

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This crowing cockerel has a secret - he was once an egg laying hen.

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Schroer seemed a perfect fit when, in retirement, he applied for a job at the Library of Congress analyzing terrorism and international crime for Congress.

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"We found that in fish that do have temperature-dependent sex determination [TSD]...Ospina-Alvarez and Piferrer have found that in the South American pejerrey, for example, an increase of 4 degrees Celsius can result in a population that is 98% male. More Articles

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Cuba has authorised sex-change operations and will offer them free to qualifying citizens, officials say.

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It is one couple's touching love story for our times: marriage, children, sex-change, divorce, cohabitation and, finally, civil union. The writer Jan Morris yesterday revealed she has remarried the woman she first wed nearly sixty years ago, when she was a man.

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A former paratrooper who had a sex change operation has won a payout of £250,000 for hurt feelings after she was ordered to wear a man's uniform to a medical examination.

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THERE are ways in which the Brunners are like many other middle-aged married couples. Former high school and college sweethearts, they finish each other's sentences and order the same food at restaurants.

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