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Lecture explores obstacles facing transgendered people seeking medical help
Nov 5, 2009
Media.www.DailyCampus.com - Travis Moore
The Rainbow Center's "Out to Lunch" lecture series continued yesterday afternoon with a lecture from speaker Pauline Park. In her lecture "Transgender Health: Reconceptualizing Pathology as Wellness," Park shed light on the harmful treatment of transgendered people in the field of health care and the obstacles facing transgendered individuals seeking medical treatment.
The Kindest Cut
Oct 20, 2009
Newsweek.com - By Eve Conant
One day, when Sila Folow was an 8-year-old girl living in Mali, four elderly women held her down on the dirt floor of an outhouse and, in keeping with local tradition, used a sharp blade to cut out her clitoris and most of her labia. Her grandmother and other villagers held a celebration. Sila, bleeding and in terrible pain, could not walk for weeks. Like millions of other African girls who are forced to undergo female genital mutilation - a ritual many women say is intended to ensure that they grow up to become sexually passive wives who will not st... [more]
Gender Differences: Socially Conditioned and Reinforced through the Media
Oct 8, 2009
blogHer.com - by Suzanne Reisman
Sharon Begley is my hero. Begley is a senior editor and science writer at Newsweek magazine. In column after column, she debunks junk evolutionary psychology "science" and other theories that insist that gender differences are 100% hard wired. Back in June 2009, Begley wrote "Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around?," which thoroughly trashed an evolutionary psychology theory that it is in human (male) genes to rape because 100,000 years ago: ...
'Sick' definition
Oct 6, 2009
Health.AsiaOne.com - The Star / Asia News Network
A person wishing to undergo sexual reassignment surgery needs to first have a psychological assessment.
'The clinician's role is to determine if the transsexual truly wants to have the surgery, as once the operation is done, there is no turning back. He will have to determine if the client is truly a transsexual and not (for example) gay or transvestite,' says Prof Teh.
Woman-to-man sex change surgery more complicated, costlier (Sep 28, 2009)
Health.AsiaOne.com - Benson Ang
Women who have a persistent wish to be male are less common here than men wanting to be women.
Mr Daniel Kaw, 37, the founder of SgButterfly, said when people talk about transsexuals, 'they immediately think about Changi Village and about... [more]
Female-born transexual: I'd rather die as an ugly man (Sep 28, 2009)
Health.AsiaOne.com - By Benson Ang
They live on the fringes, shunning attention, like this Singaporean transsexual.
Jack (not his real name) was born more of a Jill.
Only last month did he and three others summon enough courage to tell their story at an o... [more]
The Endocrine Society Unveils New Clinical Guideline Addressing The Endocrine Treatment Of ... (Sep 25, 2009)
MedicalNewsToday.com - The Endrocine Society
The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline for endocrine treatment of transsexual persons. The guideline, "Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline," appears in t... [more]
Boy, Girl ... or Other? (Sep 11, 2009)
MomLogic.com - Dr. Wendy Walsh
Dr. Wendy Walsh: It's the first three words that bring enormous excitement to any parent. Whether it's read on an ultrasound, after an amniocentesis or CVS, or in the delivery room, hearing the sex of your child heralds an expectation of your parenting f... [more]
New programme for lesbian, gay and transsexual mental health sufferers (Sep 2, 2009)
Craegmoor.co.uk - Adfero DirectNews
A new programme has been developed in Scotland to try and address high levels of depression, anxiety and self harm among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population.
The programme comes as a result of findings by the ... [more]
The Strange Case of Seizures That Turned a Woman Into a Man (Sep 2, 2009)
io9.com - By Annalee Newitz
Researchers report an odd case in the latest issue of Epilepsy & Behavior. Whenever their patient had an epileptic seizure, she thought she'd become male - and that other women near her had turned into men too. What caused it?
Health-Argentina: "Buddies" Ease Transgenders' Hospital Visits (Aug 22, 2009)
IPSNews.net - By Marcela Valente
Buenos Aires (IPS) - Keeping a hospital appointment in the Argentine capital is a far less fearsome ordeal for transgender persons, a sector of the population that according to doctors had "dramatic" statistics of illness, when they are accompanied by ... [more]
'Removal of punitive laws essential for effective AIDS responses' (Aug 11, 2009)
Hindu.com
Nusa Dua, Bali: U.N. agencies, legal experts and human rights defenders at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) concur that crafting an effective AIDS response in the region will require addressing legal barriers that are impeding progress. ... [more]
Providing indiscriminate health access (Aug 9, 2009)
TheJakartaPost.com - Prodita Sabarini - The Jakarta Post
On an open-air raised stage by the Senen train station, East Jakarta, young men in tight shirts and jeans sung dangdut songs and shook their hips to the music Saturday night. Beneath them hundreds of men danced.
I... [more]
Results of survey on health of Massachusetts LGBT community published (Aug 6, 2009)
BirdOfParadox.WordPress.com - Stefani
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) has published the results of "the largest survey to date comparing the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents to heterosexual and non-transgender residents in Massachus... [more]
Porno Pete and Bam Bam in a Panic Over Health Care Reform (Aug 5, 2009)
Tips-Q.com - Submitted by David Hart
Peter LaBarbera and J. Matt Barber are unhinged over health care reform because it might include coverage for sex reassignment surgery. The number of gender reassignment procedures conducted in the United States each year is estimated at between 10... [more]
Endocrine Society released guidelines for treatment of transsexuals (Jul 14, 2009)
EndocrineToday.com - Hembree WC. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009
Guidelines include recommendations for hormone therapy, surgery and long-term care for all ages.
New guidelines from the Endocrine Society call for close and continued collaboration between endocrinologists ... [more]
Face to face with new ideals of feminine beauty (Jul 12, 2009)
Independent.ie - EN - The Hospital Group
There are not many of us, male or female, who are blessed with the facial beauty of a Jaye Davidson (Dil in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game). As a woman Jaye was good-looking, but as a man he was beautiful -- the same face, of course, but our per... [more]
We're all intersex (Jul 7, 2009)
Salon.com - By Thomas Rogers
The author of "Between XX and XY" on people born neither male nor female -- and why everyone's a little bit of both
In the fall of 1998, Lisa May Stevens, a 32-year-old from Idaho, went on a camping trip. Stevens had been told for most of he... [more]
New Study Finds Gap in LGBT Health Services (Jul 1, 2009)
HuffingtonPost.com - Ross Levi and Somjen Frazer
With all the media coverage lately around Gay Pride events, as well as around marriage equality, it is ironic that so little is really known about the lives and health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. This ... [more]
Gender dysphoria: from Christine Jorgensen to Chaz Bono (Jun 22, 2009)
Examiner.com - Leslie Wagner - Dallas History Examiner
In 1995, Chastity Bono let the world know that she was a lesbian, a woman who is sexually attracted to other women. Recently, the news reported that the former Chastity Bono, who will now go by Chaz Bono in his new male persona, ... [more]
