The International Olympic Committee executive board this month approved a measure that will allow athletes who have undergone sex change surgery to compete in Olympic events under their reassigned gender.
The new policy goes into effect in time for this summer’s Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Athletes who want to compete as transsexuals will have to prove […]
Australian serial killer Paul Denyer recently filed a request for information about Australia’s policy on sex changes for inmates, and the misogynist killer may be looking to have a sex change in order to be reassigned to a woman’s prison. But the government the government denied his request and is looking to block future […]
The British Parliament of late has been considering the Gender Recognition Bill whose primary purpose is to allow transsexual individuals to formally re-register their gender to their newly reassigned gender, replacing for most legal purpose the gender of their birth. And, of course, this immediately created a debate about the most important related topic […]
A judge in New York paved the way for a lawsuit brought by the Hispanic AIDS Forum to proceed against the HAF’s former landlord. The Hispanic AIDS Forum is suing based on a claim of discrimination against transgendered persons.
The landlord received complaints that transgendered clients who were born male but later became female were […]
You just can’t make this stuff up. A controversy broke out in Australia earlier this month over the desire by organizers of the upcoming LesFest 2004 to exclude transsexuals from attending or working at the national lesbian festival.
LesFest 2004 organizers had applied for and received an exemption from sex discrimination laws from the […]
A British judge this month rejected a lawsuit by a group of transsexuals who argued they suffered sexual discrimination at a pub. The five transsexuals were asked to leave a pub after they used the women’s restroom.
The men sued and were backed up by the UK’s Equal Opportunities Commission. The transsexuals each sought 2,000 […]
CNSNews.Com reports that this week a Canadian human rights court awarded Kimberly Nixon $4,664 after it agreed that her rights had been violated by The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. Nixon is a transsexual who was born male and had sexual reassignment surgery in 1990. The shelter argued that since Nixon grew up […]