It's O.K. to change your sex and police abuses once again

A number of different issues today. I. There is a woman who was born a man playing basketball for a small woman's college basketball team. A talk show host asked rhetorically, did she have the right to have this operation to go from a man to a woman. Well, it's her body. The...

GOP congressman Akin again puts foot in mouth and theocrat judge

You might remember Republican Missouri Congressman Todd Akin. The man running for the U.S. Senate from that state, who believes that women who suffer "legitmate rape" don't get pregant, even though there are about 30,000 pregnancies per year to women who have been raped....

Why a little boy wearing a dress, is O.K.

I get some of my column ideas, strangely, while reading Christian right-wing websites. Well, one of them, one that quite frequently seeks to attack and disparage gays but especially gay men, led to this column. In Germany, a man has started wearing a dress in solidarity with...

How the religious right-wing have persecuted people for their sex

Do you know who Catherina Linck was? Don't feel bad if you don't. Before yesterday, neither did I. Linck was a born female who was executed by the Prussian government in 1721 for "sodomy." Linck dressed as a man, and seemed to sexually attracted to women. That was Linck's...

What's Going On in the Massachusetts Justice System?

I started writing stories online a few years ago and I have met alot of individual writers. One lady has divulged a story to me by email and it actually concerns me and makes me glad that I do not live in Brockton, Massachusetts. This woman is a veteran and a nurse. She has...

African American Transgendered woman has growing adult fan base

  Who is Nia? I am an up and coming Transsexual Adult Entertainer, residing in Florida. I am a statuesque Amazonian beauty from the backgrounds of African-American/Bahamian descent. While at a female impersonation pageant, I took time out to pose...

Mental healthcare for transgender people: An elusive dream?

Although far from optimal, still considerable progress has been made in providing healthcare to transgender people in many parts of the world. Yet their mental health needs remain far from being served. "Mental healthcare problems are so severe and far from easy to overcome....

"Kothis" reducing risk to HIV and sexual violence in community

Having faced ages of neglect, denial and invisibility, "Kothis" (feminised males) are now being mobilized by groups like 'Bharosa' in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (India) to be empowered and demonstrate leadership in reaching out within their community for increasing access to...

Male-To-Female Transgendered People confront labelling/identities

Transgender adults are not a new in society. The fact of sex change operations and the rights of individuals that identify with the opposite sex, however is a new battle today. In past years individuals that were labeled one gender, but felt they belonged to the opposite...

APCOM to tackle HIV among MSM and transgenders in Asia-Pacific

(CNS): The Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) has moved from an interim governance structure to one incorporating a Governing Board and an Executive Director, considerably strengthening its capacity to address a sharp rise in HIV infection in men who have...

A life of Discrimination: India's Gays and Eunuchs

What makes a man voluntarily castrate himself? In India, there are over one million eunuchs known.  Some, but not many, are born this way.  Others have their genitalia taken forcefully, often by other eunuchs wishing to increase their numbers.  But many of these people...