Against Me! singer Tom Gabel reveals plans to begin living as a woman in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition, by taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis treatments.   Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508#ixzz1uONRsL93

April 11th 1020 - Stephen Gray Dr Robert Spitzer has said he would like to retract a study he conducted on the result of ‘gay cure’ therapy which has been used to claim that some gay people are able to turn straight. In 2001, Dr Spitzer presented the controversial paper…

THE STATE IS NOW FINANCING GENDER REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES FOR TRANSGENDER PERSONS Amendments to the national healthcare law entered into force today, which include, among others, sex reassignment therapy, the medical procedure for confirming a gender for transgender people. This particular change to the law represents a significant example in which…

March 12th 2012 Kaos Gl For the Wednesday Seminar organized by Kaos GL, psychiatrist Koray Başar made a presentation titled as ’’Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation during the Development  Process and Communication with Families’’ Koray Başar, who is from Mental Health and Diseases Department of Medical Faculty in Hacettepe…

Women's rights and the regulation of gender and sex norms in the Arab world have long been put under the spotlight by local and international activists in addition to local and international politicians and NGOs. This year, the ongoing uprisings in the Arab world have brought into focus…