Author : Louise Redvers Clip from Titica - Olha o Boneco. Courtesy of Stocktown and Geracao 80. She is bold, she is bright, she is beautiful and she is taking Angola by storm. Not bad for a transsexual in a Catholic African country where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by…

As a groundbreaking film launches, Turkish attitudes to gay and transgender people are slowly improving – in the media at least. Last week was tumultuous for Turkey's gay and transsexual people. A groundbreaking indie movie, Zenne Dancer, finally hit the screens, after winning five major awards at the country's foremost film…

Quote from transpinay activist Sass Rogando Sasot's speech delivered in a Social Science 3 on Gender and Sexuality Class at the University of the Philippines-Diliman (6 October 2010): "I am a human being inhabiting a transsexual body. Why…

[香港婚姻法是根據出生證明文件(稱為出世紙)的性別為準，因為仍未容許已經變性人士更改出世紙上的性別,也不容許同性婚姻，香港的已變性人士目前是不可能結婚的。]   By Annemarie Evans  (BBC News, Hong Kong) In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend.The transsexual, who remains anonymous, has been blocked from doing so by the…