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Transsexual artist Titica takes Angola by storm
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…
From homophobia to a moving apology in Turkey
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…
Sass Rogando Sasot on Reclaiming the Wronged Body
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…
Transsexual in Hong Kong fights to marry her boyfriend
[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…