Transsexual takes to the footy field

Jill Stark 

June 7, 2009 - 12:00AM

LIKE many young Victorian males, Will loves his footy. He dreams of joining the thousands of men who lace up their boots every weekend and play in amateur competitions. He's just like them in every way but one — he was born female.

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Psychiatric Times

May 19, 2009

APA 2009
Gender Identity Disorder: Has Accepted Practice Caused Harm?

Lois Wingerson

As transgender activists protested outside the American Psychiatric
Association (APA) meeting, speakers at the meeting were presenting on the same
topic: gender identity disorder (GID). Some of their words would add clinical
weight to the political slogans.
Some of the speakers are activists themselves, including Rebecca Allison,

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KATHERINE CUMMINGS

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NOTE - For some crappy reason Warners think promoting their films and songs by fans posting their own clips with their own versions of trailers and songs loese them money. Crap of course , as the removed clip below did nothing but send people to watch the film and buy the song. Idiot Economic Beancounters justifying their wages, and losing the companies and artists money at the same time. Go Figure. Official trailer added below this great clip which is in dispute with Warners - The new Sony BMG .

HIGH-FLYING BIRD: Antony's luminous new album

Few singers anywhere sound as haunting -- or as haunted -- as Antony Hegarty, the brawny-looking, transsexual Irish-American maverick with a wonderfully androgynous voice and a tremulous chamber-pop style all his own.

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 Australia mulls official 'intersex' gender 

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A DOCTOR has been found guilty of performing an indecent act on a suicidal transsexual patient.

Sulieman Hamid, 53, of Melbourne, touched the cognitively-impaired patient on her breasts and lips while he treated her for a slashed wrist in a cubicle at the Sunshine Hospital emergency department in June 2007.

The court was earlier told the patient propositioned the doctor while he was treating her.

A jury in the Victorian County Court today found that the touching did not constitute the more serious charge of indecent assault.

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A suicidal transsexual was assaulted and raped by a Melbourne doctor after she propositioned him while he was treating her slashed wrist, a court has heard.

Sunshine Hospital emergency department doctor Sulieman Hamid, 53, allegedly indecently assaulted the woman in an examination room after she tried to commit suicide in June 2007.

A day later the doctor allegedly went to her house and raped her.

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SYDNEY: The first genetic link to male-to-female transsexualism provides new evidence of its biological nature, say Australian researchers.

"There is a social stigma that transsexualism is simply a lifestyle choice, however our findings support a biological basis of how gender identity develops," said Vincent Harley a geneticist from Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne and co-author of a new study detailing the find.

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October 27, 2008

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