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Cuban Gov't Doing Sex-Change Operations

Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro's daughter said. Read more

Sex, gender and GOD Academics and equal rights campaigners are stealing many people’s identities by using ‘transgender’ as an umbrella term for sex and gender diverse people, says Tracie O’Keefe. Sex and/or gender diverse people come in many forms: intersex, transexed, transsexual, transgendered, crossdressers, androgynous and people who abdicate all forms of sex and/or gender identification (sinandrogen). Read more		First transgender woman appointed to senior US government post President Barack Obama has appointed what is believed to be the first transgender woman to a senior government role. Amanda Simpson, 49, has been made senior technical adviser at the commerce department in the bureau of industry of security. She had the operation to change from man to woman in the late 1990s while working at the missile firm Raytheon in Arizona. She shares joint custody of her 13-year-old son with her former spouse. Read more

Gender swap boy, aged 9, is a girl A boy has turned up at school as a girl, it emerged yesterday - this time aged NINE. Parents rapped the primary school in southern England for not alerting them, and for telling pupils at a special assembly. Yesterday The Sun revealed that a boy of 12 had started the new term at secondary school as a girl. Read more		Transsexuals in the Middle East Await the Wave of Change Hell is what most Arabs think of when the word "transsexual" comes into any conversation since many mistake it with homosexuality, which is a sin in Islam. Most transsexuals prefer to remain anonymous since in some Arab countries they could face jail sentences for dressing or acting like the opposite sex. Many, especially men who feel trapped in the body of a woman, keep their problems hidden to avoid being punished or killed by their families. It is far easier for a woman to have a sex change to become a man than visa-versa. A man who becomes a woman is seen to have dishonored the family. Read more

World's youngest sex-change operation German teenager Kim Petras has become the world's youngest transsexual after undergoing an operation at the age of just 16. The procedure – carried out in secret and paid for by the German health service – was authorised after psychologists confirmed that she was "without doubt a girl in a boy's body". It is the world's youngest ever full sex change operation and Kim – born Tim -had been undergoing hormone therapy since the age of 12.Read more		Genetic link to gender identity In the largest ever genetic study of male to female transsexuals Australian researchers have found a significant genetic link between gender identity and a gene involved in testosterone action. For decades, there has been debate over the causes of Transsexualism. Early theories included psychosocial factors such as childhood trauma. More recent studies have indicated that family history and genetic aspects are linked to the development of gender identity. Read more

‘I changed for all the wrong reasons, and then it was too late...’ When, if ever, should a person have a sex-change operation, and whose decision is it to make? Julie Bindel reports on concerns that psychiatrists are too ready to recommend the knife. Read more		Argentine boy sex change approved A court in the central Argentine province of Cordoba has for the first time agreed that a sex change operation can be carried out on a minor. Read more

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