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24 December 2012

Some Events of the year 2012: Part 8–Fashion, Pageants, Music & Performance

Part 1: Organizations, Equal marriage.
Part 2: Other Legislation.
Part 3: Persons.
Part 4: Spouses, Family, Kids.
Part 5: Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals.
Part 6: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment, Nemeses, Internet.
Part 7: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Obituaries.
Part 8: Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music, Dance & Performance,
Part 9: Art, Television, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 10:  Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies.
Part 11: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

    Fashion

     

    Brazilian models: www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/video/2012/sep/13/brazil-transgender-models.

    Homa Khakeeli. "Androgynous models who ignore the gender rules". Guardian, 25 November 2012. www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/fashion-blog/2012/nov/25/androgynous-models-ignore-gender-rules.

    24 May 2012. The trans models were pulled from a fashion show at SM Mall of Asia for Philippine Fashion Week at PFW's insistence.

    Claudia Charriez, appeared at the trial of her ex-boyfriend who is accused of assaulting her.

    Connie Fleming on the cover of Candy magazine.

    Isis King in GLAAD-American Apparel campaign.

    Casey Legler, New York, is a female male model.

    72-year-old Liu Xianping, new androgynous supermodel.

    Lea T. First appearance after surgery.

    Felipa Tavares, model in Rio.

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    Cis Portuguese underwear model, Renato Seabra, convicted in New York of killing and castrating his older lover.


    Beauty Pageants



    The Donald Trump owned Miss Universe & Miss USA now permits trans women as contestants.

    Olivia Culpo, the new Miss USA embraced the acceptance of trans women, and Sheena Monnin, Miss Pennsylvania USA resigned in protest. Miriam Quiambao, Miss Universe runner-up in 1999, tweeted her disgust.

    Jackie Green, Miss England finalist, profiled in BBC documentary.

    Jenna Talackova was rejected from Miss Universe Canada, but then accepted after media attention. She made the top 12. She was co-marshall of the Vancouver Pride Parade.

    Kevin Balot, Philippines, won the Miss International Queen in Pattaya. Photos.

    Laveleska Dredrish chosen as Miss Gay 2012 in Nicaragua.

    Marcelo Ohio won Miss Transsexual Brazil, the country's first transgender beauty pageant held 30 October in Rio de Janeiro. Photos. Video.

    Thapelo Makutle won the Miss Gay Makutle pageant, and later murdered.

    Miss West Virginia won Miss Queen USA at the Circus Disco, Los Angeles. (more)


    Music, Dance & Performance 

     

    Ai Haruna (more) featured in AsiaOne.

    Cindy Bullens, New England singer-songwriter, changed his name to Cidny and came out as trans.

    Eitaro, geisha dancer, Tokyo.

    Geo Wyeth, New York, musician and performance artist.

    Gotye declined to deny that he is trans.

    Harisu releases first new single for 6 years.

    Heather Cassils, performance artist and body builder.

    Huong Giang finalist in Vietnam Idol.

    Ian Harvie was interviewed by Lucas Silveira.

    Joe Stevens, guitarist with Coyote Grace.

    Kyaw, 106-year-old dancer, singer and widow addressed Burma’s first IDAHO.

    Kim Petras released Don't Wake Me Up on YouTube.



    Laura Jane Grace (previous known as Tom Gabel) of the band Against Me!, started transition.

    Titica, (more) Luanda, Kuduro's Dance Queen, and first international tour.

    Vaginal Davis, performer.

    Wang Maoli , opera performer, 1st surgical transsexual in Chongqing, and second in China, interviewed 21 years later.

    Jin Xing 1st US tour.

    23 December 2012

    Some Events of the year 2012: Part 6–Schools etc, Imprisonment, Nemeses, Internet.

    Part 1: Organizations, Equal marriage.
    Part 2: Other Legislation.
    Part 3: Persons.
    Part 4: Spouses, Family, Kids.
    Part 5: Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals.
    Part 6: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment, Nemeses, Internet.
    Part 7: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Obituaries.
    Part 8: Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Music, Dance & Performance.
    Part 9: Art, Television, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
    Part 10:  Jargon, News Media, Theses & Studies.
    Part 11: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

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    Schools, Universities & Colleges

     

    Accrington: St Mary Magdalen's School primary school. Mr Upton will return as Miss Meadows.

    Camp Aranu'tiq, summer camp for transgender and gender variant youth.
    The University of Arkansas:

    at Pine Bluff: after complaints of discrimination, and a letter from the Department of Justice, Jennifer Braly allowed to use women's facilities.

    at Fort Smith (UAFS): Laura King's General Psychology course sessions with a trans student cancelled at last minute.

    Buenos Aires: first school for trans kids.

    Chelmsford: Teacher at King Edward VI Grammar School returned after transition.

    Concordia University, Montreal, students may use their chosen name on student ID

    University of Georgia: Professor of German, Max Reinhart arrested for trans prostitution.

    Giles Academy, Boston, Lincs, Ashlyn Parram, who has lived as a girl at home for two years, turned up for GCSE exams in girls' uniform, and was ejected until she printed off the section of the Equality Act and showed it to the headmaster.

    Harvard University Health Plan added genital surgery.

    Illinois, East Aurora School District set forth guidelines for transgender students to be treated according to their gender identity. The Illinois Family Institute is outraged. Then the School District issued revised policy against all bullying. In December the antidiscrimination committee was dissolved.

    Maryland: Trans student in suspended after defending herself.

    New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University welcomed the 'other category', ie hijra and trans.

    Oxford has removed its gender-specific dress code following a request from its LGBTQ Soc.

    Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburg introduced a policy that faculty and students must use the washrooms corresponding to the gender on their birth certificates.
    Later 2 students who had protested that policy were investigated re bomb threats.

    Rutgers University, haunted by a gay suicide two years ago, stepped up efforts for all GLBT students, and known trans students now expected and addressed in chosen name and gender.

    Stockholm school: gender neutral language is used, and boys and girls treated the same.

    Texas: Launched an LGBTQA program.

    University of Texas at Austin announced that trans student will be able to use preferred name on all university documents.

    Toronto school boy allowed to use boys room after 200 schoolmates signed a petition.

    Thammasat University: 5 trans students granted permission to wear female attire during the graduation ceremony.

    University of Victoria now had gender-neutral toilets.

    The Williams Institute and the UCLA School of Law now offers a LL.M. In Law and Sexuality including that pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Zach Avery, 5, diagnosed by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, her primary school was praised by Ofsted for how it handled her case.

    Imprisonment

     

    The first comprehensive history of Trans in Prison, in 6 parts, by Zagria.

    The first year of English and Welsh prisoners being located by legal gender rather than genital status. Non-imprisonment of convicted trans persons for that reason alone has stopped.

    Following a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the US Justice Department revised its estimate of prison rape. The new estimate, 216,000 exceeds rapes outside prison. Thus the US is the first county to count more rapes of men than of women.

    Breanna Bradley Manning, still yet suffering cruel and unusual punishment in a US military prison, was nominated by members of the Icelandic Parliament for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was finally charged, and a preliminary hearing held. the trial is due in 2013.

    Carla Bruna, female impersonator, sued because put in female jail.

    CeCe McDonald (more) is serving 41 months in St Cloud men's prison, Minnesota for self-defense.

    Glen Cooper, Whangarei, NZ, sentenced to 2 years 1 month in a men's jail for wounding with intent to injure.

    Ophelia De'Lonta, in a men's prison, sued again to obtain surgery.

    Michelle Kosilek, Massachusetts inmate, won ruling to be provided with transgender surgery, but this was later suspended. However her lawyers were awarded $700,000 in legal fees. The team has offered to dismiss their request for legal fees if the state drops the appeal and pays for the surgery.

    Toronto Don Jail. Guard transitioning on job.

    Kingston penitentiary. Supply officer transitioning on job.

    Chicago Police Department's new procedures mandates that perferred names and pronouns are to be used, derogatory language not be used; transpersons are to be transported and jailed alone when possible; access to hormones to continue; possession of needles alone not to be taken as evidence of crime.

    England, Wales and Northern Ireland Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), after meeting with the National Trans Police Association, issued new guidelines that officers with a gender recognition certificate may carry out intimate searches of suspects of the same gender. When the police feel that they need to do an intimate search of a person who is possibly trans, the person is to be asked for their preference as to whether they wish to be treated as male or female, and failing that the lifestyle that they predominately follow is to be respected. As usual, the police are not to request an actual gender recognition certificate. Unfortunately the initial statement contained: the new guidelines would reduce the opportunity “for transvestite and transsexual detainees to attempt to ‘manipulate’ their stated sex in an attempt to embarrass and discredit the Police Service” - but this was quickly removed when questioned.

    Japanese Justice Ministry: Prisoners with GID can request a solitary cell, bathe alone, wear underwear and hair style of identity gender.

    Los Angeles Police announce separate detention facilities for transgender inmates.
    Tutwiler Prison for Women, Alabama. Equal Justice Initiative released a report on the frequent rape of inmates by the male corrections officers.

    US Supreme Court declined to hear Wisconsin's appeal of the ruling that struck down the Inmate Sex-change Prevention Act.
    • Nat Smith & Eric A. Stanley. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2011. Review.

    Nemeses

     

    Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, declared at its annual meeting that there is no cure for homosexuality, and the promise of one offers false hope.

    Conway Hall, London, declined to host RadFem2012 in that it might contravene the Equalities Act. Sheila Jeffries article in the Guardian. Roz Kaveney's article. Both 29 May 2012.

    Dirt wrote an interesting essay on why she does not identify with RadFems.

    Germaine Greer was glitterbombed at a book signing in Wellington, NZ.

    John Derbyshire, a strident supporter of Michael Bailey and opponent of female suffrage, was fired from the conservative National Review after writing a piece that was too racist.

    John Mutoko, Zimbabwean gospel musician denounced homosexuality, racism and sex changes which he witnessed during his stay in the UK.

    Julie Bindel, in interview with Paris Lees, apologized for some of her written comments about trans persons. Video. This was denounced on Dirty White Boi and Gender Transder.

    Margaret Cerullo, a professor at Hampshire College, Massachusetts who has never written a book, thinking to support one trans woman whom she knows, demanded the suppression of the trans woman's wife' book even though she has not read it. With friends like this we don't need enemies.

    Maggie Gallagher was abandoned by a heterosexual male and left to raise their child alone. Hence she became the president and chairman of the National Organization for Marriage which opposes equal marriages and GLBT rights.

    Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail Columnist, Toronto, who endorsed Micheal Bailey and Alice Dreger, has been accused of plagiarism.

    Rob Anders, Conservative MP from Calgary West, who regards Nelson Mandela as a terrorist and suggested that the opposition leader accelerated his predecessor's death, put a petition on his website for his constituents to sign that claims that the trans right bill will give "transgendered men access to women’s public washroom facilities".

    Rosemary McLeod, Wellington, NZ, wrote 'Why I feel for the kids of ego-trippers', published in The Dominion Post about trans parents and refused to recognize their gender.
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    Peter J Reilly. “Jill Stein And The Green Party On Protecting Female Only Spaces”. Forbes, 10/09/2012. www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/10/09/jill-stein-and-the-green-party-on-protecting-female-only-spaces.

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    Cesar Valle failed to appear at his trial for robbing a trans brothel and threatening to murder the prostitutes. A $1m warrent was issued for his arrest.

    Qasim Raqib, Detroit was given 25-40 years for mutilating Shelley Hilliard and setting her alight on the street.


    Internet

     

    Rose White (Rxlx) attempted to re-introduce HBS to Wikipedia under the term Manifest Determination. White blamed ‘homosexuals at CAMH” for its removal. She also visited GenderTrender to inform them that “Lesbians must realise that everytime they put their tongue to another woman’s mouth or vagina they get some estrogen and it gives them the same dementia as Estrogen/HRT is know to do to menopausal women. This dementia and paranoia then outlets as man hating in general and transphobia in particular.”

    Donna Reiser, in her blog Purple Speaks, denied being Courtney Holder and wrote “this ‘Courtney’ person may have once been a real person but killed herself years ago since she got of being lumped with TGs and LGBTs”. Then Courtney wrote to Zagria using the pseudonym of ‘Purple’. Zagria replied that she was pleased to find that Courtney was indeed alive. ++In December Donna was quoted on Gender Trender. She did not like to be treated as she treats other trans women and be referred to by male pronouns. GT replied with a post on Donna, and Donna replied by making her blog private so that no-one can read it.

    Toronto trans porn star and activist Drew DeVeaux proposed the concept 'Cotton Ceiling' to explain the experiences queer trans women have with simultaneous social inclusion and sexual exclusion within the broader queer women’s communities. Basically, it means that cis queer women will be friends with us and talk day and night about trans rights and ending transmisogyny, but will still not consider us viable sexual partners. This was followed by workshop organized by Morgan Page: “Overcoming the Cotton Ceiling: Breaking Down Sexual Barriers for Queer Trans Women” as part of the Planned Parenthood conference at Toronto's Sherbourne Health Centre. Comments by Natalie Reed, Suzan Cook, CN Lester, Roz Kaveney.

    New blogs and Websites.

     

    Dylan, a University of Southern California student, has set up a tumblr website for US trans persons seeking accomodation.

    Jen created We Happy Trans.

    New Biography blog: Moje TranspÅ‚ciowe Bohaterki - My Transgender Heroines 

    Buck Angel started a website for those who want to meet trans men.

    Gender Identity Watch. Radfem perspective with misgenderings, but a thorough list of US legal changes, with a few token entries for other countries.

    Apparently discontinued blogs etc (but some such do return after a break):

     


    TS-Si, the one-time HBS site that later renounced the label but retained a separatist tilt, has closed.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TransHistory was a forum where different members wrote biographies and histories about trans persons. In some ways the group was comparable to this blog. However it was a) designated an adult forum as if transgender were a sexual activity b) it was members only to prevent the public from reading it. It was active from 2002-8, and then activity fell off. This year the organizers decided that they really did not want to be read, and all lurkers (=readers) were purged. That reduced the membership to 2. The home page now says that the Group is being prepared for deletion.

    anger is justified

    Associacao das Travestis e Transexuais do RJ

    Bitterness Barbie

    The Gender Trust Blog

    Gender and Life's Paths

    Gender Reality

    Moving On Up a Little Higher

    queergeeks

    Transgender Workplace Diversity

    Trans Universe

    Travestie-Notities

    TS/IS Liberation - author Dana Lane Taylor apologized. She now blogs at Interwebz.

    Blogs changed: 

     

    Riding the Second Wave announced that it has removed all trans themed blog entries and that transsexuals are not encouraged to read it.

    The Transexual Menace, like Women Born Transsexual, has become a general news digest, wherein it is difficult to filter out the non-trans stuff.

    Web Videos

     

    I am: Trans People Speak. www.transpeoplespeak.org. A Project of Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.

    22 December 2012

    Some Events of the Year 2012: Part 5 -- Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals.

    Part 1: Organizations, Equal marriage.
    Part 2: Other Legislation.
    Part 3: Persons.
    Part 4: Spouses, Family, Kids.
    Part 5: Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals.
    Part 6: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment, Nemeses, Internet.
    Part 7: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Obituaries.
    Part 11: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

    Political Candidates 

     

    National 

     

    Diane Abbot MP, Shadow Health Minister, spoke too quickly when she suggested that 17 breast reductions on boys aged 10-19 “must be something to do with this country’s obesity epidemic".

    US Vice President Joe Biden speaks out against Transgender discrimination.

    Brigitte Goldberg, president of Trans-Europe, ran for French President as the candidate of Avenir-2012.

    Anna Grodzka opened her Parliamentary office, was awarded the Okulary równości prize.

    Provincial

     

    Janice Covington, North Carolina, elected Democratic delegate.

    Stacie Laughton, elected to Hew Hampshire House, later revealed to have a conviction for credit card fraud. Video.

    Nok Yonlada (more) elected in Nan province, Thailand.

    Cities, towns and regions

     

     Adela Hernandez elected to municipal government Caibarien, Villa Clara, Cuba.

    Diana Sanchez Barrios candidate for Mexico City Federal District assembly.


    Gina Duncan for Orange County Commission, Florida.


    Mel Wymore candidate for New York City Council in 2013.

    Sarah Brown, Liberal Democrat Councillor in Cambridge spoke up for Out4Marriage campaign. She and her wife were obliged to surrender their marriage and instead have a civil partnership. IOS Pink List, 34.

    Stu Rasmussen won a fifth term as mayor of Silverton, Oregon.


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    And special mention of Jean Wyllys, Brazil's first openly gay MP. There was a record number of over 150 openly GLBT candidates in this year's Brazilian municipal elections.

    Celebrities



    Bill O'Reilly of Fox News defended Jenna Talackova, but criticized Glee for featuring a trans teenager.

    Bruce Jenner said to be a transvestite.

    Bülent Ersoy claimed that she had once met the iconic left-wing activist Deniz Gezmis. His lawyer denounced her for saying it, "he was against such people of lower morals". The press was critical of such 'traditionalism' on the left. The lawyer then apologized by identifying with the Raoul character in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, who likewise was initially intolerant of the queer character.

    Camille Paglia: “I identify strongly with drag queens and transsexuals, particularly as they were in the '60s. They were fierce and powerful. They were street warriors,” she says. “Some might have had bits and pieces of surgery. But the focus now is on 'transgender,’ which has gotten rigidly ideological. ... My point is that the transgender movement’s focus on manipulating the physical, through surgery, is too often a way of avoiding introspection. We have an obligation as human beings to engage in self-examination – to seek self-understanding, apart from the social and the physical. Youth are falling into a trap of thinking that sex change will solve their deeper problems – their spiritual problems. But it can’t.”

    Chaz Bono, was honoured with the trophies for outstanding documentary programme, and the Stephen F. Kolzak award at the 23rd annual Media Awards by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Bono did fundraising for Democratic candidates, but also for Republican Mary Bono Mack, his step mother.

    David O. Russell, film director, was reported for fondling the breasts of his trans niece. However no charges were filed.




    Janet Jackson announced that she will be the executive producer of a documentary film on trans lives.

    John Travolta. The National Enquirer published photos purporting to be Travolta in drag in 1997.

    Jonathan Ross, on his ITV show 21 January made a silly joke about Thai Airlines trans stewardesses, and apologized on Twitter.



    Madonna: Nine anti-gay activists from the Trade Union of Russian Citizens claimed that she 'brutally violated' a city law that imposes fines for spreading homosexual 'propaganda' during a concert in St Petersberg. The judge threw out the case after being shown footage of the concert. 'How many families split up because one of the couple is gay?' asked Judge Vitaly Barkovsky. 'And how many because of alcoholism? How many lawsuits have you filed against alcohol companies?'

    Rodrigo Lopes previously of Big Brother is now Rebekah.


    Stephen Beatty may be having second thoughts. Made a video.


    Sports

     

    The IOC announced that women who test in the male range for testosterone, and whose bodies respond to the hormone, may not be eligible to compete as females.

    The third Olympics since the Stockholm Consensus on Sex Reassignment in Sports. However almost no trans athletes qualified.

    The first comprehensive history of Sports, Gender and Trans, in 3 parts by Zagria.

    Pablo S. Torre & David Epstein. “The Transgender Athlete”. SI Vault, May 28, 2012. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1198744/index.htm.

    Tranny Olympics, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Tower Hamlets, London, 4 August, and Berlin.

    Drag Queen Olympics, Amsterdam.  Video.


    Brooke Fantelli, off-road racer, was doing a photo shoot in the California desert when a Bureau of Land Management ranger checked papers, took offence that Fantelli was trans and ended up tasering her in the groin. She has now filed a federal lawsuit.

    Caster Semenya led South African team in the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

    Gabrielle Ludwig, 50, 6'8", has returned to playing basketball.

    Keelin Godsey failed to qualify for Olympic trials in the women's hammer throw.

    Lindsey Walker, 26, 7’0”, basketball player, has contacted Guinness Book of Records re being world’s tallest transsexual.

    Pinki Pranmonik (more) golf medalist arrested after her wife claimed that she is a man.

    Sasha Hostyn, 18, dominated in Starcraft 2 championship in Toronto, winning $15,000.

    Thai boxer Usanakorn Kokietgym accused of having too much testosterone.





    Festivals

     

    Koovagam (more)

    Festival Waria Berbudaya in Jakarta was cancelled after the Islamic Defenders Front turned up to the event and demanded the organizers shut it down.

    21 December 2012

    Some Events of the Year 2012: Part 4–Spouses, Family, Kids

    Part 1: Organizations, Equal marriage.
    Part 2: Other Legislation.
    Part 3: Persons.
    Part 4: Spouses, Family, Kids.
    Part 5: Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals.
    Part 6: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
    Part 7: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Obituaries.
    Part 11: Bookshops, Archives, Books.


    Spouses and Family

     

    (Again we have several female spouses and lovers of trans men and trans women. But where are the male spouses and lovers?)

    Jayne Watson and her wife renewed their vows.

    Marco & Sadie
    "Transgender Families: When My Husband Became a Woman". The Dr Oz Show, March 29, 2012. www.doctoroz.com/episode/transgender-families-when-my-husband-became-woman?video=12791.

    Trans & Intersex Kids

     

    Amber, 12, on puberty blockers.

    Danann Tyler is in the documentary Trans.

    Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham, of My Transsexual Summer, spoke at Kingston University, London, in favour of puberty blockers.

    13-year-old Franziska was born with ambiguous genitals, XY but made a girl.

    Livvy, Worcester. Her mother organized a petition to send to the Press Association re avoiding terms which leave emotional scars.

    Mary Moss, Glen Falls, New York, mother of a trans son, spoke at her local TDOR.

    Mason Pierce, California, in transitions.

    Riley, 15 Sydney.

    Tyler, "Transgender at 5". The Washington Post, May 19, 2012.

    Zach Avery, 5, diagnosed by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, her primary school was praised by Ofsted for how it handled her case.

    A mother talks about her intersex child: "My child is boy and girl."
    "Transgender Kids". Parenting, SMH.tv, 20120124.

    "Becoming Me". In the Life, 31 Mar 2012. Full Episode. Newsarticle.

    "Transgender childhood". Dateline NBC, July 8th 2012. Website.
    • Rachel Pepper (ed). Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children. Berkeley, CA: Cleis Press, 2012.

    19 December 2012

    Some Events of the Year 2012: Part 3–Persons

    Part 1: Organizations, Equal marriage.
    Part 2: Other Legislation.
    Part 3: Persons.
    Part 4: Spouses, Family, Kids.
    Part 5: Political, Celebrities, Sports, Festivals.
    Part 6: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
    Part 7: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Obituaries.
    Part 11: Bookshops, Archives, Books.

    Persons

    This is a general persons section. In additional there are sections below on transkids, trans and families, celebrities, show biz, political, sports, inmates, schools and universities, and doctors.

    ++ added later

    Africa: 

     

    Cleo K., Uganda, wrote an open letter to Parliament on her Facebook account.

    Jacqui Louw, Durbanville, Cape Town, obtained court ruling from Home Affairs that her Identity Document should be altered.

    Shafieka, Cape Flats, Capetown, Muslim mother of a 9-year-old boy had surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital.

    Tiwonge Chimbalanga, of Malawi, now in South Africa, spoke out about her and her partner's arrest 2 years ago.

    Wilson in Uganda.

    Americas:

     

    Alice Miller, CIA, academic at Stanford.

    Arin Andrews and Katie Hill, Tulsa, are a couple.

    Ashley Ackley, who served with the US army in Iraq, was rejected when applied to join the Minnesota National Guard.

    Barbra Siperstein, New Jersey activist.

    Beth Scott, New Jersey, sued and obtained insurance coverage for a mammogram.

    Bianca Feliciano settled for $10,000 and a pledge that the town of Cicero, near Chicago will adopt a policy to deal with trans people respectfully.

    Brittany Novotny, attorney, selected by Oklahoma Magazine in its 40 under 40 series.

    Bryn Kelly, New York, hairdresser, writer.

    Charles Poulson, Iowa, graphic design, completing transition.

    Chrissy Polis, Baltimore, a year after the beating.

    Christie Ann Harvey, Oklahoma, obliged to go to appeal court to get her name changed.

    Christine Radtke, Minnesota, sued her husband's health plan which had denied her benefits arguing that her marriage was same-sex. However Chief U.S. District Judge ruled that she was a woman under Minnesota law.

    Colleen Francis, legally female, has created an understandable fuss at Evergreen College, Washington State, by using the sauna in the women's section of the gymnasium and exposing herself.
     
    Connor Ferguson, Trenton, Ontario, was voted prom queen.

    Dana Beyer, Maryland activist.

    David Weekley, preacher at United Methodist Church, Oregon.

    Dia Dipasupil has become a New York paparazzo.

    Diane Wells, New York hereditary millionaire disturbs neighbors with her smoking and won't pay for repairs/ maintenance.

    Domaine Javier, from California, was denied entry at Vancouver Airport because of an "m" on her passport and a dated photograph.

    Eden Lane, television broadcaster, Colorado.

    Gunner Scott, Boston, elected to Board of Corporators of Eastern Bank.

    Holly Ryan, Newton, Massachusetts, appointed to town's Human Rights Committee.

    Jay Kallio, New York, not told by his doctor that he had cancer and was denied treatment.

    James Wilson, Massachusetts, charged with travelling across state lines for the purpose of coercing or enticing a minor to have sexual intercourse.

    Jaslisa Griffin. Her boyfriend was attacked by a man who made homophobic comments after she used the women's toilets in a Manhatten McDonald's.

    Jennifer McCreath, Newfoundland, delayed 90 minutes at US customs in Toronto, and had to pay $80 for having to change flights, because she has a M in her passport. After 'gender expression was removed from the Federal Trans rights Bill, she launched Trans Canadians Against Bill C-279. "If "gender expression" is not included, the bill should be thrown out completely".

    Jessiah MacDonald charged $3,400 for hysterectomy in that Nova Scotia health insurance does not cover gender surgery.

    Joy Ladin transitioned, marriage fell apart. Joy and wife Christine Benvenuto both wrote books telling it as they saw it. Ladin's friends objected to Benvenuto's account. Both books shortlisted for Lamda Literary Awards.

    Kaitlyn Bogas, celebrity chef, Vancouver, lost her career by transitioning, is now head chef at a fishing lodge.

    Kara Hayes (more), Ohio, has spent $70,000 to transition and to look like Britney Spears.

    Kelly Worrall, Burnaby, BC, EA Sports video games, transitioned.

    K.L. Successfully sued Alaska's Department of Motor Vehicles to change its policy requiring drivers to undergo complete gender-reassignment surgery to change the sex on their license.

    ++Kristin Paget, security specialist, ex-Windows, now at Apple.

    Kylar Broadus, Missouri attorney, testified to US Congress re ENDA about how he was harassed out of his job.

    Lana Moore, firefighter in transition.

    Lance Hicks, Detroit activist.

    Linda Martinez, Guatemala, is a male schoolteacher by day and a female sex worker at night.

    Mandi McKee, Tampa, Florida, was a cis man until took anti-baldness medicine, Propecia. She is suing Merck, and appeared on Anderson Cooper's talk show. Video. The National Center for Transgender Equality condemned the appearance.

    Maria Chico, California, meets her father after 30 years.

    W Meredith Bacon, professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha.

    Mia Macy, denied employment at the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    Mia Tu Mutch, San Francisco, honored for willingness to testify.

    Monica Helms, Arizona, trans-military activist.

    Nikki Araguz sentenced to 50 days for stealing a Rolox watch.

    Nina Arsenault, and Barbie, both Toronto, in the news because previously short-term lovers of Luka Magnotta, who was accused of murder and fled to Germany.

    Nong Ariyaphon Southiphong/Andy South (more) reality show contestant now living as female.

    Paula Witherspoon, Dallas, at hospital with her husband, ticketed for 'lewd purpose' for using washroom in the intended fashion.

    Riki Wilchins ponders the new transsexuals. ++Response.

    Ronaldo Silva, Brazilian inmate attempted to escape in really bad drag.

    Seamus Johnston and his wife Katherine Anne McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh, investigated re bomb threats.

    Sean Chase, probably New York, wanted for mortgage scams.

    Scout proposed to his girlfriend at US White House LGBT Pride Month event. Followed by hate emails.

    Stevie Crecelius
    , Denver, ex-cop in transition.

    Tamsyn Waterhouse three-year campaign to remove extra psychological testing in US for trans pilots but not other pilots.

    Tatiana Pineros, 34, head of Bogata's social welfare agency, with a $360 million budget and 2,000 employeees.

    Tegan Marie Smith, was taken off her flight at Dallas airport, on a nominal charge of drinking, and interrogated about why she is trans.

    Temmie Breslauer, New York, arrested in a subway station for illegally using her dad's discount card. Unlike other such miscreants she was asked about her genitals and chained to a fence for 28 hours. She is now suing.

    Thomas Beatie, Arizona, mother of 3, cannot divorce his wife of 10 years because Arizona does not recognize 'same-sex marriage'.

    Trevor MacDonald, 27, Winnipeg, has been nursing his infant son for 16 months, but was told by La Leche League Canada (LLLC) that he cannot lead support circles or serve as a breastfeeding coach because he identifies as a man, which goes against the organization's definition of motherhood.

    Victoria Cruz, New York, awarded Justice Department's National Crime Victim Service Award.

    Walt Heyer, changeback who would abolish the option of transition for all, was able to use the new California law removing the proof of surgery, to get his birth certificate returned to male.

    Wayne Alan Cunningham, Nova Scotia, charged with confinement and assault, on the run, and later found dead in Ontario.

    XY: successfully applied to have the gender designation on the birth certificate changeds.

    Mother in Goiania, Goiás, Brazil, raised her daughter as a boy for two years before being found out.

    Asia:

     

    Yuki Anma, Nagoya, has opened a group, a hotline and a dining bar.

    Bharathi, 25, is now an Evangelical Church of India pastor in Chennai.

    C., Hong Kong, sued Christian Zheng Sheng College for delaying her transition by 10 years.

    D.K. Mersin, Turkey, has requested to the Directorate of Religious Affairs that she return to being a man.

    Evie, Obama’s nanny while in Indonesia, 1969-71.

    Fettan Ceyda, policeman in Istanbul, dishonourably discharged after being caught as trans prostitute.

    Gabriel Paolo Diño elected chair of student council, University of the Philipines.

    Qian Jinfan, (more) 84, calligrapher, in transition.

    Leona Lo complained to bus company SBS transit after one of their drivers shouted ‘Ah Kua and adopted a woman’s gait as he “sashayed” past me’. The bus company announced that the bus driver ‘is deeply apologetic and we will be taking disciplinary action against him’.

    Ramona, Philippines, interviewed.

    Sittichai ‘Pond’ Suafug and Benhamaporn ‘Ben’ Rotjutakul are a couple, and able to legally marry in Thailand.

    Swati Barua, Mombai, obtained court intervention as her parents threatened doctors and the doctors therefore require a court order.

    W., Hong Kong has won the permission to lodge a final appeal against the law that bars her from marrying her boyfriend.

    Yuval Topper, 24, gave birth in Tel Aviv.

    Man, Osaka, registered as male under 2004 law, sued to be recognised as his wife's son's legal father.

    Man with moustache in UAE arrested in drag in women-only park.

    Two siblings (more) in Yunnan both had surgery with Dr Zhao Yede to become male.

    Europe:

     

    Alex Kaminsky, (more) Berlin, in transition, supported by mother, but absent father requested that she be committed to Berlin's Charité hospital. The Kammergericht court ruled in his favour. Over 10,000 signed a petition in protest.

    Angel Jordon, Carlisle, caught buying drugs.

    Alexandra Svobodova, fake gyencologist, arrested, Bechyne, Czechia.

    April Ashley, MBE for services to transgender equality, to be focus of the Homotopia exhibition in Liverpool.

    Ashlyn Parram, Boston, Lincs, used Equality Laws to sit exams in girls’ uniform.

    Cambell Kenneford, 16 Leighton Buzzard, is transitioning.

    Charlotte Goiar, 39, won a ruling in the High Court that Galacian Health Service should pay for her to have genital surgery.

    Connor McCormack/Aaron Lampard, Guildford, convicted of fraud and sexual assault.

    Crystal Warren on front page of The Sun after admitting to sex with over 1,000 men.

    David Mossey, 51, Plymouth, starting transition.

    Diana, of the London Rollergirls was featured in a new video by the Pet Shop Boys.

    Fernanda, a Guatemalan asylum seeker in Denmark, was placed in the men’s wing and raped, She fled and ended up in a brothel in Jutland, where she was found in a police raid, She was sheduled to be deported back to Guatemala, but her case was reopened at the last moment.

    Foxy Roxy, ex RAF, gets 8 months for keeping a brothel.

    Frances Harris 71 convicted of fraud, gets 15-month suspended sentence.


    Gareth Williams, (more) the dead spy and maybe transvestite found in a sports bag. Inquest held, but questions not answered.

    Gary Norton, Coventry, 75, ex-RAF, after 23 years as a woman, is attempting to return to being a man.

    Georgia Ziadie caused a rumpus with her new book on the Windsors, wherein she suggests that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and her brother David were born to the family cook.

    Giovanna Del Nord assaulted in a pub in Leicester.

    Jane Fae, journalist. Featured in BBC documentary. Interview.

    Jenny-Anne Bishop & Elen Heart two transitions, a marriage and a civil union.
    Julia Griffiths.

    Juliet Jacques completed transition, completed her Transgender Journey blog series in the Guardian (longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011), has a column in the New Stateman.

    Karen Gale, forced out of the Metropolitan Police 27 years for wanting to transition is returning as a Special Constable.

    Katharina, Germany, qualified IT specialist, cannot get IT work and is obliged to do sex work.

    Lita. Deported from Sweden to Russia.

    Luke Anderson winner of Big Brother contest.

    Malene Lang Hansen, Copenhagen, was winning a pub competition for enhanced breasts when in the last few days a new women (who seems to be a stock photo) suddenly appeared and went into the lead. The apparent winner has never appeared in reality.

    Monica (more), Antwerp, admitted being trans after 19 years of marriage and her husband is trying to have the marriage annulled.

    Paul is said to be the UK’s first known male mother. His husband separated, after media hunt to find him. The Sun set up a special hot line phone number. Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP for Brighton tabled an Early Day Motion at Parliament condemning the media’s attempts to discover his identity.

    Paula Johnson, 63, has completed transition.

    Paris Lees (includes interview audio) "has quickly established herself as an art reviewer and commentator on issues of diversity. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian and the Independent, in Attitude magazine, and in Pink News. She has regular columns in Gay Times and Diva. She has appeared on Radio One and BBC TV ... and acted as a consultant on several programmes about trans people. Most notably, she launched a unique magazine, META, earlier this year". Videos. Interview wuth Pink News.

    Ria Cooper, transitioned socially in 2011 at age 17, has now decided to change back before surgery.

    Roz Kaveney, Guardian blog. IOS Pink List, 65, first novel: Rhapsody of Blood.

    Ruth Rose, Sussex, ex-RAF, surgery at 80.

    Saralee Fisher, Tyneside, previously convicted of indecency, let off group therapy after transition.

    Sandy Manley, 52, Southport, Lancashire, is transitioning.

    Stephen George, then a woman in Broadmoor psychiatric prison, was one of the many abused by Jimmy Saville.

    Italian police arrested 28 members of a prostitution ring that had brought trans women from Brazil and other South American countries.

    Oceania: 

     

    Annabell Quor, 74 Otago, guilty of leaving her dog to die of heat stroke in car.

    Aram Hosie and his wife Senator Louise Pratt.

    Cate McGregor, Lieutenant Colonel, Order of Australia, senior political strategist, cricketer. Will continue in her job.

    Heather Stokes, Adelaide, respected criminal barrister, reappeared in court after transition.

    Josie Emery, 65, author of The real possibility of joy : a personal journey from man to woman.

    Stephanie Dixon, 43, New Zealand having birth certificate problems.