Transsexual News

Barcelona - Miss SaHHara was born in the wrong country, and in the wrong body.

- Pope Francis has met a Spanish transsexual and his fiancée at the Vatican, opening his doors to a man dubbed "the devil's daughter" by a local priest, media reports said Tuesday.

A time-lapse video showing the transformation of a transsexual from male to female (MtF) over a period of three years has gone viral online. The video, constructed from several photos, shows a progression of facial changes from masculine to feminine.

Boston - “Michelle” Kosilek, born Robert Kosilek, strangled his wife, Cheryl, to death in Mansfield during 1990. Today, a federal judge ordered prison officials to provide Michelle with sex-change surgery and treatments.

A male-to-female transsexual says the singer Lady Gaga inspired her to make the decision to live as a girl, after two years of hormone treatment.

Bangkok - If you're sick of traditional male and female cabin crew when flying to exotic locations around the world, then you should book a flight with PC Air, which recently hired a team of transgender flight attendants.

Keith Mina Caputo, the lead singer for the alternative rock band Life of Agony, has taken to Twitter to publicly announce to her fans that she is transsexual.

A team of archaeologists in the Czech Republic believe they have found evidence of the world's first recorded gay caveman.

The makers of a popular US comedy drama series have come in for criticism from gay campaigners for the use of the word “tranny” in one of its episodes.

A Cumbrian woman, Mikki Nicholson, has beaten the four-times national winner to be crowned the UK's 2010 Scrabble champion.

Washington - The State Department announced new guidelines for issuing passports to transgender applicants. If you bring a note from your doctor that you have undergone appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition you'll be able to get a passport to match.

Fire at transsexual brothel forces evacuation of staff and customers. A Naked man escaped with minor bun burns but police do not suspect arson as a cause of the blaze.

Parents are angry over an emergency school assembly held to tell children that a 12-year-old male pupil was having a sex change.

A significant link between a gene involved in testosterone action and male transsexualism has been found by Australian researchers.

In Iran, homosexual relationships are banned but sex change operations are illegal. Changing genders can be the only way out for homosexuals in a country where death is the punishment for the sexual orientation.

As Renee Richards, the world's most famous transsexual athlete, looks back on her life, she has one regret -- the fame she attained.

A 12-year-old boy is believed to have become the world's youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female. Two years later, at age 14, the former boy comes closer to becoming a woman.