In 1972, Sweden became the first country in the world to legislate healthcare for transsexualism within the state-financed healthcare system. In an international perspective, this was considered to be ...

Femininity is under attack, and not just from the usual culprits. According to writer, biologist and spoken-word artist Julia Serano, in our society being feminine is still second rate. And in her ...

Once her transition was under way, Juliet Jacques set out to make new friends who understood the specific challenges of transsexual life Settling into 'full-time' living, I stepped away from the ...

Fancy getting sozzled tonight? Try the Trans Documentary Drinking Game, something of a transgender community in-joke. The rules are simple: for every cliche, take one shot of tequila. US writer Helen ...

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A transsexual woman has won on appeal the right to marry her boyfriend in a landmark case She was refused the right to marry as she did not quality as a "woman" under Hong Kong law The 37-year-old, ...

Differences in the brain’s white matter that clash with a person’s genetic sex may hold the key to identifying transsexual people before puberty. Doctors could use this information to make a case for ...

What challenges would be faced by a famous person transitioning in public? By Juliet Jacques There are few openly transsexual people in British public life — and virtually none who have come out when ...