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NEWS ITEM - Transsexuals likely to win changes in law.....June 22, 2002
Transsexuals are set to win the right to change their birth certificates and to marry in their adopted sex under proposals expected to come from a working group of officials from 12 government departments. The interdepartmental working group on transsexual people, whose July 2000 report canvassed a range of options, is to be reconvened to consider how to take reforms forward. The move comes after a series of court cases in which judges have expressed sympathy for the plight of transsexuals, but said reform was ultimately a matter for parliament. Last July the court of appeal rejected a bid by Elizabeth Bellinger, who started life as a male, to have her 20 year marriage to a man declared valid. One of the three judges ruled in her favour, but the other two reluctantly dismissed her appeal, while admonishing the government for failing to change the law. Ministers face further court challenges from transsexuals on a range of fronts. Ms Bellinger is due to take her case to the House of Lords next January. Christine Goodwin, formerly a male bus driver, expects judgment within weeks from the European court of human rights in Strasbourg on her claim that the government violated her right to a private life and discriminated against her by making her wait until 65 for a state pension. A retired female NHS employee who lives with a female-to-male transsexual is taking a case to the European court of justice in Luxembourg claiming discrimination because, since she cannot marry her partner, he cannot inherit her pension rights. The UK is one of only four countries in the council of Europe which still does not recognise a sex change as legally valid. The others are Ireland, Albania and Andorra. The interdepartmental working group, which includes officials from the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Department, and the Department of Health, will look at possible legislation across a whole range of areas including birth certificates, inheritance provision, family law and pension rights. The group previously sat from April 1999 to July 2000, when it produced a report setting out three options - retaining the status quo and leaving the law unchanged; issuing birth certificates showing a transsexual person's new name and, possibly, sex; or granting full legal recognition of the acquired sex - but making no firm recommendations. The Lord Chancellor's Department said the report had been under active consideration since July 2000. Ministers had now agreed to reconvene the working group "to look further into the implications of the possible changes in policy". No commitment could yet be given on any likely recommendations or the timing of their implementation. Clare McNab, of the transsexuals' pressure group Press for Change, said: "We would like to see a simple and inclusive mechanism which allows people to register their change of sex with privacy, so they could marry, take out insurance or mortgages, and apply for jobs without reference to their previous sex."
NEWS ITEM - Transsexual loses birth certificate battle........20th June 2002
The judgement was made at London's High Court A former married man now living as a woman has failed in a High Court bid to amend her birth certificate. Paula Wilhemina Ryder, 53, from County Durham, was seeking a judicial review after being refused permission by the Registrar General to make the change. She wanted to either be described as a woman, having undergone gender reassignment surgery, or to have a footnote on the certificate saying that she is living as a woman. In rejecting her application, Mr Justice Lightman said: "The register of births is a historical register of fact." I live fully as female and have the appearance of a woman - I wish to have a complete identity as a female Paula Ryder. But he added: "It is perhaps possible that the law might one day develop so far as to recognise as a human right the entitlement on the part of transsexuals to the issue of an identity card which records the current - as opposed to historic - sex of the holder." During a recent hearing, Sally Bradley QC, representing Ms Ryder, argued the Registrar's approach was outdated and a breach of human rights. Ms Bradley said: "Whilst her birth certificate records her identity as being male she regards that as an aberration. "Putting it very simply, it is a document which doesn't speak the truth today." Medical tests had revealed Ms Ryder suffered from Klinefelter's syndrome - an over-production of chromosomes. Ms Ryder said in a written statement to the judge: "I was brought up as a male, but I and my family became aware of my feminine characteristics, which I began to display at an early age. "Throughout my childhood the characteristics became more pronounced. "As I matured through adolescence and puberty I suffered badly." Sex is determined at birth and cannot subsequently be altered by any such operation House of Lords, 2001. Despite some ambiguity at her birth, the midwife considered her to be male and she was subsequently registered as such and named Paul. After living as both a man and a woman, she decided as a 19-year-old to live exclusively as a male and she married in 1981. But she began noticing physical changes to her which created a more feminine body. Her wife died in 1994 and she changed her name by deed poll and began treatment which led to gender reassignment surgery in October 1998. She stated: "I live fully as female and have the appearance of a woman - I wish to have a complete identity as a female." The judge said it was in the hands of Parliament to change the law "so as to permit the [birth] register to be amended to record a subsequent change of sex". And he cited a House of Lords ruling last year which said "sex is determined at birth and cannot subsequently be altered by any such operation as was undergone by the claimant".
NEWS ITEM - Rainbow Flag flys over Aberdeen....June 18, 2002
The Union Flag has been lowered from its mast at Aberdeen City Hall. In its place was raised the Rainbow flag. It wasn't a takeover of city hall by gay radicals, the change had the approval of the city's Labour government,but, Tory members of council are crying foul. The flag will fly over city hall throughout Pride celebrations in an agreement reached last year. Conservative councillor John Porter said the flag will "alienate" the public and do more harm than good to the Gay Pride movement. Fellow Tory councillor John Dempsey said: "I would rather a more deserving flag was up there." This is Aberdeen's first GLBT Pride. Over the weekend, bands and performance artists from across Scotland performed in a local park.
NEWS ITEM - Japanese man,fired from job after wearing women’s clothes....
A 36-year-old Japanese man has been fired from his job after wearing women’s clothes to work. The man, who is believed to be awaiting a sex change operation, is now suing Shobunsha Publications in a bid to be reinstated. Lawyers for the company are arguing that cross-dressing creates problems in the workplace. "We can understand the difficulties involved in gender disorder. But it`s difficult for the company to accept that a man it hired has suddenly become a woman. "Cross-dressing creates problems in the workplace and his condition of accepting the transfer only if he could be treated as a woman violates company regulations." The man has now launched a legal challenge in a Tokyo court. In a statement to a local newspaper he added, "Treatments for gender disorder make things difficult in the workplace, causing me to be transferred against my will. Being a different gender to that listed on the family register makes it difficult to work as a full-time employee. I want to chip away at the current situation." A decision by the courts is expected shortly.
NEWS ITEM - Transsexual fears the worst as jail looms... June 14 2002
Transsexual Jeanin-Lee, sentenced on Friday for possession of more than R66,000 in counterfeit money, will be kept in a men's prison but in a single cell. When Witbank regional court magistrate Marlene Greyvenstein sentenced him to five years' imprisonment, Jeanin-Lee shed a few tears as he kept his eyes downcast. His wife, Welna van Loggerenberg, was present. Known as Jeanin-Lee, or at times as Xena, the man is in the process of changing his sex and feared possible rape if sent to a men's prison. He has already had two breast implants and is undergoing hormone treatment. His genitals have not yet been operated on. 'I have never even undressed in the presence of a man' Earlier this week a website quoted him as saying he feared he would be unable to continue with hormone replacement therapy or visit gynaecologists and plastic surgeons. "I have never even undressed in the presence of a man. I have to use the correct shampoo. What if I need a new bra?" he was further quoted as saying. Jeanin-Lee reportedly also said he was unwilling to wear prison underwear. Although he was sentenced to five years he could be up for correctional supervision after serving part of his sentence.
NEWS ITEM - Prosecutors want to link death to 'pumping parties'......June 15, 2002
Three witnesses described in court Friday how they went to so-called "pumping parties" to get "figure-enhancing" silicone shots from two people, one of whom claimed to be a nurse. Broward county prosecutors hope a judge will let them use the testimony in a later trial against two people accused of manslaughter, third-degree murder and practicing medicine without a license. The judge will rule after hearing more witnesses. Mark D. Hawkins, 36, and Donnie Hendrix, 32, are charged with causing the March 2001 death of Vera Lawrence, 52, in Miramar. Lawrence, of Miami, died of an embolism or air bubble linked to 36 injections of industrial-strength silicone she got in her hips and buttocks. Witnesses testified that women and men who were in the process of becoming women would be notified by friends when the pumping parties were scheduled in hotel rooms or at friends' homes. Some of the witnesses said they thought Hendrix, a transgender man who is also known as Viva, was a nurse. Hendrix wore a lab coat and gloves during the sessions. Some said they weren't checking qualifications and just wanted cheap body-enhancement. "I knew she [Hendrix] wasn't a doctor, but I was told she was affiliated with a doctor," said James Augusta Gamble of Orlando. "Her body was already nice, and everybody wanted a body like hers," Gamble said. Gamble said he wasn't too concerned about exactly what Hawkins and Hendrix were injecting in his body and assumed industrial silicone was safe because he presumed that was how Hendrix's appearance had been altered. Prosecutor Howard Scheinberg hopes the evidence will show that Hawkins and Hendrix, of North Carolina, traveled around illegally offering medical procedures for years before Lawrence died. Defense attorney Eric Schwartzreich and George Reres say the victim and witnesses were willing participants and knew the risks they were taking. They deny that the two illegally practiced medicine. The witnesses all said they wanted the procedures and that they took part in the sessions voluntarily. At some of the parties, people brought alcohol, a buffet was provided, and guests would chat as they waited their turn. Even Denise Jones, a licensed practical nurse from Homestead, said she had few qualms about getting the procedures done, paying about $500 cash for 16 injections from four syringes. "I did it because it was a cheaper way out, which is not a good reason," Jones said. Some of the witnesses reported getting sick after treatments but said they were not 100 percent sure the silicone caused breathing difficulties and pneumonia and flulike symptoms. Some said the pain from the shots was similar to the discomfort of giving blood. Even after they got sick, they came back for more treatments in rooms that, aside from syringes and rags to wipe away oozing silicone, had no medical equipment such as stethoscopes, oxygen or blood-pressure machines.
NEWS ITEM - Danny La Rue gets an OBE.......June 15, 2002
He is the first female impersonator to ever get one and is thrilled - his only wish is that his mother was here to see it. Danny La Rue was born Daniel Patrick Carroll in Cork, Ireland on the 26th of July, 1927. Danny La Rue was referred to by Noel Coward as "The most professional, the most witty...and the most utterly charming man in the Business." His best-selling autobiography is entitled "From Drags To Riches."
NEWS ITEM - TS Awarded Temporary Custody Of Children....June 15, 2002
A transsexual father in the US has been granted temporary custody of his children after the mother violated an order not to use her husband's sex change to turn the children against him. Michael Kantaras, who was born a woman and had a sex change to become a man/ He took custody of the children May 24 on orders from a US judge. A written order awaiting O'Brien's signature states that Linda Kantaras may have liberal visitation but is no longer the children's primary custodian. Michael Kantaras will retain primary custody until the judge makes a final decision in the couple's divorce case.
NEWS ITEM - Transsexual fears the worst as jail looms....June 14 2002
Transsexual Jeanin-Lee, sentenced on Friday for possession of more than R66 000 in counterfeit money, will be kept in a men's prison but in a single cell. When Witbank regional court magistrate Marlene Greyvenstein sentenced him to five years' imprisonment, Jeanin-Lee shed a few tears as he kept his eyes downcast. His wife, Welna van Loggerenberg, was present. Known as Jeanin-Lee, or at times as Xena, the man is in the process of changing his sex and feared possible rape if sent to a men's prison. He has already had two breast implants and is undergoing hormone treatment. His genitals have not yet been operated on. 'I have never even undressed in the presence of a man' Earlier this week a website quoted him as saying he feared he would be unable to continue with hormone replacement therapy or visit gynaecologists and plastic surgeons. "I have never even undressed in the presence of a man. I have to use the correct shampoo. What if I need a new bra?" he was further quoted as saying. Jeanin-Lee reportedly also said he was unwilling to wear prison underwear. Although he was sentenced to five years he could be up for correctional supervision after serving part of his sentence.
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