An estimated one-quarter to one-half percent of the American population is transsexual, however, Keisling said.
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Yes, as a transwoman myself, I can say that transsexual people can be terribly vulnerable.
We fully support anti-discrimination protections for transgender and transsexual people that do not run roughshod over laws that protect females.
Earlier this year transsexual Elizabeth Bellinger and her husband Michael lost their battle to have their 22-year marriage declared legal.
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Pham's sister Chi was a person thrice dislocated: once as an immigrant, twice as a transsexual, three times as a runaway.
Lusimbo is particularly keen on the opportunity to build bridges with the transsexual individuals who he feels are not well understood by the gay community.
Human rights groups welcomed the panel's recommendations to widen the scope of sexual rape to include assaults on homosexual, transgender and transsexual rape.
After I began transition, I met more and more transsexual men like myself, and I saw firsthand the fear and shame that limited their lives.
To be discovered as a transsexual person was a horrible fate.
"This kid is going to have a hard enough life if he really is transsexual, why start fighting battles now, when he should just be blissfully ignorant"?
The conclusion of last year's series, which saw Portuguese transsexual Nadia Alamada triumph, attracted nine million viewers - and was a vast improvement on the previous series.
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"The decision here is not based on the conclusion that this case involves a same-sex marriage merely because one of the parties is a transsexual male, " he wrote.
At the time, High Court Judge Andrew Cheung said he saw no evidence to support "a shifted societal consensus in present-day Hong Kong regarding marriage to encompass a post-operative transsexual".
The bill would also allow same-sex couples to convert a civil partnership to a marriage and enable married transsexual people to gain legal recognition in their acquired gender without having to end their marriage.
We welcome people who fit into this definition into space segregated by sex in recognition of their perceived need for access and in the fervent hope that we can achieve such protection for identifiably transgender or transsexual people without harming females.
Transamerica (Opens Dec. 3) Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman plays a pre-op male-to-female transsexual who is about to have surgery to become a woman when she discovers that years earlier, she fathered a son, who is now a gay hustler in New York.
There were a few surprises in store for me, though, not the least of which was that I learned that the fear and shame of being known or discovered to be a transsexual person was probably responsible for a tremendous amount of suffering.
This has been made worse by the Equalities Act 2010 as when it comes into force in October, it will be entirely legal to discriminate against anyone even suspected of being transsexual in the provision of services such as sheltered accommodation or rape councilling.
On the other hand, it makes sense that you might have picked up the wrong idea about the specifics contained in the UN letter, since over on radfem hub, most of them believe that even fully-transitioned post-op transsexual women are really just men, and they have certain attitudes towards men which are, shall we say, less than charitable?
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