9/12/09

New Sexual Reassignment Surgery Laws in Thailand


New laws forbidding sexual reassignment surgery prior to age 18 and requiring parental consent for those between age 18 and 20 years will go into affect November 18 according to Asia One News.

Thailand will also enforce a regulation that a person seeking SRS have undergone a year 'Real Life' experience where in a transgender individual lives in their proper gender and undergoes hormones replacement therapy.

It is unclear what affect the new regulations will have on transgender people from foreign countries when they seek SRS in Thailand.

Thailand however does not have laws allowing a person to legally change there documents to properly reflect there gender which creates incredible hardship for a person in transition. Currently a transgender person is forced to identify themselves as a "Lady Boy", which according to search records at planetransgender is the term that people use when searching for transgender articles involving people from Thailand and many South East Asian countries.

According to Yollada Suanyot, chairperson of the Transgender Women of
Thailand group, the new regulations lack guidelines as to whom would make the determination if the applicant has met the criteria. In her opinion this will create further hardships for transgender people.

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9/11/09

From "A T Revival" : God Made Me the Way I Am and I Accept Myself

A T Revival: God Made Me the Way I Am and I Accept Myself

"So Caster Semenya is determined to be intersex though she's always considered herself a woman."

"God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself," she [Caster] said."

Source: Daliy Telegraph Caster Semenya has male sex organs and no womb or ovaries

I wanted to write about a athlete who's gender is being questioned, examined and evaluated and who's determination will effect the world in ways no other single could. But I hesitated. How could I approach this subject without contorting it, or worse yet, Jerry Springer sizing it?

It's actually simple. Thanks Lori D.

"God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself," she [Caster] said."

The Trevor Project - National Suicide Prevention Week points to a preventable epidemic

Cross posted from the Thalamus Center by Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

Thalamus Center - Early Childhood Psychological Development Growing Up Gay - M Kurylowicz: The Trevor Project - National Suicide Prevention Week points to a preventable epidemic - By Charles Robbins

A new study released in August by the UCLA School of Public Health found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are twice as likely as heterosexual men and women to seek help from mental health >professionals. This recently-revealed conclusion perfectly illustrates the already often-noted statistic determined by a Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey published in 2007: LGBTQ youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers – a fact we’re all too familiar with at The Trevor Project.

9/10/09

Sam's Pink Dress is Perfect

A Rock and a Hard Place
Sarah Hoffman's young son's preference for dresses, long hair and tiaras makes for some very difficult parenting choices.



Young Mother Sarah Hoffman's son Sam is living in the spectrum of gender diversity that does not fit neatly into our X and O world. Sarah and Sam are beginning the journey on the path less taken and we may view their life from the perspective of people who have been so blessed to be a traveling companion.

Please join with Sam and Sarah.......On parenting a boy who is different

9/9/09

Would Jesus Discriminate along I-30 in Texas? Why Would We?



Brother Curtis Smith, Pastor of the Trinity Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Arlington Texas speaks up for LGBT equality!



According to Pastor Smith the "Use of religion to discriminate is not Christlike". Curtis went on to say that "while nearly everyone recognizes John 3.16, equally important is the message of John 3.17 "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."

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I love to worship at Trinity MCC in Arlington Texas. I nearly always cry during the MCC communion when Pastor Curtis or one of the hundreds of MCC's world wide proclaim that this table is open to all to share. You do not need to be a member any church, you are not required to be baptised, all are welcome.

A place for everyone. No Exceptions.

Please, come join with us in worship at Trinity MCC Arlington Texas

Sunday Worship Services are at 11:00 am

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9/8/09

Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO)

When Neda was murdered by goverment security the image of her lifeless body falling to the pavement created a world community of people who do not recognize any goverments perceived authority to enslave and partition LGBT people. Her death puts into context the desperate plight of free thinking people in Iran.
While I know nothing of the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization (PGLO}
also known as the Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO), I would ask what can we do to help and how can we do nothing at all?

By kelli Anne Busey
Transgender Woman