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    i have some news to share & updates for you to know on transgender community worldwide


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    APRIL 14, 2018
    Transgender News Anchor Challenges Barriers in Conservative Pakistan
    "I thought that our transgender community was lagging behind in education and jobs, and they are not strong enough politically," she said. "So I wanted to do something for my community."
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    Lahore: Marvia Malik made headlines when she debuted last month on a private television channel in Pakistan, becoming the conservative country's first transgender news anchor.

    Opinions are mixed about the slim 21-year-old who appears regularly on the Kohenoor News channel in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab, but Malik says she has achieved her childhood dream.

    "I thought that our transgender community was lagging behind in education and jobs, and they are not strong enough politically," she said. "So I wanted to do something for my community."

    Many transgender individuals in Pakistan live in secluded communities and have no choice but to beg on the streets or sing and dance at private parties to earn a living. Some also turn to prostitution to make ends meet.

    Malik says she was disowned by her family when she was 16, following years of being forced to dress and act like a boy.

    She sought a different route for herself, so she trained and then found work as a makeup artist to fund her journalism degree at Punjab University.

    Marvia Malik, Pakistan’s transgender news anchor, checks herself in the mirror before a news broadcast at the Kohenoor News channel in Lahore

    Marvia Malik, Pakistan’s transgender news anchor, checks herself in the mirror before a news broadcast at the Kohenoor News channel in Lahore. (Image: Reuters)

    Through her connections in the beauty industry, she landed a modeling job and became the talk of the town.

    The story of her life, and her demeanour, impressed the selection panel at Kohenoor News, which hired her as a trainee anchor.

    Kohenoor Chief Executive Junaid Mehmood Ansari says he had apprehensions about Malik going on air, but his worries were put to rest by social media praise for his efforts to promote transgender people after her first appearance, on March 23.

    Recent legislation has made clear that transgender individuals in Pakistan are guaranteed all the citizens' rights enshrined in its constitution, with national identity cards providing for a category of "third gender".
    Marvia Malik chats with her colleagues before a news broadcast at the Kohenoor News channel in Lahore. (Image: Reuters)

    But not all Pakistanis are so accepting.

    "This new transgender thing is the influence of Western culture, and this is totally wrong," said Ayaz Khan, a resident of the southern commercial hub of Karachi.

    Trans Action Pakistan, a campaign group, estimates there are at least 500,000 transgender people among Pakistan's population of 208 million.



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    APRIL 2, 2018
    Singapore Couple Challenge Annulment of Marriage After Sex Change
    Faith, the husband, then underwent sex change surgery and updated her national identity card to read "female", the paper said.
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    A gay man is silhoutted on a gay rainbow flag during a demonstration for gay rights in Hanoi, Vietnam (Reuters)
    Singapore: A Singaporean couple have launched a legal challenge after authorities annulled their marriage because the husband underwent a sex change, a lawyer said Monday.

    The city-state voided the marriage last year, saying the operation made their partnership a same-sex union that is illegal under Singapore law.

    Singapore is a modern and vibrant society in many ways but attitudes towards homosexuality are still conservative and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said the country is not yet ready for same-sex marriage.

    The couple, Faith and Bryce Volta, married as man and woman in 2015, the Straits Times newspaper reported.

    Faith, the husband, then underwent sex change surgery and updated her national identity card to read "female", the paper said.

    Six months later the government's Registrar of Marriages met the couple to discuss the sex change and later informed them the marriage would be annulled.

    The couple have now asked the High Court to review the decision taken by the registrar, confirmed lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam, whose law firm is representing them for free.

    Authorities previously cited the country's laws which state marriage is a union between a man and a woman as the reason for annulling the union.

    Singapore maintains legislation dating back to British colonial rule making sex between men a criminal act, although it does not actively enforce the law.

    Nevertheless support for gay rights is growing due to more relaxed views among the younger generation and the large expatriate community.​



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    FEBRUARY 16, 2018
    Transgender Woman Successfully Breastfeeds Baby In World First
    First ever case of a transgender woman successfully breastfeeding her baby.
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    In a breakthrough, US doctors have reported the first ever case of a transgender woman successfully breastfeeding her baby.

    According to the doctors at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the 30-year-old transgender woman underwent a three and half months of a regimen of domperidone, estradiol, progesterone, and breast pumping.

    As a result, she was able to achieve sufficient breast milk volume to be the sole source of nourishment for her child for six weeks.

    The case, published in the journal Transgender Health, illustrates that in some circumstances, modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women.

    "We believe that this is the first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman," said Tamar Reisman, endocrinologist and Assistant Professor at the varsity.

    The woman explained that her partner was pregnant but not interested in breastfeeding and that she hoped to take on the role of being the primary food source for her infant.

    She had been receiving feminising hormone therapy for the past six years as well as was being treated for insomnia and anxiety, but otherwise appeared to be a "pleasant, well-nourished, well-developed woman", Reisman said.

    However, the patient had not undergone any gender reassignment surgeries, breast augmentation or vaginoplasty.

    The study showed that the patient underwent a treatment with the female hormones progesterone and estradiol, stimulating her chest with a breast milk pump, and intake of domperidone -- a nausea medication known to increase milk production and suppress testosterone for three and half months.

    A month later, the patient began producing "droplets" of milk, and post three months, she produced about eight ounces of milk per day, Reisman said.

    After the birth of the baby, weighing 6lbs 13oz, the patient breastfed exclusively for six weeks, during which the baby's paediatrician commented that "the child's growth, feeding, and bowel habits were developmentally appropriate."

    Later, the patient began supplementing breastfeedings with 4-8oz of Similac brand formula daily due to concerns about insufficient milk volume, Reisman said.



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    JANUARY 11, 2018
    Hurray! German Playboy Is Going To Feature A Transgender Model On Its Cover
    Giuliana Farfalla, 21, who has featured topless, posted a photo on her Instagram page giving her fans a look into the magazine's cover page.
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    "Love, I'm on the latest Playboy cover and I'm really proud of the result. I hope you like the cover as much as I do."

    Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Florian Boitin quotedly said that putting Farfalla on the cover was in line with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's tradition of being "resolutely opposed to all forms of exclusion and intolerance."

    She further said Farfalla was a "beautiful example of how important the fight for the right to self-determination is".

    Farfalla rose to fame after her participation in the reality TV series Germany's Next Top Model.

    Last year, a French model named Ines Rau became the first openly transgender person to be named a Playboy Playmate in the 64-year history of the publication.

    The issue is due on newsstands Thursday. And we couldn’t be happier about it.


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    March 24, 2018
    Trump Moves To Ban Most Transgender Individuals From Military Service
    The White House said that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had found that individuals with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria presented a risk to military effectiveness.
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    WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Friday that bans most transgender individuals from serving in the US military, but gives the armed forces some latitude in implementing policies.

    The memorandum said that transgender individuals with a history of "gender dysphoria," which was defined as "those who may require substantial medical treatment, including through medical drugs or surgery," are disqualified from military service "except under certain limited circumstances."

    It added that the secretaries of defence and homeland security "may exercise their authority to implement any appropriate policies concerning military service by transgender individuals."

    The White House said on Friday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had found that individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria presented a risk to military effectiveness.
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    Pentagon said that it would continue to assess and retain transgender individuals in the US military.
    "This new policy will enable the military to apply well-established mental and physical health standards ... equally to all individuals who want to join and fight for the best military force the world has ever seen," the White House said.

    Trump announced in July that he would prohibit transgender people from serving in the military, reversing former President Barack Obama's policy of accepting them.

    A number of federal judges have issued rulings blocking Trump's ban. The judges said the ban would likely violate the right under the US Constitution to equal protection under the law.
    On Friday, the Pentagon reaffirmed that it would continue to comply with federal law.

    "(The Pentagon) will continue to assess and retain transgender service members," Pentagon spokesman Major David Eastburn said.
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    March 05, 2018
    Oscars 2018: A Fantastic Woman Wins Best Foreign Film
    In A Fantastic Woman Daniela Vega plays the role of a film and stage actress as well as an opera singer, Marina, a transgender woman in love with Orlando, a much older man
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    HIGHLIGHTS
    The film features transgender actress Daniela Vega
    "I moved from being a man to a woman and I'm glad I did it," she said
    Daniela plays a transgender artiste in love with a much older man

    PARIS:

    A Fantastic Woman, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film on Sunday, is a romantic drama that paints the touching portrait of a fighter, played by the unforgettable transgender actress Daniela Vega. Vega, a film and stage actress as well as an opera singer, plays Marina, a transgender woman in love with Orlando, a much older man who dies the night of her birthday celebration.

    The movie tells the tale of her battle to win the right to mourn her dead lover, against the resistance of his ex-wife and their adult son. They call her a "chimera" -- a monster from Greek mythology, made from several species.

    "I think no one in this world hasn't gone through a transition in their lives, if only from being a baby to a grown-up," Vega said last year at the Berlin film festival, where the film directed by Chile's Sebastian Lelio won best screenplay honors.

    "I moved from being a man to a woman and I'm glad I did it. This is my personal choice and this is what constitutes my humanity."

    Lelio, 43, is part of a new wave of Chilean filmmakers along with Pablo Larrain, a co-producer on this film and the director of Oscar-nominated Jackie (2016).

    "Film should ask questions rather than deliver answers; the main goal is to shed light on something," said Lelio, who earned international acclaim for "Gloria" (2013), another film centered on a woman in crisis.

    He says it would have been unthinkable to case a non-transgender actress in the role of Marina, likening it to the scorned practice of "blackface."

    In the film, Orlando's family bars Marina from the funeral, kicks her out of the apartment she and Orlando intended to share, and even takes away her beloved German shepherd, Diabla.

    Meanwhile the police suspect Orlando's death from an aneurysm may have involved drugs or foul play, and submit Marina to questioning and a humiliating physical exam.

    With determination and grit, Marina lives her life and refuses to go away without a fight.

    "She is fantastic because she finds dignity where there was none," says Vega.

    Lelio says the film was written well before transgender culture started to be "ingrained in our collective imagination."

    His first English-language feature - Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams as lovers in an Orthodox Jewish community in London -- hits US theaters in April.



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    January 14, 2018
    Chelsea Manning Eyes US Senate Seat For Maryland
    Manning was released in May from a US military prison in Kansas where she had been serving time for passing secrets to the WikiLeaks website in the biggest breach of classified data in the history of the United States.
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    WASHINGTON: Chelsea Manning, the transgender US Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the US Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.

    Manning, who was granted clemency by former US President Barack Obama, was released in May from a US military prison in Kansas where she had been serving time for passing secrets to the WikiLeaks website in the biggest breach of classified data in the history of the United States.

    Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

    Cardin was easily re-elected in 2012, beating his Republican challenger by 30 points in the heavily-Democratic state.

    COMMENTSManning had been working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. She was convicted by court-martial in 2013 of espionage and other offenses for furnishing more than 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, an international organization that publishes information from anonymous sources.

    She came out as transgendered shortly after her sentencing, but the military denied her request for hormone therapy treatment while behind bars. She was placed in solitary confinement after attempting suicide twice.
    © Thomson Reuters 2018



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    FEBRUARY 16, 2018
    Transgender Woman Successfully Breastfeeds Baby In World First
    First ever case of a transgender woman successfully breastfeeding her baby.
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    In a breakthrough, US doctors have reported the first ever case of a transgender woman successfully breastfeeding her baby.

    According to the doctors at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the 30-year-old transgender woman underwent a three and half months of a regimen of domperidone, estradiol, progesterone, and breast pumping.

    As a result, she was able to achieve sufficient breast milk volume to be the sole source of nourishment for her child for six weeks.

    The case, published in the journal Transgender Health, illustrates that in some circumstances, modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women.

    "We believe that this is the first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman," said Tamar Reisman, endocrinologist and Assistant Professor at the varsity.

    The woman explained that her partner was pregnant but not interested in breastfeeding and that she hoped to take on the role of being the primary food source for her infant.

    She had been receiving feminising hormone therapy for the past six years as well as was being treated for insomnia and anxiety, but otherwise appeared to be a "pleasant, well-nourished, well-developed woman", Reisman said.

    However, the patient had not undergone any gender reassignment surgeries, breast augmentation or vaginoplasty.

    The study showed that the patient underwent a treatment with the female hormones progesterone and estradiol, stimulating her chest with a breast milk pump, and intake of domperidone -- a nausea medication known to increase milk production and suppress testosterone for three and half months.

    A month later, the patient began producing "droplets" of milk, and post three months, she produced about eight ounces of milk per day, Reisman said.

    After the birth of the baby, weighing 6lbs 13oz, the patient breastfed exclusively for six weeks, during which the baby's paediatrician commented that "the child's growth, feeding, and bowel habits were developmentally appropriate."

    Later, the patient began supplementing breastfeedings with 4-8oz of Similac brand formula daily due to concerns about insufficient milk volume, Reisman said.
    Can it be good for the baby to get all of the heavy doses of those hormones through the milk? Not the natural hormones produced by a lactating mother?


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    April 4, 2018
    Here's A Lesson For The Kerala Professor Who Said Transgenders Are Born to Women Who Wear Jeans
    Mind doing some research, sir?
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    In the recent times, we have come across several statements that Indian men have said about women. Apparently, "eating chowmein leads to rape," "rape by two men is not gangrape", "boys will be boys… they commit mistakes"-- the list is long. Latest to be added to the list of stupid and senseless statements, is from a professor from Kerala who reportedly said that women who wear jeans and act like men give birth to transgenders.

    Please take a moment to let the weirdest statement of our times sink in.

    During a counseling session held in Kasargod, this apparent "educated" professor Rajith Kumar, who has been conducting "health awareness" classes for several years now, said:
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    Well, the man did not stop giving "gyaan" on the "un"scientific reason for the birth of trans but went a step ahead to teach about how autistic kids are born.
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    This might come as a shock to Mr. Kumar, but it is our duty to let him know that "acting like men" or "wearing jeans" has nothing to do with the reproduction system of a woman. The child, whether a girl, boy or a transgender is born irrespective of the "dressing choice" of the mother.

    Though science has still not come clear on why people are born transgenders but such people are those who do not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. For instance, a person who is assigned ‘male’ at birth by doctors, but grows up to identify as a girl/woman, is a transgender woman, or a trans woman.

    As far as autism goes, Scientists suspect that a faulty gene or genes might make a person more likely to develop autism while there are also other factors present, such as a chemical imbalance, viruses or chemicals, or a lack of oxygen at birth. There's no mention being a 'rebel' that cause autism.

    Raising concern over such irresponsible remarks, Kerala minister of health and social justice KK Shailaja released a press note stating that Professor Kumar has been barred from participating in government programmes. "We are mulling legal action against him for making such derogatory comments," Deccan Chronicle quoted the minister saying.

    In his defense, professor Kumar shared a video on his Facebook page saying his only intention was to "save children from leading life in wrong ways."
    Kerala, considered as the most educated state in India, has been experiencing backlash over the rising instances of sexism against women. Recently, another Kerala professor said "women in his college were not wearing the hijab properly and deliberately exposing their chests like “sliced watermelon.”



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