Transgender allowed to marry in Cuba

[jakejd]

Cuba more progressive than the US , though most developed contries are I suppose . Nice story , here at bbc news .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14514240

[NatashaLover]

Thanks for posting this story. I like reading these and keep myself informed of this kind of events.

[Nikka]

comunists and the new Russia is going to invade us

[jakejd]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_926280.html

Nice update on the happy day-seems so normal . I always got a kick out of the ad's for Manhattam Storage , they had one that summed it up .

[Richctdude]

great ad!!!

[Jackal]

I really hope the persecution and violence can end in Cuba. LGBT individuals and their families have gone through hell under Castro's regime.

[peggygee]

Cuba, in the latest change since President Raul Castro took office in February, has allowed doctors to perform sex change operations, a specialist at the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) said on June 26 2008. Center director Mariela Castro, the president's daughter, has pushed for the operations and said that at least 28 people in the country of 11 million want the surgery.

The specialist, who asked not to be named, said the Public Health Ministry approved the surgery this week. Cuba's health care system will perform it free of charge. A sex change operation took place in Cuba in 1988. But there was so much opposition to it that the health ministry canceled the program, Mariela Castro said last month.

Resolution 126, which was signed Jun. 4 by Public Health Minister José Ramón Balaguer, establishes the creation of a centre that will provide integral health care for transsexuals. It will be the only institution in Cuba authorised to carry out gender reassignment therapy.

She said Cuban doctors were training with Belgian surgeons to prepare for the operations. It was not known when they would begin.Since succeeding his brother Fidel Castro as president, Raul Castro has opened up a national debate on issues facing Cuba and taken steps to modernize the state-run economy.

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[peggygee]

HAVANA (AFP) – The story of Cuba's first transsexual to undergo gender reassignment surgery is coming to the big screen in a documentary getting its premiere Wednesday on the Communist-ruled island, its director said.

"Mavi Sussel underwent (male-to-female) gender reassignment surgery in 1988 and the documentary is a journey inside this woman, and about the prejudices and problems she has faced, and the questioning of her womanliness," filmmaker Marilyn Solaya said, quoted on the official news agency AIN, ahead of the film's launch Thursday.

Solaya started her career as an actress in Cuba and appeared in the award-winning "Fresa y Chocolate" ("Strawberry and Chocolate").

The state's sexual education office (Cenesex), led by sexologist Mariela Castro, a daughter of President Raul Castro, has lobbied hard for issues such as transsexualism to be confronted head-on in Cuba.

In 2008 sex change operations were legalized in Cuba, 20 years after they were frozen following the operation on local trailblazer Mavi Sussel. They are now free and performed by Cuban experts trained by European specialists.

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