A 64-year-old Belgian man wants to have his marriage annulled after he discovered that his Indonesian wife of 19 years had been born a man and had later undergone a sex change. ...
12:40 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Boston: A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. US District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received hormone treatments and lives as a woman in an all-male prison. Robert Kosilek was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife...
08:42 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Director Larry Wachowski, of the Matrix trilogy fame, has apparently undergone a sex change operation and now calls herself Lana, according to media reports. Wachowski introduced her new persona in the trailer of his latest film 'Cloud Atlas'. "Hi, I'm Lana," Wachowski said in the video. The sex change comes after nearly a decade of hormone therapy, reported the AOL website. The Matrix trilogy with his brother Andy...
06:25 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Mumbai: Bidhan Barua, the youngster who feels he is a woman trapped in a man's body, has filed a complaint against a navy man accusing him of raping him on several occasions under false promise of marriage. According to sources within the police force, Bidhan approached the Colaba Police last week, and lodged a complaint against Commando Kunal Malik. Following which, the police have registered a non-cognisable complaint against Malik....
03:44 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Beijing: A 84-year-old Chinese man, who started to wear women's clothes and took hormones to enlarge his breasts four years ago, now wants to undergo sex change surgery at this ripe age. Qian Jinfan, who is married and has a son decided to disclose his secret four years ago, and gave himself the feminine name Yiling to realise his childhood dream to become a woman and concealed the secret until...
09:19 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Los Angeles: Superhero Batman's sidekick Robin is set for a sex change in two new animated movies as the crimefighting character will be voiced by a girl. 'Modern Family' star Ariel Winter will play Carrie Kelly, the brand new Robin in the two animated films, The Hollywood Reporter said. 'Robocop' star Peter Weller will take on the lead role of Batman/Bruce Wayne. 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns' actor Michael McKean,...
03:07 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: A 25-year-old man from Buldhana has been arrested by the Mumbai Cyber Crime cell for allegedly creating a fake profile on Facebook using a woman's name, and using it to first befriend, then harass a media professional in Mumbai. The victim, Kalpana (name changed), realised that the accused Shyam Gajanan Bahekar was actually a man and refused to speak with him. Shyam allegedly posted her name and number on...
02:42 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua to undergo a sex change surgery. Bidhan had approached the court after his family threatened him against the surgery. The 21-year old spoke to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on how difficult his battle has been. Following is an excerpt from Rajdeep Sardesai's interview with Bidhan Barua: Rajdeep Sardesai: Bidhan, you virtually went against your family for this...
08:06 AM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Guwahati based Barua had approached the Bombay High Court after his family threatened him when he was in Mumbai for his operation. This comes after the state and the centre government told the court they had no objection to such a procedure. Last month in the petition, Bhidan, who feels...
09:40 PM, May 07, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua from Assam to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Barua, who hails from Guwahati, had approached the Bombay high court after his family threatened him when he was in Mumbai for his operation. This comes just days after the Bombay High Court on last Thursday warned the youth against using pressure tactics and threatening to commit suicide...
07:06 PM, May 07, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday warned Bhidan Barua, a 21-year-old student from Guwahati who wants to undergo sex change operation, that he cannot use pressure tactics and threaten to commit suicide unless his petition was heard and orders passed immediately. The court summoned Bhidan's lawyer Ejaz Naqvi after the student wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and other authorities threatening to commit...
03:22 PM, May 03, 2012
London: Ruth Rose, a former Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and grandfather of four who used to be called James, will become the oldest person in Britain to have the procedure, a major newspaper reported. He dreamt of being a woman from the age of nine. But it is only now - nearly 70 years on and after a successful flying career - that he plans to go ahead to...
07:16 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Guwahati: A 21-year-old student from Guwahati who feels he is a woman trapped in man's body, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking to restrain his parents from interfering with his decision to undergo a sex change operation. Bidhan Barua, who likes to call himself Swati, has alleged that his parents had thwarted the sex reassignment surgery which was scheduled to be performed at Saifee hospital in Guwahati on April...
09:08 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Islamabad: A 17-year-old Pakistani girl, who had been very sick for the past few months and turned into a boy after a sex-change operation, is grateful to be healthy and alive now and said post-operation: "I don't care about whether I am a boy or a girl as long as I am alive." Farzana, who was critically ill, was taken to a hospital in Lahore from Rahim Yar Khan city...
04:32 PM, Jan 26, 2011
30-year-old Rose Venkatesan, the first transgender in India to become a television host. ...
07:25 AM, May 06, 2010
Being queer and living in Indian society is never easy. ...
03:25 PM, Oct 31, 2009
Karachi: Pakistan is keen to play at Mohali during their upcoming cricket tour to India for three ODIs and two T20 matches. An official source in the Board confirmed that while the BCCI had sent the itinerary for the tour, the PCB is yet to confirm the venues. There is no problem with the number of matches or dates but we would like to play one match at Mohali as ...
01:16 PM, Jun 15, 2008
Manchester: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has admitted that the jibes he received from England fans during the successive Ashes series defeats had dented his often fragile confidence. But as he prepared for another clash with the old enemy in the fifth and final one-day international at Old Trafford here on Tuesday, the erratic 30-year-old left-arm paceman insisted he no longer carried any mental scars. The taunts from the 'Barmy...
11:17 AM, Jun 07, 2008
Mirpur: India's vice captain Virat Kohli smashed a career-best 183 to power India virtually into the finals of the Asia Cup as he led the chase of a mammoth 330-run target to beat archrivals Pakistan by six wickets on Sunday. Sachin Tendulkar (52) and Rohit Sharma (68) were the other chief contributors of this must-win game that took India to second place in the points table, behind Pakistan who have...
07:44 PM, May 04, 2008
Lawrence Roach agreed to pay alimony to the woman he divorced, not the man she became after a sex change. ...
04:15 PM, Mar 28, 2007
