Read more transgender stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4828/transgender.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74474/pre-lady-gaga-wowed-nyu.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBefore she was an over-the-top star dogged by rumors that she's intersex, Lady Gaga was babelicious Stefani Germanotta, a New York University student with a killer voice who wowed her classmates at a 2005 talent show. Gaga strutted her new stuff for fictional students of her near-alma-mater (she never graduated...http://www.newser.com/story/74474/pre-lady-gaga-wowed-nyu.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 2:40:54 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72975/chaz-bono-very-happy-after-sex-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChaz—formerly Chastity—Bono is enjoying the payoff of years of effort: He’s finally a man. Born the daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono, Chaz says his female-to-male sex change was the “end of a long process going back almost a decade. I got clean and sober in 2004 and...http://www.newser.com/story/72975/chaz-bono-very-happy-after-sex-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 16:28:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67638/gay-toughs-bash-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMany gays are damn mad and they're not going to take it anymore. Now Bash Back!—formed just over a year ago—is boosting gay, transgender and sex worker protest to a freshly provocative level, reports Details. The group, with some 15 chapters nationwide, has forged its reputation with in-your-face...http://www.newser.com/story/67638/gay-toughs-bash-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 1:49:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67323/judging-gender-trickier-than-you-think.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter her big win yesterday in a world track meet, South Africa's Caster Semenya has to undergo a gender test to prove that she is, in fact, a woman. This is way more complicated than it sounds, writes Melonyce McAfee in a Slate Explainer column updated from a similar case...http://www.newser.com/story/67323/judging-gender-trickier-than-you-think.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Aug 2009 5:25:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59226/transsexuals-dazzle-in-thai-pageant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhile Americans took a breather from Miss California beauty pageant drama, Thailand held its 12th annual Miss Tiffany Universe contest today, featuring only transsexuals or transvestites, Huffington Post reports. The contest seeks to advance human rights causes for the country’s transgender population, whose “third gender” status is classified in Thai...http://www.newser.com/story/59226/transsexuals-dazzle-in-thai-pageant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 16 May 2009 17:17:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/42937/banks-will-pay-for-top-model-contestants-sex-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTyra Banks shocked a former America's Next Top Model contestant by offering to pay for her sex change, the New York Daily News reports. Transgendered Isis King, booted off the show for flunking a poolside photo shoot, was stunned when Banks said a doctor will operate pro bono. "This is...http://www.newser.com/story/42937/banks-will-pay-for-top-model-contestants-sex-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 17 Nov 2008 19:27:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42605/oregon-man-pregnant-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag“Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie has another bun in the oven, just four months after the transgender male gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Though he’s legally a male, Beatie kept his natural female sex organs and has stayed off testosterone pills since the birth so that he could have...http://www.newser.com/story/42605/oregon-man-pregnant-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Nov 2008 12:37:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42121/oretown-elects-first-transgender-mayor-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA small town in Oregon has elected the nation’s first transgender mayor, reports News Channel 8 (Portland). “I identify mostly as a heterosexual male,” said Stu Rasmussen, who has breast implants and is partial to skirts and high heels. “I just like to look like a female.” Rasmussen has been...http://www.newser.com/story/42121/oretown-elects-first-transgender-mayor-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 08 Nov 2008 13:36:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40063/allowing-children-to-choose-gender-is-slippery-slope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor parents raising boys who profess to be girls and vice versa, puberty blockers may seem a godsend, writes Hanna Rosin in a look at gender—and transgender children—in the Atlantic . Boys will emerge from their teens with no Adam's apple, girls will bypass menstruation, allowing them to live...http://www.newser.com/story/40063/allowing-children-to-choose-gender-is-slippery-slope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Oct 2008 19:43:13 CDT