Malaysia's Muslim transsexuals battle sex change woes
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When Khartini Slamah first came out as a transsexual, he was a dutiful Muslim son by day and a prostitute by night, working on the streets of the Malaysian capital.
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As Turkey gets a former Islamist as president, writer Elif Shafak says women's bodies are a battleground for competing national ideas.
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Some people have been trying to eliminate their gay desires through therapy or religious ministries dedicated to that end.
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By Kathirasen  THERE'S something fishy going on in rivers and seas.  An increasing number of male fish are changing sex midway to become female. And they don't have to pay exorbitant sums of money to some surgeon somewhere to do it either.
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Malaysia's laws on homosexuality need to be amended, says former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, whose conviction and nine-year jail sentence for sodomy were recently overturned on appeal.
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After a tormented existence as a father, a husband, a Coast Guardsman, and a construction worker, a 57-year-old suburban Boston man underwent a sex-change operation. And then she wrote off the $25,000 in medical expenses on her taxes.
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A Pakistani judge Monday sentenced a married couple to three years&#39; jail for lying after it emerged that the husband was a transsexual.
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Discrimination is being blamed for high rates of mental health problems amongst gay men and lesbians.
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The case of a Muslim woman fined for wearing a veil has created a dispute involving politicians, civil rights groups and a fashion designer.
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It's not the sex they object to. It's the focus on straight males. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Troubled by enlarged male breasts, boys are turning to surgery. Waiting may be wiser.
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Dozens of transsexuals gathered in Nepal&#39;s capital Tuesday to push for official recognition as a minority ahead of crucial polls planned for November to decide the country&#39;s political future.
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A beach program for Australiaâs Muslims is challenging the perception of the blond, blue-eyed and sun-bronzed lifeguard.
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Thai surgeons will perform the world's  first live sex change operation on Friday in an attempt to  boost the country's booming cosmetic surgery industry.
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Across the Middle East, many people are forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence. In their frustration they turn to religion for solace.
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A Singaporean member of parliament on Monday read a petition against the country's ban on sex between men, the first time such a proposal has been presented in the city-state's parliament.
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An Argentine court says a 17-year-old male transsexual can have a sex change in a landmark ruling.