Bulletin T-informa / Year II - 2009 - Issue 014

Human Rights Viola tions on Kenya’s Transgender Community.

INDICE
Article: Audrey Mbugua
Transgender Education and Advocay
Human rights have been defined as 'basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures allegedly have simply because they are people.Calling these guarantees "rights" suggests that they attach to particular individuals who can invoke them...

Analysis and research about trans legislation: Legal Compilation
This time we are going to include to our library a document of legal analysis made by Justus Eisfield. This document had a resume of main European and North American Laws related with transsexuality. This is a vital document for know as clear as possible current legislation and plan our demands...

Books: Transsexuality in Cuba
Castro Espín, Mariela, comp.
La Habana: Cenesex, 2009.
This is a book published by National Center of Sexual Education (Cenesex), in honor of Vilma Espín Guillois, because of be the main responsible of the multidisciplinary team dedicated to transsexual people, during twenty years...

Interviews: Thalía
Dominican transexual, coordinator of Trans Siempre Amigas, Transsa.
The document states my official name. In the Dominican Republic you can’t change it yet, but everybody knows me by that name, nobody knows my real name...

Action Alert: Perú: Demand Investigation into Attack on Travesti
On January 28th, 2009, a television news report showed an incident in which neighborhood watch patrols in the city of Tarapoto, Peru, chased and caught a travesti and her companion and then physically humiliated and insulted the...

Personalities: Jin Xing
Born August 13, 1967. She is a ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer and actress from the People's Republic of China, and owner of the contemporary dance company "Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre". She underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1996. Her left leg was paralyzed for a while after the surgery...

Arts: Pep Bonet’s photographs
It is difficult to show what people don’t want to see, and even more, to understand it and find beauty in it. We are faced with an overwhelming situation, it shouldn’t be just an exercise of commiseration...

History: Chronology of trans groups in Ecuador
To continue with the chronologies of formation of trans groups around the World, this time we present this brief outline made by the members of the Trans House of Ecuador...

Mailbox: Trans Bitácora:
In the show La Sexta, SLQH, on the 30th Day had mock of transsexual woman named her as a man, she had appear in a talk show in Antena 3, El Diario, and told she had a sex resigned surgery but she defined as a lesbian.
ITS: Director of the show La Sexta TV
As the Trans Secretariat of ILGA (Intersex, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Association) we support the protest made by the Transexual Association of Andalucía against the show La Sexta, broadcast last January 30th.

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T-informa Bulletin
Financed by Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersexuals International Associated (ILGA) and
The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( RFSL)
Director: Belissa Andía Pérez / Editor: Bethsabé Huamán / Designer: Vanessa Laura
Regional Collaboraters: LAC: Andrés Rivera / Europe: Justus Eisfeld / ANZAPI: Joey Mataele / USA: Aidan Dunn


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