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Tranny civil servant wins privacy case

[Published: Sunday 10, June 2007 - 13:12]

By Stephen Gordon

A FRIGHTENED gender change civil servant - who believed publicity would lead to her being physically attacked - has won a landmark case to protect her identity.

The male to female transsexual has won the right to have her name removed from the Office of Industrial Tribunals’ register.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled that the Industrial Tribunals was WRONG to say it did not have the power to delete her name from its register.

The woman, an official in the Department of Agriculture, first lodged a complaint against her employers in 2002 claiming she’s been the victim of less favourable treatment because of her sexuality. Her concerns for privacy were raised when it first came before a tribunal in October 2004.

In March 2005, when the case resumed, she made it clear she was not prepared to proceed with her claim without protection from publicity as she feared that it could lead to intimidation and attacks on her and her home.

Her lawyer asked for an order restricting media reporting of the case and for an order deleting her details from the public register.

The tribunal dismissed her applications on April 21, 2005.

When she was refused an adjournment she left the court and the case continued in her absence.

But the decision of the tribunal to continue without her was later quashed at a judicial review and a fresh hearing was ordered.

The Equality Commission then wrote to the President of the Industrial Tribunals asking that the decision of April 21, 2005 be anonymized and deleted from the register.

But the Industrial Tribunals replied there was no provision in the rules to delete names from its register.

At the Court of Appeals, Lord Justice Campbell said: “Given their literal meaning and read in isolation, the regulations and rules do not give an industrial tribunal or chairman the power to order that an entry in the register be deleted.”

But he said obligations under Europe’s Equal Treatment Directive could not be met by the tribunal if there was evidence the appellant was unable to proceed with an equality case because of the risk to her safety.

Lord Justice Campbell said rule 59 of the Industrial Tribunals regulations, which gives a tribunal chairman wide discretionary powers, could be read ” without any distortion” so as to permit a tribunal to omit from the register any material likely to lead to identification of the claimant by any member of public.

TRANNIES ARE OUT?! I should say that transvestites in this part of the world is not as fortunate as their counterparts in more accepting societies.

MAHARAJGANJ, India (Reuters) - To earn a living, Kiran dresses up in women’s clothes, dances at wedding parties in the Indian countryside and tries not to struggle when he is raped at knife point by drunken male wedding guests.

The pay, he says, is pretty good.

He is one of thousands of launda dancers working the wedding scene in the villages of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh states, leading the groom’s raucous marching-band procession to the bride’s house.

They put up with routine violence because, they say, it is the only way they are free to live as “kothis”, a South Asian term for effeminate and transsexual gay men.

Most dancers soon get used to being bitten, burnt with cigarettes and cut with knives and broken bottles. In one common “party trick”, a wedding guest will hide a razor blade in his fingers and then bloodily caress the dancer’s cheek.

And while most laundas make extra money selling sex, too often they end up brutalized. Most know of dancers who were shot dead or strangled for resisting sex with gangs of men from the wedding in nearby buildings or fields.

“They like to have sex with pain. They like to give us pain. They take pleasure in this violence,” said 20-year-old Kiran, who declined to give his full name, as he plucked stubble from his cheeks with tweezers, readying for work.

Bappa, an older launda, said one of his worst days at work was when a drunk man took a knife in a boast of virility and slit Bappa’s anus open wide before raping him.

But another launda, Bobby said, that their current neighborhood — Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj district — was relatively safe, and argued the freedom granted by the job outweighed the violence.

“All our desires are fulfilled,” he said, dressed in a canary-yellow salwar kameez over a padded bra, his long hair dyed auburn. “Most importantly, our desire to live like women, to cook for our boyfriends, to adorn ourselves, have our own households.”

After Bobby went to shampoo his hair under the handpump outside, Kiran made the point more bluntly.

“I have come here for two specific reasons,” he said, grinning. “One: to dress up as a woman and live like them. Two: sex, sex, and sex.”

RAPED FROM CHILDHOOD

For poor, lower-caste families wanting a grand wedding for their children, boys in drag were once a cheap substitute for dancing girls. Laundas have since become a regional tradition.

After the marriage ceremony they dance through the night, often until dawn.

A relatively honest bandmaster typically pays a dancer 3,000 to 6,000 rupees ($75 to $150) a month, a little above the average income in India.

Like most laundas dancing in the countryside, Bappa is from the metropolis of Kolkata. His career path was typical.

From a young age he didn’t fit in with other boys, and bullies forced him out of school. They liked cricket. He preferred pictures of cricket players and dolls.

Laughing, he mimes how he would drape his head with a towel to pretend he had long hair.

When he was eight years old, his 25-year-old neighbor walked into his house, stripped him as he squirmed, and raped him.

It was the first of many such attacks by the neighbor who later got him into brothel work, where he learned about launda dancers. He figured it was the best chance for an outcast to make a living.

When at home in Kolkata, his family silently tolerates him so long as he wears men’s clothing, skips the makeup and keeps out of their way.

He hides his women’s gear with a vegetable seller at the nearby train station, where he gets changed in the ladies toilet. His parents are still trying to find him a bride.

“We once dreamed of having a respectable job,” said Kiran, “We wanted to become doctors, craftsmen or company executives. We dreamed of getting married, having kids of our own, going to the beach for holidays. But not anymore.”

SHUNNED

Few people care about launda dancers.

Charities and government projects tend to focus on girls and young women, mostly because they are trafficked and abused in far greater numbers, but also because they are seen as defenseless.

Even the men the laundas call their boyfriends — mostly married men perceived to be heterosexual — tend to shun them during daylight hours.

Added to that is the threat of disease. India has the world’s largest HIV caseload with an estimated 5.7 million sufferers and the dancers are a high-risk group. Bobby has a photo album featuring pictures of two launda friends who died from AIDS.

Kolkata-based People Like Us is one of the few organizations working with laundas to provide better healthcare and reduce the threat of violence.

But it says funding is hard to come by, partly because the line between victim and exploiter can quickly blur.

As they get older, laundas often bring younger kothis into the business. To some people, this is nothing less than pimping. But the laundas argue only they can teach these outcast teenagers how to survive a lifetime of abuse as transsexuals living in India.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSDEL23849120070612?sp=true

The search for a real identity could be a difficult road. Everyone goes through it ”while some may have been lost along the way” others find their ways to gain the freedom to be themselves.

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/6/27/lifefocus/18129054&sec\

A transsexual takes readers through a sex change operation that opened up a whole new world for her.

FOR the longest time of my life, I was always afraid of being found out for who I really am. Back in the 1970s, the status quo of gays and transsexuals was somehow linked to the notion of mental instability, and that was how I started to think I had an abnormality while I was growing up.

During my developmental years, I tried to escape the identity crisis that was haunting me but I could not let go of the duality in my life – male in outward appearance but a female inside. The answers that I got from the adults were usually very vague or the conclusion was always the same. They told me it was only a phase that would eventually pass, and I believed them.

But as the years passed, I remained the same, so I resorted to praying as faithfully as I could always asking the same question: Why am I this way? Denial became part of my ritual as I tried to fit into society. I almost gave up on myself.

Then another avenue opened up for me when I took on the job of a lecturer in a private establishment. I was among young people who were searching for their identity – very much like what I was doing when I was their age.

It was at this time that I began to understand that everyone goes through a series of identity crisis in the process of growing up. The only problem is, once we find out who we are, would we be able to accept ourselves without discrimination?

So as I spent my days nurturing the young, they gave me the insight that enabled me to embrace my true nature without reservations. The battle within was the hardest to fight but the courage I found from the people around me, and the books I read, inspired me to be the best that I can be.

After struggling for a few more years and trying to block everything out, I finally came full circle and realized there was no running away from myself.

By 2002 I was tired of scampering around and beguiling myself with false pretensions. Once and for all I decided to take the first step to set my life straight with corrective surgery. I started by calling up the NGOs, hoping for guidance, but I hit another low point in my life when they said they couldn’t help me.

Fortunately, the internet helped me locate a hospital (aesthetic institute, as it is called) in a neighbouring country. After spending half my life in abnegation, I was now prepared to make a final commitment.

My previous sessions with a local psychiatrist and a gynaecologist helped me in acquiring proper documentation for the gender reassignment surgery. I did more research on the surgeon and wrote to his past patients to get a better understanding of what to expect. His reputation surpassed all others, and he was highly recommended and respected in the medical field.

When I arrived at his office, the surgeon gave me a little introduction to the procedure, complete with pictures. I felt weak at the knees just looking at the pictures, but he was brief and thorough. Technicalities aside, the surgery basically involves a penile skin inversion technique to create a labia major and minor, a clitoris and a neovagina. The entire surgery would take about three to four hours.

Breast augmentation could be done under two hours. The preferred implant is the silicone shell with either silicone gel or saline filling. Since I was not exactly in the pink of health, I opted to have both surgery in two sessions, with a six-month break in between.

The most amazing thing about the surgery was the efficiency and professionalism of it all. I woke up feeling as though it was a dream. The only certainty was the bandage between my legs. All the years of worry and fear were suddenly over in a matter of hours.

The only pain that bothered me after the surgery was the sharp electrical spasm that stung like an insect bite. Other than that, I had to sit sideways for a few months until the swelling went down.

What was more important was the aftercare of douching (cleaning with Betadine solution) and dilating (to maintain the depth and width with a dilator) to keep the vagina from scar contracture. This post-operative care can take from a few months to years, depending on the patient’s recovery rate.

My worst experience of the surgery was the swollen stump at the opening of the shortened urethra that prevented me from passing urine. I was kept on the urinary catheter for a longer period than usual.

In the two weeks that I spent at the hospital, I met some wonderful people who were going through similar reconstructive surgery. Everyone of us shared the unspoken joy we had been bottling inside. For once in my life, I felt like I was not alone.

Although my second surgery was less complicated and took a shorter time, my arms ached terribly due to the incisions under the armpits.

My one-week stay this time wasn’t sufficient for me to recover. I took another two weeks to get back on my feet.

During the six-month break between the two surgeries, I took the time to confide in my family and friends about what I had gone through. This was also to prepare them for the transformation which I was anticipating.

In truth, I couldn’t say that I was much of a man to begin with because emotionally I had never felt that way about myself. It would be misleading to claim my physicality for the sake of categorization.

Every parent is afraid of what his children might turn out to be. But if children are not given a chance to be who they really are, they may have a hard and bitter life ahead.

Ironically, just as I found my true identity, the law in Malaysia refuses to accept it. So for what it’s worth, with or without legal recognition, I am still glad that I have become the woman that I am.

What a better way of recognizing a person who truly deserved to be honored regardless of gender. It’s heartwarming to know that equality exists.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/8199157.html

Transgendered, she fought bias. Woman honored for her courage
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
Inquirer Staff Writer
A University City resident is one of four sexual minorities awarded a $10,000 “courage grant” from the Colin Higgins Foundation.
Kiya Morton, 20, a transgender person who was born male, was honored Monday night at an awards ceremony in New York.

“This is really a big help,” Morton said yesterday. “It’s going to help me go back to school.”

Morton said she had been studying photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia but had to withdraw because of money. She has since been working temporary jobs.

The Colin Higgins Foundation was founded in 1986 by the director and screenwriter to support gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Higgins, who died two years later of AIDS, was known for such films as Harold and Maude and Nine to Five.

This is the eighth year the foundation has selected several young people for its “Youth Courage Award” for “building bridges between disparate communities, showing courage in the face of tremendous obstacles and transforming the world of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] advocacy.”

“It’s nice to know that somebody appreciates all the times I’ve been strong in uncomfortable, awkward situations,” Morton said.

Born in North Philadelphia to Latino and African American parents, Morton said the abuse she experienced as a child because of her sexual orientation led to her leaving home and living on the streets as a prostitute.

Arrested three times as a juvenile for prostitution, Morton said she was placed in juvenile detention, where other youths “really put me through the ringer.”

Morton said probation required her to see social workers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. It was those social workers, she said, who ultimately nominated her to the Colin Higgins Foundation for the courage award.

The other winners of this year’s awards are Ali Abbas, 19, of Chicago, the son of Lebanese Muslims, who works to bring understanding between Muslims and sexual minorities; Raquel Evita Sarawati, 23, Boston, a lesbian and a Syrian Muslim who also wants to change Muslim attitudes toward lesbians and gays; and Ryan Bowker, 20, Rapid City, S.D., an American Indian who grew up gay on a reservation and wants to “recover Native traditions of respect and equal treatment” of sexual minorities.

In addition to the $10,000 grants, each will get expense-paid trips to the national Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s “Creating Change” conference next year in Detroit.

There is so much to be done in terms of gender equality in other parts of the world. While Western countries continue to embrace the transgender group, other countries in the East like Taiwan still consider it a taboo.

http://rebeccaaugephd.blogspot.com/2007/06/being-transgender-in-taiwan.html

Being transgender is tough, but being transgender in Taiwan, where I am, is even harder. Taiwan has a culture which gives little room for self-expression or even self-respect more so when it comes to transgender people.

Taiwan is not really Chinese, though it does share a lot of the cultural mores of China. Some of these include a very strong sense of the division between male and female, and a very different type of moral system than we usually see in the West.

In the US, a person is worth something regardless of their relationship to you. Even if you don’t know someone, you owe them respect as a person. Of course, people don’t always accomplish this, but this is the ideal. In Taiwan, though, the ideal is quite different. In Taiwan, the degree of respect you owe to a person is almost entirely dependent upon the person’s relationship to you. If they’re your grandfather, you owe them more respect than just about anyone else. If they’re a friend, you owe them an entirely different kind of respect, and a different amount. If they’re someone you don’t know, you don’t owe them respect at all, at least not necessarily.

I’m always amused by government ads in Taiwan which try to promote such things as traffic laws or obeying building codes. They often try to show people that doing so will benefit others, and they take pains to demonstrate that doing so will benefit our own selves. However, the proof always seems strained. Taiwanese people in general do not feel a need to take strangers into consideration, so much so that I sometimes wonder if they understand other people as people at all.

Another example which comes to mind is the simple example of walking on the sidewalk. Due to the vast amounts of motorscooters, streetside vendors and poorly constructed buildings, the sidewalks are severely limited in size – often only a foot or two wide, even on major streets. To make matters worse, Taiwanese people walking on the sidewalk simply do not take other pedestrians into mind while walking. They meander, hold bags across the entire sidewalk, hold hands and walk abreast with their whole family even when the sidewalk is narrow. This kind of behavior in New York, for example, would result in either being forced out of the way or a fight or something worse. However, Taiwanese people take this as normal, part of their culture, and accept it.

In the West, training oneself not to care about others is a pragmatic necessity, but it is not an ideal in any way, at least not in my experience. If you say, “Group X is the object of violence, but they always will be because they are inherently weird and different from the rest of us,” people will label you Machiavellian. This kind of thinking goes on all the time, of course, and is necessary in a world with limited resources and limited time to think about others. However, this kind of thinking is not idealized in the West.

In Taiwan, though, this kind of thinking is the cultural norm. To put someone off to the side of one’s thinking because they are not closely related – in order to pay more attention to the closest relations in one’s life – is the Confucian ideal. Though many Taiwanese people would say that Confucius was a humorless blowhard, they are in fact laboring under his laws and even supporting them.

One of the best examples of how people are pushed off to the side is with regard to transgender folks. There is a common myth in the West that Asia is a land of mystery where transgendered people are accepted far more than they are in the West. Many people in the US, for example, seem to imagine some sort of enlightened Shangri-La where transgendered people are seen through enlightened eyes. This is far, far from the truth, though.

Transgender people in Taiwan are accepted in one small way: when they keep to their socially-prescribed niche, and do not try to break out of it in any way – in other words, when they allow themselves to be the objects of disrespect from the culture at large. They are allowed to be club performers or hostesses, but if they try to gain true acceptance or equality, the society at large quickly labels them as freaks and walks away.

Of course, this is not purely a problem experienced by Taiwanese people. Handicapped people, non-Chinese citizens (did you even know there are aborigines in Taiwan?), gay and lesbian folks, women – there are so many groups in Taiwan who are so far from enjoying any kind of equality.

But the kind of oppression experienced by transgender people is so strong, so massive, it’s hard to even express it. In Taiwan, it is of course completely legal to fire someone for being transgender or being gay. There is still a long,long, long way to go for transgenders fighting for respect in Taiwan.

Everyone should be given a fair chance to be part of any democratic process regardless of gender orientation.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2143

I don’t know what to do with my feelings of sorrow and anger at reading The Advocate’s story “Transgender firefighter decides to opt out of Obama dinner”.
Jennifer Lasko was one of the four small contributors that Barack Obama’s campaign selected to have a private dinner with the presidential candidate. Ms. Lasko had given $25 to the Obama campaign with a written an essay about being a firefighter, a Republican-turned-Democrat, and an Army veteran. What she hadn’t included in her essay was that she was transgender — the Palm Beach Post outed her after the Obama campaign released the names and essays of the selected small contributors.

Now, Jennifer Lasko has withdrawn from the dinner.

“I’m just a citizen who wants to discuss issues. I was foolish to think I could keep [being transgender] under wraps,” she said in the article. “There are a lot of close-minded people who’ll make an issue of this.”
Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the article that the Illinois senator would “love for her to attend the dinner,” which is set up as meeting ground to discuss changes needed in the United States.

I’m with Jen Psaki — I wish she hadn’t withdrawn. I admire that Jennifer Lasko put her concern for others before her own and wants to be part of the political dialog, and it saddens me that she withdrew after being outed. Outing people just sucks.
But her withdrawal also angers me — Jennifer Lasko’s reaction to the outing sounds to me too much like internalized transphobia.

I want to scream at Jennifer that transgender people are allowed to be part of America’s political process. Her withdrawal says something more than just about herself as a transwoman who appreciates that some will find her presence offensive — what her withdrawal also says is that my transgender peers and I have something to be ashamed of.

I have nothing to be ashamed of; neither does Jennifer Lasko. I wish she’d have sent that message to my transgender peers and me — as well as to the rest of her’s and my country.

Wow! This one’s a keeper! Our tranny heroine couldn’t stand being with guys anymore and unleashes her fury on the poor little blonde bitch! What a sight! Go, tranny, go and fuck the bejeezus out of her!

Watch this nasty blonde bitch fuck the life out of his boytoy. The bitch is bad, bad, bad and as sleazy and horny as a tranny can get!

TRANNIES ARE IN! I’ve been checking out some interesting facts about trannies and news search brought me to the following interesting results.

HERE

First sex-swap mayor is sworn in.

A female councilor who was born a man has been sworn in as the UK’s first transgender mayor.

Liberal Democrat Jenny Bailey, 45, who underwent a sex change operation when she was in her 30s, will become the civic leader of Cambridge City Council.

Ms Bailey’s mayoress is her partner, former councilor Jennifer Liddle, who also underwent a sex change.

Ms Bailey said she was honoured that her fellow councillors has chosen her to be mayor of Cambridge.

Great ambassador

Ms Bailey, who was once married and has two children aged 20 and 18, said, “I think when we started this we didn’t have any anxiety at all.”

“We thought, ‘we’re transgender, but this is the 20th century, this is Cambridge, this is not an issue any more’ - lots of people have known about us as being transgenders.

“I entered local politics because I believe in public service and because I wanted to make a contribution to the wonderful city we live in.”

Council Chief Executive Rob Hammond said, “I’m confident Ms Bailey will be a great ambassador for Cambridge.”

“It is the council’s firm view that someone’s gender and sexual orientation has no bearing on their suitability to hold public office.”

A spokesman for the Local Government Association said Ms Bailey will be the first transgender mayor in the UK.

HERE

July 2, 2007
Hate-crime trial has a weird twist
A teenager is accused of attacking a transsexual he had sex with.
BY KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
The Palm Beach Post

The two strangers met outside a bar on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach.

One was a 17-year-old high school student out with a friend. The other was an attractive 39-year-old from Ohio in capri pants and a silky spaghetti-strap top.

The teen says that the woman got into their car, and performed oral sex on him in the back seat while his friend drove. They ended up near a lifeguard tower on the island of Palm Beach after midnight. According to the 17-year-old, the woman was on top of him when he saw something he didn’t expect under her bikini bottom.

Just as they were about to have sex, he says, he saw the woman was actually a pre-operative transsexual. She already had breast implants, but her other surgery is not scheduled until later this year.

She denies any sexual activity with the teen and has a different story.

TRANSSEXUAL BEATEN

But a witness saw what happened next: the teen shouted for help, dragged her through the sand, beat her head against the lifeguard stand and punched out her front teeth.

The teen goes on trial this week in juvenile court, facing a first-degree felony hate-crime charge that may be without precedent in Palm Beach County.

Assistant State Attorney Renelda Mack, chief of the civil rights unit, said she does not remember another hate-crime case here with a transsexual victim.

The teen, now 18 and attending summer school, has been under house arrest since the beating in the early morning of July 29, 2006. A juvenile judge will decide if he is guilty and what punishment he will face, if any.

The teen’s attorney, John Brewer, will argue self-defense. Brewer said the 39-year-old threatened to kill him and his family if he told anyone what happened.

A mechanic from Lake Worth was on the beach that night with friends. He said in a deposition that he was sitting on top of the lifeguard tower when the teen, wearing only boxer shorts, came up and asked for help.

The kid, who looked no older than 18, ”was hysterical, freaking out, crying, upset,” the witness said.

“He said he picked up a girl, he thought it was a girl — turns out it was a guy.”

The man had tried to rape him, the teen told the mechanic.

TOLD TO GO HOME

The witness said he suggested that the boy go home and not tell anyone. But about half an hour later, the kid returned, he said, dragging what looked to be a topless man down the beach by the hand. He screamed that he was going to kill him and slammed the person’s head against the lifeguard stand, the witness said.

The witness then jumped off the tower and headed for the boardwalk. The kid came back again, he said, saying he thought he had killed someone and was going to jail. Palm Beach police arrived then, the witness said.

They found the victim covered in blood.

The teen’s father says he is appalled by what happened and can’t believe that the state has not filed charges against the 39-year-old for sex with a minor. Florida law makes it a second-degree felony for a person 24 or older to engage in any sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old.

”I want to know how a 39-year-old man, disguised as a woman, was able to pick up a 17-year-old,” the father said.

But the transsexual, now 40, gives a different version of events.

HAD BEEN DRINKING

She said in her deposition that she had several drinks over the course of the evening and agreed to go to a party with the two young men because she needed to sober up before driving home. She figured they were in their early 20s.

The teen came onto her aggressively, kissing her, touching her breasts and putting her face in his lap. She said she told him that she was a transsexual and denies that there was any sexual activity.

The only witness to what happened before the beating, the 17-year-old’s friend, was in his own juvenile trouble and violated a court order by going out that night, Brewer said.

The friend has his own lawyer, Brewer said, and isn’t talking.

Florida law says that a crime is ”aggravated by prejudice” when a perpetrator intentionally selects a victim because of a characteristic like race, religion or ethnicity.