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	<title>Transgender Egypt</title>
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	<description>A Site dedicated to support Transsexuals &#38; Intersexuals in the Arab &#38; Islamic World</description>
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		<title>CM appeals to PM to enumerate transgenders in census 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi has urged prime minister Manmohan Singh to ensure that the transgender community is also enumerated in the Census 2011.
Describing the massive exercise as a milestone since the first ever National Population Registry was going to be prepared, Karunanidhi, in a letter to the prime minister on Saturday, sought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Transsexualism no longer a disorder in France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[France has become the first country in the world to remove transsexualism from its list of recognised mental illnesses.
The decision was announced by France’s Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot, on the eve of last year’s International Day Against Homophobia, but did not come into effect until last month.
Bachelot made the announcement parallel to the launch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Petition to the International Olympic Committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We, the undersigned, support the members of the Organisation Intersex International, in their demands that:

 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reject demands that female athletes with intersex variations have their variations diagnosed and treated.


 The IOC allow the above mentioned athletes, known as intersex women, to compete as females without having to undergo diagnosis or  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Iranian transgenders reclassified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran’s military will no longer classify transgender people as &#8220;mentally disturbed,&#8221; said Hasan Mousavi Chelk, who heads the Socially Vulnerable Groups section of the State Agency for National Well-Being.
Chelk said Jan. 6 that putting such a determination on transgender people’s military discharge papers creates problems for them.
From now on, transgender people being separated from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Report of fertility in a woman with a predominantly 46,XY karyotype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dumic M, Lin-Su K, Leibel NI, Ciglar S, Vinci G, Lasan R, Nimkarn S, Wilson JD, McElreavey K, New MI.
Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia 41000.
Erratum in: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Mar;93(3):1083.
CONTEXT: We report herein a remarkable family in which the mother of a woman with 46,XY complete gonadal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=82</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Guardian Angel&#8221; of Gulf Transsexuals: Suad Hamada interviews Bahraini lawyer FAWZIYA JANAHI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MANAMA, Oct 31, 2009 (IPS) - Transsexuals in the Gulf call Bahraini lawyer Fawziya Janahi &#8220;guardian angel&#8221;. She is the Arab world&#8217;s only female lawyer who takes up cases on behalf of clients who want to change their sex.
Janahi&#8217;s clients want legal permission to undergo sex change operations. While the law is quite straightforward on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=59</link>
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		<title>The end classification of transsexualism as ‘illness’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A campaign that aims to end the classification of transsexuals as individuals who suffer an ‘illness’ as well as educating the general population that sexual diversity not limited to the male and female genre was launched in Lisbon this week. Identical events were held simultaneously in 38 cities in Europe, Latin America, the USA and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>GAZA: Palestinian girl undergoes a sex-change operation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For fifteen years, Fatima Abed Rabbo lived as a girl in Jabalya, Gaza. She wore girl&#8217;s clothing, and went to an all-girl&#8217;s school.
But shortly after turning 12, Fatima, now renamed Odai, recalls undergoing changes.
&#8220;I was normal. I used to be a girl and my name was Fatima. Before my father found out and the doctors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Association between polycystic ovary syndrome and female-to-male transsexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baba T, Endo T, Honnma H, Kitajima Y, Hayashi T, Ikeda H, Masumori N, Kamiya H, Moriwaka O, Saito T.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. tbaba@sapmed.ac.jp
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), altered hormonal characteristics and insulin resistance in female-to-male (FTM) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>A sex difference in the hypothalamic uncinate nucleus: relationship to gender identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garcia-Falgueras A, Swaab DF.
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Transsexuality is an individual&#8217;s unshakable conviction of belonging to the opposite sex, resulting in a request for sex-reassignment surgery. We have shown previously that the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) is female in size and neuron number in male-to-female transsexual people. In the present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tgegypt.com/?p=46</link>
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