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Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:58am By Matthew LawrencePolice in South Africa got a lot more than they bargained for two weeks ago when they arrested notorious drug lord Fat Murphy. Johannesburg-based newspaper The Times reports today that a strap-on dildo fell off the man during a police search in...
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Friday, October 16, 2009 - 10:56am By Matthew LawrenceCyproterone Acetate, better known as Androcur, is an anti-androgen medication taken by both male and female intersex individuals. A change in Australian health care policy, though, means that intersex people--those born with both male and...
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Monday, October 5, 2009 - 12:55pm By Chris HallThe recent controversy over Caster Semenya, the South African runner who was shown by tests to be intersex, inspired a lot of discussion over ethics in sports and definitions of gender. For Lolly Jackson, the owner of a South African strip club...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 3:37pm By Tim McElreavyThe sporting world is still reeling from the controversy over South African runner Caster Semenya, who after being subjected to invasive gender testing was discovered to be intersexed. Now the issue has come to the world of harness horse racing. In...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 5:04pm By Tim McElreavyThe Advocate reports that Oscar winner Nicole Kidman is set to star in The Danish Girl as the painter Einar Wegener who was the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery. The film, also produced by Kidman, is adapted from the bestselling...
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Monday, August 3, 2009 - 1:54pm By Chris HallFor 20 years, Rob Newbiggin has fought as a professional boxer. Nothing that he's done in the ring, though, has ever caused as much excitement among the public as his recent announcement that he's going to undergo sex reassignment surgery and...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 1:28pm By Margaret WadeThe first sex rituals were probably practiced by shamans as soon as humans figured out the connection between sex and babies. A shaman is a tribal diviner, medicine person, witch doctor or healer, an intermediary between humans and the spirit world...
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Monday, March 30, 2009 - 6:04pm By Tim McElreavyThe Daily Star of Lebanon reports that the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has selected Helem, a Beirut-based LGBTI organization, as the 2009 receipient for its prestigious Felipa de Souza Award in recognition of its...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 2:44pm By Chris HallSome in the tennis world are having problems with the gender of up-and-coming pro Sarah Gronert. Gronert isn't transsexual, but she was born intersexed—that is, with both male and female gentalia. At 19, she had surgery to have the male genitalia...
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