• Friday, November 13, 2009 - 11:55am By Tim McElreavy
    In 2007, Thierry Ravisé-Giard, a 15-year veteran of the French Air Force, changed gender to become Delphine Ravisé-Giard. Her new identity was accepted by her colleagues and even the military command without issue or incident. For two...
  • Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 2:02pm By Tim McElreavy
    The first 'transversal' style magazine has been launched by Madrid-based fashion editor and Fanzine 137 publisher Luis Venegas. Titled Candy, the magazine is dedicated "to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny,...
  • Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 5:04pm By Tim McElreavy
    The 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...
  • Friday, September 11, 2009 - 11:32am By Tim McElreavy
    Iran has the reputation for being one of the most restrictive cultures in the world when it comes to sex and morality; however, the stage has been set for what may be the Islamic nation's first legally sanctioned transgender marriage. A woman named...
  • Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 11:20am By Tim McElreavy
    It is no secret that some men will go to great lengths to avoid compulsory military service. The fine art of draft dodging has taken many forms from sudden homosexuality to self-induced medical afflictions to simple flight. But how many men would...
  • Monday, August 10, 2009 - 3:07pm By Perv Panel
    I’m a 26-year-old straight man, and after a long and sometimes difficult period of reflection as well as a lot of counseling, I’ve decided to begin transitioning to become a woman.  This is absolutely the right thing for me. I am...
  • Monday, August 10, 2009 - 11:19am By Tim McElreavy
    An entire subculture of 'eunuchs' exists at the margins of Pakistani communities. Here, the term 'eunuch' refers collectively to the transgendered, the transsexual, and the intersexed or hermaphrodites (those born with both male and female sex...
  • Monday, July 13, 2009 - 4:38pm By Lauren Wissot
    What thrilled me most about the documentary Unraveling Michelle, which follows the ups, downs and in-betweens of MTF transsexual Michelle Ann Farrell as she transitions into her new life as a physically female being, has nothing to do with gender...
  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 5:30am By Richard Wagner Ph.D.
    Hey sex fans, And now for something completely different.  Ya’ll know how through this Sex EDGE-U-cation podcast series, we’ve been looking at the world of fetish sex, kink and alternative sexual lifestyles, right?  And how we...
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 5:01pm By Chris Hall
    Sinclair Sexsmith, one of our favorite contributors to CarnalNation, yesterday launched his Top Hot Butches project, which lists "the 100 hottest butch, masculine, androgynous, genderqueer, transmasculine, studs, AGs, dykes, queers, and...
  • Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 6:00am By Sherilyn Connelly
    From the moment they met, my mother adored my new girlfriend Maddy. It didn't take long for Maddy to be granted my ex-girlfriend Kim's mantle of "daughter my mother never had." My mother had me, of course, but I'm a male-to-female...
  • Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 11:20am By Chris Hall
    London's largest group for trans and genderqueer people, TransLondon, has issued a press release stating that they will boycott this year's London Pride parade because of what they see as disregard for trans rights and forcing "negative media...
  • Friday, May 15, 2009 - 10:21am By Charles Moser and Janet Hardy
    She was the best-looking woman at the nightclub… until I got her home. Then it turned out she wasn’t a woman at all. Before we start explaining some good ways for you to handle this, let’s talk about some bad ways. Questioning...