Designed and produced by Maria Friberg from Uniniku, Swedish factory of toys, the doll finally came for all kinds of unique genital organs and some secondary sexual characteristics (eg breast) can be easily added or raised by the doll, taking advantage of an attack the greyhound. As you can see in the picture such as a doll [...]
Sweden was the first country to include a specific legislation for health care for transgender people in the national health system, in 1971, with the hope of improving their quality of life. Despite the initial good intentions, a recently published study from the University of Gothenburg seems to show how this legislation has become a [...]
Transsexual and transgender people in their lives are forced to deal constantly discrimination, prejudice and violence, in addition to traumatic and stressful aspects that have characterized their life experience. Transphobic attitude widespread in Italian culture is exacerbated by a lack of adequate training and updating on sexuality and gender also [...]
A new study published recently in the Journal of Communication underlines how difficult it is to talk about safe sex in the transgender community. The study starts from an observation of Dr. Kosenko rather alarming: while in the U.S. population does not cross the percentage of incidence of HIV is less than 1%, in the trans community is as high as 60%. Based on [...]
We read with interest the news a little 'unusual on gender identity. A Canadian couple, parents of two children, have decided not to reveal to the world the biological sex of their third child, aged 4 months and named "Storm". The reproductive system, ensure it is applied: simply, the parents said they wanted to leave his son [...]
It was held in Rome on 13 and 14 May the second edition of the International Conference "I am, I skim it," at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University "La Sapienza" of identity intersex, trans, lesbian and gay people. The conference was entirely self-financed and organized by students, students, young psychologists. Also, thanks to significant efforts [...]
"'Homosexuality is a problem that must be eradicated at the first symptoms through psychotherapy sessions';' If psychotherapy is covered in early adolescence, when the question arises, is a problem that is resolved, '' Our family counseling addresses several times this issue and we can also'''. These, among others, the assertion of Bishop Rigon, [...]
Yesterday was presented to the general public, as they say, a new voluntary association called the Rainbow Parents Network and sharing the intent behind the scenes and having participated in the work of implementation, we could not dedicate a post to the event 's goal is to provide support to homosexual and transsexual parents with children [...]
No, we're not talking about people who use too much brain to have sex, but a new research on the brains of transsexuals. It is in these days the news that Spanish scientists have photographed significant differences in terms of four areas in the brains of transsexuals, through the technique of magnetic resonance imaging. You can see [...]
On October 9, 2008, during an episode of "The doctor live" broadcast by Radio Maria, Dr. Chiara Atzori, infectious disease specialist Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan answers the question from a listener on the possible consequences of the "legalization of 'homosexuality "claiming that the normalization of homosexuality would lead to negative effects, first of all the spread [...]
"THE" transgender Anna is gone or has gone to the grocery store? Wikipedia illustrates well the difference "academic" and "journalistic" between a woman and have a name to be biologically a woman (in which there is conjugation of the verb in the feminine) or have a name and being a transgender woman (so that changes the [...]
Some time ago on D of the Republic (12.12.2009) Maria Grazia Meda has published an interesting article about the writings of two French historians (Louis-Georges Tin and Christelle Taraud) sull'omosocialità. In essence, scholars have observed carefully other companies, occidentalissime very different from our finding that the object of social representation is not always the couple [...]
Thanks to Gabriel, who pointed me the error I was able to correct a typographical error in the e-book free of charge "Homosexuality, what is, what is not." On page 13 in fact, explaining the situation of MtF with heterosexual orientation, which was attracted to women. Which of course is not exact. The exact phrase is "*** MtF (male gene that [...]
After the case Marrazzo you too have seen the television vied to accommodate transgender people. Almost time to go fashion and in danger of falling behind and just be "cool" if you do not have at least one as a guest. A question that I have done many, with the prelude to "you who are a psychologist ..." [...]
In a BBC News article a few days ago, we are talking about defining sex and gender, taking a cue from the recent South African story of the athlete considered a hermaphrodite. Have followed the story on television controversial Caster Semenya, whose gender tests showed both male and female characteristics. We're talking about a situation [...]
