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Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under a gender rights law approved Wednesday.

Jin Xing was the first person to have a sex change operation in China and go public with it. Seventeen years later, she’s become a cultural icon in China and the government even uses her as an unofficial ambassador of the arts.

A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics....

Lyralisa Stevens, who was born male but lives as a female, had asked the state to pay for the removal of her male genitalia.A transgender California inmate has lost a legal bid for a sex-change operation at taxpayer expense.

Chastity Bono, the child of Cher and Sonny Bono, has started the process of becoming a transgender individual.