The performer, who had gender transition surgery in 2005, will star in Boy Meets Girl, the first British sitcom in which the main focus is a transgender actor.
The imprisoned US soldier Chelsea Manning has ended a hunger strike after the army said she would be allowed to receive gender transition surgery, the American Civil Liberties Union has announced.
Some Republican lawmakers threatened to refuse to fund the military without a prohibition on using federal money to pay for transition surgery or related hormone therapy.
Representative Vicky Hartzler, Republican of Missouri, has proposed an amendment to the spending bill that would bar the Pentagon from spending money on transition surgery or related hormone therapy, and other Republicans have pressed for similar provisions.
The novelist Andrea Lee recalls an African-American childhood in Pennsylvania, in "Altered State" ("Writing about my state brings with it a rush of energy that feels almost like love," she says); Margaret Talbot, in "About a Boy," tells the story of Skylar, a high-school student who has gender-transition surgery at the age of sixteen.
Is it then so surprising that she made a bid for the highest office there is?" How role-playing shaped the Clintons' marriage Jailed US soldier Chelsea Manning has ended her hunger strike after the army said she would be allowed to receive gender transition surgery, the American Civil Liberties Union announced.
When transgender characters appear on television at all, they're "tragedies or monsters" argues stand-up Bethany Black, whose own semi-autobiographical comedy for the BBC, about her transition, surgery and "coming out" to family and friends, was dropped when Sky Atlantic commissioned the transsexual assassin drama Hit & Miss in 2012.
I'm challenging Minnesota's ban on Medical Assistance coverage of medically-necessary transition surgery for transgender people.
House Republicans pushed for three separate but otherwise identical amendments to the 2018 defense spending bill related to gender transition surgery in the military.
This month, Manning went on a hunger strike, agreeing to end it only when the Army said she would be allowed to receive gender transition surgery.
