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Indeed, the French transsexual community doesn't exactly consider the country to be at the forefront of promoting the rights of sexual minorities. A just-released study commissioned by the Health Ministry, for example, paints a dreary picture of the treatment of transsexuals from a legal and medial standpoint. Sex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

But what advocacy groups find most egregious is that France, like many other countries, requires transsexuals to undergo surgery - and become sterilized - before they can receive identity cards and other official documents confirming their new gender. "If we refuse, we're basically undocumented," says Caphi. According to most advocates, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

In France, several members of the advocacy organization TransAide have unsuccessfully sued the state in recent years to try to obtain a legal sex change without an operation. They've since lodged appeals and intend to bring their cases before the European Human Rights Court if necessary. "We want to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

If so, it's a perplexing misstep by a country that has seen what kind of tsunami an earthquake this strong can hurl - as it did in 1960, when a 9.5-magnitude quake, the most powerful ever recorded, killed more than 1,600 people. Inexplicably, in the minutes after Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Prepared for the Quake but Not the Tsunami | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Ricardo Zapata, a disaster-evaluation chief for the Santiago-based Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), cites three levels of damage in the Chile quake. The first was the collapse of older, pre-1960 buildings, many of which were further damaged because they were constructed too close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Prepared for the Quake but Not the Tsunami | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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