There have been some recent groundbreaking events taking place for the GLBT community in India that have broken down cultural barriers. In ...

TransGriot Note: Yep, even in the ostensibly transgender friendly 'Land Of Smiles' we have to fight tooth and nail for our basic hu...

Here's another example of the how the GL push for same gender marriage has had a deleterious effect on the ability of transpeople to get...

This is one of those 'today is a good day' moments. I mentioned four months ago that I was given the honor of writing a commentary...

The good news about transpeople around the world just living their lives and being positively visible just keeps on coming. Pinay TG actual...

After a year's absence due to political turmoil in Thailand, the 2009 edition of the Miss International Queen transgender pageant will...

Sudeshna Sarkar of Thaindian News wrote an interesting article about one of the 25 people who will be competing in the 2009 edition of the ...

Those of us with longer memories would probably dispute that title by pointing out Harisu was the first Korean transwoman to garner internat...

Like most places in Asia and the Pacific Rim, Vietnam is crazy about beauty pageants. Since being trans is a worldwide thing and there are ...

For fifty years the conservative Liberal Democratic Party has ruled post war Japan. But the impact of the worldwide recession on Japan co...

TransGriot Note: My latest piece for Global Comment I am an unabashed sci-fi fan. I loved Star Trek and even tried to get into Enter...

TransGriot Note: Received an e-mail recently from my sis in Singapore that she asked me to post to the blog. It has a commentary concernin...

I mentioned that I was honored to be asked by my sis Leona Lo to write a comment that appeared in the Ah Kua show program. I was pleased to...

I was surprised when I received an e-mail from Leona Lo, my sis in Singapore a few months ago with a request. She asked me to compose a co...

TransGriot Note: My latest piece for Global Comment. When I was growing up, the space race between NASA and the Soviet space program was a...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chinese government crushing the student led pro democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Student...

Paper Dolls is the 2005 award winning documentary film by Tomer Heymann about a group of transpinays in Israel. After closing the border...

When you mention the nation of Israel, you think about it in the context of the major world religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and...

I found it interesting last year that a young Indian transwoman has gone somewhere that transpeople in the States haven't. But what els...

TransGriot Note: It's an old article, but one that will help shed some light on some of the challenges our transgender brothers and si...