Tag: pongpitakwiset
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Black market hormones one of many hurdles for Thai transgenders
Chalit Pongpitakwiset has always felt like a man. Several days after receiving his first testosterone injection, Chalit returned to get a blood test at Tangerine, the new clinic inside a Red Cross centre in downtown Bangkok. The centre is a pilot programme that organisers hope could be replicated across Asia.
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Infant refugee at center of Australian hospital protest gets reprieve
By Jane Wardell and Peter Gosnell SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia said on Sunday a baby girl facing repatriation to an offshore immigration detention camp would go to an onshore facility instead, easing tension that peaked in a blockade outside a hospital where she is a patient. Doctors at the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane…