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Fortuyn had proposed a ban on additional Muslim immigrants, saying the ones who were already there had failed to integrate into Dutch society. Van der G raaf said, “I could see no other option than to do what 1 did.” Drive Safe CANADA 2-year-old hoy in London, O ntario can ’t have two moms and a dad, Family Court Justice David A ston ruled April 11. Although the three adults share par enting o f the hoy, only the biological mother and father are his parents, Aston ruled. T h e judge said he wanted to rule otherwise, hut the C hildren’s Law Reform A ct prevents him from naming more than two people as a child’s parents. Pim Fortuyn might have had enough support to T h e hoy “obviously [is] thriving in a becom e prim e m inister o f the N eth erland s loving family that meets his every need,” Aston said. T h e nonhiological m other erence contrary to an individual’s family register. Aya Kamikawa, 35, will run for the Setagaya told T he London Free Press, “W e are heart Ward Assembly as a woman April 27 even though broken that, in his honor’s view, our lives ca n she was horn male. “1 hope the decision will serve not reflect the truth o f our son’s life.” as a starting point for necessary legal reforms to allow one to live fully in accordance with one’s UNITED KINGDOM preferred sex,” she told The Japan Times. Rritish transsexual and her husband haven’t been married for 22 years like they NEW ZEALAND thought. Five Law Lords from Britain’s highest bout 25 percent of New Zealand women court, the House o f Lords, ruled April 10 that and 11 percent o f m en admit to having Elizabeth and Michael Bellingers marriage is had gay sexual attraction s, U niversity o f invalid because gender is fixed at birth. W hen the couple got married in 1981, the O tago’s Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Developm ent Study has found. same year Elizabeth had a sex-change operation, Researchers questioned 9 8 0 26-year-olds all no one requested prcxif o f her gender. T h e horn in the city o f Dunedin. People with more Bellingers sought legal recognition as a test case. education were more likely to acknowledge “T h e man I have been married to all these same-sex attractions. years and been his wife, his dishwasher, cleaner and c o o k .. .it means he has never existed," Eliz ARGENTINA abeth, 56, said after the ruling. “Everything was n a first for Latin A m erica, civil union laws taken away from me tod ay.... 1 fear I am left cam e into force in Buenos Aires and in the with no choice other than to seek redress in the nation’s Rio Negro province April 1. European courts.” Both laws extend marriage rights to unioned T h e British government said in December gay and straight couples in areas such as social that it hopes to change laws prohibiting trans security, contracts, mortgages, pensions, insurance, sexuals from marrying as a member o f their sick leave, bereavement leave, visitation rights post-operative gender. Only three other Euro and relocation expenses. In order to register, cou pean nations— A lbania, A ndorra and Ire ples must have been together for two years. land— refuse to recognize sex changes. “W e have taken a great step toward becom ing a tolerant society based on the dignity of all JAPAN people, without distinctions,” Buenos Aires he Home Affairs Ministry ruled in mid-April C ity C ouncilor H éctor Costanzo said. Sim ilar that a trans candidate could run for a kxzal laws are under consideration in the provinces government seat identified as her chosen gender. o f Buenos Aires, Jujuy and Córdoba. News reports said the instructions to the Metro politan Election Administration Commission FRANCE might he the first time the government has O K ’d he Higher Audiovisual Council O K ’d the submission of a public document with a gender ref- I launch of a gay cable channel, Pink TV, April 9. In addition to regular programming, the network will he permitted to broadcast 208 porno graphic movies a year if they are doubly encrypted and air only between midnight and 5 a.m. Pink is required to give viewers the option of subscribing to a version that does not transmit pom, and cable operators are prohibited from bundling Pink with channels targeting children or teens. 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