Boxer Rob Newbiggin is preparing for the biggest challenge of his life—and we're not talking about his next fight.

Newbiggin, 44, has announced that he will undergo a sex change to live his life as a woman named Mercedes.

The August 14 against Michael Gomez fight was his last one as a man, reports Boxing Fanhouse. While sports bloggers are having fun quipping lines like, "You wouldn't hit a girl, would you?" Newbiggin, with his wife and kids, is struggling with the trauma the sex change will inflict on them. Indeed his wife Emma is sticking by him; … Read More

Hello loyal readers, once-in-a-while skimmers and accidental glancers. Now is the late spring of our laziness. Rather than ask you to look for yourself, I've cruised the interwebs for the best love and relationships content of the past few weeks. Just so we're on the same page, some of this ish is bananas. With further a-don't, the links: 

Em & Lo are concerned about the state of male-courteousness. So, they've asked their very own man panel what's up with chivalry. These dudes are totally down with it, it's the rest of the jags out there screwing things up... … Read More

Chastity Bono, the only child of entertainers Sonny and Cher, has begun taking steps to transition from female to male, a publicist revealed yesterday. He began living as a man in March, shortly after his 40th birthday, and is now known to his family and friends as Chaz.

Bono's publicist, Howard Bragman, said in a statement, "Chaz, after many years of  consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity. He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his loved ones. It is Chaz's hope that … Read More

Those innovative Japanese are always cookin' up something! Never failing to be creative, the makers of reliable Toyota vehicles, snazzy Sony laptops and crazy game shows now bring to you blow-up appendages.

So if you're a woman who has ever wondered what it's like to have a penis, you can just pick up a swan phallus. (Why swan? Must be some sort of Swan Lake reference considering there is a ballerina on the box.) And gentleman, you can grow some breasts!

These cheap little novelties work by way of … Read More

Note to lawmakers worldwide: If you hem and haw over the legality of sex change surgery, you may end up footing the bill.

Reuters reports that Lithuania has paid $63,140 (40,000 euros) for a partially transgendered man to have complete gender reassignment surgery abroad, per a court order. The man, born a woman in 1978, won a case against his home state in the European Court of Human Rights, for sitting on a bill to allow reassignment surgery that was presented in 2003. The court ordered the Lithuanian parliament to pay for the woman to have the procedure … Read More

The person believed to be Britain's youngest sex-change patient -- born Elizabeth, now Alex -- has received the green light for a female-to-male procedure.

Alex has been openly gay since age 15 and lived as a boy for the past year, including flattening his breasts. Now he plans to undergo a double-mastectomy and a hysterectomy.

I'm in awe of a young person able to take such a plunge. With the pregnant man dishing on Oprah's couch here in America, you'd think that gender-bending is accepted. But since we just celebrated Pride Week here in Tango's home city of NYC, … Read More

If you're a woman in your mid-thirties, the dating scene is challenging enough. You're conscious of feeling older, wrinkles become a reality, and you feel like your stock value as a potential wife has started to head south faster than the housing market. So in the past year, I decided it was high time I met a fabulous man.

In my good moments, I feel quite fabulous myself. I feel like an attractive, successful and snarky strawberry-blond who cooks like a dream and has a joie de vivre unlike most. I was open to meeting all sorts of … Read More