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- BOSTON -- A transgender group is crying foul over a Saugus restaurant employee's refusal to admit its members.
- The New York Assembly approved Tuesday a bill that bans transgender discrimination.
- The nation's hijra community -- mostly eunuchs and hermaphrodites -- has long lived on the margins in the Muslim nation, barely tolerated and more often abused. A new ruling gives its members some rights.
- Sydney A Malaysian transsexual has won refugee status in Australia after persuading an immigration review tribunal that she risked persecution if deported, news reports said Wednesday.
- I guess you can call them transgender frogs.
- DURHAM — TransGender New Hampshire held an event in town Saturday to discuss ways to educate the community and foster acceptance for transgender individuals.
- A furious transsexual police worker claims she was hounded out of her dream job by bully bosses.
- A GROUP of Adelaide cross-dressers says it is no longer welcome at its favourite hotel, after having been refused entry.
- A transgender photographer has condemned a “vicious” bride who humiliated her for the way she dressed.
- San Antonio's police chief is reaching out to the transgendered community because of an official police report that some might have taken the wrong way.
- Microsoft announced that for the first time ever, Xbox Live members will be able to communicate about their sexual orientation, race, or religion in their gamertags and profiles.
- W ITH Angelina and Brad Pitt out of bounds, Life & Style magazine looked on Shiloh Pitt and wonder if she was turning into a cross-dresser.
- The only customers at Southeast Portland’s Hutch Restaurant on Tuesday, February 16 are twenty-five middle-aged women having dinner and drinks at four tables.
- The Maine Human Rights Commission sparked a major debate this week over guidelines its developing that would allow 'transgender' students to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms and participate on sports teams based on whatever gender they consider themselves.
- JESSIE Chung, the transsexual who made headlines when she married Joshua Beh, plans to adopt children after four years of marriage, Sin Chew Daily reported.
- Last week, Colorado Springs police joined a small number of departments in the nation in educating officers about the transgender community, a surprising move in a conservative city home to religious groups that have fiercely opposed transgender-inclusive legislation.
- Elizabethtown residents Julia Martin and Patti Wallech achieved what many same-sex couples in Pennsylvania have not yet yet been able to do: They got married. Martin, a transgender woman who has chosen to not undergo gender re-assignment surgery, is legally a male but live her life as a female. Together, the couple face unique challenges. “You don’t do this without expecting a qu
- LGBT leaders this week called upon Dallas Area Rapid Transit to add transgender protections to its nondiscrimination policy, adopt domestic partner benefits, implement diversity training and conduct an investigation into its involvement in a family court case last year.
- SYDNEY — Almost 10,000 people shimmied, strutted and strode through the ages on Saturday as Sydney celebrated its 32nd gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
- Red Label Media proudly introduces Trace as the fourth cast member of their unique new reality series, "Boss Ladies" (www.bossladiestv.com). Trace joins Nadia, Tempress, Londyn and one more mystery cast member as these five unique women, all transgendered, combine their talents to achieve one goal: create, design and launch their own clothing line and boutique.
- Should "George" be allowed to play alongside "Cindy" and "Cathy" on a girls basketball team and then later accompany them into the privacy of a locker room or shower facility that formerly was "biology-based"?
- We've all seen romantic representations of the Old West: those lush imaginings of early colonists depicting flowing plains, or stereotypical portraits of aboriginals in their headdresses looking exotic and inscrutable. But what if roles were reversed and the narrative of the Old West had been told by a cunning two-spirited crossdresser?
- SAN ANTONIO -- A San Antonio Police officer was arrested and is accused of sexually assaulting a transgender woman.
- Founder hopes to create a safe place for students
- NEW BRITAIN — How does a mother handle it when her son says he’d rather be her daughter? How does a wife react when her husband wants to be a woman?
- Ten months ago, Bree H. let her hair down and began her transition from man to woman.
- The Maine Human Rights Commission is expected to recommend some big changes to how schools handle transgender students.
- In early February, Health Services hired a consultant to examine how the office could improve its training, forms, environment and advertising to be more transgender-inclusive, according to Francie Mantak, its director of health education.
- The fiercely proud Sydney tradition is on again this Saturday, February 27.
- Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Congressman Mike Quigley announced on Tuesday, February 16, that SAGE Center on Halsted (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is to receive a grant from Health and Human Services. This one-year, $475,000 grant will fund special projects designed to enhance the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) older adults.
- The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and four men, who were fined last year on a charge of wearing female attire, have filed a motion in the High Court against that section of the law stating that it contravenes their fundamental rights.
- ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Human rights advocates say recent violent deaths of two transgender Turkish women show a pattern of brutality and are calling for stronger protection measures.
- FABULOUSLY flamboyant home-grown musical Priscilla: Queen of the Desert has hit 500 performances, with the world now beckoning for the disco-pulsing show.
- GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country's Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers.
- The Granite State Room was host to 376 raving students late Friday night. The crowd was united by a single theme that defined the evening: dressing as members of the opposite sex.
- EQUALITY and human rights law may make it illegal for schools to force girls to wear skirts — because uniforms discriminate against transsexuals.
- Veteran singer, Lee Kwang Pil (44) has filed a charge with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency against transsexual celebrity, Harisu (35) for promoting pornography through her photo exhibition, and violating the Youth Protection Act.
- North America's first women-only pharmacy has quietly reversed its controversial "women born women" policy to allow transsexual women through its doors.
- A trainee opera singer has combined a sex change with a dramatic extension in her vocal range to gain admission into one of Italy's most prestigious music schools.
- KANSAS: After hearing nearly two hours of public comment Thursday, the city’s Human Relations Commission voted against adding gender identity to the city’s anti-discrimination policy.
- A standard passport-exchange procedure, which a male resident of the Moscow region had to have upon reaching 45 years of age, had a very unusual ending. Both employees of the migration service and police officers were surprised to find out that the male applicant was actually a female, Pravda.Ru reports with reference to a press service of a local department of the Internal Affairs
- Transsexual author and artist Kate Bornstein is a name synonymous with social change in the most progressive sense, with living outside of the rigorously defined and policed notion of a gender binary and with challenging societal norms a-plenty. For this reason, Bornstein's upcoming Chicagoland appearance is worth a spot on your calendar.
- ST.LOUIS (KMOX) -- Saint Louis Police are reporting the suspect believed to be responsible for several holdups in the city and county is now behind bars.
- A magistrate judge in Manhattan refused to block a law professor's testimony in the case of a transgender lesbian who was arrested at the Republican National Convention and claims New York City's law enforcement officers "subject transgender individuals to invasive, overly intrusive searches in order to ascertain their genital status."
- CHENNAI: A transgender from Pozhichalur approached the Suburban Police Commissioner on Wednesday seeking protection from being kidnapped by those who forced her into prostitution. She was pushed into flesh trade in Pune, but escaped from there last year.
- Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has disclosed an award of $900,000 for the first-ever national resource center to assist gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender seniors in planning for their long-term care needs.
- The Fierce Visions" conference spotlights UA research on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community issues that has been presented at national conferences.
- Transgender Discussion group offers support, a safe place
- A proposal by the Maine Human Rights Commission to establish a broad right for "transgender" boys to use girls restrooms in all Maine schools will be the subject of a public hearing scheduled by the commission March 1.
- A proposal by the Maine Human Rights Commission to establish a broad right for "transgender" boys to use girls restrooms in all Maine schools will be the subject of a public hearing scheduled by the commission March 1.
- Islam does not recognize transsexuals, much less a contest involving their community, the chief of the Indonesian Ulema Council said on Sunday.
- CINCINNATI — A man hospitalized with gunshot wounds when he was sexually assaulted by a male worker dressed as a woman is suing University Hospital, police and others, saying they allowed Chad Thrasher to act as a woman, touch his penis, put lip gloss on him and kiss him as he was recovering.
- The Punjab government has decided to create a separate category in application forms under which eunuchs can apply for government vacancies.
- Gathering offered chance for trans activists of different generations to share experiences, ideas.
- Diana Taylor, also known as Christopher Moore, at a press conference today in Newark.
- AUGUSTA, Maine — New guidelines under consideration by the Maine Human Rights Commission designed to clarify the rights of transgender students in Maine has sparked a passionate debate over what some feel are impractical or abhorrent new requirements for public schools.
- boundaries blue in works featuring cross-dressers
- Jennings Police are looking for a cross dressing robber that hit a retail store in north county.
- Cross-Dressing robber hits Wakefield bank and police have a photo
- BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A transgender man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his roommate.
- PEABODY — Members of a local transgender social club are claiming they were refused entrance into a Peabody restaurant because of their appearance.
- The Oak Park Public Library recently won a national award for its transgender materials, a specialty collection that's a first in the U.S.
- Transgender Derya Y. was stabbed to death at her home in the Alt%u0131nda%u011F district of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast. The police has launched an investigation into the matter.
- Transgender Derya Y. was stabbed to death at her home in the Alt%u0131nda%u011F district of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast. The police has launched an investigation into the matter.
- Quebec's medical system is in the midst of some major changes when it comes to accessing sex reassignment surgeries (SRS) in the province.
- A woman who underwent transgender surgery can deduct the cost of her vaginoplasty and sex hormone therapy from her taxes, the U.S. Tax Court ruled, but not the cost of her breast augmentation surgery.
- FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Transgender residents in Fort Wayne could get new protections under a proposed amendment to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance.
- RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Taunted at home, Sanhya ran away at age 12, searching for acceptance as she sees herself - neither male nor female, but a member of a third gender.
- The University of West Florida has made it loud and clear: equality for transgender students and staff.
- The Trevor Project is a nonprofit endeavor established to promote acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and to aid in crisis and suicide prevention among that group.
- The item stood out from the usual social offerings on the nonprofit's January's schedule of events.
- It took almost four decades, but Cohasset resident Michelle Figueiredo is finally comfortable in her own skin and ready to start a new life.
- PLASTIC fantastic model Jordan and cage-fighting boyfriend Alex Reid have tied the knot in a quickie Las Vegas ceremony.
- The United States Tax Court, in a decision reviewed by the full bench, has affirmed that medical treatments for Gender Identity Disorder (GID), including surgery and hormone therapy, are deductible medical expenses.
- Prizeman & Kinsella, the literary agents, are delighted to announce that we have just sold the Irish rights (32 counties) to the amazing memoir of Ireland's first transgender, to Poolbeg Press.
- Massachusetts State Rep. Carl Sciortino (LA ’00) is working to add gender identity to the state constitution’s anti−discrimination statute in the hopes of strengthening legal protection for transgender rights.
- With an LDS Church endorsement, surging public support and Utah's most populous city and county signing on, efforts to protect gay and transgender people from discrimination had momentum going into the 2010 legislative session.
- The Pope has attacked the UK’s equality legislation Ð thought to include the government’s new Equality Bill Ð ahead of a visit to the UK.
- By day he is an assistant in a care home but when the wig goes on, the make-up's applied and the fabulous frocks brought out Simon Merry becomes drag artist Pricilla. He loves every minute of it – 'and she can get away with murder', he says
- February is Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History (LGBT) Month.
- A PRE-OP transsexual was left hurt and humiliated when staff at her local pub told her she could no longer use the ladies’ loos.
- Normally, a man in a dress is a non-story in New Orleans. Cross dressing isn't a taboo there; it's a tradition.
- GRAND RAPIDS -- Jena Lewis believes getting a Michigan driver's license that identifies who you are should not be a political issue.
- As Sonia swayed to a popular Bollywood song, striking model-like poses, a small crowd of activists and journalists cheered her on.
- IN A bid to differentiate themselves from gay men, transgender women from 10 Asia Pacific countries, including Singapore, have come together and formed the world's first TG network. Wednesday was their first sub-meeting.
- Transgender women from 10 Asia Pacific countries and areas are coming together to say “No!” to discrimination and marginalisation by forming the world’s first Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN).
- A new show featuring three transgender female friends giving women a style makeover while helping them overcome some emotional road bumps.
- A transgender New Yorker has filed a $10 million sex assault suit against an NFLplayer - and in a separate action is also suing the city, saying she was abused and humiliated by cops
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- An estimated 250 people lobbied lawmakers last week for transgender protections at the Massachusetts Statehouse, gay weekly Bay Windows reported.
- Lucas Silveira, the openly transgender lead singer of Toronto alt-rock band The Cliks, became the first transgender man to win the Throw Your Underwear Award Male (Sexiest Canadian Man) in the year end reader's poll by Canada's premier music magazine.
- A DJ from Brisbane’s Nova 106.9 FM has expressed remorse for several instances of trans ridicule on the station which have led to complaints being lodged with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland (ADCQ).
- A 17-year-old cross-dressing man fought off an attempted rape after being dragged into the woods Sunday evening in Athens by another man, police say.
- More than 250 transgender Bay Staters and their allies were on Beacon Hill on Jan. 21 to push for passage of a bill to ban gender-based discrimination.
- For hundreds of transgender people trying to establish new identities, Manhattan courts have played a crucial role.
- “Judges, lets go!” an unmistakably male voice called over the sound system.
- When I began interning for the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), I had no idea how passionate I would become.
- HOUSTON -- Mystery still surrounds the murder of Myra Ical, a transgender woman, who was found dead in a field in Montrose last week.
- The Norman Queer Alliance hosted a pancake breakfast in Norman for Oklahoma House of Representatives candidate Brittany Novotny Saturday to raise funds and awareness for her campaign.
- The half-naked body of a 51-year-old trans woman was found last week in a vacant lot in the Montrose area of Houston, Texas. But reports of Myra Ical’s death have been salacious at best, with mainstream media referring to Myra as a man, saying the area where her body was found was known by police to be frequented by prostitutes and drug users.
- Eugene A. Delgaudio (R-Sterling), a supervisor in Loudoun County, near Washington D.C., was "chastised" this week by fellow supervisors for remarks against an anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the county protecting citizens on the basis of sexual orientation:
- Amy Winehouse's plans to rekindle her romance with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil have been dealt another blow over allegations he has been having an affair - with a transsexual teenage impersonator of the ‘Back To Black’ singer.
- The comedian enjoys turning past turbulence into present comedy, but for this tour, no cross dressing allowed.
- The Ankara 5th High Criminal Court handed a life sentence to defendant Murat Olgun G. for deliberate murder aiming to conceal a crime. The defendant received another twelve years imprisonment for aggravated looting. The court rejected the defence's request of mitigation for unjust provocation.
- It seems America is moving alot closer to accepting the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer) community. Back in November, Helena Bushong, a Transgender Activist from Illinois Gender Advocates, became the first African American transgendered woman in the White House and the second Transexual ever.
- Legislation adding gender identity to the state’s non-discrimination laws has long had majority support in the House and Senate, but with most of the 2009-2010 session over, the bills (H 1728 and S 1687) have yet to move out of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, which held a packed hearing on the bills in July.
- "This bill is very straight forward, nothing special, nothing unique," he said. "Our transgender citizens, our brothers and sisters are not protected...you let your legislator know that inaction, delay is unacceptable."
- Tampa, Florida - The Christian-based organization, Florida Family Association, has started an email campaign protesting a course at USF called "Queer Theory."
- In February, the very first conference focusing on the issues of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Queer / Questioning & Intersex (LGBTQI) youth will be presented here in San Diego.
- Prohibiting gender change on license a top priority
- A Queens grand jury has indicted two men who are accused of taking part in the brutal beating of a 49-year-old openly gay man in College Point last fall, the Queens district attorney said.
- ”God created humans in pairs, but nowhere does it say the pair has to be male and female, both male or both female,” says Edy “Echa” Saputra. Echa is a transgender who heads the Violet Grey organization, established in 2007 by gay and transgender activists in Aceh.
- The Student Association Senate postponed voting on the gender-neutral housing bill Tuesday night, opting to table the bill after debate on the measure dragged on for 45 minutes.
- Loudoun County supervisors blasted one of their colleagues Wednesday for sending out a constituent e-mail referring to "cross dressing freaks" in response to the board's recent decision not to discriminate in hiring based on sexual orientation
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- “A rose by any other name is still a rose. Christine, by any other name, is still the most caring, kindest, sweetest, most giving, most talented person I’ve ever known.”
- A transsexual woman has told of her humiliation after she was given the title "Mr" on her P45.
- SAN FRANCISCO (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) – It doesn’t take much to be accepted as a drag queen.
- The Student Association will vote on the 2010 Equal Housing Opportunity Act on Tuesday after the legislation passed the Student Life committee in a 7-1 vote last week. If passed, the Act would provide gender-neutral housing in at least one residence hall for each class. The bill will also mandate that a transgender option be included on the housing application in addition to the male o
- The transsexual who rose to fame on the hit reality TV show There’s Something About Miriam is working as a £300-an-hour “escort”.
- A CROSS-dressing paedophile who sexually abused a six-year-old girl while wearing a wedding dress has been jailed for a total of 15 years.
- If you're seeking something that captures the spirit of our time, catch 20% Theatre Company Twin Cities' hip and hellacious evening of five short plays that peer into date rape, thwarted group sex, transgender dating, and confused kids at Bedlam Theatre.
- A housing discrimination case brought by a Massachusetts transgender couple against landlords and a real estate agent of a rental property in Oxford, MA, has recently been settled.
- SAULT STE. MARIE -- Queer Voices of the North, Northern Ontario’s only film festival focussing on the topics, themes, and narratives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, two-spirit, transsexual and genderqueer people, has been awarded $8,000 from the Ontario Arts Council through the Multi-Arts Projects Grant.
- TransOhio, which formed in 2005, is pleased to announce that Ohio residents Jacob Nash, Sarah Wagner and Melissa M. Alexander have been appointed to the TransOhio Board of Directors.
- SAITAMA (Kyodo) Three Japanese men falsely registered their companions — Filipino male-to-female transsexuals — as their wives, police have revealed, adding all had been charged and two so far have been convicted.
- TOKYO — Police near Tokyo said Wednesday they had arrested three Japanese men and their transsexual "wives" from the Philippines for faking their marriage registrations.
- The transsexuals in India have gone high-tech in search of their soul mates by creating their own website.
- The prison, at Pozzale, near the Tuscan city of Florence, is expected to house inmates who mainly have convictions for drug-related offences and prostitution.
- The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) has declared Thursday, Jan. 21, "Transgender Equality Lobby Day" in support of transgender and gender-nonconforming Mass. residents.
- (Memphis 1/11/2010) A surveillance video from the Shelby County Jail shows the punches that have former Memphis Police Officer Bridges McRae fighting for his freedom.
- NEW YORK: Logo, MTV Networks' channel dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender audience, is ramping up its original programming, with four new shows given the greenlight.
- The “T” at the end of LGBT often seems like an afterthought, with transgender rights being excluded even when LGBT rights are approved. Today on GRITtv we talk to Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Naomi Clark of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and blogger at Feministe, and film
- Iran’s military will no longer classify transgender people as "mentally disturbed," said Hasan Mousavi Chelk, who heads the Socially Vulnerable Groups section of the State Agency for National Well-Being.
- A 16-year-old Spanish boy has become one of the world's youngest transsexuals after having a sex change operation to become a girl.
- A 22-year-old man is charged with injuring Christchurch police officer Sarah Lurajud - who made headlines as New Zealand's first transgender cop in 2007 - when she tried to stop him stealing a patrol car.
- SAN JOSE -- Preparing for the 2010 census, the U.S. Census Bureau will co-host the first meeting of the South Bay Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Complete Count Committee in San Jose Monday.
- NEW YORK (AP) — Clara Tolentino was terrified when her 43-year-old sister died last year after getting liquid silicone injections to add a bit more shape to her buttocks.
- STOCKTON - Peter Paige, one of the actors in the Showtime television series "Queer as Folk," is set to be the keynote speaker at University of the Pacific's "It Takes a Rainbow: Bridging the Mountains to the Bay 2010" conference.
- It’s possible that this coming fall George Smitherman will be our city’s first openly gay mayor. But Toronto’s October 2010 election could result in a council with more than one big – and queer - first.
- ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An administrative judge has ordered the New York State Thruway Authority to pay more than $55,000 to a transgender woman who says she was subjected to a hostile workplace.
- First Event’s 30th anniversary promises to be one of the best ever. New England’s largest transgender conference will feature over 50 workshops, entertainment and special events.
- The Obama Administration recently added language to the federal jobs website that explicitly bans gender identity-based employment discrimination under the federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policy. This is the first time that employment discrimination on the basis of gender identity has been explicitly banned by the federal government.
- Alaskans who watched "Conveyor Belt of Love" on KIMO Channel 13 Monday night might have recognized Scott Turner Schofield.
- After approval from the Residential Advisory Council and University Residence directors, Western may see gender-inclusive housing by the 2011-2012 school year.
- IS 'SHE' a 'he'?
- Young Swedes who suspect they are transsexuals ought to be issued special ID cards allowing them to hide their undesired gender during their trial phase as the opposite sex, according to one of the country’s most respected child psychiatrists.
- Felon fights with cop, flees into flats and emerges disguised as a woman
- The Human Rights Campaign -- the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization -- did not find find a David Letterman joke last night about the appointment of transgender Amanda Simpson to a senior position at the U.S. Department of Commerce funny.
- Minneapolis 1/6/2010- Minnesota's premiere transgender fronted band, All the Pretty Horses, will be filming their six city, winter tour. This footage has been requested for consideration in the development of a new television project by a producer of the Food Channel and possible consideration for a project on the Travel Channel. The footage will also be used as part of band leader, Venus De
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- A transgender performance artist has apparently appeared as a contestant on ABC's recent reality special Conveyer Belt of Love.
- THE Scottish Parliament has apologised after a transgender visitor complained about being searched by a male security guard.
- Four words proposed for addition to the county's Equal Employment Opportunity policy led to a party-line battle among supervisors Tuesday.
- WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity.
- Bahrain: The crossdressers, heavily made-up and wearing provocative outfits, were soliciting revelers at the disco
- DES MOINES - A pro-family policy group today is taking issue with a proclamation Gov. Chet Culver signed that declared a "transgender day of remembrance" in Iowa last year.
- A Belfast newspaper has been found guilty of breaching the press code of practice for describing a transsexual as 'a tranny.'
- A transgendered woman who was locked down in solitary confinement for six months in a Virginia jail has been moved to a medical wing, her attorney told The Examiner.
- MANILA, Philippines – Viewers of Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) Double Up evicted housemate Rica Paras from the show, the first housemate to bid farewell to the hit reality program this year.
- As much as 70% of girls who have taken to cross dressing remain adamant and refuse to give up their abnormal behaviour, says a report published in the local Arabic daily Arrayah.
- Just as the school year ended, Oregon passed a law adding sexual orientation and gender identity/expression to its anti-bullying law, becoming the seventh state to specifically protect LGBT students from harassment.
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Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration said Wednesday it has halted, at least temporarily, a planned policy change that would have forced people living as the opposite sex to get transgender surgery before they could change the gender on their driver's licenses.
- Last week, SERVE (Seeking Equity and Respect for All Viewpoints in Education) Alameda notified the Alameda County Registrar of Voters that it was abandoning its effort to recall three Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) board of education members.
- SACRAMENTO - December 30 - On January 1, three new pieces of legislation expanding rights and resources for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community will go into effect in California.
- Hell hath no fury like a crossdresser scorned.
- The Village Voice is reporting that plans are in the works to bring a new Holly Woodlawn musical to an off-Broadway theatre.
- After a postponement or two, the show’s finally coming to Toronto.
- The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has postponed a policy change that, starting Jan. 1, would have required transgender residents to obtain a court order or amended birth certificate to change the gender on their driver's license or identification card.
- WASHINGTON - A transgender woman convicted of drug trafficking has spent six months in solitary confinement in a Virginia jail because officials believe she would be raped by male prisoners.
- Defense industry veteran Amanda Simpson, who sits on the board of the National Center for Transgender Equality, was just appointed by President Obama to join the Department of Commerce as a senior technical adviser.
- The British Columbia government has backed out of a verbal commitment to financially support the 2011 Outgames in Vancouver, Canada's Xtra reports.
- He paved the way for cross-dressing entertainers in Vegas, but he's ended up as little more than a footnote
- In a move that takes some of the sting out of the defeat of a same-sex marriage bill in New York's state senate earlier in the month, on December 16 New York Governor David Paterson signed an executive order protecting transgender state workers from employment discrimination.
- NEW DELHI — It's worked for thousands of singletons the world over and now India's transsexuals are hoping Internet dating can help their marginalised community find love.
- A cross-dressed male college student named Liu Renwei who longs to release his inner female spirit stands on the pedestrian lane of Shengli Road in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province holding a sign that reads: "I won't give up my dream of having a transsexual operation even if I die, because I want to be a real woman."
- After a series of hate crimes in Broward Country last year, a task force was established to investigate and prevent them. More than one year later, challenges remain.
- The National Center for Transgender Equality (NTCE) slammed Gov. Pawlenty last week for his telling Newsweek that Minnesota’s laws protecting transgender people from employment discrimination should be changed.
- POLICE vowed to crack down on racist and homophobic offenders after new figures revealed an average of more than one hate crime a day in North Wales.
- Karachi, Dec. 26 (ANI) : Following the Pakistan Supreme Court's advice to the government to use the services of eunuchs to recover outstanding loan amounts, the transgender community in the country is excited and ready to offer their help, but only if they are given the same commission as their Indian counterparts.
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Mysore, Dec.26 (ANI): Sex workers and transgenders in Mysore city of Karnataka are running a restaurant and serve traditional south Indian food to guests as a way of raising funds for HIV positive people and fighting social stigma.
- Pakistan's Supreme Court says eunuchs must be allowed to identify themselves as a distinct gender in order to ensure their rights.
- The annual conference on gay and lesbian issues is set for Feb. 18 at Drake University. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has been invited to attend, but his staff is still booking his schedule for February, so Culver hasn’t RSVP’ed yet.
- A transgender anarchist has pleaded guilty to smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters office in Denver.
- The Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) meeting on Monday has refused to allow male-to-female transgender graduates to wear woman's clothing to receive their degrees.
- Fort Lauderdale attorney Norm Kent has launched another weekly newspaper targeted at South Florida’s gay and lesbian community.
- SAN FRANCISCO -- A memorial service for a transgender woman found dead of an apparent homicide in San Francisco last week will be held Saturday at the service center where she volunteered as an advocate for the transgender community.
- India’s first ever beauty pageant for eunuchs, Nazakat Queen-2010, is to be held in Goa on February 10, according to a report in Mid-Day.
- First Run Features has acquired US rights to Kimberly Reed’s festival favourite documentary Prodigal Sons and plans a late February 2010 in New York followed by a nationwide rollout through March.
- She heard the same advice over and over: "You are so good at explaining this, you ought to write a book."
- San Francisco police are investigating the death of a young transgender woman whose body was found last week in her North Beach residential hotel room.
- The Scottsdale Human Relations commissioner who began the job as Ken Culver and reappointed later as Michele de LaFreniere died recently.
- One minute. One comment. That's all it took to win the Salt Lake County Council's overwhelming approval of proposed anti-discrimination laws that would protect gay and transgender residents from losing their jobs or housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Typically, this column is dedicated to profiling a specific celebrity, but in this case, an exception can be made. “Make Over” is not a perfect episode when it comes to the depiction of transpeople, but compared to a lot of the normal rundown of shows featuring transpeople, this episode definitely surpasses many of them
- Gov. David A. Paterson is preparing to issue an executive order that would include transgender people in antidiscrimination policies that govern state agencies.
- 'Out West' at the Autry examines the history of homosexuals and transgender people in the Old West.
- Auckland's new LGBT Festival in February 2010 will benefit respected LGBT charities Body Positive and GenderBridge.
- On the evening of Nov. 30, scores of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activists packed Cleveland City Council chambers in anticipation of a tremendous victory for the transgender community. That night the Council revised the city charter to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression.
- CHENNAI: Transgender commercial sex workers have been asked to keep off one of their popular cruising points near Loyola College in Nungambakkam following whispers of public discontent over the darkened stretch of road, forking off Sterling Road, turning into a sleaze rendezvous
- CAIRO - Supporters of Iran’s opposition have posted hundreds of photos online of men in women’s clothing to mock what they say was a government attempt to discredit a student leader by photographing him in a head scarf and woman’s robe.
- CAIRO - Supporters of Iran’s opposition have posted hundreds of photos online of men in women’s clothing to mock what they say was a government attempt to discredit a student leader by photographing him in a head scarf and woman’s robe.
- EVER seen Ian Holloway, Charlie Adam and Alex Baptiste dressed as women? You're about to.
- GREENVILLE -- An cross-dressing Upstate man was arrested Wednesday at a Greenville mall after police say he approached several people and told them he was an uncover police officer.
- This year 60 people have applied to change their sex in Sweden. Most gender-reassigned people achieve a better life through their surgery, but a new study shows that the risk of attempted suicide and psychological problems remains high, Dagens Nyheter reports.
- Bangkok, Dec 13 (DPA) A council of Thai university presidents has turned down a request from a transvestites’ advocate group to cross-dress at graduation ceremonies as ‘inappropriate’, media reports said Sunday.
- Bandar Seri Begawan - The arrest of seven cross-dressers by Brunei police this week has sparked debate over the rights of the individual vs religious mores in the Islamic sultanate, observers said Saturday. The Royal Brunei Police on Tuesday arrested the transvestites and subjected them to HIV tests, vowing to conduct similar operations "to combat the spread of immoral activities."
- Children who engage in “transphobic” bullying in the playground or classroom could be guilty of a hate crime and investigated by police under new government guidance. Pupils could be expelled and their parents forced to attend counselling if they refuse to accept that such behaviour is wrong.
- Though it drew attention last year when a lawsuit accused Columbia of showing preference to women’s studies by calling feminism a religion, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender has only a limited reach.
- A SCHEME which helps Sefton’s transgender residents gain workplace experience within the NHS has been praised at a national awards ceremony.
- “They said ‘shut your eyes and visualize where society has made you feel like a girl ... because you may be transsexual or bisexual. To open up that kind of a door ... what are they thinking?” she asked.
- A Florida teenager who changed her gender from male to female six years ago is taking legal action against McDonald's for alleged discrimination.
- Holly and Phil have revealed their new look after swapping clothes with each other.
- It's a little piece of Australia making a big splash in London's famed West End.
- A MALAYSIAN transsexual facing deportation despite being "married" to a Derby man has asked for a third time to stay in the country.
- The Residence Hall Association (RHA), including a representative from the National Residence Hall Honorary, unanimously approved the proposal for gender-inclusive housing Thursday.
- TOKYO — Japanese TV personality Ai Haruna said she wants her country to be more tolerant toward people of diverse sexual orientations, a month after she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual.
- KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — Britain-based Malaysian hermaphrodite Fatine, who is facing a possibility of criminal prosecution if she returns here has received support from an unlikely source — PKR Kulim parliamentarian Zulkifli Noordin, a staunch conservative Muslim who has openly declared he puts his faith above all else.
- The unanimous approval of a transgender protections law in Cleveland on Monday was an unexpected victory for gay activists working for its passage.
- A recent report outlines the barriers faced by members of Philadelphia's transgender community when trying to get health care.
- MARKHAM -- It's taken nearly three decades, but thanks to technological advances investigators are finally able to put a face to the skeletal remains of an apparently slain transgendered man who was found in a rural part of town.
- Mike Penner’s apparent suicide comes loaded with questions about the LA Times sportswriter’s experience living as a woman named Christine Daniels.
- KUALA LUMPUR — A Malaysian transsexual fighting deportation from Britain will be punished for bringing "great shame" on the country, Malaysian authorities said according to reports Wednesday.
- CLEVELAND (AP) — Members of Cleveland’s transgender community will be protected against discrimination under legislation passed unanimously by the city council.
- A man accused of dressing up like a woman to rob a bank has now been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.
- CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A push to outlaw transgender discrimination is likely to pass at tonight's City Council meeting.
- Becoming a cop was relatively simple -- Bell joined the Bountiful Police Department 14 years ago. Becoming a man took more time.
- LOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines by announcing he was becoming a woman, then returned to work as a man, has been found dead in a suspected suicide, the paper reported on Saturday.
- PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA - A Malaysian transsexual, who married a 30-year-old man in Britain, might be deported back to Malaysia after his Leave To Remain visa was rejected by British authorities over an 'incorrect' photograph.
- Orlando may join other Florida cities in covering transgendered people under anti-discrimination ordinances. The measure is being promoted by openly lesbian Commissioner Patty Sheehand, who proposed the change to Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer, reported The Orlando Sentinel in a Nov. 27 article.
- Boys will be girls and vice versa, writes PETER CRAWLEY
- A Massachusetts inmate recently lost a bid for state-funded electrolysis treatments. But the prisoner, who has changed names from Robert to Michelle Kosilek, is still pursuing his case to have the state of Massachusetts pay for a sex-change operation in order to complete a gender transformation that started almost 20 years ago.
- The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario is catching flak over H1N1 vaccinations… not because it is giving them… or concerns that a batch of H1N1 swine flu vaccine was recalled after reports that the shots were leading to great number of severe allergic reactions…but because it sent students home with a vaccination consent
- THE tragic life story of a murdered Kentish Town transsexual became clear this week when it was revealed the victim's mother had committed suicide four years ago and her uncle spent 15 years in prison falsely convicted of an IRA bombing.
- New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) South Asian theatre, traditional Kathakali dance, a festival of transgenders and Adi Shankaracharya’s text “Saundariya Lehri” (Waves of Beauty) fuse in Chennai-based artist George Kuruvilla’s works, now on display in the capital.
- Montgomery County activist claims harassment by county's Ethics Commission.
- A jury has convicted a 65-year-old man of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 35-year-old woman in a lovers' spat that turned deadly, the prosecutor's office said.
- BUENOS AIRES – A transsexual who recently prevailed in a 10-year-long court battle to receive a new identity document recognizing her as a woman has been honored by lawmakers as Argentina’s “Woman of the Year.”
- Policemen in central Japan have taken to cross-dressing in a bid to snare a group of bag-snatchers targeting women.
- Ten or 20 years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine what we saw Monday in Salina when groups of mostly what appeared to be high-schoolers gathered in opposition to a small group of Fred Phelpsers.
- BANGKOK — Punlop Tongchai is awake for the entire two hours it takes to be turned into a woman on the operating table of a Bangkok sex change clinic, realising a childhood dream.
- Chatter rippled around the silk and glass Monday night as women thronged through the Sizzlin’ Soiree, a first-time attraction for the Quad-City Arts Festival of Trees.
- West Hollywood, California (November 23, 2009) - West Hollywood unveiled the first Transgender Memorial Plaque in America last week during a commemoration of The Transgender Day of Remembrance at the Matthew Shephard Memorial Triangle in the Creative City.
- Rome, 23 Nov. (AKI) - Italian authorities are moving to deport 10 Brazilian transsexuals who were reportedly friends of Brenda, the prostitute at the centre of a sex and drugs extortion scandal found dead in Rome on Friday. According to Italian media, nine of the transsexuals were living illegally in Italy.
- MIDDLETOWN — The Board of Education recently passed a policy that addresses transgender athletes’ participation in school sports.
- In 2004, the Coalition government, with Labor support, banned marriage for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. This year, the Greens introduced the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill to federal parliament, to try to overturn the ban.
- New York City will soon have its own LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual, Questioning, Intersexed) Virtual High School to call its own. In order to continue its mission to provide quality education for the LGBTQI youth community, LGBTQI Virtual Schools, the parent organization of the up and coming virtual High School, is seeking donations to apply for national accreditati
- COLORADO SPRINGS - Friday is the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance around the world. Two services will be held in Colorado as part of the remembrance.
- Joanne Herman shares experiences in the book Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not.
- ROME (Reuters) - A Brazilian transsexual caught up in a scandal which prompted the resignation of a senior Italian politician -- the centre-left governor of Lazio region, which includes Rome -- was found burnt to death in his home Friday.
- With the Tampa City Council set to take a final vote tomorrow on expanding its human rights ordinance to protect "gender identity and expression," opponents of the move are sending a barrage of e-mails to council members.
- A County Councilwoman's senior policy adviser who helped draft the county's antidiscrimination law to protect transgendered people now is using the law in filing a complaint against the Montgomery County Ethics Commission.
- Two Montgomery County agencies that investigate government ethics are facing complaints questioning their behavior.
- Members of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) and family members of those who have been murdered for being transgender gathered at the Massachusetts State House on Nov. 17 to witness a proclamation given in support of this week’s upcoming Transgender Day of Remembrance by the House of Representatives.
- New campaign to be broadcast by television across Brazil highlights rights of students, gay men, lesbians, people living with HIV, the Afro-Brazilian population, sex workers, refugees, transsexuals and transvestites and drug users.
- A series of discussions, panels and vigils is being held across campus this week in observance of Transgender Awareness Week.
- CHICAGO - Illinois has made it easier for people who have had sex reassignment surgery to change their birth certificates to reflect their new gender.
- TAMPA - The city council's decision two weeks ago to extend Tampa's anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals was a move long overdue, its supporters say.
- Featured speaker Diane Schroer, a transgender pioneer and advocate, speaks on behalf of the LGBT community on issues regarding equal opportunity employment in the United States. Schroer, an NIU alumna, was successful in a recent discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress and was awarded $491,000 in damages.
- AN UNEMPLOYED man has been charged with the murder of a transsexual escort girl in Kentish Town.
- BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina's capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage.
- A small private college made an amendment to its dress code last month, effectively banning cross-dressing and drawing attention nationally.
- GREENSBORO, N.C. - Almost 400 activists and advocates for the LGBT -- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender -- community came out to UNCG for the third annual Equality Conference.
- They might not be Twilight vampires, but transgender youth – a recent Seventeenmagazine article insinuated – are just as predatory.
- Trans-identity is not defined by any clear walls or limitations.Stef Shuster [sic], a Trans-identified UI graduate student, said the guidelines aren’t easily definable.
- Last Thursday, the Tampa City Council preliminarily approved expanding the city's human rights ordinance to offer protection to transgendered people. Other than a discussion about whether the new law would protect the occasional cross dresser, the vote came with little opposition, passing by a 7-0 vote.
- Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice.
- You could tell from what was said at Tuesday night’s Fort Worth City Council meeting that there was a lot of resentment running just beneath the surface.
- India's Election Commission has given eunuchs an independent identity by letting them choose their gender as "other" on ballot forms.
- Barry Whitfield had never heard of "Leading Ladies" until a University of South Carolina Upstate theater student mentioned seeing it in Greenville this past spring.
- Newly transitioning Chaz Bono made a special appearance at the Transgender Law Center's seventh anniversary benefit Thursday, November 5 at the Endup in San Francisco. Bono, the child of Sonny and Cher, announced his gender transition this summer.
- ST. CATHARINES, Ontario, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of dollars were wasted in a Canadian three-year human rights battle over a transgendered woman in a fitness club, its owner says.
- The majority of Massachusetts’s voters support legislative protections for transgender people, a Lake Research Partners poll found this month, including 81% of women.
- In the days of the Mogul emperors, India’s eunuchs were the bodyguards of queens and privy to the most sensitive of state secrets. Today they are most often seen begging at traffic lights.
- Boston local Joanne Herman, author of the new book Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not, will hold a reading and book signing Nov. 17 at Fenway Health (1340 Boylston St.) from 7 to 9 p.m.
- Hong Kong - A Hong Kong transsexual was preparing Wednesday for a High Court battle for the right to marry a man after having a sex change operation to become a woman. The transsexual, who is in her 20s and has asked to remain anonymous, has been told she cannot marry her boyfriend because Hong Kong law only recognizes marriages between a couple born as male and female.
- CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s city council is considering whether to make it a crime to discriminate against transgender people.
- Glasgow, United Kingdom, Nov 9, 2009 / 09:54 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Glasgow has denounced a publicly funded play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual, saying it is a “provocative and offensive abuse” of Christian beliefs. He suggested the event is part of an agenda to “mock Christianity.”
- Get a few chuckles with a skit, and soon it will become a film. If you're a fan of the BET Awards, you should be familiar with Sheneneh and Wanda.
- Bra-wearing men raise $13,000 at Tybee event to benefit Young Survival Coalition.
- There has been lots of speculation lately about whether former Police Commission President Theresa Sparks will run for supervisor.
- HBO is pushing the limits of gender and sexuality with T, a half-hour drama series following the transformation of a woman into a man.
- Academy Award winning actress Nicole Kidman will join fellow Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow in the film adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel, “Danish Girl,” which tells the real life tale of the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener and his wife, Greta.
- The federal government would be banned from funding sex change operations and other services for transgender individuals if social conservative activists get their way.
- TAMPA — The City Council on Thursday gave unanimous preliminary approval to expanding its human rights ordinance to protect transgender people from discrimination.
- A controversial play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual woman was defended yesterday by its writer who has herself crossed the gender barrier to live as a woman.
- KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WZZM) - Overwhelming turnout in Kalamazoo helped pass an ordinance that includes gay, lesbian, and transgender people in an anti-discrimination ordinance.
- The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) announced the resolution of a dispute involving two women who were turned away from a fundraising dance hosted by the organization. The women claimed they and their friends were excluded based on their sexual orientation or gender expression.
- Boston, MA ( November 4, 2009 ) —The battle for marriage equality took a hard hit today. Today voters in Maine stripped marriage away from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) individuals.
- THE trauma of life as a transsexual has led to a city woman being spared a jail term.
- Male Student Claims He Was Discriminated Against for Dressing Like a Girl
- A man who wore women's clothing to use his dead wife's gym membership has appeared in a Hong Kong court.
- A small group of students talked in the Women's Center on Wednesday about issues that transgender people face.
- Opponents of the LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance on the ballot Tuesday in Kalamazoo, Mich., launched an ad singling out members of the transgender community to claim that the measure, Ordinance 1856, would allow men to use women’s restrooms.
- In an unusually tangled custody battle, aBrooklynmom is fighting her ex - a woman who lives as a man - for custody of her 7-year-old son.
- Los Angeles: Flesh flashing queen Katie Price who is known for her bizarre antics seems to be fighting for spotlight with her beau Alex Reid.
- PHILADELPHIA A transgender teenager who identifies as a girl said she was subject to constant abuse and discrimination during 18 months in the custody of the Department of Human Services.
- From 500 revelers six years ago, the Taipei LGBT Pride Parade drew an estimated 25,000 participants this year, the largest such parade in Asia
- As a sidebar to my story from earlier today that begins with the new (but old) TV ad from opponents of Kalamazoo’s anti-discrimination ordinance, here’s something else to ponder.
- A TRANSSEXUAL has won a written apology from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the distress she experienced as a result of having to travel on a passport that identified her as a man.
- Chicago, IL — November marks Transgender Awareness Month. Since its inception, Center on Halsted has celebrated, supported and continues to welcome members of our Transgender community.
- Track and field’s world governing body has begun trying to devise new rules about who can compete as a woman.
- Breast Implant surgery for a transsexual has been denied — and he claims the refusal is sex discrimination.
- Cult movie gets extra kick with local actors at the Carolina Asheville
- Student leaders at Kansas State University's Salina campus have reversed an earlier decision not to fund a transgendered speaker.
- Chennai, Oct. 28 (ANI): Many transgenders in Chennai are undergoing karate training to improve their self-confidence and health so that they can land a good j
- Areeya Milintanapa, a 26 year old transvestite, had hoped to undergo sexual reassignment surgery at a private clinic in Bangkok next year, but her plans have hit a setback - new regulations by the Medical Council of Thailand.
- Fear and misunderstanding of transgender issues fuels opposition
- CHENNAI: In an attempt to help transgenders stand on their own feet, members of the Dojo Chakra, a private organisation, have found placements for 30 of them as security guards in apartment complexes, hotels and corporate offices in the city.
- President Obama has just signed into law the very first protections for transgender people in US history: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
- Rome - An Italian priest who blessed the marriage of a 64-year-old transsexual to her 58-year-old male partner has been suspended, the Archbishop of Florence said in a statement on Monday.
- Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Supperclub, a chain of restaurant- nightclubs famed for in-bed dining and wait staff in cross- dressing outfits, is set to open a branch in London’s Notting Hill.
- Alex Reid sobbed as he begged Katie Price to take him back during emotional "crisis talks" at her home in Surrey this weekend.
- For the 2010-11 academic year, the University will be offering a gender-neutral housing option in Spelman Halls. The pilot program will permit gender-neutral occupancy in the apartment-style rooms of Spelman, eliminating the requirement that draw groups for Spelman must have four students of the same gender. The program is not expected to affect any other dorms during its first year.
- A scandal has rocked Italy's main opposition party on the eve of today's nationwide primary designed to select a new leader and relaunch the party's sagging fortunes.
- Sierra D. Broussard, 28, appeared in Outagamie County Court on Friday in her civil lawsuit against Concepts Unlimited Inc., which does business as Park Central, 318 W. College Ave.
- It will take the great wheels of history grinding forward to recognize the momentous significance of Thursday's final passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
- The center, which began operations yesterday, is designed to be a "hub for all things Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender" in London and across the UK.
- The profane and the sacred, the aesthetic and the irreverent, were mixed in a timetable leading to the adjective a secular remarked. The secular calendar 2010 features Lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual men in Madrid (Cogam).
- Jessee Vasold ’11 made history at the College of William and Mary Wednesday when ze was announced as the school’s first transgender homecoming queen, representing the Class of 2011.
- A campaign that aims to end the classification of transsexuals as individuals who suffer an ‘illness’ as well as educating the general population that sexual diversity not limited to the male and female genre was launched in Lisbon this week.
- Students in Laurie Wagner's Human Sexuality class are exposed to the social and psychological aspects of sexuality as opposed to the scientific aspects, as in an anatomy class.
- (October 22, 2009, Washington, DC) In an historic move, the United States Senate, by a vote of 68 to 29, joined the House of Representatives in passing The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which will be the first federal law to include gender identity and transgender people
- Should a transgender person seeking judicial permission to change her or his name be required to furnish medical documentation justifying the change?
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WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced plans to establish the nation`s
first national resource center to assist communities across the country in their
efforts to provide services and supports for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) individuals.
- The Pensacola Little Theatre opens its version of the famous stage phenomenon, “The Rocky Horror Show” tonight.
- CLEVELAND -- The battle between East Cleveland's outgoing mayor and his police department over racy cross-dressing photos heads to court. One officer is fighting to keep his job.
- Josie Romero thinks of herself as a little girl, and exhibits the gender traits typically associated with girls. But her physical anatomy is that of a boy.
- A cross-dressing finance director who stole £120,000 of M& S women's undies and clothes was jailed for 16 months yesterday.
- NEW YORK -- A court in New York City has reversed a lower court's decision rejecting a transgender man's application to change his name because he didn't provide medical documentation.
- FOX NEWS: In case you weren't sure, human gender is "changeable over time and contexts," sex slaves must not be "stigmatized" for their work, and it's important to recognize the role of "transgender and intersex individuals as stakeholders" in counterterrorism policy.
- In a complex decision released yesterday, the Supreme Court of Kings County ruled that a transsexual father has standing to petition for custody of a non-biological child.
- Congressman Pete Stark of California has proposed a federal bill — the Every Child Deserves a Family Act — that would deny funding to states that pass bills banning adoption by gay, transgender, or unmarried heterosexual parents.
- NEW DELHI : Transgenders in India's Chennai city have launched their own marriage website through which they hope to find like-minded suitors.
- The world will now get a taste of Toronto's famous Pride festivities, after the city won a bid to host the 2014 World Pride event.
- Ceara Sturgis, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, said she does not understand why the Copiah County School District has taken such a hard stance against including her in the school's yearbook.
- NZ transsexual icon Carmen was lured to Wellington as the centrepiece of a botched fundraising Birthday Party from which she eventually received only a handful of dollars, say her concerned friends.
- QUEENSLAND'S first transsexual bowler has been accepted as a full playing member of the conservative Edge Hill Ladies Bowls Club in Cairns.
- ATLANTA -- Students at Atlanta's Morehouse College have new guidelines when it comes to what they wear. The school wants to put a stop to what it calls "inappropriate attire."
- Some of the best comedies are about guys dressing up as girls. But for every "Some Like It Hot" and "Tootsie" there are a lot of dumb, unfunny drag movies like "Sorority Boys" and "Juwanna Mann."
- In less than three weeks, voters in Kalamazoo will decide the fate of the ordinance that seeks to add anti-discrimination protections for city residents who are gay or transgender. The measure has inspired an intense, if mostly underground, opposition.
- A Georgia transgender woman filed a lawsuit late in September because she was fired from her job as a legislative editor for the Georgia General Assembly because she announced her intent to transition from male to female.
- The transition from one gender to another is difficult, according to Cici Eberle, but well worth it for transgender people engaged in identity crisis.
- EDMONTON - The Alberta Human Rights Commission has accepted a complaint made against a local Catholic school board by a substitute teacher who says he was dismissed from teaching for changing his gender.
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Authorities Are Looking at Web site on Pedophiles That May Explain What Motivated Grifter
- Transsexual actor Vanessa Van Durme has turned her life story into a critically acclaimed touring show
- Transsexuals in Uruguay will soon be able to legally register a change of name and gender after the country's senate approved a controversial bill.
- A transsexual from Egham who has suffered abuse from local youths for two years is hoping to be relocated by Runnymede Council.
- President Obama's speech this past weekend made it "abundantly clear" that America is looking at "a new era for civil rights for LGBT people," said one gay rights advocate.
- Screen Actors Guild members, SAG's National LGBT Actors Committee, and SAG staff marched with thousands of activists from around the country today in Washington D.C. as part of the National Equality March, which coincided with National Coming Out Day.
- Two men have been arraigned on charges of assault as a hate crime after an alleged rock-throwing attack on a transgender female in Queens on Wednesday night.
- The murder case of transsexual Melek K. who was killed in her home in Ankara was continued. The prosecutor claimed to try defendant T.P. under six different charges such as murder, plunder, theft and further allegations.
- The House voted Thursday in favor of expanding hate crimes protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The bill was attached to the 2010 Defense Authorization bill.
- A recently filed deposition is shedding new light on the discrimination lawsuit filed against legislative leaders by a transgender woman who was fired from her job as an editor for the Georgia General Assembly.
- A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital's budget.
- Smith is not a women's college. The confines of the gender binary are constantly blurred and redefined, as we educate one another on pronoun usage, testosterone injections and the day-to-day tribulations of what it means to be in transition.
- CCTV has many critics - some argue it undermines our civil liberties and has fostered a surveillance society, others claim it is ineffective and rarely secures convictions in the courts.
- Alex Reid has insisted that claims that he likes to dress up as a girl called Roxanne were invented by Katie Price.
- Last month, East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer became the butt of many jokes after photos of him dressed in women's lingerie were distributed throughout the community.
- What was Jonathan Escobar wearing that violated the school’s dress code according to school officials?...Girls Clothes.
- The cage fighter is said to have confessed to Price that he has worn girls' clothes in private since the age of sixteen.
- Two weeks ago, a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students at the K-State Salina Campus requested the Salina Campus Student Governing Association bring a transgender speaker in to address the student body. The motion was tabled for a week, then tabled again. It is scheduled to be discussed again on Tuesday.
- In what some gay rights activists call a "significant show of support," the president will deliver the keynote address Saturday at the annual gathering of the Human Rights Campaign -- the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization.
- On Saturday two buses of UW-Madison students, in addition to Madison residents, will travel to Washington, D.C., for the National Equality March, which will take place on the Capitol lawn at noon on Sunday.
- Pink, the brand new gay, lesbian and transsexual club night, will be kicking off at Gloucester Guildhall on Monday 5 October 2009, with a resident DJ behind the decks.
- TAMPA — The Tampa City Council agreed Thursday to explore adding transgender people to individuals protected under the city's human rights ordinance.
- The election comes days after a scandal emerged involving the incumbent.
- EDMONTON — A transgendered substitute teacher fired by a Roman Catholic public school board has filed a human rights complaint demanding to be reinstated.
- Tippecanoe County's Human Relations Commission is investigating a discrimination complaint involving the Tippecanoe School Corp. and a transgender student.
- The gender identity bill that originally failed during the summer vote of the Student Government Association senate passed last Thursday, 23 to 3.
- A transsexual who was a woman but is now a man is attracted to women. What is his sexual orientation? After a small pause, one of the nearly two dozen people listening to Cynthia Martinez speak about the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement shouted "heterosexual."
- The Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center has launched a billboard campaign to celebrate National Coming Out Day and the center's 20-year-history.
- Kathmandu, Sep 27 (IANS) They became the first sexual minority in South Asia to wrest the right to same-sex marriage and have a say in the new constitution. Now Nepal’s transgender community is aiming to conquer the world outside by taking part in the international pageant for transgenders to be held in Thailand next month.
- BUENOS AIRES, Sep 26 (IPS) - A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights.
- The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline for endocrine treatment of transsexual persons.
- Scandalous boudoir pHOtos of East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewerhave surfaced just days before the primary elections.
- "Equality Update,’ which airs on local Quincy access cable station QATV (and can be watched online here), aims to bring to the media forefront issues pertaining to LGBT rights.
- When Vandy Beth Glenn, formerly Glenn Morrison, was summoned to her boss's office Oct. 16, 2007, she was not prepared for the exchange that followed.
- “You, and everything about you, is welcome in this house of God,” Pastor Kendal Brown declares as he removes thick-framed glasses to wipe sweat from his brow. “Welcome home.”
- SCOTLAND Yard is advertising for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender police to guard the Queen.
- CHICAGO - An Chicago gay bar popular with cross dressers now requires them to show a valid photo ID that matches their "gender presentation." Put another way, they now need a photo ID that shows them in drag.
- San Francisco, CA - A San Francisco group billing itself as "the best in LGBT media" is claiming hundreds of public schools in California have signed up to show its films and use accompanying discussion materials. One film features a boy "coming out" by wearing his mother's bikini. Another film incorporates Native American spiritualism to cast LGBT (le
- Sex-change experts are considering reviews to current UK guidelines that could see treatment with "hormone blockers" extended to under-16s and transgender surgery to under-18s.
- Standup comedian, and sometimes transvestite, Eddie Izzard is dropping in on Chicago next year for a little bit of a performance.
- COLUMBUS — Ohioans wanting to change their gender on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards no longer have to have their body parts medically altered, under a new policy introduced by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles this month.
- Hollywood, CA, September 18, 2009 --(PR.com)-- "Stock Shock" which follows the collapse of Sirius XM stock, introduces the satellite radio's founder: Martine Rothblatt--formerly known as Martin Rothblatt.
- A 12-year-old boy is preparing to have a sex change operation after returning to school following the summer break as a girl, it was claimed today.
- Arthur Robinson Williams wants his fellow medical students to know more about the unique challenges of patients who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.
- As local police to investigate Tyli’a "Na Na Boo" Mack’s murder, transgender activists and others in the District of Columbia continue to demand an end to anti-trans violence in the city.
- The controversial advertisements ran in the lead up to the 2007 Federal election.
- Tomas Alfredson will direct Nicole Kidman in sex-change drama The Danish Girl.
- Although few of the attendees at Elise Overland's SS10 show Sunday were the wiser, there was something off about the last look shown on Overland's runway.
- The Democratic National Committee voted unanimously on Friday to appoint a long-time New Jersey activist as its first transgender member.
- A FORMER miner who is thought to be Britain's oldest transsexual has been told to stop taking female hormone tablets after a doctor warned they could kill her.
- A former coal miner who spent half a century secretly dressing as a woman has 'come out' as Britain's oldest transsexual.
- Auto Insurer Recognized for Tradition of Diversity and Inclusion by Human Rights Campaign
- The 20th annual Pride Parade and celebration, which supports the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, was held at Finlay Park on Saturday.
- The Student Government Association voted 25-3 in the first of two voting sessions to reinstate the bill proposal that would include “gender identity and expression” to the SGA constitution last Thursday.
- CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Area residents who want to promote the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are welcome to join a new organization forming in the Kanawha Valley.
- In the following paper, the complexities of human sexuality are explored as it occurs within the present day Iran. Attention is given to the Islamic laws currently demanded and practiced in Iran, as well as issues such as the existence of Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenders (LGBT) and gender identity within the culture. %u2028Historical and cultural relevance is given to each issue exami
- From November 29, the Medical Council of Thailand will strictly enforce new regulations allowing only those transgendered people aged over 18 to undergo a sex-change operation, secretary general Dr Samphan Komrit said yesterday
- Woman wins court battle for father's approval to marry schoolfriend who has undergone sex-change operation
- Athlete Caster Semenya has both male and female organs, Australia's Sydney Morning Herald reported on Thursday.
- INTERNATIONAL: The Supreme Court yesterday reaffirmed a lower court’s suspended jail sentence for a man found guilty of raping a transgender woman.
- Healthcare was the issue at hand Wednesday afternoon at the Rainbow Center, but unlike the newspapers, speaker Richard Stillson, director of psychology at Cedarcrest Hospital, was not interested in discussing the president's proposed overhaul.
- LECCE, Italy, Sept. 10 (UPI) - A Catholic choirmaster in Italy who switched genders last year said she was fired from Lecce Cathedral after 18 years of service.
- They were a party of nine: five transgender women, two transmen, a gay man and a straight woman ally. They told friends, "We're going to Anaheim," not too far away from Disneyland.
- When the Oak Park Public Library ( OPPL ) evaluated its collections back in 2005, there was one glaring hole in its diversity collections. There were books and other materials for the "LGB" portion of the LGBT community, but there was very little for the "T."
- QUEBEC — The federal human rights tribunal ruled Tuesday that the Canadian Forces did not discriminate against Micheline Montreuil, one of Canada's best-known transgendered people, when they refused to enrol her.
- GLBT travel can seem like a circuit party that resolves around stops in Palm Springs, Provincetown and Key West. Will Atlantic City soon be part of that rotation? The folks who run Harrah’s Entertainment seem to hope so.
- NAMPA, Idaho — About a block from a street concert in downtown Nampa, Melissa Sue Robinson strolls with purpose into a trendy coffee shop — the unofficial liberal embassy of this sprawling Republican stronghold in southwest Idaho.
- FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth City Manager’s Diversity Task Force has endorsed the Human Rights Commission’s earlier recommendation that the city offer domestic partnership benefits to city employees.
- Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern made headlines when she warned the audience at a Republican fundraiser that “gays are infiltrating city councils” and “they are winning elections.”
- The High Court has ruled the refusal to move a transsexual inmate to ta woman's prison is a violation of her human rights.
- A south Indian city will host a Miss India contest for transgender people later this year.
- The WA Attorney-General will appeal against a court decision which allowed two women who have changed their gender to be legally considered men, despite still having female reproductive organs.
- A new programme has been developed in Scotland to try and address high levels of depression, anxiety and self harm among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population.
- With its name alone, the Queer Iowa Showcase 2009 certainly grabs attention.
- Sacramento – Today, the California State Senate joined the Assembly in passing the Equal ID Act by a 22-14 vote. The bill, AB 1185, sponsored by Equality California (EQCA) and introduced by Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), expands legal protections for transgender people born in California.
- A New England-based pro-family organization is concerned about a situation in Vermont involving bathroom arrangements at schools.
- CHENNAI: About 150 beauties with a difference will congregate in the city when it hosts the first Miss India contest for transgenders on December 19, 2009.
- On Wednesday, Aug. 26, one person was killed and another critically injured in a daytime stabbing outside 209 Q St. NW. In the hours following the homicide, police and reporters gathered witness testimony, formed a description of the suspect, and chased likely motives. This time, cops and journalists were also forced to devote resources to another developing story: the gender of the vic
- No one in Lido di Classe can remember why transsexuals first chose to migrate to their town 20 years ago, but their nocturnal activities are starting to worry the village's increasingly elderly residents. Michael Day reports
- NORTHAMPTON - When the contestants in the Miss Trans Northampton Pageant present themselves on the stage of the Northampton Center for the Arts next month, Christa L. Hilfers does not expect a lot of hooting.
- UDUCHERRY: Transgenders, often distanced by society, will soon have a clinic functioning exclusively for them in this former French enclave,
- A Wednesday attack on two transgender women has left one dead, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, who have "tentatively classified this case as a potential hate/bias related crime."
- WASHINGTON -- One transgender person died after two were stabbed in Northwest Wednesday afternoon, according to police sources
- Kalki Subramanian is young, liberated and looking for an Indian man who is loving, compassionate, educated. Oh, and one more thing — he should be OK with marrying a transsexual.
- The long slow process of preparing a Bill to address legal identity and discrimination issues for transgender people has not made many headlines lately, but it continues nonetheless. Allyson Hamblett of Genderbridge, one of several groups and many individuals calling for the law to be updated, offers a progress report.
- (Queerty) When we demanded back in June for elected bigot Sally Kern to get the hell out of office, little did we know that a transgender attorney might be the one to help the cause.
- Melissa Sue Robinson, a transgender candidate for mayor of Nampa, Idaho, plans to sue Twitter after someone created a false account under her name and posted lewd information, reports KTRV-TV.
- A Tucson man was convicted of assault and disorderly conduct Monday for attacking a transsexual Vietnam veteran, who testified that her assailant mocked her before the attack.
- BUENOS AIRES, Aug 22 (IPS) - Keeping a hospital appointment in the Argentine capital is a far less fearsome ordeal for transgender persons, a sector of the population that according to doctors had "dramatic" statistics of illness, when they are accompanied by trained health promoters who, like them, have chosen a different gender identity.
- As a human rights group publishes details of a bloody campaign of hate being waged against gays in Iraq, Rami Abdelrahman speaks to members of a recently founded initiative for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Arabs in Sweden.
- Salt Lake City resident Candice Metzler wanted to let her work colleagues see the transition she already had begun in her personal life. Known to them as a man, Metzler wore mascara, eyeliner and white-tipped acrylic nails to a company barbecue.
- Former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler was evicted today from the National Trust farmhouse where he had been squatting.
- The apology, published today in Tasmania's three daily newspapers, followed a conciliation suggested by the state's anti-discrimination tribunal following a complaint by Martine Delaney.
- From the Philadelphia Gay News comes this disgusting story of Kate Lynn Blatt, whose employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment.
- The nation’s highest court removed some legal barriers confronting transsexuals making the switch from male to female.
- Transgendered people are not being fully served under the Canada Health Act, a physician and member of Parliament said Monday in Saskatoon.
- SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A laborer who became just the second person in the nation to be convicted of a hate crime in a transgender slaying drew a 25-year sentence Tuesday for shooting to death a Syracuse woman.
- CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu, the first State to have an exclusive Transgender Welfare Board, is all set to fulfil their demands of ration cards, passport and voter ID cards.
- MELBOURNE - Two Australian transsexuals have won legal recognition as men even though they still have female reproductive organs, it was reported Tuesday.
- Suspect in Saks case was wearing woman's clothes.
- The Idaho Department of Corrections has settled lawsuits filed by two transgender inmates who were denied feminizing hormone therapy.
- When she was first found — seen through the cracked opening of a Trinidad motel room door — she was lying on the floor naked, bleeding and bound at the hands and feet with telephone cords.
- Kalki Subramanian is young, educated and liberated. She is searching for a suitable boy, “one who is loving, compassionate, educated but not necessarily rich and most certainly an Indian.”
- New flight requirements will mandate that all passengers declare their full name, age, and gender to book travel, leaving some transgender advocates worried about the implications to come.
- TRINIDAD - Police are investigating the alleged rape and attempted murder of a transsexual man visiting Trinidad for a sex-change pre-operation procedure.
- County officials in Sichuan province have been outed for allegedly using the public purse to pay for a shemale show in Thailand five years ago, Newssc.org reported on Friday.
- West Hollywood, California (Thursday, August 13, 2009) - Only 25 years young, the West Hollywood again takes the lead in moving human rights advocacy forward by creating the first-ever official municipal advisory body focusing on transgender people.
- A female inmate serving time in a Fraser Valley men's prison is demanding Corrections Canada approve her sex-change operation — and pay for it.
- Having resigned this week from the city's Police Commission due to her becoming executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Theresa Sparks is switching roles from being an outsider at City Hall to being part of Mayor Gavin Newsom's administration.
- CAMDEN -- A Jersey City man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbing nine banks in New Jersey and Connecticut while dressed in women's clothing over the course of five months.
- A transgender, Slemeh heads a transgender support programme in Malaysia that works under the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) - an informal alliance of sex workers and organisations active in 40 countries.
- By executive order Tuesday, Gov. Jack Markell broadened anti-discrimination bans in state government workplaces to include gender identity and expression.
- BOSTON — A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday denied additional hair-removal treatments for a murderer who is seeking a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation, saying the inmate has failed to prove she will suffer "serious harm" without further electrolysis.
- NORFOLK, MA (WPRI) - A convicted killer has been waiting for years for a federal judge to rule on a request for a sex-change operation. Now a judge is going to hear a request from the inmate to have laser hair removal.
- The Harry Potter star has made a substantial donation to The Trevor Project, a US helpline for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and 'Questioning' teenagers.
- An inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act is now on the move in the U.S. Senate. Long-time sponsor Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced the bill on Aug. 5 along with Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).
- It's hard to say for sure how many of the 80 or so transgender Washingtonians who change their driver's-license information each year might be terrorists.
- The city of Fort Worth, Texas is considering an ordinance that would ban discrimination based on gender identity, gay weekly the Dallas Voice reported.
- Television makes being gay look easy and maybe on a Hollywood sound stage it is. The reality is many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community face more than their share of everyday struggles and challenges.
- Television makes being gay look easy and maybe on a Hollywood sound stage it is. The reality is many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community face more than their share of everyday struggles and challenges.
- Television makes being gay look easy and maybe on a Hollywood sound stage it is. The reality is many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community face more than their share of everyday struggles and challenges.
- Television makes being gay look easy and maybe on a Hollywood sound stage it is. The reality is many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community face more than their share of everyday struggles and challenges.
- SALEM: Tai Vighudugal Federation has provided transgenders in the Salem district with a chance for self-employment with a soft loan of Rs 9 lakh to start a chain of idli shops.
- Aug 07, 2009 – While some members of the crossdress, transgender, transsexual and transvestite community are completely out to the general public, the majority still keep their lifestyle choice as a private matter.
- BOISE, Idaho – The Idaho Department of Correction has settled lawsuits with two transgender inmates who castrated themselves after they were denied feminizing hormone therapy.
- "For being both a transsexual and Native American, life can be somewhat tough, but I'm tougher," said James, who has dual American and Canadian citizenship.
- A play portraying Jesus as a transsexual is set to run in a Glasgow Theatre – funded by the same public body behind an exhibition inviting the public to deface the Bible.
- A man arrested and charged in the slaying of a transsexual told reporters that he stabbed the victim after they had an argument.
- A hair stylist has filed suit charging he was fired from his salon job because he wears high heels and women's clothes and does not "conform to stereotypes regarding how males should appear and behave."
- Democrat Jeff Merkley of Oregon introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in the U.S. Senate today. It marked the first time that a transgender-inclusive version of the bill has been introduced in the Senate. An inclusive version of ENDA was introduced in the House in June. Read the full press release from the Human Rights Campaign.
- After hours of debate Monday night, the Silverton City Council has decided to censure its transgender mayor.
- A new report released Thursday shows that one in five LGBT Minnesotans lack health insurance. PFund, a foundation committed to strengthening Minnesota’s LGBT community, commissioned the study (pdf) including a survey by Rainbow Health Initiative of 1,100 LGBT Minnesotans about their health and health care.
- Brooks, a transsexual known to neighbors as “Karen,” was found dead of multiple stab wounds Sunday in his West Fourth Street apartment, Hattiesburg Police spokesman Synarus Green said. Fortune and Brooks had lived together in the apartment for six months.
- A man who held up a service station wearing a blue dress and a pink wig has been sentenced to three years' jail.
- A transgender taxi driver has landed a new job within months of being allegedly sacked for wearing nail polish and a skirt.
- PORTAGE -- Minister, professor and transgender male Sam Bullington and his wife, Angie Galik, a fellow minister, will talk about their experiences at an open forum at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church, 10441 Shaver Road.
- While nondiscrimination legislation is faring well at the federal and local levels, members of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition(TTPC) continue to keep the pressure on at the state level, as well.
- Eva-Genevieve Scarborough did not have to give up her Christian faith when she transitioned from male to female. Nor did she have to give up attending church, although she was afraid that she might.
- Porn actress Stormy Daniels -- senate-bound, if fans have their say - and cross dressing Mayor Stu Rasmussen are just the tip of the iceberg of colorful politicians. Is American politics shifting from stuffy to lively or has dirty politicking merely found a new low?
- PORTLAND: A proclamation is on the agenda for Thursday, July 30th at the Multnomah County Commisioners Office for an approval designating August 1st - August 7th as Transgender Americans Week in Multnomah County.
- Milan, Italy, Jul 29, 2009 / 04:12 pm (CNA).- Police in Milan detained a Brazilian transsexual on Sunday after he stripped naked in front of the altar during Mass and began to attack the priest who was presiding over the Mass.
- The Swedish Board for Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has launched a review of the healthcare alternatives available to transsexuals seeking to change gender.
- The controversial topic of equal rights among gays, lesbians and transgenders has been brought to light recently, as "Jeremy" met with George Washington High School officials in hopes to get closure on the issue.
- WAKEFIELD - Local state legislators have signed on as co-sponsors of a bill that would add protection for transgender people, which is a general term most often associated with a person whose gender identity — his or her self-identification as a particular gender — does not match the person’s physical or genetic gender. It does not refer to the person’s sexual or
- KITCHENER — Janet Merner hasn’t had an easy life. As a transsexual, she says she’s been teased, denied jobs and, most recently, forced to quit school because of constant harassment.
- NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A Queens cop was wounded when he waded into an ugly battle between a transsexual and her lover yesterday and a gun accidentally discharged, authorities said.
- Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is taking on his most ambitious project yet — putting together his own backup band with a selection of undiscovered musicians in his new show, Making His Band, which premiers tonight on MTV.
- ounselling the transgender, Bharathi (26), took part and was issued the admit card.
- HOUSTON (KTRK) -- There was a landmark celebration for a center that's thought to be the first of its kind anywhere.
- Outgames 2009 is underway in Copenhagen. The event will last through August 2. World Outgames 2009 is an international sports, cultural and human rights event highlighting and celebrating the vitality in the global LGBT environment (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender). It also aims to stress the importance of the freedom of all people.
- A Vallejo couple has formed a new parents group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual families.
- A transsexual killer who tried to rape a woman is using legal aid to fight for a transfer from a men's prison to a women's jail.
- The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady: Love and Mistaken Identity in Shakespeare” seeks to provide a contextual introduction to Shakespeare’s often-visited realm of cross-dressing.
- At a Tuesday public hearing las week on a transgender protections bill in Massachusetts, lawmakers heard the same old arguments used earlier in the year in North Dakota, Florida and even neighboring New Hampshire.
- Guidelines include recommendations for hormone therapy, surgery and long-term care for all ages.
- He spent his early years in a boys' home and could not read properly until he was an adult. But he went on to earn a BA first class honours and PHD in law.
- AT A HEARING at the State House last week, supporters of a bill to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression outlined the myriad barriers that confront transgender people - those who are born male but live as females, or vice versa.
- Noble and her best friend, Jill Hardman, are walking across the nation, living on the street, to raise awareness of an alarmingly large segment of the homeless population: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths.
- CALGARY - Members of the Calgary Police Service attended a workshop on transsexualism Wednesday conducted by a transgendered officer from the U. K. to learn more about diversity issues.
- Silverton Mayor Stu Rasmussen's clothing choices are at the center of a formal complaint filed Friday with the city council president.
- LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) %u2015 When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher at two southern New Jersey school districts, was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it caused an uproar.
- Transgender activists have welcomed the decision to reopen the Gender Dysphoria Clinic at the Monash Medical Centre.
- CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A crossdresser on the run from police tells officers he will turn himself in as soon as he recovers from plastic surgery.
- Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A new report has found an estimated 200 transgendered persons were murdered from January 2008 to June 2009; which is enough to say that every three days a transgendered person is killed somewhere in the world.
- SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A jury on Friday convicted a man of manslaughter as a hate crime for killing a transgender woman he shot outside a house party last year.
- Metro Detroit's drag scene will bid farewell to one of its shining stars at 9 p.m. July 24 at the Royal Oak store Five15 Media, Mojo and More.
- ISLAMABAD - Transgender Pakistanis need to enjoy the same protections under the Constitution as any other citizen, ruled Pakistan's Supreme Court reports The Dawn newspaper.
- Transgender activists and others from across Massachusetts gathered on Beacon Hill on Tuesday in support of a bill that would add gender identity and expression to the Commonwealth’s anti-discrimination and anti-hate crimes laws.
- In just his first week as the 3rd Suffolk’s state representative, Aaron Michlewitz has signed on to co-sponsor legislation that would ban discrimination against transgender people in the Commonwealth. House bill 1728, known as the "Act relative to gender-based discrimination and hate crimes," has 105 other co-sponsors from both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- Yang Sisi feels he is different. He has been aware of it for many years and knows in his heart there is only one solution: an operation to make him a woman.
- New guidelines from the Endocrine Society call for close and continued collaboration between endocrinologists and mental health professionals for the treatment of transsexual people.
- A cross-dressing Lacombe man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting a friend to death during a dispute over $20.
- JOHOR BARU: A 26-year-old man was fined RM25 by a Magistrates Court here on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to dressing up like a woman.
- German teen transsexual Kim Petras has arrived in the UK in a bid to launch a pop career.
- STRASBOURG, July 13, 2009 – Jerzy Buzek, the former Polish Prime Minister and now an MEP, has today pledged to defend the rights of gay and transgendered men and women.
- Without a vote from shareholders, one of America's largest corporations has decided to grant its transgender employees special protected status.
- CAMDEN, N.J., July 13 (UPI) -- Authorities in Camden County, N.J., say they do not know how a 21-year-old Arkansas transgender woman died in a home where voodoo rituals took place.
- MASSACHUSETTS (WPRI) - A Massachusetts bill that would ban discrimination against transgendered people is getting a public hearing this week.
- A new and positive change will soon be underway in the workplace. Legal representatives of President Obama are brainstorming guidelines to stop the discrimination of transgender employees.
- SYRACUSE, N.Y. - It was no secret to friends and family that Lateisha Green was born a boy. She had been living and dressing mostly as a female since age 16.
- A NATIONAL transgender celebration was held in Manchester.
- A spokesperson for the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia has said that she doesn’t think the code of ethics governing pharmacists permits a pharmacy to deny its services to transgender people.
- Cher's son Chaz Bono (who used to be her daughter) and girlfriend walk the red carpet at Outfest.
- Queens District Attorney Says Justice Will Be Served In Hate Crime Committed Against Haitian Immigrant
- Police in Baltimore have stepped up efforts to cut down on prostitution in the city's 'Old Goucher' neighborhood.
- Two officers will face disciplinary charges for allegedly falsifying documents to allow them to bug homes and telephones while investigating the deaths of transsexual prostitute Adele Bailey in 1978 and Jennifer Tanner, the sister-in-law of former detective Denis Tanner, in 1984.
- The local group is creating network of therapists, doctors and experts as well as educating public
- Famed transsexual singer Dana International has been accused of unleashing a torrent of racial abuse and threats this week against a pregnant, dark-skinned woman who recently immigrated from Britain.
- FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - Fredericksburg police have arrested three men, dressed as women, for credit card theft.
- A transgender man convicted in 2003 of operating an illegal silicone injection operation that led to the death of a 53-year-old Miami secretary has been arrested in Flagler County.
- (CN) - The New York Post did not commit libel when it reported on the alleged sexual fantasies of a transgendered model who was suing a billionaire for sexual exploitation, a New York appellate division ruled.
- Fighting crime is just part of the job description for superheroes. In a colorful marketing campaign, a new group of super characters is promoting awareness of Colorado laws protecting civil rights and equality.
- Controversy surrounds the finding by the Maine Human Rights Commission that a transgendered child should have been allowed to use the girls’ bathroom because she identifies as female.
- (AP) — BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - The newest inpatient mental health and addiction program at Brattleboro Retreat is the first in New England designed exclusively for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.
- BANGALORE, India -- Popping out of an auto rickshaw, Manohar Elavarthi unloaded a backpack stuffed with protest posters. Soon he would be rushing to a street demonstration, one that would bring together low-caste Dalit activists, Gandhians, cross-dressers and members of domestic workers unions.
- Lawrence couple Jessica and Jay Pryor have a laugh after dinner Tuesday on the back porch of their Lawrence home. Jay, who is a female-to-male transsexual, left Kansas 10 years ago as a woman who had fought for sexual orientation to be added to the city’s anti-discrimination policy. Now Jay is back in Lawrence speaking out as a transsexual fighting for gender identity status to be adde
- Ireland's most high-profile transsexual has revealed that she has reunited with her family whom she once claimed had disowned her.
- Corey Holloway missed out on his high school prom, but he's making up for it now that he's 20 and out of school. Decked in a short white dress with little polka dots on a recent night, his nails were nicely done and his makeup freshly applied.
- School reunions can be a nerve-racking experience for anyone. So spare a thought for the 39-year-old Brisbane anti-spamming expert Michelle Sullivan, who will next week travel to her former home town in the English county of Norfolk to see her past schoolmates for the first time in more than two decades.
- BOSTON (WBZ) %u2015They call themselves transgendered -- people who are attempting to become members of the opposite sex.
- NEW YORK –- Leslie Mora, a transgender woman, was walking to her home in Queens at 3:00 a.m. when she was brutally attacked by two Latino men who left her on the ground naked and bleeding, reports El Diario/La Prensa.
- Bangalore, July 3 (IANS) As they celebrate the Delhi High Court’s verdict decriminalising gay sex, there is relief among Bangalore’s sexual minorities. But there is pain, too, as the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community recounts stories of suffering and discrimination over the years.
- Washington, D.C.--Two Ohio lawmakers joined their gay and lesbian colleagues Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Jared Polis of Colorado bringing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act back to the House of Representatives.
- AUGUSTA (July 1): Which restroom one is allowed to frequent in Maine has become a topic of heated debate at the Human Rights Commission, whose decisions ultimately influence such matters at businesses, schools and government places throughout the state.
- With all the media coverage lately around Gay Pride events, as well as around marriage equality, it is ironic that so little is really known about the lives and health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
- With all the media coverage lately around Gay Pride events, as well as around marriage equality, it is ironic that so little is really known about the lives and health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
- TEMPO Interactive, Yogyakarta: Around 350 transsexuals in Yogyakarta have agreed to abstain from voting in the presidential election on July 8.
- Diva sports a beard and a hoodie as she shoots a video for new single Obsessed in response to rap star's song Bagpipes from Baghdad
- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is not going to fight a nearly $500,000 judgment for a Library of Congress hiree who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman.
- That little “M” or “F” sticker identifying a rider’s gender is enough to cause economic hardship, harassment and lack of access to public transportation for the transgender community, according to Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE).
- KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A heated debate over glbt rights has wrapped up in Kalamazoo and not everyone is happy with the decision.
- BOULDER, Colo. -- The Boulder Police Department is looking for a cross-dressing man wearing clown makeup who robbed a liquor store on Saturday night.
- BHUBANESWAR: People belonging to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups took out a rally here on Saturday, demanding their right to life and dignity.
- ATLANTA -- A federal judge has cleared the way for a discrimination lawsuit by a filed by a former state employee who claimed she was fired because she was undergoing a sex-change procedure.
- First they will march. Then they will celebrate.
- A transsexual from Nottinghamshire has won her fight with the NHS to be given hormone treatment and surgery to change sex from a man to a woman.
- This summer, Anna Hathaway takes the stage in New York City as Viola in Shakespeare’sTwelfth Night.
- Workshops & Presentations @ Capital University Law School and entertainment at Wall Street Night Club
- Today is the fourth annual Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice. A rally to the Stonewall Inn is planned for this afternoon to “let the world know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the rebellion is not over.” We speak with transgender activist, Mya Leilani Vazquez.
- A Nelson man dressed up as a woman before taking to the streets and indecently assaulting a teenager last year, a court has heard.
- KERRY WASHINGTON credits playing a transgender woman in new film LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN with ending her battle to stay slim in size zero-obsessed Hollywood.
- U.S. Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson, both Democrats from the Atlanta area, are the only two Congress members from Georgia to sign on as co-sponsors to an employment non-discrimination bill that includes protections for gay and transgender people.
- Being gay on Staten Island is easier now than it used to be, according to any one of the dozens of teens who come through the doors of the Staten Island Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center.
- Historians have long credited poor and working class drag queens, bull dykes and other transgender and gender-non-conforming people as key participants in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, but within the wider LGBT community that defining moment is all-too-often remembered as a gay, rather than LGBT, milestone.
- It’s been 40 years since the death of Judy Garland and the (arguably unrelated) Stonewall Riots, a violent police raid on a New York bar that’s often seen as the beginning of the gay rights movement. To mark the anniversary, Edinburgh’s foremost LGBT theatre group, The Luvvies, has devised This Year’s Thing, a play that director and co-writer Martin Walker says is &ls
- The Miss Gay USofA 2009 DVD's for Final Night are now available online.
- US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Saudi authorities on Wednesday to drop charges against 67 Filipino men facing charges for dressing in women's clothes and alcohol violations.
- Androgyny is all the rage these days, as men seem to be having less and less trouble getting in touch with their feminine sides lately, but for actor Liev Schreiber, getting in touch with his feminine side means starting from the outside, in
- Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin introduced the Ending Health Disparities for LGBT Americans Act (ELHDA) on Tuesday, the first comprehensive approach to improving all areas of the health care system where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans face inequality and discrimination.
- The Obama administration is moving forward with federal guidelines to protect transgender workers, the New York Times reported.
- A Russian man has killed the girlfriend that he lived with for two years after finding out that she once was a man.
- THE inquiry enveloping the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has widened to include up to 30 women, a transsexual reality TV host, a female pimp already known to authorities - and claims of party guests who were known cocaine users.
- A gang of armed thieves — some of them men dressed as women — swiped an estimated $118 million in jewelry from a Harry Winston store near the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
- Join us on Wednesday, June 24 for a conference call to get all of the up to the minute details about the introduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
- MEXICO CITY – Thousands of Mexicans marched peacefully through central Mexico City in the 31st Gay Pride March at which they demanded improvements in gay rights, watched over by some 1,500 police.
- Dear Abby, I have a burning desire to dress my husband in lingerie. Am I crazy?
- GREELEY, COLO. — The case of a Colorado man charged with beating a transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher has gone to the jury.
- Apparently, Tyrese is all over twitter sticking up for Megan Fox. He is booting people off his account and hinting toward being in a swirl love with her:
- Members of the transgender community spoke to about 40 people Thursday night at a forum aimed at increasing awareness about transgender issues.
- A Brooklynman accused of dressing as his dead mother to collect $1 million in benefits and loans kept a casket in his living room, investigators said.
- Alexis Arquette sits down with ET and talks about being transgender, telling Chaz Bono "I hope that Chaz can understand that he is not alone and he's never been alone and anyone like him will never be alone."
- Grace and persistence under almost unendurable circumstances have earned Victor Juliet Mukasa a place at the head of this year's Pride parade.
- A CLOSE friend of David Carradine and and ex FBI agent has claimed he was drugged and murdered by a brutal, flirtatious pair of Thai Lady Boys.
- BEIJING - To change gender in China costs more than money. One must be free of a criminal record and be single if he or she wants to have a sex change, the Ministry of Health said Tuesday in a new regulation.
- APPLETON (AP) - A judge has scheduled a November jury trial in a civil lawsuit filed by a biracial, transgender person against an Appleton nightclub.
- MADRID -- A Spanish transsexual who was pregnant with twins has suffered a miscarriage, a Spanish newspaper said yesterday.
- Transgender activists say they’re hopeful that Chastity Bono’s very public gender transition will generate widespread discussion and raise awareness of gender identity issues.
- The eighth-annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference kicked off this week, with three days full of workshops, seminars, film screenings and activities meant to educate and empower the transgender community and its supporters.
- SACRAMENTO - Following nearly a week's worth of silence and with over a dozen advertisers lost, a Sacramento-based radio program returned to the airwaves with an apology in response to some off-color comments that drew national attention and criticism.
- Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, is undergoing a sex change, Usmagazine.com has learned.
- BEND, Ore., June 10 (UPI) -- Oregon resident Thomas Beatie, a transgender man born a female, has given birth to his second child, sources told "20/20."
- A group of teens beat a transgender person and threatened to kill her Saturday on Rainier Avenue, according to Seattle police.
- The woman concerned is serving a sentence for rape and still has male genitalia
- This trans thing I’ve been writing about isn’t some modern invention, folks. Transgendered people have been around since the dawn of time (at least I have — or I feel like it most days).
- Eleven Advertisers Pull from KRXQ following GLAAD Call to Action against Anti-Transgender Remarks
- Religious institutions gathered in western Massachusetts last Thursday to show their support to add gender identity and expression to the Commonwealth’s anti-discrimination statutes
- SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as "freaks" with mental disorders.
- Looking back at some of the biggest moments in LGBT history since Stonewall
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CHENNAI: When Shakthi Sundar was filling up the application form for a course in Madras Christian College, she noticed that the application form had a third option in gender - transgender.
- Syracuse, NY -- County Judge William Walsh today upheld the constitutionality of the state's hate crime law in the murder prosecution of Dwight DeLee.
- Even gay-friendly health care organizations often lack nondiscrimination policies.
- US president reconfirms his promises to end workplace discrimination, repeal ban on gays in military
- A gay rights media watchdog group is demanding an apology for remarks aired during a radio segment on transgender kids broadcast on Sacramento's KRXQ radio station.
- A string of violence against transgender women in Memphis, Tennessee continues to haunt the southern city.
- Even by the flexible moral and professional standards of American talk radio, the May 28th segment of KRXQ Sacramento's Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning radio talk show makes for a sickening half-hour of ugliness and cruelty
- Transgender delegates from around New Zealand met in Wellington at the weekend to share stories, network and help build the transgender community. .
- EYEBROWS were raised in a Westcountry courthouse yesterday when a man turned up for a divorce settlement wearing a dress, wig and stockings.
- LONDON (Reuters) - Cabaret and theater star Danny La Rue, who famously impersonated the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Zsa Zsa Gabor during 60 years in showbusiness, has died aged 81.
- Transgender star Ha Ri-su has opened up a transgender club, "Mix-trans" at Apgujeong-dong in southern Seoul. On May 13, she posted the news on her personal homepage.
- Zac Efron wants to wear women's clothing.
- A TRANSSEXUAL taxi driver claims she has been sacked for wearing skirts and nail polish.
- In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months.
- In the space of one year, the Supreme Court promulgated two decisions on similar issues: whether a man can become a woman. In one case, the man lost; in another, the man is now a woman.
- DUNEDIN — When a team of African-American police officers came down from Chicago 20 or 25 years ago to compete in the Highland Games tug-of-war, a local restaurant refused to serve them, City Attorney John Hubbard said.
- CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati police are searching for a gunman accused of shooting a male crossdresser while trying to steal his purse.
- Back in 2007 the Department of Public Health (DPH) took its LGBT youth programs in a bold new direction, focusing its resources on segments of the LGBT youth population thought to be at greatest risk for health and safety problems: youth of color, transgender youth and homeless youth.
- The transgender community faces greater discrimination in public than any other LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – individuals, according to speakers at a public discussion in Jakarta on Wednesday.
- OAKLAND — The city should offer municipal identification cards to illegal immigrants, underage runaways and transgender individuals, according to a proposal Tuesday from city Councilmembers Ignacio De La Fuente and Jean Quan.
- A serial cross-dressing burglar who broke into a house in Lancashire and filmed himself wearing a schoolgirl's underwear has been jailed indefinitely.
- A school in Utah has sent a student home after alleging the student was promoting cross dressing by wearing a kilt.
- In Thailand, transgender males, also called lady-boys, are a common sight in cities and tourist areas.While many transgenders work in traditionally female professions such as in cabaret shows or Thailand's notorious sex industry, most are looking for better integration in Thai society. But, despite their high visibility, transgenders still face challenges in seeking acceptance.
- Panel considering proposed law seeks information on transgendered
- Deeply concerned about the profound discrimination experienced by Kenya's transgender community, Audrey Mbugua berates Kenyan society for its unjust treatment of a marginalised group.
- The largest representative group of elementary teachers in Canada is calling on the Ontario government to enshrine new legislation into the curriculum. That is not unusual in itself, but this time the group is looking at the ‘Rainbow coalition’, or what is commonly known these days as LGBT.
- AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Human Rights Commission decided Monday that a transgender woman was discriminated against at a Denny’s restaurant in Auburn when management would not let her use the ladies room until she had sex reassignment surgery.
- A group of transgender community leaders and their allies will protest the American Psychiatric Association conference Monday night in San Francisco.
- SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A Los Angeles-based production company plans to pitch a reality show about Silverton's transgender mayor to television networks, but there is concern about potential ethical implications.
- (Omaha, NE) -- An Omaha couple is allowing their 8-year-old son to openly live life as a girl. It’s a decision that means the child is no longer able to attend Catholic school.
- OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An Omaha therapist who's worked with more than 200 transgender people in the metro area says it's healthier to live as one's chosen gender when there's a discrepancy with the biological gender.
- San Francisco, CA - On Thursday May 21st, 2009, Renata Razza is offering a special Transgender Inclusion training. This introductory course is intended for individuals wishing to increase their ability to offer inclusive and nonjudgmental service to transgender clients or patients.
- Ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia (17 May), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a new UNAIDS Action Framework on Universal Access for Men who have Sex with Men and for Transgender People.
- Elementary teachers are calling on the Education Ministry to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual issues in school curriculum.
- Chennai , May 14 Eleven transgenders, who allegedly abducted a minor boy recently at Kovalam near here and forced him into prostitution after castrating him, were granted bail by a sessions court here today.
- The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission announced late last month that it amended its policy toward gender changes on licenses to facilitate the process for transgender individuals, allowing them to change their gender markers before their sexual-reassignment surgery is complete.
- The Equal ID Act, which would increase legal rights for the transgender community, passed the State Assembly Judiciary Committee by a 7-3 vote.
- Phyllis Randolph Frye has been fighting the good fight for LGBT rights for more than 30 years. She is the most high-profile transgender activist in Texas and is recognized around the country for her work. And now she is being recognized by her alma mater, no other than that bastion of machismo and heterosexuality, Texas A&M University.
- CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo T. Rittenberry and Jeffery Scott Phillips recently learned their 18-month marriage is invalid because the state considers both to be men.
- A transsexual woman from Nottingham has ended her week long hunger strike after NHS officials agreed to reconsider whether they can fund gender reassignment treatment.
- A transsexual from Nottinghamshire has warned she will end her life if she is refused hormone treatment on the NHS.
- A transgender federal air marshal has filed a lawsuit charging the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Air Marshal Service, and individuals within the agency with discrimination and violation of civil rights, the Transgender Community of Police and Sheriffs International announced on Monday.
- The Faculty Senate voted unanimously Friday to include "gender identity and expression" in the University's non-discrimination policy in hopes of protecting the rights of transgender students, faculty and staff.
- SACRAMENTO (CBS 5 / AP) The state Assembly has passed a bill requiring prison authorities to consider inmates' gender identity when making housing decisions.
- Creating Allies for Our LGBT Families is a joint project of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Institute for Welcoming Resources, COLAGE and Family Equality Council
- In September 2008 the New Zealand Parliament dedicated a committee room to the LGBT community. Named the Rainbow Room, the sentiment was supported by all major political parties.
- COLUMBIA – A group of 30 people met in 2003 with the goal of creating a singular meeting place for all of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups in Columbia. Finally on Saturday, that goal was accomplished with the opening of a small building at 907 E. Ash St.
- DENVER -- The man convicted last month of killing an 18-year-old transgender woman was sentenced to an additional 60 years in prison because he is a habitual offender, prosecutors said Friday.
- When it comes to gender confusion in film and TV, stories tend to fit into two categories: the first is drag, a staple of slapstick comedy from Some Like it Hot to that terrible Amanda Byrnes movie.
- Daniel Radcliffe, a.k.a. Harry Potter, 19, has a controversial brand new friend.
- A MAN accused of robbing a service station at gunpoint while wearing a pink wig and dress will appear in a Perth court today.
- Austria's Administrative High Court has struck down a law that blocked recognition of male-to-female transsexuals' new gender unless an individual's penis had been removed.
- AUGUSTA, Maine - May 5 - The momentum continues to build in favor of legislation granting marriage equality to same-sex couples in Maine. In the halls of the State House on Tuesday, leaders of the coalition backing the bill hailed the impressive vote in the House of Representatives sending the bill one big step closer to enactment.
- When the man who had always been a man walked in, well, that was a little strange. After all, this was registration for the fifth annual Transgender Job Fair at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center last week.
- Sophomore Jules Shendelman goes to Mills College, is genderqueer, and identifies with the pronoun "he." In a school that promotes "strong women, proud women, all women, Mills women," where does that leave genderqueer people like Shendelman?
- An Australian court has allowed a 17-year-old girl who believes she is a boy to have her breasts surgically removed, it was reported.
- MOST police forces use handcuffs to enforce the law but Welsh cops have recruited a transsexual in heels and lipstick to fight crime.
- EX swap soldier Jan Hamilton is joining Scotland's biggest police force.
- A California school district that has launched a website to "meet the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth" is just the tip of the iceberg of the agenda in the state's schools to teach children alternative sexual lifestyles, according to an activist.
- A TRANSSEXUAL stalker has been jailed for harassing a male nurse with unwanted visits, offensive letters and messages.
- Julia Serano, the innovative trans-feminist activist, biologist and author of "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity," presented a lecture Friday, April 24 titled, "Trans-Feminism: A Performance and Discussions." The lecture was sponsored by GLOW, and offered a trans-feminist critique on the socialization of gender and sexuality.
- FERNDALE - Over thirty local transpeople and supporters came out to Affirmations on Saturday, April 25, for the second annual Transgender Empowerment Day.
- Audrey Mbugua argues that the director's actions constitute a basic infringement of a person's human rights.
- OutFront!, an area organization dedicated to increasing the visibility and inclusion of the LGBT community in local government, closed down last month, but not before making a final contribution.
- WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while undergoing a gender change from man to woman.
- CONCORD – The New Hampshire Senate today unanimously rejected a bill that would have extended anti-discrimination laws to transgendered people.
- Students in a rhetoric class, which focuses on different gender theories, decided to put on a program called "Gender Unplugged" to challenge the views society has about gender and sexuality.
- LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- A transsexual who was recently hired as Lake Worth's city manager spoke to WPBF News 25's Jim Abath on her first day on the job.
- NEW YORK, NY April 27, 2009 —As the State Assembly takes up Governor Paterson's same-sex marriage bill tomorrow, the annual trek to Albany for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Equality and Justice Day has taken on new urgency.
- Cornerstone Policy Research has run a phone bank in six purplish Senate districts represented by Democratic senators, calling 8,000 or 9,000 randomly-selected people per district about gay marriage to ask "if they were in favor of protecting marriage between one man and one woman," said Kevin Smith, the conservative group's executive director.
- A 37-year-old financial consultant from Chile who this week became the first transsexual to compete in professional women's tennis since Renee Richards in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and who lost heavily to a British opponent, has told Telegraph Sport how she was encouraged to play by the American's story.
- "Rules,"Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "are not necessarly sacred, principles are." The incident that happened to me and my friends is an example of rules violating the principlies that motivate humanity to live in equality, to treat each other with respect , and to uphold each other's dignity.
- Several branches of the Ocean County Library will present programs to celebrate Gay and Lesbian Pride Month observed throughout June.
- A new, free gynecology program could provide more sensitive medical care for the transgender community in Chicago.
- CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - After listening to three hours of testimony, a New Hampshire Senate committee voted unanimously to recommend killing legislation extending anti-discrimination protections to transgender people.
- The Welsh Health Minister has approved plans for public funding of gender reassignment surgery.
- Chile’s national Andrea Paredes found herself in the center of a second curious story in world tennis. Paredes, who was born as a boy named Ernesto, underwent a sex-change surgery in 2000. She has been trying to become a professional tennis player and take part in ITF and WTA tournaments for nine years already, The Sovetsky Sportnewspaper wrote.
- Florida Atlantic University would become the latest state school to specifically protect gays and lesbians from harassment and discrimination, and one of the first to protect transgendered people, if a student plan succeeds.
- GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A jury has found a Thornton man guilty of first-degree murder in the beating death of a transgender woman.
- The Korean manager of a transvestite club in Tokyo was arrested for employing staff without appropriate visas, according to Sankei News (Apr. 22).
- The ACLU is threatening the Knox County, Tennessee, school system with a lawsuit if it does not meet their web demands.
- A SERIES of events promoting the mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people will take place in Edinburgh.
- Buenos Aires - Over three decades after Renee Richards became the first transsexual in professional tennis, a Chilean player is set to follow the same path in Buenos Aires. "It's a dream come true for me," Andrea Paredes told the Argentine daily Clarin.
- Gerri Cannon, a leading voice in proposed anti-discrimination legislation related to transgender people, might take the next step in her quest for equal rights.
- AUBURN - The Tranny Roadshow will bring its hip variety show to the First Universalist Church of Auburn on Sunday, April 26.
- The April 10 decision stemmed from a case brought by the Transgender Law Center on behalf of Gigi Marie Somers, a 67-year-old transgender woman born in California living in Kansas, according to a news release.
- Nationwide event raises awareness of anti-GLBT bullying
- On May 3, Gender Euphoria, Vancouver’s second annual celebration of gender, will take over Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street).
- MANILA, Philippines - When Cebuano transsexual Raquela Rios first met Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson online, she thought he was looking for romance, like she was. He gave her a movie role instead.
- CHICAGO — Sexual orientation and sexual labels. Gender crossing and gender bending. These aren't X-rated or adults-only topics but rather subjects that young people talk about as they figure out where they fit in, said a panel of experts at a weekend conference of the Council on Contemporary Families here.
- EDMONTON -- With controversy swirling over his province’s decision to stop funding sex-change operations, Alberta’s health minister mused publicly Tuesday about whether the province needs an expert panel to determine what qualifies as a medically necessary service.
- ALBANY, N.Y. -- The annual Northeast Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Conference is going on this weekend.
- Texas is considering a measure to stiffen penalties for harming transgendered people. The addition is to the state's hate crimes law and does more than just provide stiffer penalties, according to attorney Jonathan Saenz of the Free Market Foundation.
- TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, ie those whose gender identity differs from their birth gender, have high suicide rates, poor experience of healthcare systems and professionals, and disproportionately low earnings, a new European survey has found.
- Amherst could join Northampton as the only communities in western Massachusetts to offer protection to transgendered individuals through bylaws and ordinances.
- Ireland remains one of only two countries in Europe that fails to afford any legal recognition or rights to transgender people, a conference in Dublin heard today.
- GREELEY, Colorado (CNN) -- It started as a tryst, arranged online, in a quiet town in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. She was an 18-year-old transgender woman. He was a 32-year-old rough-and-tumble gang member.
- SALEM: 'Aravanis' (transgenders) in Salem are vying for their own space in the democratic process. About twenty-five of them have taken up field canvassing for DMDK candidate Azagapuram R Mohanraj.
- There is no shortage of candidates in the Indian presidential election, including one 45-year-old transsexual, who says it’s her sexual identity that will defeat the political heavyweights.
- After angering Alberta’s transsexual community by axing funding for gender reassignment surgery in the 2009 budget, provincial Health Minister Ron Liepert has backtracked a bit, saying people currently awaiting the surgery will have their procedures “funded to completion.”
- LA CROSSE, Wis. — Organizers say a lack of awareness on the unique health care needs of transgender and transsexual patients led to this week's conference at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
- POULSBO, Wash. – Poulsbo police and Seattle FBI agents are searching for a suspect who was dressed like a woman when he robbed the Kitsap County Credit Union on April 13.
- Police arrested three men for robbing a transvestite in Parañaque City, past midnight Tuesday.
- Police confirmed on Tuesday afternoon the identity of a homicide victim found near a local gay and lesbian bar. According to the Fayetteville Police Department, officers found transgender drag performer Imaje Devera (born Jimmy Ali McCollough), 34, shortly after midnight on April 14 in front of 119 Joseph St.
- LA CROSSE, Wis. - Organizers say a lack of awareness on the unique health care needs of transgender and transsexual patients led to this week's conference at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
- Yesterday morning, two young male to female transsexuals took to the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province. They carried banners saying: "I want to have a sex change and live my life as a woman" and "Even if I die from it, I want a sex change, one day as a woman would be worth it".
- As both a transsexual and an Alberta taxpayer I would very much prefer to see the controversy surrounding the delisting of gender reassignment surgery resolved before anything to the degree of legal or human rights actions have to be taken.
- GREELEY — Defense lawyers this week are likely to argue that Angie Zapata was killed because she finally unveiled her true self to the man she was dating.
- Prosecutors are worried that jury selection in next week's trial of a man accused of killing a transgender woman in Greeley in July has become a lot more complicated.
- "This," says Kris Wells, "could be the next Vriend case." The provincial government is about to drag all Albertans into yet another costly, shameful and needless legal battle - this time over the decision to stop funding sex-change surgery.
- Maryland's transgender residents are worried the legislature will adjourn for the second year in a row without taking action on a bill that would prohibit discrimination against them.
- The Swedish administrative court of appeals has granted a 28-year-old Sandviken transsexual the right to be called Immanuel.
- Concord, New Hampshire - April 9, 2009 The New Hampshire House has reversed its position, passing a bill that includes transgender individuals in the state's anti-discrimination law.
- OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Attacks against transgender people could be prosecuted as hate crimes under a bill approved Wednesday by Washington's Legislature.
- SILVERTON, Ore. -- The city's controversial mayor may be at the center of a new reality show.
- At her last job she was hired as a man and fired when he was about to get a sex change. Lake Worth is looking past the transgender controversy and hiring Susan Stanton as its city manager.
- The Maryland Catholic Conference has come out against the Maryland Senate Bill 566, legislation that would protect against discrimination of transgender persons in the state.
- Not all transsexuals are created equal -- at least not in B.C. Male-to-female transsexuals -- those born with male bodies who identify as women -- can have genital surgery paid for by the health care system.
- HARTFORD, Conn. - Transgendered Connecticut residents and supporters say they are not giving up their fight for specific protections in state laws.
- BOSTON (AP) - The debate over transgender bathrooms is heating up in Massachusetts.
- CHENNAI: Even as a section of the transgender community dissents the idea of having a job quota, Jeeva, a member of the Transgender Welfare Board and the Founding and Managing Trustee of the Chennai-based Transgenders Rights Association will put forth the demand for having 3 per cent job quotas exclusively for the transgender community. The organisation will formally field a proposal to the govern
- "According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Web site, the religion and faith program run by Knox has created “a weekly preaching resource that provides scriptural commentary to ministers and lay people interested in an ecumenical gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender perspective on the Bible."
- Lincoln, NE - Police arrested 43-year-old William Kaluf Saturday afternoon after someone complained to police a man was dressed in "provocative women's clothing" and reading porn in the park. The man told police what worried him, a toddler was with him.
- BUFFALO, NY - Buffalo Police tell News 4 that a man dressed as a woman robbed the M&T Bank at Main St. near Delavan Ave. in North Buffalo on Monday.
- An Onondaga County, New York grand jury has ruled the murder of a transgender woman was motivated by hate, possibly adding 5 years to the murderer's prison sentence, News 10 Now reports.
- The seventh annual One in Ten Film Festival will bring what organizer Tom Koerber said is much needed attention to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues at Penn State.
- Chennai , Apr 3 The CB-CID wing of Tamil Nadu police today arrested six transgenders on charges of abducting a boy and forcibly transforming him into a transgender to indulge in prostitution in Pune.
- ATLANTA (AP) — Twelve years heading the Salvation Army's downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transitioning into a female walked in.
- Something was very the matter. She didn't know what, at first, and didn't understand it all at once. Rather, it kind of came to her over time, like the realization that English isn't actually a universal language, the United States is not at the center of every classroom map, and airbrushing has a lot to do with anorexia.
- LANSING - As reported last week in Between The Lines, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced it will eliminate coverage of gender reassignment surgery in its single payer insurance program, effective immediately. That decision has the Coalition for Gender Equality calling for a re-examination of the decision.
- The little stick figures on the doors of public restrooms are an easy indicator for most people. It is supposed to come down to this: skirts are for girls and trousers are for boys. But for those who don't declare a gender, it's not so easy.
- LGBT people face unique and severe challenges in the prison system, including serious threats to their safety
- Ofcom has received more than 50 complaints about an episode of ITV comedy Moving Wallpaper over alleged transphobia.
- BEING an unmarried woman at the age of 25 was enough to attract the wrath of filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian's traditional Iranian family.
- A transgender woman in Idaho says police mistreated her and another transgender woman while in jail, reports the Times-News.
- Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) March 31, 2009 -- HealthForumOnline (HFO), a nationally-approved (APA, ASWB, NBCC, PSNA, CA-BBS) online provider of continuing education (CE) for psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses and other allied healthcare professionals announces the addition of a new online CE course, Health Care Needs and Health-Related Disparities: Building Cultural
- CAMDEN, N.J. - A Jersey City man has pleaded guilty to robbing banks in New Jersey and Connecticut while disguised as a woman.
- Transgender reality TV aspirant Samantha Stratford's dreams of becoming a true lady appear to have been dashed after missing the shortlist of contestants for the next season of Ladette to Lady.
- To help kick off its first annual Pride Week, the Wayne State Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance painted “the rock” in Gullen Mall.
- CLEARWATER — The wife of the Largo city manager fired after his sex change plans became public wants a divorce.
- Over the weekend, MediaTakeOut.com showed you a photo of Willy from Making The Band and a transsexual named Adrianna. It wasn’t clear whether they knew each other or not … but now Adrianna is speaking out to clear things up – sorta.
- Los Angeles, CA, March 30, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Principal Photography begins April 4th on Marlo Bernier’s transgender tale, Stealth, which spotlights both the unfortunate intolerance of society and the reinforcing power of acceptance.
- Derek Jones ’11 was dressed in drag from head-to-toe. He raided a friend’s closet earlier in the evening, and he emerged with a purple wig, black leggings paired with a multi-colored striped skirt, and high heels.
- Junior and 18 others will be honored for efforts to expand opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students
- Tapestry Theatre calls its annual airing of new mini operas, nurtured in its own laboratories, Opera to Go.
- Current policy requires transwomen to present as male
- Concord, New Hampshire - House lawmakers yesterday rejected a bill that would extend protection to transgender individuals under the state's anti-discrimination and hate-crimes laws. The bill failed by a 15-vote margin, largely along party lines.
- Several campus advocacy organizations opened up a dialogue about gender-identification issues on Thursday night on the Tempe campus.
- Donnett, a transgender student assigned to a female floor and female roommate in Brody Hall, said the arrangement would have been uncomfortable. And even when he succeeded in attaining a single room in another hall, Donnett said he felt out of place in his own room and uncomfortable in the bathroom he shared with two female suitemates.
- Mayor Bloomberg said Wednesday night he stands ready to ask the Legislature to allow gay marriage inNew York State, but doesn't know when the time will be right.
- A hearing date has been set for a human rights complaint by a transsexual against St. Catharines fitness club owner John Fulton.
- GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Voters in this university city went to the polls Tuesday in an election that could strip the local government's anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.
- The bill cleared a committee today and is headed to the Senate floor for a vote. Some have expressed concern over it, saying current law is sufficient, while others describe it as a way of clearing up vagueness and inconsistencies.
- On April 7 transgender people and their allies from across the state will come to Beacon Hill to lobby for the transgender rights bill, but the very next day their opponents, led by the anti-LGBT Coalition for Marriage and Family, will hold their own lobby day in opposition to the bill.
- About 200 transgender people are expected to meet in San Diego for a leadership summit on Friday.
- Chicago, IL — Frontrunners/Frontwalkers Chicago and the City ofChicago Commission on Human Relations' Advisory Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues invite members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities to a public meeting where information will be shared by representatives of Chicago 2016.
- A respected police officer, Anthony Barreto-Neto, was run off the police force in Hardwick, Vt., by constant harassment from fellow officers after they learned he had been born a woman.
- CHENNAI: From the second week of April this year, the world wide web will open up for transgenders to help in their search for life partners.
- TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - A bizarre overnight stabbing landed two cross dressing men behind bars. It happened Saturday morning on the 1400 block of Moore.
- Ruben Noe Coronado, 25, from Spain, postponed the process of becoming a man so that he could keep his female reproductive organs and give birth.
- MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio — A transgender woman who caused her elderly husband's death by strenuously exercising him in a swimming pool was sentenced to four years in prison.
- Sharon Sytsma, associate professor of philosophy, spoke at Thursday’s Northern Pride lunch about whether people should have surgery to become transgendered.
- Sharon Sytsma, associate professor of philosophy, spoke at Thursday’s Northern Pride lunch about whether people should have surgery to become transgendered.
- A group of LGBT rights advocates and elected officials gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 18 to demand that the federal government honor 2010 census responses from gay and lesbian couples who identify themselves as married and their household members as a family.
- A group of LGBT rights advocates and elected officials gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 18 to demand that the federal government honor 2010 census responses from gay and lesbian couples who identify themselves as married and their household members as a family.
- SAN DIEGO - March 19 - More than 200 transgender community members and allies will meet in San Diego on March 27, 2009 for the 4th annual Transgender Leadership Summit. The Summit comes at a critical time for the transgender rights movement, as the current economic crisis has made transgender people even more vulnerable to un- and under-employment, lack of health care access, discrimination,
- SAN DIEGO - March 19 - More than 200 transgender community members and allies will meet in San Diego on March 27, 2009 for the 4th annual Transgender Leadership Summit. The Summit comes at a critical time for the transgender rights movement, as the current economic crisis has made transgender people even more vulnerable to un- and under-employment, lack of health care access, discrimination,
- NEW YORK, March 17, 2009 - Transgender youth face extremely high levels of victimization in school, even more so than their non-transgender lesbian, gay and bisexual peers. But they are also more likely to speak out about LGBT issues in the classroom, according to Harsh Realities: The Experiences of Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools, the first comprehensive study on transgender
- With so many big problems in our country, a lot of politicians would find themselves between a rock and a hard place if they chose to rally behind hot-button social issues, like equitable rights for LGBT people.
- A House panel split yesterday on whether to recommend a bill that supporters said would prevent discrimination against transgender people but that opponents, who dubbed the measure the "bathroom bill," said would tear down proper barriers between the sexes.
- Last year, six friends began talking about the need to unify ISU's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community.
- The Rudd Government has reinstated gender-neutral identity documents and passports to help transgender people travelling overseas for surgery.
- March 17 (Bloomberg) -- To the Egyptian government, to her doctors, and especially to herself, Sally Mursi is a woman. To al-Azhar University, the most prestigious Islamic school in Egypt and the Middle East, she’s a man.
- CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire lawmakers are getting attention because of a bill intended to bar discrimination against transsexuals in housing and access to other public accommodations.
- BHUBANESWAR: India's eunuchs have for long been fighting for recognition as the 'third sex'. Now, they are set to give many a political heavyweight in Orissa a tough fight in the coming elections.
- BHUBANESWAR: India's eunuchs have for long been fighting for recognition as the 'third sex'. Now, they are set to give many a political heavyweight in Orissa a tough fight in the coming elections.
- REPUBLICANS call it the "bathroom bill." Democrats call it a non-discrimination bill.
- BARRIE -- An inmate of an institution for the criminally insane was left in limbo yesterday after a judge refused her request to have the government pay for a $15,000 assessment that would qualify her for a sex change.
- CHENNAI: What should I do with my boy who is beginning to dress and behave like a girl? Can I allow a transsexual to be my tenant? If I appoint a transsexual in my office, will the person be an efficient worker?
- Steve Stanton was the city manager of Largo, Florida for 14 years until she announced she was becoming Susan Slanton. She was subsequently terminated. Stanton's case made huge headlines two years ago. Now Stanton is a finalist for the city manager job in Lake Worth.
- The state Senate has passed a bill that would extend the state's hate-crime law to protect transgender individuals. The bill, which passed Tuesday night with a 36-12 vote, is sponsored by Sen. Joe McDermott.
- Group opposes Maryland LGBT anti-discrimination bill calling it “peeping tom” legislation
- GREELEY, Colo. - A Weld County district judge says prosecutors cannot use at trial a confession made by a man accused of killing a transgender woman in Greeley.
- Produced by Seattle University's Trans and Allies Club, Transgender Awareness Week included everything from a Transgender Bible study to a day reserved for criss-cross dressing-encouraging students to dress in their best "gender bending outfits."
- GREATER legal recognition for transsexuals came a step closer on Tuesday when the Gender Recognition Bill unanimously passed its first reading in Legislative Council.
- GREATER legal recognition for transsexuals came a step closer on Tuesday when the Gender Recognition Bill unanimously passed its first reading in Legislative Council.
- A bill to bring the Isle of Man in line with the rest of the UK on gender recognition has unanimously passed its first reading in the Legisative Council.
- DOVER -- The decade-old battle to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation began anew Tuesday with the introduction of legislation in the state House.
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Although there have been no reported hate crimes on the UW campus for the past four years, there is no way to know if that means there were no attacks or threats made against transgender students. That is because transgender people in the state of Washington are not protected by hate crime laws.
- Transgender pupils will be given more support in tackling bullies at school, junior children's minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry pledged. She said discrimination provisions would be "extended" to include transgender pupils in the upcoming equality bill.
- A Greeley judge is set to rule this week on whether portions of a confession will be admitted in the trial of a man accused of bludgeoning to death an 18-year-old Fort Lupton woman,
- PITTSFIELD, Mass. - The Western Mass Chapter of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) invites everyone to a Community Meeting for Trans Rights Legislation at Dottie's Coffee at 444 North Street in Pittsfield, on Friday March 20 at 6:30 p.m.
- HARRISBURG -- A state agency is giving Rep. Dan Frankel support for his legislation to ban discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people in jobs, housing, schools and public accommodations.
- Police yesterday arrested a group of traffickers who allegedly recruited Korean men and transgenders and illegally transported them to Japan to work in the sex industry there.
- On Friday afternoon, there was standing room only in the Goldwin Smith English Lounge as Prof. Masha Raskolnikov, English and feminist, gender, & sexuality studies introduced TransRhetorics, a conference exploring interdisciplinary approaches within the field of Transgender Studies and the rhetorics that represent transgender lives.
- New Delhi: Besides “ladies” and “gents”, public lavatories in Chennai may soon offer a third option — for transgenders. The Chennai Municipal Corporation has set aside Rs 45 lakh for a pilot project to build three such lavatories for transgenders in the city.
- SYDNEY (AP) — Revelers decked out in sequins, feathers, wigs and leather danced through the streets of Sydney on Saturday to the cheers of more than 300,000 people at the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
- A Lawrence group is asking the city to change its anti-discrimination law to protect people who consider themselves transgender.
- WASHINGTON - March 6 - National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Rea Carey was among those participating in yesterday's White House health-care reform summit convened by President Barack Obama.
- Council bosses said the protest resulted in around 30 primary pupils missing school and had "taken action" against parents who pulled took their children out of George Tomlinson School in Leytonstone, east London, but refused to state what sanctions are being taken.
- A student-led effort to add a gender identity clause to the UM system's non-discrimination policy is gaining momentum after several student groups met Wednesday to draft a proposal.
- The recent case of a 29 year old transsexual from Jaén has highlighted the matter in Spain
- ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) A Maryland Senate panel is scheduled to hear testimony on a measure that would prohibit discrimination against transgender people.
- The first panel at Harvard Law School’s 4th annual Harvard Lambda Legal Advocacy (HaLLA) Conference was tasked with answering the question, is there an LGBT health gap? Without fail all four panelists answered in the affirmative; Fenway Health population research expert Judy Bradford came equipped with a PowerPoint presentation to solidify her case.
- CHENNAI: A four-hour-long surgery at the Government General Hospital has remarkably transformed Ambika (name changed). Doctors removed the male genitals and reconstructed a vagina to enable the transgender to perform the sexual functions of a female.
- The laws and policies of the federal government have a tremendous impact on all people in the United States, including transgender people. With the swearing in of the new Congress and the new Presidential Administration, we have an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of transgender people and our families. This document outlines the federal policy areas we must work to
- Fall 2008 brought a controversial change to what is covered in the supplemental PSU health plan (not the mandatory one): gender reassignment surgery for “true” transsexuals.
- In a bold choice, the cross-dressing Japanese celebrity Ikko was on Friday appointed honorary goodwill ambassador by the Korea Tourism Organization.
- The Moscow City Council rejected a resolution Monday night that would have amended the city’s employment nondiscrimination policy to specifically protect transgendered people.
- Yale students intent on living with members of a different gender will have to look to off-campus accommodations for at least another year.
- CHENNAI: The Government General Hospital (GGH) is all set to send a proposal to the State Social Welfare Department seeking funds to set up a separate department for sex change surgeries, known in medical parlance as sex re-assignment surgeries.
- Philadelphia, PA, March 2, 2009 -- Greenberg Traurig attorney Kevin P. Ray, in the Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions Practices of the Philadelphia office, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Bar Association.
- Tyler Perry's new comedy movieMadea Goes To Jail has taken the top spot at the US box office for a second week, with takings of US$16.5 million at the weekend.
- MAYS LANDING — A phony cross-dressing veterinarian already in trouble for allegedly prac-ticing medicine without a license was indicted by a grand jury on drug charges, authorities said.
- A TRANSSEXUAL whose photo was sent around the world in a flurry of e-mails is celebrating after achieving what she first set out to do.
- WHY should the clergy's right to refuse to perform a marriage ceremony for a transsexual be enshrined in law?
- Gainesville voters will soon decide whether to amend the city’s discrimination policy amid controversy.
- MOSCOW, Idaho — City officials in Moscow are considering a new policy that would give transgender people protection under the city's nondiscrimination policy.
- TORONTO - The owner of a St. Catharines, Ont., fitness club faces a mediation hearing Wednesday for allegedly denying a pre-operation transsexual access to the women's only areas of his gym.
- SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 2001, after working at Burlington Coat Factory's San Francisco store for five years, Steven Wicks-Perez made the brave decision to undergo sex reassignment surgery and begin to transition from male to female. At the time, Ms. Perez, who has since changed her name to "Maya," believed her employer would be supportive of her decision.
- Four transgender people will share their experiences at a panel discussion Wednesday night. “Tranny Talk,” hosted by Queers and Allies, is being held in observance of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s “Transaction Day” this Friday. The day and the panel are meant to encourage dialogue about gender, gender roles and gender identities to advocate safe, i
- CHENNAI: The transgender now has another reason to smile. After benefitting from the creation of a separate welfare board, issue of a toilet-cum-bathroom in the city.
- District officer candidate Belgin Çelik: "As a transsexual woman, I believe I will be able to secularly fulfill my duties. I plan to determine the problems present and solve them with the public. There are two men also up for this position, but I believe I am going to win."
- FAIRFAX, Virginia, February 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - George Mason University students Friday elected a man as this year's Ms. Mason 2009, after he competed as a female alter-ego.
- With an occasional police siren in the distance punctuating their remarks, family, friends and community activists gathered on an empty corner lot Sunday to remember the life of a teen murdered there a year ago and vow: Never again.
- "You people don't exist."
- Feb. 27, 5–7 PM Saturday, Feb. 28, 5–7 PM Sunday, Mar. 1, 5–7 PM Monday, Mar. 2, 5–7 PM a photography exhibit entitled "Mr. Right" that includes stories and photographs from five individuals or couples who identify as trans or gender-variant will be on display.
- About 75 University of Florida students, faculty and members of the group Equality is Gainesville's Business marched to Tigert Hall Friday afternoon in opposition to Gainesville Charter Amendment 1.
- In a city that prides itself on respect for military veterans, scorn is a fact of life for former Army captain Erin Russ.
- BOISE, Idaho -- A state Senate committee on Friday rejected a proposal to forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Today, the D.C. Department of Corrections issued a “program statement” establishing new procedures in how it classifies and houses transgendered inmates at the D.C. Jail.
- Outlining the essential differences between sex and gender, Audrey Mbugua discusses the damaging general incomprehension of transsexualism within Kenyan society.
- BOSTON — Senator Benjamin B. Downing is spearheading an effort to protect transgender residents under the state's hate crime statutes.
- They had to sneak around to find freedom. This was the speakers’ opening sentiment at Thursday night’s presentation of “Who I Am,” an event focusing on the lives and struggles of two transgender people — two women who became men.
- Boston - House Speaker Robert DeLeo has publicly thrown his support behind a bill adding the term “transgender” to the state’s non-discrimination laws and hate crime statutes. The laws cover employment, housing, credit, and public accommodations.
- The North Dakota Senate voted 27-19 on Wednesday in support of a bill that adds gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals to the protected classes in the state Human Rights Act.
- Over a quarter of a million people have availed of the Name Act to change at least one of their names
- Four down, one to go. The Utah Legislature snuffed out two more gay-rights bills Tuesday; HB288, which would have allowed same-sex couples and other unmarried pairs to adopt and foster children; and HB267, which would have protected gay and transgender Utahns from housing and employment discrimination.
- SEOUL - A SOUTH Korean court on Wednesday handed down a landmark verdict, convicting a man of raping a transsexual woman.
- CHICAGO (STNG) -- The FBI has offered a reward of up to $10,000 to find a man who robbed a northwest suburban bank last summer while wearing a floral print dress and sun hat, and carrying a black purse and matching handgun.
- This is Kinnar Daya Rani’s first shot at the general elections. Considering her novice status and the political heavyweights she will be pitted against, she is surprisingly confident.
- OKLAHOMA CITY – Workplace protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered employees have expanded significantly over the last decade, exemplified by 175 of the Fortune 500 companies now with gender identity policies – including two in Oklahoma, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation reported.
- New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the Centre to provide reservation of seats in Parliament and State Assemblies for eunuchs. The apex court said that the issues raised in the PIL filed by Sonam Singh, a eunuch from Rajasthan, can be taken up at the government level.
- WASHINGTON - February 13 - The Institute for Welcoming Resources (IWR), a program of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, today announced the release of transACTION, a new curriculum designed for churches and religious institutions to help congregants and members understand and welcome transgender persons into their congregations and faith settings.
- Trans people will be allowed to serve in the Spanish Armed Forces, the country's defence ministry has announced.
- CHARDON — A 41-year-old transgender woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death.
- A former city operations assistant at a Charlotte maintenance facility has sued the city, claiming she was fired because she had a sex change.
- A transgender supporter is challenging North Douglas MHK John Houghton to a face to face debate, following comments he made earlier this week.
- A transsexual Mafia boss has been arrested by police in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.
- This is the new Doctor Who, Matt Smith, getting in touch with his feminine side on the West End stage.
- Last we heard from Dr. Marci Bowers, the woman behind the city labeled “the sex change capital of the world,” was in World of Wonder's Sex Change Hospital, a six part docu-drama that focused on the people going under the knife. Tonight, Discovery Health turns the lens around to give us a look at the doctor holding the scalpel.
- Men and women gathered Tuesday at the Women's Center to discuss issues surrounding transgendered people and their role in "The Vagina Monologues," as part of V-Week.
- An MHK is completely unrepentant over comments he made about the rights of transsexuals in the House of Keys this week.
- The change in medical legislation is being planned following the second rejection of a 28 year old transsexual from Jaén who was not recruited because of his lack of a penis
- A member of the Isle of Man's parliament has been accused of using language more akin to the Nazis during a debate about the rights of transexuals.
- An elementary school in Oxford, Mass., has sent a letter to parents announcing that the night janitor who finished the last school year as a man would begin the next as a woman.
- News that Utah's Republican governor backs civil unions rippled across Utah's Capitol Hill and the nation Tuesday.
- 28 year old transsexual Aitor from Jaén has again be rejected by army recruitment officers after failing a medical
- SCHENECTADY — The 17-year-old accused of dressing in women's clothing last month to take an exam for a female friend appeared in court Tuesday to face criminal charges in an unrelated matter.
- Luck was not a lady for this man. A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday afternoon, accused of robbing a Wells Fargo bank last week in Haslet while dressed as a woman.
- A side-splitting farce that involves two struggling Shakespearean actors, an old lady, and local yokels in the Amish country of Pennsylvania is the subject of UIndy’s annual dinner theatre production.
- CHENNAI: In a couple of months, Jinda, a transgender, hopes to put down her begging bowl for good and pick up a mobile phone-- not to make a call, but to repair and assemble it.
- Aitor from a village in Jaén was previously rejected because of a lack of a penis
- Am unscripted TV series is seeking a Transwoman
- CONCORD – For seven years, Robert Blanchette worked as a computer programmer at St. Anselm College; received many commendations for his professionalism, and then, was fired.
- The Student Association joined an LGBTQ student organization last week in demanding explicit protection for transgender students in the University Code of Conduct.
- Amnesty International has put out an urgent appeal on behalf of a Honduran transgender woman who was arrested by the police, beaten up and threatened with death if she reported what happened to her.
- Connecticut lawmakers are to consider a bill to provide special rights for transgender people. It's only a proposal now, but could become law.
- ANGLICAN priests will be able to ‘opt out’ of marrying couples where one of the partners has had a sex change.
- LONDON - A TV ad for mobile phone company Nokia, featuring comic references to the transgender process, has been cleared by the ASA.
- In a decision that will anger the gay community, the court said that marriage only applies to unions between men and women.
- Appalachian State University will join the nation in celebrating February as “Black History Month” while campus organizations plan special events and programs.
- Paul Breines, who worked for years as a professor in Boston College’s history department, said he was “moved to tears” by the turnout of BC’s panel discussion concerning lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender issues Monday night.
- February 03, 2009 - Philadelphia, PA - Crossdresser.com is unveiling some of their newest fashions in a whole new way, Fashion style videos! Their first video features the talented model, actress, and performer, Ms Cassandra Fever.
- An installation featuring photographs of a 19th-century servant, who secretly married a man of letters and documented her 40 year marriage in a sado-masochistic relationship, have gone on show at the National Trust’s Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock.
- The Registry of Motor Vehicles has quietly reversed a Romney-era policy that advocates said made it nearly impossible for transgender people to change their gender designation on driver’s licenses and state identification cards.
- Rep. Carl Wimmer, a Herriman Republican, has dropped his plan -- at least for now -- to stop transgender Utahns from switching the sex designation on their driver licenses until they've absolutely and irreversibly completed a sex-change operation.
- Dubai: A manager, who claimed he was training to play a female in a Bollywood film, has been charged with cross-dressing and using mascara at Mall of the Emirates.
- A TRANSSEXUAL, angry at an NHS advertising campaign that depicts a man wearing makeup, says her lifestyle has been exploited for the sake of a poster.
- A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights.
- MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK - In a generous expression of its continued commitment to issues of equality and social justice, the staff from the Canadian Auto Workers Union has donated $20,000 to PFLAG Canada. PFLAG Canada supports diversity initiatives in schools and the workplace by providing education and resources. The grant is a significant contribution to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
- The charges against a man accused of killing a transgender woman last summer continue to mount.
- Ten members of UCSB’s AS Queer Commission depart for Denver, CO today to partake in a three-day national conference on contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues.
- Two Illinois-born women filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday, asking it to issue new birth certificates that correctly identify their gender following sex reassignment surgery.
- TAMPA, Fla. -- The first thing that caught Arizona Cardinals fullback Tim Castille's attention was the red dress. Then he saw the reporter's blonde hair, red fedora, red gloves and the heart-shaped sunglasses.
- RAWALPINDI: Over 100 eunuchs on Tuesday protested against Taxila police’s alleged excesses outside the senior superintendent of police’s (SSP) office.
- Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday they will be filing a lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Vital Records for denying transgender individuals the right to obtain a new birth certificate after having gender confirmation surgery performed outside of the United States.
- The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has issued a new policy to facilitate the changing of gender markers on driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards for people who have undergone a gender transition, a move that LGBT advocates say will have a substantial impact on the daily lives of transgender people.
- A BURGLAR dressed up in women’s underwear and filmed himself performing sex acts during raids on a series of Burnley homes, a court has heard.
- Discrimination remains a major stumbling block for transvestites and gay communities across the country, especially for those with HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted infections, despite a heightened campaign for equality and rights, a discussion heard Thursday.
- A Hobart woman says a decision announced today by Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Tribunal has cleared the way for the demonisation of same-sex marriage.
- A man who murdered a transsexual prostitute 11 years ago was sentenced to life in prison today after being trapped by a bloody palmprint.
- The face of San Francisco is changing, and so are its stories, according to the GLBT Historical Society. This is seen most dramatically in the Polk Gulch district.
- A senior legislator from the moderate Islamic National Mandate Party, or PAN, said he wanted to ensure that as many as 14 jobs out of every 100 are allocated to members of Indonesia’s large transgender community.
- APPLETON — A mixed-race transgender person has filed a civil suit against a downtown nightclub, claiming it discriminated against her on the basis of race and sexual orientation.
- Mumbai: While the plight of the transgender community continues to be abysmal in the country, the recent public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court by a eunuch from Ajmer demanding recognition and acceptance is being seen as a step in the right direction.
- KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Three men, including one accused of being the "cross dressing bank robber," have been indicted in U.S. District Court in connection with an alleged bank robbery spree, according to a media release from U.S. Attorney James R. Dedrick's office.
- TOKYO -- "Welcome home, Master," a group of French maids sings out, bowing deeply to a customer entering their maid cafe.
- A Spanish transsexual says she will take her fight to spend more time with her son to the court in Strasbourg. It comes after, for the first time ever, the Spanish Constitutional Court has thrown out her appeal, despite earlier accepting it for hearing.
- In a world where stories like Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy can capture world-wide attention overnight, it’s difficult to foretell what the biggest transgender stories of 2009 will be. But here are a few of the stories—and trans folk—to watch next year.
- SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS13) %u2015 Sacramento Police are looking for two men who violently attacked a 20-year-old transgender woman last week, and the victim says it's not the first time she's been the target of a hate crime.
- James Hopkins has been found guilty of the murder of transsexual prostitute Robyn Browne who counted several celebrities among her clients.
- Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, the directors of American Splendor, are set to adapt another blackly comic book, The Extra Man, and they've lined up a quality cast to do it.
- In the first-ever national conference of transsexuals and transvestites, Indonesians from 23 provinces are meeting in Bogor, West Java Province, to discuss ways to improve their legal rights and stop discrimination.
- The 2009 HRC Clergy Call for Justice and Equality is schedule May 4-5 in Washington, D.C.
- BELGRADE, January 20, 2009 – A transsexual person was found dead in her flat in Belgrade at the weekend, the Serbian LGBT group Queeria told UK Gay News last night..
- Angela Morley, a transsexual woman that was born Wally Stott, one of the UK’s leading musical arrangers and composers, has died at the age of 84.
- Six transgender performers spent last week traveling and performing individual pieces throughout the Midwest as part of the Tranny Roadshow, and Friday night they made a stop in Bloomington.
- The violent murder of a prominent transgender rights activist in Honduras has left the transgender community stunned and terrified.
- SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- San Francisco began offering photo identification cards Thursday for all city residents including undocumented immigrants. The ID cards also do not specify gender, a feature applauded by transgender advocates.
- State senator Steven Baddour announced plans yesterday to create a MassTrans agency, which he says will save the state $6 billion in overhead. I, for one, was amazed to learn that so much money is being spent on the transgender community in the Commonwealth.
- OCALA — A 59-year-old man who liked to attend Sunday church services dressed in women’s clothing, hair and makeup, was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of inappropriately touching three elderly women in his church choir last spring.
- Waltham, MA, January 15, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), in association with the Transgender Education Association (TGEA) of Greater Washington, D.C., is proud to announce the 23rd annual conference to be held at the Hilton Mark Plaza Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, February 4 – 8, 2009.
- The Tranny Roadshow starts its tour this week with a stop in Bloomington on Friday.
The performance group consists of six transgender performers bringing a range of talent, including Dallas-Marie Spitzer, an acoustic folk-rock musician; Kit Yan, a slam poet; and Adelaide Windsome, a puppeteer who infuses politically charged viewpoints into her puppets.
- Laura Calvo, an openly transgender woman, was elected treasurer of the Democratic Party of Oregon, according to a press release from the Stonewall Democrats.
- Lawrence Novotny, of Brookings, requested that the Brookings School District Board of Education consider adding words to the school's discrimination policy at Monday night's meeting.
- BOSTON — The apparent prison suicide of a cross-dressing dermatologist has exposed weaknesses in the state’s ability to prevent inmates from killing themselves, according to lawyers for a transgender convicted killer who has been waiting for years for a judge to rule on a request to have a sex-change operation.
- TRANSGENDER university students have been given their own set of toilets at their union's nightclub.
- TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A jury trial has been scheduled for June for an Iranian refugee accused of shooting her male roommate.
- Chicago, IL — The Center on Halsted will host a new program, "Joys and Challenges,"a group for the trans SOFFA community, believed to be the first of its kind in Chicago. The group will be a professionally facilitated discussion group for Significant Others, Family, Friends and Allies (SOFFA) of transgender individuals and will discuss, share and learn about the joys and chall
- Chicago, IL — The Center on Halsted will host a new program, "Joys and Challenges,"a group for the trans SOFFA community, believed to be the first of its kind in Chicago. The group will be a professionally facilitated discussion group for Significant Others, Family, Friends and Allies (SOFFA) of transgender individuals and will discuss, share and learn about the joys and chall
- KALAMAZOO -- The Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously Monday night to repeal its new anti-discrimination ordinance, stopping a citywide referendum on creating a protected class for gay, lesbian and transgender individuals.
- ast week LGBT advocates told Bay Windows that they are making the transgender rights bill their top priority this year, and apparently the anti-gay activists at Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) have taken notice.
- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a 72-year old transsexual will be reimbursed after her country’s health insurance refused to pay the cost of her gender reassignment treatment.
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(New York, January 12, 2009) – the Honduran authorities should fully investigate the murder of Cynthia Nicole, a leading Honduras transgender rights defender, and other attacks on the transgender community, Human Rights Watch said today. Nicole’s killing is the latest in a series of violent attacks against transgender people in Honduras.
- SANTA CRUZ, CA – The Diversity Center’s Latino Outreach program will hold a presentation of the “Assessment of the Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community of Santa Cruz County” on Thursday, January 15th, at 5:00pm at the Diversity Center (1117 Soquel Ave). This report will present what Latino LGBT people have identified as their issues and needs and how one can
- A transsexual, a toddler being raised by her 18-year-old mother and the mother's 15-year-old boyfriend, and a homeowner whom police say was killed by a 13- and a 16-year-old were among Syracuse's homicide victims.
- NEW ORLEANS - The FBI and the New Orleans Police Department are searching for a cross-dressing bank robber, according to a statement from FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne.
- A man, dressed as a woman, led state and local authorities on a high speed chase through nine Connecticut towns Friday night.
- GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. "Your City Commission Made This Legal," the words on the TV screen read. And it's true, sort of.
- Katelynn Cusanelli of The Real World Brooklyn may be to Transgender awareness what Pedro Zamora was for both AIDS and Homosexual understanding on the same show 15 years earlier, was my impression after watching the first episode of the 21st Real World season.
- A memorial service for Jennifer Gale, the homeless transgender woman who died on the streets of Austin on Dec. 17, is planned for Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Resource Center of Dallas.
- Radio host Michael Savage continued his attacks on the transgender community during the January 7 broadcast of The Savage Nation, declaring that a sensitivity training program for San Francisco police detectives on transgender issues is "sort of like toilet training for adults" and describing the program as a "class ... to teach normal men how to have sensitivity to a psychopa
- PORT ST. LUCIE — A cross-dressing robber accused of snatching a 74-year-old woman's purse in St. Lucie West in September before a faux breast popped out of his tube top was arrested Friday as he sat in the Orange County jail, a sergeant said Monday.
- In the midst of an economic crisis that will no doubt occupy much of the legislature’s time, LGBT advocates have their sights set on two goals as the start of the new legislative session: to pass a transgender rights bill and to try to protect state funding for LGBT and HIV-related programs.
- New York, January 7, 2009 – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today identified the worst anti-gay and anti-transgender voices of 2008.
- NORFOLK, Mass. (AP) A cross-dressing Massachusetts dermatologist serving life in prison for killing his estranged wife has been found hanged in his cell.
- A roofer from Farnley confessed to the 1997 killing of a pre-op transsexual prostitute in letters to his partner and young son, a court heard today.
- Transgender activists believe this is the year they will gain equal protection under the state's anti-discrimination laws.
- The newly formed Major Wrecks male majorettes, who have raised thousands of pounds for charity in Wiltshire, will be back in training next week, and are looking for new talent to join them.
- Robert Pattinson's sisters used to dress him as a girl and call him Claudia when he was younger, the actor has revealed.
- STONY POINT - An annual weekend retreat that provides high school students with an opportunity to discuss such issues as bullying, sexual health and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth will be held this month.
- Katelynn, 24, from West Palm Beach, Florida, is poised to be the show’s breakout star - not only because of her transgender status, but her storyline - which makes your own troubles seem like drips in a mighty ocean.
- SANTA CRUZ, CA – The Diversity Center’s Latino Outreach program will hold a presentation of the “Assessment of the Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community of Santa Cruz County” on January 15, 2008 at the Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.
- A recent art show inside a Park Street home wasn’t just about the works on display. For the home’s owner, Gina Sage Kennedy, it meant so much more.
- A recent art show inside a Park Street home wasn’t just about the works on display. For the home’s owner, Gina Sage Kennedy, it meant so much more.
- Today's general elections in Bangladesh will be the first ever to allow transgender people to cast ballots.
- On Christmas Eve, a Memphis television station reported the shooting of Leeneshia Edwards in Memphis. She becomes the third transgender woman shot in Memphis in just six months. At last report, Leeneshia is in critical condition.
- The Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative and Voluntary Health Services (TAI-VHS) brought about 20,000 transgenders and marginalized women together to showcase their talents.
- DHAKA (AFP) — Among the millions of new voters in Monday's Bangladeshi elections will be some 100,000 hijras -- cross-dressing, pre- and post-operative transsexuals -- allowed to cast ballots for the first time.
- Izzard, perhaps the most recognizable trasnvestite on the planet, who as a youngster thought about one day joining the army, even lives his life in a rather military fashion. That's particularly true when it comes to making decisions. He is very careful to look at all the options before he begins his attack.
- MONTREAL — A transsexual Quebec inmate who hasn't physically completed the transformation to a woman has created an incarceration quagmire for federal corrections officials after being transferred into a men's prison.
- Authorities say a man dressed as a woman who robbed the BB&T Bank in the Rocky Hill community this afternoon threatened that he had a bomb and presented a note demanding money.
- CHENNAI: Around 20,000 transgenders, kothis and marginalised women from across the State have come together to set up a federation that will deal exclusively with their needs including healthcare, education, advocacy and financial literacy.
- WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, in its final days, issued a federal rule Thursday, Dec. 18, reinforcing protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions and other procedures because of religious or moral objections.
- In the wake of Jennifer Gale’s death in Austin last week, LGBT advocates in Texas are turning their attention to the issue of transgender homelessness.
- Just one vote on the state’s highest court kept a challenge to Montgomery County’s new ban on discriminating against transgender individuals off the ballot on Election Day.
- The general secretary of a traditionalist Anglican group has defended an attack by the Pope earlier in the week on homosexual and transsexual behaviour.
- POPE Benedict XVI has denounced gender theory, warning that it blurs the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the "self-destruction" of the human race.
- South Africa hosted the first ever African Strategy Workshop for transgender activists last week.
- Cleveland--A measure to add transgender people to the city’s non-discrimination code was delayed this month for more legal review, says its sponsor, not because of strong opposition to an unrelated domestic partner registry.
- Columbus--Ohio’s capital city became its fifth to protect transgender people from discrimination with passage of an ordinance on December 15.
- The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded four San Francisco institutions a grant of $247,000 to support the California Ephemera Project, which will create an online catalogue.
- LANCASTER, Pa. — A transgender Pennsylvania woman filed a bias complaint with the state alleging mistreatment by instructors at a community college where she was studying to become an X-ray technician.
- Equality Texas mourns the death of Jennifer Gale, a 47-year-old transgender homeless woman who died yesterday. Jennifer's body was found Wednesday morning. She was lying in an outdoor walkway at the First English Lutheran Church in Central Austin.
- The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission is investigating a complaint filed by a transsexual woman against Harrisburg Area Community College, claiming she was suspended for not using a unisex bathroom.
- ISTANBUL, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A Turkish court has acquitted a popular Turkish transsexual singer over comments questioning a military campaign against Kurdish separatist guerrillas, state-run Anatolian news agency said.
- President-elect Obama is making good on his commitment to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community as he prepares to enter the White House.
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We had no idea yesterday when we sent you word of the impending new regulations around the Federal Medial Leave Act (FMLA) that they would be merely the second worse regulations to tell you about this week.
- Concerns over reported sexual assaults on LGBTs in state prisons was one topic that was discussed last week as the state Senate Public Safety Committee held a hearing in San Francisco.
- A local community college is accused of sexual discrimination. It's all over a life-altering decision that's now changing the way one student is treated. It's an unusual case that could set a precedent for universities all across the country and it's a story you will see exclusively on cbs 21.
- Transgender activist Diego Sanchez has been appointed to the position of legislative assistant to Congressman Barney Frank in Washington, D.C.
- The Harvard Business Review (HBR), which reaches an elite readership of corporate CEOs and high-level executives, published a case study in its December issue highlighting the issues that companies face when an employee announces plans to change his or her gender.
- PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Police said Monday they have caught the cross-dressing man who snatched a purse from a 74-year-old woman in a Port St. Lucie mall parking lot earlier this year.
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FMLA was enacted in 1993 to ensure that employees would be able to take unpaid leave from work in certain circumstances related to medical care for them or their families. The emphasis on medical privacy in the original FMLA is especially vital for transgender people.
- A body found near the University of Texas campus this morning is that of perennial mayoral candidate Jennifer Gale, Austin fire officials said.
- Stung by California's passage of Proposition 8, Utah's gay and transgender community is brainstorming on how to best be seen and heard -- and how to secure social justice.
- Transgender residents of Columbus -- men who consider themselves women, and women who consider themselves men -- would gain legal protection under legislation going before the City Council on Monday night.
- SHE is tubby, started life as a man and hardly has the best singing voice in the world.
- Years after Santhosh Sivan’s Navarasa focused on the issue of transgender, two more movies are being made on the same lines.
- San Juan, Dec 12, 2008 / 11:49 pm (CNA).- The president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Marcelina Velez de Santiago, together with other academic scholars, is supporting a request from various organizations that the government revoke a memo that obliges public schools to include the controversial gender ideology in their curricula.
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(New York, December 11, 2008) – As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the UN General Assembly will hear a statement in mid-December endorsed by more than 50 countries across the globe calling for an end to rights abuses based on sexual orientation and gender identity. A coalition of international human rights organizations to
- HARTFORD, Conn., Dec 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Aetna announced today the members of its newly formed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Advisory Council. This move will strengthen Aetna's efforts to integrate business, philanthropic and outreach activities to improve access and care for its LGBT members. The LGBT Advisory Council will support Aetna a
- KALAMAZOO -- Petitions aimed at rescinding a new city ordinance banning discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender individuals in housing, public accommodations and employment began circulating in Kalamazoo churches last weekend.
- MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A cross-dressing bank robber in north Alabama is headed to prison for more than four years.
- LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Police got a shock when they caught up with a suspected "cross-dressing" bank robber.
- CONCORD – A Milford woman charges that PC Connection refused to hire her for a sales job after learning that she'd applied to the company as a man seven years earlier.
- Gay activists met with members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team this week in what was believed to be the first meeting between national gay rights leaders and an incoming administration.
- A transsexual has been forced to leave the Sunshine Coast after an alleged vicious attack in a public street left her afraid to walk outside.
- International gay rights groups expressed concern that the U.S. had not yet signed a proposed statement this week calling on the United Nations and countries throughout the world to condemn discrimination and persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inmates safe in prison? What unique barriers to safety do they face?
- Students attending Drew University next fall will not have the option of living in a "gender-neutral" dorm after officials shot down a student proposal, saying the idea had become too controversial.
- All the proceeds for the night went to benefit the Trevor Project, a crisis helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual youths.
- Chennai, Dec 8 (ANI): For the first time, instead of raising voices for their own issues, hoards of transgender gathered here today to served a hunger strike to show solidarity with the ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka.
- A gang of crossdressers have made off with jewels worth £70m after raiding a Paris jewellery store.
- About 25 protesters braved a brisk wind and fumes from cars zipping past Friday afternoon to show their support for Blake Williams, a transgender teen who says he dropped out of Aspen Valley High School because he didn't feel safe.
- SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's official human rights watchdog wants a third gender called "intersex" to be created for use on official documents like passports and driving licenses, a newspaper report said on Saturday.
- WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- Two of the eight Real World house-mates will be moving from South Florida to Brooklyn.
- A MIDLAND clinic offering sex change operations for just £1,500 is being investigated by health chiefs.
- City commissioners unanimously approved language for a ballot amendment Thursday night, despite opposition from the political action committee that's behind the petition drive that would put civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals to a vote.
- GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has released a Harris poll that shows most Americans favor marriage or civil unions/domestic partnerships for gay couples, allowing gays to serve in the military and adopt children.
- WASHINGTON (December 4, 2008) -- The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition's 2006 hate crimes report, "50 Under 30: Masculinity & The War Against America's Youth" has been updated and re-issued. Because of the nearly 20 new murders, the new title has been changed to "70 Under 30."
- Officials with the Human Rights Campaign and National Gay & Lesbian Task Force are hopeful that Barack Obama’s administration and Democratic leaders in Congress will help orchestrate the passage next year of two gay rights bills that enjoy widespread support.
- A broad coalition, which includes some of the country's biggest LGBT civil rights organizations, reiterated this week its support for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a law that would make it easier for workers to join or organize labor unions.
- Police are searching for three male suspects who first appeared to be female
- MOSCOW, December 2 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow police arrested a transsexual, who insisted on being called Svetlana, on Tuesday on suspicion of theft from a Russian man who passed out after a drinking session, a police spokesperson said.
- BINGHAMTON -- Miller Hoffman knows what it's like to be hassled for being a transgender person. "Discrimination against transgender people is part of our daily lives," she told City Council on Monday night.
- Court rules the surgery is constitutional right for residents.
- A doctor from Melbourne's western suburbs has been given a suspended sentence for an indecent act on a mentally ill transsexual patient.
- The B.C. Federation of Labour has passed an emergency resolution supporting a new high school course called Social Justice 12 and accusing the Abbotsford board of education of "homophobic and transphobia behaviour" for its refusal to offer the elective course this year.
- November 29, 2008 - Provincetown, Massachusetts – Continuing their tradition of giving back to their home away from home, attendees of the Fantasia Fair conference, raised $4,000 for the Soup Kitchen of Provincetown (SKIP). SKIP provides free meals to any individual in the community who is in need and serves as a resource place for referrals to social programs for further help in all ar
- The ever increasing turbulence of the anti-government protests notwithstanding, a demonstration of a different nature was taking place yesterday in Bangkok.
- ALBANY -- A midlevel appeals court ruled Wednesday that a transgender individual can change from traditionally male to traditionally female first and middle names, regardless of potential confusion.
- Rome - The first transvestite elected to the Italian parliament, Vladimir Luxuria, garnered the votes of most TV viewers on Monday night as the winner of the reality TV show Celebrity Island.
- SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It's been 10 days since Moses "Teish" Cannon was shot to death, apparently targeted for being transgender.
- A controversial Astoria shelter for gay and transgender young people may be forced to shut down if it doesn't receive a quick infusion of cash.
- TOKYO -- Who said bras are only for women? A Japanese online lingerie retailer is selling bras for cross-dressing men and they've quickly become one of its most popular items.
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Associated Press: The nation's first openly transgender mayor won by a comfortable margin on election night. On Monday, he won by a landslide against protesters.
- SILVERTON, Ore. – An anti-gay church from Kansas plans to protest in Silverton next week after the town elected the nation's first openly transgender mayor.
- Because he's openly gay, Bishop Gene Robinson has been a figure of considerable controversy in the Episcopal Church. He'll be in Dallas tomorrow night to be honored at the Black Tie Dinner, a popular annual fundraiser for groups supportive of the LGBT community. And tomorrow afternoon he'll meet with a local transgender advocacy group. Details below
- Doraville has become the latest Georgia city to add transgender employees to its nondiscrimination policy.
- Two recent murders are raising alarm among gay activists about hate crimes and violence targeting transgender people.
- A Melbourne doctor has been found guilty of performing an indecent act on a suicidal transsexual patient under his care.
- MEMPHIS, TN -- Former Memphis Police Officer Bridges McRae has been indicted on a civil rights violation in the beating of transgendered woman Duanna Johnson.
- Tyra Banks surprises Isis King, the first transgender contestant on America's Next Top Model, with sex reassignment surgery in an episode of her talk show to air Tuesday.
- Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Close on the heels of an international furore over the state of California’s decision to ban same-sex marriages, the apex court of nascent Himalayan republic Nepal has given its nod to such unions.
- Several forms of sexual behaviour including cross-dressing and transvestism are to be removed from a list of medical "diagnoses" in Sweden, the National Board of Health and Welfare said Monday.
- SEOUL, Nov 18 (Yonhap) — Transsexuals should be allowed to change their legal gender without undergoing a sex-change operation, South Korea’s rights watchdog said Monday, suggesting the Supreme Court amend its transgender guidelines.
- The 2008 Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual event designed to recognize those killed due to anti-transgender violence, is observed across the coutnry in various gatherings. There is also a site focused solely on this issue.
- Bangalore has recently seen reports of transgenders facing eviction in large numbers. While the police says, it is a crackdown on crimes on the street, the Hijra community feels that it is being targeted without reason.
- Motley Crue claim dressing up as women improves their love life.
- Syracuse, New York (WSYR-TV) - Dwight DeLee, the suspect accused of shooting and killing a transgender woman Friday night because she was transgender, is being held without bail after a court appearance.
- KATHMANDU, November 17, 2008 – There were tears of joy in the Nepali LGBT community today when the Supreme Court published its full written decision on a petition demanding both protection and rights for sexual and gender minorities.
- A state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit Friday by a transgender former prison inmate who said guards failed to protect her from being beaten and raped by her cellmates.
- LANSING, MIch. - Less than twenty-four hours after the Michigan House overwhelmingly approved the passage of a package of bills to expand the state's Ethnic Intimidation Act, a mother of a murdered transgender teen encourage the State Senate to move on the bills.
- The number of those wishing to change their sex has multiplied in recent years. In 2003-2006 around 40 people per year sought treatment from the relevant clinics in Helsinki and Tampere. Last year's corresponding figure was about 90, and this year even more patients have called at the clinics dealing with transgender issues.
- The transgender community, along with the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project, is planning a Transgender Day of Remembrance event at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 to remember those who were killed during the last year.
- Vanderbilt University’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Life will sponsor a candlelight vigil honoring the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Thursday, Nov. 20.
- Thomas Beatie Tells Barbara Walters About Unique Legal Challenges Faced by Transgender Parents
- LGBT Rights Platform held a protest and delivered a press release on November 12, 2008 in Ankara, Turkey to condemn the murder of transsexual Dilek Ince .
- PORTLAND -- A Salem parent wants answers from a local YMCA about its dress code for childcare employees.
- "Bi-now, gay later," "shim," "it" and "tranny" were some of the stereotypes of bisexuals and transgenders written on a white board in the Speak Out meeting Monday night.
- FLORIDA: Beginning on Tuesday afternoons in January, Alachua County Victim Services & Rape Crisis Center will be offering a free and confidential support group for anti-gay and transgender victimization survivors.
- Discrimination, oppression, injustice, endless are the woes of transsexuals, who seek a fair deal from society. But their woes continue, as the tinsel world too has begun to tease them on the big screen to generate a giggle or two at their expense..
- Transgender Awareness Week at Mizzou is a week full of events, programming, education and celebration of Trans-Identity and Trans-experience within the queer community.
- MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WHBQ FOX13 myfoxmemphis.com) --
Police are searching for suspects in a North Memphis overnight shooting. The shooting happened at Hollywood and Staten. FOX13 has learned that the victim was transsexual Duanna Johnson.
- CHICAGO, November 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- Americans For Truth reacted to the news that an Obama Administration will likely enact "gender identity" as a nondiscrimination category by questioning whether federal female employees will be protected from transsexual men wearing dresses who demand to use ladies' restrooms on the basis of their self-perceived "female identity.&quo
- Jan-Olov Ågren, a male cross-dresser from Norrbotten in northern Sweden, has been handed a victory by the county administrative court in his bid to go by the name Madeleine.
- The 3rd annual Transforming Gender Symposium kicked off Friday night with keynote speaker Monica Roberts and a local transgender activist panel.
- People from all over the country were at UVM Saturday for the Translating Identity Conference, which focuses on transgender issues.
- Jim Carrey's girlfriend Jenny McCarthy has disclosed that the comic actor enjoys dressing up in women's clothes.
- Prostitutes Need Help, Not Condemnation, Speakers at Hearing Say.
- IN A cramped makeshift theatre in Istanbul, a Kurd in a purple dress titillates the audience with the story of how he was born a man but found he was a woman. During his act, Esmeray wields a sharp tongue to expose the systematic violence faced by fellow transvestites. “I am a Kurd, a transvestite and a feminist, so I am screwed all round,” he says.
- FLORIDA: The city attorney's initial wording of a proposed charter amendment that could overturn Gainesville ordinances providing civil rights protection to transgendered, gay and lesbian residents was discussed but not approved Thursday night by the Gainesville City Commission.
- Doraville became the third metro-area city to include gender identification in its nondiscrimination statement with a unanimous vote on Nov. 3.
- This election marked the first African-American President. The first time in 40 years an Oregon Senate candidate beat an incumbent Senator. And in tiny Silverton, Oregon, residents have elected the man who's believed to be the first ever openly transgender mayor in the United States.
- A decision to allow transsexual men in Sweden to get prosthetic penises free of charge from local health authorities has drawn criticism because the prostheses on offer don’t get erect.
- The state of Arkansas won a battle on Tuesday – a battle against a “gay agenda.” That’s what the Arkansas Family Council dubbed the state legislation that prohibits unmarried couples who are living together from adopting or fostering children. The not-so-secret motivation behind the 56 per cent approval was a desire to prevent homosexuals from becoming parents.
- NEW YORK, Nov 06, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) denounces the election results in California that supported Proposition 8, a ballot measure that bans same-sex marriage in the state. In keeping with its overall support of social justice, APsaA issued a position statement earlier this year supporting the legal recognition of same-sex civil
- Somerville's State House delegation this year is expected to push legislation that would specifically add protections for transgender people to existing hate crime and anti-discrimination laws.
- Following disappointing votes rolling back or denying full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens in Florida, Arkansas and Arizona, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) eagerly awaits the official results of Proposition 8 in California, and vows to continue working with pro-equality families and allies to build support for full, fundamental rights for th
- A suicidal transsexual was assaulted and raped by a Melbourne doctor after she propositioned him while he was treating her slashed wrist, a court has heard.
- Sheriff's deputies in Baldwin County are still talking about a wild call they responded to near Foley Wednesday night...a case involving burglary, a beauty salon and a cross-dresser! Wearing high heels, ladies clothes, and a blonde, Dolly Parton wig,
- Male actors dressing and acting as women have always fascinated the Indian film audience. Govinda started it. Aamir Khan and Riteish Deshmukh followed it and now the latest 'followers' of this trend are Shreyas, Tusshar, Ajay and Arshad!
- SINGAPORE: Pantomimes planted at the year-end production schedules of W!ld Rice are likened to raucous, over-the-top Christmas parties, complete with cross-dressing and loads of physical comedy. Thankfully, the upcoming "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs" is unlikely to be different.
- LOS ANGELES — California voters have adopted a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, The Associated Press reported Wednesday, joining voters in two other states who went to the polls Tuesday to overturn such unions.
- Polling place foul-ups are not uncommon. But advocates say they are too common among a certain set of voters: transgender people who have changed their first names to match their new sex.
- LONDON, November 4, 2008 – An unprecedented protest is to be staged on Thursday outside the £125-a-head “champagne and canape reception” for the Stonewall awards at the V&A Museum in London by transgender groups, who will be joined by gay and lesbian activists.
- The decades-long focus on youth in advertising has started to shift, now that the nation’s baby boomers — 78 million strong, and marketing trend-setters since they began to teethe — are growing older. That is also turning out to be true for pitches aimed at the GLBT.
- The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund has set up a hotline number for voters to call if they "experience discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression at the polls," the group said in a release.
- Transgender, intersex, androgyny, gender variant, trans feminists, gender queer, and gender fluid persons of all natures will be represented at next month's London Transgender Film Festival.
- Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - The Screen Actors Guild has announced their opposition to the California ballot initiative, Proposition 8, which would overturn the new law allowing same-sex marriage in the state.
- Bangalore police have been accused of arresting and mistreating more than 40 people at a peaceful demonstration.
- THE ladyboys of Pursat - gay male prostitutes dressed as women - have been banned from soliciting on the notorious Pursat Bridge, their haunt for at least a decade, but provincial police enforcing the ban say they have the best interests of the prostitutes in mind.
- ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - Authorities believe a 20-year-old transgender woman stole an estimated $6,000 in cell phones from Wal-Mart stores in Athens and Madison.
- BINGHAMTON -- Adopting a child, using a public restroom, even obtaining a passport can be more difficult for people who don't present themselves as their born gender.
- A survey which is part of a study aimed at creating a blueprint for improving services for same-sex attracted and transgender youth (SSATY) is underway at Latrobe University.
- CARLOTTA will present her scintillating Priscilla Show at Blacktown Workers Club on Friday, December 5.
- Transgender students are not the biggest demographic at Appalachian State University, but the university has made sure they have support on campus.
- Aussie researchers have reported finding a link between a gene and the production of testosterone in Male to Female transsexuals. After some ground breaking research on this condition which still baffles many people, there finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
- Mount Holyoke College will host an interactive session on transgender issues in their Gamble Auditorium on Monday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m.
- AMHERST – The chair of the local pride society can only imagine living life as a transgender person. “In reality, it is quite different,” said Gerard Veldhoven, chair of Cumberland Pride Society. “Transgender is such an important issue because people face rejection by their families, friends and peers.
- A group of thirty protestors marched outside the Human Rights Campaign’s annual New England Gala Dinner Saturday to show their disapproval of HRC’s position on transgender inclusion in ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act).
- SYDNEY: The first genetic link to male-to-female transsexualism provides new evidence of its biological nature, say Australian researchers.
- For the third year in a row, cult theater’s favorite transsexual aliens will set up shop at the Brewery. Love and Light Productions will present Rich ard O‘Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show” next week to celebrate Halloween.
- BANGALORE: To condemn the recent arrest of five transsexuals, human rights activists are planning to hold a massive rally. Thirty-one activistswere also arested when they questioned the transsexuals' arrest in Girinagar.
- The leaders of Georgia’s legislative branch have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a tra
- Fallout from Crews Inn co-owner David Moore temporarily banning from his bar drag queens and transgender women whose appearance does not match their ID is coming to a close, almost three months after it began.
- Onstage at Harlem’s fabled Apollo Theatre, Antony Hegarty cuts an imposing figure. Swept along by a 20-piece orchestra, New York City’s reigning demi-monde diva sobs epic tales of operatic sorrow and romantic rapture. Draped in a magnificent cream-coloured gown, the towering singer looks like an androgynous Statue of Liberty. Obscured by shadow for much of the performance, Hegarty sway
- Singer faced ultimatum: Christ or the crossdresser. Bermuda Idol Larrita Adderley has pulled out of a concert with drag queen Sybil Barrington after her church threatened to kick her out of its 'praise team'.
- The idea of the Athens Boys Choir was a bit of a joke in the beginning. Two transsexual men, who had spent some time in the spoken word scene in Athens, Ga., got together and decided to make an album of spoken word and hip-hop.
- A transsexual who won a birth certificate battle, having undergone gender reassignment surgery is now requesting the court to order the public registry to issue marriage banns.
- The Alzheimer’s Society has honoured the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Support Group for their "outstanding contribution to people with dementia and their carers."
- LA Times sports writer Mike Penner made national news last year when he wrote his "Old Mike, New Christine" column about his life as a transsexual and his decision to undergo surgery so he could become "Christine Daniels" for the rest of his journalism career. Well, just like a fickle woman, Mike changed his mind.
- The San Francisco-based Gay and Lesbian Medical Association said Monday it’s giving its 2008 Achievement Awards to Kaiser Permanente, the Lambda Legal advocacy group and Judy Bradford, a prominent researcher on related issues at Boston’s Fenway Institute.
- A TRANSSEXUAL truck driver who claimed she was forced out of her job for dressing as a woman has won £20,000 in compensation.
- SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Aetna and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) today announced that Aetna is the first health benefits company in the U.S. to link its online provider directory -- DocFind(R) -- to GLMA's growing online database of more than 1,200 health care providers. The database includes primary care providers, spe
- UH is the first school in Texas to offer a minor concentration in GLBT studies
- MIDDLEFIELD -- A security camera video captured the last hour and 40 minutes of James M. Mason's life as the frail 73-year-old battled with his much younger, transgender wife in the pool of their apartment complex.
- If Jesse Ream has her way, terms like "men's sports" and "women's hoops" will one day seem as archaic as leather football helmets and basketball bloomers do now. Everyone who plays sports is an athlete, Ream says; separating them arbitrarily by gender is unfair and close-minded.
- Former legislative editor claims she was fired over transition
- Elaine talks with Trisha Lynn St. Peter, organizer of this year's Fall Harvest Convention, A conference for individuals who identify themselves on the transgender spectrum along with their significant others, to be held November 4 through 9, in Kansas City.
- Baldwin County deputies arrested a man dressed as a woman late Wednesday evening after the suspect allegedly attempted to break into a Foley beauty shop to look at himself in the mirror.
- UNCW hosted Sylvia Guerrero, mother of slain transgender teenager Gwen Araujo, as part of its first annual UNCW Pride Week in Lumina Theater of Fisher Center Sunday, Oct. 12.
- An elementary school teacher who had a sex-change operation has sparked ire among some parents who are demanding to know why no one told them in advance about the gender switch.
- A transgender woman who found fame through appearing on a Korean game show after gender realignment has committed suicide in what experts are calling a 'copycat suicide.'
- A blind woman seeking a sex change has admitted harassing a support worker by sending her an email describing “violent visions and fantasies”, it has emerged.
- THE reaction Mary Murdoch gets from walking down her street is very different to how she was greeted in Japan.
- (CNN) -- Public school officials in Chicago, Illinois, are recommending approval of a "gay-friendly" high school because harassment and violence are causing gay students to skip class and drop out at alarming rates.
- Wilmington, NC (WECT)-- October is National Coming Out Month and a some at UNCW will be discussing transgender rights.
- MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio -- Middlefield police arrested a transgender woman in connection with the death of her husband.
- IOWA CITY — Little things a teacher does can make a big difference in the lives of students who may be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
- According to the 2006 report Private Lives – A report on the health and well being of GLBTI Australians, nearly three-quarters of those who took part in the survey reported at least one sign of a major depressive episode.
- The Human Rights Campaign has declared October 11th as National Coming Out Day and a new voice (from what many might think is an unlikely source) has joined in support of this basic human right: the voice of straight spouses -- men and women who have been or are married to LGBT people.
- Synagogue ceremony marks transsexual’s emotional journey
- A CULT actress featured in Lou Reed’s song Walk On The Wild Side was in Liverpool today to celebrate an exhibition of portraits of herself.
- A transgender man who's been with the San Francisco Police Department for more than two decades was recently promoted to lieutenant.
- A transgender, who became famous for appearing in a show before and after undergoing sex change surgery, committed suicide Saturday, a day after actress Choi Jin-sil's death.
- MANILA, Philippines—“Taboo” on the National Geographic Channel makes for an absorbing viewing experience, because it blows the lid off some really controversial beliefs and practices.
- TAIPEI, Taiwan – A government policy in Taiwan has made it more difficult for transgenders to get an ID, creating panic in the community. The policy, which went into effect last year, stipulates that female-to-male transgenders cannot get an ID card that identifies them as male unless they have undergone all three parts of gender reassignment surgery.
- The Georgia Supreme Court found a transgender Riverdale city council candidate did not mislead voters when she ran as a woman last November.The court unanimously ruled in favor of Michelle Bruce on Monday.
- Health insurance through the university doesn't explicitly cover the transgender community at Penn State, but one student wants to change that.
- Manchester, England (AHN) -- The toilets in the basement of the student union building at the University of Manchester will get something new in the name of political correctness, posting signs on the restroom doors that say "toilets with urinals," and "toilets."
- The Sept. 15 Metro article "Ruling Inspires New Hope for Transgender People," about the Maryland Court of Appeals' rejection of a petition drive to hold a referendum on Montgomery County's poorly constructed transgender anti-discrimination law, unfortunately omitted some of the significant objections to the law that have been raised by residents.
- Employers with transgender staff should assist them as they change sex, proposed Labour Department guidelines say.
- On Sept. 17, TransGender Michigan Executive Director and co-founder Rachel Crandall was presented with the Michigan Bar Association's Liberty Bell Award at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency of Dearborn.
- CONCORD NH: Self defined "passable cross-dresser" is arrested for prostitution in an undercover sting operation.
- THE Supreme Court has been asked to order new probes into the deaths of Jennifer Tanner and transsexual prostitute Adele Bailey.
- A federal judge has embraced an ingenious analogy between religious conversion and gender transition to explain his September 19 ruling that refusing to hire a transsexual applicant constitutes employment discrimination "because of sex," a violation of the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act.
- Tomorrow the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and their supporters will take to the streets for the Sixth Taiwan Pride Parade. Last year’s LGBT parade was reportedly the largest in Asia, attracting more than 15,000 people, which demonstrates a growing awareness of the marginalization of these groups.However, although Taiwan’s homosexual community has made great
- ANKARA, Turkey: A transsexual singer charged with illegally criticizing mandatory military service in Turkey said in court Wednesday she would say the same thing again.
- You're invited to participate in a telephone conference call with ACLU and Diane Schroer, who recently won a landmark discrimination case against the Library of Congress.
- Some of the world’s biggest advertising agencies are being encouraged to call an end to any lingering lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender stereotypes, homophobia and transphobia in their ad campaigns.
- GLADD says that this year has double the amount of LGBT characters in last year’s season, and the most recorded since GLAAD began carrying out the survey 13 years ago.
- Somewhere over the Rainbow at Parliament there's now a select committee room dedicated to gay, lesbian and transgender New Zealanders.
- Coimbatore, Sep 22 (PTI) A group of transgenders today laid siege to the government hospital here protesting denial of treatment to an eunuch suffering from HIV.
- An audience of about 40 people gathered in the Dennis Small Cultural Center in the UMC Friday for "Trans U: an Introduction to Transgender Issues on Campus."
- On Thursday, a judge upheld the first-degree murder charge against the man accused in the July 16 bludgeoning death of 18-year-old transgender woman Angie Zapata, née Justin.
- WASHINGTON (AP) — A transsexual who was not hired by the Library of Congress because of an upcoming sex change has won a discrimination lawsuit in federal court.
- PHILADELPHIA—A city commission agreed to investigate a discrimination complaint by a male-to-female transsexual who said a bus driver would not allow her to use a transit pass that identified her as female.
- Reality TV shows are featuring more transgender actors, leading to a wider exposure of an often misunderstood minority.
- GREELEY — Allen Andrade told his girlfriend that he "snapped" when he learned the woman he had oral sex with the night before was biologically a man.
- A series of events at Texas Tech has been planned to raise awareness of issues in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
- GREELEY (AP) - A Weld County district judge ruled Thursday that there is enough evidence against a man charged with killing a transgender woman to proceed with a trial.
- A GIRL believed to be the youngest person in the world to have a sex change is set to become a pop star.
- BOONE NC: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Center will open in room 106 of Plemmons Student Union Friday, Oct. 3 at 5 p.m.
- A child may be born with female anatomy, but what if her first words are "I'm a boy," and she wants to live as a boy as she gets older? Or a boy enjoys playing with girly toys and sometimes expresses himself in traditionally feminine ways?
- What happens when almost 3,000 men, women and transgender people march down the main street of a major Muslim metropolis, chanting against patriarchy, the military and restrictive public morals, waving the rainbow flag and hoisting banners decrying homophobia and demanding an end to discrimination? Or when a veiled transvestite carries a placard calling for freedom of education for women wearing t
- Diane Schroer, a former Army Special Forces commander, has brought a discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress
- Just over ten years ago, Rachel Crandall was married, living as a man and unhappy. Then, she made the choice to be true to herself and lost her marriage, her job, her home and her life. But in the end, she says, she got all her happiness back - and then some.
- In GenderVision’s fifth program, “Transgender-Friendly Public Policy,” Gunner Scott, co-founder and director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, talks about what changes are needed to public policies in order to create a truly transgender-inclusive society.
- Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- For a manly man, you could do worse than David Schroer, if you will pardon the sexual stereotype.
- A large crowd gathered in Flagstaff to discuss whether or not sexual orientation and gender identity should be added as a protected class in the city.
- Sandra LaFramboise, a prominent activist for transgender rights, has resigned from the Non-Partisan Association because it wouldn't let her friend Jamie Lee Hamilton run for a park-board nomination.
- ANNAPOLIS — Maryland's highest court has blocked a referendum that would have allowed Montgomery County residents to vote in November on a new transgender rights law.
- A national media frenzy ensued after a Spring Arbor University professor was fired because he became a she.
- GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CNN) -- It might have looked like a fraternity prank -- but it was serious business for sheriff's deputies.
- CHANGSHA, China—My mother had always wanted a girl, so even as I grew inside her stomach she hoped that I would come out female. When she finally gave birth to me and realized I was a boy she decided to raise me as a girl anyway by dressing me in female clothes.
- For many prospective Elis, the toughest question on a college application is the personal essay or the short-answer statement.But for Ian R. from New York City, the hardest question is not a question at all — just two empty boxes marked male and female.
- After a two year absence, 47-year-old Yeshiva University literature professor Jay Ladin returned to school last week as Joy Ladin, putting the oy in Joy by arriving at the midtown campus wearing a black skirt and pink lipstick.
- Newcastle University stages one of Shakespeare’s darkest comedies; it’s got a lot of interesting themes like crossdressing and love and hate and lust and bullying. It’s not too frivolous it’s got substance to it.”
- ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Map, News) - Maryland's highest court is set to hear arguments Monday involving a referendum on Montgomery County's transgender rights law.
- (CBS) When people decide to make one of the most drastic changes in their lives, they often head to the most unlikely town you could ever imagine. Our Cover Story is reported by Seth Doane:
- ACCORDING TO GREEK mythology, Hermaphroditus, the child of Hermes and Aphrodite, fell so passionately in love with a nymph named Salmacis that they beseeched Zeus to unite them for all time, and were joined in a single body in which both sexes remained manifest.
- When being true to yourself means you must divorce your soulmate, the law really can be an ass, writes Adele Horin.
- WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. - A transgendered woman who says a Connecticut bar refused to allow her to sing on a karaoke night has filed a complaint with the state Liquor Commission.
- The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) has made a big mistake. That was the consensus of the nearly 50 people that gathered outside Little Sister's bookstore Sep 2 for a rally to support Jamie Lee Hamilton.
- WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. -- An Enfield woman who used to be a man has filed a complaint with the state after she was not allowed to sing karaoke at a restaurant in Windsor Locks, she said.
- VENICE, Italy (AP) — Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce "Khastegi (Tedium)" by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.
- Andre Johnson has struggled his whole life to find a home. Johnson, 44, in his blond wig, nail polish and gold bracelets, longs to live as a woman. But calling himself Angie, he felt neither safe nor comfortable. People told him God didn't make mistakes, but Johnson couldn't shake what his "inner something" was telling him -- that he was a woman living inside a man's body.
- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When "America's Next Top Model" chose Isis Tsunami as a contestant for its new season that starts on Wednesday, the TV show didn't just put the first transgender woman in the running for its coveted title.
- Members of the Penn State lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied (LGBTA) community were generally positive about the show's addition.
- BREANNA L. SPEED waited four years before announcing to her co-workers that she would not be Wendell anymore.
- The second they meet Isis, the other contestants whisper, then swarm around her to figure her out. Isis understands it – nothing new to her – and she tells them the truth.
- This month, the newly created Transgender Emergency Fund (TEF) will begin helping transgender and transsexual individuals pay their bills. After holding two fundraisers, TEF reached its original fundraising goal of $2500 and has begun accepting applications from individuals who are in need of financial help. The fund was started to provide financial assistance to low-income trans people struggling
- Police said they busted a transsexual prostitute running a prostitution business out of her School Street home.
- Now on the ballot for March 2009, a charter amendment in Gainesville, Florida, would eliminate a requirement for all public places for afford restrooms for so-called transgendered individuals.
- After five years and 10 cycles, there are certain elements viewers have grown to expect from 'America's Next Top Model.' There's the Ivy Leaguer who thinks she's too smart for modeling, the mean girl who'd seemingly rather fight than model, the affable lesbian who acts as a foil to the conservative Christian and the 'issue' girl -- in past cycles we've seen blindness, Asperger's Syndrome, female c
- Nearly 17 percent of the companies with a perfect 100 percent score for their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors are based in California, including several with a major presence in Greater Sacramento, according to a report released Tuesday.
- VANCOUVER - A week of turmoil as a new GLBT curriculum was introducved in the school system.
- TAMPA — Opening a specialty boutique in a strip shopping center behind another strip center, and in the depths of a recession, no less — now that's hard. But Amy Tricoche's place has women talking.
- September 1, 2008 - The University of San Diego is in the news again. This time over a brochure it has published on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and "Queer" discussion groups.
- mperial War Museum North in Manchester presents Military Pride on view through October 12, a small but powerful display which reveals via portrait photography and personal testimony the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people within the context of conflict, war and military service.
- Straight or gay? For teenage transsexuals early feelings can lead them to the wrong conclusions.
- TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A transgender Iranian refugee accused of fatally shooting a male roommate, also a refugee from Iran, has been charged with first-degree murder in southern Idaho.
- VANCOUVER -- A transsexual Vancouver prostitution advocate is preparing a human rights complaint against the city's governing party after being told her candidacy for parks board has been rejected.
- Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce the Iranian film “Khastegi,” or “Tedium,” by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.
- One of the NPA's more colourful parks board hopefuls says an ad she posted in 2000 on a website advertising escort services won't stand in the way of her political career.
- VENICE, Italy: Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce the Iranian film "Khastegi," or "Tedium," by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.
- The Transgender Emergency Fund, a Central Mass.-based program that will provide critical assistance to low-income transgender or transsexual people, will begin providing financial assistance to people next month, says Jesse Pack of AIDS Project Worcester.
- Gay and transgender activists are calling on the District government to use existing social services programs rather than a police crackdown to curtail street prostitution in the city’s Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood, where transgender and gay male sex workers have plied their trade for more than 20 years.
- Transgender and marriage rights advocates have welcomed Senator Louise Pratt's commitment to LGBT rights.
- The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center announced that they received a $25,000 grant from the New York Life Foundation. The grant supports the Youth Enrichment Services (YES) community-building program that provides free after-school, Saturday activities and summer programs focusing on the healthy development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young
- NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Here! Films has acquired North American rights to the transsexual drama "The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela," winner of the Teddy Award for best feature at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival
- A new study by a California research center finds that transgender veterans — people who changed their sex after getting out of the military — believe they are facing discrimination and disrespect at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.
- The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Office and the student-run organization Queers and Allies (Q&A) greeted students at a barbecue and socializing event as part of UMKC's Welcome Week on Aug. 21 at the Oak Street Residence Hall.
- In a recent presentation to a sub-committee of CEDAW, a non-governmental group representing transsexual women in Germany argued that the state discriminates against women who were designed to be girls at birth but who entered the world with ambiguous genitalia.
- An interesting study released today by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, shows that transgender veterans face being turned away by Veterans Administration hospitals and medical facilities as well as facing other forms of discrimination.
- Employment attorneys and lawyers for advocacy groups are keeping a close eye on a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. that could provide additional protections for transgender people in the work force.
- LOS ANGELES, Aug 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As a result of the determination of a young Greenberg Glusker litigator, a physical and sexual abuse victim facing grave danger if returned to her native Mexico obtained an order from a U.S. Immigration judge granting asylum in the United States.
- A TRANSSEXUAL former trucker was sprayed with CS gas after rowing with police officers investigating a burglary.
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San Francisco's Transgender/Transgenre Film Festival seeks entries for its 2008 Festival, November 7th and 8th. The festival accepts narrative, documentary, experimental and animated films. All work should be created by transgender/genderqueer people. All work submitted this year must be under 10 minutes in length!
- A PRE-OP transsexual claims her career has been “destroyed” since she announced she wanted to become a woman.
- Former sex-worker, and the world’s first transsexual member of parliament, New Zealand’s Georgina Beyer says she plans to make a new life for herself in Australia.
- A 25-year Special Forces veteran, who allegedly was rejected from a job after they learned she was transgender, gets her day in court.
- Johannesburg - The organisers of the annual Miss South Africa pageant have been in crisis the past week, after a woman who had had a sex-change operation wanted to enrol in a workshop for prospective participants, and encountered a very chilly welcome.
- After return from International AIDS conference (held in Mexico City) in the capacity of Jury of the prestigious Red Ribbon Award, noted physician and Medical Director of International Health Organization, Dr Diwakar Tejaswi, at a press conference held at the Windsor Hotel, Exhibition Road in Patna on Sunday, said that the transgender community was found to be at excessive risk of acquiring HIV AI
- BOSTON – The American Psychological Association urged psychologists today to take a leading role in ending discrimination based on gender identity, calling upon the profession to provide "appropriate, nondiscriminatory treatment to all transgender and gender-variant individuals" and encouraging more research into all aspects of gender identity and expression.
- COIMBATORE: The transgender community in Coimbatore has urged the Government to provide them land. This is following the demand to the State Government to ensure equal rights to this marginalised community. M.Sangeetha, president of the community in the district, told The Hindu that the district administration had not acted upon the community members’ requests to allot at least two cents of
- A Jamaican teenager accused of murdering a transsexual in her London home was cleared of murder on Friday.
- SIMON Cowell told a 6ft TRANNIE she had fab legs at the X Factor auditions
- We know that parents in New York have an awful lot on their minds, from keeping the lights on to filling the gas tank. What no parent should have to worry about is whether their children are safe in school.
- SAN DIEGO – The American Civil Liberties Union, the Casa Cornelia Law Center and a private law firm are challenging the federal government's detention in Otay Mesa of a transgender immigrant who was granted asylum in May.
- A month after Crews Inn co-owner David Moore temporarily banned drag queens and transgender women from his bar if their appearance does not match their ID, protests continue and two formal complaints against Crews Inn are under investigation by the city.
- A teenager accused of strangling a pre-op transsexual in her bedroom after discovering she was still a man was today cleared of murder.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show is to be re-made, more than 30 years after the original version, which became one of the most popular musical movies of all time.
- When Dr. Jillian T. Weiss first began accepting her transsexuality, she admits, “I didn’t really have the courage to transition on the job. Nobody I knew at the time had done it, and I didn’t anticipate that it would be successful.”
- Pittsburgh--When the Democratic Party meets in Denver August 25-28, it will have a record number of LGBT delegates and approve what appears to be the most LGBT-affirming party platform ever.
- Tyra Banks is known for breaking down walls in the world of modeling, and the supermodel-turned-television mogul is at it again — this time doing something she’s never done in the previous 10 cycles of “America’s Next Top Model,” adding a transgender contestant.
- 2008 London Transgender Film Festival will take place at Ritzy Picturehouse, 7th-9th November.
- Maryland's highest court has agreed to hear a case involving a referendum on Montgomery County's new transgender rights law.
- I first heard Nomi's album a couple of years ago and assigned a story based on the strength of her vocals and confident manner. The transgender performer, who looks damn near amazing in her bright and shiny dresses and bulging bosoms (something easily overlooked in the Pitchfork press), has an incredible stage presence and knows how to wow.
- Late last month, as the Commercial Closet Association -- a non-profit organization promoting the positive use of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender references in mainstream media -- celebrated its fourth annual Images in Advertising Awards, the ad industry was under fire for ads that were at best misunderstood and at worst homophobic.
- In the ‘80s, Krieger competed for the German Democratic Republic in the track and field events, medaling in the shot put. Unbeknownst to her, however, her coaches were loading her system with huge doses of Oral-Turinabol anabolic steroids. The whole time, Krieger believed these steroids to be a vitamin pill.
- Nearly a hundred and fifty members belonging to the transgender community converged at a seminar organized in Chennai this week to promote health awareness among the community and to float schemes to help the members become self-employed and lead a life of self-respect and dignity.
- Michael Arone has been called every pejorative someone could direct at a transgender teen.But, while most harassment the 16-year-old West Haverstraw resident faced has been short-lived, Arone reached a breaking point at a summer school program in Clarkstown South High School.
- Michael Arone has been called every pejorative someone could direct at a transgender teen.But, while most harassment the 16-year-old West Haverstraw resident faced has been short-lived, Arone reached a breaking point at a summer school program in Clarkstown South High School.
- In November, Nearly Naked Theatre presents a 20th Anniversary production of the Tony Award-winning drama M. BUTTERFLY, by David Henry Hwang
- A pre-op transsexual could have died after a 'kinky sex' game with a teenager went tragically wrong, a court heard.
- The person who made history six years ago by becoming the first city employee to openly transition from male to female in the workplace has never found a burning cross outside her home.
- The United States granted,for the first time, an asylum claim to an Indonesian transsexual last month, an activist said. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organization Arus Pelangi founder King Oey, said that Michelle Saraswati, 42, formerly known as Michael Setiabudi, won her case at the San Fransisco Immigration Court in July.
- THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Italy's first transgender MP will participate in a Survivor-style reality television show in September has surprised her many admirers. Vladimir Luxuria - whose real name is Wladimiro Guadagno - was one of many left-wing MPs to lose their seats after Silvio Berlusconi's crushing electoral victory last April.
- As soon as you open the door, a smell of stagnant air hits you in the face. Located over a shop on Steinway Street, near 31st Avenue, the whole apartment resembles a forlorn closet: unshapely waist-high mountains of clutter and clothes rise against the white walls in every room. The white peeling doors do not close, not even the bathroom door, because they have no handles.
- Recent Campus Pride camp grad Josh Roer wants change - and he's not afraid to get in your face to get it
- ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) – Montgomery County voters will decide whether to keep an anti-discrimination law with broad protections for transgender people.
- “The concept of ‘gender identity’ was fashioned by radical homosexual groups and advocates to protect the bizarre sexual behavior of a few people,” Thomas More Law Center's Richard Thompson
- HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A federal jury in Huntsville has convicted a transgender woman of robbing the Alabama Credit Union in Decatur.
- Natalia Whitefeather Flores, as she calls herself, is getting her hormones.
- Alarms sounded last week when Beijing Olympics officials set up a gender-testing lab, as media reports claimed that female athletes might once again have to endure humiliating and potentially inconclusive tests to compete.
- JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A transsexual is accusing the Jacksonville Transportation Authority and police of discrimination after being cited for entering a women's restroom.
- A south London teenager has denied killing a woman with whom he claims to have become intimate, unaware she was born a man.
- Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Paiboon Marvin started wearing dresses and makeup before he became a teenager. Now 16, he wants to be castrated as the next step toward becoming a woman.
- UMBC is conducting a program this coming school year that enables students of different genders to share an apartment in university-sanctioned housing.
- A 32-year-old man has confessed to the killing of 18-year-old transgender woman Angie Zapata, née Justin, after being arrested about 50 miles away from the murder scene.
- A new proposal to introduce castration as a prerequisite for those undergoing gender reassignment surgery in Sweden has been met with outrage by a leading gay and transgender rights organization.
- Auckland's Karangahape Road has been a busy, bustling place for well over a hundred years. Helping to build its reputation as an iconic part of New Zealand's history.
- A furious dupe has been accused of murder with a fire extinguisher after discovering a woman who gave him oral sex was born a man.
- Rounding up and testing female 'gender suspects' while disallowing sex talk to foreigners makes Beijing look like a bad place to be a top female athlete
- GREELEY - The killing of a Colorado man who had been living as a woman could be prosecuted as hate crime.
- 29 July 2008 [MEDIAGLOBAL]: Of the more than 3,000 non-governmental organizations holding consultative status to the United Nations, only a handful address gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex issues.
- If I were to tell you that when one of the biggest hip-hop stars in the world conducted an exhaustive search to find 13 candidates to be his next assistant, the final candidates included a gay man and a transgender woman, what would you say?
- A gene variant has been identified that appears to be associated with female-to-male transsexuality – the feeling some women have that they belong to the opposite sex.
- Protesters proved that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which excludes protections for transgender people, is still an open wound.
- Oh boy, your calls and emails on the story about transgender people pumping with silicone...wow.
- The Board and members of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition wish to express our support for the victims of the tragic shooting yesterday at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church (TVUUC) in Knoxville.
- In February a video tape showed a Memphis police officer beating Duanna Johnson in the intake area of the jail.
- Karen Deamons wants to use the women's locker room, like a normal woman. Deamons is transsexual - she presents herself and lives as a woman. But because she has not yet had sex-change surgery, Cleveland officials insist that she change clothes in the men's locker room of the indoor pool at Cudell Recreation Center, after they received complaints from a few women who said Deamons made them uncomfo
- After a nearly four-year partnership that has yielded only the finest in crossdressing minstrelsy and Cosby-kid jail-ho cameos, Lionsgate and Tyler Perry today announced a new development pact for the glitter-shitting auteur through at least 2011.
- CANTERBURY-The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, a transgender Episcopal priest from the Diocese of Massachusetts, spoke Friday at a Lambeth Conference "fringe" event along with four other transgender people. A former female with a PhD from Harvard in early Christian thought and sex and gender, Partridge transitioned to maleness about six years ago. He has served part-time as priest at St. Luk
- Local activists say new jail proposal weakens rights act
- A TRANSSEXUAL prostitute was stopped at Belfast City Airport with earnings of £14,000 (€17,778) hidden around his body, a court heard yesterday.
- Though the now-infamous video of a former Memphis police officer beating a transgendered inmate didn't include audio, the victim claims the officer called her "he/she" and "faggot."
- WASHINGTON - Leaders of a group seeking to overturn a new Montgomery County law that bars discrimination against transgender people object to how local leaders worded a ballot referendum that could overturn the rule
- An investigation into the death of Justin Zapata, 18, of Greeley last week has taken a different step, as the victim is now known to have gone by the name of Angie Zapata and was living as a woman.
- Thanks to television, viewers across the world have seen vivid images of the violent riots in the Olympic torch relay and the sexually explicit costumes in the gay parade. Less publicized, but somewhat related and equally controversial, is transsexual athletes’ participation in the Olympics.
- Karlsruhe, Germany - A man who has sought legal recognition as a woman will be allowed to stay married to his wife, Germany's constitutional court ruled Wednesday.
- A man caught wandering around Hornsby wearing female clothing has been questioned by police hunting a sexual predator who strikes scantily clad in women's clothes.
- ATLANTA — A former state employee claimed Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that top Georgia legislative officials fired her because she said she would come to work dressed as a female as she prepared for a sex-change procedure to transform from man to woman.
- Plans for a $26 million gay, lesbian and transgender retirement village have just been approved for Victoria. It’s an exciting move forward for Australia, and will be one of only a few such developments in the world.
- HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) %u2015 A candidate for city council in Hastings is getting a lot of attention, even before the fall election push gets going. Lara Estes is a woman who used to be a man. Now, she's the first transgendered person to run for a city office in Hastings.
- BUFFALO - City of Buffalo gay, lesbian bisexual and transsexual employees will now have access to the same health care benefits that had only been available to heterosexual city workers.
- F.P. had spent some time protesting about a 'police mafia' in the city of Sevilla.
- POLICE have promised to step up work to help transvestites and transsexuals being victimised in North Wales because they are “different”.
- The police officers who beat up and insulted transsexual Esmeray in June 2007 for passing by the front of the station will be tried for the crime of “simple bashing and insulting.”
- Jamie Lee Hamilton has a request for anyone who criticizes her decision to seek an NPA nomination for parks board.
- Hong Kong - Television watchdogs were investigating after transgender people were described as 'human monsters' in a Chinese language television programme, a media report said Sunday.
- Crews Inn co-owner says trans crowd too much to handle on busy nights; performers claim discrimination, plan protest
- When a freak storm dumped two feet of snow on Columbus, Ohio this spring, it forced TransOhio to cancel its first Transgender and Ally Symposium.
- “I am optimistic that GLBT rights in Ohio will come around,” Santiago says. “As we educate people and people become more aware, we will be able to make significant changes,” says openlly gay councilan Joe Santiago.
- Police have released pictures of a man who broke into a Sunshine Coast unit to steal a handbag - while dressed in women's clothing.
- "AFTAH will be highlighting McDonald's daily promotion of unhealthy homosexual and transsexual lifestyles through corporate policies like funding unmarried 'domestic partner' (DP) benefits," says Peter Labarbera