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NAACP president says group supports extending rights to transgender residents in Maryland

By Associated Press BALTIMORE — NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Thursday the civil rights group supports legislation in Maryland to extend rights to transgender residents. Jealous spoke at a national conference on rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the 24th national conference on LGBT equality. “This striving for inclusion is not new,” [...]

30Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Watchdog urges Kuwait to stop transgender abuse

DUBAI : Kuwaiti police torture and sexually abuse transgender women – individuals born male but who identify as female – a human rights watchdog said on Sunday, urging the Gulf state to protect them from violence and investigate claims of brutality. A Kuwaiti Interior Ministry spokesman declined to make an immediate comment on the report, [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Memorial service planned for transgender icon Carmen

AAP FLAMBOYANT transgender icon Carmen Rupe will be remembered at a service in Auckland next month. Carmen, 75, died from kidney failure in Sydney in December last year. A public memorial service will be held at St Matthew-in-the-City church on February 11, followed by a celebration of her life at DNA and Family bars on [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in Miss England field

LONDON, (UPI) — A transsexual says modeling agency officials had no idea she had been born male when they urged her to enter the Miss England pageant. Jackie Green, 18, Leeds, is the first contestant in the pageant to have undergone a sex change and says she was flattered when talent scouts urged her to [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘NCP man’ targets Mumbai gay fundraiser

Source: The Times of India MUMBAI: A week before the city’s lesbian, gay, transgender community celebrates its annual ‘Pride Week’, a dinner party at an Oshiwara Hotel to raise funds was targeted by a local political party worker. Haji Ahmed Sahab, who claims to be a worker of the Nationalist Congress Party, said that he [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sexual minorities get a ‘Pehchaan’ of their own

Source: The Times of India NAGPUR: Individuals belonging to sexually marginalized groups like lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer (LGTBQ) can now seek help under project Pehchaan and try to build their gender identity. Sarathi Trust, a community based organization of Nagpur, is working on Pehchaan in collaboration with Mumbai-based AVERT Society and The Humsafar [...]

31Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Group turns in signatures for Anchorage rights measure protecting gay, transgender residents

ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage group has turned in signatures to put an equal rights initiative on the April municipal ballot. A spokesman for One Anchorage says it submitted 13,000 signatures Thursday. The initiative seeks to give legal protection to gay and transgender Alaskans. Group spokesman Trevor Storrs says gay and transgender Alaskans [...]

12Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Rights group: More US companies covering cost of reassignment surgery for transgender workers

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation’s largest gay rights group. The Human Rights Campaign said in a report to be published Thursday that [...]

8Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Appeals court rules in favor of transgender woman

Associated Press ATLANTA — A federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled in favor of a former Georgia state legislative official who was fired after revealing plans for a sex change. Vandy Beth Glenn, who was formerly known as Glenn Morrison, said she was fired after telling her boss that she planned to proceed with [...]

8Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lauder, maker of breast cancer’s pink ribbon, dies

Associated Press NEW YORK — Pink was Evelyn Lauder’s color. In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life. In 1992, Lauder worked [...]

13Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex Change Surgery Is Now Tax Deductible

Source: Time.com The Internal Revenue Service isn’t going to fight people any longer who want to deduct the cost of gender reassignment surgery from their taxes. According to a so-called acquiescence filed earlier this month, IRS officials notified the Tax Court that it would abide by a 2010 decision that held that some medical expenses [...]

13Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay couple that turned lesbians now marry after one gets sex change op!

London, (ANI): Transgender lesbians officially took marriage vows in Britain as man and wife, after one of them underwent a sex change operation. The two men, Paul 65, now known as Jenny-Anne Bishop and Elen Heart, 68, had divorced their wives, got together as a gay couple in 2004 and eventually lived together in Clwyd, [...]

28Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Colorado Girl Scouts say boy welcome to join as it deals with transgender issues

ASSOCIATED PRESS Denver — Girl Scouts of Colorado says it made a mistake when it rejected a 7-year-old boy’s application to join. Bobby Montoya says he wanted to join his sister in the group and the rejection hurt. His mother says Bobby behaves like a girl. According to KUSA-TV (http://bit.ly/srT91z ), the Girl Scouts issued [...]

27Oct2011 | | 1 comment | Continued

Children of gay families more likely to be poor: study

(Reuters) – Children growing up in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families are more likely to live in poverty and may be denied legal ties to one of their parents, a report released on Tuesday showed. A lack of federal recognition of same-sex marriages means such families face higher tax burdens and unequal access to [...]

27Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

First Out Cafe calls last orders on London’s gay scene

Source: BBC News Central London’s oldest gay cafe is set to close in a fortnight. First Out Cafe was the city’s first daytime gay venue, offering an alternative to the club scene, when it opened in 1986. The business is one of a number to be affected by the upheaval caused by the development of [...]

17Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Transsexual lawmaker speaks out

(AP) WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s first transsexual lawmaker vowed Monday to campaign for the rights of gender minorities and make predominantly Catholic Poland more receptive to transsexuals and homosexuals. In an interview with The Associated Press, Anna Grodzka said the time has come for sexual minority groups in Poland to enjoy the right to legal [...]

17Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Feds revise medical rules for transgender inmates

Associated Press. Transgender inmates who did not begin treatment prior to entering federal custody can now receive sex hormones specialized mental health counseling and possibly gender reassignment surgery while serving their sentences. As part of a court settlement announced Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has adopted new health care guidelines for prisoners who believe [...]

4Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

China removes transsexual dancer as talent show judge

(Reuters) – A well-known contemporary Chinese dancer says she has been removed as a judge from a television talent show despite the objections of the show’s producers, and believes it is because she is a transsexual. Shanghai-based retired dancer Jin Xing announced on her microblog that she had received the news in a telephone call [...]

26Sep2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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