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Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer

(AFP) HONG KONG — Government lawyers told a Hong Kong court Tuesday that the legislature, not the courts, should decide if a transsexual can marry her boyfriend in the first such legal case in the Chinese city. The male-to-female transsexual, who is in her 20s and known only as “W” under anonymity rules, took the [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Women, children’s groups decry opponents of transgender bill

By State House News Service Advocates for women and children intend to argue Monday that opponents of a bill to include transgender people in the state’s non-discrimination statute are spreading “dangerous myths about violence against women” by warning that the proposal would make bathrooms unsafe. “Opposing this bill does nothing to protect people from sexual [...]

14Jul2009 | | 1 comment | Continued