All Posts Tagged With: "gender identity"

8 arrested in Las Vegas Strip gay rights protest

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) – Police say eight people were arrested on misdemeanor charges in a Las Vegas Strip demonstration by advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. Officer Bill Cassell said Wednesday the eight men and women were taken into custody on obstructing a police officer and jaywalking charges. Each was booked [...]

24Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Govt to introduce new transgender legislation

Source: breakingnews.ie Legislation recognising transgender people in their new identity is set to be introduced after the Government scrapped a Supreme Court appeal. The State was due to challenge a ruling that current Irish law on transgender rights was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). But after dropping its appeal against [...]

21Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

US welcomes Malawi pardon of jailed gay couple

(AFP) WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday welcomed a pardon granted by Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika to a gay couple sentenced to prison, and said it could start “a new dialogue” on tolerance. The White House issued the statement following news that Malawi’s leader had issued the pardon after holding talks with UN [...]

30May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Commission Shelves Work on Transgender Guidelines

The Maine Human Rights Commission has canceled a public hearing on the issue of how schools should accommodate transgender students. The Maine Human Rights Commission has postponed work on new guidelines for how schools should accommodate transgender students. Commission members decided earlier this week to cancel a public hearing on the issue and to stop [...]

15Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Parker extends city rights policy to transgendered

By BRADLEY OLSON HOUSTON CHRONICLE Mayor Annise Parker has updated a 12-year-old Houston non-discrimination policy to include transgendered individuals, a step that has won praise from supporters in the gay community but has prompted criticism as well. The two executive orders she signed last week prohibit city employees from harassment or discrimination in hiring, promotion [...]

3Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgenders seek safer lives

By KATE DUBINSKI, The London Free Press A London cafe has issued a challenge to independent coffee houses all over the continent: make your shops safe for transgendered people on March 31. “Even during the heyday of the gay and lesbian movement in the 1960s, transgendered people were kicked out of the movement,” said Linda [...]

28Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity

Neither wholly male nor entirely female, there are more than 30,000 ‘intersexed’ individuals living in Britain today. Here, they talk about their lives By Colette Bernhardt -The Independent The greek scholar Diodorus Siculus wrote of the mythical double-sexed Hermaphroditus: “Some say [he] is a god and … has a body which is beautiful and delicate [...]

21Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender woman sues under law she helped write

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) – A transgender aide to a Montgomery County councilwoman is suing the county for $5 million under an anti-discrimination law she helped write. Dana Beyer, an adviser to Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg, helped draft a 2007 law that outlawed discrimination based on gender identity. Now Beyer contends the county’s ethics commission broke that [...]

19Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘I am a boy’ insists child born a girl

By EILEEN ZAFFIRO – Dayton Beach News Journal. DAYTONA BEACH — There’s a wiry little 7-year-old in Deltona who can name an impressive number of Major League baseball players, NFL bruisers and NBA stars. The second-grader also loves reading astronomy books and watching “Jeopardy,” and is a political junkie particularly smitten with President Obama. Maybe [...]

16Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

T&T activists say of Guyana crossdressing lawsuit: Just first step to bring changes

Trinidad Express The motion was filed February 19, with the support of Guyana NGO Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination and lawyers in Guyana, St Lucia and at the University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP) on the Cave Hill, Barbados campus. The litigants were four MtF transgender Guyanese who were rounded up in [...]

28Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Human Rights Commission takes up transgender rights

Sarah Delage – wcsh6.com AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — The Maine Human Rights Commission is once again looking at the issue of transgender students’ rights in schools. The issue first came to light in Orono in June of last year, when a biologically male student who identifies as a female was denied access to the [...]

20Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex discrimination bill killed in SD

Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – A move to prevent discrimination against gay and transgender people has been rejected by South Dakota lawmakers. The House Health Committee voted 8-4 Tuesday to kill a measure that would have added sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and military status to the list of characteristics protected against discrimination. The [...]

17Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Indonesia: Transvestites demand equal rights

Jakarta, 15 Feb. (AKI/Jakarta Post) – Indonesian transvestites in the staunchly Muslim province of Aceh are demanding equal rights. They made the claim at a transvestite pageant in Banda Aceh where homosexuality is banned under the province’s strict Sharia law. Participants were greeted with applause, but also taunts when they stepped on the catwalk during [...]

15Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Gender Discrimination Guidelines Stir Controversy

By: Tom Porter – mpbn.net The Maine Human Rights Commission today released draft guidelines designed to protect students against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The guidelines assert the rights of transgender students to have access to the bathrooms and to the sports teams that correspond with the way they see their sexual identity. Transgender students [...]

10Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Fort Wayne to consider transgender protections

Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Transgender residents in Fort Wayne could get new protections under a proposed amendment to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. Democratic city council member Karen Goldner is expected to introduce an amendment in the coming week aimed at preventing or punishing discrimination based on “gender identity.” Goldner said transgendered people and [...]

7Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

European Assembly Delays “Gay Rights” Vote

Expert Notes Resolution Threatens Fundamental Freedoms STRASBOURG, France, (Zenit.org).- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided today to postpone voting on a document regarding so-called discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The assembly will take up the document, called “Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity,” in its next [...]

29Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gender identity bill introduced in House

– Adriana Janovich – yakima-herald.com YAKIMA, Wash. — Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., introduced a bill in the House Wednesday that aims to remedy discrimination “based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity” in public elementary and secondary schools. The Student Non-Discrimination Act seeks to help to end entrenched biases toward lesbian, gay, bisexual [...]

29Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Somerville Rep. Sciortino continues fight for transgender right

State House News Service Somerville — 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 [...]

23Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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