All Posts Tagged With: "gender identity"

Mass. trans couple settles discrimination case

by Hannah Clay Wareham Bay Windows 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. Samantha J. Cornell, a transgender woman, and her spouse Andrea V. Boisseau, who was born with an intersex condition, were awarded [...]

15Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay rights’ advocates push for anti-discrimination bill

By ERIN KELLY • Gannett Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – After a 15-year fight, gay rights’ groups believe 2010 will be the year they persuade Congress to pass a landmark law protecting workers from being fired or denied jobs or promotions because of their sexual orientation. With Democrats in the majority in the House and Senate [...]

15Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Federal Job Website Now Bans Gender Identity Discrimination

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. A link to the policy is now [...]

8Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Paper guilty of transsexual slur

BBC News A Belfast newspaper has been found guilty of breaching the press code of practice for describing a transsexual as ‘a tranny.’ The Sunday Life was reported to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) by a male-to-female transsexual who had worked as a rape counsellor in Belfast. The paper had raised concerns about her suitability [...]

4Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Governor to sign gender identity executive order

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Gov. David Paterson will sign an executive order today to extend anti-discrimination protections to transgender state employees. The New York Times City Room blog reported Tuesday that the order “represents the broadest protections ever extended to transgender public employees in New York State.” Paterson is scheduled to sign the [...]

17Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Oklahoma City school board passes protection for gay pupils

By MEGAN ROLLAND NewsOK.com The bullying or harassment of gay, lesbian and transgender students in the Oklahoma City School District will not be tolerated, school board members said Monday with a vote amending the district’s policy. “This is an opportunity for us to get a little bit ahead of the curve, not very far I’ll [...]

16Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Oklahoma City school board passes protection for gay pupils

Board member says the amended rule is ‘ahead of the curve’ in Oklahoma BY MEGAN ROLLAND – The Oklahoman The bullying or harassment of gay, lesbian and transgender students in the Oklahoma City School District will not be tolerated, school board members said Monday with a vote amending the district’s policy. “This is an opportunity [...]

15Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Fla. MacDonald’s Manager Tells Transgender Job Applicant “We Don’t Hire Faggots”

By Jodi Jacobson – rhrealitycheck.org The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed an employment discrimination complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations against McDonald’s for discriminating against a transgender person who applied for a job. TLDEF reports that: On July 10, 2009, Zikerria Bellamy applied online for a position as a [...]

7Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

April Ashley: 50 happy years for sex-swap pioneer

Britain’s first transsexual is, in a new exhibition, again challenging ideas about gender, identity and DNA. By Peter Stanford – telegraph.co.uk It always makes me laugh when people say I was born a man,” says April Ashley, who in 1960 became the first Briton to undergo sex-change surgery. “I was born a baby, not a [...]

24Nov2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Tampa City Council passes anti-discrimination rules for transgender people

By Janet Zink – tampabay.com TAMPA — Men who live as women, women living as men, clergy members, mothers and grandparents packed the Tampa City Council chambers Thursday to debate a new ordinance that would protect transgender people from discrimination. Some argued that it was good for business and simply right to approve the law. [...]

19Nov2009 | | 5 comments | Continued

Transgendered aide turns to law she helped pass

Beyer files complaint against council Ethics Commission by C. Benjamin Ford | Gazette.net 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. “I helped craft the bill, and I’m the first to [...]

18Nov2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

17 years on the job in Dallas, Officer Joe became Officer Debbie

By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News After 17 years with the Dallas Police Department, Officer Joseph Grabowski showed up at work one day sporting makeup, a feminine hairstyle and a new first name: Deborah. The 44-year-old officer was scared and relieved that the secret was finally out. “I have always felt like a [...]

15Nov2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Gay Renters to Get Some Discrimination Protection

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When it comes to negotiating a lease or paying fair rent, gay and transgender renters may soon get more protection. Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it’s fast-tracking a nationwide study to determine the extent of housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s [...]

1Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Hate Crimes Bill Signed Into Law

Historic Legislation Is First to Include Gender Identity in Federal Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — 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. The bill passed both houses of Congress earlier this month as [...]

29Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Advocates Encouraged by Hate Crimes Bill

By Bao Ong – The New York Times As gay and immigrant rights advocates congregated in Jackson Heights, Queens, last week to educate citizens about their rights, Karina Claudio-Betancourt, a community organizer, peered at her BlackBerry and announced that the Senate had passed a measure to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability in [...]

28Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgenders in Chennai launch their own marriage website

By Channel NewsAsia’s India Correspondent Damanjeet Kohli NEW DELHI : Transgenders in India’s Chennai city have launched their own marriage website through which they hope to find like-minded suitors. One can often see them dancing at weddings or at the blessing ceremonies of newborn babies. They appear uninvited to seek money. And it is not [...]

19Oct2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Transgender Commission fights for better restroom access

The University of Minnesota Transgender Commission is working with other departments to ensure access to restrooms as a basic right. By James Nord – The Minnesota Daily Many students take the ability to use the bathroom for granted, but for some it is a daily battle. The University of Minnesota Transgender Commission is attempting to [...]

15Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Alberta substitute teacher let go because of sex change

By Jodie Sinnema – Calgary Herald EDMONTON — An Edmonton teacher has filed a human-rights complaint against a local Catholic school district after the district stopped hiring him to substitute-teach because he was changing his gender. “In discussions with the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese, the teaching of the Catholic Church is that persons cannot [...]

2Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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