All Posts Tagged With: "gender"

Transsexual sues NYC Parks Department over firing

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – A former mail room clerk for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation says she was fired from her job because she is a transsexual. Chanel Birden says co-workers made fun of her and called her vulgar names because of her gender change. The 27-year-old Harlem resident [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual — Qualified for Beauty Contest or Not?

By Kim Rahn – Korean Times Is sex by birth a qualification for a beauty pageant? It appears not, as a male-turned-female transsexual has passed the preliminary stage of the 2009 Super Model Contest. Choi Han-bit, 23, was among 50 participants selected from a list of 1,200 candidates at the preliminary stage of the contest [...]

16Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

El Paso gay activists want new police training

Associated Press Gay rights advocates in El Paso want the city to revamp its police force’s training for dealing with the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. The request made during Tuesday’s City Council meeting comes about a week after five gay men were asked to leave a popular taco shop after two of them [...]

15Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Mass. Transgender Equity Bill Fuels Bathroom Figh

STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) ― Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a bill that would end discrimination based on transgender status. The bill would add “gender identity and expression” to the state’s discrimination and hate crime laws. Supporters say the goal is to give transgender people legal protections at work, in public accommodations and [...]

15Jul2009 | | 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

Gay Life After Saddam

Elisabeth Mahoney on 5 Live’s grim examination of homophobia in post-liberation Iraq Elisabeth Mahoney – The Guardian What terrific reporting from Aasmah Mir in Gay Life After Saddam (BBC Radio 5 Live). It looked at the grim reality for gay, lesbian and transgender people living in Iraq, and the reasons for this savage new persecution. [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Endocrine Society released guidelines for treatment of transsexuals

Guidelines include recommendations for hormone therapy, surgery and long-term care for all ages. Hembree WC. J Clin Endocrinol Metab New guidelines from the Endocrine Society call for close and continued collaboration between endocrinologists and mental health professionals for the treatment of transsexual people. “The twentieth century marked the beginning of a social awakening for men [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Discovering, and protecting, their true selves

Antibias law sought for transgender people By Bella English – Boston Globe In high school, music was Bill Zircher’s thing, mostly drums. He studied electrical engineering in college. In 1994 he married a woman he met in a band. The couple had a daughter, and Zircher was thrilled to be a father. Five years ago, [...]

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FedEx delivers the goods for transgendered

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow Without a vote from shareholders, one of America’s largest corporations has decided to grant its transgender employees special protected status. Memphis-based FedEx has agreed to implement a shareholder resolution proposed by Huffington Post blogger Sara Whitman that would add “gender identity” to the company’s non-discrimination policy. Whitman is a self-proclaimed “married [...]

14Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Face to face with new ideals of feminine beauty

Facial feminisation surgery can help rid clients of unwanted masculine features, writes Carol Hunt – Independent.ie There are not many of us, male or female, who are blessed with the facial beauty of a Jaye Davidson (Dil in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game). As a woman Jaye was good-looking, but as a man he was [...]

12Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Chicagoans find refuge in their city

by Joseph Erbentraut EDGE Great Lakes Regional Editor When transgender activist and performer Alexandra Billings grand marshaled Chicago’s Pride parade last month, the broader LGBT community was offered an opportunity to ponder a few questions: “What does our city offer for our transgender community? Is Chicago a safe, welcoming place for the ’T’ of our [...]

10Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender marriages, a religious quagmire

Tricia Jaussaud – Examiner A young women contacted me through my website www.weddingsbythebay.net, asking to get married. She and her soon to be husband, Dave, wanted a nice beach wedding in Monterey, California. As that is what I do, I congratulated her on her upcoming wedding while I checked my calendar for available dates. We [...]

7Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

LGBT unit to open at Brattleboro Retreat

The Associated Press (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. The new unit, which opens Tuesday, will include 16 beds at the 175-year-old psychiatric hospital. Clients will receive the same psychiatric [...]

6Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Saddam’s rule ‘better’ for gay Iraqis

BBC News Investigating reports of the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq, Ashley Byrne found that some gays found Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship preferable to the threat of violence they face today. Some readers will find parts of his report disturbing. There has been so much news of death and destruction from Iraq that [...]

6Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Couple speak out on transgender issues

By Shaun Hittle – LJ World A lot has changed for Jay Pryor between the time he moved from Lawrence in 1999 until moving back in 2007. For starters, in 1999 Jay Pryor was a woman named Janet Pryor finishing up her bachelor’s degree in communications studies at Kansas University. In his eight years away [...]

6Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Meet Rose, Chennai’s first transgender TV anchor

Pratibhaa / CNN-IBN Chennai: It has not been an easy journey for Rose, a Chennai-based TV show host and a transgender. Rose is now all set to produce and direct her own show. No wonder then, she particularly welcomes the Delhi High Court’s historic judgement on Section 377, decriminalising homosexuality. “I think now the Delhi [...]

4Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

JASMYN holds alternative prom for gay, lesbian, transgender and questioning youths

Gay, lesbian, transgender and questioning youths get to be themselves at annual event. By Christy Whitehead – NewsJacksonville.com 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, [...]

4Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Obama White House not appealing transgender ruling

By NEDRA PICKLER 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. The Justice Department let the deadline to appeal the decision pass Tuesday, a day after President [...]

2Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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