All Posts Tagged With: "human rights act"

Transgender policies aim for fairness on the fields

Sports officials want to see competition and students protected as a state panel works on school guidelines. By Mike Lowe – Portland Press Herald Katelyn McKay, a junior at South Portland High School, has a male friend at a neighboring school who doesn’t like to take gym class and, in fact, tries to avoid it. [...]

26Mar2010 | | 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

Homosexuals being used as ‘scapegoats’ by flawed governments

By Daniel Howden – New Zealand Herald A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into his “vice” with the help of foreign conspirators. His home and business addresses have been published online and he has received a string [...]

11Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Action against Fatine undecided yet

Pearl Lee – Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR: The government has not decided whether to take any action against transsexual Mohd Fadzil Min Bahari, also known as Fatine, at this stage. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom, who is in charge of religious matters, said the government would first investigate whether Fatine [...]

16Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued