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All Posts Tagged With: "human rights commission"

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 are defined [...]

10Feb2010 | Sara | 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 of death [...]

11Jan2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in court appeal for breast enlargement

A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital’s budget.
From Telegraph.co.uk
The legally aided gender dysphoria sufferer, who has been living as a woman for over 10 years, says breast augmentation is essential to her [...]

8Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Maine rules in favor of transgendered student on restroom use

Matt Kailey – Transgender Issues Examiner
The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled in favor of a transgendered male-to-female student who was not allowed to use to girls’ restroom.
The Bangor Daily News reports that the child, who was born male but who has a female gender identity and lives as a girl, had been using the girls’ [...]

17Jul2009 | Gail Jones | 0 comments | Continued