All Posts Tagged With: "human rights"

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

Gay Group Slams Letterman Over Transgender Joke

By Dylan Stableford – Thewrap.com David Letterman is under fire over a joke. Again. On Tuesday’s “Late Show,” announcer Alan Kalter interrupted Letterman during his monologue when the host mentioned that Amanda Simpson, President Obama’s appointment to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, is a transgender woman. “What?!” Kalter shouted. “Amanda?! Amanda used [...]

8Jan2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Gay Bar’s New ID Policy Is a Drag

Club requires ID that matches “gender presentation” By MATT BARTOSIK – NBC Chicago Gay men and lesbian women often joke about the “membership credentials” they must have in order to be gay, a.k.a. their “gay card.” But a popular gay bar in Elk Grove Village wasn’t kidding when it imposed a new policy, requiring an [...]

21Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Texas companies improve on policies affecting gays, index finds

By SHERYL JEAN / The Dallas Morning News Top employers in Texas and across the nation are making progress in treating gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees fairly, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This year, 305 businesses achieved the Corporate Equality Index’s top rating of 100 percent for [...]

15Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New sex change regulation in Thailand

The Nation/Asia News Network By Pongphon Sarnsamak From November 29, the Medical Council of Thailand will strictly enforce new regulations allowing only those transgendered people aged over 18 to undergo a sex-change operation, secretary general Dr Samphan Komrit said yesterday Transgendered people aged 18 to 20 must have parental consent, while those over 20 can [...]

11Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Quebec transgender discrimination case dismissed by rights tribunal

By Marianne White, Canwest News Service QUEBEC — The federal human rights tribunal ruled Tuesday that the Canadian Forces did not discriminate against Micheline Montreuil, one of Canada’s best-known transgendered people, when they refused to enrol her. Montreuil, who was born as a man named Pierre, underwent hormone therapy to grow breasts and changed her [...]

9Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender youth wants genderless bathrooms

Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – A transgendered South Burlington High School senior is asking the Vermont Human Rights Commission to back an effort to require the state’s middle and high schools to offer genderless bathrooms. Sixteen-year-old Kyle Giard-Chase told the commission Thursday that until a year ago he was a three-sport athlete and the [...]

27Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Kennedy remembered as champion of gay rights

By DENISE LAVOIE (AP) BOSTON — For decades, Edward Kennedy was considered the most powerful voice in the Senate for gay rights as a strong supporter of HIV/AIDS funding, hate crimes legislation and same-sex marriage. His death struck a blow to gay rights advocates, who say they’ve lost a key ally. “Having somebody in the [...]

27Aug2009 | | 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 [...]

17Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

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

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

Mexico City Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands

MEXICO CITY – Thousands of Mexicans marched peacefully through central Mexico City in the 31st Gay Pride March at which they demanded improvements in gay rights, watched over by some 1,500 police. All transpired in calm at Saturday’s parade, Mexico City police department spokesmen said. The annual march by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender individuals [...]

22Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Obama extends gay health benefits

By Stephen Collinson WASHINGTON (AFP) — President Barack Obama Wednesday extended some federal health benefits to same-sex partners of US government workers, in what he said was a historic step towards equality for gays and lesbians. “Many of our government’s hardworking and dedicated patriotic public servants have long been denied basic rights … for one [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Honduras: End Violence Against Transgender People

Government Should Prosecute Attackers and Prohibit Discrimination Human Rights Watch (San Pedro Sula) – Honduras should act to end an epidemic of violence against transgender people by investigating, prosecuting, and convicting those responsible, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The organization also called on Honduran authorities to repeal legal provisions on “public [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender woman reveals difficulties

By Abigail Curtis BDN Staff LEWISTON, Maine — Brianna Freeman, a transgender woman who lived the first four decades of her life as a man, said she knows firsthand about the pain caused by discrimination. And when management at an Auburn Denny’s restaurant wouldn’t allow her to use the women’s restroom until she had sex [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Indonesia’s transgender community faces discrimination

The Jakarta Post The transgender community faces greater discrimination in public than any other LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – individuals, according to speakers at a public discussion in Jakarta on Wednesday. Ienes Angela, a member of Forum Komunikasi Waria, an organization for transgender individuals, said that while they are regularly shunned publicly, [...]

28May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Colorado sidles up to civil unions

Small, quiet steps have made the state one of the region’s friendliest to same-sex pairs. By Jessica Fender The Denver Post In five years’ time, Colorado has quietly become one of the most welcoming states in the region for gays, lesbians and transgender individuals seeking the same legal rights as in liberal states. As gay-rights [...]

17May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New UN plan to boost HIV services targets gay men and transgender people

UN news Centre 15 May 2009 – Two United Nations agencies are launching a plan to provide increased HIV-related information and health services to men who have sex with men and transgender populations, while stressing the need to make universal access to treatment, care and support a reality for all. The initiative, spearheaded by the [...]

16May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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