All Posts Tagged With: "human rights"

Teachers want gay and transgender issues in curriculum

TYLER KULA The Observer Elementary teachers are calling on the Education Ministry to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual issues in school curriculum. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation recently sent a letter to Education Minister Kathleen Wynne asking that the curriculum reflect family diversity. “We want children to have a positive worth of themselves, and [...]

16May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tasmanian take on transgender issues

by Şafak Timur – Hurriyet Daily News ISTANBUL -They are often in the media when they are arrested for prostitution, beaten by a client or police, or worst of all when they are victims of a hate crime. But this time transgender people living in Istanbul are on camera to talk about themselves and their [...]

11May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender rally pushes for restored funding

Advocates tell MLAs debating health-care budget to reconsider cut The Edmonton Journal People from Alberta’s transgender community were holding a rally outside a provincial government health budget debate meeting Monday night to pressure the government to reinstate funding for gender reassignment surgery. The government’s move to cut the funding in April’s budget will save the [...]

7May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual Michelle helps fight crime

Laura Kemp, WalesOnline MOST police forces use handcuffs to enforce the law but Welsh cops have recruited a transsexual in heels and lipstick to fight crime. Brunette Michelle – who was born male and called Mark – is training Dyfed Powys police officers to combat and raise awareness of transgender-phobic violence. She contacted the force [...]

3May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgendered woman testifies on ‘bathroom bill’

By JASON CLAFFEY CONCORD — An anti-discrimination bill for transgendered individuals on Thursday drew emotional testimony from supporters — including two Somersworth residents — as well as stern warnings from critics who argued it could open “Pandora’s box.” After a three-hour hearing on HB 415, which the House recently passed, but Gov. John Lynch did [...]

24Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Trans activists fight cuts to gender reassignment funding

TRANS RIGHTS / Dozens file human rights complaints in Alberta Ted Kerr / National Across Alberta last week trans activists and allies continued to pressure the Alberta government to relist gender reassignment surgery (GRS), after the province announced it was cutting the program to save money. The actions started at the Alberta legislature during question [...]

21Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender conference opens

EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY Ireland remains one of only two countries in Europe that fails to afford any legal recognition or rights to transgender people, a conference in Dublin heard today. Professor Stephen Whittle from Manchester Metropolitan University said transsexual and transgender people in Ireland faced an inadequate legal framework in which to exist. He was speaking [...]

17Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Defunding sex-changes is not discrimination

By Naomi Lakritz, Calgary Herald Yes, the government’s decision to axe funding for sex-change surgery is discriminatory, but not the way transgender people think it is. “Discrimination” in this instance refers simply to the act of having to discriminate by choosing among a number of budget options because there isn’t enough health-care money to go [...]

15Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funding cut angers transgendered

Human rights complaint considered By Jodie Sinnema, with files from Michelle Lang, Edmonton Journal; Calgary Herald Dismayed and angry members of Alberta’s transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the provincial government said it will stop paying for gender reassignment surgery. “It’s a matter of life and death,” said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, [...]

14Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Province could be sued for delisting decision

ctvcalgary.ca Some trans-gender people awaiting surgery are considering legal action against the province. On Tuesday, the province announced it would no longer fund gender reassignment surgery. The government claims it will continue to fund surgeries approved before March 31st but some patients are getting a different story. Prior to Tuesday’s budget announcement, Mercedes Allen was [...]

10Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

California Activists Explore Transgender Civil Rights at San Diego Conference

SAN DIEGO – March 19 – More than 200 transgender community members and allies will meet in San Diego on March 27, 2009 for the 4th annual Transgender Leadership Summit. The Summit comes at a critical time for the transgender rights movement, as the current economic crisis has made transgender people even more vulnerable to [...]

20Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gender Recognition Bill passes first LegCo reading

GREATER legal recognition for transsexuals came a step closer on Tuesday when the Gender Recognition Bill unanimously passed its first reading in Legislative Council. The bill, being steered through LegCo by Eddie Lowey, is being enacted to conform to latest European Court of Human Rights rulings and updates the law to recognize a transsexual’s new [...]

12Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lawrence group seeks legal protection for transgender people

By Chad Lawhorn A Lawrence group is asking the city to change its anti-discrimination law to protect people who consider themselves transgender. The Lawrence-Douglas County Chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition has sent a letter asking commissioners to include transgender protection as part of the city’s human rights ordinance. The change would make it illegal [...]

7Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Halt abuse of transgenders — Human Rights group

Guyana should halt arrests and police abuse of transgender people and repeal a repressive law that criminalises wearing clothes considered appropriate only for the opposite sex, six human rights organisations said today in a letter to President Bharrat Jagdeo. The letter was signed by the Caribbean Forum for Liberation of Genders and Sexualities (CARIFLAGS), Global [...]

7Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Clergy’s rights over transsexual weddings in the spotlight

WHY should the clergy’s right to refuse to perform a marriage ceremony for a transsexual be enshrined in law? That’s the question an MHK is posing following a House of Keys debate on the clauses stage of the Gender Recognition Bill, which seeks to extend human rights legislation to transsexuals. Speaking after the debate, Brenda [...]

27Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual candidate for district representative

District officer candidate Belgin Çelik: “As a transsexual woman, I believe I will be able to secularly fulfill my duties. I plan to determine the problems present and solve them with the public. There are two men also up for this position, but I believe I am going to win.” The days to the local [...]

23Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

VA reviewing policy against transsexual surgery

By Carol Ann Alaimo Arizona Daily Star “You people don’t exist.” Air Force veteran Diane Steen, who was born male and had surgery to become a woman, still gets steamed when she recalls the comment from a staffer at Tucson’s veterans hospital, where Steen is a patient and a longtime volunteer. The remark came, she [...]

23Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Two Okla. Fortune 500’s have gender identity policies

by Brian Brus The Journal Record OKLAHOMA CITY – Workplace protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered employees have expanded significantly over the last decade, exemplified by 175 of the Fortune 500 companies now with gender identity policies – including two in Oklahoma, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation reported. Oneok Inc. and Williams Cos. Inc., [...]

17Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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