All Posts Tagged With: "national center for transgender equality"

Transitions: Transgender people can struggle to find their identities

By DIANA FISHLOCK, The Patriot-News From the time he could crawl, Jack Bowser was totally into being a boy. “I always wanted the boys’ toys, was always outside doing sports or outside with my dad. I always wanted to wear the boys’ clothes, suits, everything,” said the 45-year-old Ephrata man. Bowser was all boy, except [...]

28Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

U.S. Job Site Bans Bias Over Gender Identity

By BRIAN KNOWLTON – The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity. The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates [...]

6Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Amanda Simpson: transgender woman appointed to Department of Commerce

Transgender & Transsexual Issues Examiner – Matt Kailey The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) has issued the following press release: Amanda Simpson, who has served on NCTE’s Board of Directors for the past three years, has been appointed by the Obama Administration as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce. She’ll be [...]

31Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Hate Crimes Bill Signed Into Law

Historic Legislation Is First to Include Gender Identity in Federal Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — President Obama has just signed into law the very first protections for transgender people in US history: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The bill passed both houses of Congress earlier this month as [...]

29Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and [...]

24Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued