All Posts Tagged With: "sexual identity"

Budget Cuts Put Those In LGBT Shelters On Streets

Experts Fear For Safety Of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Youths Because, In Many Cases, Society Has Turned Its Back Demonstrators Pack Union Square, Cry Out For Help From City Hall NEW YORK (CBS) ― The problem is already bad and is about to get worse. Experts told CBS 2 HD on Monday that hundreds of gay, [...]

15Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Turkey’s gays, transsexuals decry increasing homophobia

By Nicolas Cheviron (AFP) ISTANBUL — When Turkey’s family affairs minister recently described homosexuality as a curable disease, she was roundly criticized for discrimination and flouting human rights. But for activists her remarks only underscore what they say is increasing prejudice, discrimination and violence — even from police — against homosexuals and transgender people in [...]

5Apr2010 | | 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

Italy opens first prison for transsexuals

Italy is about to open its first prison designed to cater exclusively to transsexual inmates. By Nick Squires – telegraph.co.uk Guards will undertake special training in how to treat transgender prisoners when the prison block opens near Empoli, in Tuscany, in March. Campaigners welcomed the initiative, the first of its kind, because they said transsexual [...]

29Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Man, I feel like a woman!

anushreemajumdar- indianexpress.com Mascara is a tricky friend, lethal in charm but capable of ruining a Kodak moment, should it merge with tears and leave a dark trail down your cheeks. Therefore, Poonam applies it with great care, if she goes on to win a place in the semi-finals of the Indian Super Queen, India’s first [...]

15Jan2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Iranian transgenders reclassified

by Rex Wockner – pridesource.com International News Briefs Iran’s military will no longer classify transgender people as “mentally disturbed,” said Hasan Mousavi Chelk, who heads the Socially Vulnerable Groups section of the State Agency for National Well-Being. Chelk said Jan. 6 that putting such a determination on transgender people’s military discharge papers creates problems for [...]

13Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

City’s birth challenge linked to sex change

The Japan Times KOBE (Kyodo) A Hyogo Prefecture man who has legally changed his sexual status said Sunday that the city where he lives told him to register his son, who was born through artificial insemination, as an illegitimate child. Children born through artificial insemination by donors are ordinarily accepted as legitimate, experts say, because [...]

10Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

India Unbound

Insiya Amir – The Times of India LGBT — that’s the omnibus term society uses for people with alternative sexuality. But lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders or LGBT is not a homogenous group. There are sections with distinct identities and some fluid ones. As the debate moves forward on creating more awareness of alternative sexuality, [...]

24Oct2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Transgendered soldiers fall into grey zone for otherwise open Canadian military

By Tobi Cohen (CP) MONTREAL — Chris already has manly muscles, facial hair, a baritone voice and was accepted years ago by family and friends as a man. But he’s been told he cannot work for the Canadian military until he also gets a penis. The story of this transgendered applicant to the Canadian Forces [...]

22Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Changing Genders: An Interview With the World’s Leading Sex Change Surgeon

By Karlie Pouliot – Fox News Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves. In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs [...]

16Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Disposable Income: How Gender and Sexuality Don’t Add Up to Equal Pay

John Caldon – Huffington Post June marks Pride Month, an annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community’s struggle for full equity. Despite the huge strides made toward this goal over the last few decades, there remains much work to be done. The historical patterns of workplace discrimination and pay inequity among [...]

26Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

A fifth of gay people tried suicide – study

KITTY HOLLAND ALMOST 20 per cent of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have attempted suicide and almost all saw this as related to their sexual identity and the experiences of being abused and feeling isolated, a report to be published today has found. The study, Supporting LGBT Lives: A Study of the Mental Health [...]

2Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Parents irked that transgendered junior high students can use boys’ or girls’ restrooms

By Rob Rogers Marin Independent Journal Posted: 12/09/2008 05:00:30 PM PST

10Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued