All Posts Tagged With: "transgender americans"

Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

Source: Newsweek This spring, an Australian named Norrie May-Welby made headlines around the world as the world’s first legally genderless person when the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages sent the Sydney resident a certificate containing neither M for male or F for female. For a few days, it appeared that the [...]

16Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Obama extends civil rights in hospitals

* Laura Hutchinson SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – President Barack Obama is taking what is being called a major step toward fairness for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. Hospitals across the country will soon be forced to start doing what many hospitals here in Western Massachusetts are already doing. President Barack Obama is calling on [...]

17Apr2010 | | 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

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

New film festival to shine spotlight on gay community

By Donecia Pea – Shreveport Times He’s the man with the diminutive stature and syrupy sweet Southern drawl that has endeared him to fans and kept them laughing for decades in his string of guest roles and recurring characters on some of TV’s biggest shows. But Leslie Jordan is most recognizable to fans for his [...]

12Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Teacher In NJ Retiring In Frustration

WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) ― When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher at two southern New Jersey school districts, was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it caused an uproar. The former William McBeth had undergone sex reassignment surgery and was [...]

23Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Activists pin hopes on Obama banning transgender bias

Deb Price Six months ago, a highly decorated retired Army colonel told Congress of instantly going from “hero to zero” in the eyes of a prospective employer when she disclosed that she was in the process of changing gender. Since that hearing, Congress has done nothing to protect transgender workers, despite evidence of outrageous job [...]

15Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay equality should be part of nation’s change

In his uplifting victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama told the story of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta and the remarkable changes that have transpired during her lifetime. Born just one generation after slavery, when people like her were barred from voting both because of the color of their skin and their gender, she saw [...]

10Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued