All Posts Tagged With: "transgender community"

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

Now, a Miss India beauty pageant for transgenders in city

The Times of India CHENNAI: About 150 beauties with a difference will congregate in the city when it hosts the first Miss India contest for transgenders on December 19, 2009. Chennai-based Indian Community Welfare Organisation (ICWO) is in talks with NGOs and AIDS control societies across the country to organise the pageant which it hopes [...]

2Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Chicagoans find refuge in their city

by Joseph Erbentraut EDGE Great Lakes Regional Editor When transgender activist and performer Alexandra Billings grand marshaled Chicago’s Pride parade last month, the broader LGBT community was offered an opportunity to ponder a few questions: “What does our city offer for our transgender community? Is Chicago a safe, welcoming place for the ’T’ of our [...]

10Jul2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Conference to address diverse trans-health issues

by Jen Colletta – The Philadelphia Gay News The eighth-annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference kicked off this week, with three days full of workshops, seminars, film screenings and activities meant to educate and empower the transgender community and its supporters. The conference is taking place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1201 Arch St., until June 13. [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk is calling for an October march on Washington to demand that Congress establish equal rights for the lesbian, gay and transgender community. Cleve Jones said Sunday in Salt Lake City that the march will launch a nationwide grass roots [...]

7Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sydney Dupree came to Los Angeles because, as a young male-to-female transsexual, she found Memphis hostile. She came to the transgender job fair because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles. Dupree has been frustrated by discrimination and employers who turn skittish when confronted [...]

6Jun2009 | | 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

Equal ID Act would allow transgender to change birth certificate

Nicole C. Brambila • The Desert Sun The Equal ID Act, which would increase legal rights for the transgender community, passed the State Assembly Judiciary Committee by a 7-3 vote. “All Californians deserve legal documentation that accurately reflects who they are,” Geoff Kors, Equality California executive director and part time Palm Springs resident said in [...]

13May2009 | | 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

Bill fights for gay rights

By Enrique Rangel – Amarillo.com AUSTIN – Equality Texas may not be as well known as other civic groups in the Panhandle, but for the past 15 years or so the Austin-based organization has established a strong presence in Amarillo. “We (have) built a lot of support in the Amarillo area, not only within the [...]

10May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Queercents: Steps to Avoid Homelessness

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ — Foreclosure rates continue to rise, and more Americans are on the brink of homelessness every day. Unfortunately, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community are at a higher risk for becoming homeless. Youth are particularly vulnerable. Some estimate that between 40%-60% of homeless youth are lesbian, [...]

9May2009 | | 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

Blurring gender for sense of self

By: Jessica Fryman – The Nevada Sagebrush The term transsexual woman fits 33-year-old student Corinna Cohn, but her identity goes deeper than what her body shows. “I want to be considered as somebody who is an economist, somebody who is libertarian and conservative in principle. Somebody who is smart. Somebody who’s friendly,” Cohn, who plans [...]

5May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Health center offers transgender gynecology exams

by Monica Derevjanik A new, free gynecology program could provide more sensitive medical care for the transgender community in Chicago. Trans Gynecology Access Program co-founders and health educators Jess Kane, Riley Johnson and Terri Kapsalis started the program to provide trans-friendly gynecological care at the Chicago Women’s Health Center in Lakeview. “I think that there’s [...]

24Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Special Toilets For Transexuals In Chennai

By P. Vijian CHENNAI,  (Bernama) — South Indian authorities are preparing to build separate public toilets for the transgender community, a first of its kind in the populace country. Mayor of Chennai M. Subramaniam has directed town planners to study the exact number of transexuals in the city and the number of toilets needed to [...]

12Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender people plead for law change

By KAREN LOVETT CONCORD – For seven years, Robert Blanchette worked as a computer programmer at St. Anselm College. He was a reliable employee, often working weekends and holidays to keep up. He received commendations for his professionalism. Then suddenly, Blanchette found himself out of work. The main reason, it became clear, was because Blanchette [...]

7Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

“NHS is exploiting my life” – claims transsexual

By Joanna Lean A TRANSSEXUAL, angry at an NHS advertising campaign that depicts a man wearing makeup, says her lifestyle has been exploited for the sake of a poster. Lucy Smith thinks the NHS should have been more sensitive to the transsexual community in Warrington when it developed a poster warning women drinkers they could [...]

1Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Human Rights Violations on Kenya’s Transgender Community

Audrey Mbugua is a member of the “Transgender Education and Advocacy”, an organization recently formed in Kenya to address social injustices committed on the Kenya’s transgender community. The Kenyan transgender community face intolerance and hostility much of which is based on ignorance of transgenderism some basics concepts such as the difference between religious fundamentalism, sexism, [...]

27Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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