All Posts Tagged With: "transgender individuals"

Backers rally around transgender bill

By Peter Schworm – Boston Globe They recoiled as their quest for legal protections was derided as a “bathroom bill.’’ They seethed as their cautious petition for expanded rights turned into the latest skirmish in the culture wars. And many transgender individuals sighed in resignation when gubernatorial candidates Charles D. Baker and Timothy Cahill recently [...]

25Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Mom to talk about transgender child at Cal State Stanislaus

The mother of a transgender teen who was killed in 2002 will give a talk Thursday at California State University, Stanislaus, in Turlock as part of the campus’ Social Awareness Program. Organizers said Sylvia Guerrero, above, will discuss the acceptance of transgender individuals and lifestyles as she shares her story. Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, Guerrero’s [...]

13Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Local Courts Making Transgender Name-Changes Easier

by Samuel Newhouse – brooklyneagle.com NEW YORK — Courts around New York City have recently earned a new distinction, that of being one of the easiest and most popular places for transgender individuals to change their names. Two recent rulings in New York have eased the name-change process for transgender people. In one case, a [...]

29Jan2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

Mass. trans couple settles discrimination case

by Hannah Clay Wareham Bay Windows A housing discrimination case brought by a Massachusetts transgender couple against landlords and a real estate agent of a rental property in Oxford, MA, has recently been settled. Samantha J. Cornell, a transgender woman, and her spouse Andrea V. Boisseau, who was born with an intersex condition, were awarded [...]

15Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Uncommon decency

Transgender women prepare to file lawsuit in response to treatment in D.C. jails by Yusef Najafi – Metro Weekly In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility — ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her two-day [...]

24Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

India Adds Third Gender Option to Voting Rolls: ’Other’

by Kilian Melloy – Edge Boston Transsexual and intersex people going to the polls in India will no longer have to choose between identifying themselves as male or female, now that a third category for gender has been added. The new option–”O” for “Other”–has been added alongside the “M” and “F” choices for use by [...]

14Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

ACLU-NJ helps resolve issue between black police officers group and LGBT community

— ANDY LAGOMARSINO, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) announced the resolution of a dispute involving two women who were turned away from a fundraising dance hosted by the organization. The women claimed they and their friends were excluded based on [...]

4Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Pride festival draws crowd, protesters

By: Sonia Havele – The Chronicle Online Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters gathered on East Campus Quadrangle Saturday to celebrate the 25th annual North Carolina Pride Festival and Parade. From the eye-catching costumes, multi-colored parade floats, high-blasting music and constant candy showers, the scene was nothing short of eventful. The crowd included a mix [...]

28Sep2009 | | 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

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

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

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

Colorado sidles up to civil unions

Small, quiet steps have made the state one of the region’s friendliest to same-sex pairs. By Jessica Fender The Denver Post In five years’ time, Colorado has quietly become one of the most welcoming states in the region for gays, lesbians and transgender individuals seeking the same legal rights as in liberal states. As gay-rights [...]

17May2009 | | 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

Mass. advocates debate transgender bathrooms

The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — For Ethan St. Pierre, allowing someone who is biologically female — but self-identifies as male — to use the men’s bathroom is a no-brainer. “Look at me,” said St. Pierre, who was born a woman but is now a transgender man with a beard and short hair. “I don’t [...]

9Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

NH House rejects transgender rights bill

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The fear that transgender individuals would be able to use any bathroom prompted House lawmakers to kill legislation extending legal protections to them in New Hampshire. Opponents, led by the Republican Party, had called it the “bathroom bill” based on their argument it would open all bathrooms to men and women. [...]

26Mar2009 | | 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

Fla. conservatives fight transgender restroom rule

By RON WORD GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A blond girl heads from a playground into a women’s restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. “Your City Commission Made This Legal,” the words on the TV screen read. And it’s true, sort of. The dark ad came from opponents of a gender identity [...]

9Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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