All Posts Tagged With: "transgender student"

Transgender policies aim for fairness on the fields

Sports officials want to see competition and students protected as a state panel works on school guidelines. By Mike Lowe – Portland Press Herald Katelyn McKay, a junior at South Portland High School, has a male friend at a neighboring school who doesn’t like to take gym class and, in fact, tries to avoid it. [...]

26Mar2010 | | 0 comments | 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

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

Remembrance day honors transgender lives lost

CAREY O’NEIL Twenty-three body outlines cover Tate Plaza today, but it’s no crime scene. Each outline represents a person killed this year as a result of a hate crime. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors transgender people who died because of their lifestyle. “Each body will have a number which corresponds to numbers [...]

20Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued