All Posts Tagged With: "Transgender"

Sheriff: Transgender inmate not mistreated

FLINT, Mich., (UPI) — A Michigan transgender inmate held for six days in the Genesse County jail was not mistreated, police say. The American Civil Liberties Union will investigate claims of mistreatment made by Rochelle A. Meade, who lives as a woman but remains a male anatomically, The Flint (Mich.) Journal said Friday. Meade, 38, [...]

21Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster

The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO—Seven pastors from the San Francisco Bay area who were barred from serving in the nation’s largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will add six of the pastors to its clergy [...]

26Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay-lesbian group overcomes opposition at U.N.

Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations on Monday accredited a major gay and lesbian organization that Egypt, Russia and others had tried to keep out as a group permitted to lobby at the world body. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a U.S.-based advocacy group, had applied for “consultative status” at [...]

20Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

A Gay Campaign? Both Sides Demur

Source: The New York Times OKLAHOMA CITY — One of the more unlikely showdowns for the fall elections is taking shape here in this staunchly conservative state, where same-sex marriage is constitutionally banned and the Legislature frequently takes on issues like abortion. Brittany Novotny, a Democrat and Oklahoma’s first known transgender candidate, is running for [...]

20Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Judge rules Ga transgender woman was wrongly fired

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) – A federal court has ruled in favor of a former Georgia state employee who claimed she was fired because she was preparing to transition from being a man to being a woman. U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story wrote in his ruling Friday that Vandy Beth Glenn’s firing violated her [...]

8Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Ferndale preparing for annual gay pride festival

Associated Press FERNDALE, Mich. — A Detroit suburb is gearing up for its annual gay pride festival. Organizers are expecting more than 40,000 people are expected to attend Motor City Pride festival in downtown Ferndale during the weekend. The Daily Tribune reports the main festival is Sunday but includes a commitment ceremony in front of [...]

2Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Police arrest, beat transgenders in Ankara

by Rex Wockner Bay Windows Five transgender people were arrested and beaten by police in Ankara, Turkey, on May 17, the Pink Life Association and other rights groups reported. Pink Life said the incident happened near the post office on Baglar Street around 11 p.m. when police used their cars to block passage of a [...]

1Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

India’s first transgender celebrates birthday

Rose Venkatesan, India’s first transgender to become a television host celebrated her first birthday as a woman. Thirty-year-old Rose underwent a sex-change surgery in March this year in Thailand to officially become a woman. An engineering graduate with two post graduate degrees from a US university, Rose was forced out of her home because her [...]

8May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender not given the ‘others’ status

Yogita Rao / DNA Mumbai: Once again, the transgender have been denied a separate status. In spite of repeated demands by the community that its members be listed in the ‘others’ category in the Census, they have been put under the male category. With the process of data collection set to begin on May 1, [...]

1May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals call for improved rights

IŞIL ARSLAN-HÜSEYİN TÜCCAR BURSA – Doğan News Agency A lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, association in the western province of Bursa has called on the government to start an initiative to institutionally secure the rights of members of this marginalized group. Öykü Evren, the head of the Bursa-based association known as Rainbow, which [...]

30Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity

Neither wholly male nor entirely female, there are more than 30,000 ‘intersexed’ individuals living in Britain today. Here, they talk about their lives By Colette Bernhardt -The Independent The greek scholar Diodorus Siculus wrote of the mythical double-sexed Hermaphroditus: “Some say [he] is a god and … has a body which is beautiful and delicate [...]

21Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘I am a boy’ insists child born a girl

By EILEEN ZAFFIRO – Dayton Beach News Journal. DAYTONA BEACH — There’s a wiry little 7-year-old in Deltona who can name an impressive number of Major League baseball players, NFL bruisers and NBA stars. The second-grader also loves reading astronomy books and watching “Jeopardy,” and is a political junkie particularly smitten with President Obama. Maybe [...]

16Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

A family made, not born

Pakistani outcasts live together after their families abandoned them because they are congenital eunuchs and hermaphrodites By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Wearing a red knit bonnet, matching lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular forearms, Ms. Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the call to [...]

8Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender model Choi Han Bit

By Korean Insider Choi Han Bit (최한빛) the transgender supermodel. Yes, she or he is a model in Korea. Maybe not hot to you, but she is at least as good looking as Harisu and a bit more feminine looking too. Anyways, Choi Han Bit appeared on the Moment of Truth (모먼트 오브 트루스) a [...]

30Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

NFL Player Eric Green Sued For Sexual Abuse of Transgender New Yorker

By Allen Starbury – ballerstatus.com San Francisco 49er Eric Green is being sued by a transgender New Yorker, who alleges he forcibly sodomized her. According to the New York Daily News, Angelina Mavilia filed papers in a Florida federal court recently, and is seeking $10 million in damages. In the documents, Mavilia alleges that the [...]

30Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Often shunned by family, Oregon’s gay Latinos fight for respect

By Gosia Wozniacka, The Oregonian When 16-year-old Edna Vazquez of Colima, Mexico, fell in love with a young woman, her parents ran her out of the house. They sent Vazquez to live with relatives in Oregon, hoping a separation from her girlfriend would save their only daughter and the family honor. At first, Vazquez — [...]

18Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Homosexuals being used as ‘scapegoats’ by flawed governments

By Daniel Howden – New Zealand Herald A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into his “vice” with the help of foreign conspirators. His home and business addresses have been published online and he has received a string [...]

11Jan2010 | | 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
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