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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedGay 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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedGay-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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedA 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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedJudge 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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedFerndale 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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedPolice 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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedIndia’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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedTransgender 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 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedTranssexuals 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 [...]
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