All Posts Tagged With: "transgendered woman"

Transgender Community in New Orleans Fights Police Harassment

by Jordan Flaherty New Orleans’ Black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city’s police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause.  Activists hope that public outrage at recent revelations of widespread police violence and corruption offer an opportunity to make changes in police behavior [...]

22Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Women’s pharmacy ends ban on transgendered clients

Cheryl Rossi, Vancouver Courier A policy that added controversy to the opening of North America’s first women-only pharmacy has been changed. Lu’s: A Pharmacy for Women and the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective now welcome transgendered clients and others who self-identify themselves as women. Members of the relatively new local feminist collective the Femininjas are pleased. [...]

11Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgendered aide turns to law she helped pass

Beyer files complaint against council Ethics Commission by C. Benjamin Ford | Gazette.net A County Councilwoman’s senior policy adviser who helped draft the county’s antidiscrimination law to protect transgendered people now is using the law in filing a complaint against the Montgomery County Ethics Commission. “I helped craft the bill, and I’m the first to [...]

18Nov2009 | | 1 comment | Continued