All Posts Tagged With: "transgendered"

Transgendered woman testifies on ‘bathroom bill’

By JASON CLAFFEY CONCORD — An anti-discrimination bill for transgendered individuals on Thursday drew emotional testimony from supporters — including two Somersworth residents — as well as stern warnings from critics who argued it could open “Pandora’s box.” After a three-hour hearing on HB 415, which the House recently passed, but Gov. John Lynch did [...]

24Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Defunding sex-changes is not discrimination

By Naomi Lakritz, Calgary Herald Yes, the government’s decision to axe funding for sex-change surgery is discriminatory, but not the way transgender people think it is. “Discrimination” in this instance refers simply to the act of having to discriminate by choosing among a number of budget options because there isn’t enough health-care money to go [...]

15Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funding cut angers transgendered

Human rights complaint considered By Jodie Sinnema, with files from Michelle Lang, Edmonton Journal; Calgary Herald Dismayed and angry members of Alberta’s transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the provincial government said it will stop paying for gender reassignment surgery. “It’s a matter of life and death,” said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, [...]

14Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lawyer says transgender bathroom bill a safety threat

By Matthew K. Roy Staff writer Legislation designed to protect the state’s transgendered population from discrimination poses a public safety threat, critics say. A bill filed in the state House of Representatives would allow any man who claims to consider himself a woman access to a women’s bathroom or locker room, Salem lawyer Phil Moran [...]

9Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Activists push for transgender protections

Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. – Transgendered Connecticut residents and supporters say they are not giving up their fight for specific protections in state laws. A bill to protect transgendered people from discrimination died in a legislative committee last week. Activists gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to keep pushing for the measure, asking lawmakers to add [...]

7Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Catholics Oppose Maryland Transgender Legislation

by Amanda Hess The Maryland Catholic Conference has come out against the Maryland Senate Bill 566, legislation that would protect against discrimination of transgender persons in the state. According to the group’s executive director, Mary Ellen Russell, the church generally would totally support something like this: Consistent with our long-standing advocacy on behalf of society’s [...]

7Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Shelters Adapt To Help Transgender Homeless

Homes Switch Policies To Recognize Preferred Gender DIONNE WALKER, Associated Press Writer ATLANTA — Twelve years heading the Salvation Army’s downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transitioning into a female walked in. Schmidt didn’t want to refuse someone in need. Having seen [...]

5Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Police warn councillor over transsexual joke

A city councillor was questioned by police for two hours after a joke he made at a public meeting attracted a complaint of “homophobia”. Conservative councillor Jonathan Yardley said he was quizzed by an inspector and a sergeant before being “let off with a warning”. Councillor Yardley made the joke when he chaired a recent [...]

31Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

America’s Next Top Model: Former Transgendered Contestant Isis Makes Transition

If you are a fan of America’s Next Top Model then you will remember Isis King. She is the young lady that made headlines as the first transgendered contestant to compete on America’s Next Top Model. Although she didn’t win America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks saw what an inspiration she was to so many [...]

31Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Law would extend protections to the transgendered

Posted by Chantal Anderson The state Senate has passed a bill that would extend the state’s hate-crime law to protect transgender individuals. The bill, which passed Tuesday night with a 36-12 vote, is sponsored by Sen. Joe McDermott. The hate-crime law currently covers crimes against people based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability, [...]

12Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Indian city to build toilets for transgender people: report

MUMBAI (AFP) — Pre and post-operative transsexuals in the southern Indian city of Chennai are to get their own public toilets in an effort to boost recognition of the community, a report said Monday. Three toilets are to be built to cater for the sizeable transgender population as part of a pilot project that will [...]

10Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Moscow council nixes specific transgender protection

The Moscow City Council rejected a resolution Monday night that would have amended the city’s employment nondiscrimination policy to specifically protect transgendered people. The council voted 5-1 to keep the city’s policy as is despite several emotional pleas from Moscow residents, including the mother of a transgendered child. Councilman Tom Lamar was the only council [...]

3Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Two Okla. Fortune 500’s have gender identity policies

by Brian Brus The Journal Record OKLAHOMA CITY – Workplace protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered employees have expanded significantly over the last decade, exemplified by 175 of the Fortune 500 companies now with gender identity policies – including two in Oklahoma, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation reported. Oneok Inc. and Williams Cos. Inc., [...]

17Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgendered couple celebrating 40 years of marriage

By MICHELLE BOUDIN / NewsChannel 36 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It’s the story that has everyone talking. A Charlotte woman had a sex change and says the City of Charlotte fired her because of it. “That’s as we exited the sanctuary,” Anne Marie Clukey said as she looked at her wedding pictures. Most couples look different [...]

14Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

City worker claims she was fired because of sex change

CHARLOTTE — A former city operations assistant at a Charlotte maintenance facility has sued the city, claiming she was fired because she had a sex change. Anne Marie Clukey, who worked for the city for nearly two years, said she was fired because she did not conform to her supervisor’s “gender stereotype.” “I have been [...]

12Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘My goal is just to be the girl next door’

Transgendered people in central Illinois trying to be true to self By JEWELS PHRANER of the Journal Star Living in a small central Illinois town, Audri Brooks, 28, considers herself a woman in a man’s body. And though Brooks has always known she’s different, all she really wants is to fit in. “My goal is [...]

8Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sean Dorsey tells transsexual gay man’s story

Rachel Howard, Chronicle Dance Correspondent You might expect Sean Dorsey’s dances to be aesthetically transgressive or politically provocative. Dorsey – born female but now preferring the pronoun “he” – is the founder and director of Fresh Meat Productions, which he says is the nation’s first year-round presenter of transgender arts. Sometimes the most progressive thing [...]

28Jan2009 | | 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
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