All Posts Tagged With: "transition"

Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sydney Dupree came to Los Angeles because, as a young male-to-female transsexual, she found Memphis hostile. She came to the transgender job fair because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles. Dupree has been frustrated by discrimination and employers who turn skittish when confronted [...]

6Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

A proud 1,000 revel in ‘positive gay community’

BY KIMBERLY C. MOORE • FLORIDA TODAY MELBOURNE — More than 1,000 of the Space Coast’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents spent Sunday afternoon at the Wickham Park Pavilion, strolling past nearly 90 vendors, listening to live music and letting their children play. “It promotes diversity, and it gives members someplace to go and [...]

25May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender Boy Barred From Catholic School

Parents Of 8-Year-Old Allow ‘Him’ To Live As ‘Her’ WLWT Channel 5 OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha couple is allowing their 8-year-old son to openly live life as a girl. It’s a decision that means the child is no longer able to attend Catholic school. Therapists and the child’s parents say the second grade student [...]

19May2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

By Ashley Harrell – SF Weekly When the man who had always been a man walked in, well, that was a little strange. After all, this was registration for the fifth annual Transgender Job Fair at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center last week. The point was to help connect transgender folks — who have [...]

7May2009 | | 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

Transsexual Michelle helps fight crime

Laura Kemp, WalesOnline MOST police forces use handcuffs to enforce the law but Welsh cops have recruited a transsexual in heels and lipstick to fight crime. Brunette Michelle – who was born male and called Mark – is training Dyfed Powys police officers to combat and raise awareness of transgender-phobic violence. She contacted the force [...]

3May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual wins $500,000 lawsuit

By NEDRA PICKLER WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while transitioning from a man to a woman. Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., applied for the terrorism analyst job while she was still a [...]

30Apr2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

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

Committee Recommends Against Transgender Rights Bill

Proposal Before Senate After Narrowly Passing House CONCORD, N.H. — A Senate committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend killing legislation that would extend antidiscrimination protections for transgender people. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-0 to send the bill to the full Senate with a negative recommendation. The vote followed three hours of testimony from supporters [...]

24Apr2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Transgender conference opens

EOIN BURKE-KENNEDY Ireland remains one of only two countries in Europe that fails to afford any legal recognition or rights to transgender people, a conference in Dublin heard today. Professor Stephen Whittle from Manchester Metropolitan University said transsexual and transgender people in Ireland faced an inadequate legal framework in which to exist. He was speaking [...]

17Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

In Changsha: Demonstration for the right to be a woman

Yesterday morning, two young male to female transsexuals took to the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province. They carried banners saying: “I want to have a sex change and live my life as a woman” and “Even if I die from it, I want a sex change, one day as a woman would be worth [...]

15Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Md. lawmakers sidestep transgender protection bill

By KATHLEEN MILLER Associated Press Writer ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Maryland’s transgender residents are worried the legislature will adjourn for the second year in a row without taking action on a bill that would prohibit discrimination against them. The measure would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in housing and employment. Panels in [...]

11Apr2009 | | 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

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

A Transitional Dilemma: Some Sex Changes Change Back-Again

by Scott Stiffler EDGE Contributor Mike Penner was what you could call a guy’s guy. A sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times–you can’t get much more macho than that. So it made news across the country when he returned from an extended time-off in April 2007 and returned to the sports desk as Christine Daniels. [...]

18Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual a Finalist for City Manager Job in Lake Worth

By Deirdra Funcheon in Palm Beach, Susan Stanton was the city manager of Largo, Florida for 14 years until she announced she was becoming Steve Slanton. She was subsequently terminated. Stanton’s case made huge headlines two years ago. Now Stanton is a finalist for the city manager job in Lake Worth. According to a story [...]

14Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Barrie judge rules against transsexual

By TRACY MCLAUGHLIN An inmate who wants the government to pay for a sex change is left in limbo after a judge ruled yesterday in Barrie that the tab should not be paid by the province. “It’s pretty upsetting,” said Shauna Taylor, an inmate at the maximum security Oak Ridge Division of the Penetanguishene Mental [...]

14Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lawrence group seeks legal protection for transgender people

By Chad Lawhorn A Lawrence group is asking the city to change its anti-discrimination law to protect people who consider themselves transgender. The Lawrence-Douglas County Chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition has sent a letter asking commissioners to include transgender protection as part of the city’s human rights ordinance. The change would make it illegal [...]

7Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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