opposingviews.com – by GLAAD
New York City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is standing with the Puerto Rican community to demand that the rash of anti-gay and transgender murders in Puerto Rico be properly investigated and covere…
ontopmag.com – By Carlos Santoscoy
A federal bill that bans workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (transgender protections) won’t see a vote in the House in the near term, gay weekly The Washington Blade reported.
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irishtimes.com – Sara-Jane Cromwell
For the first time in my life, I feel completely at home with myself physically. I’m 49 but I was only diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) in 2003. It’s a clinical condition but even trying to get a diag…
leagle.com – Leagle, Inc
DONNA MARIE DUMONT LAVALLEE
v.
MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY.
Civil Action No. 09-10201-RGS.
United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.
June 11, 2010.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON APPELLANT…
postbulletin.com
Dear Answer Man, I’ve heard that the State Department has a new policy about passports for people who are in “gender transition.” I’m not quite sure what that means. Can you tell me?
I can try. In the good old days, if you were a…
thestar.com – Jim Rankin – Staff Reporter
This won’t be a narrative about a girl trapped inside the body of an awkward boy from Beamsville, who went through 60 plastic surgeries and cosmetic procedures to transform her body into Jessica Rabbit with…
womensenews.org – By Megan Carpentier – WeNews correspondent
The recession is causing the paperwork to pile up. For transgender people this is particularly tough. Every application for work or government assistance contains the possibility of probin…
thescavenger.net – Max Attitude
There is a danger in glorifying gender ambiguity in art without consideration for the real-life threats that gender-ambiguous people live with, writes Max Attitude.
Vision is always a question of the power to see -…
jewishjournal.com – Posted by Janelle Eagle
Last night I had 26 people join me for shabbat dinner. Not just any Shabbat… but a Transgender Shabbat. Not that Shabbat itself was trans (perhaps we welcomed a Sabbath Husband?), but we specifically invit…
sfgate.com – Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic
Forever Never Comes: Drama. By Enrique Urueta. Directed by Mary Guzman. With Marilet Martinez, Kathryn Zdan, Lawrence Radecker et al. Through June 26. Crowded Fire Theater, Boxcar Playhouse, 505 …