ArsTechnica.com – By John Timmer
For most of us, security issues happen to “other people”-we block popup ads, we carefully examine dialog boxes and, for those of us on the Mac platform, we snicker when confronted with something that attempts to mimi…
JournalGazette.net – Gillian Gaynair – Associated Press
Transgender model joins hopefuls on reality series
Washington – As a little boy in the Washington suburbs, Darrell Walls liked to pretend to be Lil’ Kim or a Pink Power Ranger.
He felt di…
Canada.com – Katie Mercer, The Province
Transsexual social activist Jamie Lee Hamilton is filing a human-rights complaint against Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association after it rejected her as a parks board candidate.
Hamilton said two interviews …
IHT.com – The Associated Press
Ankara, Turkey: A popular transsexual singer charged with illegally criticizing mandatory military service in Turkey appeared in court on Wednesday and defended herself.
In Turkey, defendants are not expected to ent…
WorcesterNewes.co.uk – By Claire Fry
A Cross-dressing builder caught driving on the M6 in fishnets and lace panties has been fined more than £1,000.
Ronald Logan was spotted by a passing lorry driver on the motorway near Birmingham in July.
Ge…
MiamiHerald.TypePad.com – Steve Rothaus
Queercents (http://www.queercents.com), a personal finance blog serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, announced the launch of its series on transgender finances entitled: Our Mon…
TheCrimson.com – By Susan Marine
Editor’s Note: This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus. The Crimson Editorial Board has taken this opportunity to compile a series of op-eds written by and about members of the Le…
SantiagoTimes.cl – By Leigh Shadko – Editor Santiago Times
Gay Rights Group MOVILH Lambastes Ed Ministry For Lack Of Action
Discussion about homosexuality and transexuality is rare – or nonexistent – in Santiago public high schools, according to …
TheTyee.ca – By Sarah Buchanan
Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Christopher A. Shelley, University of Toronto Press (2008)
“It is extraordinarily painful, as social creatures, to be told that you don’t belong,” Christopher Shelley has w…
Community.Feministing.com – Posted by Ismonie
For the first time in the history of Title VII, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, a federal trial court has ruled that a woman-born-man, Diane Schroer, can recover for di…