Examiner.com – Kathleen Miller
Washington – A conservative group opposed to a new Montgomery County law that prohibits discrimination against transgender people used Election Day to collect signatures from voters in the hopes of overturning the meas…
MassLive.com
Is that a boy or a girl? How do you know? When and why does it matter?
While most individuals take these questions and their answers for granted, they create significant implications for our society and the institutions that define t…
YumaSun.com – By James Gilbert – Sun Staff Writer
A statewide advocacy organization has introduced a hate-crime bill to the state Legislature named after a Yuma gay man and gender performer who was murdered in 2006.
According to spokesman Sam Ho…
EdmontonSun.com – By Andrew Hanon – Sun Media
Barbara leans in, her hand fluttering nervously over the table.
“I always knew I wasn’t homosexual,” she says, a coy grin spreading across her face. “I’m very much a straight girl.”
At 27, Barbara …
TypicallySpanish.com – By m.p.
He faces persecution in his home country if he is deported under an order issued by an Alicante court
An Algerian transsexual who is due to be deported as an illegal immigrant under an order from a court in Alicante
Pedro Zerolo, PSOE’s secretary for social movements and liaison, said speaking in Alicante on Tuesday that he will do everything possible to resolve the situation, and added that status as a political refugee can be granted in cases where a person could be persecuted in their home country because of their sexual orientation. He said the immigrant in question has not made any application for asylum.
HinduOnNet.com
Imagine a scalpel digging deep into your innards as if to remove them. That is how Vidya, a transgender in Chennai, felt when she underwent castration at a clinic in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, for “just Rs.6,000”. It was performed in “ba…
For Immediate Release: Dated February 11, 2008
From: The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC)
Contacts: Vanessa Edwards Foster; Houston, Texas
Chair, Ethan St. Pierre, Haverhill, MA
Contact Email: ntacmedia@aol.com
Website: The National …
MiamiHerald.com – By Breanne Gilpatrick
Broward County will decide Tuesday whether to join a growing number of counties that ban discrimination against transgender residents.
Stares from strangers. Remarks about how ”weird” she looks. Even gett…
ScreenDaily.com
Dir: Tamaz Eshaghian. USA, Canada, Iran, 2008. 74mins
Be Like Others , a documentary on a topic that seems almost like the start of a joke – did you know that in Iran, homosexuality is punishable by death, but sex-change operation…
AlterNet.org – By Daisy Hernandez, ColorLines RaceWire
As more people of color transition between genders, the ways that racism is different for men and women come to the surface.
Louis Mitchell expected a lot of change when he began taking injec…