“t” is an empowering 10-part documentary series, an unprecedented look into the lives, the loves, the glamour, the glory, the dreams, the hopes and, sometimes, the tragedy and heartbreak of ten very diverse and unique transsexual women – all striving t…
TheVitalVoice.com – by Kati Stovall
Editor’s note: This is the second and last installment in a series profiling “Janice,” a transgender woman who works in research at a local university. A year and a half ago, Janice began hormonal therapy. Last wi…
TheBoholChronicle.com – Juan L. Mercado
On a Verona balcony, Juliet asked Romeo: “What’s in a name?” Plenty, says the US Immigration Service. That is if the names are those Filipinos picked when they became naturalized U.S. citizens. Former UN econo…
EdmontonSun.com – By Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood – You’ve heard of Trainspotting, now get ready for Transpotting.
Once relegated to what seemed like every other edition of The Jerry Springer Show, transvestites and transsexuals suddenly appear…
FreeP.com – Dawson Bell – Free Press Staff Writer
Granholm orders on-the-job protection
Gov. Jennifer Granholm staked out a new position on state government’s relationship with its employees Wednesday, ordering departments to include “gender iden…
TodaysTMJ4.com – Associated Press – Katie DeLong
Milwakee – A state law prohibiting tax dollars from paying for prisoner sex changes and hormone therapy lets lawmakers make decisions that should be left to physicians, a lawyer said in opening statem…
SFBayTimes.com – By Sister Dana Van Iquity
Trannyshack, now in its 12th award-winning year, is San Francisco’s longest-running weekly drag and performance hotspot. Held on Nov. 17 at The Gift Center, the annual Miss Trannyshack Pageant drew hundreds…
BrisbaneTimes.com – Liau Y-Sing
When Khartini Slamah first came out as a transexual, he was a dutiful Muslim son by day and a prostitute by night, working on the streets of the Malaysian capital.
The option of sex change surgery was out of the qu…
TheVitalVoice.com – by Colin Murphy – Senior Staff Writer
A St. Louis area transgender woman says she and a friend were denied entry to an area restaurant and bar last month because the doorman said that their IDs did not look like them.
On the e…
Advocate.com
Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm has signed an executive order banning discrimination in state employment based on gender identity or expression, according to Michigan LGBT rights group Triangle Foundation. The legislation applies to…