DallasVoice.com – By Tammye Nash – Senior Editor
Civil rights, law enforcement groups back legislation
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, on Tuesday, March 20, introduced the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Rep. Mark Kirk…
WBAY.com – Associated Press
Milwaukee – By law, marriage in Wisconsin is described as a union between one man and one woman. But what if the man is a transsexual?
That’s what 58-year-old Barbara Lynn Terry is trying to find out.
Terry, who chang…
JSOnline.com – By Derrick Nunnally
Transgendered past calls wedding’s legality into question
If Barbara Lynn Terry wants to get married Friday morning, she’ll have to swear to a judge she’s a man. And so will her doctor.
Otherwise, Wisconsin’s…
CentreDaily.com – By Eun Kyung Kim – The Associated Press
You had always suspected it about that friend, co-worker, neighbor – and now that person has confirmed it by coming out as gay.
Quick, what do you say?
How should you react? Play it coo…
ABC.Net.au
A former South Australian police choir member has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for having a sexual relationship with a transsexual teenager.
Matthew Scott Barrowman, 38, had a five-month relationship with the transsexual 15-yea…
MediaMatters.org – M. B. B.
On the March 20 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage discussed a San Francisco Chronicle report detailing the murder of a transgender woman whose body was found naked near a freeway outside Sa…
eBar.com – by Matthew S. Bajko
With her appointment to the city of Aurora’s Commissions on Veterans Affairs and Cultural Affairs in January, Pamela Bennett became the first-ever transgender person to be appointed to such posts in the history of the …
BGay.com – By Romeo San Vicente
She turned Chris Rock’s head in I Think I Love My Wife and got raves for playing a troubled lesbian prostitute in The Dead Girl.
Now Kerry Washington faces another challenging role in Life Is Hot in Cracktown.
K…
TheLocal.se –
A transvestite from the village of Tj?llmo in south-eastern Sweden has had his application for a name change turned down.
Lennart Widahr had wanted to change his name to Pia but the National Tax Board (Skatteverket) informed him th…
NashuaTelegraph.com – By Kevin Landrigan, Telegraph Staff
Concord ? Gerri Cannon, a transsexual from Merrimack, said it?s unfair she?s been unable to get hormone treatment in preparation for, and after, surgery that changes her from male to female.
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