URNA Staff My Friends,
We lost a true and dear friend to us all this week, Lyra The Original. I will miss her terribly. She and I became close over the years and we shared our lives together. We laughed, we cried, we shared our most private thoughts. As m…
(Pam/Editor – life needs to be be about balance, so an article about spring looks, smile)
Refinery29 – Annie Georgia Greenberg & Connie Wang Apr 13, 2015
We feel you rolling your eyes, guys — allow us to stop you right there. When it comes to f…
whitehouse.gov – Valerie Jarrett April 8, 2015
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let’s say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he’s held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide i…
thesundayleader.lk (Sri Lanka)- Camelia Nathaniel Monday, April 06, 2015
The transgender persons are more often deprived of fundamental rights though they are human beings. They face a range of social and legal issues such as having to have identity…
CBCNews – April 2, 2015
The Vancouver Park Board recently launched a trans-inclusive campaign to make community facilities more open and friendly to transgender and gender variant people.
“This is really the start of a campaign in terms of educat…
Reuters – Kieran Guilber April 1, 2015
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Transgender people in Malta will no longer need to have surgery, sterilization and a diagnosis of mental illness to legally change gender under a law passed on Wednesday, w…
telesurtv.net – Published 31 March 2015
Argentina has been a pioneer in the region, and the world, in defending the rights of the LGBTI community. The ruling left-wing coalition presented the first transsexual senatorial candidate in the central pro…
The Change of Ownership of URNA is complete. Ownership of URNA is now in the hands of Pamela, who will be able to devote a lot more of her time to URNA than I’ve been able to over the last year. Pamela has been slowly familiarizing herself with the Adm…
forward.com – Hannah Rubin
San Francisco — Tom Chai Sosnik stood in front of his eighth-grade class, flecks of rainbow colored hair visible beneath his blue yarmulke, as he was wrapped in a tallit for the very first time. His classmates stood and ch…
heraldtribune.com – Katy Bergen March 28, 2015
Somewhere off the phone line, his child is crying, and Frank Artiles takes a moment to attend to her. The Florida representative and Miami resident has just returned from an economic development trip to…