URNA Staff LATimes.com – By Kim Murphy
After a major makeover, including breast surgery, the longtime public servant is still just Stu Rasmussen to residents of this small Willamette Valley town.
Reporting from Silverton, Ore. — Stu Rasmussen promised a ne…
DailyCamera.com – By Laura Snider
Last week, Duanna Johnson was shot execution-style in Memphis. In February, 15-year-old Lawrence King was murdered by a classmate in California. Last summer, Angie Zapata was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher…
TheStranger.com – by Dan Savage
I am a straight, crossdressing male into bondage. That’s NOT my problem. Recently, I began seeing a professional Dominatrix for forced crossdressing, among other things. She was great, but our last session ended abrup…
EBAR.com – by Cynthia Laird
The mother of a transgender woman spoke of her unconditional love for her daughter and the names of 26 people who died this year were read during an emotional Transgender Day of Remembrance observance in Oakland Sunday, N…
MercuryNews.com – Donna Jones – Sentinel Staff Writer
Tara Sawyer was punished as a small child for acting like a girl so she tried to live as the boy she appeared to be at birth.
But four years ago, the 32-year-old admitted to herself what she k…
LAist.com – Zach Behrens
Sparked by the unsolved 1998 murder of Rita Hester, the Transgender Day of Remembrance has grown from a little candlelight vigil on the streets of San Francisco to a worldwide memorial in major cities across the world. This …
EdgeBoston.com
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund [TLDEF] calls upon the Syracuse [N.Y.] Police Department and Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick to fully investigate the death of Lateisha Green, 22, whose legal name w…
AgoraCosmopolitan.com – by Debbie Rasmussen
An interview with Julia Serano
The rising visibility of trans, intersex, and genderqueer movements has led feminists—and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the world—to an increasing awareness that m and …
MyEyewitnessNews.com – Contributor: Shane Myers
Memphis, TN — Former Memphis Police Officer Bridges McRae has been indicted on a civil rights violation in the beating of transgendered woman Duanna Johnson.
According to the indictment, McRae is a…
WJZ.com – Sally Thorner
Baltimore (WJZ) – If all humans are created equal, then why do only two Maryland jurisdictions have laws to protect a group that includes hundreds of Marylanders? It’s a statewide conflict over transgender discrimination.
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