URNA Staff IHT.com – The Associated Press
Reedsburg, Wisconsin: An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the di…
Metro.co.uk
A transsexual prisoner who was found hanging after being bullied by other inmates wrote that she had been “murdered by ignorance”, an inquest heard.
Lisa Woodhall, 28, who became a woman after surgery, was discovered hanging by a shoe…
TheTicker.org – Hsi Chan
On March 27, Professor Hilde Hoogenboom from the University of Albany gave a presentation to Baruch students on Nadezhda Durova, a noblewoman who served in the Russian military during the early 18th century. Sponsored by Bar…
TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com
Brightly coloured sarees, matching accessories and boxes of make-up litter the bed in the room. Sheetal, Sathya, Rambha and Maya chatter excitedly as they get dressed, fussing over saree pleats and doing each other’s hair…
AZStarNet.com – By Stephanie Innes – Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona – For some people, “he” and “she” are limiting terms.
While many of the transgender people at last week’s “Transgender 2008” conference in Tucson were transsexuals who strong…
Stuff.co.nz – Taranaki Daily News
Physically, Tamsin is male. In her head, she is a woman. She tells Helen Harvey her story.
Of the three women in the room, Tamsin is the only one sitting in a ladylike pose, knees together on an angle, feet toget…
ThinkProgress.org
The media have been fixated on the story of Thomas Beatie, a man who “used to be a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery.” Beatie married a woman and is now six months pregnant.
Yesterday on Fox News, Bill O’Reilly…
PinkNews.co.uk – Lucy Durnin
A US Senator has caused outrage among the gay community by refusing to advocate a federal ban on job bias against transsexuals and cross-dressers, despite lending his support to homosexuals.
Edward M Kennedy, who repr…
OutInDallas.com
‘The court agreed that Izza never misrepresented herself in any sense, and rejected River Oaks’ claim that transgender people have a duty to disclose their biological sex to employers.’
(Houston, Texas, April 4, 2008) – The Distri…
Advocate.com
The Kansas City, Mo., city council voted to extend antidiscrimination laws to protect expressions of gender identity. Council member Beth Gottstein, the measure’s primary sponsor, said that though she expected some resistance, it was ti…