URNA Staff Atlanta.CreativeLoafing.com – By Cliff Bostock
Gender bias sweeps the gay punditocracy
It never fails that whenever the subject of civil rights protections for gay people comes up, opponents start griping about “special rights.” A surprising numb…
SFBayTimes.com – By Dennis McMillan
The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club held their Fall Awards reception at Lounge Eight on National Coming Out Day, when quite a few Alice members and friends came out. Co-chair Rebecca Prozan opened with a slap…
JSOnline.com – By John Diedrich
Is it a disease if someone is born anatomically as one gender but yearns to be the other? And if so, what treatments should be given if that person is in prison?
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Those questions were the focus Monday…
SSONet.com.au – by Cara Davis
Almost 10 percent of transgender people will be murdered, compared to 0.0055 percent of the general population.
In addition, 60 percent of all transgender people become victims of hate crimes.
The US statistics, p…
HindustanTimes.com – Ajai Masand Ajai Masand Ajai Masand, Hindustan Times
Kristen Worley and Santi Soundarajan have never met. They live continents-apart, Worley in North America, Santhi in India.
But Worley, according to a report in Gaywired, a …
TransgenderLawCenter.org
Thanks to the tireless lobbying effort of our allies and sister organizations. We are getting closer to victoryand YOU can help make the difference.
We must take advantage of this amazing opportunity to win civil rights f…
JSOnline.com – By John Diedrich
A male Wisconsin prison inmate who has developed feminine characteristics after taking hormones testified Tuesday that the treatments have helped him deal with gender identity disorder.
Vankemah Moaton, 29, who use…
GayWired.com – By Jody M. Huckaby
When the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) received its first-ever vote in the House of Representatives and passed the Education and Labor Committee on Oct. 18, it should have been a historic, and celebratory…
SoVo.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Democratic leaders announced they have decided to postpone a vote in the House of Representatives this week on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA.
The announcement came several hours after the White Hous…
SeattleST.com – By Courtney
The Stranger has endorsed a No vote on the RTID Proposition 1 (along with the Seattle Times, but thankfully with more logic and, er, research). Their reasoning? “Rather than letting compromised politicians tell us what’s …