URNA Staff eBar.com – by Heather Cassell
The University of California at San Francisco’s Transitions and Transgender Resource and Neighborhood Space projects are scheduled to close July 1 because grants that fund the programs are ending.
The only projects o…
UK.Gay.com – Hassan Mirza
The Equality Act, protecting LGB people from discrimination in regards to goods and services, well come into effect on April 30, 2007. Transgender discrimination has not been addressed.
Subject to likely Parliamentary a…
Advocate.com – By Andy Marra
Andy Marra had many questions when she was punched in the face for being a transgender woman back in November 2006. But instead of giving her answers, her attackers fled. Now she has decided to tell her story, and she i…
TheStranger.com – By Mistress Matisse
Games People Play
Ring ring!
Caller: Hello, Mistress? Do you do forced feminization?
This is one of those calls where I have to make a choice: I can just say no and end the call, or I can try drawing th…
ContactMusic.com
US TV soap ALL MY CHILDREN is to air an historic transgender focused episode later this week (09MAR07) after becoming the first daytime drama to introduce a sex-change character. JEFFREY CARLSON, who plays ZOE on the show, joined th…
WashingtonPost.com
Here are excerpts from new Montgomery County sex-education lessons that have drawn objections:
“Many people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender celebrate their self-discovery and feel relief and a new sense of joy whe…
OttSun.Canoe.ca – By Antonella Artuso, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief
More protection needed in provincial code, group says
Transgendered Ontarians want protection against discrimination spelled out for them more clearly in the provincial human rights…
English.People.com.cn
“In my eyes, they are not human beings, but materials. Everyday I make sculptures with blood and flesh.”
Meet Chen Huanran, a plastic surgeon who is in such high demand that he has formulated his own test to weed out which c…
RedditchAdvertiser.co.uk – By Helen Clarke
A transsexual from Redditch is championing the rights of other gender-swapping people from across the region.
Yvonne Rhodes, 52, of Crabbs Cross, is now the West Midlands regional contact representative …
Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: AIDS Foundation
?Kiwifroot? network to launch in Te Tai Tokerau for non-heterosexual youth
Kiwifroot, a new support and social network for gay, lesbian, takatapui, bisexual, and transgender youth aged up to 25 and liv…