URNA Staff xtra.ca – Katie Toth
Celebrity belly dancer Antonella will be swinging her hips into Toronto this June. Billed as the only out trans performer of the Arabic world, she spent years as a male with an intersexed body in Lebanon before finally discoveri…
mpbn.net – Reported By: Susan Sharon
This week the Maine Legislature is expected to vote on a controversial bill that would repeal civil rights protections for transgender people. LD 1046 would say that unless otherwise specified, rest rooms, shower…
sfgate.com – Julian Guthrie, Chronicle Staff Writer
Loren Cannon made a name for herself as one of the top female amateur triathletes in California in her age group. On Sunday, Cannon, a philosophy professor at Humboldt State University, will compet…
queerty.com – By: Daniel Villarreal
On Tuesday, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issued a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting the AT&T/T-Mobile merger in hopes it will bring more access, faster servi…
nhregister.com – By Fran Fried – Special to the Register
This began with a Register Facebook post about New Haven’s plan to extend metered parking to midnight, but took a turn to something else that affects Connecticut in general and me personally.
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queerty.com – Daniel Villarreal
During her career Chloe Sevigny has played an HIV+ teenager (KIDS), the girlfriend of a bisexual murderer (Party Monster), a trans-teenager’s girlfriend (Boys Don’t Cry), the voice of Warhol’s transwoman superstar Can…
thehill.com – By Crosby Burns and Jeff Krehely
Vandy Beth Glenn lost her job with the Georgia General Assembly when her boss fired her because she was transgender. Brooke Waits was gainfully employed in Dallas, Texas until her manager fired her imme…
gochengdoo.com – by Candy
Huaxi Hospital is now the first hospital in Sichuan offering legal sex-reassignment surgeries, as approved by the Health Ministry, reported Sichuan Online and Tianfu Morning Post.
This comes after a strict audit as Huaxi…
washingtonblade.com – By Joey DiGuglielmo on June 2, 2011
Dr. Marci Bowers is a rarity – she’s one of only two doctors who specializes in gender reassignment surgery who’s also transgender herself. The other (Dr. Christine McGinn) is a protege of Bo…
esciencenews.com – Source: North Carolina State University
A new study from North Carolina State University shows that talking about safer sex is a complicated process for individuals in the transgender community. The finding may help efforts to pro…