Legal Issues & Legal Rulings affecting the transgender community, published at URNotAlone.com. New legal articles appear at the top of the listings. See Legal Issues & Legal Rulings article excerpts below and click “Read More” for articles of interest.
Advocate.com – Joanne Herman
Changing one?s name and gender marker privately can be tricky if you’re transgender, and a new law designed to thwart terrorists is about to make it a lot trickier. Part 10 in The Advocate?s ongoing Transgender 101 serie…
KGW.com – Curt Woodward – Associated Press
One of the first tests for Washington state’s new gay civil rights law has an intriguing twist: The complaint was filed by a heterosexual woman.
The state’s discrimination watchdogs are investigating the…
NYDailyNews.com – Jordan Lite – Daily News Staff Writer\
Before his fellow cooks discovered that he was born Erica, Eric Buffong said he was known only as the rising star in their ritzy Westchester restaurant.
But within weeks of a colleague bran…
GayPeoplesChronicle.com – Eric Resnick
The same court has ruled that it does protect transgender people, though
Cincinnati–The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals says that if the 1964 Civil Rights Act could protect a gay cop from employment discrimi…
StyleWeekly.com
As courts grapple with same-sex marriage laws, a new twist emerges: How do you define man and woman?
After suffering from a seemingly minor foot injury, a series of operations and blood clots tragically ended Jonathan Littleton?s …
SFGate.com – Wyatt Buchanan
A gay Atlanta man was bludgeoned to death and his confessed killer walked free after claiming he was forced into a sexual act and responded in self-defense. The killer of a Kentucky man whose body was stuffed in a suitcas…
DemocratAndChronicle.com – Greg Livadas
A transgender Rochester man must provide medical evidence to justify his request to change his first name from Sarah to Evan, a local judge has ruled.
Allowing Sarah Rockefeller to change his name without e…
Boston.com – Scott Helman
Amendment effort is constitutional
The Supreme Judicial Court delivered a major victory yesterday to opponents of same-sex marriage, validating a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to outlaw gay weddings in a 2…
LifeSite.net – Peter J. Smith
Vienna -Austria’s Constitutional Court published this Wednesday a decision striking down the Interior Ministry’s 1996 Transsexual Decree, which forbids same-sex marriages. Austria currently does not recognize homosexual…
IndyBay.org – Chris Daley
San Francisco ? California took another step towards becoming the first state to meaningfully respond to strategies that blame transgender people for their own murders. The Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (AB 1160), aut…