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English.Pravda.ru
The Supreme Court reversed earlier lower court decisions and ruled in favor of a 51-year-old transgender person who demanded he be allowed to legally change his gender to male. The identity of the plaintiff, who had a sex change wh…
Newsday.com – Samuel Maullp – Associated Press Writer
New York (AP) – Police detectives who decided to search a person they saw rifling through a woman’s purse in a doorway were acting reasonably, even though their suspect turned out to be transgend…
365Gay.com
(Honolulu, Hawaii) In the first case in the country to specifically address the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile facilities, the state of Hawaii will by pay $625,000 to end a federal lawsuit by the AC…
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
Turin – At the moment, there are four Turinese students who are using a double student identity card with both names until their request for a change of sex is accepted in court. In a press conference, it was explained t…
PinkNews.co.uk
Transsexuals in Spain are to be given the right to change their gender documents in civil registries without undergoing a sex change, according to new laws passed by the Spanish government today.
The law is expected to be produced …
Boston.com – By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer
Boston – A man serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation for him, saying that denying him the surgery amou…
PinkNews.co.uk
A transsexual is considering legal action against her Primary Care Trust after being told she must wait up to six years to have a sex change.
Emma was told in 2003 that she was a woman trapped in a man?s body and was eligible for t…
PinkNews.co.uk
Vietnam?s transgendered community has lost out in new laws which legalise sex changes only for androgynies.
The legislation allows people with both male and female genital features but means those with physically distinct sexual id…
CNW Group
Toronto – A decision concerning the treatment of transsexual persons detained by police was issued by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario on Tuesday, May 16, 2006. The complainant’s case was referred and argued by the Ontario Human Rights…
CCH – EMPLOYMENT LAW
Transsexual may have Title VII discrimination claim
Although a transexual plaintiff’s allegations of sex stereotyping failed to state a claim under Title VII, an employer’s motion to dismiss was denied because discrimination ag…