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Post-Tribune – Sharlonda L. Waterhouse – Post-Tribune staff writer
The prom ticket was in hand: $85. The fuschia, slinky prom dress and strappy heels were ready.
The whole week of giddy anticipation and pampering ? more than $200 worth of a manic…
PinkNews.co.uk – Marc Shoffman
A transsexual has been granted female pension rights by the European Court of Human Rights.
The court ruled that Linda Grant?s “right to respect for private and family life” was being breached by the British governm…
PinkNews.co.uk
South Korea?s Supreme Court is to consider whether a 50 year old transsexual will be allowed to official change his gender.
The Supreme Court met today to consider changing the law regarding the Family Register.
Lawyers for the …
Gay.com – Christopher Curtis, PlanetOut Network
Vermont Gov. James Douglas on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have added “gender identity or expression” to the state’s nondiscrimination law.
The anti-discrimination bill was first introduced fo…
Boise Weekly – Shea Andersen
In the end, all it took was a quick vote by the Boise City Council.
But the routine matter of revising the city’s employee policy manual was enough to make Nikki Leonard cry, because for the first time in its history,…
Times Online
A transsexual whose 17-year marriage was nullified when his wife discovered her husband was a woman is not the legal parent of their 14-year-old daughter, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Three judges this morning said the female-to-ma…
The Supreme Court is to hear the first case on the legality of changing entries in the Family Register for those who have had sex-change operations. The court is asking medical experts with experience in gender reassignment surgery and religious figure…
Chron.com – Mark Niesse – Associated Press Writer
HONOLULU ? The state will pay $625,000 and change policies at its only youth prison to settle a lawsuit over alleged abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inmates, according to a proposed …
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
Two US states have made historic strides in protecting the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Hawaii and Vermont, have in the past week introduced laws to include, protect and support tra…
Scotsman.com – Phil Stewart
Among the most pressing orders of business for Europe’s first “transgender” lawmaker may be fighting over which toilet to use in the Italian parliament.
Elected last month, Vladimir Luxuria said on Thursday she was opp…