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Mainichi Daily News
The European Union’s Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a British law granting pension rights to transsexuals based on their original sex was illegal.
The EU’s highest court said that “the right not to be discriminated again…
MiamiHerald.com – Ashley Fantz
A man who was convicted in 2003 in the death of a Carol City secretary by injecting her buttocks with industrial-grade silicone during a so-called ”pumping party” is expected to walk out of prison.
Mark Hawkins, o…
YaleDailyNews.com – Cullen Macbeth – Staff Reporter
The Yale College Council approved a resolution Sunday night calling on the administration to include the terms “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the University’s official nondiscriminat…
San Francisco Chronicle – Donald H. Read
Those who suspect that bias might have deprived “Brokeback Mountain” of the best picture Oscar and hobbled “Transamerica’s” consideration might feel the same about the IRS’ recent treatment of domestic partne…
Indiana Daily Student – Roy Maurer
The Sabbagh-Sturbaum sponsored ordinance to amend the Bloomington Municipal Code so that it recognizes gender identity as a protected class met with ardent arguments both in favor and against at Wednesday’s Common …
GayCityNews.com – Arthur S. Leonard
U.S. District Judge James Robertson issued a decision on March 31 calling for a new approach to transsexual discrimination claims under the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. Refusing to dismiss Diane J. Schroer?s …
3/31/2006 – aclu.org
WASHINGTON, DC — Today a federal judge found that an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a transgender veteran against the Library of Congress can go forward.
“I could…
gay.com – by Patrick Letellier
Kari Sundstrom, a 41-year-old transgender woman, had been on female hormones for 15 years when, in January, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a law banning hormone treatments or sex reassigment surgery for prison inmate…
By Sharon Pian Chan – Seattle Times staff reporter
Transgender individuals will now enjoy the same civil-rights protections as other minorities under legislation passed by the Metropolitan King County Council Monday.
The council added gender iden…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)
With a Ph.D. in chemistry, Jerimarie Liesegang never had trouble finding a job. That is, until she became a woman.
“They would literally come in, see that I was a transsexual, and they sort of let the facade effect them and n…