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.
Law.com – D’Arcy Kemnitz
Angie Zapata’s killer claims that he simply “snapped” when he learned the woman he had begun to date was transgender. Thirty-six hours after the revelation, Zapata was dead, the victim of a brutal blunt-force beating with a …
ABS-CBNNews.com – Kat’s Eye – Katrina Legarda
In the space of one year, the Supreme Court promulgated two decisions on similar issues: whether a man can become a woman. In one case, the man lost; in another, the man is now a woman. Both cases were b…
BangorDailyNews.com – By Abigail Curtis – BDN Staff
Augusta, Maine – The Maine Human Rights Commission decided Monday that a transgender woman was discriminated against at a Denny’s restaurant in Auburn when management would not let her use the ladi…
NYTimes.com – By The Associated Press
Washington (AP) — A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while undergoing a gender change from man to w…
SanFranciscoSentinel.com
In a groundbreaking victory for transgender people born in California, the California Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that any person can amend their California birth certificate regardless of their current state of residenc…
MetNews.com – By Steven M. Ellis, Staff Writer
A state law that allows transgender individuals to change the gender on their California birth certificates but requires them to file to do so where they reside unconstitutionally penalizes those who m…
Canada.com – BY Jordana Huber, CanWest News Service
Toronto – Paying for a sex change assessment for a convicted rapist living in a maximum-security psychiatric facility is not the responsibility of the Ministry of the Attorney General, an Ontario …
TorontoSun.com – By Tracy McLaughlin, Special to Sun Media
Barrie — An inmate of an institution for the criminally insane was left in limbo yesterday after a judge refused her request to have the government pay for a $15,000 assessment that would q…
Philly.com – David Porter – The Associated Press
Trenton, N.J. – R.L. was 10 when he contends his stepfather began sexually abusing him and telling him “it might not be a good idea” for him to tell anyone.
But he says that he had a flashback in S…
MDN.Mainichi.jp
Kurashiki, Okayama — A court has awarded some 25 million yen in damages to a woman living as a man by calculating her lost earnings as a male employee following an accident, it has been learned.
The Kurashiki branch of the Okayam…