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.
YLE.fi – Interview with Maaret Huuska, Advocate for Transgender Rights
A precedent-setting court ruling declares that a marriage becomes void if one person is transsexual and applies for an official change of gender. In a decision that will anger th…
TheBoholStandard.com – Attorney Cristifil “Check” Baluma, CPA
Several months ago we printed an article concerning the failed attempt of a male petitioner to change the entry of his name and sex from male to female in order to reflect the result of a…
MetNews.com – By Steven M. Ellis, Staff Writer
A formerly incarcerated male-to-female transgendered person can proceed with a negligence action alleging state prison officials failed to act on complaints that she was repeatedly beaten and raped by c…
GayCityNews.com – By: Arthur S. Leonard
In a September 25 ruling, a federal judge in Gary, Indiana, gave a green light to a lawsuit by a transsexual high school student suing over his principal’s refusal to allow him to attend the prom in a dress.
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IrishTimes.com – Carol Coulter – Legal Affairs Editor
There is a need for urgent reform of Irish law relating to transgendered people, according to the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
Transgendered people are those who have had gender reass…
Writ.news.FindLaw.com – By Joanna Grossman
In a thoughtful, well-reasoned opinion, a federal district judge handed transsexuals a significant victory against employment discrimination. The case was Schroer v. Billington, and the court was the federa…
GayCityNews.com – By Arthur Leonard
A federal judge has embraced an ingenious analogy between religious conversion and gender transition to explain his September 19 ruling that refusing to hire a transsexual applicant constitutes employment discrim…
Community.Feministing.com – Posted by Ismonie
For the first time in the history of Title VII, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, a federal trial court has ruled that a woman-born-man, Diane Schroer, can recover for di…
Feministing.com – Posted by Ann
Great news! As of yesterday, Montgomery County, Maryland considers it unacceptable to discriminate on the basis of gender identity. Although the county council passed the anti-discrimination law almost a year ago, the…
GenderAdvocates.com – by Miranda Stevens-Miller
In a stunning ruling late in the afternoon on September 16, Judge Africk, a United States district judge in Louisiana, ruled that crossdressing away from work constitutes grounds for immediate dismissa…