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AlertNet.org – Source: Reuters
Kathmandu (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Friday to end discrimination against gays and guarantee sexual minorities the same rights as other citizens.
Nepali men and women who identify th…
HR.CCH.com
A federal district court in the District of Columbia concluded that a male-to-female- transsexual job applicant could proceed with her Title VII sex bias claim against the Library of Congress, which allegedly withdrew its job offer for a …
HR.CCH.com
Labor & Employment Law – 11/19/07
Court dodges whether sex stereotyping theory applies to transsexuals
The Tenth Circuit Court Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a transsexual employee’s Title VII claim, choosing not to decide whethe…
UK.Reuters.com
Tokyo (Reuters) – Japan’s Supreme Court has denied pleas from two people with gender identity disorders to change their sex in government household records, their legal adviser said on Monday.
Masami Osako, 51, and Sayaka Morimura,…
MDN.Mainichi.jp
The Supreme Court has quashed the bid by two western Japan transsexuals to have their genders changed on their official family registers, court officials said Monday.
The nation’s top court turned down the applications from Sayaka…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) A Wisconsin law that bars the state from paying for gender reassignment surgery for prison inmates violates the US Constitution a federal judge was told Monday.
Lambda Legal and t…
GayCityNews.com – By Arthur S. Leonard
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Denver, rejected a sex discrimination claim by a transgendered bus driver whose employer dismissed her because she insisted on using women’s restrooms along her…
CommunityTimes.com – Susan C. Ingram
In affirming Maryland marriage law as an agreement only between a man and a woman, the state Court of Appeals cast aside hundreds of years of precedent of human bonding within and across gender when practical con…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Melbourne, Australia) A transsexual who transitioned from male to female in 2002 has been handed a difficult choice by Australia’s Federal Court – either divorce your wife or keep your male designation of…
News.com.au
A Transsexual woman has lost a Federal Court appeal to have her birth certificate changed to alter her sex from male to female.
The Victorian woman, referred to as AB, completed surgery to alter her sexual organs to become a female in…