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.
PinkNews.co.uk – Tony Grew
A Lithuanian transsexual has won a case at the European Court of Human Rights over claims that he has been blocked from completing his gender transition.
The seven judges also ruled that Lithuania must implement new leg…
Law.com – Carla J. Rozycki and David K. Haase
Courts have long been in agreement that discrimination against a transgendered person is not sex discrimination actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, because “sex” means…
GayCityNews.com – By Arthur S. Leonard
A federal judge in Wisconsin has rejected an attempt to expand an existing suit challenging a new state law that forbids providing hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery for transgendered inmates at govern…
PinkNews.co.uk – Alex Donald
An Australian transsexual has lost a Federal Court appeal to have her birth certificate changed to alter her sex from male to female.
The woman, referred to as AB, completed her surgery to become female in April 2002….
Chicagoist.com
While change may have come through Chicago Tuesday, a tragic spectacle of how far we still have to go as a society was playing out in Springfield. State Representative Sara Feigenholtz (12th) sponsored HB1732, which would have made it…
GayCityNews.com – By: Arthur S. Leonard
A trial judge’s decision to switch custody of two young boys from their mother, who supports her older son’s apparent desire to dress and act as a girl, to their father, who rejects the idea that his son is t…
NYPost.com – By Janon Fisher and Leela de Kretser
City-Paid Gender Op – Talk about a tax cut.
A judge has ordered taxpayers to foot the bill – up to $20,000 – for a sex-change operation that will make a 21-year-old man into a woman.
In a rulin…
Advocate.com
New York City wants to make it easier for transgender New Yorkers to switch the sex listed on their birth certificate, an important issue for transgender people in an era when official identity documents have become more essential in ev…
IndyBay.org – By Chris Daley
Nation?s first law addressing use of panic strategies signed by California Governor
San Francisco, CA ? The nation?s first bill to address use of panic strategies, the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (AB 1160), w…
OutInAmerica.com – Dannie Tillman, Equality California, OIA Newswire
Assembly Bill 606, the Safe Place to Learn Act, authored by Assemblymember Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) and sponsored by Equality California (EQCA), passed the Senate today by a 23-16…