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ocregister.com – By Cindy Carcamo – The Orange County Register
Santa Ana – In the depths of depression, battling hot flashes and desperate about her situation, Monica Freas tried to throw herself from the second floor of the Santa Ana Jail before fr…
wreg.com – Tom Powell
(Memphis) — Lonnie Sharp is a transgender woman who lives her life as Kiare Newsom. She has for more than two decades. She says she’s faced some struggles along the way, but nothing like what she experienced during a traffic s…
blogs.phillymag.com – Posted by Natalie Hope McDonald
Thanks to a recent dustup between transgender performer Justin Vivian Bond and New York magazine, we began thinking about how to treat “trans” issues – both in the media and in our own lives. In …
nytimes.com – By Katie Thomas
Lana Lawless, the transgender woman who sued the L.P.G.A. and the Long Drivers of America last October challenging their rule that competitors be “female at birth,” has settled her case, her lawyer said. Lawless, 57, wo…
diva-dirt.com – Posted by Melanie
California-based WILD Wrestling crowned a new champion last weekend in ‘The Bloodthirsty Vixen’ Amanda. The title change has received a lot of buzz because Amanda is in fact transgender.
Read the press release be…
miamiherald.typepad.com – Steve Rothaus
Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced its full commitment to implementing equal employment opportunity policies for all department employees and applicants. The policies ensure equal prote…
hotelchatter.com – by juliab
Sin City: a town where, supposedly, everything goes. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas: the newest, coolest hotel on the block which has advertised itself as having “just the right amount of wrong.” Ever since it unveiled it…
colorlines.com – by Jamilah King
Less than a week after the ruthless videotaped beating of 22-year-old transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis at a Baltimore-area McDonald’s, progressive and queer communities are grappling with a host of difficult quest…
edmontonjournal.com – Carol D. Allan
Recently, a local radio station held a survey on whether or not people would like to have their child taught by a transgendered teacher.
The survey did not have a preamble explaining that transgendered persons…
tmrzoo.com – By TMR Newswire
A Baltimore LGBT group, called Equality Maryland, confirmed that the victim of the Baltimore McDonalds’ beating is a transgender woman. Lisa Polyak, vice president of the board of directors for Equality Maryland commente…