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English.VietnamNet.vn
VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health will allow local qualified clinics to perform transsexual surgeries, according to the draft decree on redefining sexuality that has been submitted to the government for consideration.
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USAToday.com – By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
Baltimore – The Rev. Drew Phoenix is many things to many people.
To St. John’s of Baltimore City, he’s the fun-loving pastor who counsels them, takes their kids hiking, explains Scripture, and…
UKGayNews.org.uk
Dublin – The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) again highlighted last night the “vital human rights implications” of a High Court ruling on the right of an individual who has undergone gender reassignment to be recognised as fema…
GP.org
Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
For Immediate Release:
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, star…
Gay.com – by Marc Breindel
Transgender people are being removed from a bill to protect other queer Americans from job discrimination, known as ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act). Out gay Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Speaker of the House Nan…
SeattleWeekly.com – By Laura Onstot
Washington’s high-school sports regulators find themselves in a transgender bind.
Cheerleading tryouts are where girls become women and losers join the debate team. Last spring, Mount Vernon High School freshma…
Advocate.com
(AP) San Francisco’s top-ranking Catholic clergyman apologized for serving Communion to two men dressed as nuns during a church service in the heart of the city’s gay enclave.
In a letter posted on the archdiocese of San Francisco’s …
EBAR.com – by Matthew S. Bajko
Mayoral candidate Michael Powers used last week’s candidate forum to reveal for the first time publicly he is transgender. The disclosure is believed to be the first time a transgender person has run for mayor in San F…
ChicagoTribune.com – By Gabrielle Russon –
Washington BureauAnti-discrimination protections in bill won’t cover group
Washington – A bill forbidding workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation — which gay activists see as a milestone i…
DCist.com
Even if the Employment Non-Discrimination Act will move forward without the transgender segment of the LGBT community, the District’s transgender residents did score a victory yesterday. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier issued a department g…