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Ireland.com
The High Court has ruled that the State is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) over its failure to recognise a sex change that a transgendered person underwent more than a decade ago.
Dr Lydia Foy, Athy, Co Kil…
SFGate.com – Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
A rancorous breach within the gay community over dropping transgender people from a job discrimination bill widened Thursday when a committee approved the bill and moved it to the House floo…
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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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…
PinkNews.co.uk – Tony Grew
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has sought to end the controversy surrounding new legislation protecting LGBT people from discrimination.
A version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act excl…