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CBS5.com
(AP) San Francisco – A transgender woman who claims she was repeatedly raped and beaten by a male cell mate went to court this week to challenge a state policy that assigns inmates like her to men?s or women?s prisons depending on whether t…
MRZine.MonthlyReview.org – by Transgender and Intersex Justice Project
Join the silent protest at the courthouse, make calls to Attorney General Jerry Brown and Federal Receiver Robert Sillen to support a transgender woman rape survivor.
When: 8:…
LFPress.ca – By Glynnis Mapp, Sun Media
Not even a broken leg could keep Danni Gruden away from the 25 annual Pride London parade, which lit up downtown yesterday.
Gruden, who fell down and injured himself two weeks ago, stood proudly on crutc…
MetroCorpCounsel.com – Tricia B. O’Reilly and M. Trevor Lyons – Connell Foley LLP
Tricia B. O’Reilly is a Partner with Connell Foley LLP of New York City and Roseland, New Jersey, and is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Law and Litigati…
News.BostonHerald.com – By Associated Press
San Juan – A Puerto Rican transsexual said yesterday her candidacy for a seat in a municipal assembly is a sign the island territory has become more tolerant.
Barbara Santiago Solla was chosen by the pr…
EBar.com – by Heather Cassell
A Santa Clara County correctional officer was arrested July 19 for alleged unlawful consensual sexual activity with a prisoner in November 2006, according to the Santa Clara County Department of Correction.
Correctio…
EdgeBoston.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Bay Windows
Trevor Wright, coordinator of last May?s Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth (BAGLY) Prom and currently a researcher for a survey study on LGBT youth, found himself in the crosshairs of the anti-ga…
EdgeBoston.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Bay Windows
Experts at tax trial explain gender identity disorder
Attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) spent the second day of a trial in which a transwoman is suing the federal agency for the right …
PinkNews.co.uk – GayLinkContent.com Writer
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain “lived in anguish” as a male, struggling with the sense that she was, in fact, a female.
In 1996, she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder and undertook a course of professio…
DailyMail.co.uk – By Liz Hull
A transsexual is seeking thousands of pounds in damages after claiming he was forced out of his job as a truck driver when he started dressing as a woman.
Vikki-Marie Gaynor, 37, who was born a man, claims bosses sta…