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BromsgroveAdvertiser.co.uk
The first gender equality scheme has been introduced by West Mercia Constabulary.
The scheme places a legal duty upon the constabulary and all its officers and staff to eliminate unlawful sexual discrimination and haras…
HamiltonSpectator – By Sharon Boase
Deirdre Pike was at her desk at the Social Planning and Research Council one afternoon last November when a nurse from a city clinic called for help.
The nurse was treating a teenager for depression who was al…
Media.www.StaterOnline.com – Kate Bigam
Kent State practices tolerance and advocates privacy.
What terrible things, I know.
Just how terrible? Ask Akron Beacon Journal columnist Bob Dyer, and he’ll tell you how disgusted he is by the school’s …
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
The Human Rights Campaign have released their 2008 Democratic candidate questionnaire outlining where the announced candidates for President stand on issues important to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgend…
EvolutionPublishing.com.au
Crusader Hillis highlights a recent case of legalised discrimination that appears to have been swept under the carpet.
Trans activist Sally Goldner: the sole voice of protest in the queer media.
Reading about the fur…
English.dongA.com
Ha Ri-soo, a newly wed transgender entertainer, expressed her will to ?adopt four children,? causing a heated debate on the right to adoption by transgenders. Mixed reactions are posted on bulletin boards of portal sites.
The Do…
TurkishDailyNews.com.tr – Duygu Guvenc
They are rejecting my application to stand for the election just because they do not want shame for the Turkish Republic, said Ayşe T?kr?k??, 40, a former prostitute whose dream is to enter Parliament to v…
Officer.com – By Christine Vendel
Kansas City, Mo. – Jessica, a Kansas City, Mo., police officer, is 6 feet tall with a chin dimple, pink manicured fingernails and a birth certificate that says “male.”
But in her mind, Jessica believes she has al…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
More than 100 people turned out for a vigil June 7 at St. Anne?s Episcopal Church in Lowell to show unity in response to a violent attack on a transwoman June 1 that left the victim, Janine Nickola, with cuts on her ar…
BPNews.net – by Erin Roach
Nashville, Tenn. (BP)–Leaders in the United Methodist Church apparently have no problem with a transgender pastor leading one of their congregations, and in fact, they applauded the pastor’s bravery in charting new territ…