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BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
On May 15 the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) and the Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network (GALLAN) and their supporters will converge on Beacon Hill to ask lawmakers to support the transgender em…
KUTV.com
(CBS) Northridge, Calif. – Police say a 50-year-old man living in his mother?s home killed a transvestite prostitute with a garden hoe after bringing him back to the house, police said Wednesday.
John Freeman of Northridge was arrested S…
Asahi.com – By Kanako Ida, The Asahi Shimbun
Japan’s leading hospital in sex-change operations has stopped offering its services, leaving a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the treatment of patients suffering from gender identity disorder.
Saita…
BangkokPost.com
Pattaya (dpa) – Thanyaras Jiraphatphakorn, after predicting that Thailand may one day have a “lady boy” for prime minister, was crowned the new Miss Tiffany Universe early Saturday morning at the country’s oldest transvestite beauty …
TheOlympian.com – John Miller – Associated Press Writer
A conservative group has criticized an Idaho university administrator for saying a planned new unisex restroom in her school’s student center will accommodate transgender people.
Boise State…
DallasVoice.com – By John Wright – Staff Writer
Experts say guidelines could help schools avoid controversies like recent one in Fort Worth
From a 6-year-old kindergartner in Florida who wears dresses to school to a 17-year-old senior in Californ…
WashBlade.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr
?Historic? outcome in House unlikely to survive a Bush veto
Gay rights advocates hailed last week?s passage of a federal hate crimes bill by the House of Representatives, but even supporters acknowledge they lik…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Berkley, California) The City of Berkley is considering a plan where it would pay for sex reassignment surgery under its employee health care system, and the City of West Palm Beach has passed an ordinanc…
EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Boston Contributor
More than half of Americans now live in areas where non-discrimination laws that protect gay and lesbian workers and residents are either currently in effect, or are expected to come into e…
KhaleejTimes.com
Lahore, Pakistan – A Pakistani court ordered the arrest of a couple who married last year after a team of doctors concluded the groom was really a woman, despite a sex-change operation, officials said Thursday.
The case casts a r…