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BACKGROUND
As April 17 approaches, Americans are turning their attention to filling out paperwork and sorting through complicated rules to file their federal and state income taxes. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Amer…
TheDenverChannel.com
Pam Bennett Running For City Council Seat
Aurora, Colo. – The upcoming city election in Aurora is already shaping up to be extremely unusual with the city’s first openly transgender candidate.
Pam Bennett was born Bruce Be…
Charlatan.ca – Written by Catherine Zydyk
Washrooms in universities across Canada may start to offer transgender facilities, thanks to a national campaign to accommodate students requiring additional privacy.
The campaign is calling for addi…
TheVillager.com – By Brooke Edwards
Their motto is ?Because getting home safely shouldn?t be a luxury.?
For more than two years, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit group RightRides for Women?s Safety has been giving free rides to women who feel unsafe …
DNAIndia.com – AFP
Madrid: A Spanish activist campaigning for transsexual rights said she had become the first person in the Spanish capital to request a legal change of name and sex under new laws passed last month.
Under the new law Carla Anton…
EarthTimes.org – Author : General News Editor
Mason, Ohio, April 4 A 46-year-old firefighter has been arrested in Mason, Ohio, after reportedly driving drunk in a park while wearing a bikini and woman’s wig.
Police officer Scott Miller arrested f…
PinkNews.co.uk – Amy Bourke
A leading gender charity has criticised employers for rarely giving much thought to how difficult a gender transition can be for their employees.
Not long before the Gender Equality duty (GED) comes into force, the Gen…
ThinkSpain.com – By: thinkSPAIN
Tona is a transsexual inmate at the Quatre Camins jail for men. In light of her sexual situation, she has asked to be moved to a women’s jail and complains of constant “pestering, insults and abuse” even though she s…
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
Few people find it more difficult to find steady and rewarding jobs than transgender men and women.
Facing a complex and daunting combination of transgender phobia, homophobia and gender discrimination in th…
Media.www.MichiganDaily.com – By Katherine Mitchell, Daily Staff Reporter
Transgender activists hail decision on ‘preferred’ names
Sebasti?n Col?n, a graduate student in the School of Social Work, knows what’s in a name.
Col?n, a self-identifi…