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WashBlade.com – By Joshua Lynsen
Maryland legislators have voted down an effort to bar discrimination against the state?s transgender residents and workers.
By a 6-5 vote, the Senate judicial proceedings committee on Friday rejected a measure tha…
NYPost.com – By Alex Ginsberg
A man claims a female employee of gender-bending restaurant Lucky Cheng’s roughed him up, and he now wants the East Village eatery to pay up.
In a lawsuit filed this month in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Sasha O’Malley, 3…
For Immediate Release: March 25, 2007
From: The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC)
Contact: Media Director, Vanessa Edwards Foster; Houston, Texas
Contact Email: ntacmedia@aol.com
Contact Phone: 832-483-9901
NTAC Chair, Ethan St. Pierr…
AL.com – By Nadia M. Taylor – Staff Reporter
A female impersonator who regularly performed at downtown clubs was fatally shot inside his home Friday night off Ann Street near Taylor Park in south central Mobile, police and family said.
Kent Perry…
Bradenton.com – By Mitch Stacy – Associated Press
Largo, Fla. – Impassioned speeches from dozens of supporters failed to sway city commissioners as they finalized the firing early Saturday of the city manager who is seeking a sex change operation.
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JSOnline.com – By Derrick Nunnally
Transgendered past calls wedding’s legality into question
If Barbara Lynn Terry wants to get married Friday morning, she’ll have to swear to a judge she’s a man. And so will her doctor.
Otherwise, Wisconsin’s…
WBAY.com – Associated Press
Milwaukee – By law, marriage in Wisconsin is described as a union between one man and one woman. But what if the man is a transsexual?
That’s what 58-year-old Barbara Lynn Terry is trying to find out.
Terry, who chang…
DallasVoice.com – By Tammye Nash – Senior Editor
Civil rights, law enforcement groups back legislation
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, on Tuesday, March 20, introduced the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Rep. Mark Kirk…
eBar.com – by Matthew S. Bajko
With her appointment to the city of Aurora’s Commissions on Veterans Affairs and Cultural Affairs in January, Pamela Bennett became the first-ever transgender person to be appointed to such posts in the history of the …
MediaMatters.org – M. B. B.
On the March 20 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage discussed a San Francisco Chronicle report detailing the murder of a transgender woman whose body was found naked near a freeway outside Sa…