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eBar.com – by Heather Cassell
Transgender religious leaders are convening the first-ever Transgender Religious Summit at the Pacific School of Religion this weekend in Berkeley.
Religious leaders, academics, and policymakers are meeting January 1…
CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
Occasionally organizations exist for a while with very little fanfare or even notice. Kansas City Crossdressers and Friends was one of those organizations. The group had been around in one form or another since the mid…
UKGayNews.org.uk
Amsterdam ? A new coalition of European Transgender and Transsexual Groups, TransGender Europe, has received recognition by the Austrian authorities this week.
The initiative brings together 66 transgender organizations from 21…
AftenPosten.no
A transsexual Norwegian wanted two passports, one as a man and one as a woman, but his request was rejected.
The Norwegian, a 63-year-old crime fiction writer, applied to state officials in charge of enforcing sexual equality and a…
SURInEnglish.com – EFE
Sixty-eight operations involved feminizing genitoplasty and 23 patients underwent masculinizing genitoplasty
Carlos Haya Hospital?s Gender Identity Disorder Unit (UTIG) has carried out 172 surgical operations on patients su…
SoVo.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Activists promise to heed lessons of gay rights battles in 1996 and 2003
Editors? note: This is the first in a two-part series looking at the history of ENDA and prospects for its passage in the new Congress.
Con…
BeyondChron.org – by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
It’s becoming a tiresome scenario. Gay marriage proponents win a round and the religious right strikes back. That’s certainly the case in Massachusetts, the only state in the country where gay marriage is no…
MetNews.com – By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ordered the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider its order that a Mexican transsexual be removed to her native country, where she says she is likel…
WFTV.com
Mount Dora, Fla. – Eyewitness News learned the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has recommended filing sexual battery charges against a former Mount Dora police officer accused of forcing a transvestite prostitute to perform a sex act inside …
eBar.com – by Heather Cassell
The new year rings in eight new laws to protect LGBT people’s rights in California.
The new laws cover a cornucopia of basic protections from tax laws to extending partner benefits for businesses contracting with the…