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GayNZ.com
The Human Rights Commission is currently holding an inquiry into discrimination and human rights issues for transgender people, believed to be the first of its kind worldwide.
Coordinator Jack Byrne says the inquiry is focusing on three…
LFPress.ca – By Jane Sims, Free Press Justice Reporter
A judge ruled incarceration would threaten the man’s safety.
A transsexual convicted last month of harassing his former spouse through e-mail was sent to jail for a day yesterday.
Michael …
CapeArgus.co.za – Dianne Hawker
The intruder was wearing a red dress and makeup, so neighbours in Petula Close assumed that it was a woman who was stealing rare cycads from a Kraaifontein garden.
But after a chase during which the suspect’s padd…
HRC.org
Talk About It with Our Snapshot Project!
Even pop star P!NK is talking about it! In celebration of National Coming Out Day on October 11, the Human Rights Campaign has created the first online public art project encouraging Americans to T…
In.Today.Reuters.com – By Selcuk Gokoluk
Istanbul (Reuters) – Belgin still vividly remembers the night, more than a quarter of a century ago, when police herded her and dozens of other transsexuals and transvestites on to a train as part of a campa…
NewYorkBlade.com
New regulations make it easier to alter the gender listed on birth certificates.
Monday, October 02, 2006
The New York City Board of Health has approved a proposal to change the process by which transgender individuals can get t…
APP.com – By Tristan J. Schweiger – Manahawkin Bureau
Little Egg Harbor – There was no public outcry this time.
Lily McBeth was one of several substitute teachers the Pinelands Regional Board of Education voted to hire Thursday night. None of the…
SoVo.com – By Zack Hudson
Southern Comfort takes closer look at trans men, workplace issues
Taking a closer look at the lives of transgender men, and, for the first time, cracking open its doors to the general public pushed attendance at the Sout…
TheDerrick.com – By Erin Schattauer
Tammy Felbaum is accused of mailing a threatening letter to an assistant DA and spitting on a trooper.
A transsexual convicted in 2001 of killing her husband by castrating him in a crude operation is facing new…
365Gay.com – by The Associated Press
Baltimore, Maryland – A transgendered inmate freed from prison last year because she was dying of AIDS has been charged with using a forged Maryland death certificate to get new criminal charges dismissed.
De…