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WashBlade.com – Elizabeth A. Perry
Editors? note: This is the second installment in a series devoted to examining the views of various religions on transgender issues. This week: the Islamic perspective.
The execution of two Iranian teens last ye…
NCTEquality.org
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) receives calls regularly from transgender people across the country who have been ?outed? to their employers by the Social Security Administration?s (SSA?s) unfair gender ?no-match?…
GayCityNews.com – Michael T. Luongo
Lasting impact of Jerusalem event marred by war and divisions remains to be seen
There was already a palpable tension in the air on Thursday in Jerusalem as World Pride attendees awaited the day?s main even…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
Told to use either daycare bathroom for children or men?s room
Natasha Lee West, a transgender woman, was a member of the Bally Total Fitness club in Worcester for one year in what she calls ?male mode? before deci…
EditorAndPublisher.com – Mark Fitzgerald
Chicago – The Chicago Free Press will no longer publish an ad soliciting gay males for a sex study because of the involvement of a controversial Northwestern University professor, the gay-oriented weekly decl…
HRC.org
A publication of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, November 2005
Transgender AmericansWe hope that readers of Transgender Americans: A Handbook for Understanding will find it a useful overview of the issues facing transgender America…
www2.townonline.com – Steve Desroches
Provincetown – The thrill of victory, the agony of running in high heels.
Orleans might have the Cardinals, but Provincetown has the Fightin? Drag Queens. A gaggle of drag queens tried their best to play a ga…
OutInAmerica.com – OIA Newsdesk
Buenos Aires, Argentina – Responding to the needs of Latin American and Caribbean transgender and intersex individuals, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission convened the first-ever Transgender and…
SeattleTimes.nwsource.com – Ralph Thomas – Seattle Times Olympia bureau
Olympia – Medicaid officials plan to rewrite regulations to make it clear the state will no longer cover sex-change operations.
But before the new regulations are in place, t…
SignOnSanDiego.com – Tony Manolatos and Amy Oakes
3 suspects part of ‘Lowlifes’ group
Police are accusing a 24-year-old man and two teenage boys of sneaking up on six men and beating them ? in five separate attacks ? as they left the San Diego ga…