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CBC Montreal
Sports officials expect at least 50 transgender athletes at this summer’s Outgames in Montreal. Organizers have worked out a policy to include them in all sports, for the first time at an international competition.
The transgender at…
BBSNews.net
Russia Must Stop Anti-Gay Violence and Permit Gay Pride Parade
HRW via BBSNews – New York, May 8, 2006 -? Moscow authorities must investigate two incidents where protestors threatened and attacked people entering and leaving gay-frien…
PrideSource.com – Lansing, Michigan
TransGender Michigan is seeking new board of directors members to help the organization with fundraising, program development and representing and assisting Michigan’s transgender community.
TransGender Michiga…
Daily Express – Malaysia – Kota Kinabalu
A Labuan man nearly lost his Nokia 7610 handphone to a pondan (transvestite) here on Monday.
The 29-year-old hair salon owner said he stopped his car in front of the court building to make a phone call aft…
cbs2.com
Police believe the fatal shooting of a transgender man Saturday was a robbery gone bad, rather than a hate crime, officials said.
Juan Jose Jacobo Preciado, 26, was known as Romina. She was shot at about 4:30 a.m. in the hallway of an ap…
Mirror.co.uk – Jeremy Armstrong and Don Mackay
BRITAIN’S top sex swap expert could face the sack over claims that patients were rushed into changing their gender.
Psychiatrist Dr Russell Reid will appear before the General Medical Council after c…
Arkansas Times – Jacqueline Froelich
?Am I gay? Darlin?, I?m 6-foot-3, 220 pounds and am a 23-year law enforcement veteran!?
Smith is a self-described truck-drivin? bubba who lives in rural Carroll County. But on special occasions, Officer Sam Sm…
NBC5.com – Elk Grove Village, IL
Police Believe Suspect Knew Victim For Several Years
A Chicago man was charged Monday with the April 18 murder of a transsexual, police said.
Michael R. Davis, 20, of 808 W. 76th St., was arrested and charged w…
NewTimesLive.com – Brian Saxton
The person sitting across the kitchen table has a warm and welcoming smile.
Jennifer Marie Stuart, 42, tall and dark-haired, is not reluctant to talk about herself. Indeed, she speaks with a candor that is sometime…
Boston.com – Cristina Silva – Globe Staff
Two years ago, an incoming freshman at MIT changed dormitories four times in five months, going from one for all girls, to another for all boys, back to one for girls, and finally to a private room on a coed…