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DallasVoice.com – Tammye Nash
Phyllis Randolph Frye has been fighting the good fight for LGBT rights for more than 30 years. She is the most high-profile transgender activist in Texas and is recognized around the country for her work. And now she is…
MyDesert.com – Nicole C. Brambila – The Desert Sun
The Equal ID Act, which would increase legal rights for the transgender community, passed the State Assembly Judiciary Committee by a 7-3 vote.
“All Californians deserve legal documentation that …
BostonHerald.com – By Dave Wedge
The alleged text-messaging trolley driver who recently switched his gender from female to male on his driver’s license is just one of many motorists who fill out a simple form to make the change official in the eyes …
Advocate.com – By Julie Bolcer
A transgender federal air marshal has filed a lawsuit charging the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Air Marshal Service, and individuals within the agency with discrimination and violation of civil rights, …
CommonDreams.org – Contact: Human Rights Campaign
Transgender community especially vulnerable to discrimination, says report issued by Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, …
PinkNews.co.uk – By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
A transsexual woman from Nottingham has ended her week long huger strike after NHS officials agreed to reconsider whether they can fund gender reassignment treatment.
Debbie Davies was born male bu…
Hurriyet.com.tr
Istanbul – A Democratic Society Party, or DTP, Diyarbakır deputy, Akın Birdal, has sent a series of question proposals to Parliament, asking the prime minister about details of legal procedures regarding transgender murders in Turkey…
ABCNews.go.com – By Michele McPhee
The Boston-area transit authority trolley driver who allegedly slammed into another train while text-messaging his girlfriend Friday was hired as a minority because of his transgendered “female-to-male” status and …
ColumbiaMissourian.com – By Ben Kleine
Columbia – A group of 30 people met in 2003 with the goal of creating a singular meeting place for all of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups in Columbia. Finally on Saturday, that goal was accomp…
TheAustralian.news.com.au – Julie-Anne Davies – Article from: The Australian
A Victorian woman who had sex-change treatment including having her breasts surgically removed is fighting to have the psychiatrist who, she claims, wrongly diagnosed her a…