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RussiaToday.com
There is no shortage of candidates in the Indian presidential election, including one 45-year-old transsexual, who says it’s her sexual identity that will defeat the political heavyweights.
Election fever is raging in India.Thursd…
BayWindows.com – Associated Press
Lorin Gartenlaub, a transwoman living in Worcester, was in a bind last winter: she needed several hundred dollars for the co-pay for a medication her doctor prescribed to treat her multiple sclerosis, but she did no…
VueWeekly.com – Jan Buterman
They say the first cut is the hardest, but transsexed-also known as transsexual-Albertans never expected they would find themselves without access to the only medically recognized therapy for their condition. While publi…
CBC.ca – CBC News
The Alberta government will cover sex-change operations for those who have already been identified as needing the surgery, but the procedure will be delisted for new patients, Health Minister Ron Liepert confirmed Tuesday.
The d…
OutInAmerica.com – by: GLADD, OIA Newswire
Los Angeles, CA – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced today the launch of the “Be an Ally & a Friend” public education campaign. This year’s campaign has 22 public service announ…
Synapse.UCSF.edu – By Thomas Yi – Staff Writer
A unique, one-credit winter elective for all UCSF students will focus on an area of health care that is receiving long-overdue attention: the concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT)…
ShanghaiIst.com – By Ada Fredelius – Source: Chinaren
Yesterday morning, two young male to female transsexuals took to the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province. They carried banners saying: “I want to have a sex change and live my life as a woma…
DenverPost.com – By Monte Whaley – The Denver Post
The judge talks to possible jurors for the murder trial, which may draw protests.
Greeley – The slow process of picking jurors in the first-degree murder trial of a man accused of killing a tran…
Media.www.IndianaStatesman.com – Sadie May Davis
You have four days to decide whether or not you will speak this Friday.
Most college students live for Fridays, the only weekday that promises relief from work that never seems to be completed and…
RadioNetherlands.nl – UTC
A transsexual woman from the Utrecht district of Zuilen has moved house as a result of bullying by a group of about 30 young Moroccans.
Earlier, two lesbian couples left Zuilen because they no longer felt safe there. Ut…