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PrideSource.com – by Todd A. Heywood
Lansing – As reported last week in Between The Lines, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced it will eliminate coverage of gender reassignment surgery in its single payer insurance program, effective im…
TheWest.com.au – Sydney AAP
Two policemen’s lives “cannot get any lower” after privacy breach convictions for telling a man his girlfriend used to be a male and he had been “rooting a bloke”.
Their lawyer, Joe Klarica, says the convictions will …
Google.com/HostedNews – Associated Press – By Dionne Walker
Atlanta (AP) – Twelve years heading the Salvation Army’s downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transit…
Xpress.SFSU.edu – by Jeanette Obaldia, Staff Writer
The little stick figures on the doors of public restrooms are an easy indicator for most people. It is supposed to come down to this: skirts are for girls and trousers are for boys. But for tho…
People.com – By Alex Tresniowski
They were, to say the least, an odd couple, and not just because they were born more than four decades apart. J’Noël Gardiner, 42, was also several inches taller than her husband of one year, Marshall Gardiner, 86, a…
OnTopMag.com – By On Top Magazine Staff
A transgender woman in Idaho says police mistreated her and another transgender woman while in jail, reports the Times-News.
Twenty-six-year-old Antonia Lara, who briefly shared a prison cell with Majid Kol…
Ocala.com – By Suevon Lee – Staff writer
Dunnellon – Inside the halls of any typical American public high school, the outfit would hardly be construed as outlandish: a V-neck T-shirt, blue jeans and high-heeled boots, accentuated by earrings and a n…
TheSouthEndNews.com – Shawn Wright – The South End
To help kick off its first annual Pride Week, the Wayne State Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance painted “the rock” in Gullen Mall.
But it was just the beginning of what group Co-Pre…
Tips-Q.com – Submitted by davidhart
New York – Vanessa Williams, Stockard Channing, Cherry Jones, T.R. Knight, Keith Olbermann, Judith Light, Clay Aiken and S. Epatha Merkerson were among the celebrities who joined the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against…
News.KaosGL.com – LGBTT Rights Platform – Press Release
A transsexual woman was attacked and beaten in Eskisehir. A transsexual woman was found her head cut in Bursa. A man has been killed by his friend on the claim that he asked for sexual intercou…