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DailyMail.co.uk -By Mail on Sunday Reporter
Defence chiefs are under attack for producing an 11,000-word guide on dealing with transsexuals in the Armed Forces.
They are accused of wasting time and money on the 33-page document while troops face …
InsideVandy.com – Submitted by Madeleine Englis
A Tennessee state legislator proposed a bill last week that Vanderbilt’s Lambda association, which advocates for gay interests on campus, feels discriminates against members of the community.
On Jan…
Queerty.com – posted by Japhy Grant
Lynn Conway is one of the trans community’s great heroes. An inventor and computer chip researcher, in the late ’60s she was fired from her job at IBM when she began to transition from a man to a woman. She decide…
Star-Telegram.com – By Andrew Chavez
Authorities are looking for a cross-dressing bandit who robbed a bank near Alliance Airport on Thursday afternoon.
The man can be seen in surveillance photos wearing a red wig and toting a large handbag as he…
Amnesty.org.uk
Amnesty International has put out an urgent appeal on behalf of a Honduran transgender woman who was arrested by the police, beaten up and threatened with death if she reported what happened to her.
The attack on the woman follows …
DailyNewsTribune.com – By Jeff Gilbride/Daily News staff
Waltham – In a room filled with social workers, law enforcement and advocates, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone yesterday stressed the need to draw attention to domestic violence in the…
BrandRepublic.com – by Hadassah Nymark
London – A TV ad for mobile phone company Nokia, featuring comic references to the transgender process, has been cleared by the ASA.
The ad featured various artist’s names and song titles spelling out a tong…
WJTV.com – By Associated Press
Defense attorneys in the federal trial of Mayor Frank Melton will be limited to discussing an “allegation” rather than salacious claims by a transvestite prostitute in trying to discredit the government’s star witness,…
DailyFreePress.com – Amanda Kozar
Paul Breines, who worked for years as a professor in Boston College’s history department, said he was “moved to tears” by the turnout of BC’s panel discussion concerning lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender issues…
HealthCareRepublic.com – Neil Durham
A report which describes the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) doctors and medical students working in the NHS has been produced by the British Medical Association (BMA) to tackle disc…