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MassTPC.com – by gunner
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) is pleased to announce that the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has amended its policy regarding changing gender markers on state issued identification such as…
MyDesert.com – Rasha Aly
Staff hopes to add programs with more space
“We’ve outgrown the facility,” said Harvey Stern, executive director of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/transsexual community center.
The nonprofit center is expec…
TheJakartaGlobe.com – Dessy Sagita
A senior legislator from the moderate Islamic National Mandate Party, or PAN, said he wanted to ensure that as many as 14 jobs out of every 100 are allocated to members of Indonesia’s large transgender community.
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EBAR.com – by Seth Hemmelgarn
San Francisco’s new city ID card program not only will give people such as undocumented immigrants, children who don’t have school IDs, and seniors who don’t have driver’s licenses, a way to identify themselves, it is a…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
In a world where stories like Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy can capture world-wide attention overnight, it’s difficult to foretell what the biggest transgender stories of 2009 will be. But here are a …
TypicallySpanish.com – By h.b.
A Spanish transsexual says she will take her fight to spend more time with her son to the court in Strasbourg. It comes after, for the first time ever, the Spanish Constitutional Court has thrown out her appeal, despit…
DNAIndia.com – Humaira Ansari
Mumbai: While the plight of the transgender community continues to be abysmal in the country, the recent public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court by a eunuch from Ajmer demanding recognition and accep…
CBS13.com – Reporting David Begnaud
Sacramento, Calif. (CBS13) – Sacramento Police are looking for two men who violently attacked a 20-year-old transgender woman last week, and the victim says it’s not the first time she’s been the target of a hate …
PR-USA.net
The Awards Committee of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) is proud to announce the 2009 Trinity Award recipients:
Ms. Lisa Mottet, National Center for Transgender Equality
Mr. Spencer Bergstedt, North Sound Law,…
WashingtonBlade.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr.
In what is believed to be a first for a U.S. prison system, the D.C. Department of Corrections has developed a draft policy that could allow male-to-female transgender inmates to be placed in prison housing pre…