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JustJared.BuzzNet.com
According to Us Weekly, Tyra Banks will be paying for the $20,000 to $35,000 sex reassignment surgery for Isis King, the first transgender contestant on America’s Next Top Model.
Here’s what 22-year-old Isis, who was born Da…
DailyEvergreen.com – The Daily Evergreen
For a lucky few, the road to self-discovery is short and simple. Their identity is easily negotiated, and their struggle is ended. For most, finding identity is a tumultuous endeavor – navigating through doub…
StoppingTheHate.com
Syracuse, New York (WSYR-TV) – Dwight DeLee, the suspect accused of shooting and killing a transgender woman Friday night because she was transgender, is being held without bail after a court appearance.
Police say DeLee, 20, …
StonewallNews.net – By Blair Tellers – Q View Northwest
It’s the third inning of a charity softball game. The batter hits a pop fly to second and takes off towards first base. Her teammates cheer her on, yelling, “Run!’”
Running, however, is no s…
HS.fi
The number of those wishing to change their sex has multiplied in recent years.
In 2003-2006 around 40 people per year sought treatment from the relevant clinics in Helsinki and Tampere. Last year’s corresponding figure was about 90, and th…
YaleDailyNews.com – Lawrence Gipson – Staff Reporter
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups on campus kicked off the celebration of the sixth-annual Trans Awareness Week on Wednesday.
The seven-day event – the largest in the Trans Awarenes…
BLogs.NashvilleScene.com – by Brantley Hargrove
Another transgendered Memphian is dead: Identified initially as Dwayne Johnson, Duanna Johnson is the very same woman who was savagely beaten down in a Memphis jail by two cops. Johnson was initially p…
WTAM.com
Resolutions were introduced at Monday’s Council meeting to support LGBT rights
(Cleveland) – Members of Cleveland City Council are throwing their support behind the lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual (LGBT) community.
Council memb…
TheManeater.com – By Josh Barone
This is the first in a three-part series about transgender issues on campus.
When he became Triangle Coalition vice president last year, senior Ashe Kolieboi promised to create more trans programming and trans vis…
Media.www.MarshallParthenon.com – Megan Archer
The co-director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Outreach student office discovered a loophole in Marshall’s Board of Governor policies that could allow the discrimination of students because of …