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Telegraph.co.uk –
When couples marry in the Church of England, they traditionally make the promise, “All that I have I share with you”. But is this vow really supposed to include beauty products?
The male grooming industry certainly seems to t…
Guardian.co.uk – Emine Saner – The Guardian
We’re familiar with drug testing for athletes, but officials at the Beijing Olympics will be taking things one stage further and examining competitors whose sex is in doubt. And it is far from being a new …
OutAndAboutNewspaper.com – By Carla Lewis
Editor’s note: Below is an account from Carla Lewis of Sunday’s tragic church shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville…
Jaime and I were running late to church Sunday …
EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Contributor
Some in the transgender community have not quite forgiven the Human Rights Campaign for last summer’s incident in which the HRC went along with a plan to cull language regarding gender identity an…
TimesOfMalta.com
A woman, who was born a man but was legally declared female following gender reassignment surgery, filed a Constitutional application today claiming that a previous court decision stopping her from getting married was in breach of h…
BeyondChron.org – by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
“This is one for the history books,” said Robert Haaland, a longtime San Francisco transgender activist. He couldn’t be more on the money. A coalition of groups, including Pride at Work, And Castro 4 All, an…
VirtueOnline.org – By Hans Zeiger
First sex-change TEC priest to come out of the closet
Canterbury – The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, a transgender Episcopal priest from the Diocese of Massachusetts, spoke Friday at a Lambeth Conference “fringe” e…
SouthernVoice.com – By Matt Schafer
Federal lawsuit alleges unconstitutional bias in state job firing
A transgender woman filed a federal lawsuit against the leaders of the Georgia General Assembly and Sewell Brumby, legislative council, in an ef…
Gazette.net – by Janel Davis – Staff Writer
Opponents to appeal; Voters will decide whether to approve the antidiscrimination law in November
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge is allowing county voters to decide if a county law banning disc…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Yasmin Nair
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), a national group that works on the decriminalization of prostitution, held its third annual conference in Chicago. Members attended panels on topics like sex trafficking a…