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Mississauga.com
Kristen Worley has a dream: She wants to compete in the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
But Worley’s dream is unlikely to come true this year, not because of her much-ballyhooed sex-change surgery, but because she failed to qualify at…
PinkNews.co.uk – By Sophie Picheta
UN agencies have announced the 25 winners of the Red Ribbon Award 2008.
The United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS announced the winners yesterday.
There were more …
IndyBay.org
We just learned today that the UCSC administration officially accepted the joint proposal of GSA, UAW and STIHC (Students for Trans-Inclusive Healthcare) for GSHIP (Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan) and USHIP (Undergraduate Student…
WizBangBLog.com – Posted by Bill Jempty
Toasters, computers, now sex changes. What’s next in store for the people of Cuba?
All joking aside, I think Cuba has another reason for opening this clinic. They will start selling GRS(Gender reassignment …
ReligionBLog.DallasNews.com – Sam Hodges
Transgenderism and Religious Narratives – Melissa Conroy
National Public Radio recently aired a series on children who suffer from what some psychologists call a gender identity disorder, also known as tra…
EdgeBoston.com – by Zak Szymanski – Bay Area Reporter
When Julia Serano first heard of psychologist Kenneth Zucker’s appointment to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) revisions group, she saw it as an opportunity to stra…
BayWindows.com – by John Gatto – Bay Windows Contributor
We at Cambridge Cares About AIDS (CCA) appreciated, professionally and personally, the article on how the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to impact our communities (“Far from the finish line,” May…
VillageVoice.com – by Maria Luisa Tucker
But mum’s the word on the good treatment of transgendered kids
A year and a half after paying a $25,000 settlement to a male-to-female transgirl, the agency that runs the state’s juvenile-detention centers…
GothamGazette.com – by Emily Jane Goodman
Young New Yorkers who are defined by themselves or others as LGBTQ – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning their identity – are often at risk for mental, emotional and physical harm in school, a…
UANews.org – By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications
UA professor Stephen T. Russell has received a two-year grant to look at the factors that may lead to suicide among LGBT youth.
It is widely known that lesbian, gay, bisexual and…