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ThePeterboroughExaminer.com – By Andrea Houston / Examiner Staff Writer
After 18 month of meetings, the city police liaison committee with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities held a queer town hall meeting Monday night to hear from th…
BalticTimes.com – In cooperation with BNS
Vilnius – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will not reopen the case against Lithuania filed by a female aiming to have a sex change surgery – after losing the case in Strasbourg, the Baltic state wi…
IHT.com – The Associated Press
Reedsburg, Wisconsin: An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the di…
Metro.co.uk
A transsexual prisoner who was found hanging after being bullied by other inmates wrote that she had been “murdered by ignorance”, an inquest heard.
Lisa Woodhall, 28, who became a woman after surgery, was discovered hanging by a shoe…
ThinkProgress.org
The media have been fixated on the story of Thomas Beatie, a man who “used to be a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery.” Beatie married a woman and is now six months pregnant.
Yesterday on Fox News, Bill O’Reilly…
Advocate.com
The Kansas City, Mo., city council voted to extend antidiscrimination laws to protect expressions of gender identity. Council member Beth Gottstein, the measure’s primary sponsor, said that though she expected some resistance, it was ti…
MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility — ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her…
NewsWire.ca – Mediacorp Canada Inc.
Toronto – CNW – Twenty five of Canada’s most widely recognized and successful companies are on an inaugural list of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, an award that was launched today by Mediacorp Canada Inc., BMO…
DailyIndia.com – From ANI
Kolkata – The transgender community in West Bengal who have been ostracised have been given refuge in the ‘shelter homes’ that are being funded by the United Nation Development Program (UNDP).
The shelter homes have been…
MCV.e-p.net.au – by Maxine Clarke
Part one of a two-part global A-Z of the good, the bad and the indifferent, by Maxine Clarke.
Across the globe, an organised army of queer heroes and queer haters fight on the front line of the war for equality. …