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Ankara (AFP) – A unique play in an Ankara theatre ended with a standing ovation this week as the little-known actors – transsexuals and gays raising their voice against discrimination – fought back their tears on stage.
Their play,…
ChicagoTribune.com – By Michael Higgins – Tribune reporter
A transgender woman who wants to change her legal name from “Donald” to “Daunn” asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to order Will County’s chief judge to waive about $450 in court fees b…
Examiner.com – by Courtney Mabeus, The Examiner
Washington – Reports that a man dressed as a woman entered a locker room at a Gaithersburg gym Monday have given new ammunition to a conservative group’s efforts to overturn a bill that extends anti-d…
ClickOnDetroit.com
Wyansotte, Mich. – The owner of a transgender club has appealed to the city of Wyandotte’s Zoning Board on Wednesday night, after she said officials have denied her permits to allow her to open a transgender and crossing-dressing …
BayWindows.com – by Richard J. Rosendall – Contributing Writer
Recent developments in the transgender movement suggest an internal conflict between methods proven successful and misdirected anger that only gets in the way.
On the winning side of …
SLTrib.com – Tribune Editorial
Rep. Christine Johnson knows it could take years to win passage by the Utah Legislature for her bill aimed at protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers from job discrimination. Many years.
Still, she…
BaltimoreSun.com – By Sumathi Reddy – Sun reporter
Gays, lesbians and transgendered are focus of project
After coming to terms with her transgender status, Wendy Moretz spent more than a year representing herself in a custody battle over her son …
TheHerald.co.uk – Robbie Dinwoodie – Chief Scottish Political Correspondent
Ministers will today give their backing to a change in the law on hate crime to give protection to gay, transgender and disabled people.
The reform would extend to these …
MyFoxUtah.com – By Brock Vergakis – Associated Press Writer
Salt Lake City – A woman who said she suffered discrimination at work because she is transgender has been fired as a nursing assistant.
Ariana Losco, a man before a sex-change operation …
MiamiHerald.TypePad.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr, Washington Blade
Less than one year after being fired from her job as city manager of Largo, Fla., because of her status as a transgender woman, Susan Stanton has come under fire from transgender activis…