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windycitymediagroup.com – by Kate Sosin, Windy City Times
Transgender activists from the group Illinois Gender Advocates (IGA) are facing off with the ACLU over a lawsuit that by most counts, aims to do exactly what IGA has been working toward for m…
thestar.com – Helen Wolkowicz – Special to the Star
An estimated 20 per cent of transgender Ontarians surveyed are unemployed or on disability, while just over one-third are working full-time, according to a new Trans PULSE study, obtained exclusive…
metroweekly.com – Posted by Chris Geidner
This afternoon, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, John Berry, issued a brief memorandum to all executive department and agency heads, announcing new guidance for treatment of transgender em…
dallasvoice.com – Tammye Nash – Senior Editor
Fort Worth – After nearly two years of unprecedented progress on LGBT issues within the Fort Worth city government, Cowtown’s LGBT residents are now facing the prospect of not having Mike Moncrief in the…
mansfield.patch.com – By David Moran
As the General Assembly’s legislative calendar winds down to its final few weeks, several high-profile pieces of legislation still on the agenda appear as though they could be passed by June 8, while others seem …
new.bangordailynews.com
As we make our way around the public world – offices, stores, restaurants, work, school – we rely on having a private place to attend to our biological needs. Part of the privacy comes in being segregated by gender. Generally…
denverpost.com – By Anthony Cotton – The Denver Post
The Denver mayoral race shifted – at least for a day – to a kinder, gentler place Thursday, as Chris Romer and Michael Hancock put aside political rhetoric and used a pair of forums to listen to c…
pridesource.com – By Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Chrissy Lee Polis, a 22-year-old, post-operative transsexual was at a Baltimore County McDonald’s recently. While there, she opted to use the bathroom. Two other women – 18-year-old Teonna Monae Brown and a 1…
pamshouseblend.com – by: Autumn Sandeen
The Obama Administration told the Washington Blade — in their Wednesday, April 27, 2011 article White House To Host First Ever Trans Meeting — that there is going to be a “White House meeting” where “transg…
washingtonpost.com – By Elizabeth Flock
In February, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) released the first study of its kind on discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming…