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theglobeandmail.com – John Ibbitson – Ottawa – Globe and Mail Blog
If a federal election doesn’t put paid to legislation aimed at protecting the rights of transgendered and transsexual Canadians, the Senate will.
Bill C-389 would amend the Canadi…
sdgln.com – Melinda Harris – SDGLN Social Contributor
Editor’s Note: Some of the information below was compiled from multiple expert sources available online. An important authority and source for all transgender issues is the National Center for Tr…
washingtonpost.com – By David Crary – The Associated Press
New York — Many transgender Americans face intolerance in almost every aspect of their lives, contributing to high levels of homelessness, unemployment and despair, according to a comprehe…
enewspf.com – Press Release
Honolulu, HI – (ENEWSPF) – Equality Hawaii, the state’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, and the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, …
theotherpaper.com – By Lyndsey Teter
Gov. John Kasich doesn’t appear to be backing off of a strange decision to exclude transgender Ohioans from an anti-discrimination executive order issued last week.
Activists in the LGBT community were angered…
tbd.com – By Amanda Hess
Last April, Autumn Sandeen traveled from San Diego to Washington, D.C., donned her Naval uniform, and handcuffed herself to the White House fence. Eight months later, the civil disobedience paid off: On Dec. 22, President Ob…
dominionpaper.ca – by Jesse Grass, Natalie Gray
Montreal – “Remember Stonewall?” read a banner dropped by two young people before they were arrested at this year’s Trans-* Day of Remembrance in Ottawa. They were asking the community to remember a la…
theweal.com – by Bree Gardner, Weal Staff Writer
A Canadian law has been amended to protect transgendered people from hate crimes.
In Section 318 of Bill C-389 in the Criminal Code, subsection four protects people from hate crimes directed toward…
qsaltlake.com – JoSelle Vanderhooft
Every year, the messy milieu of Utah culture and politics presents us with several heroes and villains who challenge the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community to be strong, cohesive and v…
passportmagazine.com
From International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission:
Prosecutors must investigate the second arbitrary arrest of transgender rights defenders in Ankara in as many months and drop all charges against the women, three hu…