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MetroWeekly.com – Posted by duy
“Regardless of how one may feel about the policy in question, there is no excuse for referring to other human beings as ‘it.'”
Jim Burton, Supervisor for Loudoun County, VA, taking to task his fellow Supervisor, Eu…
MiamiHerald.com
The City Commission beefed up its 1992 Human Relations ordinance last week to extend protections to transgender residents, partly in hopes that it will inspire the county and state to do the same. That might be feasible at the county…
WickedLocal.com – State House News Service
Somerville – Legislation adding gender identity to the state’s non-discrimination laws has long had majority support in the House and Senate, but with most of the 2009-2010 session over, the bills (H 1728 a…
MichiganMessenger.com – By Todd A. Heywood
State Rep. Paul Scott, (R-Grand Blanc), announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination for Secretary of State just five days ago, but he’s already caused a shock wave.
Scott, who just completed the first…
ChicagoNow.com – Lenox Magee
It seems America is moving alot closer to accepting the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer) community. Back in November, Helena Bushong, a Transgender Activist from Illinois Gender Advocates, became t…
HispanicBusiness.com – Jaime Grant
(MCT) — The new year has ushered in two measures of fairness for transgender people.
First, Amanda Simpson became one of the nation’s first transgender presidential appointees. With three decades of experience…
ZMag.org – By Laurie Penny
For decades, the feminist movement has been split over the status of trans people, and of trans women in particular. High-profile feminists such as Germaine Greer, Jan Raymond and Julie Bindel have spoken out against what…
EdgeBoston.com – by Joseph Erbentraut – EDGE Contributor
If one word could describe the mood of Florida’s LGBT activists over this past year it would be simple: Rebuilding. While the majority of eyes focused on California’s Proposition 8 last fall, …
RawStory.com – By Diana Sweet
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has been busy working to shore up the support of his conservative base as he mulls a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.
This could explain his views in the following News…
HuffingtonPost.com – Amnesty International – Joanna B. Hurlburt contributed to this post.
Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who came to the United States seeking protection and liberty found herself in immigration detention, in cond…