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washingtonblade.com – By Michael K. Lavers
State Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery County) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban discrimination against transgender Marylanders.
State Sens. Brian Frosh (D-Montgomery County), the chair of the …
advocate.com – By Parker Marie Molloy
Joining California, Colorado, Oregon, and Vermont, Connecticut will become the fifth state to require health insurance providers to cover treatments related to gender transition.
A December 19th bulletin proh…
huffingtonpost.com – Mara Keisling – Founding Executive Director, National Center for Transgender Equality
If anything is true of transgender rights in 2013, it’s the year the right wing fringe in the U.S. set their sights and their fundraising mach…
edgeboston.com – by Justin Snow – Metro Weekly
Transgender students in California are facing what could be their final obstacle before being granted basic protections in the state’s public schools.
Late last month, opponents of a law that would m…
summitdaily.com – David Crary – AP National Writer
New York – As gays and lesbians rack up victories in their quest for marriage equality and other rights, transgender Americans are following in their path – hopefully, but less smoothly.
There ha…
arabtimesonline.com – AFP
Kathmandu: As a Nepalese transgender dancer in her twenties, Nazia Shilalik says her gender has cost her jobs, respect and soon, she believes, it will cost her a vote in upcoming elections. Transgenders had high hopes six y…
cityweekly.net – By Laurie Reiner
Bamby Salcedo works at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as the HIV prevention-services project coordinator and has been living as a transgender women for half of her life. She also created Angels of Change, a cal…
huffingtonpost.com – Rosamond S. King, Ph.D. – Critical and creative writer and artist; assistant professor of English, Brooklyn College
One of the dirty secrets of the LGBT “community” in the U.S.A. is that the “T” — transgender folks — usually g…
themoscowtimes.com – By Ian Bateson
Masha Bast is used to facing formidable tasks.
As the chairwoman for the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights, Bast has worked on some of the most high-profile and politically sensitive cases in the …
huffingtonpost.com – Toni Newman – Writer, law school student and author, ‘I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman’
As an African-American transgender woman, I recognize that we need laws to protect the rights of transgender individuals. The “T” i…