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BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
One of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition?s (MTPC) goals for its first lobby day at the State House, held May 15, was to show Beacon Hill that there is a large constituency that supports the transgender …
WashBlade.com – By Peter Rosenstein
Should we support pro-gay legislation that does not include trans protections?
Hate Crimes Legislation passed the House of Representatives on May 3. The Democrats deserve our thanks. It included not only the wo…
NorthStarWriters.com – Jessica Vozel
On the heels of President Bush?s war-funding bill veto will likely come another, just the third to join the short list of vetoes issued during Bush?s tenure at the White House. The proposed Local Law Enforcement …
EdgeBoston.com – Edge Boston Contributor
The Vermont State House of Representatives voted May 2 to widen the scope of state anti-discrimination laws to include gender identity.
The vote, which at 118-28 passed the legislation by an overwhelming …
Education.Guardian.co.uk
The law lecturer tells Chris Arnot how being a transsexual has put him at the forefront of a political movement
Stephen Whittle knew from an early age that he wanted to teach. He also knew that he wanted to be a man. Ther…
SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
It?s not hate crimes that are threatening trans survival. It?s governmental bureaucracies. So argues attorney Dean Spade, who founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) in 2002 to provide free legal serv…
GayPeoplesChronicle.com – by Eric Resnick
Cleveland–?Build genuine bonds of trust and solidarity [with other oppressed people], not quid pro quo,? Leslie Feinberg told 120 people gathered in Case Western Reserve University?s Ford Auditorium on Febr…
TimesUnion.com – By Danielle Furfaro, Staff writer
Activist works to bring transgendered struggles to the public’s attention
The calls that come into Susan Poe’s transgender help line vary from those complaining about landlords who refuse to re…
Releases.USNewsWire.com
Washington, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ — As voting machines from the 2006 midterm election are returned to storage for another Congressional session, members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) are cele…
CivilRights.org – Robert Sklar
The long-awaited Final Report of the 2005 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA), released by the Administration on Aging, marks a milestone in the fight for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)…