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| Beyer?s gender bill back again |
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| Georgina Beyer?s Human Rights (Gender Identity) Amendment Bill appears to be back on the agenda, contrary to reports last year which suggested the private members bill had been removed from the ballot.
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| A crown fit for a queen |
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| How about a pageant that defies conventional classification, confounds your sense of pronoun assignment, and rocks with the force of several Tina Turners?
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| Blogging for Justice: The Gwen Araujo Murder |
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| Three years later, two of the three accused men, Michael Magidson, 25, and Jose Merel, 26, received sentences of 15 years to life for first-degree murder without hate crime enhancements. |
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| Hotel won't rue its loo policy  |
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| A TRANSVESTITE has claimed discrimination by a Melbourne hotel for a ban on using the women's toliet.
The licensee of the Newmarket Tavern, John Booth, said he was shocked by the allegation.
He said he ran a sports bar, lounge, restaurant and TAB that were open to anybody.
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| Hidden past, hopeful future for trans athletes |
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| Kristen Worley, a 2008 Olympic hopeful in cycling, has a secret.
But now, with great anxiety, she?s divulging it.
A few years ago, the Canadian had sex-change surgery to change her gender from male to female.
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| Transexual Principal for school |
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| Mr. Young declared that his selection came "after a nationwide search for the best possible principal" and that "his/her sexual orientation had nothing to do with his selection. Nevertheless, transgender groups across America applauded his choice, since this also represents the first transgender principal in the nation |
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| Hate crimes bill has a shot |
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| Much of the opposition by legislators had stemmed from listing "sexual orientation" - which included gays, lesbians and transgendered people. Critics also had attacked the measure as trying to punish people for their "thoughts" or motives in a crime.
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| Transsexuals, your scholarship's in the mail before you even apply. |
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| Limbaugh on Harvard's Summers resignation: At renamed "Hervard," transsexuals would be told "your scholarship's in the mail before you even apply"
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| attorney general says gay protections are unconstitutional |
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| It is his intention to continually insist that his management team provide this basic right to gays, straights, lesbians and transgender employees."
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| Rally planned for transgender woman arrested at Grand Central Station |
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| Outraged after a 70-year-old transgender woman was arrested by Metropolitan Transportation Authority police for using a Grand Central Station women's bathroom, New York transgender activists and allies are staging a rally on her behalf.
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| Fair housing law gains momentum for passage |
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| The plan, which is being reviewed by the Common Council, also would make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against transsexuals.
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| Memo from Hagan to Senate |
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| My legislation is modeled after a bill recently introduced in the Ohio House by Rep. Ron Hood (R-Ashville via Carrollton), which would prohibit homosexual, bisexual and transgender people from adopting children. It is unclear at this point whether Rep. Hood supports my legislation, though I remain hopeful. |
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| Guatemalan Gays, Transgenderds Victims Of Deadly Attacks |
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| The Guatemalan government is accused of doing little or nothing to stem a growing number of violent attacks on gays and the transgendered. Human Rights Watch, an international organization based in New York, suggests at least some of the violence has been carried out or instigated by police.
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| EQCA SPONSORS EIGHT BILLS TO ENSURE EQUALITY IN 2006 |
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| SACREMENTO, Calif. - Equality California, California's statewide LGBT civil rights advocacy organization, announced that it will sponsor eight bills in 2006 to strengthen protections for LGBT people in areas ranging from education to elections. |
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| Transgender Female Arrested For Using Women's Restroom |
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| A phone repair worker who is in transition from male to female said Tuesday that she was arrested three times by transit police in the last six months for using the women's restroom at Grand Central Terminal. |
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| Paper Dolls |
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| The film shows the different sides of 5 Filipinos, who are caregivers for old age people, and in their spare time are transvestites |
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| Let doctors--not politicians--determine "medical necessity". |
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| This system is in place to determine which treatments, if any, are "medically necessary" and appropriate.
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| TRANSGENDER FIRE FIGHTER FILES DISCRIMINATION GRIEVANCE |
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| A transgender Knoxville fire fighter has filed a grievance against top ranking Knoxville Fire Department officials, charging that they have harassed and discriminated her because of her transgender status.
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| A Prom Night To Remember |
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| "The only thing that Mr. Lofy did wrong was wearing a purse that didn't match the dress and open-toed shoes before Memorial Day," said Madison lawyer Erik Guenther, who will represent Kerry Lofy.
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| Trans Don't Cry |
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| "I lost my family," says Liesegang, who underwent a sex- change operation. "My mother disowned me. My sister said, "I can take you as my gay brother, not as my sister.'"
She also lost her clients, and in the late '90s she found herself jobless. The economy was peaking, but there was no work for a transsexual like Liesegang.
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