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| Detroit-area activists form transgender advocacy organization |
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| "The transgender community needs a local advocacy and support organization offering services to improve the quality of their lives."
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| Dangerous Bill Advancing in State Legislature |
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| House Bill 1233 Senate Draft 1 would legally redefine "sex" from its traditional meaning of "male or female" to mean whatever any individual wants it to mean "regardless of whether [it] is different from that traditionally associated with the person's sex at birth."
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| Center hires trans woman as director |
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| The new director of the LGBT community center in San Jose, Aejaie Sellers, has a history of growing nonprofit community organizations and she's likely made history as the first transgender person in the country to lead an LGBT community center. |
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| Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules  |
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| Who / What:
Genderqueer
One girl was called Jane Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I'm a boy
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| CINCINNATI?S PASSAGE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION MEASURE A TRIUMPH FOR FAIRNESS |
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| Following the November 2004 repeal of a one-of-a-kind anti-gay law, the Cincinnati City Council voted today to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in employment, housing and public accommodations. Led by Equality Cincinnati and local leaders and supported by the Human Rights Campaign, the move ensures fairness for Cincinnatians.
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| Male nurse wants to be a she legally |
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| A male nurse who underwent a sex-change procedure abroad is asking the local court for a legal change in gender to female, but the government prosecutor is against the idea.
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| Proposal would add `gender identity' to Bloomington's ordinance |
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| Protections for transgender people might be added to the city's human rights code under a proposal the City Council is expected to consider next month. |
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| Transjobless |
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| Imagine trying to find a job without a shred of work history. Welcome to the transgender job hunt.
In the transgender community, to have full-time work is to be in the minority. In fact, a new survey of 194 trans people conducted by the Transgender Law Center (TLC), with support from the Guardian, found that only one out of every four respondents has a full-time job. Another 16 percent work part-time.
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| Lifetime Movie To Tell Transgender Tale |
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| Just a Girl will star Mercedes Ruehl as a single mother whose teenage son decides to live as a girl and is then murdered. Gloria Allred, the well known civil-rights attorney, will co-executive produce.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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