Showing posts with label Transgender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transgender. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Massachusetts Education Department Accommodates Transgender Students

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There is good news for in Massachusetts-based transgender students and and their parents. Last week, the state's Department of Eleme...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Kye Allums, Transgender Athlete

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b. October 23, 1989 “I had to come out because it was too hard not being myself.” Kye Allums is the first openly transgender athlete...
Sunday, 19 August 2012

Renée Richards, Transgender Athlete

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Transgender Pioneer b. August 19, 1934 I made the fateful decision to go and fight the legal battle to be able to play as a woman and st...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

"Led by the child who simply knew": (Boston Globe, on a Child's Transition)

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For trans children, at just how young an age is it appropriate to begin the transitioning process? That's just one of the questions rais...
Friday, 3 February 2012

“T and Conversation”: Beyond Binary Pronouns

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“T and Conversation”: Beyond Binary Pronouns
Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Massachusetts approves transgender rights bill

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The Massachusetts Senate has joined the House in passing a bill that would prohibit discrimination against transgender individuals. The mea...
Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Feds revise transgender inmate rules to permit previously disallowed prison treatments

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Transgender inmates who did not begin treatment prior to entering federal custody can now receive hormones, specialized mental health counse...
Thursday, 29 September 2011

September 29: Mara Keisling, Transgender Activist

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" What's important is that transgender people are respected as members of the community—that they are safe from discrimination a...
Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Sex-free British passports to help transgenders mooted | Metro.co.uk

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India and Pakistan now provide for "other" gender on a wide range of official documents, and Australia has introduced new regulati...
Tuesday, 20 September 2011

ACLU steps in to aid transgender Ga. elementary student

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 "Tommy Theollyn, the father of a seven-year old transgender son, is trying to get his son, D., access to the boy's restroom at Tod...
Friday, 16 September 2011

Sex-change op in new (UK) TV documentary

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(UK) Viewers will see "graphic" footage of sex-change surgery in a new documentary series about the lives of transgender people.Ch...

Thai army told to halt transgender slur - Asia, World - The Independent

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There was a time when "homosexuality" was seen as a form of mental illness. (The word itself is of medical origin, just as "h...
Thursday, 15 September 2011

Australian Passport Regulations to Reflect Gender Complexities

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Gender and biological sex are not simple matters of binary opposites. It is simply not true that we are all either male or female. A small b...
Wednesday, 31 August 2011

(Extra)Ordinary Family: Inside the Transgender World

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 "Young boys who say they are really little girls, girls who say they want to become men and their families who help cope with their ch...
Sunday, 14 August 2011

Companies are changing to support transgender employees

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When workers undergo a change in gender, their employers need to address new needs "IT specialist Brad Sensabaugh can't help but wo...
Sunday, 9 January 2011

Nepal introduces transgender census category

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KATHMANDU — Nepal's national census will include a new category for transgender people when counting begins in May, the government said ...
Friday, 17 September 2010

Australian military embraces transgender soldiers

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Australia has had gay men and lesbians in the military since 1992, and has recognised their families for spousal benefits since 2008. Now it...