All posts tagged "transgender"
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Jeffrey Tambor wins Golden Globe for ‘Transparent’
“I would like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for your courage....
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Russia has banned transgender people from driving
Once again, Russia is making headlines for its backwards attitudes towards LGBT people
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Ohio trans teen commits suicide, leaves tragic note
Blames her parents and the isolation they subjected her to for her death
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Federal appeals court blocks transgender inmate’s request for gender reassignment surgery
A federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s ruling Tuesday that found Massachusetts must provide gender reassignment surgery for a transgender inmate. The 1st Circuit...
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Montgomery to Pursue Insanity Defense
Lawyers for Gary Niles Montgomery, the man accused of fatally stabbing transgender woman Deoni Jones while she was waiting at a Northeast D.C. bus stop...
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Va. School Board Votes Against Transgender Student
The Gloucester County (Va.) School Board voted 6-1 on Tuesday to approve a motion that limits transgender students to using the bathroom assigned to their...
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Senate confirms Obama EEOC nominees
The U.S. Senate confirmed two Obama nominees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Wednesday that advocates say will be critical in protecting LGBT Americans from workplace...
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Transgender Female Assaulted in Dupont Establishment
Thanksgiving transgender attack could not have happened at Level One/Cobalt, which was closed at the time
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Hagel urged to act on military’s transgender ban before departure
Chuck Hagel is facing renewed calls to order a review of the military’s longstanding ban on transgender service.
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TV Review: Transparent
Amazon delivers one of the best new series in recent memory with Transparent
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Army unlawfully discriminated against transgender employee, report finds
The Department of the Army engaged in discrimination against a civilian employee and veteran on the basis of her gender identity in violation of federal law,...
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Transgender TIES Summit Comes to Richmond
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, will host VIRGINIA TIES (Transgender Information and Empowerment Summit) on Oct. 4, a summit bringing together more...
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Pentagon officials sued for denying Chelsea Manning medical treatment
Lawyers for Chelsea Manning filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and other Defense Department and Army officials in federal court Tuesday for...
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Commission charts path for open transgender military service
More than three months after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the White House voiced support for a review of the military’s ban on transgender service,...
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Labor Department protects transgender employees of federal contractors
The Labor Department issued guidance Tuesday clarifying that discrimination against the employees of federal contractors on the basis of transgender status is considered discrimination based...
