All posts tagged "transgender"
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Girl Scout cookies in demand after release of anti-transgender boycott video
A video appeared on YouTube this week featuring an unidentified teenaged girl complaining about transgender “boys” being allowed into the Girl Scouts. At the end...
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The Year in LGBT Law: A Changed Landscape of Unexpected Developments — and Waiting
On Jan. 1, 2011, most LGBT legal commentators were ready for a federal appellate court ruling on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 — or at...
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DCTC vs. Virginia
The DC Trans Coalition (DCTC), a local advocacy group advancing the civil rights of transgender people, has filed a friend of the court brief urging...
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Revisiting Violence
At year's end, the local LGBT community is recovering from a year of violent attacks directed at LGBT individuals, particularly transgender women of color. Beginning...
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Maryland Falls Short
Close, but no cigar. Despite large socially conservative Catholic and African-American populations, heavily Democratic Maryland was seen by many at the start of 2011 as...
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Furr Update
The U.S. government's case against Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a group of five people in a car, including...
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Just Not Working, HRC and GLAAD Up Campaign Against ABC’s New Sitcom
The new series, Work It, had already caused concern at LGBT organizations before ABC started promoting the series. But any behind-the-scenes worries broke out into...
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Transgender Woman Stabbed
A 56-year-old transgender woman was stabbed while at a house in Northeast D.C.'s Kingman Park neighborhood at around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, marking the...
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Should ABC cancel the sitcom 'Work It'?
// See this related story: Just Not Working, HRC and GLAAD up campaign against ABC's new
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Office Depot among 207 companies that include gender reassignment surgery in health insurance plans
“Realistically, we just looked at it as a necessity. Our executive V.P. said, ‘It’s the right thing to do, it’s something we support and we...
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Willard Sentenced to Eight Years
The man who pleaded guilty to shooting a transgender woman in the neck and trying to rob her after she refused his request for oral...
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DC Trans Coalition Hosts Town Hall
When it comes to transgender rights in the District, there's so much more to accomplish, transgender individuals and their allies say. But the volunteer nature...
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D.C. in the Red
When I moved back East from Portland, Ore., I'd more or less had my fill of ''crunchiness.'' The guy I moved out there with had...
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Activists Picket MPD and Prosecutors
More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
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Vigil Honors Lost Transgender Lives
Following a year that saw a spike in reported anti-transgender attacks, the Washington-area LGBT community held a vigil at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington,...
