All posts tagged "transgender"
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Accomplishments and Challenges
Looking back on Maryland's 2008 legislative session, which concluded on Monday, April 7, Equality Maryland saw reason to celebrate -- as well as reason to...
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Uncommon decency
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail...
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Fighting to Keep Equality
A group of Montgomery County residents, backed by Equality Maryland, filed a lawsuit March 14 against the County Board of Elections for certifying petitions from...
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Pee Shy
''Cross-dressing men in your daughter's locker room'' and men lurking in women's restrooms are just some of the things Citizens for a Responsible Government, a...
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Champagne Taste
You might not believe it, but Amanda Lepore has only recently started to really put herself out there. She's always been out there, of course....
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Now Open
The Concerned DC Providers Coalition, a group committed to improving the health of ''young transgender women of color and men of color who have sex...
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Christmas Candie
When the term ''flautist'' came along -- 1860, according to Merriam-Webster -- the traditionalists, that bunch who'd been using ''flutist'' since 1603, may have been...
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Beyer Opts Out
During a Maryland District 18 forum at Montgomery County's Leland Community Center in Chevy Chase on Sunday, Dec. 9, Dr. Dana Beyer, a transgender Democrat...
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Never Forgetting
It's been nearly two years since Elexuis Woodland, a transgender woman, was shot to death during a robbery in Southeast. The case is still under...
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Suddenly Susan
''Largo'' used to conjure images of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, or lodge Bertie Higgins' ''Key Largo'' lyrics in your head. Today, Largo is more...
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Transgender Assault
Shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, a group of young men attacked a transgender woman, throwing her through a window, according to a...
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Heartbreak Hotel
It's awfully hard not to smile when presented with director Mariusz Trelinski's modern take on Giacomo Puccini's highly revered classic, La Boheme. There is something...
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Back to School
GenderPAC, the D.C.-based, human-rights organization working to eliminate gender stereotypes, released its 2007 GENIUS Index, tracking efforts in academe to promote awareness of and prohibit...
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Gender Confusion
It's hard to imagine what Virginia Grace Soto went through during the two days she spent at a male detention center at the D.C. jail....
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Katastrophe
THERE WEREN'T TOO many people to look up to in mainstream media while growing up as female-to-male transgender, recalls Katastrophe. The 27-year-old native of the...
