A federal judge has blocked an Idaho law that forbids transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports. The “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”, passed in March, stated that transgender women and girl athletes […]
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The local law protected transgender people from discrimination The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down a local law in the city of Fayetteville that protects people from discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Under […]
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57 year old becomes the first inmate to receive gender reassignment surgery 57 year old California inmate Shiloh Heavenly Quine became the first inmate to receive state funded gender reassignment surgery reports The Chicago Tribune. […]
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California restaurant chain launches employment program to help transgender men and women Breitbart reports that restaurant chain owner Michaela Ivri Mendelsohn has started an employment program the California Transgender Workplace Project designed to help transgender men […]
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For the first time in the U.S. Army, female hormone treatment was approved for prisoner Chelsea Manning, reports the ABA Journal. Chelsea Manning was a former intelligence analyst and was convicted of espionage as Bradley […]
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Thailand’s House of Representatives is set to consider a same-sex union bill later this year, reports The Nation. The newspaper interviewed gender rights activist Chumaporn Taengkliang, who has been asked to gather at least 10,000 […]
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A South Korean court ruled that transgenders are officially allowed to amend their gender on official documents without having to undergo a sex change. The case was filed by five transgender people, who claimed medical […]
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IKEA has issued an apology for the ladyboy TV ad it ran several weeks ago. The “Forget to Deceive” ad depicts a woman, so excited by a bargain at the store that she speaks in […]
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Nepal announced today that it will issue “third gender” IDs to those who do not identify as male or female. The Nepalese Supreme Court ruled in favor of the citizenship certificates in 2007, but it […]
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A transgender woman who said Cicero, Illinois police officers harassed and humiliated her has settled a lawsuit for $10,000 along with a pledge that the town will adopt a policy for dealing respectfully with transgender people, […]
