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California sets standards for state-funded sex reassignment surgery for inmates
To qualify, prisoners must be diagnosed with what is formally known as gender dysphoria and lived as their identified gender for at least 12 months.
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Ashley Madison hack puts gay lives at risk
The hack exposes the names of users who live in places where homosexual is punishable by death.
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Chelsea Manning found guilty of violating prison rules… over expired toothpaste
The transgender Army private was also accused of having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover.
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Brutal antigay attack lands two in jail
Two men have been incarcerated and fined following a vicious assault in Morocco.
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Chelsea Manning is facing “indefinite solitary confinement”
Prison charges include possession of expired toothpaste.
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Will California become the first state to pay for a prisoner’s sex reassignment surgery?
Gov. Jerry Brown will decide whether Michelle-Lael Norsworthy should be released 30 years after she fatally shot 26-year-old Franklin Gordon Liefer Jr.
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Rio de Janeiro prisons seek to protect transgender inmates
Brazil’s penitentiaries are notorious for rampant overcrowding and violence endured by all inmates. But advocates say few prisoners are as vulnerable as transgender people.
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Former Rhode Island House speaker gets 3 years for corruption
The 53-year-old Democrat became the nation’s first openly gay House speaker in 2010. He represented Providence for 11 terms in the state House.
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Court: Transgender teen’s rights violated when she was transferred to a prison
Connecticut’s second-highest court has ruled that a transgender teenager’s rights were violated when she was transferred to a prison from the state’s child welfare agency last year.
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Appeals court delays transgender inmate’s surgery after panel recommends parole
The separate decisions make it less likely that convicted killer Michelle-Lael Norsworthy will receive prison-funded sex reassignment surgery before she is released.