Transgender

A transgender non-discrimination bill in Maryland received a boost Tuesday when the Maryland State Senate Rules Committee voted to allow it to advance through the normal legislative process rather than die in committee. [ Read more → ]

The Maryland House of Delegates on Saturday approved the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, legislation that would prohibit discrimination in employment, housing and credit for Transgender Marylanders. [ Read more → ]

BOSTON -- In a private ceremony this week, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) signed an executive order prohibiting discrimination of state employees based on gender identity or expression. [ Read more → ]

A groundbreaking new study reveals that transgender people suffer widespread discrimination in a variety of fields, including education, employment, housing, health care, and more. [ Read more → ]

My Facebook page blew up last night after I posted about a Superbowl commercial by “Living Social” which used Transgender people as a punchline. Watch the video and discuss! Did you find it offensive, why or why not? [ Read more → ]

Minneapolis police are investigating the homicide of a 45-year-old transgender person was found stabbed to death Tuesday in her apartment. The medical examiner has identified the victim as Christopher P. Bates, whom friends and neighbors knew as Chrissy. [ Read more → ]

The DMV clerk who sent a transgender woman in San Francisco a hate-filled letter telling her that she was an "abomination" and that “all gay people should be put to death,” has resigned as the department nears conclusion of its internal investigation. [ Read more → ]

Today marks the 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance around the world, a day when the LGBTQ and allied community honor those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. [ Read more → ]

HOUSTON -- Mayor Annise Parker has appointed Houston attorney and longtime transgender activist Phyllis Randolph Frye as an associate municipal judge. Frye will become the first transgender judge in Texas and only the third in the country. [ Read more → ]

A crowd of several thousand people gathered in the Argentinian capital city of Buenos Aires Saturday, marching in celebration of the country's status as the first Latino nation to legalize same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

California's Alameda County has been elected its first transgender Superior Court Judge. Victoria Kolakowski, 49, defeated her opponent, Deputy District Attorney John Creighton, in a narrow win in what had been a hotly contested race. [ Read more → ]

A transgender woman in San Francisco has received a hate-filled from a Department of Motor Vehicles clerk telling her that she was an abomination and that “all gay people should be put to death.” [ Read more → ]

Students at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, MI, say administrators have denied the homecoming king throne from its rightful winner -- a transgender senior. [caption id="attachment_10962" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="Oak Reed"][media-credit name="WOOD-TV" align="alignleft" width="320"][/media-credit][/caption] Classmates believe the crown belongs to Oak Reed, 17, who was... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_7562" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Gonzalez-Andujar"][/caption] A transgender woman was found dead in her ransacked New York apartment on Tuesday, her naked body sprawled across the bed, the Daily News reports. Edelbuerto Gonzalez-Andujar, 29, who lived as a woman and went by the name Amanda, had... [ Read more → ]

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has launched a campaign to get New York's Tribeca Film Festival to remove the film 'Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives' from it's April lineup. The film is described as a “campy homage to the exploitation films” in which... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_5681" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="Paul Scott"][/caption] A state lawmaker, running for the GOP nomination to be the next Secretary of State in Michigan, is wasting no time addressing the real issues facing Michigan -- stopping transgender people from changing their sex on their drivers license.... [ Read more → ]

The HRC and GLAAD issued statements today condemning a sketch on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman Tuesday night, which mocked the appointment of Amanda Simpson to a senior position at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Last night we posted (via Facebook) the skit during... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_4697" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Amanda Simpson"][/caption] President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson, believed to be the first transgender woman appointed to a senior government role, to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department, according to ABC News. Simpson, a member of the National... [ Read more → ]

East Point has become the second city in Fulton County, Georgia, -- and one of several statewide -- to adopt protections for its gay and transgender employees. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The local law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, approved by... [ Read more → ]

ALBANY -- New York Gov. David Paterson has signed an executive order protecting transgender state workers from discrimination in the workplace. Flanked by gay rights activists, Paterson signed the order at a press event at the LGBT Community Center in Greenwich Village on Wednesday. “For... [ Read more → ]