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Transgender parolee gets surgery years after winning, then losing, the right
Michelle-Lael Norsworthy won the legal right for California inmates to receive transition-related surgery, but she was paroled before her own surgery could be scheduled.
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Doll based on transgender teen Jazz Jennings to debut at New York Toy Fair
Jazz Jennings is the teenage transgender subject of the TLC documentary series “I am Jazz,” and has been a public face for transgender children since age 6.
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Jeff Sessions’ DOJ withdraws request for stay of anti-transgender ruling
Advocates worry that the decision to no longer defend the Obama Administration memo extending Title IX protections to transgender students, bad enough on its own, is a sign of things to come.
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Texas lawmaker unmoved by ‘dudes walking around in dresses getting beat up’
The provocative statement comes from State Rep. Briscoe Cain, a lawmaker whose political opponents claimed he was a closeted gay man.
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Sense8 star talks cancellation rumors and impact of Lilly Wachowski’s transition
Actor Brian J. Smith says while big changes have rocked production, he denied Netflix has already canceled the quirky series.
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University of Arkansas drops transgender health coverage
University officials used an injunction blocking the regulation that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity as an excuse to end the employee benefits.
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Supreme Court will hear Gavin Grimm’s landmark transgender rights case in March
Transgender teen Gavin Grimm is suing his Virginia high school for the right to use the restroom and locker room that corresponds with his gender.
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Transgender model Anjali Lama breaks barriers in India’s fashion world
Anjali Lama has become the first transgender woman to model at one of the top events on India’s fashion calendar and one sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand.
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San Francisco to name part of Tenderloin as first transgender historic district
It will be designated Compton’s TLGB District, referring to a historic local uprising and to highlight the contribution of trans people in that riot.
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Texas mayor comes out as state’s first openly transgender official
Jess Herbst revealed she is trans in a letter to constituents of her small Texas town in a staunchly conservative county.