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Two-spirit Sioux Falls woman second reported transgender murder of 2017
“While the investigation is ongoing, we see that gender and race often play a role in the escalation of violence toward transgender people.”
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California first in nation to fund inmate’s gender confirmation surgery
Quine’s case led the state to become the first to set standards for transgender inmates to apply to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery.
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California’s ban on taxpayer funded travel to four states goes into effect
Non-essential travel to Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas has been banned due to their anti-LGBTQ laws.
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UK study: Bathroom signage should describe what — not who — is inside
Participants suggested that bathroom signage indicate what can be found in the bathroom, e.g. toilets with urinals, toilets without urinals, larger toilet with grab bars.
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Transgender man sues Catholic hospital for refusing his hysterectomy
He says a hospital administrator told him the procedure to remove his uterus couldn’t be done because it was a “Catholic hospital.”
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Bryan Fischer thinks single-use bathrooms give trans people ‘special rights’
“Sexually normal people don’t have that; that’s a special deal. That’s not equal rights, that’s special rights.”
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Nuns in India have started a school for transgender dropouts
This may be the very first group of its kind in all of India.
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Texas introduces anti-transgender bathroom bill with quote from MLK, Jr.
The state’s business community largely does not support such legislation, knowing it could cost them millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
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VA governor bans LGBTQ discrimination following introduction of ‘bathroom bill’
Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order makes anti-LGBTQ discrimination among state employees, contractors and subcontractors illegal.
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Mike Pence promises Trump will repeal Obama’s executive orders on day one
Protections for LGBTQ workers and students that came through an Obama executive order are in danger.