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It’s 2012. Do you know where your transgender children are?
It’s 2012. Do you know where your transgender children are? Cisgender America, frightened of change and anxious about its identity, is in a panic over the growing visibility of gender-variant kids.
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MD police official: Transgender rights bill did not lead to rapes, assaults in public restrooms
TOWSON, Md. — Montgomery County police chief Thomas Manger says that allegations that rapes and sexual assaults occurred in public restrooms following passage of a transgender accommodation law are “untrue.” The assertion comes in response to opposition to a transgender rights bill introduced Tuesday in Baltimore County, Md. — the bill would protect transgender people and allow use of restrooms according to their gender identity.
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Kuwait: Report highlights police brutality against transgender individuals
Kuwaiti police have been torturing and sexually abusing transgender women continually since 2007, when a discriminatory law was passed which arbitrarily criminalizes “imitating the opposite sex,” Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday.
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‘Work It’ didn’t work — ABC cancels sitcom after only two episodes
“Work It” just didn’t work. ABC has cancelled the series “Work It” after only two episodes. The series debuted on January 3, 2012 to low ratings, and, according to Entertainment Weekly, dropped another 20 percent this week.
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Tennessee legislature introduces transphobic ‘bathroom bill’
If it weren’t discouraging enough that the Tennessee legislature will consider a “license to bully” bill and reconsider the “don’t say gay” bill, the new session has opened with the introduction of a blatantly transphobic bathroom bill.
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Maryland legislature to consider gay marriage, transgender rights bills
Bills calling for legalizing same-sex marriage and banning discrimination against transgender persons are among the hot-button issues set to emerge next week when the Maryland State Legislature begins its 2012 session.
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2011 marks advances in rights, visibility of transgender and intersex people
Continuing a series of posts on the significant developments in the LGBT community in 2011, there were numerous advances around the world in the rights and visibility of transgender and intersex people.
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Massachusetts newspaper mocks Chaz Bono, transgender people
A Massachusetts newspaper is catching heat for mocking transgender celebrity Chaz Bono and a new state law prohibiting discrimination against gender identity.
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Fox News invites anti-LGBT guests to mock, smear transgender Macy’s customer
During a December 11 segment on Fox News, host Shannon Bream invited former Macy’s employee Natalie Johnson and Mathew Staver, founder of the anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, to discuss Johnson’s recent termination from her job in San Antonio, Texas.
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Court ruling in transgender case hailed as ‘hugely important’
LGBT advocates are hailing a federal appellate court ruling as a significant win for transgender rights and a means to provide recourse to others who face discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.