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Massachusetts Governor signs transgender equality rights bill
BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday signed an historic transgender rights bill, giving the state’s estimated 33,000 transgender citizens vital protections against discrimination in employment, housing, education, credit and hate crimes law.
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Today is a day to honor humans lost to outright bigotry
Today is a day when all decent persons across the face of the planet should take a moment to pause and reflect on the terrible loss of promising lives rendered incomplete by a noxious and unjust pathology of lies, misconceptions and outright bigotry. Today, Nov. 20, marks the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis memorializes transgender Americans lost to hate
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on Friday issued this statement, marking today’s 2011 Transgender Day of Remembrance, and memorializing transgender Americans who have lost their lives as a result of violence.
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Community, allies remember victims lost to anti-transgender hate crimes
Today marks the 13th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance around the world, a day when the LGBTQ and allied community honor those who have lost their lives to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice, and seek to raise awareness of the ongoing threat of brutality faced by the transgender community.
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Massachusetts Senate OKs transgender rights bill; Governor promises to sign
BOSTON — The Transgender Equal Rights Bill — which had passed the Massachusetts House on Tuesday night with a 95-58 vote — cleared the state’s Senate on Wednesday with Senators approving the measure on a voice vote with no opposition.
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Transgender woman arrested after exposing her breasts at DMV protest
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — A transgender woman was arrested after she exposed her breasts in public in a protest against a local driver’s license office that refused to accept her surgeon’s letter confirming her partial surgery and her Social Security status as a woman.
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Massachusetts House passes transgender equality rights bill
BOSTON — In a late night session Tuesday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed the Transgender Equal Rights bill without amendment. The approved version added “gender identity” to employment, education, housing, and credit non-discrimination law, as well as to hate crimes law.
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Transgender students in Colorado warned not to use restrooms
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Two high school students in Fort Collins, Colo. — who identify as transgender — say that attitudes displayed by the school’s administrators make them feel unwelcome on campus, including being prohibited from using the same restrooms as other students.
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Do Americans prefer transgender people to gay people?
So the pretty darn surprising news, out today courtesy of the Public Religion Research Institute, is that 89% percent of Americans (including strong majorities of all religious and partisan groups) think transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans.
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LGBT History Month profile: Amanda Simpson, first openly transgender presidential appointee
Amanda Simpson is the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology in the U.S. Department of Defense. She is the first openly transgender female presidential appointee.