Transgender

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.

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.”

Students at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, MI, say administrators have denied the homecoming king throne from its rightful winner — a transgender senior. Classmates believe the crown belongs to Oak Reed, 17, who was born as Oakleigh Marie but who now goes as Oakleigh Marshall (or “Oak” for short). According to students, the […]

A transgender woman was found dead in her ransacked New York apartment on Tuesday, her naked body sprawled across the bed.

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 “a group of transgender women are violently beaten and left […]

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. Paul Scott, who just completed the first year of his first two-year term in the Michigan […]

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 the opening monologue, when Letterman announced Simpson’s historic appointment and […]

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 Center for Transgender Equality’s board of directors, said in a statement, that “as one of the […]

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 the City Council earlier this week, is almost an afterthought […]

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 generations, New York has been a national leader on civil […]