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Study: Transgender children fare well when allowed to live openly
Transgender youth allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small study that suggests parental support may be the key.
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Federal employee healthcare providers can no longer exclude transition-related services
The change, announced Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, will be effective Jan. 1, 2016, and impacts plans that federal employees can select during open enrollment this fall.
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Federal judge approves hormone treatments for transgender Ohio inmate
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge has ordered Ohio’s prisons agency to restore hormone treatments for a transgender inmate who sued after they were stopped.
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Anti-gay chaplain: Transgender student visually ‘raping’ girls in locker room
As noted earlier this week, the Religious Right has been promoting claims made by the Pacific Justice Institute about a transgender student in a Colorado high school who had supposedly been harassing other girls in the locker room and restrooms.
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Transgender students face ‘outing’ when schools do not have inclusive policies
Getting accustomed to a new school as a transfer student may be a difficult experience. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies junior Rob Ortiz, the necessary first week of school changes and challenges were added to by another set of stressors: dealing with a university staff that was not prepared to answer the pleas of someone who identifies as a transgender male.
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Pa. school still refuses to announce transgender grad by his chosen name
RED LION, Pa. — A transgender student in central Pennsylvania is continuing his fight to be announced by his male name at graduation next month.
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Pageant: Miss Pennsylvania gave up crown over transgender contestants
Miss Pennsylvania USA has given up her state crown because she said the Miss USA pageant was fixed, but pageant officials refuted her claim, and said she quit over her disapproval of the organization’s decision to allow transgender participants.