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| A crown fit for a queen |
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| How about a pageant that defies conventional classification, confounds your sense of pronoun assignment, and rocks with the force of several Tina Turners?
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| An African-American transwoman shares her thoughts about being Black and transgender |
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| There are a lot of words you can use to describe me. Daughter, aunt, friend, woman, sister, native Texan, Houstonian, African-American, deejay, Christian, transplanted Louisvillian, transplanted Kentuckian, activist, writer, sports fan, columnist, Kentucky Colonel, American.
Another one that would be accurate to use in my case is transgender.
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| Aussie Transsexual cleared (AUS) |
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| Hobart, Tasmania - Martine Delaney thinks it's strange that of all the discrimination she could encounter as a transsexual, it's the relatively minor obstacles she's overcome to play in a women's soccer league that makes her front-page news in Austra |
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| Battling for One’s True Sexual Identity |
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| RAY CARANNANTE, a licensed social worker whose masculine sartorial flair translates into a tidily sculpted goatee and unashamedly argyle socks, does not look or behave as if he is identity-challenged. His pants and white pinstripe shirt — he says he complied this morning when his girlfriend gave his purple shirt a constructive thumbs-down — flatter his compact physique. His dark hair is clipped short. In a crowd, he would not stand out.
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| Beating Transsexual Not Hate Crime Judge Rules |
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| A teenager who severely beat a transsexual last year is not guilty of a hate crime a Palm Beach County Juvenile Court judge has ruled.
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| Beyer?s gender bill back again |
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| Georgina Beyer?s Human Rights (Gender Identity) Amendment Bill appears to be back on the agenda, contrary to reports last year which suggested the private members bill had been removed from the ballot.
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| Blogging for Justice: The Gwen Araujo Murder |
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| Three years later, two of the three accused men, Michael Magidson, 25, and Jose Merel, 26, received sentences of 15 years to life for first-degree murder without hate crime enhancements. |
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| Center hires trans woman as director |
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| The new director of the LGBT community center in San Jose, Aejaie Sellers, has a history of growing nonprofit community organizations and she's likely made history as the first transgender person in the country to lead an LGBT community center. |
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| Change Sex Or Die |
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| The situation of the transgendered in Iran has been the subject of frequent media reports that paint a rosy picture of life for them in the Islamic Republic, and which characterize Tehran - in a recent description in the U.K. daily The Guardian - as "the unlikely sex-change capital of the world." |
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| CINCINNATI?S PASSAGE OF NON-DISCRIMINATION MEASURE A TRIUMPH FOR FAIRNESS |
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| Following the November 2004 repeal of a one-of-a-kind anti-gay law, the Cincinnati City Council voted today to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in employment, housing and public accommodations. Led by Equality Cincinnati and local leaders and supported by the Human Rights Campaign, the move ensures fairness for Cincinnatians.
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| Court: Transsexual woman can't see child |
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| Woman who underwent sex-change operation appeals to High Court of Justice after Rabbinic Court cancels prior alimony agreement; appeal rejected
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| Dangerous Bill Advancing in State Legislature |
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| House Bill 1233 Senate Draft 1 would legally redefine "sex" from its traditional meaning of "male or female" to mean whatever any individual wants it to mean "regardless of whether [it] is different from that traditionally associated with the person's sex at birth."
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| Detroit-area activists form transgender advocacy organization |
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| "The transgender community needs a local advocacy and support organization offering services to improve the quality of their lives."
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| EUROPEAN TRANSGENDER RULING WELCOMED |
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| Gay and transgender activists have welcomed a judgement by the European Court of Human Rights on the rights of transgendered people in Lithuania.
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| Event probes messy reality of discrimination law |
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| "Sexual stereotyping" is shaping up as the next big new issue in employment law, lawyers John Knorek and Wayne Yoshigai told human resources directors at the annual Maui Labor Law Update Friday at The Westin Maui Resort and Spa.
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| First Sexuality & Gender Rights Clinic |
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| NY - Columbia Law School is creating the nation's first clinical program in sexuality and gender law to provide its students with cutting-edge training in impact litigation, legislative work, and community advocacy. |
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| For Second Act, a New Identity |
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| America is built on the idea that its citizens can become whatever, and whomever, they want to be. That proposition can lead to staggering transformations -- especially when gender identity is involved. |
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| Friends star avoids trans sex change programme |
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| Actress Courtney Cox has avoided having her family?s private matters exposed in public, quite literally.
Her brother in law, transsexual Alexis Arquette, sibling of Cox? husband, David Arquette, was set to have a sex change operation live on television.
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| Gender change challenges traditional culture - Vietnam |
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| Gender reassignment surgery is easy for modern medicine, but the new life it brings remains a problem for Vietnamese living in a society with traditional views on sexual identity. Sex changes are still forbidden in many countries, including Vietnam.
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| HARVARD ENSURES FAIRNESS WITH ADDITION OF TRANSGENDER PROTECTIONS |
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| Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the nation, announced April 11 that it would be adding gender identity to its non-discrimination policy, safeguarding transgender students and faculty.
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