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| TRANSGENDER FIRE FIGHTER FILES DISCRIMINATION GRIEVANCE |
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| A transgender Knoxville fire fighter has filed a grievance against top ranking Knoxville Fire Department officials, charging that they have harassed and discriminated her because of her transgender status.
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| Hidden past, hopeful future for trans athletes  |
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| Kristen Worley, a 2008 Olympic hopeful in cycling, has a secret.
But now, with great anxiety, she?s divulging it.
A few years ago, the Canadian had sex-change surgery to change her gender from male to female.
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| Israel's Dana International takes back seat to ABBA in "Best of Eurovision" (ISRAEL) |
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| Transsexual Dana, who back in 1998 performed the reprise with Jean-Paul Gaultier's memorable feathers suit, took the stage in Copenhagen with a new Gaultier's design named Spanish Bride. 'Back in 1998 we wanted to win, so tried to be different but st |
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| A Prom Night To Remember |
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| "The only thing that Mr. Lofy did wrong was wearing a purse that didn't match the dress and open-toed shoes before Memorial Day," said Madison lawyer Erik Guenther, who will represent Kerry Lofy.
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| Transgender lawyer wins national award (US) |
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| Minter has helped to draft and lobby for innovative new federal, state and local laws prohibiting discrimination against transgender people. |
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| Sheriff?s Department needs protocol for transgender inmates |
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| On Nov. 17, San Diego sheriff?s officers were called to the residence of Vanessa Facen, a 35-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman. Pre-op transsexuals are individuals who have made a personal decision to live as the gender opposite their natal bodies.
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| Sheriff deputies? use of force contributes to death of transgender person |
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| According to a San Diego County deputy medical examiner, there is reason to believe sheriff deputies? use of force resulted in the death of Vanessa Facen, a 35-year-old pre-operative transsexual who was arrested last November for a residential burglary. |
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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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| Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules |
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| Who / What:
Genderqueer
One girl was called Jane Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I'm a boy
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| Male nurse wants to be a she legally |
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| A male nurse who underwent a sex-change procedure abroad is asking the local court for a legal change in gender to female, but the government prosecutor is against the idea.
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| attorney general says gay protections are unconstitutional |
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| It is his intention to continually insist that his management team provide this basic right to gays, straights, lesbians and transgender employees."
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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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| 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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| Transsexual insists on going to women's jail (UK) |
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| Denise Martin, one of Ireland's first transsexuals who had a full sex-change operation 22 years ago, faces a prison sentence next month. The slender, 45-year-old bleached blonde could find herself in the all-male top-security Maghaberry jail outside |
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| Arrested justice: When LGBT people land in jail |
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| Kari Sundstrom, a 41-year-old transgender woman, had been on female hormones for 15 years when, in January, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a law banning hormone treatments or sex reassigment surgery for prison inmates. This meant Sundstrom, incarcerated since 2003, would have to discontinue her hormone therapy. |
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| Transgender Happiness |
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| In English the words “sex” and “gender” mean the same thing. Both distinguish male and female, but in actuality the definitions are quite different. Sex indicates the anatomical structure of genes, while gender leans towards the mental and societal. There are a few people whose sex and gender do not match, however. |
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| 3rd Annual Trans Day of Action for Social & Economic Justice |
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| The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) joins the TransJustice Initiative of the Audre Lorde Project (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Center for Community Organizing) to observe June 22, 2007 as the 3rd Annual Trans Day of Action for Social & Economic Justice in New York City. |
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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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| EQCA SPONSORS EIGHT BILLS TO ENSURE EQUALITY IN 2006 |
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| SACREMENTO, Calif. - Equality California, California's statewide LGBT civil rights advocacy organization, announced that it will sponsor eight bills in 2006 to strengthen protections for LGBT people in areas ranging from education to elections. |
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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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