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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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| How to develope a female voice |
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| Nothing gets you read faster than a voice that doesn't match your appearance. Many gender folk dress up and look like goddesses... until they open their mouths. Suddenly, in spite of the grace and curves, they turn into ... |
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| Human Rights Campaigne Foundation |
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| Coming Out as Transgender
Transgender people often say that they are trapped in the wrong body — they were born one sex but feel more like another. Health care professionals often describe this as “gender dysphoria,” literally, feeling confusion about one’s gender.
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| IAM (Inclusive and Affiming Ministries) |
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| IAM has a vision of a welcoming and affirming South African religious society where LGBTI people can participate fully and grow in their spiritial, psychological and sexual identity as human beings. IAM works towards this vision through programmes that support and empower the LGBTI community and stimulate dialogue as the alternatie to debate regarding sexual orientation.
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| International Foundation for Gender education |
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| IFGE advocates for freedom of gender expression.
We promote the understanding and acceptance of All People: Transgender, Transsexual, Crossdresser, Agender, Gender Queer, Intersex, Two Spirit, Drag King, Drag Queen, Queer, Straight, Butch, Femme, |
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| International Lesbian and Gay Association |
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| The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide network of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people everywhere.
Founded in 1978, it now has more than 400 member organisations. Every continent and around 90 countries are represented. ILGA member groups range from small collectives to national groups and entire cities.
ILGA is to this day the only international non-profit and non-governmental community-based federation focused on presenting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation as a global issue.
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| International Resource |
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| The International Resource Network (IRN), based at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and funded by the Ford Foundation, aims to link up researchers (from both academic and community bases) in areas related to diverse sexualities and genders. The goals of the IRN are to expand knowledge building, to foster comparative and collaborative projects among researchers, to advance curricular and course development, and to widen the availability of scholarly resources.
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| International Transgender Sisterhood |
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| "Gender" is the nonsexual side of sex. As someone once expressed it: Gender is located above, and sex below the belt. |
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| Intersex Society of South Africa |
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| An organisation established to spread knowledge about intersex, to provide the space for the development of an intersexed voice in Southern Africa, and to combat discrimination on grounds of intersex. |
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| intersex’s simple twist of life |
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| “I had problems not knowing where I belong – with males or females, being spoken about and stigmatised at school and in society. I also had medical problems. Even though I was raised as a girl, I had this strong feeling that I am a male.”
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| ITALIAN ELECTIONS: 4 GAY, LESBIAN BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENDERED IN PARLIAMENT. |
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| According to the Italian national gay association Arcigay, there will be four gay, lesbian, or transgendered people in the new parliament. |
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| Italian Transgender Candidate to Run for Parliament |
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| Italy's first transgender parliamentary candidate is about to enter the political scene as the campaign season officially gets underway.
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| Japanese court rejects transsexual's request to change registered gender |
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| A Japanese court rejected a male-to-female transsexual's request to change her officially registered sex because she already has two children who were born before the operation, a news report said Monday. |
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| Jay Sennett's blog - (very interresting!) |
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| One of the common phrases I hear from white feminist women is that my now privileged status as a man stems from my gender. I hate this argument . Not because it isn't true, but because it is narrow. So narrow, in fact, that it overlooks/denies/obsfucates race.
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| John Qwelane's homophobia 'appalling' |
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| JOHANNESBURG — Gays for Equitable Media (GEM) finds it regrettable that veteran journalist John Qwelane continues to use his column in the Sunday Sun (republished on News24) to expound his homophobic views.
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| Kate Bornstein |
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| KATE BORNSTEIN is an author and performance artist whose published works include the books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us; My Gender Workbook and.... Kate's books are taught in over 120 colleges and universities around the world; and |
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| Largo officials vote to dismiss Stanton |
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| City commissioners ended one of the most tumultuous weeks in Largo history Tuesday night by moving to fire City Manager Steve Stanton following his disclosure that he will have a sex-change operation.
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| Lauren Shipton |
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| Lauren emerged from a teenage labyrinth mired in gender identity issues, while growing up in colonial South Africa during the 1960s. Lauren's SRS was by performed by Dr. Derk Crichton (A famous SRS surgeon in South Africa) She left home and began working as a model in Johannesburg.
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| Legal Resources Centre |
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| The Legal Resources Centre is an independent, client-based, non-profit public interest law clinic which uses law as an instrument of justice. It works for the development of a fully democratic society based on the principle of substantive equality, by providing free legal services for the vulnerable and marginalised, including the poor, homeless, and landless people and communities of South Africa who suffer discrimination by reason of race, class, gender, disability or by reason of social, economic, and historical circumstances. |
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| Let doctors--not politicians--determine "medical necessity". |
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| This system is in place to determine which treatments, if any, are "medically necessary" and appropriate.
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