transgender issues

Roundup: State Legislatures Aim to Restrict Medical Abortion

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

April 27, 2011 - 9:54am (Print)

Oklahoma and Texas want to restrict use of medical abortion despite recommendations from medical groups; Florida votes on pile of anti-abortion bills today; MariaTalks.com controversy continues in Massachusetts; and Texas tries to repeal transgender marriage.

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Roundup: Virginia Pro-Choice Groups Ask for Equal Regulation of Outpatient Clinics

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

March 24, 2011 - 9:35am (Print)

Same-sex marriages won't be allowed in California during Prop 8 appeal, international transgender news, trade schools cannot discriminate against applicants with HIV or AIDS, and Virginia pro-choice groups ask for new regulations to be applied to all outpatient surgery centers, not just abortion clinics.

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Transgendered Can Now Travel More Easily

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

June 11, 2010 - 8:30am (Print)

The State Department has relaxed its passport rules, a change which will now make it easier for transgendered people to obtain passports that accurately reflect their gender identity.

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Get Real! I Feel Like My Body Is Wrong, But My Parents Say My Feelings Are Wrong

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by Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com

May 28, 2010 - 10:07am (Print)

Listen to your own feelings and sense of self. You're the expert when it comes to your own identity. The only ultimate authority on our gender is us.

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Obama Appoints Transgendered Woman to Commerce Department Post

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by Rachel Larris

January 4, 2010 - 1:54pm (Print)

President Obama has named Amanda Simpson, a transgendered woman, to be the senior technical adviser to the Commerce Department. Simpson would be the first known transgendered presidential appointment.
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Stoking Fire: Far Right Opposition to Hate Crimes Laws

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by Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check

August 11, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

Assurances that federal workplace anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people will exempt religious bodies from oversight should mollify conservatives, but they don't.
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Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Policing the Gendered Order

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by Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia

August 10, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)

The absence of penal laws and widespread violence against homosexuals and transgender persons does not make the Philippines totally “gay friendly” or even “pro-trans.”
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VIDEO: Are You a Man Or a Woman?

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by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

August 6, 2009 - 2:24pm (Print)

Whenever someone
inadvertently finds out that my brother is transgendered, the slew of questions
inevitably begins. “Why did he transition? What was he like as a girl? Did you
think there was something wrong with him?”

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Vancouver Pharmacy Says No to Trans People

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by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 8, 2009 - 11:09am (Print)

An all-women pharmacy in Vancouver sounds like a great resource if you’re a bio-woman, but what about the population of transgender sex workers that are in need of safer sex education and, potentially, rape counseling?

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Inclusive ENDA Introduced; "We Are Beyond" Removing Gender Identity Protections, Says Frank

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by Emily Douglas

June 24, 2009 - 1:33pm (Print)

An inclusive ENDA banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression in workplaces has been re-introduced in Congress.
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