27 September 2015

Keep Transgender Prisoners Out of Solitary Confinement

Emily Zak
www.care2.com


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ezs note:  If you have not done so already, please go to www.care2.com and sign the petition.  You''ll help a transgender prisoner's living conditions now.

Transgender Latina tells her story at Philadelphia workshop

Anne Marie Hankins
The Washington Post


Nicole Santamaria

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26 September 2015

Transgender Sutton Coldfield woman honoured for promoting LGBT acceptance (UK)

Dan Newbould
Sutton Coldfield Observer


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Understanding transgender: who, what, why and how

Karen Siegfriedt
Amador Ledger Dispatch


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Judge questions sexual harassment claim in Planet Fitness transgender policy case

Jessica Shepherd
MLive


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Transgender at school: As more teachers come out, districts struggle to put policy into practice

Casey Parks
The Oregonian

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Transgender woman Kellie Maloney on her plans to visit matchmaker Willie Daly (Ireland)

Margaret Jennings
Irish Examiner




Devils Lake, North Dakota

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25 September 2015

Parents of transgender six-year-old 'will do anything to make her happy' in spite of their own sense of loss (UK)

Zahra Mulroy
Mirror


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ezs note:  I don't know... maybe it's just me, with transgender stories entering my brain daily, but isn't it possible that these 'heartrending' stories are just a tad bit, *ahem*, melodramatic?  Y'know, just a bit?  Especially when you consider that Christine Jorgensen had her sex reassignment surgery in 1951!!!  Just a thought...

Transgender woman wins lawsuit against prison staff who ‘called her an animal and told her to kill herself’ (UK)

Justin Carissimo
The Independent


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HC gives protection to NRI transgender 'forcibly' brought here (India)

Press
Deccan Herald


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