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Family Values Group Rails Against Hypothetical Transgender Darth Vader Video Game

Transgender News - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 19:38

The Florida Family Association, best known for badgering companies into pulling advertising from TLC reality show All-American Muslim last year, is hard at work ranting about a new target: BioWare/EA game Star Wars: The Old Republic .

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Ohio transgender student charges discrimination

Transgender News - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 15:34

A student who has switched gender identity from female to a male is charging housing discrimination by a southwest Ohio university.

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Right-Wing Organization Claims 'Star Wars' Video Game Creators Could Add 'Darth RuPaula' Character

Transgender News - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 11:25

The game has already sparked the ire of the American Decency Association , which slammed the game's creator BioWare for pandering to "homosexual extremists," Right Wing Watch notes .

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AG: Justice committed to protecting gays, lesbians

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 20:56

The Justice Department is "committed to using every tool in its arsenal" to combat bullying and harassment based on sexual orientation and has already made strides in bringing more prosecutions in that area, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday.

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AG: Justice Committed to Protecting Gays

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 20:55

ARLINGTON, Texas - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department is "committed to using every tool in its arsenal" to combat bullying and harassment based on sexual orientation.

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Gay NY hotel is 'straight friendly'

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 20:55

HOT SPOT: The OUT NYC is in Hell's Kitchen, on 42nd Street - an area west of Times Square gentrified largely by the city's gay population in the 1980s and 199Os.

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Another Gay Bashing Mars Hollywood's Streets

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 16:31

A gay man recently told Los Angeles police that he was attacked in Hollywood last weekend.

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Matthew Carnahan: He's Gay, He's Straight, He's Transgender... He's Roscoe

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 14:31

Gender-Nonconforming Children , Gender-Nonconforming Kids , Gender-Variant Children , Gender-Variant Kids , House Of Lies , House Of Lies Roscoe , Roscoe House Of Lies , Roscoe Kaan , When I set out to write a son for Marty Kaan, Don Cheadle's ethically challenged character on House of Lies , I thought, "What kind of kid would just undo this guy? ... (more)

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Where Are Transgender Miami University Students Supposed to Live?

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:26

Unfortunately, there's not always a simple answer. Kaeden Kass, a transgender male student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, recently applied for a job as a resident assistant.

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Jenna Talackova: Miss Universe Canada accepts transsexual contestant, unless it doesn't

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 06:17

Last week, blogs devoted to the doings of the beauty pageant circuit were reporting that 23-year-old Jenna Talackova had made it to the finals as a contestant in the 2012 Miss Universe Canada pageant to be held this May.

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March to begin Tuesday at IHOP to remember LGBT shooting, assault victims

Transgender News - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 02:07

Friends of one of the victims of three separate incidents of anti-LGBT violence last week have scheduled a march for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, outside the International House of Pancakes restaurant in Columbia Heights to show support for the three victims and others targeted for hate violence.

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Transgender Student Fights University Over Housing

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 22:07

In just about every way, Kaeden Kass is a typical college guy. But his birth certificate identifies him as a female.

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Add Gay Russians to List of Asylum Seekers

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 18:08

Two years ago Alexander Kargaltsev left Russia after being attacked by military cops during a Moscow gay pride rally.

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Toronto-Danforth voters head to the polls to elect new MP to replace Jack Layton

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 17:03

Justin Trudeau chats with a woman on Broadview Avenue in the Toronto-Danforth electorate last week as Liberal candidate Grant Gordon looks on.

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Seattle's LGBT Commission Snubs Gay Leaders from Israel Over 'PinkWashing'

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:43

A delegation of gay pride groups from Israel had an unpleasant surprise when leaders of the gay community in Seattle canceled a meeting and City Hall reception with them at the last minute over Middle East politics.

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Through The Door Of Life

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 08:29

What determines our gender, our bodies or our brains? Dr. Joy Ladin gives us a firsthand account of a transwoman trying to come to terms with this issue in her debut book of prose, "Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders." Born "Jay" Ladin, she is the first openly transgender employee at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva ... (more)

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Keeping in touch for good health

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 06:19

MORE than 30 organisations raised awareness of their services to students at the annual health fair held at the Isle of Man College last week.

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WTC 1, Marriage, Wikiqueer, Dharun, And A Return To LV-426

Transgender News - Mon, 03/19/2012 - 02:04

Before the House acts on the Bates proposal for a nonbinding referendum question, we need to get a lot more answers about the process, fiscal impact and precedents this would create.

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Same-sex benefits a powder keg in Pentagon

Transgender News - Sun, 03/18/2012 - 21:50

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says he can no longer defend the law that withholds medical and other benefits from same-sex spouses in the military.

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Sometimes we survive...even thrive...

Transgender News - Sun, 03/18/2012 - 17:45

Some of us survive and even thrive, while some of us do not get that chance. Agnes Torres Sulca is one of the latter.

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