This post is a bit late because a friend died the same week and her memorial service was the same day as this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) – November 20th.
TDOR is an annual event that memorializes those who died due to transgender related hatred or prejudice. This year, 143 people were murdered all [...]
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So I have been bit behind on the news since taking a brief hiatus from this site. However, for those of you that don’t know this already, a gender identity & presentation inclusive ENDA was introduced into the Senate for the first time on August 5th. Yay! For more information, you can catch [...]
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TGEU & Liminalis Press Release:
Every 3rd day the murder of a trans person is reported:
Trans Murder Monitoring Project reveals more than 200 reported murders of trans persons in the last 1 1/2 years
In April 2009 the international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) in cooperation with the multilingual Online-Magazine “Liminalis — A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and [...]
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Like I mentioned in an earlier post, there was a wonderful panel discussion entitled “Transgender Human Rights” that was put on as part of the Stonewall 40 Week celebration in Atlanta.
The panel was moderated by BT, and included Cole Thaler the Transgender Rights Attorney of Lambda Legal, Cheryl Courtney-Evens of Transgender Individuals Living [...]
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The Senate has just moved to add the Hate Crimes Bill, S. 909, to the Defense Authorization Act, which would guarantee its defeat. It is absolutely urgent that everyone contact their Senators today and tell them to save The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
- National Center for Transgender Equality
You need to call your [...]
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At 8pm today the National Center for Transgender Equality held a conference call for activists, transgender people, allies, and leaders of the movement around the country to discuss the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). As you know, from my earlier post, a transgender inclusive ENDA has been re-introduced to the House by Barney Frank [...]
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Here’s the National Center for Transgender Equality’s public statement:
Right now, we are at a press conference on Capitol Hill about the introduction of a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which would extend the existing federal law prohibiting employment discrimination to protect people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Representative Barney Frank, [...]
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A good friend of mine, Samia, made a post on her blog in where she explores some ideas that fall under trans-feminism. I was attempting to make a comment, but it got too long, so I have to post it here. Please go read her entry before reading on.
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I’ll respond to portions of your post [...]
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ENDA is going to be introduced into the House THIS Wednesday! See NCTE’s website for more information.
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Thanks to the KRXQ stuff, and Chaz Bono coming out of the closet, CNN is looking for your story – submit your video story via here and you may be featured on CNN.com.
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