There's a 16 year old trans girl currently being held in an adult women's prison despite a lack of criminal charges. She has a long history of being abused by various caretakers, and got arrested for what's basically self-defense. She may potentially be transferred to an adult men's prison ( Read more... )

Bradley Manning publicly came out as Chelsea Manning, currently top story on Google News ( Read more... )

The Trans Bill takes effect July 1

BY GAY & LESBIAN ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS

Posted courtesy of Bay WindowsOn November 23, 2011, Governor Deval Patrick signed into law H3810, An Act Relative to Gender Identity. This law adds “gender identity” as a protected characteristic to Massachusetts’ employment, housing, credit and public education anti- ( Read more... )

I see that new research at Northwestern University indicates that bisexual men do indeed exist, in contradiction of a 2005 study from the same institution that appeared to show the opposite.

So far, so duh. The interest from the point of view of this group is that the leader of the earlier study was J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would ( Read more... )

Here's a link to the article...

The United Nations endorsed the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people for the first time ever Friday, passing a resolution hailed as historic by the U.S. and other backers and decried by some African and Muslim countries.

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The resolution expressed "grave concern at acts of violence and discrimination, in ( Read more... )

i'm just going to put everything under a cut, because it's pretty heavy stuff, and there are transphobic and homophobic slurs used, too. ( Read more... )

Texas isn't going to recognize Nikki Araguz's gender for marriage purposes.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8150010

Pakistan allows transsexuals to have own gender category

There has been little opposition to the decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court to allow a third gender category, apart from male or female, on the national identity card.

Some scientists have been finding differences between MRI scans of FtM people (without hormone treatment) and non-FtMs. Here is the link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-differences-caught-on-brain-scan. ( Read more... )

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/101122-arrested-transgendered-woman