Transgender & Intersex: March 2011
3 Ways to Improve ENDA Advocacy: Take the Fight to the States
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 31, 2011 7:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Tico Almeida is a civil rights litigator at the boutique law firm of Sanford Wittels & Heisler LLP, which was recently named by Law360 as the only plaintiff-side law firm on the 2010 list of the...Read More
Maryland House Passes Gender Identity Bill
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 27, 2011 1:00 PM |The controversial gender identity anti-discrimination bill in Maryland that doesn't include protections for public accommodations protections was passed by the house yesterday. It goes on to the senate and then to the governor. Interestingly enough, even though public accommodations was...Read More
Canada's Trans Rights Bill C-389 Dies At Election Call
Filed by Mercedes Allen | March 26, 2011 10:00 AM |On June 8th, 2010, Bill C-389 moved onward from Second Reading in Canada's Parliament to the next stage. On February 9th, 2011, it passed. With Friday's election call, Bill C-389, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and...Read More
Texas Voter ID Law Will Disenfranchise Transgender People
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 25, 2011 11:00 AM |The Texas house just passed a bill requiring voters to present identification at the polls, harsher than any state has passed in recent years, including Indiana. The goal of these sorts of laws is to decrease the number of voters...Read More
The Rebecca Juro Show with HRC Press Secretary Michael Cole-Schwartz
Filed by Rebecca Juro | March 24, 2011 2:00 PM |On tonight's show we welcome Human Rights Campaign Press Secretary Michael Cole-Schwartz. We'll talk with Michael about HRC's advocacy of LGBT rights, where they are now and where they're going. There's been a lot of discussion about HRC's past and...Read More
Philadelphia Keeps Genders Separate on Bus Passes
Filed by Alex Blaze | March 23, 2011 4:00 PM |When you buy a monthly public transport pass in Philadelphia, you have to choose if you want a boy-pass or a girl-pass if you're buying online. In person, the agent at the counter will judge for herself whether you should...Read More
Flushing the 'Bathroom Bill' Fear Once and For All
Filed by Mercedes Allen | March 22, 2011 7:00 PM |As I write this, the LGBT community is struggling with a situation in Maryland where the provision for "public accommodations" has been removed from a bill that proposes to extend human rights to trans people, due to the ongoing "bathroom...Read More
Modern Medicine Now Able to Bestow Constitutional Rights
Filed by Drew Cordes | March 21, 2011 7:00 PM |If there's anything that illustrates the inanity of our nation's policies on queer rights, it's what I'm about to go through. In two months, I'll be trekking up to Canada for sex reassignment surgery. (Yes, Canada. That's what I think...Read More
Trans Rights Group Announces Lawsuit Over Refusal to Correct Birth Certificates
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 21, 2011 5:00 PM |The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) will hold a press conference on Tuesday, March 22, at the New York State Supreme Court in lower Manhattan to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the City of New York...Read More
Dana Beyer Cleared of Ethics Charges
Filed by Jake Weinraub | March 18, 2011 4:00 PM |After several years of a political battled riddled with discrimination, spin, and security breaches, Dana Beyer, senior aide to Montgomery County, Maryland Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg, has been exonerated of all ethics charges. While it's great that the charges were finally...Read More
In Another Time, He Would Have Been Honored, But Instead He Was Murdered
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 17, 2011 12:00 PM |The murder of Fred Martinez, Jr., shocked all of us back in 2001. A 16 year old Navajo living near racist Cortez, Colorado, Fred left to go to see the rodeo, and never came back. Fred was "nadleehi," a Navajo...Read More
Fashion Forward: 1920s Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 16, 2011 2:30 PM |From the 1920s, a photo of three of the most interesting looking people one could ever meet. They and their surroundings look pretty swanky, too. I wish I knew who they were and the stories of these elegant individuals' lives....Read More
Broward Public Schools add Protections for Transgender Students and Teachers
Filed by Michael Emanuel Rajner | March 16, 2011 12:30 PM |More than a year ago, as an openly gay appointee to the School Board of Broward County's Diversity Committee, I visited a high school to witness their inaugural Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) meeting. I held back the tears when a transgender...Read More
Thai Trans Reality Show Contestant Stuns Audience
Filed by Bil Browning | March 15, 2011 8:30 AM |What a voice. This transgender Thai reality show contestant stuns the judges by singing both parts in a beautiful song that brings the audience to their feet. According to a translation posted in the comments section on YouTube, the contestant...Read More
My Friend Chloe
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 14, 2011 1:00 PM |In 1996 or so, I went after a long day in the law office to a place called the Manhattan Gay Community Center to get counseling at the Gender Identity Project, where transsexuals could go to get help. Wearing my...Read More
Like a Virgin, Post-SRS?
Filed by Drew Cordes | March 14, 2011 12:00 PM |My sex reassignment surgery is two months away, and as you might expect, I have a lot of things on my mind. Most of them I'm trying not to think about: complications, pain, infection, how much sensation I'll have, my...Read More
Comment of the Week: Darren Cohen
Filed by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | March 13, 2011 7:00 PM |In Joe Mirabella's post on the horrendous events in Forrest City, Arkansas, in which 25-year-old trans-woman Marcal Camero Tye was found dead in Forrest City, Arkansas, after being shot and dragged by a car, Joe wrote about the apparently improper...Read More
Women of Trans Berlin: Two 1920s Photos
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 09, 2011 1:30 PM |Historic 1920s photo of a sophisticated group of transwomen, taken at the Eldorado Night Club on Berlin's Motzstraße. The Nazis shut the club down in 1933....Read More
Trans Woman Shot and Dragged to Death in Arkansas
Filed by Joe Mirabella | March 09, 2011 9:30 AM |Tuesday morning the body of 25-year-old Marcal Camero Tye was found dead in Forrest City, Arkansas. According to the local police it appeared she was shot and dragged by a car. Sheriff Bobby May, told WREG Channel 3, "We're going...Read More
Clarification in New York Marriage Rules for Transgender People
Filed by Austen Crowder | March 08, 2011 12:30 PM |One of the most understated barriers to equality for trans people isn't animus - it's ambiguity. Some of our biggest steps of progress come from the clarification of rules regarding gendered institutions like marriage. Take TLDEF's latest victory regarding policies...Read More
Not Welcome: A Transwoman and the Plasma Center
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 04, 2011 2:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Sera Wohldmann is a 23-year old recently post-operative transgender lesbian, a working musician by day, and a security guard by night. She currently lives in Hollywood, CA with her unemployed trans fiancée just trying to scrape...Read More
