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Hospital Which Turned Away Ill Transwoman To Begin LGBT Sensitivity Training

Written on 25 Aug, 2010 at 21:28 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/25/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Ball Memorial Hospital will begin mandatory training for its employees with regards to the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. The training stems from the way in which Erin Vaught was treated by the... (Continue reading)

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Transwoman Humiliated, Raped In Moscow

Written on 22 Aug, 2010 at 10:57 in Crime, Featured, News, Trans News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/22/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Moscow police are looking for two men who sexually abused a well-known stylist from Central Asia not long after she had her sex change operation.  The transwoman from Kyrgyzstan was raped by two men from her home... (Continue reading)

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Man, Transwoman Charged With Assault After Potential Sexual Encounter Sours

Written on 19 Aug, 2010 at 20:10 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/19/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Jerry Majette, a Baltimore firefighter, is facing assault charges after being accused of attacking Tamera King after the two met for a sexual encounter. King is a transwoman. Little is known as to how the... (Continue reading)

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Texas Marriage Laws A Morass Of Contraditions And Confusion For Married Transpeople

Written on 19 Aug, 2010 at 10:21 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/18/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The issue of what constitutes a ‘woman’ or a ‘man’ has been going on for some time.  To some, the definition is based upon genetic sex, and to others, it is the gender characteristics that a person... (Continue reading)

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IN Hospital Which Turned Away Transwoman Coughing Up Blood To Make Diversity Policy Changes

Written on 8 Aug, 2010 at 7:06 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 1 Comment

08/08/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Mike Haley, the president and CEO of Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana, has finally fully addressed the reports about how a transwoman was turned away from the hospital after she arrived coughing up blood. Erin... (Continue reading)

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Long Island Man Kills Girlfriend’s Infant Son For Being Too Feminine

Written on 3 Aug, 2010 at 18:54 in Crime, Featured, In The Courts, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

08/03/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Pedro Jones was babysitting the seventeen month old son of his girlfriend when he struck and killed the infant for acting like a girl. The man is charged with first-degree manslaughter after he allegedly hit the... (Continue reading)

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Indiana Hospital Refuses To Treat Transwoman Who Was Coughing Up Blood

Written on 2 Aug, 2010 at 15:06 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 3 Comments

08/02/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Erin Vaught went to a Muncie emergency room coughing up blood. Two hours later, she was refused treatment on grounds that she is transsexual. In what is a serious lapse of medical ethics, and had... (Continue reading)

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Pakistan Uses Transwomen To Embarrass People Into Paying Taxes

Written on 19 Jul, 2010 at 21:13 in Featured, News, Trans News, World | viewed times | 0 Comments

07/19/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Pakistanis, and especially Pakistani elites, feel that transwomen are an embarrassment. This is what the Clifton Cantonment Board in Pakistan counts upon when they hire many transgender women to confront the nation’s negligent taxpayers. The... (Continue reading)

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Breaking First Release -THE AMERICAN EQUALITY BILL

Written on 9 Jul, 2010 at 11:05 in Activism, Binational Immigration, CAMPAIGN 2010, Columns, Commentary, Editorials, Events, Family, Family Equality, Featured, Hot Topics, LGBT Rights, News, Pink $ Posts, Political, Politics, Special Reports, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

Melanie Nathan 7-9-10 Drafted by Karen Doering, an attorney who has been involved in some of the most important legal LGBT victories and controversies, the American Equality  Bill takes the approach that piecemeal bills for various areas of... (Continue reading)

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DART’s Gender Policy Good Start, But Needs More Clarity

Written on 23 Jun, 2010 at 13:02 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

06/23/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Gender is not binary in nature.  Beyond the normal run of ‘female’ and ‘male,’ there is a whole spectrum in between and the problems of wrong gendered individuals.  Yesterday, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit or DART issued... (Continue reading)

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Lesbian Separatist Alix Dobkin Changes Tune – BUT Outlandish Caveat

Written on 23 Jun, 2010 at 4:37 in A Gay Girl's View, Columns, Commentary, Entertainment, Family, Family & Children, Featured, Hot Topics, LGBT Children, Lesbian Art / Artists, Lez-Talk with Rachel, News, Notable Quotes, Op-Eds, Sensitive Subjects, Trans News | viewed times | 9 Comments

6-23-2010- Written by Rachel Wahba Lez Talk with Rachel- Okay now I have seen it all: The infamous Lesbian Separatist Alix Dobkin loves boys! As long as they are her grandsons that is.  Singer songwriter Dobkin (‘Lavender Jane Loves Women,’) is quoted... (Continue reading)

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State Department Issues New Passport Guidelines For Transgender Individuals

Written on 10 Jun, 2010 at 0:16 in Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

06/10/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The United States State Department has announced new guidelines regarding transgender individuals who may want to get a passport. These new guidelines scale back the requirement that a transperson have sex reassignment surgery prior to the... (Continue reading)

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White House Pleased With Pardoning Of Malawi Couple

Written on 29 May, 2010 at 15:28 in Featured, LGBT Rights, News, Trans News, World | viewed times | 1 Comment

05/29/10-by Bridgette P. Lavictoire Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has issued a pardon for a couple convicted of gross indecency and unnatural acts. The pardon comes after a visit by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Steven Monjeza and... (Continue reading)

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Is There A Risk To Transsexuals From Full Body Scanners?

Written on 7 May, 2010 at 11:55 in Analysis, Crime, Featured, News, Trans News | viewed times | 0 Comments

05/07/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Rolando Negrin is facing assault charges. Ok, what does that have to do with the LGBT Community? In fact, what the heck does the fact that a man who was constantly teased for the size... (Continue reading)

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Itawamba Homophobes Strike Again

Written on 29 Mar, 2010 at 7:41 in Featured, LGBT Children, News, Organizations, People, Politics, Trans News | viewed times | 3 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 3/29/10-by Paula Brooks The Mississippi school district that canceled its prom to stop a lesbian couple attending has decide once again that civil rights are not something they worry about after they suspended transgender student Juin Baize was within... (Continue reading)

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