Articles- Collected Articles For The Transgender Community

By ANNE GEARAN AP National Security Writer
GENEVA December 6, 2011 (AP)

The Obama administration bluntly warned the world against gay and lesbian discrimination Tuesday, declaring the U.S. will use foreign assistance as well as diplomacy to back its insistence that gay rights are fully equal to other basic human rights.

In unusually strong language, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton compared the struggle for gay equality to difficult passages toward women’s rights and racial equality, and she said a country’s cultural or religious traditions are no excuse for discrimination.

“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” she said. (more…)

Posted: 12/ 6/11 09:43 AM ET

In an atmosphere of increasingly aggressive, militaristic tactics by police against American citizens, the brutal treatment of transgender people by law enforcement exposes the intensity of hatred in society against an entire class of people — and how ramped up police actions are playing out against them. (more…)

By PAUL GRONDAHL, Staff writer
Updated 02:00 a.m., Friday, December 9, 2011

ALBANY — Doctors don’t learn how to treat transgender patients in medical school and the medical establishment has been slow to address a rising trend, according to a local physician.

When Dr. Matthew Leinung, an endocrinologist and professor of medicine, joined the Albany Medical Center staff in 1991, he took over a practice from Dr. David Goodman, who had been seeing a half-dozen transgender patients beginning in the 1970s.

“He (Goodman) was the only one who would treat them at the time in this area and he asked me if I was OK taking those patients,” Leinung recalled. “I said I didn’t have any problem with it, but I didn’t know anything about treating them.” (more…)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 8, 2011 at 3:56 AM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation’s largest gay rights group.

The Human Rights Campaign said in a report to be published Thursday that 207 of the 636 businesses it surveyed for its annual Corporate Equality Index either are already providing transgender- inclusive employee health benefits or plan to at the start of the new year. (more…)

By Andrea Jenkins, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
December 08, 2011

Imagine being stared at and harassed every day of your life. Imagine being routinely physically assaulted at work, even if you’re homeless and possibly even HIV-positive. If you were Chrishaun (CeCe) McDonald, this would be your daily existence. (more…)