Articles- Collected Articles For The Transgender Community

Jan 17, 2012 5:22 PM EST
By Tricia Romano
From Albert Nobbs to Dancing With the Stars to the Work It controversy to the Girl Scouts, transgender issues are everywhere.

There is a scene in Albert Nobbs, the movie starring Glenn Close as a woman who passes as a man to survive in late-19th-century Dublin, in which Albert Nobbs and Hubert Page, another woman living as a man, played by Janet McTeer, take a stroll on the beach wearing dresses.

They’ve been living for so long as men that wearing women’s clothing is as much drag to them as it would be if their male counterparts were donning lace frocks. They stagger awkwardly, inelegantly walking like bowlegged cowboys, before Nobbs suddenly breaks stride and begins running through the wind. After a moment of feeling freedom, Nobbs trips and falls. Soon, the gentle butler is back in his usual garb, a suit and tie covering a constrictive corset that hides his breasts. (more…)

Being fired for “gender non-conformity” is a violation of the constitution, an important court recently found
By Adam Cohen | @adamscohen | December 12, 2011

When Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn was fired from a state job in Georgia, she filed a lawsuit saying that she had been discriminated against for being transgender. Georgia civil rights laws do not cover transgender people, but a powerful federal court ruled last week that Glenn’s firing violated the U.S. Constitution. There was also a second major piece of transgender news last week: a new study shows that a growing number of major American companies are paying for their employees’ gender reassignment surgery. Taken together, the ruling and the study are strong indications that transgender rights are starting to enter the mainstream. (more…)

Published on 1/11/2012 under Misc – by Beverly Jenkins

Many people don’t realize that transsexual models are popping up in magazines and on runways everywhere. These gorgeous models look and feel like women but were born with male reproductive organs. If we didn’t know, we definitely wouldn’t be able to tell that they weren’t born female! Could you?
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Published on 1/18/2012 under Misc – by Beverly Jenkins
These ten men are all successful, handsome, and accomplished in their chosen fields. They were also all born as women!
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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…)

For the third year in a row, 19 Bay Area Kaiser Foundation hospitals were ranked amongst the nation’s leaders in healthcare equality for their lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender patients, according to a report released last month by a national LGBT civil rights organization.

In its fifth year administering the survey, the Human Right’s Campaign Foundation considered hospital policies that protect patients and employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, in addition to ensuring equal visitation for same-sex couples and training staff to deal competently with LGBT health issues. Kaiser’s performance was considered along with that of 87 other hospital systems in 375 facilities through out the United States. (more…)