Transgender News

Legislation to enhance prison sentences for people who commit crimes against transgender people sure was popular.

An elected official in eastern Iowa is the recipient of a White House honor given to openly gay, lesbian and transgendered public officials.

The conflict between gay rights campaigners and homophobes has had dozens people detained.

The campaigners tried to unfurl banners denouncing the Kremlin-backed homophobic legislation in front of Russia's lower house of parliament, but were attacked by vigilantes carrying icons and crosses.

With the reelection of Barack Obama, the most liberal U.S. president in history, there's little argument that the far-left is as emboldened as ever in pushing its agenda on the country.

Front row, from left to right: Jenetta Johnson, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Sharyn Grayson.

Directed, written and co-produced by Brina; co-produced and edited by John Gage.

A lesbian member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is poised to serve another term after having played a part in a ruling that provided non-discrimination protections to transgender workers.

Hundreds of Eilat residents and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from across Israel participated Friday in the annual pride parade, which made its way through the southern city's main street.

A transgender woman in Canada's Saskatchewan province has filed a discrimination complaint against a bridal shop that wouldn't let her try on gowns, with a clerk reportedly telling her men weren't allowed to do so.

A bill restricting teenagers' access to medical and mental health care narrowly escaped approval in the North Carolina House in May before being taken of the body's calendar and placed back into committee.

Coun Rebecca Blake, Tracey Baker, Natalie Brookes and Coun Joe Baker were among those to urge Redditch MP Karen Lumley to back the bill to introduce gay marriage.

As a child, people knew her as Steve. The last time TV6 talked to Marissa, she was leaving for Thailand for sexual reassignment surgery.

Both men and women seek surgery to reduce or enlarge their sexual organs - should transsexuals be treated differently? Jo Latham, a doctoral student at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society , at Melbourne's La Trobe University, lays out his argument in a recent issue of the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery .

The Long Island Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Center of the Hamptons' will open this summer at Sag Harbor's First Presbyterian "Old Whalers'" Church.

A transgender senior at St. Pius X Catholic High School in Albuquerque skipped his graduation Wednesday after the school refused to let the teenager wear the black cap and gown worn by male graduates, instead insisting he wear the white graduation garb worn by female students.

They call her Queen of Swords in the Cage. Some call her unrepeatable things in the press.

Today Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law SB139, legislation adding gender identity and expression to the state's hate crimes law.

The journal - TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly - will be edited by Susan Stryker, associate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Arizona, and Paisley Currah, professor of political science at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

HAVING heard rumours of a rock musical featuring transvestites and aliens, I was definitely intrigued to see the Regent Theatre's production of the 30th anniversary Rocky Horror Show.