Transgendered News

I'm always asked by other crossdressers at conventions or nightclubs why we as transgendered people are not as newsworthy as they think we should be.

Tyra Banks has given 'Top Model' contestant Isis the gift of sex-change surgery.

The Human Rights Campaign , the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization, issued a statement earlier today on the murder of Teish Cannon, 22, who was shot and killed ...

Miami's Latino transgender community represents one of the marginalized minorities that seeks to unite with mainstream LGBT groups.

You may not know Rita Hester, but her 1998 murder in Boston sparked the 'Remembering Our Dead' Web project.

The 2008 Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual event designed to recognize those killed due to anti-transgender violence, will be marked by a program at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Unitarian Church, 739 Yarmouth ...

Gay rights advocates are praising a measure to broaden protection for victims of hate crimes as a long-overdue expansion of civil rights.

London, Nov 10 : Prosthetic penises that will be supplied free to eligible transsexual men next year are under attack for staying limp.

In advance of protests against California's Proposition 8 to be held in cities across the nation this weekend, Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, has released the following statement calling ...

BECOMING, PART 3 Transgender Discrimination Barton, Vermont - November 14, 2008 "I try to be cautious so not to put myself in a situation that is going to be dangerous or draw attention to myself," Michele Todd ...

A professional makeover: A gift Michele Todd desperately wanted to give herself for decades, but didn't. Not because she couldn't ...

Christa Hoisington can barely utter her birth name. It still bothers her to this day.

"It just didn't feel right," she says.

It didn't make sense to her. Gary is a boy's name. And Christa says she knew, even as a child, she wasn't a boy.

So, in August of 2001 she legally changed her name. Christa was 49 years old, but says she felt reborn. Gary was officially gone and Christa could live full time as a woman.

Nov. 20 is Trans Day of Remembrance , a day to remember and honour those transgendered people who died as a result of violent attacks caused by fear and hatred.

Three people were arrested Monday while trying to speak to Union University students about equality for gay and transgender students.

County clerks across California are clamoring for legal advice to resolve confusion about when to begin the gay-marriage ban that voters passed last week in a ballot initiative.

The nation's largest gay civil rights organization is calling for a thorough investigation of the murder of a transgender woman who was preparing to sue Memphis police.

Comedian Judy Tenuta, who performs Friday in Pomona, has numerous names. "The Love Goddess," "Aphrodite of the Accordion," "The Empress of Elvis Impersonators" and many more.

The state of Connecticut will begin granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples today, following last month's state Supreme Court decision that found barring gays and lesbians from marrying unconstitutional.

A US transgender man is pregnant with his second child, he told American television diva Barbara Walters in his first interview since he gave birth to baby Susan in June.

For Indonesia's transgendered, or waria faithful, a new school in the city of Yogyakarta offers religious instruction and Koran study to a neglected segment of the population.