http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/transgender/ en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:18:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272218/posts Massachusetts lawmakers are considering what is commonly referred to now as a "bathroom bill." Activists want to add transgender to the Bay State's existing "hate crimes" bill. Evelyn Reilly, director of public policy for the Massachusetts Family Institute, tells OneNewsNow that lawmakers who support the measure are bowing to a fraction of the population -- and in that process, are endangering women and children. "[For example] if...a man believes or pretends to believe that he is actually a woman, then you could not question, challenge, or stop him from entering a woman's bathroom, shower, locker room, fitness facility, or whatever,"... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272218/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:18:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271753/posts Pride Parade, celebration has a political bent Julian Guthrie, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, June 14, 2009 The 39th annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade is June 28 and is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m., traveling west along Market Street from Beale Street to Eighth Street. The party will continue at Civic Center, with live music, speakers, food and drinks. All ages are welcome. The event is free. The Pride Parade caps a month of gay-themed festivities and is expected to draw its regular cast of colorful characters and city leaders, gawkers and cheering spectators. There will... SFChronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271753/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:55:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268024/posts WHIO Local News Man In Ladies' Swimsuit Harassing Women SUGARCREEK TWP., Ohio -- Women and children continue to witness a bizarre sight along the Little Miami River. A man wearing a women's swimsuit is harassing people -- mostly women and children -- as they paddle by in canoes along a stretch of the river in Sugarcreek Township. Since last Tuesday, the man has strutted his stuff to more than ten people, wearing a green or blue swimsuit and shouting to women as they cruised down the river in canoes. He runs away after the encounters -- police haven't caught up... WHIO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268024/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:21:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262700/posts Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 1, 2009 LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride... WHITEHOUSE.GOV - "BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262700/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261428/posts Just wondering how those people who decide they want to change there sex get the money to pay for what must be very expensive proceedures and operations? Does Medicaid pay for this? On the Laura Ingraham show this week, she spoke of a case of an 8 year old boy who goes to a Catholic school who says that he wants to be a girl. The parents say that he has wanted to be a girl since he was 2 years old. The parents say that they have been to professionals who are helping him to "transition." Many questions come... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261428/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 01:08:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2252459/posts Now that Ben has had his final day at a west Omaha Catholic school, the 8-year-old gets to give away the last of his boy clothes — his school uniform — and live full time as the person inside: Katie Omaha World-Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2252459/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 01:41:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250498/posts A state appeals court upheld the murder convictions of two East Bay men today for their roles in battering and strangling a transgender teenager after learning she was biologically male. The killing of 17-year-old Gwen Araujo of Newark in 2002 drew national attention to incidents of violence against transgender people, which often include defense claims that the victim provoked the attack by having sex under false pretenses. In this case, lawyers for both defendants argued that the slaying was manslaughter at most, because their clients had acted in the heat of passion when they learned the person with whom they... San Frnacisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250498/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 02:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249035/posts The Boston-area transit authority trolley driver who allegedly slammed into another train while text-messaging his girlfriend Friday was hired as a minority because of his transgendered "female-to-male" status and had three speeding tickets on his driving record in recent years, ABC News has learned. ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249035/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 04:17:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245349/posts No excerpt allowed, story here . Mutilating the mentally ill is not "compassionate". USA Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245349/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 14:47:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229038/posts All of the people in the four pictures below are men - on Transgender Lobby Day last Tuesday, April 7! If this bill passes, it will be a crime to make any critical comments on this. In fact, this very report could be considered criminal "hate speech" punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine. MassResistance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229038/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:02:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235658/posts A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime and sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site. It was the first time in the nation that a state hate crime statute resulted in a conviction in a transgender person's murder, the advocacy group Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said. Seated in the front row of the courtroom, the family of Justin "Angie" Zapata broke out in tears as the verdicts against Allen Andrade were read. The jury deliberated for just under two hours before returning... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235658/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221522/posts Twelve years heading the Salvation Army's downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transitioning into a female walked in. Schmidt didn't want to refuse someone in need. Having seen few such cases, however, and with limited space that winter night, she wasn't sure where to place the transgender woman. The shelter has space for homeless men and women but not anyone in between. "Rather than turn them away, we give them a cot," said Schmidt, whose staff allowed the woman to stay a week in the shelter's lounge... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221522/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212237/posts Chardon - A transgender woman who exercised her elderly husband to death in a swimming pool was sentenced Friday to four years in prison. Christine Newton-John worked 73-year-old James Mason's weakened heart until it gave out and stopped beating, prosecutors said. Geauga County Common Pleas Judge Forrest W. Burt told Newton-John that she showed "an indifference" to her frail husband's physical condition. The 41-year-old pleaded guilty in February to reckless homicide, a third-degree felony with a maximum penalty of five years incarceration. Newton-John apologized in a shaky voice for pushing Mason too hard on that June 2 day. A surveillance... The Plain Dealer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212237/posts#comment Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:06:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194393/posts When John Fulton picked up the phone and heard a man's voice in June of 2006, he didn't quite know what to make of it. Mr. Fulton had just advertised his new women-only gym in St. Catharines, Ont., and was offering a special introductory rate to attract members. "I'm thinking, 'It's a guy who wants the women's price,' so I just kind of wrote it off as a guy who misunderstood the price plan," Mr. Fulton said. "And two days later, a woman shows up." The middle-aged woman with the man's voice, among other unseen attributes, turned out to be... Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194393/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:29:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190564/posts George Mason University senior Ryan Allen dresses in drag and doesn't mind being called a queen — homecoming queen, to be exact. Allen, who is gay and performs in drag at nightclubs in the region, said he entered the homecoming contest as a joke, competing as Reann Ballslee, his drag queen persona. But he considers the victory one of his happiest moments and proof that the suburban Washington, D.C., school famous for its run to the Final Four a few years back celebrates its diverse student body. "I was very touched by how Mason was so supportive through the whole... Associated pres via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190564/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2186300/posts (ChattahBox) — A bizarre case of spousal abuse with an unknown motive ended in a transgendered woman pleading guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool. Police in Middlefield, Ohio, said surveillance video showed 41-year-old Christine Newton-John (photo left) pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs and preventing him from leaving. Mason eventually had a heart attack on June 2 after the extended swim session. Police Chief Joseph Stehlik said he counted 43 times on the videotape in which Newton-John prevented her frail husband from leaving the water. He... http://chattahbox.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2186300/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168205/posts Metro Weekly: Washington, DC's gay and lesbian magazine Inauguration Celebration GLBT Groups to hold inaugural ball at Mayflower Hotel by Yusef Najafi email A coalition of GLBT-advocacy organizations, including the nation's largest, the Human Rights Campaign, have announced plans to celebrate Inauguration Day 2009 with a party, ''Out For Equality: The LGBT community commemoration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Inauguration,'' at D.C.'s Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. ''This is the dawn of a new political era of hope and engagement in the life of this country,'' said Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund,... metro weekly dot com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168205/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150151/posts A transgender, Shawn Shannon “Nicole” Quinnones assaulted, harassed guard. By Sheena Delazio sdelazio@timesleader.com Staff Writer WILKES-BARRE – A former inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas was sentenced to up to eight years in prison on Tuesday for spitting on a corrections officer. Shawn Shannon “Nicole” Quinnones, 34, who was found guilty by a Luzerne County jury in September, was sentenced to four years and three months to eight years and six months in state prison by Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Chester Muroski. Quinnones, who is transgender and infected with HIV, was found guilty of assault... Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre PA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150151/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145365/posts Students attending Drew University next fall will not have the option of living in a "gender-neutral" dorm after officials shot down a student proposal, saying the idea had become too controversial. The proposal, which students spent four years drafting, aimed to accommodate Drew's transgender freshmen in 2009 by designating a dorm where males and females could live together. After months of debate, however, officials announced in September they were rejecting the plan, citing heavy opposition from trustees and alumni. University officials also asked how parents of prospective students might react, and how such a policy would fit in with Drew's... star ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145365/posts#comment Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:10:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144587/posts ...nowhere are attitudes toward sex and gender quite as elastic as in the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca. There, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” (pronounced MOO-shays) — men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144587/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:47:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127935/posts Barack Obama wasn't the only candidate who made history Tuesday. On the same day the United States elected its first black president, the tiny town of Silverton, Ore., elected the country's first openly transgender mayor. Stu Rasmussen served two terms as Silverton's mayor in the 1990s, but he was still living in the closet -- and dressing in men's clothing. He came out a few years ago, proudly donning a skirt and high heels. On Tuesday, Rasmussen won a third term, by 13 percentage points. He attributes his victory to his deep knowledge of the issues. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127935/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118563/posts Hayward Parents Upset Over Anti-Gay Slur Pledge HAYWARD (AP) ― A Bay Area elementary school got caught in the crossfire of a ballot initiative seeking to outlaw same-sex marriage in California on Tuesday after a kindergarten teacher asked her pupils to sign pledge cards promising not to use anti-gay slurs. ProtectMarriage.com, the coalition of social and religious conservative groups sponsoring Proposition 8, offered the episode at Faith Ringgold Elementary School in Hayward as proof for its claim that the measure is needed to prevent public schools from discussing gay unions with students. "Since the words 'between a man and a... AP via KPIX - CBS5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118563/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104518/posts Monday, October 13, 2008 BREITBART: Obama High: No child left benign Andrew Breitbart ANALYSIS/OPINION: Elected officials in Chicago made international news last week by proposing to create a public high school for gay, lesbian and transgender students. The Pride Campus of the School for Social Justice is set to open with 600 students in 2010, and its curriculum promises to "teach the history of all people who have been oppressed and the civil rights movements that have led to social justice and queer studies." Yet no American journalist covering the presidential race has queried the Chicago-based Sen. Barack Obama about... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104518/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:26:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099036/posts ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's top court ruled in favor of a transgender politician who was slapped with a lawsuit by two political opponents who claimed she misled voters by running as a female. The Georgia Supreme Court's unanimous ruling on Monday found that the two political opponents who filed the lawsuit failed to produce evidence of fraud, misconduct or illegal action after claiming that Michelle Bruce bamboozled voters by identifying herself as a female. Bruce, who was believed to be the state's first transgender politician, landed one of four council seats in Riverdale, Ga. in 2003. Running unopposed, she pledged... AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099036/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 22:49:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2091230/posts Raising Transgender Awareness by: Deborah Lambert, September 26, 2008 Transgender students at Yale are concerned that the school is not focusing enough time and energy into providing “gender-neutral housing,” according to Anthony Paletta on mindingthecampus.com. School spokesmen explained that their efforts are being hampered by the residential housing layout on campus. But “Yale’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, pointing to what they say is a disturbingly low number of openly transgender students on campus, are pushing the University to do more to make Yale feel welcoming to transgender students. “Yale is currently one of only two Ivy League schools... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2091230/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:49:16 GMT