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Kataluna Enriquez, a biological male who identifies as a woman, has won the title of Miss Nevada USA. For the first time in the pageant’s history, a biological woman is not taking home the crown for Miss Nevada USA. Enriquez won the beauty pageant on Sunday at the South Point Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, which means he will go on to represent Nevada as the first transgender individual ever to compete in the Miss USA Pageant — which will be held on November 29.

Meet On Tuesday Vogue magazine contributing supervisor Lynn Yaeger took shallow swipes at First Lady Melania Trump in the (socially world) wake of Hurricane Harvey. Yaeger, an asserted form master, was exasperates by the Tropical storm Stilettos Mrs. Trump wore on her approach to help the casualties of Houston, however Yaeger herself begrudgingly conceded the First Lady would change into tennis shoes when she touched down in the attacked state. At the beginning of today, Mrs. Trump boarded Air Force One wearing a couple of transcending pointy-toed snakeskin heels more qualified to a shopping evening on Madison Avenue or a...

Director Larry Wachowski has publicly revealed that she is transgender and now goes by the name Lana in a new promo for her upcoming Tom Hanks film “Cloud Atlas.” The 47-year-old moviemaker has undergone a sex change operation and now goes by the name Lana. With her hair in pink dreadlocks, Wachowski introduced herself for the first time as a woman in a behind-the-scenes trailer for the new drama, saying, “Hi, I’m Lana.”

A California appeals court has rejected a transgender inmate's attempt to force the state to pay for her sex reassignment surgery and to move her to a women's prison. The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco didn't explain in a brief order published Wednesday why it concluded that Lyralisa Stevens is not entitled to a gender change operation while serving 50 years to life . . .

Ok, I gotta admit, this really took me by surprise. I really didn't just fall of the turnip truck and know all too well that bigotry, stupidity and rank ignorance not only still exist in 21st century USA, but fester in every state of the union. But the reaction that ABC got when it announced that Chaz Bono would be among the celebrities on the new "Dancing With the Stars" season had my jaw dropping to the floor. Homophobia itself is ugly and uninformed, of course, but those who spew anti-gay epithets often do so because they believe sexual orientation...

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the state of Alaska on behalf of a transgender woman, alleging that it denied her a driver's license listing her gender as female unless she provided proof that she'd undergone a sex change operation.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said today he intends to refile felony hate crime charges that a judge dismissed against two men accused of attacking and robbing a transgender woman. Gascón said San Francisco Superior Court Judge Bruce Chan's decision to order the two defendants to stand trial for civil rights, assault and robbery charges did not go far enough. The judge ruled the motivation behind the incident was purely to rob the victim, but Gascón said there is a strong enough connection between the comments and assault to warrant a hate crime.

Felony hate crime allegations were dismissed Wednesday against two men accused of assaulting and robbing a transgender woman near San Francisco’s 16th Street BART station in April, but the pair were ordered by a judge to stand trial on other charges in the case. Lionel Jackson, 32, and Maurice Perry, 37, are accused of attacking the woman on April 1 outside the BART station at the intersection of Mission and 16th streets and taking her smartphone. When she demanded the phone back, the pair allegedly punched her, knocking her to the ground, where they also allegedly kicked her, police said....

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Department of Motor Vehicles employee who sent a letter to a transgender woman warning of eternal damnation after she sought to record her sex change on her driver's license has quit his job, the DMV said today. Thomas Demartini, who had worked as a customer service representative at the department's San Francisco office for about two years, submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday evening, DMV spokesman Michael Marando said. The department placed Demartini on administrative leave, with pay, shortly after the woman reported the incident in late October. Marando said the DMV has nearly completed an...

OAKLAND -- An Alameda County Superior Court election remained undecided Wednesday, with Victoria Kolakowski - who would become the nation's first transgender judge - holding a slight lead over John Creighton. Kolakowski, an administrative law judge for the state Public Utilities Commission, led Creighton, a deputy district attorney, by 50.22 to 48.77 percent, or 3,300 votes out of 230,000 total votes cast, the county registrar's office reported. All precincts have reported, but provisional ballots and late-arriving mail ballots were still being tallied.

NEW YORK, (AP) -- A transgender woman is suing the LPGA over a requirement which states all competitors must be "female at birth." The New York Times is reporting Wednesday that Lana Lawless, a 57-year-old who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2005, filed a lawsuit . . .

Victoria Kolakowski, who's running for Alameda Count Superior Court judge in a November runoff election, declares on her campaign Web site that she hopes to make history."If I am elected, I would be the first openly LGBT superior court judge elected in Alameda County, the first openly LGBT person elected countywide, and the first transgender trial court judge in the United States," it states. The question is how much it should matter. Kolakowski, 48, transitioned from male to female in 1989 during her last year in law school and had sex reassignment surgery in 1991. She has 21 years of...

State marries same-sex couple

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while transitioning from a man to a woman. Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., applied for the terrorism analyst job while she was still a man named David Schroer. He was offered the job, but the offer was pulled after he told a library official that he was having surgery to change his gender. U.S. District Judge James Robinson ruled Tuesday that Schroer was entitled to $491,190 in back pay and damages because...

Homicide won't derail planned lawsuit, attorney says --The shooting death of a transgendered woman won't stop a planned lawsuit over her February beating at the hands of police, one of her attorneys said Monday. Duanna Johnson, 43, was shot in the head at Hollywood and Staten in North Memphis late Sunday. She died at the scene. Although the Memphis Police Department identified the victim as Dwayne Johnson, attorney Murray Wells said the victim was the person he knew as Duanna. "I have what I consider to be extremely reliable information that it's her," he said. Johnson was beaten in February...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Jaguar driver who police said veered onto a Mission District sidewalk at high speed and killed a cafe worker was recently released from prison and was barred from driving, having been punished with license suspensions three times this year, records show. Jason Yantes was charged Tuesday with felony vehicular manslaughter and unlicensed driving, and was also accused of violating probation orders handed down after a drug-dealing conviction. Yantes is expected to be arraigned Wednesday. Prosecutors reviewed, among other evidence, footage from a private surveillance camera that captured the crash, authorities said. Police said Yantes either passed...

A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was in the process of becoming a she won a discrimination lawsuit on Friday. More News * Radical rescue: Hundreds of billions for bailout 09.19.08 * Q&A on cleaning up the financial crisis mess 09.19.08 * Light rail train hits bus in LA; 14 injured 09.19.08 * CHP warns of 'star 72' phone scam 09.19.08 U.S. District Judge James Robinson ruled that the Library of Congress discriminated against Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., by not giving her the...

BOSTON (AP) -- A killer who sued to have a sex change claims her body is becoming more masculine again because she's being denied treatment in prison as she awaits a ruling in her bid for the surgery. Michelle Kosilek, formerly known as Robert, said that for months she has not been allowed to have court-approved hair-removal treatment or access to a specialist to discuss her testosterone levels. "My breasts have shrunk, genitals have regained previous size and function, facial hair is thicker and scalp hair is thinner, all related to an elevated testosterone level," Kosilek said in a handwritten...

A MURDER trial was halted yesterday when a woman juror was unwittingly flashed at by a man in a tartan MINI SKIRT. Gender-bender Brian Alliban, 37, was in the public gallery at the Old Bailey when, as he later admitted: “I forgot to cross my legs.” It is claimed he was not wearing underpants — and the shocked juror saw the evidence. She wrote a note to the judge, who halted the case while cops escorted Brian out. Brian, who calls himself Naomi and plans to have a sex-change op, said: “I’m halfway to being a woman but I sometimes...

San Francisco (AP) -- A transgender woman is suing a Catholic hospital in Daly City, claiming medical officials blocked her from getting surgery there because she had a sex-change operation. Fifty-seven-year-old Charlene Hastings already had one major surgery she needed to become a woman. But she says when she called Seton Medical Center to inquire about breast enlargement surgery, an official told her it wasn't "God's will" for her to get that treatment. Hastings says her plastic surgeon told her Seton wouldn't allow him to operate on transgender patients...