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Chicago city council considers modified transgender protections ordinance
CHICAGO — Ald. Joe Moreno introduced an ordinance in the Chicago City Council Wednesday that would set specific guidelines for police to follow while handling transgender people.
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Obama’s childhood nanny in Indonesia is a transgender women who fears for her life
JAKARTA, Indonesia – A 66-year-old transgender woman in Indonesia, living in fear in the streets because of her sexual identity, tells The Associated Press in an exclusive story that she was once the nanny to President Barack Obama and his baby sister, Maya.
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True transgender story: Laverne Cox, ‘I’m from Mobile, Ala.’
Laverne Cox remembers the bullying she experienced as a child, and how it’s similar to the transphobia she experiences as an adult.
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Chicago ordinance would create police transgender issues commission
CHICAGO — Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno and a group of local LGBT rights activists are pushing for an ordinance that would establish a transgender issues commission in the Chicago Police Department as well as set guidelines for police to follow while handling transgender people.
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Baltimore County city council approves transgender protections bill
The City Council in Baltimore County, Md. has approved a measure to that would protect transgender people from discrimination, making the county the fourth local government in Maryland to adopt such protections.
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Commentary
It’s 2012. Do you know where your transgender children are?
It’s 2012. Do you know where your transgender children are? Cisgender America, frightened of change and anxious about its identity, is in a panic over the growing visibility of gender-variant kids.
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MD police official: Transgender rights bill did not lead to rapes, assaults in public restrooms
TOWSON, Md. — Montgomery County police chief Thomas Manger says that allegations that rapes and sexual assaults occurred in public restrooms following passage of a transgender accommodation law are “untrue.” The assertion comes in response to opposition to a transgender rights bill introduced Tuesday in Baltimore County, Md. — the bill would protect transgender people and allow use of restrooms according to their gender identity.
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Kuwait: Report highlights police brutality against transgender individuals
Kuwaiti police have been torturing and sexually abusing transgender women continually since 2007, when a discriminatory law was passed which arbitrarily criminalizes “imitating the opposite sex,” Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday.
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‘Work It’ didn’t work — ABC cancels sitcom after only two episodes
“Work It” just didn’t work. ABC has cancelled the series “Work It” after only two episodes. The series debuted on January 3, 2012 to low ratings, and, according to Entertainment Weekly, dropped another 20 percent this week.
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Tennessee legislature introduces transphobic ‘bathroom bill’
If it weren’t discouraging enough that the Tennessee legislature will consider a “license to bully” bill and reconsider the “don’t say gay” bill, the new session has opened with the introduction of a blatantly transphobic bathroom bill.