Transgender News

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.

St. Pius High School celebrated its 54th graduation ceremony today,one graduate didn't show up to receive a diploma.

Canada is lifting a nearly 30-year-old ban on gay men giving blood, though for the time being only those who are abstinent will be allowed to donate.

A Colorado state senator is visiting the White House to receive an honor given to openly gay, lesbian and transgendered public officials.

Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Jenna Talackova hopes she's the 21st-century's answer to those questions questions first and famously posed last century in the theme song at the start of the now-legendary Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Earlier this month, Singh asked to try on an outfit at Jenny's Bridal Boutique .

One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups.

One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups.

Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed SB139 into law Tuesday. The new law adds a person's "gender identity or expression" to the list of motivating factors interpreted as a hate crime.

As education director at About Face Theatre here in Chicago, I work with transgender, lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual and straight-allied youth ages 14-23. These fierce young theater activists come to from all over Chicago to be part of our ensemble - I'm talking South Side, West Side, North Side, downtown.